Confessed Kidnapper Tells Spot of Weinberger Baby's Fate
Angelo J. LaMarca, 31, admitted abducting infant Peter Weinberger from the Nassau County home July 4. He led authorities to a wooded, vine overgrown spot beside a cutoff road where the body was found after 51 days. He faced possible death penalty for kidnapping and murder.
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Mineola
N.Y
Weinberger
FBI
Angelo J. LaMarca
Peter Weinberger
Morris Weinberger
Westbury
Long Island
LaMarca
County Dist
Frank Gulotta
New York State
Nassau
Republicans Hold Party of Future Rally in San Francisco
Reporter Jack Bell notes a Republican gathering in San Francisco branded as the party of the future. The event showcased speakers and discussion aimed at outlining a forward-looking GOP platform.
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Party OF Future
Nixon's Father in Critical Condition at Home
President Eisenhower accepts renomination at the GOP centennial convention in San Francisco urging peaceful victory. Vice President Nixon returns to care for his ailing father Frank A. Nixon as a kidney complication worsens after abdominal hemorrhage.
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I. N. Kraushaar
Richard M. Nixon
Eisenhower
Nixon
Prosecution Attorney’s Wife Slain in Gainesville Florida
Marilyn Fagan 30, wife of Alachua County prosecutor Osee Fagan, shot to death at home. Police sought deaf mute Phil Singer for questioning after Fagan found her body beside the front stoop. Singer, once a maintenance worker at the country club, had prior trespass and a County Court conviction with Fagan prosecuting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gainesville
Fla
Marilyn Fagan
Alachua County
Osee Fagan
Lynn
Fagan
Laurie
Ted Duncan
Phil Singer
Duncan
Singer
Earl Sasser
Brink's robbery trial enters 14th day with eight defendants
In Boston the Brink's robbery case moves into day fourteen as five jurors are seated and nine remain to be chosen. About 1,300 prospective jurors have been examined and dismissed as the trial of eight men proceeds.
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Boston
Brink
Dangerous Women Hunted In Suburban Baltimore
Police in Catonsville Maryland searched today for two dangerous women mental hospital patients who overpowered a woman attendant, took her to freedom, and released her. The hospital identified the escapees as Ramona Sensabaugh 21 of Roanoke Virginia and Grace Mahan 18 of Hyattsville both with homicidal and suicidal tendencies.
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Catonsville
Baltimore
Ramona Sensabaugh
Roanoke
Grace Mahan
Hyattsville
Bee causes accident and ends up in hospital
Charles Backstron, in southern Idaho with his wife, swerved into a ditch trying to catch a bee in a napkin box. He survived injuries in Boise hospital, while the bee died in the box.
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Boise
Idaho
Charles Backstron
Backstron
Backstrow
Suez committee adopts secret diplomacy toward Nasser
The five nation Suez committee chose secret diplomacy with Egypt's President Nasser under chair R G Menzies. Britain and France gear up military plans in the Middle East despite the group’s silent approach. India’s Menon and Soviet Shepilov previously opposed Dulles plan on canal internationalization.
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London
Suez Committee
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Britain
France
Nasser
Suez Canal
Middle East
Suez
R. G. Menzies
Menzies
India
V. K. Krishna Menon
D. T. Shepilov
Stevenson Jabs at Ike's Speech in Libertyville
Stevenson protests Eisenhower remarks criticizing Democratic groups as a political tactic. He charges the Republican record bears little resemblance to Eisenhower's description and denounces the ill considered charge during a Libertyville statement.
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Stevenson
Ike
Libertyville, Ill
Adlai Stevenson
Eisenhower
Just Too Old So Quits Driving
Lakeland, Fla. Frank Howe, 82, turned in his driver's license saying he is just too old to drive. The incident highlights age-related concerns and voluntary retirement from driving.
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Lakeland
Fila
Frank Howe
Home Bombed in Labor Row Ends Peaceful Day
A two year labor dispute escalated with a home bombing and a roadside beating after a railroad bridge fire. No injuries were reported while the FBI joined the probe into the Feather River bridge arson near Feather Falls California.
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Oroville
Calif.a
Sacramento
George Dunlap
FBI
Here
Feather Falls
Calif
Feather River
Ralph Hudson
Chico
Lumber and Sawmill Workers Union of America
AFL
Ike Demo Bid Receives Big Cheer at GOP Convention
At the San Francisco Cow Palace a large crowd cheered Ike during his acceptance speech as he invited “discerning Democrats” to join the Republican effort.
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Ike
Cow Palace
San Francisco
Eisenhower
Grandmother Frozen by Fear Trapped as Train Hits Car
In North Hollywood a grandmother at the wheel froze as a freight train struck her sedan at Laurel Canyon Boulevard and Sherman Way. Fire rescue pulled 79 year old Bonnie Moore from the wreck with possible skull and rib fractures while eight year old Bonnie Dell Houston escaped unharmed after leaping from the right door as bystanders watched.
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North Hollywood
CNS
Laurel Canyon Blvd
Sherman Way
Bonnie Moore
S. Hobart Blvd
Los Angeles
Bonnie Dell Houston
John Houston
Wisner Ave
van Nuys
Moore
Southern Pacific
Bonnie
Biggest Meat Unions Order Strike Vote
CHICAGO unions NPUA and Amalgamated Meat Cutters call a strike vote for 85 000 workers at Swift Armour Wilson Cudahy John Morrell and Hygrade plants. They seek substantial wage increases and contract gains before the Sept 1 expirations. The UPWA cites 1.69 dollar base and about 2.14 dollar average pay.
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Chicago
United Packinghouse Workers of America
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen of
North America
Swift and Company
Armour and Company
Wilson and Company
Cudahy Packing Company
John Morrell and Company
Hygrade Food Products Corporation
UPWA
Russian Spying Case Leads to UN Secretariat Dismissal
The State Department says Viktor Ivanovich Petrov, a Russian translator employed by the United Nations secretariat, has been fired for spying in the United States and has already left the country.
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Washington
State Department
United Nations Secretariat
United States
Viktor Ivanovich Petrov
Tragic Drowning of 11 Year Old at Huntington Lake
Fresno reports Jerry Allen Alexander aged 11 of 616 West 248th Street Wilmington drowned after falling from an inner tube while playing in Cedar Crest water at Huntington Lake east of town yesterday.
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Fresno
Jerry Allen Alexander
248Th St
Wilmington
Cedar Crest
Huntington Lake
Here
Baseball Today Report From Crosstown Matchups
Daily baseball snapshot lists games including Detroit at Baltimore Hoeft 4 11 versus Brown 8 3 and Kansas City at Washington Ditmar 8 16 versus Kans 12 7. National League action features New York at Cincinnati with town Landreu Hreeklyn and Philadelphia at Milwaukee Roberts 14 14. Pittsburgh at night Waters 2 1 versus Dickson 10 9.
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Ipucaand
Eae
Mosai
Wen
Porterfield
Mirage
Newscar
Alaeman
Mucks
Detroit
Baltimore
Hoeft
Brown
Kansas City
Washington
Ditmar
Kans
National
Camp Roberts Soldier Killed in Accident
Pfc. Philip J. Saenz, 19, of Los Angeles, was killed at Camp Roberts by an accidental discharge of a .45 caliber automatic pistol. Fellow guard Frank Verdugo Jr., 20, was unloading the weapon when it went off during guarding of official mail and payroll. Saenz’s widow Frances, of 110142 Waterloo St., Los Angeles, survives.
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Paso Robles
Philip J. Saenz
Los Angeles
Camp Roberts
Frank Verdugo Jr
Verdugo
Saenz
Frances
Waterloo St
4000 Acre Fire Out of Control Near Escondido
A 4000 acre brush fire burned out of control on both sides of U.S. 395 about 15 miles north of Escondido. The blaze, largest in San Diego County this year, burned along the highway all night while traffic remained uninterrupted.
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Escondido
San Diego County
U.S. 395
Here
Auto Leap Saves Kidnapped Girl 14
A 14-year-old Bellflower girl Janice Norma Dorris escaped a kidnapper by leaping from a moving sedan after being grabbed outside a market. Deputies gathered details on the 30-year-old assailant described as 5'9" with hazel eyes and a mustache. The girl was treated for shock and bruises at a hospital.
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Bellflower
CNS
Janice Norma Dorris
Stevens Ave
Center St
D. K. Hinds
W. R. Kerber
Norwalk
St. Helens Hospital
No Survivors Spotted in Plane Wreckage
A U S Navy task force near the Saddle Islands sighted empty life rafts and wreckage from a patrol plane believed shot down by Communist fighters with 16 Americans aboard including Donald E. Sprinkle of South Pasadena. There were no signs of survivors.
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Taipei
Formosa
Red China
Saddle Islands
Donald E. Sprinkle
Huntington Dr
South
Pasadena
China
Shanghai
Cost of Living Reaches New High in July
The Labor Department reports a 0.7 percent rise in the consumer price index from June to July. Auto aircraft and farm equipment workers will receive wage increases of 3 to 5 cents per hour due to the higher cost of living, as the index stands at 117 percent of the 1947-49 average.
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Washington
Labor Department
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Civil War Waif Lincoln Pities Boy Celebrates 102nd Birthday
Florence Alabama reports a Civil War waif who met Abraham Lincoln as a child and earned his pity. George F Mercer, who survived loss, displacement, and family tragedy, marks his 102nd birthday. He once pledged the nation’s end to the war after Lincoln’s plea.
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Lincoln
Florence
Ala
Abraham Lincoln
George F. Mercer
Fairfax
George
Raleigh
N.C
Pittsburgh
Washington
Planes Hunt Man on Raft Off California Coast
Coast Guard cutter Gresham and two search planes scoured the Pacific 150 miles off California for a man drifting on a liferaft amid scattered wreckage. An Air Force radar plane yesterday reported spotting the raft and wreckage nearby but could not identify it.
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San Francisco
Coast Guard
Pacific Ocean
California
Air Force
Pacific
Gresham
Mc Intire Named President of Toastmasters International
T Vincent Mc Intire of Zanesville Ohio becomes new president as Toastmasters plan to select their top speaker tonight in Detroit on a one page report.
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Detroit
T. Vincent McIntire
Zanesville
Ohio
Toastmasters International
Weather forecast with coastal fog and warm temperatures
The forecast calls for generally clear weather today and tomorrow with early morning fog and low coastal clouds on Saturday. The report notes warm highs reaching near 104 degrees and a typical August pattern, with the coastal area showing variable conditions.
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