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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Apr 29, 1957
Page
16
Rudolph Herring, 20, confessed under hypnosis to the February 1956 murder of Ruth L. Downing in Surfside near Miami Beach. Investigators say the victim’s hands and back showed knife wounds after a struggle. Herring also admitted raping and attacking multiple women during travels between Texas and Florida.
Edward F. Martin, once refused by the Navy for age, is reenlisting in the Army at 74 to reach 20 years for retirement. A master sergeant in the post signal office, he passed a new physical for overseas duty and hopes to be sent to Rome where his grandson studies for the priesthood. Martin began military service in 1898 and served in World War I as a telegraph editor.
Senate Republican Policy Committee Chairman Bridges NH says a new bill would require TVA to obtain authorization from Congress to enlarge power plants. President Eisenhower reportedly favors the measure, aiming to end TVA expansions funded from internal revenues.
A Kansas City housewife left a beauty shop on a rainy day and vanished, three days later her nude body was discovered in a pasture. The case drew nationwide FBI and police attention as readers were urged to buy Reader's Digest for the May issue detailing the baffling mystery.
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