Fall Kills Rider on Coaster
A 20-year-old Compton youth, James T. Holmes of 1715 N Acacia St, died Friday night after tumbling from a speeding roller coaster car in the Nu-Fake amusement zone. His 18-year-old brother Tom watched as they stood up on the incline. police say the fall occurred as the car rolled upward. Police, ambulances, and Navy shore patrol freed the body after about 30 minutes, as bystanders crowded the scene. The youths had recently been discharged from the Air Force and were celebrating at the Nu-Pike.
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Compton
James T. Holmes
N. Acacia St
Tom
Holmes
Navy
Air Force
Nu- Pike
Ex-Premier Hatoyama of Nippon Dies
Former Japanese prime minister Ichiro Hatoyama died of a heart attack at his Tokyo home. He was 76 and served three terms from 1954 to 1956. Ill for years after three strokes in 1954, he headed the Liberal Democratic Party after it formed from conservative factions.
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Tokyo
Ichiro Hatoyama
Hatoyama
Japan
Liberal- Democratic Party
Hit and run ends life of Long Beach youth
A 17-year-old Long Beach boy was killed Friday night when struck by a hit-and-run auto on a Los Angeles street. Police identified the dead youth as Doug Frampton, son of Mr. and Mrs. Jack E. Frampton. The car, believed to be a 1949 or 1950 model, fled the scene after the impact near 55th and Alameda Streets. The boy had ridden his bicycle to the curb to tie a shoelace when the car swerved and struck him. The incident followed a dispute at home earlier that day.
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Long Beach
Los Angeles
Ellers
S 55Th and
Alameda Sts
Sen
Ulley
Pennsylvania
Washington
Joseph
F. Guffey
LBCC Earns State Tourney Berth by Defeating Bakersfield
The Long Beach City College basketball team secured a place in the state junior college tournament by beating Bakersfield. An audit of President Eisenhower's White House expenses has been ordered.
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LBCC
Bakersfield
Eisenhower
White House
Veteran Actor Fred Stone Dies Across the Nation
Fred Andrew Stone famed Broadway star of Red Mill and Wizard of Oz died at 85 in North Hollywood. His career spanned 70 years across carnivals stage and films with a notable straw man role in the original Wizard of Oz.
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Fred Stone
North Hollywood
UPI
Fred Andrew Stone
Stone
Straw Man
AEC Chairman McCone Hospitalized in Idaho Falls
U S Atomic Energy Commission chairman John A McCone was hospitalized Friday for suspected pneumonia and unable to join U S and British officials at the national reactor testing station. He planned to fly home to Los Angeles Friday night for further medical attention.
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Idaho Falls
John A. McCone
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
Los Angeles
Iowa Hit Hardest by Storm
A paralyzing winter storm pounded the northern middle west Friday night with 10-foot drifts. Iowa counted 11 deaths, Wisconsin 10, Illinois five, and Oklahoma and Pennsylvania one each. A La Crosse fire tragedy left a mother and her two sons dead as crews struggled to reach homes.
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Middle West
Michigan
Wisconsin
Iowa
Seaboard
Illinois
Oklahoma
Pennsylvania
la Crosse
Wis
Lorraine Bernd
Blond Bank Robber Nabbed Near Las Vegas Roadblock
A 19 year old described as a champagne blonde robbed the First National Bank of Nevada in Las Vegas of about $2,000. She was captured moments later at a roadblock while attempting to flee on a bus.
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Las Vegas
Nev
UPN
First National Bank of Nevada
Boxcar Crashes Kill Eight Marines in Storm Crash
A flying boxcar carrying nine Marines crashed and burned in a swamp near Cherry Point North Carolina during a violent storm. Eight Marines were killed and a survivor identified as Sgt Ralph Mauro. Four victims remain unnamed pending next of kin notices.
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Cherry Point
N. C
Pees Seamon
Ralph Mauro
Hamden
Mass
WM TRAVELS GETS POINT OF WIFE GUN
Four Marines identified in a plane crash near North Carolina as Maj William Zane and three lieutenants. Winds up to 60 mph and heavy rain hindered identity confirmation. A separate bank robbery case centers on Ida Belle Ingram of Roanoke Virginia, who robbed First National Bank in Alexandria and Union Trust in Washington using a gun, fled on a bus to Reno, later arrested with $1,761.
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William E. Zane
Cherry Point
William F. Darby
New Bern
N. C
South Hampton
N. Y
Andrew B. Franzoni
Trenton
N. 1
Walter R. Archambault
Bull Head
D. i
Marine Corps
North Carolina
FBI
Ida Belle Ingram
Roanoke
First National Bank
Alexandria
Union Trust Co
Washington, D.C
Jit
First National
Khrushchev Sees Peace Amid Leipzig Trade Fair
Soviet Premier Khrushchev told foreign businessmen at the Leipzig Trade Fair he believes there will be no war and trade expansion will grow. East German Premier Grotewohl said a high level Communist meeting would occur in East Berlin soon. Khrushchev toasted Krupp and praised a British exhibitor for blue plastic bathtubs over rockets.
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Leipzig
East Germany
Khrushchev
Otto Grotewok
East Berlin
Unity in Berlin Backed by Congress for Eisenhower
Congressional leaders from both parties pledged support to President Eisenhower in standing firm against Soviet threats to Berlin. He held morning talks with the big four and an afternoon session with top members of the Senate and House Armed Services and Foreign Relations committees. Speaker Sam Rayburn said the parties are united in backing the policy.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Berlin
Senate
House Armed Services and Foreign Relations
Sam Rayburn
Duncan's Life Like a Yo Yo
In Ventura a handsome young attorney testifies how he moved between his wife Olga and his mother Elizabeth Duncan over a marriage. The mother stands trial for life accused of hiring two men to slay Olga last November. Frank Duncan, 30, says his mother feared losing him and kept his clothes at Olga's place while the wife was a nurse from Canada. The courtroom scene grows tense as witnesses deny plotting the murder while crowds line up outside and a carnival mood fills the corridor.
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Ventura
Frank Duncan
Olga
Elizabeth Duncan
Frank
Oga
California
Depty
Jeff Boyd
Door Guardian
Norwalk youth accused of brutal San Dimas attack caught in Fullerton
Raymond Eugene Swope twenty of 11608 Adonis Avenue fled twice during police dragnets after allegedly slugging raping and robbing Mrs Mary Alice Nill twenty eight in her San Dimas home Friday morning He was captured in Fullerton Friday night after escaping a patrol dragnet and stealing a car with articles from the victim found in his possession The case involved a severed skull fracture and substantial stolen goods recovered from an abandoned vehicle.
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San Dimas
Fullerton
Raymond Eugene Swope
Adonis Ave
Mary Alice Nill
Los Angeles County’ General Hospital
Tur
Fullerton Rd
Delichase
Swope
Fuller
Aiton
Dwight Suthers
Lund
Swope Vo
Suspi
San Jee
Dimas
Hey
Hind Swope
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