City races spark calls for mayoral challengers in Las Vegas
In Las Vegas the mayoral race lacks a clear challenger after City Commissioner Harry Levy withdraws leaving Oran Gragson as the incumbent. Ed Fountain also exits, Ty Tyson faces scrutiny over a Carson City spat with Assemblywoman Flora Dungan. Analysts note Flora’s role boosts Clark County politics. A strong candidate from the town is suggested to contest Gragson, with a hot campaign possible.
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Ty Tyson
Carson City
Crooked Gamblers Find Means to Beat Odds
Chicago detectives led by Chief Investigator Richard Cain raid a south of loop firm making both legitimate and crooked gambling devices. Four women painting marked cards and four loaded dice builders were taken into custody with Paul Karney, owner of the K. C. Card Company. Police seized four vans of gambling equipment records and invoices.
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Forges le Eaux
Normandy
Mexico
Monaco
Cook County Sheriff's Office
Richard Cain
Chicago
Loop
Cain
Cus
Paul Karney
K. C. Card Company
No Phony Dice Sent to Nevada Says Officials
Chicago dispatch reports Nevada gaming officials inspected large piles of cooking dice and other equipment here and found nothing sent to Nevada casinos. Cook County raided the Rh. Card Company headquarters and confiscated four truckloads of gambling gear but Nevada records indicate only honest dice and equipment had been shipped.
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Rh. ©. Card Company
Td Olsen
Nevada Gaming Control Board
Tom Hill
Olsen
Coed Recovers After Seven-Week Arctic Ordeal
In Whitehorse Yukon a 21 year old coed Helen Klaben of Brooklyn and her companion Ralph Flores were rescued after surviving seven weeks in the Yukon cold. She joked about her ordeal while in hospital saying she lost no weight.
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Yukon
UPI
Canada
Helen Klaben
Brooklyn
N. Y
Miss Klaben
California
Ralph Flores
Tyson to Run for Las Vegas Mayor Amid Levy Decision
Assembly Speaker L F Tyson a Las Vegas civil engineer will run for mayor, the SUN learned yesterday. Tyson plans to file next week after City Commissioner Harry Levy announced he would not resign his seat to run. Levy has served half of a four year term on the city governing board. A source close to Tyson said the decision followed Levy’s choice.
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Las Vegas
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Levy
Tyson
Hate America Rally Shifted To New Site
Brazilian Communists moved a protest venue from Rio de Janeiro to Niterói across Guanabara Bay in response to Gov. Carlos Lacerda’s threats to block the gathering. The rally was scheduled for 6 pm with retired Gen. Luis Gonzaga De Oliveri among sponsors vowing to challenge the ban in court.
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Carlos Lacerda
Reds
Niterol
Guanabara Bay
Rio
Meve
Luis Gonzaga de Oliveri
Lacerda
Liot Mobs Clash With Cons at Parliament War in Commons
About 2000 protesters mostly British workers stormed the House of Commons to protest unemployment. Mounted police drove back the crowd after fistfights and name calling as demonstrators blocked traffic and staged a sit down in Parliament Square. The right-to-work march escalated with injuries and a post demonstration meeting at Central Hall near Parliament. Unemployment topped 800000 in the harsh winter.
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London
UPT
House of Parliament
Gestapo
Parliament Square
Harold Macmillan
Central Hall
Parliament
Castro to Deport Pentecostal Missionaries from Cuba
Reports say Fidel Castro plans to expel about 20 to 25 Pentecostal missionaries and their dependents, mostly Americans, with a special Miami flight arranged to remove them. The move follows Castro's broadcast in which he criticized the sect and offered an olive branch to the Roman Catholic Church.
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UPI
Fidel Castro
Miami
UU. S
Texas Socialite Raped Before Tunnel Murder
Phoenix detectives report Texas socialite Jane Langdon 21 was raped before she was shot to death in the desert. Police have no solid leads on the killer and consider motive tied to the rape though they cannot rule out a known assailant. Langdon, a Texas Christian University student, had been visiting her mother and died after taking a taxi to a luxury apartment early Thursday. Coroner's autopsy confirms gunshot death.
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Phoenix, Ariz
UPT
Texas
Ralph Edmundson
Jane Langdon
Texas Christian University
Langdon
Weather Notes High Cloudiness With Gentle Winds
Variable cloudiness with gentle winds, today’s high 69 and low 43. Yesterday reached 75 and 45. Noontime humidity at 12 percent. Sunrise at 5 34, sunset at 5 58.
Smith First Man to Fly Pacific Dies at 70
SAN FRANCISCO. Ernie Smith, retired Air Force major and the first civilian to fly the Pacific, died yesterday at his home. A Reno native, he last flew commercially in November 1941, piloting 21 TWA passengers from Las Vegas to Oakland aboard a DCS. Smith, 70, had suffered emphysema and undergone two operations in the past year.
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UPI
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Air Force
Pacific
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Reno
TWA
Las Vegas Nev
Oakland
Bush Ships to Remove Refugees from Volcano
Two U S Navy vessels moved into Bali to evacuate refuges after Mt Gunung Agung eruption left at least 1 500 dead and 350 000 displaced Flooding from sudden rains worsened the disaster as International Red Cross began delivering nine tons of relief supplies The plan aims to remove up to 352 000 Balinese or about one fifth of the island’s population from coastal areas.
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Bali
Indonesia
UPI
U.S Navy
International Red Cross
William Cass
Oklahoma City
Okla
International League of Red Cross Societies
Stranglers In Tirade Against Jury Conviction And Sentencing
The Kroegers were found guilty of first degree murder in the slaying of Jay and Mildred Arneson, former hotel owners, with their bodies unearthed from a basement grave in the Kroeger home. The jury, after seven hours and fifteen minutes, also found Iva Kroeger sane at the time of the crime, while she claimed coercion and repeated denials of involvement.
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Jay
Mildred Arneson
Santa Rosa
Kroeger
San Francisco
California
Iva Kroeger
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