Mother Says Cop Had Right To Shoot Son
In Dayton Ohio the mother of 19 year old Arthur Dawson Roberts Jr says the officer was within his rights after Roberts was shot by Patrolman C B Killean Friday night She reported Roberts had terrorized the home and returned with a gun prompting the officer to fire The youth died at St Elizabeth hospital The mother spoke on behalf of the officer saying the boy was in the wrong and aimed the gun at the officer
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Associated Press
Dayton
Ohio
Vera Connors
Arthur Dawson Roberts Jr
C. B. Killean
Ronald Connors
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Wheel Tax Schedule By Last Name Start Next Week
Mt. Vernon reports 909 wheel tax decals sold after 65 more were bought yesterday. Next Monday to Wednesday motorists with last names starting M Mc and N will pay the wheel tax at city hall. Alphabetical payments for O P Q and R follow on Thursday through Saturday.
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Mt. Vernon
Call Firemen To Release Woman From Turnstile
CHICAGO A woman, Genevieve Foley, 37, attempted to back from an exit turnstile at Randolph Street elevated station. Iron bars locked the axis, trapping her for about 30 minutes until Chicago Transit Authority men and firemen freed her. She vowed not to repeat the incident.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Genevieve Foley
Randolph Street
Chicago Transit Authority
Fire Department
Thieves Break Into Brown Coal Co Office Burglarized
Thieves broke into the Brown Coal Co office at 421 South 12th Street last night and stole $5 in coins and bills. Police said entry was gained by smashing the glass in a rear door.
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Browning Coal Co
South 12Th, Street
Births in Dahlgren and Belle Rive Families
Mr and Mrs Charles William Kriffulzy of Dahlgren welcomed a son at Jefferson Memorial hospital last night at 6 26 weighing six pounds ten and a half ounces. Mr and Mrs Dale Savage of Belle Rive welcomed a son at Good Samaritan hospital last night at 6 04 weighing seven pounds nine ounces named Terry Dale.
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Charles William Kriffulzy
Dahlgren
Jefferson Memorial Hospital
Dale Savage
Belle Rive
Good Samaritan Hospital
Terry Dale
Airfield Folk Return and Plan Minnesota Flight
M J Mitchell and Tom Oakley returned from Dallas Texas this morning. Earl Outland Frank Weatherford Webb Hill and Tom Metcalf are making a flight to Minnesota today.
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M. J. Mitchell
Tom Oakley
Dallas
Tex
Earl Outland
Frank Weatherford
Webb Hill
Tom Metcalf
Minnesota
Hospital Notes Admits and Discharges List
Good Samaritan admits Lula Mae Hall Carl Farmer Gideon Covall Bert Mason Pauline Jones Robert Clifford Modglin Discharged William Cochran Martha Ann Somers Doris Marie Hayes infant son Steven Edward Robert Lee Karch Lillie Tolen Ralph Reed Jefferson Memorial admits Osborn D Allen McLeansboro Discharged Robert Goree Letta Stevens
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Good Samaritan
Lula Mae Hall
Carl Farmer Gideon Covall
Herbert Mason
Pauline Jones
Robert Clifford Modglin
William Cochran
Martha Ann Somers
Doris Marie Hayes
Steven Edward
Robert Lee Karch
Lillie Tolen
Ralph Reed
Jefferson Memorial
Osborn D. Allen
McLeansboro
Robert Goree
Letta Stevens
Goats Patrol 40-Foot Gas Tanks on Riverfront
In Louisville Kentucky goats roam atop forty foot gasoline storage tanks along the Ohio River. Henry Kennedy, a KennedyConcoco warehouse man, struck a bargain with his boss to keep the goats in storage enclosures if they quelled weeds. The goats scale stairways and steel fences, turning the tanks into makeshift runways.
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Associated Press
Louisville
Ohio River
Henry Kennedy
Kennedy
Concoco
Warn Banks On Looser Credit
Washington reports a trend to loosen installment credit terms especially auto financing and banks are cautioned. Letters to 4 800 national banks and 1 900 state banks instruct examiners to report on installment and consumer credit. Installment credit has risen to a new high with about 9 of 24 billion tied to autos appliances home repairs and other consumer uses.
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Associated Press
Washington
Ray M. Gidney
Federal Reserve Board
Air Force Won’t Charge Fischer and Three POWs
Des Moines Register reports the Air Force will not press charges against Capt Harold Fischer Jr of Swea City Iowa and three other released POWs. Also named are 1st Lt Roland W Parks of Omaha Nebraska 1st Lt Lyle Cameron of Lincoln Nebraska and Lt Col Erwin Heller of Wynnewood Pennsylvania. They admitted under Red Chinese pressure they falsely confessed to flying north of the Yalu River under orders.
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Associated Praes Des Moines
Des Moines Register
Washington
Air Force
Harold Fischer Jr
Swea City
Towa
Red China
Fischer
Roland W. Parks
Omaha
Neb
Lyle Cameron
Lincoln
Move The City To His House
Austin police officer R H Wallace found his half built suburban home suddenly within city limits after the council extended annexation along Manchaca Road. The move follows a civil service rule restricting residence to the city. Wallace’s lot is now enclosed by the city’s expanded boundary.
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Associated Press
Austin
Tex
R. H. Wallace
Civil Service
Wallace
Manchaca Road
Busy As a Bee She Still Finds Time for Golf
The article details President Eisenhower and family routines during a quiet evening at the villa. After a party, Mrs. Eisenhower and their son joined him for a late family dinner. Eisenhower arranged a breakfast meeting with Dulles, then read before retiring shortly before 11 p.m.
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Eden
Eisenhower
Dulles
Call For Bids On Bins To Store Surplus Grains
WASITINGTON The U S Department of Agriculture seeks bids on small circular steel bins with 3450 bushel capacity to store about 47 million bushels of grain for price support programs in August and September. Bins will be used in Illinois Iowa Indiana Minnesota and South Dakota based on a Federal Crop Reporting Board forecast of a large crop.
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Wasitington
U. S. Department of Agriculture
Hindii
Midwest
Federal Crop Reporting Board
Iowa
Indiana
Minnesota
South Dakota
Airman From Centralia Killed in Stead Base Jeep Collision
The Air Force reports the death of Staff Sergeant I. Boles, 21, of Centralia Ohio, from a jeep accident at Stead Air Base. The jeep skid on the freight strip Thursday night. driver Airman Ralph Stacy of Pomona California was uninjured. Boles' mother, Mrs. Ellen Boles, resides on Route 2 in Centralia.
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Renq
Air Force
Forest I. Boles
Centralia
Stead Air Base
Boles
Ralph A. Stacy
Pomona
Calif
Ellen Boles
Let Thief Go Pay Off Victim In Dallas
Police swarmed Trinity River bottoms chasing two robbers who took 47 from Charlie Jones a 78 year old man. A highway patrol car stuck in mud and bloodhounds failed to track due to heavy footprints. In a rapid turn of events the decision was made to give Jones seven dollars and drop the pursuit.
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Associated Prose
Dallas
Trinity River
Charlie Jones
Lava Flow From Mt Etna Threatens Sicilian Villages
Lava from Mt Etna, Europe’s highest volcano at 10,705 feet, crept toward Fornazzo at about 120 feet per hour. The red river stood 15 feet high and 150 feet wide, four miles from the town center and 2,500 feet from outlying houses, with Mito village a mile away also in the path. The eruption began four days earlier from a crater 1,000 feet downslope on the northeast side.
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Fornazzo
Sicily
Mt Etna
Mito
Mt. Etna
Europe
Algerian assassinations report clash with rebels
Official reports from Algiers indicate seven Algerians killed in a series of assassinations and a clash between troops and a rebel band within the last 48 hours.
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Associated Press
Algiers
Algeria
Worried Man Blocks Traffic On Hollywood Freeway
LOS ANGELES. Marion Grammer, 34, halted his car on the Hollywood Freeway, blocking hundreds of vehicles as police and motorists honked. He sat mute behind the wheel, later telling doctors at Hollywood Receiving Hospital that mounting worries overwhelmed him, with a physician calling it an anxiety reaction like combat fatigue.
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Los Angeles
Marion Grammer
Hollywood
Grammer
Hollywood Receiving Hospital
Traffic Fines Referred to Police Magistrate Dulaney
Fines assessed yesterday by Police Magistrate Allan Dulaney include Richard Dean Angle of Wayne City for careless driving nine dollars and costs and James F. E. Cloyd for failure to have a state car license five dollars and costs.
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Allan Dulaney
Richard Dean Angle
Wayne City
James FE. Cloyd
Husband Of Former Mt Vernon Resident Dies In Detroit
Ed Mull died in a Detroit hospital Thursday from a heart attack. Mt Vernon relatives were notified. Funeral services set for Sunday at 2 p m at Cobden Funeral Home Cobden Illinois. Mull was husband of former Ida Piercy of Mt Vernon who survives, along with two sons and a daughter.
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Ed Mull
Detroit
Mt. Vernon
Cobden Funeral Home
Cobden, Il
Mull
Ida Piercy
Lightning Kills Man Under Tree in Jackson Park
During a sudden rainstorm a bolt struck sheltering men under a tree in Jackson Park Chicago killing William J. Platt 21 of Miami Florida and injuring Harold Love 27 of Toledo Ohio. Papers on them show they were circus workers.
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Chicago
Jackson Park
William J. Platt
Miami
Fla
Harold Love
Toledo
Ohio
Chicago Air Defender Named to Command Anti-Aircraft Defenses
Brig. Gen. Marshall S. Carter was appointed by the air defense command to command the army anti-aircraft defenses in the Chicago and Detroit areas with headquarters at Ft. Sheridan Illinois.
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Associated Press
Colorado Springs
Colo
Marshall S. Carter
The
Air Defense Command
Army
Chicago
Detroit
Ft. Sheridan
Ill
Smoke damage to new house at Johnson Avenue and Maple
Firemen were called at 2 00 p m Friday to a new unoccupied home on Johnson Avenue at Maple. Smoke caused damage after adhesive used in cabinet forming ignited while workmen installed kitchen cabinets. Property owner is Guy Wood.
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New House
Johnson Avenue
Maple
Guy Wood
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