Sheppard Not Balky In Wife Slaying Probe
Cleveland AP reports defense and prosecution clashed over Dr Sam H Sheppard cooperation in the Bay Village case with witness Fred Drenkhan describing questioning at Bay View Hospital lasting about three and a half hours. The defense pressed to refute claims of limited help by Sheppard as the murder trial continued.
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Cleveland
Samwel H. Sheppard
Dr. Sheppard
Fred Drenkhan
Bay Village
Drenkhan
William J. Corrigan
Bay View Hospital
Birthday Gifts Piled High for Eisenhower Wife
Washington reports Mrs Dwight D Eisenhower will celebrate her 58th birthday with a large stack of packages to open tomorrow. The First Lady will host Sunday night supper with friends including Mrs George Moore and Col Moore as well as her mother Mrs John Sheldon Doud staying at the White House. President Eisenhower returns today from a duck hunting trip on Lake Erie.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Ake Erie
George Moore
Eisenhower
Col. Moore
John Sheldon Doud
White House
U S Rejects Moscow Atomic Pool Demands
At the United Nations Soviet delegate Vishinsky pressed Moscow’s terms to join Eisenhower’s peaceful atom pool project. U S Chief Delegate Lodge dismissed the speech as theatrics while outlining a need for changes before participation.
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U.S
Moscow
United Nations, N. Y
United States
Eisenhower
U.N
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Vishinsky
Assembly
Government Closes Ellis Island After 62 Years
Ellis Island in New York shuts down after 62 years as a gateway to America. The last 50 detainees were moved to the mainland as Edward J. Shaughnessy notes the site is closed and a skeleton crew remains. If no takeover occurs within a year, the island reverts to the General Services Administration.
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New York
Ellis Island
America
New York Harbor
Edward J. Shaughnessy
Immigration Service
Ellis
New York City
Island
General Services Administration
Prince To Mark Sixth Birthday at Sandringham
Prince Charles will celebrate his sixth birthday at Sandringham tomorrow with a cake candles and presents. He is described as Britain’s hopeful future monarch and may have a few friends over.
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Prince
Sandringham
England
Prince Charles
Britain
Showdown on Power Pact in Congress
The Senate House Atomic Energy Committee moved to a showdown over a 500 million Dixon Yates power contract to build a 107 million dollar plant in West Memphis Arkansas. Democrats warned against a fast waiver while Republicans pressed to proceed with witness restrictions. GAO official Weitzel noted improvements but declined to judge the deal, as Tennessee and TVA public power interests protested to Holifield.
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Washington
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Eisenhower
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Dixon-Yates
Republican Committee
West Memphis
Ark
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA Energy
Frank H. Weitzel
General Accounting Office
GAO
Congress
Weitzel
W. Sterling Cole
44 Years Old Boiler Kid Dies After 18 Years In Iron Lung
Fred B. Snite Jr., 44, known as the Boiler Kid due to 18 years in an iron lung, died in a West Palm Beach hotel after traveling from Miami Beach. Doctors cited heart and lung failure linked to long confinement in the iron lung. He lived with his Chicago-born family, married Teressa Larkin, and left three children. Services and burial planned in Chicago.
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Frederick B. Snite, Jr
China
Snite
Mary
Kitty
Pinky
Suite
Palm Beach, Fla
Kid
Miami Beach
Fla
Fred B. Snite Jr
Dumiee
West Palm Beach
Norge
Chicago
Fred
Teressa Larkin
Dayton
Ohio
Teressa Marie
Catherine Bernadette
Many
France’s Premier Heads to U.S. for Talks and U.N. Speech
Premier Pierre Mendes France prepared to fly to the United States and Canada for talks with President Eisenhower in Washington and a major speech to the U.N. General Assembly. He left Paris for Quebec, then to New York and Washington after securing National Assembly approval for a Algeria policy crackdown.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
United States
Canada
Eisenhower
Washington
U.N. General Assembly
Quebec
New York
Mendes-France
National Assembly
Algeria
North Africa
Burke Backers Seek Conference Over Hamilton County Irregularities
Cincinnati advisers to Sen. Thomas A. Burke press for a Monday talk with Secretary of State Ted W. Brown about alleged election irregularities in Hamilton County after Burke narrowly lost to Rep. George H. Bender. The Burke camp seeks a hearing and recount, which the county board rejected.
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Cincinnati
Thomas A. Burke
Ted W. Brown
Hamilton County
Burke
George H. Bender
Bender
Soviets propose European security conference in Moscow or Paris
The Soviet government proposed a conference on European security for November 29 in Moscow or Paris. A Soviet note to France announced the plan with copies to the United States and others, and observers were invited from Communist China. The move appeared aimed at delaying or blocking ratification of the Paris pact granting West Germany sovereignty and rearmament rights.
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Moscow
Paris
United States
China
West Germany
Marilyn Monroe Leaves Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Hollywood actress Marilyn Monroe exited Cedars of Lebanon hospital for Beverly Hills after a minor operation last Monday. She appeared pale and unsteady but was described as recovering at home.
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Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
Beverly Hills
McCarthy Censure Debate Shifts to Softening Deadline
GOP leaders set a Monday target date to move a watered down censure plan against Sen. McCarthy Wisconsin amid the Senate recess. An anonymous senator said compromise talks may drop direct censure while noting McCarthy helped expose Communist influence in government agencies.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Mins al Cape
Wisemavor
McCathy
Senate
America
Knowland
California
Watkins
Utah
McCarthy Testimonial Dinner Set in Milwaukee
Senator McCarthy anticipates a censure vote as Wisconsin admirers host a Milwaukee testimonial dinner selling 1,500 tickets at five dollars each. Goldwater is the principal speaker and McCarthy rejects apologies for his remarks about Senator Hendrickson as he returns from Washington with his wife.
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Milwaukee
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
Wisconsin
Washington
Sen. Goldwater
R-Ariz
Hendrickson
Goldwater
New Election Winner Found In Montgomery County
In Dayton Ohio an official count corrected a vote miskeying by a comptometer operator at the Montgomery County elections board. Democrat Robert J Withrow Jr 28 gained 51 278 votes to defeat Republican Frederick Bowers 50 758 for a new five of ten seat Assembly result with three Republicans and two Democrats. Bowers learned of his defeat yesterday when filing his expense account calling it just one of those things.
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Joseph Sullivan
Timothy S. Hogan
Cincinnati
County Board of Election
Hogan
Brown
Columbus
Election Board
Burke
Dayton
Ohio
Montgomery County
Robert J. Withrow Jr
General Assembly
Albert A. Horstman
Board of Elections
Frederick Bowers
Horstman
Withrow
Bowers
Assembly
Elections Office
Eisenhower Plans Senate Push on Western Europe Pact
President Eisenhower will urge the Senate to ratify the nine power treaty restoring sovereignty to Allied occupied Western Germany and permitting German troop contributions to Western Europe defense. Hagerty said the message will urge swift action after the new Congress convenes. He is in Ohio with Secretary Humphrey duck hunting at Maumee Bay.
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Toledo
Ohio
Eisenhower
Senate
Andi Communist Alliance
West Germany
James C. Hagerty
Treasury
George Humphrey
Maumee Bay
Washington
Paris
Germany
Western
Europe
Hagerty
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Humphrey
Cedar Point Club
Death Trims Dress World Big Three
Paris fashion icon Jacques Fath died at 42 after a period of illness. He had been linked to leukemia by reports, though his wife cited extreme fatigue and anemia. Fath led a one-room salon at 25 and was considered one of the Big Three in Paris, alongside Dior and Balmain.
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Paris
Jacques Fath
France
Fath
Genevieve
United States
Christian Dior
Pierre Balmain
British Royalty Begins Five Day Canada Visit
Queen Mother Elizabeth arrived in Ottawa to begin a five day Canadian tour. A Royal Canadian Air Force plane ferried her from Langley Air Force Base to Uplands Airport last night, where she was greeted by Governor General Vincent Massey and scheduled for official ceremonies and social events across the country.
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Ottawa
Ont
Elizabeth
United States
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
Queen Elizabeth II
Uplands Airport
Langley Air Force Base
Virginia
Vincent Massey
Wife Slayer Faces Death In Chair
Ross Hawkins, 59, is convicted of murdering his wife and staging an auto crash to cash life insurance. A Mississippi Circuit Court jury chose the death penalty, with Judge Homer Currie to set the sentence. Hawkins held two policies totaling 2000 dollars on his wife when she died August 22. The district attorney warned of further polices on Hawkins family members and cited other cashings, including a son’s death and a service station fire. Hawkins says he has collected seventeen thousand dollars in total.
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Raleigh
Miss.p
Ross Hawkins
Homer Currie
Hawkins
Joe McFarland
Trucker Kills Family Then Shoots Self in Salina
Roy Henry 36, an unemployed trucker, killed his wife and three children Ronnie 6 Scott Thomas 4 Mary Lynne 3, then shot himself with a .22 pistol. A note near his body claimed a gambling crime and named Salina figures, ending with good luck.
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Salina, Kan
Roy Henry
Henry R. Salinans
Henry
Mother
Salmons
Ronnie
Scott Thomas
Mary Lynne
Jenner says Soviet spy rings in US government and UN
Sen. Jenner asserts the Soviet Embassy directs Communist spy rings across the government and within the United Nations. He warns against peaceful coexistence slogans and urges severing diplomatic relations to cut off embassy spy centers.
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Washington
Sen
Jenner
R-Ind
United Nations
Free Nations
Kremlin
Indiana
Senate
Internal Security
Russia
Stalin
Agriculture Department
Soviet Union
Akron Bank Robbery Report Seeks Vivid Clues
Akron police and FBI hunted a well dressed robber who looted Evans Savings Association East gate branch of 29 500. He used a pistol shouted for cash and fled in a stolen car to a Goodyear Aircraft Corp lot. Suspect described 5 8 tall 140 pounds with moon scar.
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Akron
Ohio
FBI
Evans Savings Assa
Association
Eastgate
Clarence Newhouse
Goodyear Aircraft Corp
India to Raise 500000 Man Volunteer Army
India plans a 500000 volunteer force over five years to assist national defense. The Central Advisory Committee for a Territorial Army, chaired by Prime Minister Nehru, endorses a force similar to the U S National Guard as a nucleus for future defense and reduced reliance on a standing army.
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New Delhi
India
Nehru
U.S. National Guard
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