Attitude cited as reason in U S search delay case
A coroner's jury heard Mrs. Gordon Duff recount a five hour delay by a provincial police officer in launching a Lake Nipissing search for her drowned husband Edward Hyland of Sudbury. The investigation also noted a later Cuba expropriation decree tied to American sugar purchases.
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North Bay
Ont
Gordon Duff
Lake Nipissing
Edward Hyland
Sudbury
Duff
West Ferris
Dominic Gallagher
Blood Refused Death Of Mother In Jehovah Witness Belief
In Rotherham England a 37 year old mother Eliza Humphries died after refusing a blood transfusion on religious grounds. Her husband Henry Humphries said she chose faith over medicine and asked for a drink and to have her hair stroked. Their five children faced a tragic loss with the death and injuries from a motorcycle sidecar collision.
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Rotherham
England
Henry Humphries
Jehovah Witnesses
Eliza Humphries
Russell
Richard
Humphries
Mutiny Triggers First Crisis in Congo Republic
Mutineers from the Congo army confront Belgian officers and threaten the capital Leopoldville as they press for higher pay and full Africanization. Lumumba announces steps to speed up transfer of posts to Congolese, while mutineers demand Janssens removal and attack white civilians and photographers. Europeans flee toward Leopoldville as Camp Hardy falls under rebel control.
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Leopoldville
Reuterrs
Congo Republic
Camp Hardy
Thysville
Madimba
Patrice Lumumba
Speed Lumumba
Parliament Building
Here
Parolee Confesses to Four Murders Across Years
Frederick Wood an Elmira New York parolee admitted to four killings dating from 1926 to last week. He described poisoning a teenage sweetheart with arsenic creampuffs, beating and stabbing a woman, and fatally killing two elderly men with a bottle. Notes left at the Queens crime scene hinted at the murders and the parole board.
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NEW York
New Yorker
Frederick Wood
Queens
Tims
John Rescigno
Wood
Frederick Less
Cynthia Longo
Elmira
Getting the Vote Entails This
New York reporters record humor and candid remarks about campaigning and voter expectations. The piece features comments from voters and politicians on issues, district loyalties, and the pressures of public scrutiny during campaigns.
Downed Navy Blimp Carries 22 Aboard off New Jersey
The United States Navy reports a blimp with 22 crew aboard crashed in the Atlantic off the central New Jersey coast. Preliminary word says four crewmen were rescued by a fishing boat.
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Lakehurst
N.J
United States Navy
Atlantic Ocean
New Jersey
Navy
Washington
Aneurin Bevan Dies at 62 After Seven Month Illness
London CP Bevan 62 deputy Labor leader dies at his Buckinghamshire farm after a seven month illness. His wife Jennie Lee was by his side as tributes recall his rise from Welsh mines to national politics and his role in founding Britain’s health service.
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Aneurin Bevan
London (Cp
Britain
Labor Party
London
Bevan
Asheridge
Buckinghamshire
Labor
Jennie Lee
Hugh Gaitskell
Nye
South Wales
CBC May Face BBG Discipline Over TV Co-respondent Claim
A Toronto model Joan Campbell admitted fabricating she acted as a co-respondent on CBC TV Close Up, prompting possible disciplinary action by the Board of Broadcast Governors and a police public mischief inquiry. Ottawa officials pledged a thorough check while CBC producers disputed the claims. The investigation follows Campbell’s assertion she posed as co-respondent in divorce cases and earlier broadcast interviews.
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Toronto
CBC
Board of Broadcast Governors
Ontario
Joan Campbell
Toronto Telegram
Willaim B. Common
Ottawa
Nowlan
House of Commons
BBG
Andrew Stewart
Ross McLean
Joan Deans
John Johnson
Campbell
June Callwood
Miss Campbell
Ships Hunt for Oil Off Nova Scotia Coast
Two vessels depart Halifax to begin a five week marine seismic survey in the Sable Island area about 100 miles east. Mobil Oil of Canada Limited hires the ships to map underwater structures for potential oil and natural gas. Mobil’s A H Giesbreth said drilling could start next summer if results are favorable.
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Halifax
Nova Scotia
Mobil Oil of Canada Limited
Calgary
Sable Island
Here
A.H. Giesbreth
Mobil
Students Ordered to Sit at Segregated Lunch Counters
In Baton Rouge Judge Fred Leblanc sentenced 16 Southern University students to 30 days in jail for disturbing the peace by sitting at whites only lunch counters. They also faced fines of $100 or 90 days behind bars as the judge urged civic responsibilities over civil rights.
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Baton Rouge, la
Fred Lepbianec
1Outhern University
Leblanc
Appeal Planned in Cook Murder Conviction
Edmonton defence lawyer Frank Dunne said an appeal against the murder conviction of Robert Raymond Cook will be filed within the next week. The statement was made Tuesday.
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Paul Power
William Graham
Dan Saya
Havana
Fidel Castro
Cuba
United States
Osvaldo Corticos
U.S. Agriculture Department
Eisenhower
OPP
Little Cloud
Elmira N.Y
State Parole Board
John E. Lowman
Senator
Nicknamed “Nye
Commons
Ebbw
Clement Attlee
Ned
West Crescent Heights
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