Side Swipes in Widespread City Gossip
Polly Flynn, nearing age 100, weighs Tom Purcell's long standing marriage proposal while he is 72. She jokes about his seriousness and recalls a prior rejection. In Manila, a Jeepney struck Police Inspector Vicente Ortiz who had tried to stop it after a week of 250 daily tickets. the mayor ordered Ortiz to slow down.
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Widnes
England
Polly Flynn
Tom Purcell
Polly
Manila
Vicente Ortiz
Ortiz
Arsenio Lacson
Khrushchev Warns US Over Cuba Threats
Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev warned the United States that Soviet rockets could reach the American mainland if Washington intervened in Cuba. He pledged support for Fidel Castro, denounced the US blockade, and called for solidarity with Cuba against perceived imperialist pressure.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Caribbean
Kremlin
Pacific
Soviet Union
Pentagon
Khrushchev
New York
Nelson Rockefeller
Austria
West
Slim Lead Solves Theft at Fortess Like Vault
Charleston AP) Unemployed bus driver Earl Hayes Mathews, 32, confessed to stealing about 350000 in state funds from a fortress like concrete vault. Police traced the tip through his mother and found money bags in his car trunk. Mathews was arrested after two days of surveillance.
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Charleston
W. Va
E. L. Roush
Earl Hayes Mathews
South Charleston
Mathews
O. S. Neely
Weather County Forecast Showers Into Evening
Scattered showers this afternoon and tonight, clearing Sunday. Highs in the 80s, overnight lows around 65, warmer Sunday.
Mexico urged to send oil to Cuba in crisis
Mexico must provide Cuba with oil to avert a social and human catastrophe, said Senate Leader Manuel Moreno Sanchez. He stressed it is not about trade and that Cuba faces a fundamental survival need, urging action despite possible political implications.
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Mexico City
Adolfo Lopez Mateos
Mexico
Cuba
Senate
Manuel Moreno Sanchez
Elevator bursts and wheat floods road at Winona cooperative
Ten thousand bushels of wheat burst from a bin at the Winona Cooperative Elevator and blocked U.S. 49 for three hours. Manager Lyle Atkinson could not estimate the loss though most wheat was salvageable. Nearby bin also burst, spilling 8,000 bushels.
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Winona, Kan
Winona
U. S. 49
Lyle Atkinson
Mixed Marriage Request Denied
Tulsa Oklahoma AP District Judge W Lee Johnson denied a motion to dismiss a felonious miscegenation charge against Vernon Thomas and Betty Charles Thomas, who wed April 1 in Kansas. Johnson cautioned the law could be unconstitutional, noting potential appeals to the Oklahoma Supreme Court and conflicts with the U S Constitution.
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Tulsa
Okla
W. Lee Johnson
Amos Hall
Johnson
Idrop
Vernon ‘Thomas
Betty Charles ‘Thomas
Oklahoma Supreme Court
Oklahoma
Iola
Kan
State Supreme Court
Survival kit tester endures Wyoming trek alone
Robert Lindblad, testing his self designed survival kit in western Wyoming, spent over two weeks living from a one gallon fuel can size kit. He parachuted into Burnt Lake at 9000 feet, biked 100 miles, then waited out a static phase. A doctor says he is in good condition and plans to manufacture the kit.
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Wyoming
Lindblad
Pinedale
Shome
Air Force
Burnt Lake
Belgians Rush Combat Troops Into Congo
Belgium flew 164 infantry volunteers to the Congo to back African authorities in Brazzaville and Leopoldville as unrest surged among native troops. White settlers fled in panic while a nighttime curfew briefly quieted Leopoldville. U.S. transports aided evacuations and about 2,000 Americans were believed in the Congo.
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Brazzaville
Congo
API
Belgium
New Republic
Leopoldville
Congo Republic
Brazza- Ville
France
Luanda
Angola
U.S
Clarke Timberlake
Brussels
Adlai Stevenson Open to Draft if Drafted for 1960
Adlai Stevenson indicated willingness to be drafted for the 1960 race but showed a firm preference not to volunteer for the Democratic nomination. He said he would do his utmost to win the critical election if drafted and would accept the draft and campaign with vigor if selected by the convention.
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Chicago
Adlai Stevenson
Los Angeles
Glenn Anderson
California
Stevenson
Red-Inspired Riots In Italy Backfire For Tambroni
Rome AP reports bloody Communist rioting aimed at ousting Premier Fernando Tambroni’s Christian Democratic government has backfired, strengthening his hand. The unrest, Italy’s worst in years, has killed 10 and injured over a thousand, with no major city spared in two weeks of clashes between demonstrators and police.
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Rome
Fernando Tambroni
Christian Democrat
Italy
KC Council In Salary Squabble
Kansas City AP report says the city council cut Robert Adams salary to 1 dollar a month after appointing him executive director of the Human Relations Commission. Adams arrives with his wife and five children to take the post, amid council votes citing his war conscientious objector stance. He previously led three UCC congregations in Buffalo New York.
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Kansas City
Adams
H. Roe Bartle
United Church of Christ At
Buffalo
N. Y
Topeka Man Bitten By Lions At City Zoo
Walter Thomas, visiting Gage Park zoo with his two children, was badly mauled Friday night when he stroked a female lion through bars. A park merchant policeman, Keith Richards, scared off the animals with a nightstick. Doctors warned the arm might be saved with treatment after flesh and muscle were ripped to the bone from elbow to shoulder amid additional facial and back lacerations.
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Topeka
Kan
Gage Park
Walter Thomas
Keith Richards
Thomas
Five States Hold Key to Nomination
LOS ANGELES AP Kennedy tightens grip on delegates as five states California Minnesota Illinois New Jersey and Pennsylvania could yield 203 of 761 votes at the Democratic convention. Johnson and rivals seek realignment after first ballot while Truman plans to attend. Kennedy expected to enter Los Angeles with triumphal flair as Stevenson Symington Blair and others rally.
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Massachusetts
California
Minnesota
Illinois
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Kansas
Iowa
Indiana
Maryland
Ohio
Kennedy Heads For Los Angeles at Democratic Convention
Senator John F Kennedy flies to Los Angeles for the Democratic national convention confident he will win the nomination. He says the convention likely won’t be long and that he has yet to secure new pledges. He welcomes Harry S Truman’s attendance and notes Lyndon B. Johnson as a possible running mate though not currently pursuing it.
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New York
John F. Kennedy
Los Angeles
Cape Cod
Harrry S. Truman
Massachusetts
Truman
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Kennedy
Youth Shot In Game Of Fast Draw In Moberly
In Moberly Missouri an attempted fast draw drill left 18 year old Jerry Elsworth Wogoman critically wounded by a .45 pistol fire. The incident occurred Friday at the Wogoman home as he practiced with another youth. Parents are Mr and Mrs George KE Wogeman. The family recently moved from Columbia Missouri.
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Moberly. Moapi
Jerry Elsworth
George KE. Wogeman
Moberly
Columbia, Mo
Escape from Salina jail sparks citywide manhunt
Three prisoners Delbert Linaweaver Winston Holloway and Raymond Behner escaped Salina County Jail by slugging a jailer and injuring Sheriff Guy Lemon. Roadblocks and searches span Salina area as deputies pursue the trio. Holloway had just been sentenced for burglary while Linaweaver and Behner await hearings. A stolen car report followed in Latvia a 1953 Chevrolet sedan OB-188.
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Salina, Kan
Salina County
Salina
Delbert Linaweaver
Winston Holloway
North Little Rock
Ark
Raymond Behmer
Kansas City
Martin C. Gellert
Sherif iGuy Lemon
Gellert
Jim Martin
Holloway
Linaweaver
Behner
Latvia
Jean Simmons Seeks Divorce From Stewart Granger
Actress Jean Simmons files for divorce from actor Stewart Granger in Santa Cruz County Superior Court. Granger not expected to contest. Hearing anticipated mid August. Simmons seeks custody of daughter Tracy, age 3. Complaint alleges cruelty and notes property rights already settled.
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Nogales, Aviz
Jean Simmons
Stewart Grane
Hollywood
Granger
Santa Cruz County Superior Court
Miss Simmons
Tracy
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