Murder Indictment Over RAF Bomber Shoot Down
Britain filed a murder indictment against the Soviet Union over the shooting down of an RAF bomber near Hamburg. Six British airmen died in the attack by Soviet MiGs, and Western allied planes faced two prior shootdowns this week. BEA said its Viking airliner was near the corridor edge and described the incident as a provocative gesture.
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Bonn
Germany
Britain
Soviet Union
U. S
British European Airways
Berlin
BEA
Viking
Hamburg
Allied Tactical Air Force
Iron Curtain
Europe
Georgi M. Malenkov
Kremlin
Tragedy as Tanker Crash Drowns 2-Year-Old in Oil
A tanker skid on Colorado 96 near Pueblo trapped Lola Mullings 2 of Alamosa beneath oil floods after the trailer split. Her father George Mullings 26 died later in hospital and the mother was fatally injured. Patrolman Viet noted brake effort before the curve and a long skid with the tanker ending upside down near a borrow pit.
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Pueblo
Colo
State Highway Patrol
Lola Marie Mullings
Alamosa
George Mullings
Melvin Viet
Mullings
Colorado 96
Colorado 383
Weather outlook mostly sunny through Saturday
The forecast calls for mostly sunny skies through Saturday with periods of partial cloudiness at times. Temperatures show little overall change, offering mild, stable conditions for the period.
Texas Ace Bags 12th MIG in Korean War
U S Saber jets destroyed six Russian built MIG 15s today lifting Col Royal N Baker from McKinney Texas to a new jet ace record with 12 confirmed MIGs and 13 total Communist planes. The Fifth Air Force reports another MIG possibly destroyed and one damaged as the air assault pushes Allied totals to 604 MIGs since the war began. Baker now leads the tie with Maj George Davis of Lubbock with 12 11 and 14 13 in various categories.
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Royal N. Baker
U. S
McKinney
Texas
Col
Baker
U. S. Air Force
Seoul
America
U.S
Fifth Air Force
Maj
George Davis
Lubbock
Davis
Czech Airmen Seek Asylum After Fleeing to Austria
Three uniformed Czech air force personnel, a lieutenant and two sergeants, fled from Bratislava to Austria in a German Arado 6 trainer. They landed at Thalerhof Airport near Graz in the British occupation zone and asked British soldiers for political asylum. Police identified them as Lt Vladimir Erman 24 Serg Gustav Molnar 26 and Sgt Josef Fleischhacker 25. They left the Piestany training school early this morning and crossed from the Russian occupation zone into the British zone. The aircraft was guarded by British airmen in a closed hangar. The men were taken into custody by British military authorities.
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Graz
Austria
VPI
Czechoslovakia
Aty .Thalerhof
Bratislava
Vladimir Erman
Gustav Molnar
Spt
Josef Fleischhacker
Piestany
P T Man to See A Blast Close Up
Newsmen and official observers will view Tuesday's atomic blast at Yucca Flats Nevada from 7 miles away, closer than last year's 10 miles. George C Flowers city editor of the Press Telegram accredited as official observer. Coverage will include detonation, significance, preparations and effects with first report in Sunday edition.
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Yucca Flats
Nev
George C. Flowers
Press-Telegram
Flowers
Flowers Will Attend Special Armed Forces
Sunday Independent Press-Telegram
State Department fires 21 for moral deviation at memo
The State Department released figures showing 21 employees fired since inauguration for moral deviation or security risks. Three applicants were denied due to security clearances, ten separated for moral reasons, and five as security risks since March 3 under Robert W. S. McLeod's security program.
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Washington
State Department
Robert W. S. McLeod
FBI
Sen. Bridges
R.N. H
McLeod
Lincoln White
Lakewood Plaza Votes to Join Long Beach by 2 to 1
Lakewood Plaza voters approve joining Long Beach by a 2 to 1 margin. The outcome shifts municipal alignment and reflects local sentiment on regional annexation.
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Lakewood Plaza
Long Beach
Lakewood Plaza Annexes to Long Beach in Landslide Vote
Voters in Lakewood Plaza Units 3 4 and 5 approved annexation to Long Beach by a two to one margin 1173 for and 375 against with 1755 of 2711 registered casting ballots. turnout exceeded 64 percent as area bounded by Spring St Studebaker Rd Stearns St and Palo Verde Ave joins Long Beach effective in May.
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Lakewood Plaza
Long Beach
Spring St
Studebaker Rd
Stearns St
Palo Verde Ave
Akewood
Ostrom Ave
Ladoga Ave
Knoxsville
Takewood
Oldest Civil War Vet James A. Hard Dies at 111
James A. Hard, the nation’s oldest Civil War veteran, died in Rochester at 11:45 p.m. after complications from a leg amputation. He, a Union infantryman who fought at Bull Run and Fredericksburg, survived by Albert Woolson, the last Confederate veteran. Hard had been hospitalized since Feb 13 with a progressive circulatory deficiency and a spinal nerve severing to treat it. Woolson, 106, learned of Hard’s death from a newspaper story and was said to be upset by the loss.
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Albert Woolson
Woolson
Duluth
Minn
James A. Hard
New York
Rochester
NOY
Hard
Bull Run
Chancellorsville
Antietam
Fredericksburg
Rochester General Hospital
Union
Army ‘of the North
Modesto 13-Year-Old Confesses Slaying Mother
A 13-year-old Modesto boy admits shooting his mother Vivian Simpson 43 after alleged plotting by his father Henry 58. Clarence Eugene Simpson will be charged with murder while Henry Simpson faces conspiracy to commit murder. The victim was shot in the chest as she exited the back door Tuesday night. The youth claimed his father orchestrated the death and a schoolmate corroborated the accusation.
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Modesto
Dan Kelsay
Clarence Eugene Simpson
Henry
Vivian Simpson
Kelsay
Simpson
James Calvin Jones
Simpsons
Drummer Pleads Guilty to Marijuana Possession
Night club drummer John T Poole abruptly pleaded guilty to marijuana possession after the morning recess of his trial on narcotics charges Superior Judge Joseph M Malt dismissed the jury and set April 14 for probation hearing and sentencing Poole testified that Officer Vic Armitage said he found five capsules of heroin in Poole s apartment and Poole admitted the narcotics were his The defense claims the narcotics belonged to Poole s wife Sylvia and visitor Carroll Dean Wills Police said Wills offered a heroin cap in exchange for sleeping with Poole s wife during a Jan 24 visit at the Marber Avenue apartment
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John T. Poole
Joseph M. Maltby
Poole
Vic Armitage
Armitage
Martin DeVries
Vic
Gene
Kruband
Sylvia
Carroll Dean Wills
Los Angeles
Pooles
Darrel J. Goldsmith
Wills
Fooles
Marber Ave
Coffee price spiral predicted in Brazil
Brazilian sources warn green coffee prices may rise immediately after the United States lifts price controls. Salvio Pacheco de Almeida Prado, director of the Federation for Sao Paulo State Rural Associations, says price increases could continue to levels never before attained.
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Rio DE Janeiro
United States
Salvio Pacheco de Almeida Prado
Federation For
Sao Paulo
Ohio State Physicist Defies Communist Inquiry
Ohio State University physicist Byron T. Darling invoked the Fifth Amendment before the House Un-American Activities Committee. He refused to say if he ever joined the Communist party or supplied secret information. OSU President Howard J. Bevis suspended Darling during an inquiry.
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Washington
Ohio State University
House
Communist Party
Byron T.darling
House UN- American Activities Committee
Columbus
Howard J. Bevis
Darling
Parrty
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