Three Langley Jet Pilots Missing After Training Flight
Langley Air Force Base search resumed for three FS4F Thunderstreak pilots missing since Saturday on routine training. Deflated life rafts found near Plum Tree Island and Mobjack Bay offered clues. victims include dst. Lt. Peter F. Dolan 23 Mixowell Neb second Lt. Harold E. Waddell 24 Taft Calif and second Lt. Roland S. Walls 28 Wilmington Del. A fourth pilot 1st Lt. James R. Henley 24 Piper Kan died in a takeoff crash seconds after liftoff from Langley.
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Langley Air Force Base
Air Force
Plum Tree Island
Chesapeake
Mobjack Bay
Deltaville
Peter F. Dolan
Mixowell
Neb
Harold E. Waddell
Taft
Calif
Roland S. Walls
Wilmington
Del
Hampton
James R. Henley
Piper
Kan
FSAF
Langley
Five U S Civilians Freed by Chinese Reds Return to Hong Kong
A group of ten Americans imprisoned by Communist authorities reached Hong Kong aboard ships, with five billed as released and five others reportedly still free to depart. Dilius Kanady, 36, of Houston, and Robert Parker, 83, of Philadelphia, led the released group, while Sister Theresa Eva Stella Dugay and Mrs Huizer were among others arriving aboard ships Hunan and Surat. Kanady, described as physically frail but not ill, faced a long detention and a three day wait for press access.
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Hong Kong
Bcan
Hong Market
Eva Stella Dugay
Boston
Theresa
Red China
Roger Devriendt
Reds
Trom Red Gantan
Kanady
Barry Child
Parker
Hunan
Buizer
Surat
Kanaday
Geneva
China
Robert Aylward
U. S
Quarantine Anchorage
Shanghai
Slayer's Plea to Escape Death Denied
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court refused to stay the execution of John Wesley Wable, the alleged Pennsylvania Turnpike slayer. The court’s unanimous order left the scheduled electric chair death at Rockview Prison for 9 p.m. The case centers on Wable’s conviction for the July 25, 1953 death of truck driver Harry F. Pitts. Attorney A C Scales planned to renew a plea based on new evidence. Governor has authority to delay.
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Pittsburgh
Supreme Court
John Wesley Wable
Pennsylvania
Horace Stern
Wable
A. C. Scales
Arry F. Pitts
Bowling Green
Seales
George M. Leader
Rockview
Bellefonte
Westmoreland County
Colorado Governor Ed Johnson Hails Return From Hospital
Governor Ed C. Johnson, age 72, who was hospitalized after a heart attack on September 4, returned to his Capitol Hill apartment and said he feels pretty good. He expects to resume work at the state house in about three weeks.
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Colorado
Denver
Ed C. Johnson
Capitol Hill
State‘house
Freed Yank Says Some Remain in China by Choice
Walter Rickett, a 34 year old Fulbright scholar who returned from China, said some Americans stay of their own free will. He recalled being asked by the Navy to watch for developments, and cited Robert Winter as an American missionary content to stay. Rickett and his wife Adele described life under Political control as humane and an improvement over the previous regime.
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Yank
Red China
Seattle
Walter Rick
United States
Peiping
Ameri
China
Ifres
United States Navy
Ernie
Fullbright
Adele
Robert Winter
Rigrett
Rickett
Ricketts
University of Pennsylvania
13Th Navy District
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GHOP
NGURS
RED
Dilmas T. Kanady
Houston
Tex
R. G. Wedderburn
James Smith
Norwalk
Conn
Huizer
Peter
Bank of America
Devitendt
Slayer
Weer
Jacobson's Barber Shop
Gherry Ave
Vgala Lokewsod
Eiay
Chapman-Magnolia Park
Garden Grove
Coe
Ia Long, Beach, A
Chapman
Geraen
Disneylent
Navy
Milton Grinberg
Harold Wachman
Whitehead
Vtacar
George Burk
Burk’s
Heisman
Burk's
Rocky Graziano
Arthur Murray
Mack
Arthur
Murray
Long Beach
East Fifth Street
L. B
Compton
South Long Beach Blvd
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