Summer concert second night in Ottawa park
Ottawa Recreation Commission presents two operatic selections My Hero from March of the Chocolate Soldier by Straus and Queen of Sheba by Gounod at tonight’s city park concert. Loren Matthews says turnout was good last week and expects higher attendance with better weather and a larger group of more than 40 musicians rehearsing.
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Hero
Straus
Gounod
Ottawa Recreation Commission
Loren Matthews
Filipinos Greet Ike As A Friend
Manila crowds line streets as President Eisenhower, visiting with President Carlos Garcia, rides in an open car. Heat and humidity challenge the welcome while locals smile, wave, and cheer, with spectators packing through tree-lined avenues and government buildings.
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Carlos P. Garcia
Weather Bureau
Eisenhower
Missouri Youth Held Under Bond
Mount Vernon Missouri Junior Leroy Theobald aged 24 of Aurora is held on 25000 bond on two counts of rape and one count of assault with intent to kill He recently completed a prison term for statutory rape and is accused of raping two sisters at Carl Koehler home and firing a shot at their mother Theobald pleaded innocent at arraignment and a preliminary hearing was set for June mm.
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Mount Vernon
Leroy Theobald
Aurora
Theobald
Carl Koehler
Weather County Forecast Fair and Warmer Update
County forecast notes a fair and warmer afternoon with partly cloudy skies and a not so cool night. Wednesday shows partly cloudy and locally warmer conditions with a chance of a few thundershowers. Highs this afternoon around 65 to 70, lows tonight near 60, high Wednesday around 80.
Near Unanimous Nixon Backing At Texas GOP Convention
Texas Republicans opened their state convention with near unanimous backing for Vice President Richard M. Nixon for the presidency. Nelson Rockefeller supporters shifted to Nixon after a caucus. The convention will choose 54 delegates and 54 alternates to cast Texas 54 votes.
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San Antonio
Tex
Texas
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Ike Is Welcomed By Filipinos Joyously
Manila crowds greet President Eisenhower with an ecstatic reception as 1.5 million to 3 million Filipinos line a 10 mile route. Garcia praises U S leadership, Eisenhower salutes the crowd, and MacArthur sends good wishes. Humid heat, confetti, and banners mark the grand welcome.
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Manila
Eisenhower
United States
New Delhi
Carlos P. Garcia
Jon
A. E. Baughman
U. S
Secret Service
Jose P.noble
Douglas MacArthur
Philippines
MacArthur
White House
James C. Hagerty
Massive Manhunt Amid Protests Over Eisenhower Visit in Japan
Tokyo security forces mobilize a 23,000 police and a 2,000-man regiment to guard President Eisenhower’s arrival as leftist unions and Zen gakuren students clash with police in pre-dawn raids. Police detain five union officials after raids on Kawasaki factory and student federation HQ. Protests loom with calls for Parliament dissolution to derail the U.S Japan security pact.
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Japan
Eisenhower
Defense Board
White House
James C. Hagerty
Kawasaki
Zengakuren Student Federation
Zengakuren
Kishi
Liberal Democratic Party
Hagerty
Socialist Party
Inejiro Asanuma
Oae
U.s.japan
U.S
Two Escapers Captured in Ottawa Playhouse
Bulletin reports Jay Lea King and Carl Ray Chase captured today at 1113 College in Ottawa. They hid in a city playhouse on property owned by Richard C. Hewitt, a mail carrier, who alerted police. Officers transported the restrained suspects to the Ottawa police station.
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Jay Lea King
Carl Ray Chase
1113
College
Ottawa
Richard C. Hewitt
Hewitt
Uninjured In Bomb Blast In Smithville Missouri
A dynamite bomb placed on a bed room window sill at the Joe Q Edwards home exploded after midnight, nearly demolishing the brick house but injuring no one inside. The bomber, Domer Montgomery, 59, Smithville, returned to his room and killed himself with a .32 revolver. Montgomery had formerly lived with the Edwards couple. police do not know his motive.
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Smithville. Mo
Domer Montgomery
Smithville
R. E. McDowell
Clay
Joe Q. Edwards
McDowell
Montgomery
Edwards
Return of Sun Fails as Front Brings Clouds
The sun reappeared over Kansas after 10 cloudy days but a new front from the west will likely bring cloudy skies tonight and Wednesday. No precipitation is expected with the front. Temperatures should reach the mid 80s in the west and warm to the east by midweek.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Two Fugitives Caught In Child's Playhouse
Ottawa endured a manhunt as two Kansas fugitives, Carl Ray Chase and Jay Lea King, escaped en route to Lansing. A 200-officer search with planes and dogs targeted Rock Creek area after a Homewood sighting, with pursuit from Ottawa to Erie and back, ending with a gun battle and revised dispositions.
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Child's Playhouse
Explosion at Vale Nolene Refinery Rocks Freedom Pa
An oil tank explosion at Valenoline Refinery Co in Freedom Pennsylvania during a violent thunderstorm touched off a blast. First reports said no injuries, eight other tanks were threatened, traffic on Route 83 was halted, and officials believed lightning started the fire. Freedom is a small industrial town about 30 miles northwest of Pittsburgh.
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Freedom
Valenoline Refinery Co
Pjttsburgh
Ottawa Gates Down: Manhunt Brings Armed District to Standstill
Ottawa and vicinity braces as Jay Lea King and Carl Ray Chase elude capture. Road blocks halt traffic on US 50 and I 35. Kansas Bureau of Investigation joins sheriff, police chief, and highway patrol in a large scale search. A missing Plymouth with a New Testament on the back window raises quiet confusion amid radio chatter and farm watch by residents.
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Jay Lea King
Carl Ray Chase
Ottawa
Leavenworth Guard
Kansas Bureau of Investigation
Police chase expands from Ottawa area after car wreck
Capt Tom Glasscock and Max Gilmore lead the search with Eugene Flaherty as Ottawa police join, Cal Harvey Schedemann arrives to assist. A helicopter sighting near the re street bridge spurs a second cordon east of Rockwood Acres and around rock quarries. Dogs track two escapers believed to have fled west from the wreck and doubled back toward the tracks near 7th.
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Rocky Creek
Ottawa
Roy Churchill
Rockwood Acres
Mercury
Tom Glasscock
Highway Patrol
Thig
Max Gilmore
Franklin County
Eugene Flaherty
Cal
Harvey Schedemann
Marais Des Cygnes
Interstate 35
Churchill
Price
Rockwood
Rockwood ‘Acres
Highland Cemetery
Bad Weather In Eastern Areas
Light rain fog drizzle and brisk winds produced unseasonal weather across the country from central Missouri to the middle Atlantic. Thunderstorms hit Virginia with a storm at Dumfries flooding roads and powers lines. Washington reported 1 to 1.4 inches of rain while Chicago saw over an inch. Temperatures varied from the 40s in the Great Lakes to the 90s in the Southwest.
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Associated Press
Missouri
Ohio Valley
Lower
Great Lakes
Middle Atlantic States
Virginia
Dumfries
Washington
D. C
Weather Bureau
Indianapolis
Chicago
Upper
Desert
Guard In Case Has Resigned Inmate Escape Case
TOPEKA AP The guard who attempted to transport convicts Carl Ray Chase and Jay Lea King from the Kansas Reformatory to the state penitentiary resigned today Col Guy C Rexroad said H C Marrs submitted his resignation to Warden Tracy Hand at Lansing The operation was described as a mess from the start Chase and King escaped and are being sought in southeast Kansas
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Carl Ray Chase
Jay Lea King
Kansas State Industrial Reformatory
Hutchinson
Lansing
Kansas City
Anderson County
Homewood
Topeka
Kansas Reforma
State Penitentiary
Dirirectory
Penal Institutions
Guy C. Rexroad
H. ¢. Marrs
Tracy
Rexroad
Chase
King
Marrs
Kansas
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