Prison Farm Inmates Admit Beatings Fatal Fight At Angola
Warden Maurice Sigler said two young convicts confessed to slugging fellow inmates with improvised weapons in a dorm at Angola Prison Farm. Calvin King died from a fractured skull. Theodore Reynolds and Gordon Carpenter admitted the attack, claiming it was in defense after threats. Joseph Saucier was not seriously injured.
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Angola
Maurice Sigler
Sigler
Theodore Reynolds
Ouachita Parish
Gordon Carpenter
Winn Parish
Calvin L. King
Richland Parish
Joseph Saucier
New Orleans
Young First Offenders
Arrest of Little Rock NAACP Leader Sparks Records Demand
The Rev. J. C. Crenchaw 74 year old Little Rock NAACP president surrendered to police on a charge of failing to produce membership rolls and financial lists. Arkansas NAACP head Mrs. L. C. Bates is sought on the same order as city officials demand copies within 15 days.
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Little Rock
Ark
J. C. Crenchaw
NAACP
L. C. Bates
Arkansas
Central High School
Bates
New York
Crenchaw
Clarence A. Laws
Laws
Judge Killed During Fight With Sheriff
In Harrison Arkansas a former county judge Aubrey Hickenbottom was shot five times and killed outside an all night cafe after allegedly pistol whipping Sheriff Spence M. Holder. The coroner ruled the sheriff justified in self defense. Hickenbottom, 50, had been defeated for re election in 1954 and was contesting a $17 500 damages suit against two city policemen.
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Harrison
Ark
Aubrey Hickenbottom
Spence M. Holder
Hickenbottom
Norman Andrews
Holder
Older
Body Of Crash Victim Found In Mississippi River
Greenville Mississippi reports the body of 22 year old hotel cashier identified as Mrs Robert Smith found in eight feet of water near the Greenville bridge after she drowned while trying to swim clear of a rented airplane that crashed during a joy ride. Comrades were 2nd Lt Dietmar Engle 23 and 2nd Lt Wolfgang Witt 22 with Delores Gentry 22.
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Greenville
Miss
Robert Smith
Greenville Bridge
Highway Patrol
Lloyds Insures Woman Against Sputnik
Lloyds of London announced it has entered space insurance by insuring a British housewife against Sputnik the Soviet satellite. The annual premium is $3.50 with a potential payout of $14 000 if the satellite hits her home.
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Lloyds of London
Sputnik
London
Damascus Fortification Week Begins Amid Mass Rally
In Damascus the start of Fortification Week drew over 5,000 Syrians venting anti Eisenhower slogans as Gen Asif Bizri urged digging trenches and fortifications around the capital. President Kuwaty Premier Assali and leaders attended the Hastrara Village rally near the Aleppo Road where sandbagged trenches already stood.
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Damascus
Turkey
Syria
Russia
U.S
Shukrai Kuwaty
Sabri Assali
Hastrara
Aleppo
Penn and Central Weigh Merging Biggest Railroads
The Pennsylvania Railroad and New York Central consider a merger creating a 20000 mile eastern and mid western network spanning Canada. If approved by stockholders and regulators, the combined company would rank as the eleventh largest with near six billion dollars in assets.
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New York
Pennsylvania Railroad
New York Central System
Canada
Road
Rail Combine
James M. Symes
The
Pennsylvania
Alfred F. Perlman
Central
Railroad and
Financial World
Carnegie Fund Grants Medal to Floyd Nichols for Lake Chicot Rescue
Floyd Nichols of Alexandria Louisiana received a bronze medal from the Carnegie Hero Fund Commission for diving into 15 feet of water near Ville Platte to rescue two unconscious boat victims on July Fourth. Nichols, 44, ignored a weak back and saved Perry Bateman and Julius Scott with aid from his 13-year-old daughter.
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Pittsburgh
Carnegie Hero Fund Commission
Floyd Nichols
Alexandria
Lake Chicot
Nichols
Ville Platte
Perry Bateman
Julius C. Scott
Bateman
Scott
Russians Grant Amnesty To Many Criminals
Radio Moscow announced that the Supreme Soviet granted amnesty to a great number of Russians serving time for relatively minor offenses. The move appears connected to celebrations marking the 40th anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution.
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London
Radio Moscow Tonight
Soviet Union
Supreme Soviet
Eisenhower Accepts Oklahoma Visit During Semi-Centennial
President Eisenhower will visit Oklahoma City on November 13 and deliver a nationwide TV speech on Science and Security. The stop kicks off Pride in Oklahoma Week ending with the November 17 Oklahoma Notre Dame game televised from Norman.
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Oklahoma City
Eisenhower
Raymond Gary
Oklahoma
Norman
November Opens With Warm Touch
Cloudy November opened with unseasonably warm temps in the Twin Cities with a high of 81 degrees and a low of 57. Partly cloudy skies and continued warmth are forecast, while Arkansas预计 showers and cooler weather move in over the weekend.
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Twin’ Cities
Arkansas
Gangster Bates Killed by Gunmen Outside Home
In Chicago a notorious underworld figure Willard C. Bates was shot to death as he stepped from his station wagon near his Lyons home. Three gunmen across the street fired with rifles and a shotgun, ending Bates’s life after he had previously killed an assassin who hid in his car. Police estimate 40 shots were fired. Bates had survived a prior attempted execution and had testified before a federal grand jury about whisky hijacking. His wife Joan hid inside the house.
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Chicago
Willard C. Bates
Joan
Lyons
Bates
Frank Mustari
Mustari
Boulevard Des Italiens
Bergeaud
Teenagers Questioned After Large Cache of Adult Material Found
Police in Baton Rouge question teenagers whose names appear on a list found in a local apartment tied to a raid that recovered about 5 000 adult photographs and erotica. The search linked to a wider network of dealers with an album of names and addresses throughout the United States and Mexico. The FBI is investigating.
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Baton Rouge
William C. Kemp
Shreveport
Kemp
United States
Mexico
FBI
Ramblin' lesson and a Panting Sound Puzzle
A school director asks students to identify a panting sound by observation and listening. West Monroe issued several small building permits in October totaling just over $100000. Monroe Civitan Club heard Judge William Harper speak on traffic accidents and their causes.
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West Monroe
Monroe Civitan Club
William
Bill) Harper
Gangs of Killers Terrorize Paris Streets
Paris endures months of Algerian gang violence as rivals fatally target civilians and now threaten prominent figures. The incident on Sen. Henri Bergeaud sparks calls for repressive actions as NATO leaders prepare to visit.
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Paris
Eisenhower
NATO
Sen
Henri Bougeaud
Radical Socialist Party
Marshal Zhukov Exiled To Remote Post In Purge Rumors
Reports from Moscow and Belgrade say Georgi Zhukov and allies are being purged from top posts with the marshal possibly sent to a remote assignment near Mongolia. Khrushchev’s leadership faces a Syria crisis cooling as censorship masks details.
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London
Moscow
Georgi K. Zhukov
Belgrade
Defense Ministry
Kremlin
Zhukov
Nikita Khrushchev
Outer Mongolia
Irving R. Levine
NBC
Helsinki
Syria
U.N. General Assembly
Crippled Plane Lands Safely in Antarctica
A U S Air Force C 124 Globemaster with 13 aboard battled a snowstorm on three engines for hours and landed on the ice at McMurdo Sound after feathering an engine near Byrd Station. Pilot Capt. James Thomas of Masury Ohio reported heavy ice and an overcast as Lt Col Dixon Arnold ordered a climb above the clouds toward Hallett Station 400 miles north.
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Washington
Air Force
McMurdo Sound
Byrd Station
McMurdo
James Thomas
Masury
Ohio
Dixon J. Arnold
San Angelo
Tex
53Rd
Thomas
Hallett Station
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Calvin Glover
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Asif Bizri
Penn and
NY Central
Carnegie Fund Awards
Alex. Man
Red Army
Navy
Bryce Harlow
James Harlow
Frontiers of Science Foundation
Gary
White House
Carl Morgan
Guthrie
Morgan
Shirley Arrighi
Jes’ Ramblin
Khrushchev
Middle East
Antarctica
News-Star World
Monroe
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