Coroner's Jury Blames Trucker for 7 Deaths
Coroner's jury ruled truck driver Harry Pierce Bauder 24 of South Gate was probably criminally responsible for the traffic deaths of a Norwalk woman and six children at an intersection. Witnesses testified Bauder ran a red light at Washington and Rosemead Blvd, traveling about 33 to 50 mph as the sedan carrying Helen Virginia Lee and her daughter Karen was struck, killing seven. The boy’s mother fainted during testimony and several fathers spoke sobbing as they identified bodies.
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Harry Pierce Bauder
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Norwalk
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Helen Virginia Lee
Pico Emergency Hospital
Timmie Pulliam
Elten Pulliam
Timmie
Tam
Arthur E. Diiler
Pluton St. Norwalk
Gus H. Shiney
Pluton St
Alton Pulliam
Plutor St
John Rea
Los Angeles
Karen
Connie Reich
Montebello
Claude Burrows
Kidnapping Case Ties to Murder in Bobby Greenlease Death
Kansas City dispatch reports a hunt for a tattooed accomplice in the kidnap slaying of 6 year old Bobby Greenlease. The child's body was recovered from a shallow St Joseph grave after two suspects were arrested following a record $600,000 ransom payment. Uncertainty remains over missing ransom and possible deaths and FBI comments offered little detail as investigators linked evidence from the Heady home including a shovel and possible blood.
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Kansas City
Bobby Greenlease
St. Joseph
Hall
St. Louis
Marsh
FBI
Heady
H. F. Mundy
Fugitive Marsh Seen Across Four States In Kidnap Case
Police pursue Thomas John Marsh, linked to the Greenlease kidnapping, after bar sightings across Iowa Missouri and Illinois and reports of a man resembling him in Peoria Cedar Rapids and Chicago. Descriptions note tattoos on both forearms and a missing right ring finger with a wrist scar.
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Towa
Thomas John Marsh
Greenlease
Midwest
Marsh
Kansas City
Minneapolis
Minn
Cedar Rapids
Missouri
Highway 218
Peoria
James Brown
Brown
Bass Lake
Ind
Carl Austin Hall
Bobby Greenlease
Polie
Hall
Tom Marsh
Nigel Bruce Dies Veteran Actor with Dr Watson Role
Nigel Bruce aged 58 dies in Santa Monica after heart ailment and thrombosis. The British actor famed as Dr Watson opposite Basil Rathbone in Sherlock Holmes films and radio, appeared in Lime Light and Byan na Devil, born in Ensenada Mexico. survived by wife Violet Mary Bruce and two daughters Pauline Page and Jennifer Gilbey.
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Nigel Bruce
Dr. Watson
Sherock Holmes
John
Bruce
Bast
Basil Rathbone
Sherlock Holmes
Charlie Chaplin
Arch Oboler
Byanna Devil
Ensenada
Mexico
Sir William Waller Bruce
Sir Michael
Violet Mary Bruce
Pauline Page
Jennifer Gilbey
Bucks County
England
Germans Battle Communist Police
Angry crowds clashed with Communist police in Erfurt and Dresden in the Soviet zone on the East German Republic anniversary. Der Tag said people's police moved to remove anti-Communist banners on government and party buildings, with calls for free elections.
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West Berlin
der Tag
Erfurt
Touringia
Dresden
Saxony
France Favours Five Power Conference for Far East
Paris reports say Premier Joseph Leniels cabinet backs a five power conference with Communist China to settle Far East issues including Indochina. Ministers reportedly favor such a meeting after a big four discussion on Germany and Austria.
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Tofssy
Joseph Leniel
China
Far East
Indochina
Germany
Austria
Akihito's Plane Forced to Land Near San Francisco
A Pan American Stratocruiser carrying Crown Prince Akihito was turned back near San Francisco due to an overheated propeller or issue. The 19 year old prince joked this would be his third U S visit and was transferred along with 39 other passengers to another plane, delaying departure by over two hours.
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Akihito
Japan
United States
Pan American Airways
D. E. Kinkel
Chief Justice Marl Warren Seeks State Pension
Sacramento report says Chief Justice Marl Warren quits legislative retirement to join the state employes retirement system. If approved, he could receive about 16 000 dollars a year for life after paying 20 000 dollars in back contributions, reflecting 34 years of public service. Warren began as an Oakland deputy city attorney in 1919 and later rose to governor with a 25 000 salary.
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U. S
Marl Warren
Capitol Records
California
Warren
Supreme Court
Oakland
Truman to Speak Has Plenty to Say
Former President Harry S Truman is scheduled to deliver a major speech on domestic politics in St Louis tonight. He promised he would have plenty to say and will be presented with the Sidney Hillman Foundation's annual meritorious public service award before his speech at the Hotel Statler.
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mMo
Harry S. Trumen
Trumen
Sidney Hilman Foundation
United States Presses Reds for Early Peace Conference
The United States, via the United Nations, sent a fourth message to the Far East Communists urging a concrete reply to accept a peace parley by October 15 in Geneva Honolulu or San Francisco. Washington says it is willing to meet face to face to discuss arrangements and is prepared to negotiate time and place plus procedural and administrative questions to move toward a conference under the Panmunjom pact with a target date of October 23. The note emphasizes urgency and states the other side should not refuse to proceed.
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Pyongyang
Geneva
Honolulu
San Francisco
Quy
United States
U. S
Korea
Reds
U. N
B 36 Bombers Fly From Fort Worth To Morocco Mission
A group of the U S Air Force B 36 bombers based at Fort Worth Texas flew to Morocco in the Cadblanca area led by Commander Colee T Cadwell of the Seventh Bomber Wing. The aircraft will return to Fort Worth in about ten days.
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French Morocco
Air Force
U.S
Blocks Set Up to Trap Cop Slayer
San Francisco police mounted a full Peninsula manhunt for Harold Miller 28 suspected narcotics thief who shot Inspector Dennis Bradley and wounded Inspector Max Girard. A blue 1951 Oldsmobile with Louisiana 360804 was believed to be heading south toward Cupertino after Miller fled barefoot from the scene with two youths.
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Daly City
San Jose
Peninsula
Harold Miller
Dennis Bradley
Max Girrard
Miller
Leo T. McCarthy
John Foran
Louisiana
Cupertine
Santa Clara
Foran
Marjorie Sweeney
Sweeney
University of San Francisco
McCarthy
Weather outlook shows clear days into Friday
Generally clear through Friday with night and early morning fog. Slightly cooler conditions prevail, with smooth days ahead and temps easing.
Boy Kills Himself Under Subway Train
A 11 year old boy in Brooklyn fearing he had killed his father stood on a New York subway track and was struck by a train. Police say Gerald Rosenthal a Brooklyn High School senior punched his mother before the fatal act. The father, Jack Rosenthal a 47 year old Internal Revenue Service clerk, said the boy didn’t hurt him and denied any need for the tragedy.
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New York
Gerald Rosenthal
T Broklyn
Jack Rosenthal
Revenue Service
Jim
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