Witness Says Liberace Used Strong Perfume
AP reports in London that Liberace’s libel suit over a 1956 Daily Mirror article features a Paris bureau chief testimony describing the entertainer’s perfume overpowering a wasp sting antiseptic at Le Bourget Airport in 1954. The case targets alleged homosexual innuendo by the Mirror and columnist Connor.
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London
Liberace
The
Daily Mirror
William N. Connor
Peter Stephens
Mirror
Paris
le Bourget
Stephens
Neville Faulks
Bakers Burned as Teens Admit Fire Set by Siblings
Sterling and Alice Baker were badly burned while their children Doreen and Bruce, ages 14 and 13, told police they started the blaze by pouring gasoline on their sleeping parents bed. Police say the siblings planned the act for over a week to free themselves from strict parents. Bruce and Doreen described their remorse and thoughts of beating them before choosing arson. The wife was in fair condition. the husband is severely burned. In a separate note, James Stewart was elected Princeton alumni trustee, a Princeton architecture degree holder since 1932.
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Jackson, Mich
Sterling Baker
Alice
Doreen
Bruce
Baker
Democrats blast veto government in 1960 fight
The Democratic Advisory Council denounces veto government in a Sunday statement led by Paul M. Butler. It criticizes Congress for water downed measures and urges ignoring veto threats while pushing stronger civil rights and other reforms for the 1960 session.
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Washington
Democratic Advisory Council
Congress
White House
Council
Paul M. Butler
Harry S. Truman
Adlai E. Stevenson
Democratic Congress
Sam Rayburn
House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senate
Butler
Johnson
Rayburn
Dan McDaniel 95 Dies After Long Illness
Dan P. McDaniel 95, a retired farmer of Downsville, died in a local clinic after a long illness. Funeral services are set for 3 p.m. Tuesday at Downsville Methodist Church with multiple ministers officiating. Interment will follow at Mt. Olive Cemetery near Downsville. He is survived by four sons, four daughters, 29 grandchildren, and 43 great grandchildren. pallbearers will be his grandsons.
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Farmerville
Dan P. McDaniel
Downsville
Downsville Methodist Church
I. A. Patton
Ardis Smith
Robert Coles
Brady Forman
Mt.in
McDaniel
Jessie
Cleave McDaniel
Calhoun
Arthur
Fred McDaniel
Ledger Williams
M. J. Foster
C. W. Johnston
West Monroe
J. R. Simpson
Bossier City
CAB Inquiry To Be Aired By Committee
House in the Sherman Adams affair opens a new inquiry into Civil Aeronautics Board operations. The oversight subcommittee plans panel discussions with CAB officials and airline-industry attorneys to probe outside influences on decision making and prepare broad legislation to curb such activity.
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Washington
UPI
House
Sherman Adams
Bernard Goldfine
Civil Aeronautics Board
CAB
Legislative Oversight Subcommittee
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Wagoner Sentenced for Poking Taos Officer in Ribs
Taos New Mexico Robert Riley Wagoner of Espanola was jailed 90 days and fined 500 dollars after being convicted of assault with a deadly weapon for poking Taos police officer Eloy Montoya in the ribs with a high powered rifle during the incident. Zelda Frank a one year old from Reading England is recovering after the first of three heart surgeries planned to correct three holes in her heart and improve her future prospects.
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Taos, N.M
Robert Riley Wagoner
Espanola
N.M
Taos
Eloy G. Montoya
Wagoner
Montoya
Reading
England
UPI
Zelda Frank
J W Hammond Dies Rites Set In West Monroe
Jack son Walter Hammond 69 a retired farmer of West Monroe died Sunday night in a local hospital Funeral services are set for 10 30 a m Wednesday at Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel with Rev Ory Miller officiating Interment will be in McCormick Cemetery about 15 miles west of West Monroe Survivors include three daughters Elizabeth Davis Lena Quinn Flossie Long two sons Walter Hammond James Hammond 11 grandchildren three sisters and a brother from West Monroe Mississippi and Delaware Texas and other locations
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Jackson Walter Hammond
West Monroe
Ory Miller
Kilpatrick Funeral Home Chapel
McCormick Cemetery
Arkansas Road
Mississippi
Elizabeth Davis
Lena Quinn
Dover
Del
Flossie Long
Ft. Worth
Tex
Walter Hammond
James Hammond
EF. Blackman
J. W Thrash
Lawrence
Miss
Georgia Standsbury
W. S. Hammond
Services Held For Tanner 50
Funeral services for C. C. Doc Tanner 50 of Haile were held at Haile Baptist Church with Rev Burgess presiding. Interment followed at Liberty Cemetery near Linville. Survived by widow a son two daughters four brothers two sisters eight grandchildren.
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Farmerville
C. C
Doc) Tanner
Haile
Shreveport
Haile Baptist Church
Burgess
Liberty Cemetery
Linville
Kilpatrick Funeral Home
Tanner
Farmer
C. C. Tanner
Charles Tanner
Dorothy Lowman
Cleo Thomas
Bastrop
Ercell Tanner
West Monroe
Curtis Tanner
Rayville
Herman Tanner
Downsville
Wilford Tanner
Baldwin
Miss
Gladys Wooley
Eloy, Ariz
Carrie Moss
Jonesville
Calif
Youth Faces Kidnapping Charge Today
In Ellsworth Maine Ronald Grant Jr 20 faces arraignment on armed robbery and kidnapping charges after he held up a church meeting at Brooklyn Baptist and forced 17 year old Nora Staples to leave in a minister’s car. A pursuit ended at an Orrington roadblock. Staples was treated for minor facial injuries. Grant previously shot himself after Nora rejected his marriage proposal.
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Ellsworth, Maine
Ronald Grant Jr
Brooklyn Baptist Church
Here
Nora Staples
Charles Fore
Orrington
Grant
Bangor
Nora
Dodd Campaign Argues Governors Office Belongs to People
State Comptroller Bill Dodd, running for governor, says the governor and other state executive jobs belong to the people and cannot be inherited. Speaking at rallies in Logansport Coushatta Winnfield Ferriday and Jonesboro, he urged voters to judge him on merit and a earned record.
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Jonesboro
Bill Dodd
North Louisiana
Dodd
Logansport
Coushatta
Winnfield
Ferriday
Blazing Ocean Layer Abandoned by British Crew in Atlantic
In the North Atlantic about 300 miles west of England a blazing British cable ship Ocean Layer was abandoned as flames spread. Four lifeboats were rescued by German freighter Flavia with up to 30 crew aboard the Ocean Layer. The Upshur headed toward the scene alongside other vessels as Flavia took control of the situation. The Ocean Layer, owned by Submarine Cables Ltd, had sailed from Cobh to lay a second Atlantic cable between the U.S. and France.
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London
North Atlantic
England
Yeing
U.S. Navy
Upshur
Flavia
Bremerhaven
Germany
Ocean Layer
Submarine Cables Ltd
Cobh
United States
France
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J. W. Hammond
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