Patrolman's rifle ends convict's killing spree in Florida Georgia
A fleeing convict from Franklin Ohio named Melvin Weaver wounded and killed several people across Marianna Florida and rural Georgia before being shot by Patrolman Robert Benson. A 14 year old boy Richard Hale fired the final shots as Weaver dug a foxhole in a pecan field.
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Nee Day
Richard Hale
Melvin Allen Weaver
Franklin
Ohio
Marianna
Florida Panhandle
Georgia
Robert Benson
Benson
GOP senators push resolution to curb deficits urge IMF reform
Sen Jacob Javits of New York and Rep Thomas Curtis of Missouri, top GOP members of the Joint Economic Committee, plan a resolution urging the Kennedy administration to end the balance of payments deficit and push IMF to strengthen the world monetary and credit system.
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Washington
UPI
Congress
Jacob K. Javits
N.Y
Thomas B. Curtis
GOP
Joint Congressional Economic Committee
United States
International Monetary Fund
Independence Day Quiet at Alvin York Farm
UPI reports World War I hero Alvin C. York spent a quiet Independence Day at his Cumberland Mountains farm in Jamestown Tennessee. Visitors came by to wish him well but he largely rested after a morning of soft cereal and a long sleep, continuing a years long illness despite his famed wartime exploits.
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Garee
Donalsonville
Colquitt
Georgia Bureau of Investigation
Smithville
W. T. Beauchamp
Jamestown
Tenn
UPI
Alvin C. York
Cumberland Mountains
York
Argonne Forest
Churchill Returns From Monaco Holiday
Sir Winston Churchill arrives home from a holiday in Monte Carlo and a cruise around the Greek islands. The tired former prime minister, aged 82, is helped down the airliner stairs and driven indoors with a lit cigarette in his mouth.
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London
UPI
Winston Churchill
Monte Carlo
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Pecan Grove
Cpl
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Americus
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J. J. McCrary
Churchill
Eugene L. Bowman
Security For America
U.S.A
Federal Home Loan
U.S
Oklahoma
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Howard C. Babbitt
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Ned Shepler
E. B. Lacy
Ray H. Babbitt
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