Five Policemen Charged After Norridge Shop Theft
Chicago suburb five officers summoned before Cook County grand jury over alleged looting of Jewel Food Store in Norridge and River Grove. Officials from Norridge include Police Chief Raymond H Peters and three officers. two River Grove officers are named. Authorities say door was found shattered and loot included cigarettes and hosiery. A volunteer force followed suspensions of three Norridge regulars.
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Chicago
Cook County
Grand Jury
Norridge
River Grove
John Gutknecht
Jewel
Raymond H. Peters
Herman Marchel
Richard Potempa
Clarence Herman
Frank Kurowski
Gutknecht
Transocean Phone Cable Project Under Way
Workmen begin a 41 million dollar transocean telephone cable project linking North America and Britain. The 2000 mile undersea line will have 36 circuits and improve U S Britain radio telephone capacity. Monarch ships crew of 130 begins laying cable at Simplex Wire and Cable plant.
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Newington
N.H
North America
Britain
Atlantic
Canada
England
United States
Monarch
Simplex Wire and Cable Co
McCann
D-Greene
Bank Bill Aims for $100,000 Yearly State Interest
Harrisburg report says an administration banking bill approved by the House would allow the state to earn about $100,000 yearly in interest on state money. Rep. Francis Worley, the sole negative vote, represented Adamis and the measure moves to the Senate.
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Harrisburg
Leader
House
Senate
Francis Worley
Adamis
Monarch to Leave Sunday for Clarenville Cable Work
The Monarch is expected to depart Sunday for Clarenville, Mld., where the actual cable laying work is slated to begin June 22.
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Newinngton
Clarenville
Mld
Urge More Inspections For Mines
The House voted yesterday to require mine inspections at least every two months, tightening the prior standard of once every three months. The measure moves to the Senate. Administration proposals to remove salaries for first aid and rescue instructors were also advanced.
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Harrisburg
House
Senate
Answer to a trivia query about a wave-controlling instrument
The musical instrument is the Theremin, played without touching it by waving hands near its antennas.
Hollywood Actress Accuses Ex Husband in Suit
Venezuelan Franchesca de Scaffa alleges George Cabot abandoned support for their daughter and vows to pursue him to Italy if needed. The case in Superior Court awards de Scaffa $4,950 and five days in jail for contempt. Cabot, 52, plans to stay in Italy claiming a past marriage produced the child born in 1920.
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Hollywood
Franchesca de Scaffa
George Washing
Huston
Bruce Cabot
Italy
Cabot
Alfonsine
Hell
Afian
Early move for 206 hunting camps in state land loss
Harrisburg officials outlined a plan to remove 206 hunting camps from 8,500 acres sold to Curtiss-Wright Corp for a jet engine testing center. Leases in the first belt will end by May 1 1956, with others phased out by May 1957 1958. Deer hunting will continue in outer belts until leases end. The state will assist displaced camp owners to relocate on similar land.
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Harrisburg
State Forests and Waters Department
Cameron
Clearfield County
Curtiss - Wright] Corp
New Jersey
Forests and Waters
Maurice K. Croddard
Jamey
Midde
Goddard
Fire Sweeps Four Blocks In Seaside Heights New Jersey
A fierce northeast wind drove a blaze through Seaside Heights four beachfront blocks destroying 84 amusements and food outlets including three bars and the Carousel. About 150 firefighters worked two and a half hours to control the fire with fourmen treated for smoke inhalation. Damage estimated at around one million dollars. Police said the fire began at a faulty electric sign near the Pier restaurant on Dumont Avenue.
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Seaside Heights
Joseph McDevitt
Pier
Dumoot Avenue
Adenauer undecided on Moscow invitation visit
Bonn officials said Chancellor Konrad Adenauer remained undecided about accepting the Soviet invitation to Moscow or sending his new foreign minister Heinrich von Brentano. A neutral point conference on normalization of Bonn Kremlin relations was suggested. Close associates note Adenauer has long been reluctant to travel to Russia himself.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Moscow
Heinrich von Brentano
Kremlin
Adenauer
Russia
Mostly Wet For Nation
The Associated Press reports broad wet weather from the Rockies to the Atlantic with ongoing showers across the Northern Plains Texas Oklahoma and a belt from Wisconsin Illinois Kentucky to the mid Atlantic and southern New England. Heavy rain fell in Oklahoma and Texas with tornado winds near Waco and Lorena. No injuries reported and up to 4 inches of rain in parts of Texas. Philadelphia saw about 1 inch of rain as a desert heat wave hit the far Southwest with temperatures reaching 118 degrees.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Atlantic Coast
Plains
Texas
Oklahoma
Wisconsin
Ilinois
Kentucky
Appalachians
Middle Atlantic States
New Hingland
Waco
Tex
Lorena
Philadelphia
Pilot Burns In Wreckage At Lockwood Calif
A pilot died after his plane struck a 12,000 volt line on takeoff and burst into flames near Lockwood California. The pilot Donald Belts Mc Nab aged 44 perished trapped under a gas tank. Passenger John Marcus, 30, was thrown clear and critically burned. The crash occurred during a flight to visit his father George Betts.
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Lockwood
Calif
Donald Belts McNab
Gavin McNab
San Francisco
George Betts
McNab
John Marcus
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Maryland
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Ahmes
Yester- Asie
Frank Tinsley
Old Saybrook
Marietta
Ohio City
Earth
Aenea
Poplin Jackets
Hardwick
Troutman’s
Madras
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