Big Names Involved Gambling Probe To Start Today
A federal grand jury in Indianapolis begins a probe into a Terre Haute gambling syndicate that allegedly grossed 32 million dollars in wagers before a November raid. Six defendants including former Marion County Sheriff Buck Sumner and Joseph Jacobson face possible indictments for evading federal gambling stamps and excise taxes.
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Indianapolis
Terre Haute
Ind
Marion County
Idianapolis
Charles L. (Buck)Sumner
Joseph Jacobson
Leo Shaffer
Julius Horwick
Chicago
Philip Share
Irwin Gordon
Las Vegas
U.S
Burglars Loot Tiffany’s in New York Heist
Sunrise break-in at Tiffany & Co in Manhattan yields 163000 in jewelry. burglars used sledge hammers to smash display windows while police shielded the Soviet diplomat arrival Andrei Gromyko. Two diamond necklaces a diamond ring and a diamond pin cup stolen with insurance. Sapphire and diamond brooches valued about 9000 each were left behind.
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New York
Manhattan
Tiffany's
Andrei A. Gromyko
Suh Avenue
Khrushchev Sends Note to Macmillan on Middle East
London AP says Soviet Premier Khrushchev sent a new note to Prime Minister Macmillan about the Middle East and high level East West talks. No new proposals were disclosed and Britain noted Khrushchev had previously agreed then opposed U.N. Security Council summit participation. The note delivered at the British embassy in Moscow is under study.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Macmillan
Middle East
Khrushchev
Moscow
U.N. Security Council
Peiping
Indictments Sought Against Syndicate Links In Gambling Case
Tabbert plans indictments for two more men tied to the syndicate Jim Tanner of Miami and E M Wyatt part owner of a Terre Haute tavern. Witnesses subpoenaed include Zeppo Marx H L Hunt Tobias Stone and Dr H B Kean. Grand jury will take about two weeks on the gambling probe with no witness to be prosecuted unless federal law is violated. Frequent Fifth Amendment filings may invite contempt action.
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Tabbert
Jim Tanner
Miami
E. M. Wyatt
Terre Haute
Zeppo Marx
H. L. Hunt
Tobias Stone
H. B. Kean
New York
Mac Keeps A Grip On A Dollar In Bowling Chuckle
The joke notes Mac's bowling has helped him develop a strong grip and invites you to see how he hangs on to a dollar. It plays on the image of focus and frugality in a light, humorous tone.
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Mac
Weight reducers face sharp House accusations
Washington AP reports the House Government Operations Committee says consumers lose about 100 million dollars yearly to false weight loss ads. The panel blames the FTC for a 12 year inaction and cites deceptive claims offering candy wafers and appetite curbing products as examples of fraud in the lose weight market.
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Washington
House
U.S
House Government Operations Committee
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
House report split on Adams case amid party lines
Public release of a House Armed Services subcommittee report found no evidence that presidential assistant Sherman Adams influenced a 40 382 penalty refund to Raylain Worsteds Inc Manchester New Hampshire after 17 years. Members disagreed along party lines on the report’s interpretation and Adams denials.
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Washington
House
Sherman Adams
House Armed Services Investigations Subcommittee
Adams
Raylain
Worsteds, Inc
Manchester
N. H
Porter Hardy
D-Va
Bernard Goldfine
Colonel Seems A Trifle Nosey at Wright Patterson Base
At Wright Patterson Air Force Base a newly assigned colonel asked a stenographer for the office’s normal compliment. The young woman, new from Jackson Mississippi, quipped that the most normal remark would be a flirtatious greeting.
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Dayton, Ohio
Wright - Patterson Air Force Base
Here
Five Die In Head-On Erie Passenger Train Crash
In Sterl ing ton New York five people died and at least 25 were injured when two Erie Railroad trains collided head on after a missed signal. Victims include passengers Robert Youchman and Pauline Cronon and crewmen Sam Nardo Charles G Mitchell and Martin J Walsh. The wreck occurred on the Erie main line near Rockland County as trains on adjacent tracks converged after a freight train blocked one track. Ambulances evacuated riders to Good Samaritan Hospital Suffern and Tuxedo hospitals.
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Sterlington
N. Y
Erie Railroad
Monroe
N.Y
Hoboken
N.J
Robert Youchman
Warwick
Pauline Cronon
Tuxedo
Sam Nardo
Charles G. Mitchell
Martin J. Walsh
Rockland County
New York City
Recne
Hillburn Fire Department
Robert Lillibridge
Good Samaritan Hospital
Suffern
Tuxedo Hospital
Port Jervis
Navy denies Syrian airspace claim
A U S Navy spokesman denied a Cairo Middle East News Agency dispatch from Damascus that an American jet penetrated Syrian air space Sunday. He said no American plane was near the Syrian border and no reports of being fired on were received.
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Beirut
Lebanon
U.S. Navy
Damascus
Cairo
Middle East
Navy
Fund Drives Fleece Public Charity Rackets Blasted
A House committee urges limits on veteran charity fund drives amid findings of abuse by both chartered and unchartered groups. It calls for 3 percent of gross income from mailed solicitations, bans on selling donor lists, and fuller disclosure of organizations chartered by Congress. Cited cases include Disabled American Veterans and NAVEC with alleged conflicts of interest and misuse of funds.
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Washington
House
House Veterans Committee
Congress
Disabled American Veterans
National Assan
Veterans Employment Councils
DAV
NAVEC
American Legion
Legion
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Assa
Military ‘Order of the Purple Heart
Reds Ready To Attack U N In UN
Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko prepared with 75 aides for a push at the U N emergency session to demand U S troops leave Lebanon and British forces depart Jordan. Gromyko will speak early in the debate as Asian neutralists seek ways to press Western powers to withdraw. The U N debate, amid Western plans for a police force and monitoring bodies, centers on Middle East withdrawal and security.
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United Nations, N.Y
Andrei A. Gromyko
U.N. General Assembly
U.S
Lebanon
Jordan
Gromyko
Moscow
U.N
United States
Britain
United Arab Oem
Asian delegates attack Middle East plan at U N
Delegates from Asia criticized Dag Hammarskjold's Middle East plan on Friday. The proposal seeks Arab noninterference pledges, a great power noninterference pact, regional economic development cooperation, and UN protection for Jordan, Lebanon and the Israel-Lebanon frontier.
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U. N
Middle East
Dag Hammarskjold
Jordan
Lebanon
Israel
L. A. R. Frontier
Weather forecast: hot humid with scattered thundershowers
The Miami Valley faces hot sticky August weather with scattered thundershowers possible today and tonight. Highs near 91, lows around 70, with a partly cloudy pattern and limited rainfall recorded this morning.
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Miami Valley
Tueday
Middletown
Husband Shoots At Wife Then Kills Himself in Columbus
In Columbus four months after a prior shooting, Ray Saunders shot his estranged wife Myrtle Saunders and wounded her son in law Robert Poff after a drinking party. Myrtle was killed. Saunders died eight hours later after shooting himself. Police call it murder and death by own action.
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Columbus, Ohio
Ray Saunders
Columbus
Malina Shaee
Voy Pyre Shuglecu
Saunders
Myrtle Saunders
Harned
Robert Poff
Poff
Carl E. Tetirick
Burn Victim Dies After Fire At Home
Cincinnati AP reports Mrs. Wilma Deaton an expectant mother died at General Hospital from burns suffered July 28 when cleaning fluid ignited at her home.
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Cincinnati
Willma Deaton
General Hospital
Modern Job Has Sorrow
In Greensboro North Carolina Brigitta Ahlberg a 23 year old medical exchange student from Stockholm lies injured with extensive facial chest and arm wounds after a propeller collision while awaiting return to Sweden Her father Ernest Ahlberg 53 a printer from the Swedish mint arrives with news of slow progress and a dying mother in a coma in Stockholm The family endured mounting grief with Brigitta’s condition improving slightly after the father’s arrival.
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Ernest Ahlberg
Stockholm
Ahlbergs
Brigitta
United States
Greensboro
Sweden
Ansberg
Eastern Part Wants Out Happy Says Kentucky Won’t Be Divided Up
Governor A B Chandler states eastern Kentucky remains part of Kentucky and calls the secession proposal a matter for the Legislature. About 100 secessionists met in Whitesburg to demand better roads and greater funds, arguing eastern Kentucky subsidizes the Bluegrass and western counties.
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Happy
Kentucky
Frankfort
A. B. Chandler
Eastern Kentucky
Commonwealth of Kentucky
Whitesburgh
Bluegrass
Lexington
Rap Collins Elected Chairman of Whitesburg Secessionists
Rap Collins won the leadership role as chairman of the Whitesburg secessionist group in a local party gathering. The outcome positions Collins to steer the faction's strategy and public stance on regional issues.
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Rap Collins
Whitesburg
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