Two men executed in Utah for 1949 murder
Braasch and Sullivan were executed by firing squad in Utah after a spree that began in Los Angeles in 1949. The double execution drew about 100 observers, with details including a remote chamber setup and paid riflemen. Their bodies faced burial decisions by families in Kansas City and Reinbeck before Salt Lake City arrangements.
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Joseph Manzione
Braasch
Sullivan
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Braasch and Sullivan
Los Angeles
Midwest
Pomona
Calif
Mesquite
Nev
Beaver
Howard Manzione
California
Dential
Long Beach
Stevenson
Minnesota
Kefauver
Tennessean
Nixon
Stevenson Visits L B Area Amid GOP Dialogue
Stevenson held brief talks in the L B area stressing foreign aid, NLRB reform, and a cautious take on subsidies for the fishing industry. He praised Magnuson bill while resisting specifics on West Coast shipbuilding shares and left for Los Angeles on his campaign bus.
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Wilmington
National
NLRB
Stevenson
Magnuson
West Coast
Los Angeles
Co Fk
Twenty One German Prisoners Return From Poland
Twenty one German prisoners of war returned to their homeland from Poland aboard a transport with 269 others under a Red Cross resettlement program. The POWs, all convicted of war crimes, were released under a Polish amnesty for political prisoners two weeks earlier. This marks part of a broader effort to repatriate Germans from Polish-occupied territories to West Germany.
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Beuchen
Germany
Poland
West Germany
Red Cross
Collegians Cut Loose in a New Spring Spree
Harvard, SMU and LSU students rioted during spring fever. Harvard police dispersed about 2,000 students after fights and vandalism near the Cambridge campus. In Dallas and Phoenix, police faced party raids, arrests, and tear gas as crowds clashed with dormitories and streets.
Jury Convicts Walker of Two Kidnapping Attacks
A Newport Beach jury found Walker guilty on five counts including rape and kidnapping linked to attacks on Donna Schurr and her husband Brett, with sentencing to follow after motions for a new trial. Judge Shea raised bail to 10000. Walker jailed pending appeal.
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Walker
Rapher
John Shea
Nick Meyer
Shea
Meyers
California Adult Authority
Donna
Garden Grove
Brett
Miss Shurr
California
Long Beach
Mina Shurr
Josephine St
World
Huntington Walker
Robert A. Blair
Newport
Santa Ana
Whitney Remakes Silent Epic Grass
Whitney announces his motion picture company is remaking Grass, the silent era adventure. A camera crew films in Iran depicting a perilous trek of Bakhtiari tribesmen and sheep across rugged mountains. Merian C. Cooper, co producer of the 1924 version, will supervise the new project.
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Whitney
Hollywood
Motion
Iran
Merian
Cooper
Burglars Loot Four Rooms and Home Fixtures in Charleston
Lewis Johnson of Charleston told police burglars broke into his home in Gharlislon West Virginia and stole light fixtures from four rooms as well as plumbing under the house and the kitchen sink.
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Gharlislon
W. Va
Lewis Johnson
Charleston
Soviet Delegation Eyes New York City Building Center
A five member Soviet housing delegation arrived in New York to study home and shopping center construction. They will attend the New York State Home Builders Assn conference and the International Home Building Exposition at the New York Coliseum. The group is headed by Vasili I Svettichnyi and arrived by plane Thursday.
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N.Y.C
New York
UPA
Riot at LSU dorms during party raid unsettles campus
About 700 men rushed LSU women’s dorms after a raid misused by house guests. Police Lt John Ryan stopped the charge with a tear gas gun as house mothers bolted doors and men forced entry at Zeta Tau Alpha and Kappa Alpha Theta. Disciplinary action for participants was not yet decided.
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Harvard Advocaté
Velluci
Harvard
Harvard Lampoon
Dallas
S3iu
Soror- Phoenix
California
James E. Beswick
Arthur Weston Radford
Wickensburg
Hare
Phoenix
Barbara Jean Jepsen
van Nuys
Roswick
Wickenburg
Zeta Tau Alpha
Kappa Alpha Theta
University Park
John Ryan
Louisiana State University
Iia Ka Sa
U. S. and China Hold Talks on Prisoners in Geneva
U S envoy Alexis Johnson and Wang Ping Nan met for an hour and 25 minutes to keep alive nine month secret talks over Americans imprisoned in China. No progress shown on prisoner release or a renunciation of force. no sign of a Dulles Chou En Lai meeting. Next session planned May 17.
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U. S
Red
Geneva
U. Alexis Johnson
United States
Wang Ping-Nan
Communist
China
Formosa
Red China
Dulles
Chou En-Lai
H-Bomber Crash Near Shoreham Reveals Missing Crew
A Royal Air Force Vickers Valiant crashed near Shoreham England killing three of four crew and leaving the copilot missing after parachuting to a hospital. Six ground casualties reported from flying debris as the hush hush bomber sparked wreckage across homes and a school yard nearby.
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Shoreham
England
VPA
Britain
Royal Air Force
Brighton Portsmouth
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