Missionaries Bodies Found In Jungles In Ecuador
Four American missionaries were found killed in the eastern Ecuador jungles near the Caracay River. A fifth possibly alive faded with time. Nathaniel Saint identified, others mutilated. mission group had lived peacefully with local Auca Indians until a sudden attack. Air Force helicopter located bodies in shallow water.
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Quito
Ecuador
U.S. Air Force
Malcolm L. Nurnberg
Caracay River
Abraham Vanderpoint
Aucas
River Beach
Kefauver Campaign Loses Wisconsin Supporters
Two loyal Kefauver backers in Wisconsin withdraw their support amid doubts over the senator's sincerity. State Sen. Casimir Kendzierski and Fred Voigt, both Milwaukee figures, cited concerns about campaign dealings as they pulled out of Kefauver's 1952 bid.
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Milwaukee
Wis
Estes Kefauver
Wisconsin
Casimir Kendzierski
Fred Voigt
Kefauver
Bradshaws Return to U S After Years in Communist China
Dr and Mrs Homer Bradshaw arrive at Travis Air Force Base California after enduring years of imprisonment in China and a long Pacific flight to resume life in the United States.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Homer Bradshaw
China
Pacific
United States
Dulles backs brink policy amid China crisis critique
Secretary of State Dulles reaffirmed that his brink of war policy blocked Red China in Korea Indo China and Formosa crises. The assertion followed criticism sparked by a Life magazine article outlining the stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dulles
Red China
Formosa
Life Magazine
Madison—Leonard Seyberth Named Wisconsin Conservation Chair
Leonard Seyberth of Eau Claire was named today as the new chairman of the Wisconsin Conservation Commission, replacing the former head and signaling a leadership change in the agency.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Madison
Leonard Seyberth
Eau Claire
Wisconsin Conservation Commission
Lattimer arraigned on first degree murder charge
Duane Lattimer, 21, arraigned on a first degree murder count in the shooting death of 18 year old Mildred Pederson at a lonely rural dump. The arraignment was delayed to 2 p.m. to allow defense talks with his mother.
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Duane Lattimer
Lattimer
Donald A. Rock
Claude F. Cooper
Douglas County Dist. Atty
John Chisholm
Mildred Pederson
Elderly Sisters Die in Hyde County House Fire
Two elderly sisters Miss Anna Johnson and Miss Lena Olson about 80 perished in a rural Hyde Iowa County blaze early today. Neighbors and would be rescuers battled flames at about 3 30 a m and could not reach them at the front door or upper story windows.
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Dodgeville
Hyde
Iowa County
Anna Johnson
Lena Olson
Raymond Bowden
Bowden
FBI Nabs Dad, Son Calls Police
In Quincy Massachusetts a boy phoned police with a frantic cry that two men were trying to handcuff his father. Police and FBI agents arrived at the house and arrested Adolph Maffie, a Brink's holdup suspect, inside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lattimer
Ernest Connell
Wentworth
Marshfield
Walter Wohlfahrt
Douglas County
Anthony Jenda
Louis Bannick
Tobin Markovich
Arthur LaValle
FBI
Quincey
Mass
Daddy
Adolph
Jazz) Maffie
Maffie
Tests Planned for Pacific Atomic Blasts
The United States will resume nuclear tests this spring at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands with reduced yields compared to the 1954 test. The plan comes amid protests and questions over a lack of effective international arms control agreements. AEC chairman Strauss said designs will be below maximum power, while a 1954 blast caused radiation illness on a Japanese fishing vessel.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Atomic Energy Commission
Defense Department
Eniwetok Proving Grounds
Marshall Islands
Mid- Pacific
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
Patrick AFB to launch first US earth satellite
The Navy and Air Force announced Patrick Air Force Base Cocoa Florida will be the launch site for the United States first earth satellite. The US races Russia to place a globe circling satellite before September 30 1957. The missile test center at Patrick AFB was chosen for its operational requirements for large rocket launchings.
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Washington
Navy
Air Force
Patrick Air Force Base
Cocoa
Fla
United States
Russia
Air Force Missile Test Center
Weather Preview for Kenosha and Wisconsin Cold Snap Elsewhere
The forecast calls for Saturday party cloudy and a little warmer with a low of 10 to 20 tonight and a high of 38 to 42. Kenosha records a low of 22 and was the warmest Wisconsin spot at 38 yesterday, while Grantsburg hits 11 below zero as northwestern Wisconsin endures a cold wave. Noon readings show 38 downtown 39 at American Motors and 40 at the sewage plant. sunrise 7 17 a.m. sunset 4 43 p.m.
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Kenosha
Wisconsin
Grantsburg
Mercury
American Motors
British Scientist Unveils Frictionless Engine Claim
London reports that George Bradshaw a 67 year old former British Admiralty scientist claims a frictionless automotive engine that can run 200000 miles without overhaul. He describes floating double ended pistons between gases in cylinders as the key and says the air cooled design can run on any fuel and scale to 1000 horsepower.
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London
George Bradshaw
Bradshaw
British Admiralty
Sanity Trial For Graham
A Denver jury trial begins March 5 to decide if John Gilbert Graham was sane on Nov 1 when accused of bombing an air liner killing his mother Mrs. Daisie E. King and 43 others. Four psychiatrists had deemed him sane. defense seeks separate sanity proceedings.
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Denver
John Gilbert Graham
Graham
Daisie E. King
United Air Lines
Colorado State Hospital
James Galvin
John Macdonald
Dist
John M. McDonald
Brink's Robbery Ring Details Told to Grand Jury
Joseph J. O Keefe, 47, a key figure in the Brink's 1950 heist, testified before a Boston grand jury about a planned year long robbery with a truck team hiding in ro otwork. He described entry through a garage, ventilation of locks, and the removal of money from the cage vault as seven men wore masks and carried pistols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brink
Boston
Mass
FBI
Anthony Pino
Michael V. Geagan
Vincent J. Costa
Joseph J. “Specs
O'Keefe
Boston Traveler
Joe McGinnis
Cage
Roxbury
Adolph “Jazz
Maffie
Grand Jury
Thomas B. Lloyd
Brink's
Capt. Wilson
Suffolk
Hoover
Board to Divide $100000 Brink's Reward in Chicago
A five member panel of Boston business and civic leaders will decide how to award the 100000 dollar Brink's reward for capturing the raiders. FBI agents are excluded by federal rules.
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Chicago
Boston
Brink's Inc
FBI
Cross admits indiscreet actions in Chicago contract case
Washington reports Hugh W. Cross former Interstate Commerce Commission chairman acknowledged indiscreet talks connected to a Chicago to railroad contract with Keeshin’s firm while denying any personal gain or influence on the award He said he faced threats and resigning from the ICC and testified before a Senate subcommittee in closed session last November
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Washington
Hugh W. Cross
Interstate Commerce Commission
Chicago
John L. Keeshin
ICC
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Cross
Sen
Bender
Ohio
Eisenhower
Illinois
Truman
Keeshin
Railroad Transfer Service, Inc
Parmalee Co
Lee Freeman
Parmalee
Freeman
Wayne A. Johnston
Ilinois
Johnston
Troopers Land on Cyprus Island to Guard Mideast Tensions
Paratroopers by the planeload arrived in Nicosia Cyprus today to bolster security as fears of a major flareup in the Middle East rise. British units deploy to the Mediterranean island to stand guard amid regional tensions.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Britain
Middle East
Brink's robbery case yields new FBI cooperation tale
The Boston FBI's six year pursuit of the Brink's gang included witness after witness and a failed 1953 grand jury effort. A pivotal turn came when Joseph O'Keefe began talking, aiding authorities including U S Attorney Julian and FBI agent Powers, leading to renewed evidence of gang membership.
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Boston
Mass
FBI
O'Keefe
Burke
U. S
Anthony Julian
Edward Powers
Garrett Byrne
Brink's
Electric Chair Kills Murderer in Sing Sing
Ossining N Y William Byers 19 died in the electric chair at Sing Sing last night for the murder of his girlfriend s mother Theresa Gresh 15 at the time is serving 20 years to life for second degree murder She was convicted of helping kill her mother Anna Gresh 43 in a Manhattan tenement by hammering and knifing her body stuffed into a tub and covered with plaster
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Ossining
N. Y
Wiliam Byers
Sing Sing Prison
Theresa Gresh
Anna Gresh
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Nathaniel Saint
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T. Edward McCully Jr
Wauwatosa
Roger Youdarin
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Mono
Peter Fleming
Seattle
James Elliott
Portland
Ore
Saint
ESTES
Bradshaws
Ashland County
Wallace Robinson
Robinson
Wood County
Ashland
LaValle
Patrick Afb
O’keefe
Byrne
Stanley A. Gusciora
Western State Penitentiary
Pittsburgh
Henry Baker
Natick
Adolph Maffie
North Quincy
Joseph F. McGinnis
Pembroke
Milton
Anthony, Pino
Thomas F. Richardson
Weymouth
James I. Faherty
Joseph F. Banfield
J. Edgar Hoover
Hugh Cross
Dorchester
Joseph
Specs) O'Keefe
New York
Elmer
Trigger) Burke
Charles Street
Springfield
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