Boy Claims He Killed Parents In Staten Island Stabbing
Eight year old Melvin Nimer Jr. confesses to plotting and carrying out the murder of his parents with a kitchen knife while they slept. He describes the killings as fitting the bloody Staten Island stabbing once blamed on a white masked intruder. The district attorney cautions much remains unexplained and Melvin has not been arrested. A psychiatric report cites a persecution complex and a personality capable of such acts. the confession was obtained last Saturday but disclosed only late night.
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NEW York (Ap
Melvin Nimer Jr
Staten Island
Melvin
Harold Nimer
Melvin Nimer
Lore Jean
Dist. Atty
John M. Braisted
Richmond County
Utah
Braisted
Eisenhower to Speak Tonight On Auto Strike Crisis
President Eisenhower will address the nation from the White House at 10 15 p m EST to seek support amid the nation wide auto union strike threat. The United Auto Workers target Ford as talks with GM and Chrysler stall while Dulles' policy case gains allies and neutrals.
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Setins
Pee Uto
Washington
Eisenhower
America
Ford
Motor Is
Net
United Auto Workers
General Motors
Chrysler
UAW
International
Supreme Court Opens Session On Little Rock
The Supreme Court hears arguments on desegregation timing in Little Rock Arkansas with Richard C. Bauer defending a 30 month suspension as NYU Thurgood Marshall and J. Lee Rankin ready to urge immediate readmission of equal doctrine.
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Washington
Little Rock, Ark
Supreme Court
Richard C. Bauer
High Court
U.S. Dist
Harry J. Lemley
Butler
Thurgood Marshall
National Assn. For
J. Lee Rankin
Felix Frankfurter
Frankfurter
South
Baltimore
Simon E. Sobeloff
4Th
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Warren County
Rogers
Little Rock
Supreme Court of the United States
United States
Delay Of Order Denied Over Warren County Integration
Chief Judge Sobeloff refused to stay a lower court order mandating the admission of 22 African American students to the white Warren County High School in Front Royal Virginia. The ruling leaves the school open under a plan tied to Virginia's massive resistance while appeals proceed.
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Baltimore
Simon E. Sobeloff
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
Warren County
Virginia
Albertis S
Sobeloff
U.S
John Paul
Four States Bear Polio Brunt in 1958 Season
United States polio cases for 35 weeks ended Aug 30 totaled 2 223 a decline from last year and 1953 57 averages but four states Texas Michigan Florida and California accounted for 40 percent of cases Detroit may be hardest hit while New York New Jersey and Ohio also reported sizable numbers Miami Dade County reported 66 cases National Foundation urges vaccination for those under 40 noting 44 million aged 20 to 39 lack protection under 20 group shows 66 percent with three doses 23 percent with none.
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New York
Michigan
Texas
Florida
California
Detroit
United States
U.S. Public Health Service
New Jersey
Ohio
Statistical Bulletin of the Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Miami
Fla
National Foundation
Dade County
Foundation
Lway
Billy Graham’s Private Life Revealed in Family Weekly
The piece describes Billy Graham’s subdued life at a cloistered home bought by well wishers, where he lives as a husband and father of five. It notes a shift from public visibility to ordinary domestic routines away from celebrity pathways.
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Billy Graham
Billy
Family Weekly
Your Sunday Enterprise
U S Will Pursue Red Aircraft From USS Midway Off Formosa
Rear Adm. Ralph S. Clarke said 7th Fleet pilots are restricted to stay 20 miles from the China coast but will hot pursuit attackers to the mainland if Communist planes strike. No enemy planes sighted yet, Midway recently joined the fleet with Shangri La Lexington and Hancock nearby.
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Midway
Formosa
U.S. 7Th Fleet
China
7Th Fleet
Ralph S. Clarke
Red China
Clarke
Stask
Quemoy Island
Shangrila
Lexington
Hancock
Princeton
Essex
6Th Fleet
Mediterranean
China Issues Fourth Warning Over U S Warship Passage
London AP reports Peiping radio quoted a Foreign Ministry spokesman as saying four U S warships entered Chinese waters while escorting Nationalist transports to Quemoy. Beijing warned the United States had ignored prior protests and would resume Sino American talks in Warsaw.
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London
Red China
U.S
Peiping Radio
Quemoy
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Warsaw
China
Second Battalion To Leave Lebanon Amid Stalled U S Withdrawal
Beirut AP A second battalion of U S Marines will sail home next week as President Chamoun says remaining 10 000 American troops may stay until end of October The 1 700 man battalion joins forces from Jordan and Britain in the withdrawal plans Adm Holloway says no immediate larger pullout The U N seeks to facilitate a broader pullout while Chamoun and Hammarskjold negotiate timelines and assurances for continued Lebanese cooperation
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Beirut
Lebanon
Camille Chamoun
U.S
Jordan
Sha Baek Manet
Middle East
Chamoun
Gamal Abdel Nasser
United Arab Republic
Iraq
U.n.general Assembly
United States
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Nasser
Amman
State agencies seek funds for next year's operation
Raleigh AP reports state agencies plan budget hearings through Thursday to justify operations for 1959 61. The State Department of Motor Vehicles seeks 100 more patrolmen and 45 000 for six light aircraft to aid traffic and patrols with 581 officers currently.
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Raleigh
Sion
State Department of Motor
International Assn
Yester
North Carolina School For Motor Vehicles
State School For the Deaf
Old Salem Inc
Garrett
Pease
Alexander Schools Inc
Tryon Palace
Ed Scheidt
Asst. Commission
Joe Garrett
Mutual Broadcasting Firm Sold to Scranton Corp
Scranton Corp. announced the purchase of the 33 year old Mutual Broadcasting System for more than two million dollars. The deal includes all MBS affiliates. Scranton says no management changes are planned. Mutual, formed in 1925, has 482 affiliates. Delaware and New Hampshire lack MBS stations. The Scranton group traces to Scranton Lace Co. and includes Chemical Rubber, Storm Vulcan, Craftspun Yarn, and Hal Roach Studios. controlling stake is held by F L Jacobs of Detroit.
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Scranton
Scranton Corp
Mutual Broadcasting System
H. J. Megargel
Mutual
MBS
Delaware
New Hampshire
Scranton Lace Co
Chemical Rubber Corp. of America
Newark, N.J
Storm Vulcan, Inc
Dallas, Tex
Craftspun Yarn, Inc
Kings Mountain
N. C
Hal Roach
Culver City
Calif
The
F. L. Jacobs
Detroit
Red Chinese shelling halts Nationalist convoy at Quemoy
On Quemoy the Communist batteries opened fire after two Nationalist supply ships landed. The convoy withdrew as 13 US 7th Fleet ships stood offshore. The barrage tested range then intensified. 28 shells exploded in 10 seconds at the peak. US jets began active air defense readiness around Formosa Taiwan.
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Quemoy
U.S. 7Th Fleet
7Th Fleet
Formosa Strait
U.S
Formosa
Pugh Case May Reach Jury Today
The first degree murder trial of Clar ence Pugh 48 of Valdese was expected to go to the jury after the state presented its case. An SBI agent linked a bullet from Nadine to a gun found in Pugh’s car while officials said Pugh admitted abducting Nadine and robbing him of three or four hundred dollars.
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Sanford
N.C
Clarence Pugh
Raymond Mallard
Pugh
Valdese
Charles C. Nadine
Chatham County
Here
Nadine
SBI
Nodine
John W. Emerson
Handyman’s Sentence Upheld by Alabama High Court
The Alabama Supreme Court refused to reconsider an earlier ruling upholding the death sentence of Jimmy Wilson, a Black handyman. His execution was reset for Friday, Oct. 24.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Jimmy Wilson
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