Ottawan Held In Bank Robbery
ORRICK Missouri authorities report a bank robbery by John Sweenty Hickman of Ottawa Kansas, who fled with about 15000 but was captured within three hours near Cooley Lake after a car chase. Sheriff Hay confirms the suspect surrendered. loot recovery remains unclear.
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Orrick
Mo.m
Clay County
Citizens Exchange Bank
Curtis Hay
John Sweenty Hickman
Ottawa
Kas
Hickman
Cooley Lake
Missouri City
John Pitt
Pitt
Missouri River
Missouri
Hay
Paul G. Williams
Bank of Orrick
Yary
Dan E. Fowler
Main
Ray County
Limestone Street
Smi
Kansas City
Pete
Jay Brown
John S. Hickman
Weather and bidding notice at Ottawa Field School
Scattered showers and thunderstorms this afternoon and tonight with locally heavy rains in northwest and central areas. Thursday partly cloudy with scattered storms, cooler west and central. Notice to bidders from the Ottawa Board of Education seeks bids to repair mortar on outside walls of Eugene Field School, specs available in Clerk's Office at the Senior High School Building.
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Leonard Sheldes
Baldwin
Sheldon
Ottawa
West St
Ottawa Board of Education
Eugene Field School
Northwest
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Scientists to Explore Lost Bindaboo in Australian Desert
Three men led by Dr. Donald Thompson of Melbourne University prepare a three month reconnaissance into central Australia’s desert around Lake Mackay to contact the nomadic Bindaboo, a lost tribe of Stone Age life. Accompanying him are William Hosmer, a herpetologist, and Walter McColl, vehicle and supply manager.
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Sydney
Australia
Australiia
Lake Mackay
Donald F. Thompson
Melbourne University
William Hosmer
Thompson
Walter McColl
West Australian
Northern Territory
Col. Warburton
Lawrence
Donald Lite
R. McCoy
Unique
University of Kansas
Lake
Mackay
U S proposes transfer of arms to international control
The United States proposed to surrender specific quantities of heavy armaments to international control. Harold B. Stassen told the U N subcommittee that war planes tanks heavy guns and other armaments would go to depots on American soil under international oversight. The plan aims to include this in a limited disarmament treaty with Russia and the West.
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London
United States
Harold B. Stassen
United Nations Subcommittee On
Russia
West
Soviet Union
Stassen
U. S
Eisenhower
Dulles
Coroner Rules Body Is Cmdr Lionel Crabb
A coroner in Chichester ruled the headless body washed up in this month’s early hours is Cmdr Lionel Crabb the British diver who vanished a year ago after a sighting near a Soviet cruiser in Portsmouth Harbor. The body found June 9 at the port 16 miles from Plymouth wore Crabb favored Italian gear and the coroner said the evidence confirms identity though the cause of death remains undetermined.
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Chichester
England
Lionel Crabb
Portsmouth
Crabb
English Channel
Plymouth
Ordzhonikidze
Nikolai Bulganin T
Nikita ‘Khrushchev
Britain
Milo Hewitt Sells Agency To Moore Brothers
Milo Hewitt sells his Chevrolet agency at 4128 Main to Lester and David Moore. The Clinton dealers will move the business name to Moore Chevrolet with Kenneth McClain joining Ottawa as part of the new management. David Moore leads service, Lester Moore sales. Hewitt plans indefinite future but Ottawa home remains.
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Milo Hewitt
Hewitt Chevrolet
Lester Moore
David
Moores
Wellsville
Lamar Phillips
Moore Brothers
Hewitt
Moore Chevrolet
Ottawa
Kenneth McClain
Clinton
David Moore
Mrs. Hewitt
Chevrolet
B. E. Stone
Osage City
Eisenhower
Washington
Lahaye
Damage To Crops High Due To Central Kansas Rains
Heavy rain drenched central Kansas last night causing floods and crop damage. A Hutchinson man, Clarence J. Bratcher, 49, died when his mail bus left a county road near Pratt. Rainfall reached 3.21 inches at Pratt, with rivers forecast to flood Peck and Arkansas City. Several highways were washed out and utility service disrupted. Weather officials warned of more heavy rain in northwest and central Kansas.
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Kansas
Topeka
Santa Fe
Pratt
Hutchinson
Clarence J. Bratcher
Bratcher
Lance Truck Lines
Wichita
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ninneseah
Arkansas
Peck
Arkansas City
Kingman
Conway Springs
Trousdale
Jetmore
Kinsley
Anthony
Salina
Mullinville Junction
Dodge City
U. S. 154
Mallinville
John Progresa
Harold Gillett
Greensburg
Gillett
Ground Observer Corps
Truck Driver Held For Murder in Westwood Shooting
Terre Haute Indiana. Thomas Whitaker 36 was charged with first degree murder for the fatal shooting of his ex wife Alma Whitaker Martin 36 and their son Jana Jack Whitaker 11 in Westwood home. Their daughter Regina Louanne 9 was critically wounded. Whitaker bail set at 50000. His new wife Dorothy Martin Whitaker stood by him.
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Terre Haute
Ind
Thomas Whitaker
Alma Whitaker Martin
Jana Jack Whitaker
Whitakers
Re‘gina Louanne
Stewart Martin
Westwood
Martin
Dorothy Martin Whitaker
Whitaker
Vigo County
Justice of the Peace
Lee Easton
Chou En-lai Reports Strong Communist Unity in Parliament
Premier Chou En-lai told Peiping's Parliament the Communist bloc stands stronger than before the Hungarian revolt and warned against war preparations led by the United States while noting peace efforts from Japanese and neutralist movements. He denied any Soviet-Satellite rifts and cited unity of socialism as strengthened.
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Hong Kong
Choi En-lai
Red
United States
Peiping
Chon
Mao Tze-tung
Loo Red
Formosa
Chou
America
Middle
Near East
North Africa
World
Comuunist
Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Five Miners Trapped In Fernwood Slope Mine Collapse
Five miners were trapped when a hillside slope mine collapsed at Powhatar No 2 Mine in Fernwood about 14 miles southwest of Steubenville. Three escapees reported still seeing lights on the caps of the trapped men and that air was reaching them as drilling attempts began.
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Steubenville
Ohio
Powhatar
Fernwood
Here
Slope
Youth Admits Slaying Girl In Kansas City
Shirley Kyle, a 40 year old woman, was found slain near her Kansas City home. A 15 year old neighbor, Salvatore Falbo, with a history of mistreating children, confessed after an extensive manhunt. Autopsy cites acute hemorrhages from suffocation. clothing torn, no strangling evident.
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Kansas City
Shirley Alice Kyle
Salvatore Joseph Falbo
Shirley
Verda Reynolds
Young Falbo
O. S. Pate
Clay County
Pale
Robert J. Kyle
John Pitts
Carol Knowlingly
Gov- Clark
Carol
Falbo
First Hurricane Nearing Coast
The season's first hurricane Audrey nears the Louisiana and Texas coasts with 100 mph winds. The center lies over 350 miles south of Lake Charles as the storm moves northward then veers to north northeast. A hurricane watch remains in effect along the Gulf coast.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
Texas
Weather Bureau
Audrey
Lake Charles
Firebrand Eisenhower Nets Moscow Press Slant
Pravda and other Moscow papers mocked President Eisenhower calling him a firebrand for urging freedom in Eastern Europe. Soviet coverage sought to counter U N Hungary report criticism and cast the U S leader in a hostile light.
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Moscow
Pravda
Eisenhower
United States
Soviet Union
U. N
Hungary
Communist Party
Estern Europe
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