Open Long Hearing Opposed In Texas Mental Clinic Case
GALVESTON Texas a battery of attorneys raced to block an open habeas hearing for Gov Earl Long seeking release from John Sealy Hospital He claims he was railroaded into the hospital and says he is not crazy Three court appointed lawyers and representatives of the governor and family pressed for a closed sanity session amid talk of possible delays Long shouted from his onetime room that he was not insane as reporters watched Long aims to push for a special legislative session after opposition to voting liberalization sparked his remarks on the Texas hearing More on Page Three
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Tex.s
Earl Long
Louisiana
Texas
Long
John Sealy Hospital
Russell Long
D-La
Hospital
James Mc Louisiana Lean
Capitol
May production hits new high as Fed reports surge
The Federal Reserve Board said industrial output rose in May to a record 152 percent of the 1947-49 average, up two points from April’s revised reading of 150. The May gain followed continued expansion, higher employment, and stronger consumer incomes, with durable goods leading the recovery from the 1956 recession low.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Four Slain In Georgia Gun Battle
A Florida businessman James Hofer 34 killed his wife Dorothy Bailey Hofer and two children Vicky Ann 4 and Katherine 2 then wounded Patrolman Joe Reynolds in a gun battle at the couple’s home in Augusta Georgia. Officers said Hofer crashed through a living room window with a .38 revolver firing on responding officers. Reynolds was struck and Hofer was shot as more police arrived. Hofer had driven 174 miles from Atlanta amid marital disputes and had faced kidnapping charges in Florida earlier that year.
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Augusta
Florida
James Hofer
Edgar F. Beazley
Hofer
Sumter Lewis
Joe Reynolds
Reynolds
Lewis
Beazley
Atlanta
Pensacola
Youth Takes Girl From Church Affair
In Ellsworth Maine Ronald Grant Jr brandishing a pistol terrorized a Young People meet he forced Nora Staples 17 to leave in Rev Charles Fores car. State police pursued the car crashed into a roadblock at Orrington 33 miles away. Grant said I just wanted to see how far we could get. Staples treated for minor facial cuts. Grant held without bail on armed charges.
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Ellsworth
Maine
Ronald Grant Jr
Nora Staples
Charles Fore
Orrington
Grant
Bangor
Local Law Enforcement Stressed Amid Industrial Strife
Durham AP reports Atty Gen Malcolm Seawell urged passage of a law to let counties and towns raise funds for policing. He cited Henderson where National Guard is on duty during a textile strike to argue communities must finance law enforcement. Governors pleas go unheeded as Vance County Commissioners resist increasing local police.
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Durham
Malcolm Seawell
Henderson
National Guard
Seawell
Durham Rotary
North Carolina
Hodges
Vance County
Foreman explains no brutality. jury spares death in race rape case
Tallahassee Florida jury convicts four white youths of mass rape of a white coed but rejects the death penalty, citing no brutality in the testimony. Foreman J A H King, a local plantation owner, says verdict based on law and evidence, not race, noting threats with gun and knife but no chilling brutality. He adds the decision would be the same if defendants had been four Negroes as tensions ease in the capital.
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Tallahassee
Fla
J. A. H. King
Florida
King
Adlai Johnson Still In Running
Adlai E Stevenson and Sen Lyndon B Johnson remain active contenders for the nomination as Humphrey and Symington boost campaign activity. Republican Hugh Scott predicts Nixon will win the GOP nod easily and Rockefeller may head the ticket at a future convention. Stevenson, arriving for Democratic meetings, repeats he is not a candidate for the nomination. Mansfield signals potential openness to further action.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Lyndon B. Johnson
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Out Mass
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D-Minn
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Hugh Scott
R-Pa
Richard J
M. Nixon
Scott
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Stevenson
Democratic Advisory Council
Mansfield
Fire drives 98 to lifeboats from Atlantic cable ship
A blaze swept the Ocean Layer in mid Atlantic 500 miles off the coast forcing 98 aboard crew and supervisors to abandon ship. The German freighter Flavia rescued 86 crew and 12 supervisors, while two men were briefly missing. The Ocean Layer had been laying a cable from Newfoundland to France when the fire started in the engine room. The Monarch and other vessels aided in the operation. The ship, owned by Submarine Cables Ltd of London, was a former German cargo ship seized after World War II.
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English
Atlantic
Newfoundland
France
London
Flavia
Hamburg
A. MacPherson Ross
Oh Ws
Ross
Ocean Layer
Post Office
Monarch
Submarine Cables Ltd
Cobh
United States
West Berlin at Center as Big Four Press for Pact
The West urged decisive action on Berlin during the sixth week of the Geneva talks. British Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd, U S Secretary of State Christian Herter, and French FM Maurice Couve de Murville planned strategy sessions with Gromyko, amid reports Moscow drafting new directives. The aim remained to preserve the Berlin status quo with face saving terms while seeking a summit, with the talks potentially ending soon if no new ideas emerge.
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Geneva
West
Soviet Union
Berlin
Selwyn Lloyd
London
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Maurice Couve de Murville
Lloyd
Andrei Gromyko
Gromyko
West Berlin
Britain
Couve de Murville
Parents Not Aware Of Fire Origin
Sterling Baker and wife Alice badly burned in a house fire while their children Doreen and Bruce admitted to police they started the blaze by pouring gasoline on the bed where their parents slept. The teens cited strictness as their motive. the Bakers' condition was described as serious but improving.
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Jackson, Mich
Sterling Baker
Alice
Doreen
Bruce
Perfume Details Feature In Liberace Libel Trial
A Liberace libel case hears testimony that his perfume overpowered antiseptic after a wasp sting at Le Bourget Airport in 1956. Witness Peter Stephens recalls Liberace describing American toilet water and plans to buy perfume in Paris as lawyers press whether the Daily Mirror and columnist Cassandra implied homosexuality.
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London
Liberace
The
Daily Mirror
William N. Connor
Peter Stephens
Mirror
Paris
le Bourget
Stephens
Neville Faulks
Somoza Seeks Proof Of Aid To Rebels
In Managua President Luis Somoza demands proof for the OAS that young rebels got substantial help from other Latin American governments. After a two week effort the regime crowns a parade signaling victory while exiles may strike again. 16 holdouts surrendered, joined by 46 earlier defectors, as Beellen cronies were ambushed. Chamorro led the uprising before being hauled before Somoza.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Luis Somoza
Organization of American States
Somoza
OAS
Pedro Joaquin Chamorro
la Prensa
Anasta
Chamorro
Fidel Castro
Three-Nxture study on high altitude nuclear tests proposed
The United States Britain and the Soviet Union agreed to a three power scientific study in Geneva to detect high altitude nuclear explosions. American British and Soviet scientists will meet June 22 and report back by June 29 as part of a push to police a ban on atomic and hydrogen weapon blasts. The effort follows Ambassador Wadsworth's proposal and aims to resolve how to monitor and control such tests.
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United States
Britain
Soviet Union
James J. Wadsworth
Entith
Del
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