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Newspaper
Independent
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Oct 28, 1958
Page
3
A Rome court postponed until Friday the hearing on the prosecutor's appeal against a ruling annulling Ingrid Horgan and Roberto Rossellini's Mexican proxy marriage. The delay was ordered due to the absence of one attorney.
Starkweather, Tawet, Formosa and others are tied to a contested cease-fire in the Quemoy region as a murder spree and trial proceed amid chaotic reports. The article details juror selections, a high tension courtroom, and related political signals while Note: separate incident in Chowchilla, California, reports three deaths after a truck collision with a car.
In Lincoln Nebraska fifteen year old Caril Ann Fugate sat impassively as townsfolk considered potential jurors for her first degree murder trial. Prosecutors seek death if evidence warrants, accusing Caril of aiding Charles Starkweather 29 in the January 27 killings that left ten dead during a Week of terror.
Western tourists report Romania under Gheorghiu-Dej conducting mass arrests to stifle rebellion with political prisoners filling crowded prisons. Other dispatches cover a chemical explosion in Sydney injuring at least 110, emergency cat rescues in Paris, Brazilian paratroopers at Copa Cabana, a mass crowd at Cape Town open house for the Essex, air conditioned hearses in Lisbon, and Bernard Montgomery collecting a pension at Farnham post office.
Gen Mohanmad Ayub Khan takes power in Pakistan with President Mirza stepping down and transferring all powers. The move follows a prior bloodless overthrow of Premier F Khan Noon. In Italy, a strong earthquake in Catanzaro causes damage and villagers flee.
Adlai E Stevenson told a Chicago party gathering that Congress must be elected to fill a leadership vacuum left by the White House. He urged voters to elect a Democratic Congress to bring new ideas for democracy at home and to restore leadership abroad, praising Charles A Boyle for backing human rights against property or state rights conflicts.
A 15 year old boy fired a shotgun twice at a man he believed to be his father in Los Angeles. Both blasts missed as the youth, upset over alleged money issues at home, confronted the man outside a construction site. The target, Robert W. Baxter, 38, was not the father but suffered no life threatening injuries. The boy, whose mother is Rose Montapert, 47, fled the scene as police investigated the incident and took the mother for questioning.
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