Explosion kills couple and girl in Pittsburgh car blast
Explosives expert Arthur DePew and estranged wife Elaine die with Linda Jans, an eight year old, in a parked auto blast in Pittsburgh. Seven others injured as Joan Panza, 11, is cut from a shattered store window. Police call it murder by own action.
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Pittsburgh
North Side
Midtown
Arthur DePew
Elaine
Linda Jans
Linda
Joan
Frank Panza
DePew
Lawrence Maloney
DePews
Norwich
N.Y
Louis
Braunstein
Roommate Kills Girl For Money in California
In Burlingame California 20 year old Catherine Marie Elvins daughter of a Seattle physician was found beaten and stabbed to death. Her roommate 19 year old Flaine Soule of Freeport New York admitted the killing with robbery as the motive saying Elvins had received a 160 dollar check from her family and Soule needed cash to meet bills. Autopsy showed 26 blows to the head with a flatiron and 20 stab wounds in the chest. Soule dragged the body into the kitchen and slept in the death room. she hoped to stash the body with the victim's furniture. She tried to cash the unendorsed check but had no bank account. The case described as brutal by the coroner is under district attorney investigation.
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Burlingame
Calif
Catherine Marie Elvins
Seattle
Dist
Keith Sorenson
Miss Elving
Miss Soule
Miss Elving Way
Paul B. Jensen
Howard Hartley
Richard E. Elvins
Freeport
Hartley
Soule
San Francisco
Chuckle Husband and Wife Exchange Silly Line
A humorous exchange has the husband asking where his wife is going and the wife replying she is going to buy. The light moment captures domestic wit and playful banter.
New Expressway Complicated City Traffic Jam
In Little Rock officials opened a new expressway intended to ease rush hour congestion. Minutes later police reported the worst traffic jam in the city’s history as drivers faced a maze of unfamiliar signs and lights. Patrolman Gene Adcock described 10 minutes of confusion directing traffic.
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Little Rock
Ark
Gene Adcock
Sheriff Says Convicts Targeted Him Not Amish Farmer
Holmes County Sheriff Harry Weiss said two convicts, Cleo E. Peters and Michael Dumoulin, planned to kill him for headline value before fatally shooting Amish farmer Paul M. Coblentz. The men, both transfer inmates from Ashland, abducted a truck, damaged a rear window, and were captured after wounding a constable.
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Millersburg
Ohio
Holmes County
Cleo E. Peters
Muscatine
Iowa
Michael Dumoulin
Wooster
Paul M. Coblentz
Ashland
Dumoulin
Peters
Harry Weiss
Holmesville Lumber Co
Deskless offices alarm State Department diplomats
Washington reports a debate sparked by Foreign Service officer Guy Wiggins who argues that desks in offices hinder efficiency and thought. He cites New York agencies and urges bureaucrats to resist deskless trends as the department plans a vast new headquarters with thousands of desks.
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Washington
State Department
Madison Avenue
Guy Wiggins
Foreign Service
New York
Big City
Wiggins
London
New Delhi
John Foster
Dulles
Current Foreign Service Journal
Thomas R. Estes
Japan Flood Devastates Kyushu City Isahaya and Surrounding Areas
A 29 inch rainfall in 24 hours devastates Kyushu island causing widespread flooding. Isahaya residents describe a lake like flood as railroads and highways collapse and thousands are displaced. Rescue teams from Japan, the United States, and local agencies race to reach survivors amid chaotic conditions.
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Tokyo
Japan
Isahaya
British RAF Attacks Omani Rebel Forts Over Third Day
RAF Venom bombers blasted rebel strongholds in Oman for a third day, hitting a fort at Tanuf near Nizwa after a 48 hour warning. London denied civilian casualty claims and said strikes targeted rebel forts with coordination from Sultan Said Bin Taimur.
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London
Royal Air Force
Oman
Tanuf
Nizwa
Britain
RAF
Foreign Office
Cairo
Imam Ghaleb bin Ali
Arabian Peninsula
Muscat
Lloyd
U. S
John Hay Whitney
Sharjah
Persian Gulf
Bahrain
Sir Bernard Burrows
Sultan Said bin Taimur
Burrows
Negro Shop Is Raided In Alabama
Tuskegee investigators led by Atty. Gen. John Patterson raided the Tuskegee Civic Assn office and a Negro printing shop seizing records and literature. The probe targets an alleged illegal boycott by Tuskegee Negro residents against white merchants following a local act altering city limits. Documents and handbills from the TCA and NAACP were taken for possible state-law and subversion offenses.
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Tuskegee
Ala
Tuskegee Civic Assn
John Patterson
Patterson
TCA
Alabama
National Assn. For the Advancement of
Colored People
MacDonald Gallion
Decids
Weekend forecast shows dry mild weather with sun
The Miami Valley expects mostly sunny skies and slightly warmer conditions today with a possible high near 88. A cool air flow continues tonight with lows in the 50s and a weekend high near 90, while Middletown records 83 yesterday and 57 this morning.
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Miami Valley
Runnerup Sues Mrs U S A Over Miss Maryland Loss
Mary Callie Hill sues Mary Leona Gage Ennis and the Miss Maryland Pageant sponsor Walters Academy for 30000 alleging fraud to hide Ennis marriage. Hill says the deception cost her the Miss U S A trophy trip to Miss Universe a car a 1000 wardrobe and a screen test.
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Mary Callie Hill
Mary Leona Gage Ennis
Baltimore
Maryland
Walters Academy and Fashion Guild, Inc
Ennis
U.S.A
Long Beach
Calif
Miss Hill
Blow Out Is Probed In Desert
Investigators comb the Mojave Desert for clues to an aviation mystery after a passenger vanishes from a heavily insured airliner. Officials hope to recover the body if found and determine what caused the jagged hole.
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Victorville
Calif
Mojave
Jigsaw of Plane Crash Fragments Hints at Cause
Missing jeweler S F Binstock, 62, of North Hollywood Nevada, last seen entering the plane’s washroom on a Western Airlines Convair bound for Los Angeles from Las Vegas. The craft made an emergency landing at George Air Force Base after a loud blast, as FBI and CAB investigated wreckage in the Ord mountains and searchers sought the body.
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S. F. Binstock
North Hollywood
Calif
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Nev
Binstock
Western Airlines
Convair
California
George Air Force Base
Here
FBI
Civil Aeronautics Board
Ord Mountains
Air Force
China rejects Japan request to locate missing Japanese
The Tokyo government announced that China has rejected Japan's request to locate about 35,767 Japanese missing on the mainland.
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Tokyo
China
Turkish jet crash toll rises in Bursa neighborhood
A Turkish air force jet crashed into a residential area of Bursa on Thursday, killing 21 people and injuring 15. The ensuing fire destroyed 18 houses and shops in the resort city.
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Bursa
Turkey
Johnny Dio Guilty in Labor Racketeering Case
New York AP report states labor racketeer Johnny Dio was found guilty of a $30,000 union shakedown conspiracy. He faces up to two years in prison, along with co-defendants Samuel Goldstein and Max Chester, after a 23 hour, two night deliberation.
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New York
Johnny Dio
Dio
Samuel Goldstein
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
Max Chester
Retail Clerks International Assn
U.S. Senate
Goldstein
Chester
Goldsein
General Sessions
John A. Mullen
Wedding celebration crush kills 63 in Cairo building collapse
A five story Cairo building collapsed during a wedding killing 63 and wounding 32. Bride Fatma perished, bridegroom Mansour Abdel Hamid injured. Government had ordered removal of two old floors but owner added three stories amid local district Dab el Ahmar. Women and children among the casualties.
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Cairo
Fatma
Mansour Abdel Hamid
Dab el Ahmar
Ceylon Seeks Russian Help to Develop Industry
Colombo reports that Ceylon has asked Russia to send experts to assist in developing its industry infrastructure and boost economic growth. The request signals a pivot toward foreign technical aid amid postcolonial development efforts.
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Ceylon
Red
Colombo
Russia
Haircut frees airman after court martial over white sidewall rule
Airman Don ald Wheeler from Cortez Colorado was released from Haneda stockade after Col Charles W Johnstone halted his four month hard labor and pay loss penalties for refusing a white sidewall haircut. Wheeler had been ordered to match the honor guard in Fuchu Japan and will finish overseas duty before leaving for Williams AFB Arizona.
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Fuchu
Japan
Donald Wheeler
Fuchu Air Force Base
Wheeler
Cortez
Colo
Haneda Airo Force Base
Tokyo
Hardy
Reno
Nev
Barber Wheeler
Air Police
Williams Air Force Base
Chandler
Ariz
Far East Command
Air Force
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Kyushu Island
Nagasaki
Omura
Yasujiro Tachikawa
Chikara Imasato
Hell
Yoko Komori
Japanese Navy
Coast Guard
U.S. Navy
Kyushu
U.S. Air Force
Lodd
Arthur Gavshon
Middletown
Mrs
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