Armored Car Hold-Up Nets $166000 Loot In Buffalo
Three masked bandits robbed Brink's Inc. garage in Buffalo bypassing six security doors and seizing Fort Erie race track receipts. Two suspects Pettinato and Mazella were captured after a gun battle. third man fled, later reported heart attack. Guard Eugene Clohessy wounded, in hospital. Police recovered some cash. James Khan sought. No charges yet.
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Buffalo
N.Y
Brink's, Inc
Fort Erie
Niagara River
Canada
Brink's
Eugene Clohessy
Clohessy
Anthony Pettinato
Baltimore
Sylvester Mazella
Bronx
James Khan
Saiemerio
York City
Pettinato
Mazella
Stanley J. Klodzinski
Kenneth A. Kemp
Edward J. Thompson
Kemp
Lower West Side
Angelo Alba
Sheridan
Boston
Peiping Talks Recessed As Freed Airmen Reach Hong Kong
U.S. and Red China call another recess in secret talks until Monday amid uncertain progress on releasing 4 American civilians held by Peiping. Eleven U.S. airmen freed from Communist China cross into Hong Kong in good condition after 242 years of captivity.
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Max Harrelson
Geneva
United States
Red China
U. S.S
A. Alexis Johnson
Wang Ping-nan
U. S
Johnson
Wang
Peiping
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Trent
David P. Roads
John Roderick
Hong Kong
U.S
China
Manila
Tokyo
John Knox Arnold Jr
Silver Spring
Arnold
Yalu River
North Korea
Freedom
Maj
William H. Baumer
Lewisburg
Jockey Club
Mumarr
Fire destroys six carnival stands in Easton area
In Easton Pennsylvania the Avona Fire Department closed the carnival for the day after a blaze destroyed six stands and damaged two more on the grounds located just across from the Avona fire house.
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Easton
Avona Fire Department
Avona
St Louis Police Proposed Bermuda Short Uniform Change
Mayor Tucker proposes Bermuda shorts polo shirts and sun helmets for St. Louis police. Police Chief OConnell will discuss at the Police Board meeting Monday as part of a uniform update.
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ST. Louis
Raymond R. Tucker
Jeremiah O'Connell
Polio Cases Climb 1037 in Week Says Public Health Service
Washington reports 1,037 new polio cases for the week ending Saturday, up 225 from the prior week. A Public Health Service spokesman calls the rise about as expected for the season. Through Saturday, 5,467 polio cases this disease year versus 7,630 last year, and 6,530 calendar year cases. The center notes 6 new paralytic and 22 non paralytic polio cases among those vaccinated with Salk, totaling 247 since mid-April. About 6 million children have received one shot.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Chicago Birthday Marks 125 Years as Nation's Second City
Chicago celebrates its 125th anniversary as the nation’s second largest city. The milestone reflects a century and a quarter of growth, with civic pride and historical milestones noted by local officials.
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Chicago
Radar 'Warner' Gives Judge Legal Headache
In Memphis Tennessee J W Evans 30 challenged radar speed trap law prompting a judge to find him guilty of interfering with an officer Evans defended by holding a cardboard radar sign and a higher court decision is awaited in a case with potential Tennessee precedent. The officer fined Evans 16 dollars.
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Radar ‘Warner
Memphis
Tenn
B. R. Boushe
Tennessee
J. W. Evans
Evans
Boushe
Marian Elizabeth Kearney
Long Beach
Calif
Edward
J. J. Moffatt
Rockford, Ill
Gertrude Kearney
Heatwave Lingers with Highs Near Century Mark
The region endures hot humid conditions with Middletown reaching an unofficial 102 degrees yesterday while Bakersfield reported 110. Official forecasts expect mostly sunny skies and continued heat through today tonight and Friday with a chance of scattered evening showers. The morning low was 76 degrees.
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Middletown
Bakersfield
Calif
San Joaquin Valley
Dakotas
Nebraska
Robbery near Brink’s garage shocks Buffalo youths
John W. Doll, 13, and Anthony Maggio, 16, witnessed a Brink’s robbery unfold at a Buffalo garage. Doll recalls asking the climber what he was doing and hearing him admit the crime as two accomplices emerged with guns, prompting the boys to take cover behind a parked jeep.
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Buffalo, N.Y
John W. Doll
Anthony Maggio
Brink's, Inc
Doll
Brink's
Sonny
Tony
Thomas Blasts Army Censorship of Youth in Security Program
Norman Thomas charged the Army’s security drive wrongly labels disloyalty, harming young men’ prospects post discharge. He and Kenneth M. Birk of the American Veterans Committee, aided by Rowland Watts, present a report on over 100 cases across the nation detailing quasi clearances and SR 600-220-1 discharge penalties that impede employment.
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Washington (Ap
Norman Thomas
Army
Dsociausl
Oren
Asst
Hugh H. Milton II
Rowland Watts
Baltimore
New York
Workers Defense League
Thomas
League
Kenneth M. Birkhead
American Veterans Committee
Watts
American Youth For Democracy
Jewish Young Fraternalists
AYC
Beord
Jewish People’s Fraternal Order
AYD
Extortion Plot Foiled In Bel Air Killing Case
FBI says Edgar Leon Williams and wife Veronica attempted to extort $100000 from John Thompson, whose daughter was murdered in Bel Air. They mailed a threatening note and dummy package. Williams was arrested at a post office.
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Los Angeles
FBI
Edgar Leon Williams
Veronica
John Thompson
Dale Smith
Norma McCauley
Bel-Air
Smith
Williams
Williamses
Thompson
Reds Offer New Deal To Germany
Bonn reports the Soviet Union offers to establish diplomatic relations with West Germany with no strings attached. The move comes as Adenauer prepares for a Moscow visit next month and seeks assurances against any proposal pulling West Germany from the Atlantic Alliance.
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Reds
Germany
Bonn
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Moscow
Adenauer
Prison Forgery Ring Exposed at Angola Prison
Louisiana officials expose a five year forgery ring at Angola that freed at least a dozen inmates by altering records for payments of 200 to 300 dollars. Warden Maurice Sigler alerted authorities after a suspected erasure, revealing a scheme involving seven suspects and a contact inside the 18000 acre prison farm.
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Angola
Louisiana
Maurice Sigler
Federal
Ring
Sargent Pitcher
FBI
Doomed Slayer Said Insane
Warden Ralph W. Alvis of the Ohio Penitentiary says William Garner of Cincinnati awaiting execution appears insane. Judge Myron B. Gessaman set an Aug 12 hearing on Garner's sanity as he faces a planned Aug 25 electrocution for March 6, 1954, murder of Laura Walker. Psychiatrists found him psychotic and a state hospital transfer would follow if deemed insane.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ralph W. Alvis
William Garner
Cincinnati
Alvis
Garner
Lima State Hospital
Bulganin rejects Eisenhower arms swap as unrealistic
Premier Bulganin told a Soviet session that Eisenhower's plan for mutual air inspections and exchange of military blueprints is unrealistic. He cited Geneva as easing tensions and urged constructive steps toward ending the cold war while outlining a more realistic Soviet proposal for total disarmament and mass destruction weapon bans.
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Moscow
Bulganin
Eisenhower
Supreme Soviet
Geneva
London
Bulgain
Unioh
Reds Start Series Of Bomb Tests
Washington reports the Atomic Energy Commission states the Soviets have resumed testing nuclear weapons in what may mark the start of a new test series. The notice does not say if the blast was fission or fusion.
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Washington
Atomic Enery Commission
AEC
United States
Wilson
41 Miners Feared Dead in Ruhr Mine Blast
In Gelsenkirchen the Dalbusch coal workings were hit by a fire and explosion killing 41 miners and injuring 44. Fire halted rescues as officials said 25 remain missing below ground. Rescue teams had recovered 16 bodies before the blaze forced them back. The blast followed a fire the previous day.
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Gelsenkirchen
Germany
Dalbusch
Ruhr
American Airlines plane crashes on Ft Leonard Wood reserve
An American Airlines passenger plane with an undisclosed number aboard went down in a wooded area on the Ft Leonard Wood reservation near Rolla Missouri shortly after noon. The aircraft capacity is 40 with a crew of three.
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Springfield
American Airlines
Ft. Leonard Wood
Rolla
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Harold E. Talbott
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