Fayetteville grocer slain in clash with three robbers
East Fayetteville grocer W Taft, 63, died after a gunfight with three masked robbers from Ashland Kentucky. Police arrested Charles Cassity 26 David Phillips 18 and Charles Smith 18 after spotting a Kentucky registered car near Elizabethtown about 50 minutes later. The trio were wanted in five holdups across Ironton Ohio and Huntington West Virginia. The incident began when clerk T S Hall witnessed the attack and Taft intervened before the robbers fled to a awaiting car. More details on page ten A.
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Fayetteville
N. C
Elizabethtown
Cumberland County
Glenn A. Buchanan
Charles Edward Cassity
David Ernest Phillips
Charles Arthur Smith
L. F. Worrell
Ashland
Ironton
Huntington
W.va
T. S. Hall
Taft
Walt McDonald
Hall
Two Longtime World Series Bleacher Fans Face Losses
Two veteran first in line bleacher fans at Yankee Stadium lost suitcases before the Yankees Dodgers opener. Ralph Belcore 41 a Chicago carnival worker and Charles Kierst 63 a Auburn New York fireman reported the theft. Kierst offered $50 to recover the bag which held his 1921 era clippings. both predicted a Yankee victory in six games. A third hopeful Noel Sherman 19 appeared in line.
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New York
New York Yankees
Brooklyn Dodgers
Yankee Stadium
Ralph J. Belcore
Chicago
Charles Kierst
Auburn
N. Y
Belcore
Kierst
Noel Sherman
Flushing, N. Y
Egypt Accepts Red Arms Benson Admits Mistake In Firing Of Ladejinsky
Market rebound follows Eisenhower illness with the Dow recouping most losses as traders react to good news from Denver. Bethlehem Steel Aluminium Kennecott General Motors Du Pont and Standard Oil rise while Santa Fe Sears and AT&T slip. Analysts say the business boom remains solid despite the president's health. Morse G Dial comments on corporate expansion implications.
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New York
Eisenhower
Denver
New York Stock Exchange
Gaing
Bethlehem Steel
Aluminium Ltd
Kennecott Copper
General Motors
du Pont
Standard Oil
Santa Fe
Sears Roebuck
American Telephone & Telegraph
London
Milan
Oet
Exchange
Morse G. Dial
Union Carbide and Carbon Corps
Ike's Attack Comes When Science Is Scoring Victories Against Killer
President Eisenhower’s heart attack arrives as medical science reports progress against heart disease. Advances include drugs to control high blood pressure, safer heart surgery, heart-lung machines, and living with heart conditions. The heart’s structure and blood flow are explained, with note of artherosclerosis and coronary thrombosis.
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Ike
Science
Killer
Alton L. Blakeslee
New York
Eisenhower
Egypt Accepts Russian Arms Offer and Britain Plans Talks
Egypt has informed Britain it accepted a Russian arms offer as Foreign Secretary Macmillan and Dulles meet in New York amid Western talks on arms balance in the Middle East. Britain, France, and the United States seek to avert an arms race with Israel and Arab states.
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London
Egypt
Britain
Foreign Office
Harold Macmillan
U.S
State Dulles
New York
United States
France
Middle East
Israel
Humphrey Trevelyan
Macmillan
Russia
Antoine Pinay
Dulles
U. N. Assembly
Geneva
State Department
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Wable Executed for Sleeping Truck Driver Slaying
John Wesley Wable, 25, of Chiopyle Pennsylvania, died in the electric chair at Rockview State Penitentiary for the July 25 1953 phantom slaying of Harry F Pitts a sleeping truck driver on the Pennsylvania Turnpike. He faced additional charges for two similar shootings but was not tried.
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Bellefonte
John Wesley Wable
Rockview State Penitentiary
Wable
Chiopyle
Pennsylvania
Harry F. Pitts
Bowling Green
Pitts
Alburquerque
Charlotte adults discuss public school improvements
Four hundred people from the Charlotte area in Bedmont North Carolina attended a regional White House Conference on Education. It was the fifth of six meetings. a similar conference is planned for Asheville tomorrow and a state meeting will be held October 13 in Memorial Auditorium Raleigh.
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Charlotte
Bedmont
North Carolina
White House
Asheville
Raleigh
Coffee Chain Shops Raise Private Label Prices
Major chains increased private-label coffee prices today. A& P raised Red Circle to 87 cents and Bokar to 89 cents per pound, A&P vacuum-packed to 95, while 8 O Clock stayed at 79 cents. Safeway Nob Hill up to 87 cents, Airway unchanged at 79. Wholesale roasters had earlier lifted prices by four cents due to higher green bean costs.
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New York
Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
Red Circle
Bokar
A&p
Safeway
Recovery Hopes Rise as Eisenhower Spends Night in Hospital
President Eisenhower enjoyed a “very good night” at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital with sleep from 8 p.m. to 6:15 a.m. and satisfactory progress reported by Col. George M. Powell and Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder. Dr. Paul Dudley White urged caution, saying two weeks are needed to gauge recovery, though prospects for full recovery within two months are described as reasonably good if no complications arise.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Fitzsimmons Army
Pla
George M. Powell
Howard M. Snyder
White House
Paul Dudley White
Boston
White
Ten Cities Slated to Be Photographed in Recon Test
The first group of RB 47 jets left Columbus Ohio to photograph ten U S cities in the Strategic Air Command fourth reconnaissance and navigation competition. Five wings with three crews each from Lockbourne AFB Forbes AFB Topeka and Little Rock AFB compete for the Brig Gen P T Cullen Trophy named for an aerial recon officer killed in a North Atlantic crash. A second flight will depart Thursday.
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Columbus
Ohio
Strategic Air Command
Lockbourne Air Force Base
Forbes Afb
Topeka
Kan
Little Rock Afb
Ark
P. T. Cullen
North Atlantic
Eisenhower aides map plan to keep government running
Washington reports the Eisenhower team shaping a plan to preserve government function while the president recovers from a heart attack. A National Security Council meeting and a cabinet session were set under Vice President Nixon to discuss routine matters and delegation of authority ahead of any transfer of duties.
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Washington
Eisenhower
National Security Council
Nixon
Eliseer
Atty
Gen
Brownell
New York
Spain
Benson admits error in denying Wolf Ladejinsky clearance
Secretary of Agriculture Benson said he erred in denying security clearance to Wolf Ladejinsky and announced a complete overhaul of the department's security program. He urged a higher level review of procedures after criticism of the January decision. Ladejinsky, a Russian born land reform expert, had cleared State Department checks and served in the Tokyo Embassy.
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Washington
Benson
Wolf Ladejinsky
Senate Civil Service
Agriculture Department
Ladejinsky
Department
Eisenhower
State Department
Tokyo
Rul Ladejinsky
Harold E. Stassen
Foreign Operations Administration
Indochina
Stassen
Foreign Ministers In Talks At New York
France Britain and the United States opened strategy talks in New York to shape forthcoming Geneva Big Four meetings. Dulles MacMillan and Pinay discussed disarmament and a unified West Germany within NATO amid Soviet proposals and news of Eisenhower’s health scare.
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New York
France
Great Britain
United States
Geneva
U. S
State Dulles
Canada
Waldorf- Astoria
East
West Germany
Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Washington
V. M. Molotov
U. N
NATO
Bulganin
Eisenhower
Russia
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David Phillips
Red Arms
Bruce Margavitch
Philadelphia
St. Agnes Hospital
Suzanne Marie
Mar
Eisena
John Wable
Sherman Adams
Security Council
J. Howard McGrath
Truman
McGrath
Supreme Court
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