White Men Will Hear Rape Case In Tallahassee
A 12 white male jury was seated to hear a 19 year old Florida A and M coed report she was abducted at gunpoint and raped by four white youths. State Atty Hopkins said he would seek the death penalty if convicted. Jury selection included 56 jurors and two alternates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Talahassee
Fla
William D. Hopkins
Florida A&m University
Aete
Hopkins
W. May Walker
S. Gunter Toney
Tallahassee
Nixon and Rockefeller Meet in New York Ahead of 1960
In New York Nixon and Rockefeller join Gov. Meyner and Mayor Wagner for Hudson River anniversary ceremonies. The nonpartisan event may mask mutual plans for future presidential bids as they pursue old ties and new contacts before Rockefeller heads to Washington and Nixon to San Francisco.
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Richard M. Nixon
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Nixon
Rockefeller
Robert B. Meyner
New Jersey
Robert F. Wagner Jr
New York City
Hudson River
Meyner
Wagner
Washington
San Francisco
Baby Dies After Car Rolls Onto Child
Akron Ohio AP reporting 2 year old Christopher Davis released a hand brake while a car was parked beside the Davis home. The left rear wheel crushed his stomach as he fell or exited the vehicle. He died today at Children’s Hospital.
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Akron, Ohio
Christopher Davis
Davis
Children’s Hospital
Miami dentist survives 22 hour heart massage
Miami dentist Dr Raymond J. Smith, 45, was kept alive for about 22 hours by direct heart massage after chest pains. His brother Dr Donald Smith opened the chest cavity and started massage as doctors joined in. Smith is expected to recover and may return to practice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami
Fla
Raymond J. Smith
Smith
Robert S. Litwak
University of Miami Medical Cent
Jackson Memorial Hospital
Donald W. Smith
Litwak
Raymond Smith
Northwestern University
U.S. Marine Hospital
Parris Island
S.C
Europe
Dade County Medical Assn
Florida
American ‘College of Surgeons
American Assn. of Blood Banks
Steel Industry Proposes Wage Concessions Rejected by Union
New York AP report says steel makers offered eight contract changes to raise efficiency if the union drops a one year wage freeze. USW president David J. McDonald condemns the move as industrial blackmail and warns it could trigger a shutdown less than a week before potential strike action.
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New York
United Steel Workers of America
R. Conrad Cooper
U.S. Steel Corp
USW
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Rebels surrender in Nicaragua prompt trial prospects
In Managua the government announced more than 40 rebels surrendered today and are being brought to the capital, likely for trial. A Cincinnati court seated 12 jurors to try Edythe Krumpp on a first degree serious case charge. In Tallahassee a Black female coed testified that four white youths attacked her last May 2.
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Managua
Nicaragua
AP -T’ez
Cincinnati AP
Edythe Krumpp
Tallahassee
Fla
Chuckle Puzzle on Buying Power Through the Years
A playful note asks who could buy as much a dollar bought twenty years ago, reflecting on inflation and changing value with a lighthearted challenge.
Heat Wave Persists With High Humidity Ahead
The forecast notes persistent heat and high humidity after a 92 degree day. Showers expected today and tomorrow may lower the temperature but raise humidity, with no cooler weather in sight for the rest of the week and possibly into Monday.
Hoffa Faces Reform Deadline Under Court Order
James R. Hoffa must lead a union clean up or face possible contempt jail under a U.S. Court of Appeals ruling. The monitors may pursue investigations into Hoffa and top Teamsters officials including Owen Brennan, Ray Cohen, and John J. McNamara, with enforcement via Judge F Dickinson Letts. Hoffa vows to appeal to the Supreme Court.
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Norman Walker Washington
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters
Hoffa
Newark
N.J
Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals
Senate Committee
Owen
Bert) Brennan
Detroit
Ray Cohen
Philadelphia
John J. McNamara
New York
Ppeals
Cout
U.S. District Court
F. Dickinson Letts
Denver Boy Wins 32nd National Spelling Bee
Joel Montgomery, 12, of Denver Colorado, won the 32nd annual National Spelling Bee defeating runner-up Robert Crossley, 12, of Center Square Pennsylvania. He spelled fanfaronade before clinching the title with catamaran.
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Washington
Joel Montgomery
Denver
Colo
Robert Crossley
Center Square
Joel
Robert
Sterling Hayden May Buy Tahiti Island
Hollywood actor Sterling Hayden says he might buy an island near Tahiti and settle his four children there. He sailed to the South Seas aboard his 98 foot schooner Wanderer five months ago amid a court order dispute with ex wife Betty Ann Hayden. She charged the trip would subject the children aged 10 9 8 and 6 to danger.
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Hollywood (Ap
Sterling Hayden
Tahiti
Hayden
South Seas
Wanderer
Betty Ann Hayden
Surrender Demanded Of Rebels Surrender Demanded Of Rebels
Government in Nicaragua presses for unconditional surrender of rebel invaders from Costa Rica after rejecting safe conduct. Gen. Anastasio Somoza expects surrender today as 45 insurgents face trial with up to nine years in prison. Remnants and a second group of about 40 are described as no longer a threat. A rebel radio in Honduras claims 86 National Guardsmen were killed near Boaco. Reporters Biasetti and Caparros covered the scene.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Costa Rica
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
Luis Somoza
Somozas
Honduras
Boaco
Mario Biasetti
Columbia Broadcasting System
Rogelio Caparros
Havana
Bohemia
Cinderella Romance Ends in Colorado Car Crash
Barbara Ann Barnwell, 18, of Denver, the teenage wife of Lt. Lee Barnwell, 23, an Air Force Academy graduate, died when their sports car struck a culvert and overturned near Durango Colorado. Lt. Barnwell survived, was told of his bride’s death hours later, and the couple had married a day after his graduation.
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Durango
Colo
Air Force Academy
Colorado
Barbara Ann Barnwell
Denver
Lee Barnwell
Greenville
D.C
Herbert Luoma
Barbara
O.K
Ing
Barnwell
Academy
Chapel
Hussein of
Jordan
U.S
Secretaries Discuss Berlin Talks With Gromyko In Geneva
In Geneva U S Secretary of State Herter met with Soviet Foreign Minister Gromyko to probe possible grounds for Berlin talks. He conferred with Britain's Selwyn Lloyd France's Maurice Couve de Murville and West Germany's Wilhelm Grewe as Gromyko showed willingness to consider a shorter occupation and a possible longer Western presence.
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Geneva
U.ss
Christian A. Herter
Andrei Gromyko
Berlin
Waet
Herter
Gromyko
Selwyn Lloyd
Britain
Maurice Couve de Murville
Wilhelm Grewe
West Germany
West Berlin
U.S
Foreign Ministers’ Conference
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Prosecution Delays Klumpp First Degree Murder Trial
Hamilton County Prosecutor C Watson Hover explained why jury selection stretched to a fourth four hour session for Edythe Klumpp charged with first degree murder in the death of Louise Bergen. Defense counsel William F Hopkins signaled willingness to accept a six person jury after days of peremptory challenges. Bergen died Oct 30 and her body allegedly burned after overnight in Klumpps car as a divorce motive is cited. Hover previously anticipated Bergen as a witness. he was reportedly in Washington, D C.
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Harold Har
Cincinnati
Hamilton County
C. Watson Hover
Edythe Klumpp
Frank M. Gusweiler
Hover
William F. Hopkins
Woman Dies in Akron Fire After Self Aid Rubbing
Maria Mullins 59, partially blind, burned to death when kerosene rash for arthritis attack ignited as she apparently struck a match. Police said she rubbed kerosene on her body to ease arthritis pain and clothing caught fire.
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Akron, Ohio
Maria Mullins
Thor-Able nose cone recoveries target future ICBM work
A Thor-Abla missile released a nose cone 5 500 miles off Ascension Island and burned reaching the Atlantic. Recovery ships and aircraft search the area while the Air Force says data show most test objectives met and the cone deployed a parachute to aid water recovery. Similar tests were successful in April and May.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic
Ascension Island
Cape
Air Force
South Atlantic Ocean
Youth Admits Slaying Of Mine Owner
Clinton, Tenn AP two men will be charged with murder in the ambush slaying of coal mine owner Jesse Fester Sheriff Rose Kitts said 18 year old George W Baker confessed He said Franklin D Smith shot Fesler because he did not want to stand trial for robbery Baker said he begged Smith not to kill Fesler The slaying occurred Monday Baker held in jail Smith in jail at Jacksboro.
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Clinton, Tenn
Rose Kitts
Kitts
George W. Baker
Franklin D. Smith
Jesse Fester
Quiz Program Report Is Sealed By Judge
In New York a General Sessions Court sealed and impounded the grand jury presentment after about nine months of inquiry into television quiz shows. Judge Mitchell D. Schweitzer gave the district attorney's office until June 26 to argue for the report's acceptance. Louis M. Hacker, former Columbia University dean, said the matter touches national audiences and public morality, but could not reveal details.
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New York
Mitchell D. Schweitzer
Louis M. Hacker
Schweitzer
Hacker
School of General Studies
Columbia University
County of
District Attorney's Office
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