Tornado cleanup reveals bank check from 1894 in Missouri
Fragments from May 20 tornado events surface as a Liberty area hayfield yields a $104.90 Peoples National Bank check issued in 1894 by William Barnes from Ottawa. Additional notes cover Oslo Norway’s anti smoking study and a Denver theft where a robber ripped out a seat to seize a wallet containing $610.
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Franklin County
Kansas City
Peoples National Bank
Ottawa
Liberty
Peoples Bank
William Barnes
Denver
George G. Shinn
Shinn
Japan Pushes Trial of Girard Despite US Ruling
Tokyo says Justice Ministry will press for manslaughter trial of GI William S. Girard. Washington argues over whether he should face an Army court martial or Japanese courts for the January 30 killing of a Japanese scrap collector on a U.S. firing range. Prosecutor Konawa in Maebashi says only trial date remains.
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Tokyo
Justice Ministry
Japan
William S. Girard
U. S. Supreme Court
High Court
Washington
Ottawa
U.S
United States
Girard
Supreme Court
Foreign Ministry
State Department
Maebashi
Yoshiro Konawa
Weather summary for Kansas with scattered storms
Partly cloudy overview for Kansas through Sunday with warmer conditions this afternoon and east tonight. Scattered showers and thunderstorms likely west this afternoon, spreading eastward, diminishing tonight and re developing late Sunday afternoon. Highs in the 90s, lows mid 60s northwest to 70s-75 elsewhere. Ad for Douglas Bros air conditioners.
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Kansas
Deaths on Highways Dip Below Holiday Forecasts
During the Independence Day holiday period, the National Safety Council reported total deaths on highways and related incidents lower than expected. The count reached 421 overall, with 236 traffic deaths, 132 drownings, and 53 miscellaneous fatalities by 6 p.m. Sunday, amid regional spikes such as Michigan’s seven- death accident. The Associated Press noted nonholiday tolls as a reference, with 378 highway deaths, 146 drownings, and 110 miscellaneous deaths for a comparable period. State tallies listed Arkansas, Colorado, Missouri, Nebraska, and Oklahoma among others.
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National Safety Council
Kansas
Michigan
Associated Press
Arkansas
Colorado
Missouri
Nebraska
Oklahoma
Seek Mental Health Vote Demonstration Petitions Circulated
Women of Fairmont home demonstration unit announce petitions opposing the mental health clinic. Mrs. Albert Hamm presides. Mrs. Fred Kissinger notes the remonstrance filing requirement and aim for a county vote. If 10 percent signature threshold and time limits are met, the issue goes to the next general election.
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Fairmont Home
Albert Hamm
Fred Kissinger
HDU
Two women in Chicago solitary confinement over 22nd anniversary
Evelyn Smith and Blanche Dunkel, both in their sixties, spent the 22nd anniversary of the 1935 murder in Dwight Women's Reformatory solitary cells. Convicted of killing Ervin J. Lang, Dunkel’s son-in-law, the judge called the crime vicious and premeditated and ordered yearly solitary confinement on the anniversary. Lang was killed after planning an illicit romance with Dunkel, with Smith allegedly drugging and dismembering the body alongside her husband, who disappeared.
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Chicago
Evelyn Smith
Blanche Dunkel
Dwight Women’s Reformatory
Sundown
Cornelius J. Harrington
Ervin J. Lang
Two Men Burned In Oil Tank Explosion Near El Dorado
Two men suffered burns in an oil stock tank blast three miles northwest of El Dorado. Welders Eldon Zigler, 43, and LaVerna Kingsley, 21, both from El Dorado, were in fair condition at a hospital. The explosion happened while they were welding a stairway on a 250 barrel tank, Cities Service Oil Co. spokesman said.
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Eldorado
el Dorado
Eldon Zigler
LaVerna Kingsley
Cities Service Oil Co
Ottawa Day at Kansas City Game Draws 610 Fans
A group of 610 people from Ottawa and surrounding towns will attend the July 11 Ottawa day at the Kansas City Athletics New York Yankees game. Tickets were sold to fans in Paola Richmond Waverly Wellsville Pomona and Princeton as well as Ottawa. Buses load at 5 15 p m and depart 5 30 p m. For reserved space call Al Kneepple or George Dunkin. Large groups may share the bus group name.
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Ottawa
Kansas City Athletics
New York Yankee
Peg Carr
Ottawa Chamber of Commerce
Paola
Richmond
Waverly
Wellsville
Pomona
Princeton
al Kneepple
George Dunkin
Diablo Blast Planned At Atomic Test Site
Nevada test officials outlined a schedule that includes the long postponed "diablo" device on July 12 as part of six year US tests. The June 28 failure was blamed on a power problem and a July 19 air to air rocket with an atomic warhead is planned. Fallout is described as minute and insignificant while a Groom Mine property reported minor blast effects.
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United States
Nevada Test Organization
Utah
Fans Fans Fans See Douglas Bros 178-c-21
A brief notice notes fans in attendance and references Douglas Bros with a catalog or file number 178-c-21. The item hints at a local event or advertisement centered on fan interest. Further details are unreadable.
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Dougllas
Truman Library Dedicated In Independence Missouri
Harry Truman prepared to dedicate the Harry S. Truman Library and Museum as a national monument. The crescent shaped limestone building houses 3 4 million documents and personal mementoes from his eight years as president. The 21 million project includes grounds and contents valued at 21 million, funded by public subscription.
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Independence
Harry Truman
White House
Indiana
Harry S. Truman
al Mintet
Truman Library
Khrushchev Attacks Ousted Kremlin Trio In Leningrad Speech
Premier Khrushchev denounces Georgi Malenkov Lazar Kaganovich and V M Molotov as plotters who opposed peace efforts and tried to seize party control. Moscow Radio confirms purge aims to uphold the Soviet Union’s peace policy despite opposition from former top leaders.
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London
Nikita Karrushchey
Kremlin
Communist Party
Georgi Malenkov
M. Molotov
Lazar Kaganovich
Dmitri T. Shepilov
Khrushchev
Tions
Leningrad
Moscow Radio First
Malenkov
Soviet Union
Moscow Radio
America
V. M. Molotov
Unon
County to Purchase Site for County Nursing Home
Franklin County commissioners signed a contract to buy a 280 by 240 foot tract between 7th Street Terrace and 8th Street in Ottawa west of Beech for 3000 dollars. The 40 bed one story brick facility will serve county patients with construction not starting before fall. Architect is E. V. Skidmore of Ottawa.
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Franklin County
Homer Reeves
7Th Street
8Th Street
Ottawa
Beech
W. H. Twyman
E. V. Skidmore
Injuries Fatal To Osawatomie Youth
Larry Ieenogle 18 of Osawatomie Kansas died at Kansas University Medical Center from injuries after a one car crash. State Highway Patrol said his vehicle struck a diversion on U S highway 169 about a quarter mile south of Osawatomie.
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Osawatomie
Kansas City
Kas
Larry Ieenogle
University ‘of Kansas Medical Center
The
State Highway Patrol
Teenogle
U. S. Highway 169
Standing Room Only at Graham Evans Event in Madison Square Garden
A crowd of 19,200 at Madison Square Garden heard evangelist Billy Graham and actress Dale Evans. Evans spoke of Christ and family life, noting five adopted children. Graham urged youth to stand, with 60 percent of attendees under 25. The meeting recorded 576 decisions for Christ, boosting Garden totals to 27,582 from 50 meetings and 847,800 overall attendance.
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New York
Billy Graham
Dale Evans
Madison Square Garden
Miss Evans
Roy Rogers
Hollywood
Graham
Fizekiel
Christ
Ingrid Bergman Rushes To Child
Ingrid Bergman hurried from Paris to Rome to be with her 5 year old daughter Isabella who had an appendicitis operation last night. A Rossellini family spokesman said the child came through the operation very well and is improving rapidly.
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Rome
Ingrid Bergman
Paris
Isabella
Rossellini
Governor forms Kansas legal fees study group
Gov. George Docking creates a state committee on legal fees in cooperation with the Kansas Bar Association. O. B. Eidson to head the panel with J. Willard Haynes and C. E. Chalfant as members. The group aims to help set logical fees for state legal work, and will begin functioning in September after meetings of the American Bar Association.
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Topeka
George Docking
Kansas Bar Assn
American Bar Assa
New York
London
Docking
Kansas
Bar Associations
Hidson
Identify Victim Of Turnpike Crash Topeka Airman Jim Whitlock 18
The Kansas Turnpike crash victim has been identified as Jim Whitlock 18 an airman stationed at Forbes Air Force Base Topeka.
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Topeka
Kansas Turnpike
Jim Whitlock
Forbes Air Force Base
Russia Deliberates U S Nuclear Dismantling Proposal
In London a Soviet delegate said Moscow will study the U S offer to meet the Soviet Union halfway in dismantling nuclear weapons. Harold Stassen urged phased output limits and a 53 to 47 split of fissionable H bomb material to an international agency as the UN disarmament subcommittee recessed.
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London
Russia
U.S
Vaerian Zorin
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
United States
International
Rescue Pair From Old Mine
Two teenage boys James McCarty 14 and Robert Roblek 15 survived seven hours at the bottom of an abandoned Pueblo mine shaft after a jeep plunged 60 feet into it. They yelled at intervals, were found in the wrecked vehicle, and were pulled out by David Riggs game warden and James' father using a winch.
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Pueblo
Colo
James McCarty
Robert Roblek
McCarty
James
Bobby
David Riggs
William McCarty
Woman plunges to death after struggle on rooming house roof
New York police report a 24 year old woman, Jean Ricio, freed from her mother's grasp on an East Side rooming house roof and fell five stories to her death after a physical altercation. The mother, Anne Ricio, about 50, chased her and they struggled until the daughter slipped from her jacket and plunged over the edge.
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New York
Jean Ricio
Anne Ricio
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Norway
Fredrik Mellbye
Social Department
Board of Health
Morgenbladet
East ST. Louis
Ill
Daniel Wells
Thomas Wells
City Street Department
Douglas Bros
Carol Bivins
Death
Lamb
Groom Mine
Baldwin Piano Co
Abraham Lincoln
Truman
Herbert Hoover
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Earl Warren
Basil O'Connor
Henry S. Truman Library Corp
Moscow
U.S.A
County Boys Land For Nursing Home
Lauris Norstad
NATO
Marburg
Germany
U. S
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