Supreme Court Denies Clemency for Two Condemned Murderers
The U S Supreme Court refused clemency for John Calvin Tipton and William Francis Rupp, both sentenced to death in California. Rupp claimed insanity. the court ruled warden findings on sanity not reviewable. A dissenter argued execution of the mentally unfit is barbaric.
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Orange County
John Calvin Tipton
William Francis
Billy) Rupp
U. S. Supreme Court
Rupp
California
San Quentin
Bart Carntativo
Stinson Beach
Ae Ee
Felix Frankfurter
William ©. Douglas
William J. Brennan Jr
Inish Court
Tipton
Oleta C. Johnson
Mesa
Brucker Praises Jupiter Moon Shot Efforts
Army Secretary Wilber M. Brucker said the Army Navy and Air Force coordinate on a Jupiter missile project to reach the moon. He claimed 70 percent of a date for the first U S moon shot and touted 29 fully successful launches out of 68 tests. He warned of Soviet claims and noted nine American soldiers held in East Germany.
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Chicago
UPJ
Army
Wilber M. Brucker
Navy
Air Force
Brucker
U. S
Advanced Research Projects Agency
Bruck
East Germany
State Department
Hoffman Seeks $5000 for Mental Experts in Probe
Rep Clare Hoffman of Michigan proposed a House subcommittee authorization to spend 5000 dollars to hire mental experts. The aim is to assess witnesses' truthfulness and their capacity to testify. the plan would probe integrity patriotism and character of individuals whose testimony could defame someone.
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Washington
UPL
Clare
Hoffman
House
Two Demo Cooks Apply for Mansion Job
Atty. Gen. Edmund G. Brown, Democratic candidate for governor, reports receiving two letters from California and Nebraska applicants seeking employment as cooks in the executive mansion.
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Sacramento
Edmund G. Brown
California
Nebraska
U S Steel Raises Union Benefit Increases Across Industry
Pittsburgh UPI reports United States Steelworkers begin receiving final installments of boosted benefits under the 1956 contract. A Steel producer spokesman says other mills will follow U S Steel, with wage differentials, holiday pay, Sunday pay, and cost of living adjustments rising for about 800,000 workers while roughly 100,000 are laid off and 300,000 see increased holiday pay.
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Pittsburgh
UPI
United Steelworkers of America
United Flowing
U.S. Steel
Mojave Smashup Kills Three in California
Three Oklahoma residents died when a head on crash with a semi-trailer truck occurred about 20 miles east of Mojave California. Betty Rucker 19 Don Moody 20 and Randy Moody 5 were killed. Dwight Moody 26 and Lois Moody 25 were injured and suspected parents of the dead child.
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Mojave
Calif
UPY
Bakersfield Hospital
Here
Fornia Highway
Betty Rucker
Don ‘L.’Moody
Randy “Moody
Oklahoma ‘City
Dwight
Moody
Lois
Rucker
Fast Shot Earp Misses Wounds Self in Demonstration
Evansville Indiana police officer Gene Garble aged 30, nicknamed the Wyatt Earp of the Evsville Police Department, was wounded while demonstrating how a fast shot action. He was sent to the hospital with a wound to his self.
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Evansville
Ind
Gene Garble
Fwyatt Earp
Evsville
Sixty Cadets to Visit Okinawa Defenses
Sixty cadets from the US Air Force Academy class of 1959 are scheduled to arrive today from Okinawa for a two day visit to Formosa. The visit includes calls on American and Chinese defenses by the Nationalist air force aerobatic team.
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Taipei
Formosa
US Air, Force Academy
Okinawa
Aif
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