Hold-out by Gun-Toting JP Ended By Tear Gas Barrage
In Washington DC a gun-toting Miller and his wife Lucille 44 surrendered after a 12 hour siege at their gas-filled home. Mrs Miller, intended for confinement at St Elizabeths Hospital, regained consciousness after being revived. Miller faced undefined federal charges and handed over his rifle to state troopers.
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Mendes-France On Comeback Trail
Former French premier Pierre Mendes-France moves onto the comeback trail as Radical Socialist party leaders vote unofficially 96 to 87 to put a party machine shakeup on the agenda. He seeks reorganization after his February downfall, while rivals in the party resist his bid for renewed control. Montana population since 1950 rises to 645,000.
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Local Socials and Visits Highlight Weekends
Mrs J L DeGarma visited her mother Mrs Batdorf in Wellsville on Saturday. Miss Irene Akin of Kansas City stayed with her mother over the weekend. Pat Campbell returned home after wintering in Ottawa. Mrs Nora Spears received treatment in Ottawa hospital after a visit from Bruce Spears of Ottawa. Art Boyer returned from Santa Fe hospital in Topeka. Mr and Mrs Arthur Pough spend time in El Dorado Wichita and Emporia. Willard Smith and Lane visitors hosted by Hayes Johnson. Kenneth Piel of Alhambra California visited relatives. Thurman Whitmer on 30 day leave from Alaska to await assignment at Topeka Air Force Base. Lions Club dinner at St Therese basement with Leo Rayburn and Leonard McCalla as guests. Highlights of the 1954 World Series shown. Club sponsors picnic site at Richmond Lake. Ralph Chandler Mrs Frank Hahner and daughter spent Friday with Dan Lickteigs. Harry Kelsey and Mrs Logan Forney left for a California vacation.
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Leonard McCalla
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Ralph Chandler
Frank Hahner
Dan Lickteigs
Harry Kelsey
Logan Forney
California
Wounds Fatal To Hoodlum
Fort Worth Texas reports the death of Cecil Green age 39 from wounds after an ambush tied to a gang crime wave. His brother Hollis Delois Green aged 31 was killed Christmas Eve 1949 in a similar shooting. Levy Eggleston 49 and Mary Clark 43 face charges tied to the William P. Clark murder. Authorities trace the Green brothers to robbery and narcotics activity across multiple cities as investigators pursue revenge murder links.
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Kansans Push For Tuttle Creek Dam Funding Hearings
A Kansas delegation arrives in Washington on May 12 to urge the House Appropriations Committee to approve funds to resume construction of the Tuttle Creek Dam. The stalled Big Blue River project has drawn battles between supporters of the big dam and watershed flood control. Rep. Scrivner reiterates the dam as key in Kaw River flood plans. an opposing delegation appears May 16 before the same subcommittee.
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French aviation pioneer Louis Breguet dies at 75
Louis Breguet, 75, a French aviation pioneer and contemporary of the Wright brothers, died at his home in St. Germain en Laye. He founded an early French aviation company and his designs served in World Wars I and II. The text notes 62,000 visitors in 1954 to Appomattox Courthouse for Grant and Lee reunion events.
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France
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Lee
Formosa Peace Price Warned by Chinese Envoy
Pittsburgh dispatch reports Dr. V K Wellington Koo. Nationalist China would defend offshore islands Malia and Quemsy at all costs. He warned Red China would demand the United States pull out of Formosa as the price of peace, calling Formosa the greatest danger to regional stability. The ambassador argued Reds are not ready to wage war but aim to control Formosa and the Pescadores as a primary objective.
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News From Richmond Father Aelred Nettles calls mother
Richmond item notes that Father Aelred Nettles of Pena Blanca New Mexico called his mother Mrs Carl Anderson on Monday evening, with terse local family update and no further details provided.
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Pena Blanca
N. Mex
Carl Anderson
New Mayor Out Of A Job In Kill Devil Hill
Mrs. Emily Mustlan was elected mayor of Kill Devil Hill but the town charter was repealed by voters. Tax increases since 1953 provoked the move to dissolve the town, which sits near the Wright brothers first powered flight site.
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Kill Devil Hill
Emily Mustlan
Conference committee agrees on 8.8 percent postal pay hike
Washington talks yield a compromise on an 8.8 per cent raise for about 500000 postal workers. The figure sits between the Senate's 10 per cent and the House's 8.2 per cent approval, risking a possible presidential veto.
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Senate House
Senate
House
Damages Sought Over Atomic Tests Radiation Burns
LAS VEGAS Nevada Mrs Martha Sheahan files a $75 000 suit claiming 1953 atomic tests by the Atomic Energy Commission exposed her to radioactivity causing a facial cancer The Sheahans also seek $450 000 from the government over a radiation damaged home near the Groom mine 25 miles from Yucca Flat and Air Force bombing allegations.
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