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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Jun 15, 1959
Page
4
Inmates in the incorrigible unit of Oahu Prison outside Honolulu held a guard hostage for about 40 minutes on Sunday before officers ended the incident with tear gas. The hostage, identified as Canute Tacheran, was beaten on the face and hospitalized, said Deputy Warden Willard Bolling.
In Managua a two week uprising against President Luis Somoza ended as 61 rebel prisoners arrived for a military parade through the capital. A large crowd cheered guardsmen while air power roared overhead. Earlier, 15 rebels captured at dawn near Lake Managua were rushed to the capital and questioned by Gen. Anastasio Somoza who delivered a sharp, mocking rebuke.
CHICAGO LA-Metro Holovachka resigned Sunday as assistant Lake County Indiana prosecutor amid accusations of abuse and character assassination by Robert Kennedy, counsel for the Senate rackets committee. He had been questioned about a $327,000 accumulation from 1952 to 1958 on a $12,000 salary and said much was from trust for clients in his private practice, denying personal gain. He criticized Kennedy, alleging a character assassination plan. The committee accused Holovachka and investigator Walter Conroy of pressuring independent coin operators out of business to install machines for gang figures in restaurants and stores.
Roy Rice, a former Navy radio operator and current aeronautics worker, survived a dramatic pool rescue attempt after his two seat Arronca plane crash incident. He credits his training and will to live as rescue efforts failed but his miraculous return from drowning as his wife and doctors call a true life turning point.
Soviet historian Mosсow UB Vyache slav Petrovich Vogin was awarded the Order of Lenin Sunday, marking his 80th birthday.
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