Ex-Cons Accuse Each Other of Killing Sleuth in Hollywood
Two ex-convicts Gregory Powell and Jimmy Lee Smith admitted kidnapping detectives in Hollywood but blamed each other for the officer's death. Police say their stories align on the kidnapping yet diverge on the murder, with each pointing to the other city as the shooter.
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UPI
Hollywood
Sai Sgt
P. R Brooks
Gregory Powell
Border City
Nev
Jimmy Lee Smith
Tornadoes strike Cullman area causing deaths and devastation
Severe tornadic outbreak across Alabama and Tennessee injures several and kills at least two, with more than 40 structures destroyed. Cullman county bears the brunt as farms and poultry facilities suffer major damage, including two barns and 10000 chickens. Mrs. Gerald Brock Boswell is among the deceased.
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Cullman. Ala
UPI
Alabama
Tennessee
Cullman County
Marshall Space Flight Center
Huntsville
Ala
Culloman County
Gerald Brock Boswell
Berlin
Skowrons Accord After Spring Training Visit
Virginia Skowron denied that her baseball star husband Bill Skowron found her with a gentleman friend when he returned from spring training. She said a detective took pictures, while Bill pressed adultery charges against her and Rebe S. Jenco. Mrs. Skowron alleged assault by her husband and the detective, with Jenco released on bail. The case continues as police pursue Thursday court action.
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Hillsdale
Virginia Skowron
Bill
Moose) Skowron
Skowron
New York Yankee
Los Angeles Dodgers
Rebe S. Jenco
Saddle River
Jenco
No Column Today Amid 80-Hour Week Proclamation
Publisher Hank Greenspun declares an 80-hour work week and four columns per week replacing the seven day schedule, resulting in no column today.
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Hank Greenspun
Bill Calls for Little Hatch Act and related measures
Nevada Assembly sponsors 404 proposing a Little Hatch Act to curb intimidation by officers and prohibit officials from backing candidates or soliciting political contributions. Clark County backs AB399 to expand Las Vegas Valley Water District powers. Senate files seek to raise district debt limits and repeal the state bar act with Supreme Court regulation.
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Senate
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State Bar
Supreme Court
Anne Baxter Welcomes Daughter at Cedars of Lebanon
Hollywood actress Anne Baxter gave birth to a baby girl at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital. The infant weighed about a half pound and is unnamed. Baxter, wife of Australian rancher Randolph Galt, already has a older daughter from a prior marriage and a second daughter born previously. The baby and mother are reported doing well.
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Hollywood
Anne Baxter
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Leon Krohn
Miss Baxter
Randolph Galt
One killed two injured in US 99 wreck near Bakersfield
A one car crash on US 99, 30 miles south of Bakersfield, killed a man and critically injured a North Vegas couple, Otis Clarence Hatfield and Varian Hatfield. The driver was believed to have dozed at the wheel as the vehicle overturned and ejected three people.
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Baker, Calif
US. 99
Here
Otis Clarence Hatfield
North Las Vegas
Nev
Varian
San Bernardino County Hospital
Hatfields
The
California Highway Patrol
Assembly Rebellion Cools Down In Nevada Labor Row
Carson City officials report that three dissident Democrats withdrew resignations and agreed to finish committee assignments. Speaker L. E. Clark and party leaders urged calm as rebels warned they may quit again if labor legislation does not advance, following a Friday move that would have allowed Clark County firemen to unionize.
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Ath Academine
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D-C
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Jean
Clark County
Bavaria Willing To Grant Bidault Asylum
The West German state of Bavaria announced willingness to grant political asylum to anti Gaullist leader Georges Bidault if he requests it. Chancellor Adenauer previously refused to accept Bidault's personal plea in Bonn, as Bidault's underground movement seeks to destabilize de Gaulle's government.
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Steinbach
Germany
UPTI
Bavaria
Georges Bidault
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Bidault
Charles de Gaulle
Planes Shot Down During Test Weapon Exercise
Secret testimony released by the House Armed Services committee shows two Air Force planes were shot down by a weapon they were testing. Both pilots and a cameraman ejected and survived, while the planes were lost in what General Curtis LeMay called a malfunction or possible detonation on mine fuses during the test. The incident was filmed and shown to committee members.
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Washington
May
LeMay
Senator charges Kennedy used Coast Guard as nursemaid on yacht
Senator John J Williams accuses Attorney General Kennedy of keeping a Coast Guard cutter as a nursemaid for a yachting party and ignoring a distress call. The Kennedy office calls the charge distorted. The incident allegedly involved the cutter Honova and a distressed vessel Helen RK near Wade Point.
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Washington
UPI
John J. Willams
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Coast Guard
Kennedy
Williams
Senate
Chesapeake Bay
Justice Department
Kenneday
Oxford, Miss
Cuba
United States
Adm
E. J. Roland
Honova
Wade Point
Delaware
Five children die in Chicago basement apartment fire
A basement apartment fire on Chicago's south side killed five children of Hattie Jackson. Beverly 6 Sandra 4 Gwendolyn 3 Reginald 2 Calvin 1 died from smoke inhalation. Police said the mother was out shopping when the blaze started and it spread from a stove through the ceiling. Deputy Fire Marshal Frank Thielmann noted most youngsters were found not in bed.
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Chicago
UPN
Fiy
Hattie Jackson
Beverly Jackson
Sandra
Gwendolyn
Reginald
Calvin
Frank Thielmann
Fresh Evidence Emerges on Castro Kidnap Case
Bahamian opposition leaders and an American attorney report finding over 1,000 spent rifle and pistol cartridges on Elbow Cay near Cuba, alleging Castro raiders kidnapped eight Miami exiled fishermen last month. They challenge official investigations and present photos and a chalk sketch at a Bahamas press conference.
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Miami
UPD
Elbow Cay
Cuba
Bahamas
Cyril Stevenson
Progressive Labor Party
PLP
So viet Union revives 3 year old spy case in Moscow
In Izvestia the Soviet government reiterates charges against former US embassy officer Russell A Langelle claiming he received secret information from a Soviet lieutenant colonel. Langelle was expelled in 1950 after being caught meeting an American agent in Moscow.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Red
Izvestia 1
Russell A. Langelle
Langelle
Variable Cloudiness With Mild Winds Forecast
Weather bulletin notes variable cloudiness today with flight level winds. High 68 and low 38, yesterday’s values 70 and 4. Noontime humidity 16 percent. Sunrise 5 56. sunset 5 45.
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