Four gunmen ambush kidnap plot at Washington home
In a north Washington assault, four gunmen disguised as a priest stormed a wealthy contractor Felix Marchegiani’s residence. A deputy police chief said all four were killed after a police ambush. Marchegiani was wounded in the shoulder. the FBI warned of an attempted kidnapping. Continued on A-2.
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Edgar
Scott
Felix I Marchegiani
Marchegiani
Northen
Felix, Marchegiani
Providence Hospital
Soviet Again Demands West Leave Berlin
Paris reports that the Kremlin renewed its ultimatum to the West to withdraw from Berlin and proposed turning the western half of the city into a free city. It reiterated offers of a nonaggression pact between NATO and the Warsaw Pact and urged acceptance of an atom free zone in Europe. A source described the note as a catalog of prior Soviet proposals with no new content, though the tone seemed milder.
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UPI
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Kremlin
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Payiss
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Europe
Western ministers plan unified NATO line on Berlin
In Paris Western Big Three and West Germany map a firm stance on Khrushchev’s West Berlin note. Dulles, arriving from Washington, says Moscow broke pledges as talks begin with Selwyn Lloyd Maurice Couve de Murville and Heinrich von Brentano before NATO foreign ministers meet in Paris to form a united front.
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Iron Curtain
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Washington
Columbine TV
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West Berlin
Selwyn Lloyd
Britain
Maurice Couve de Murvilly
France
Heinrich van Brentorp
Dulles
Atlantic Alliance
NATO
Jet Practice Bomb Kills Two Women and a Farmer
Two fires in Long Beach homes killed Virginia Gregson 48 and Myrtle Held 38 while a Philippine farmer perished in Manila from a practice bomb accident. Authorities connected the LB deaths to cigarette-caused flames in one case, investigated foul play in neither, and noted firefighters found no clear evidence of arson.
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Virginia Gregson
Blackthorne Ave
Constance Utz
San Antonio Dr
Gregson
Glenn” A. Jefferson
Manila
UPI
U. S
Sacdoiller
Garden Mortuary
Here
Spangberg Mac
James Dowling
Clack
Classifieds and notices listing sections and pages
A reader guide lists pages for church notices classifieds comics and other sections. It specifies page locations for theaters tides temperatures sports and financials across the newspaper.
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A-Ld
Hagen
Algeria Rebels Claim 435 Frenchmen Slain
The Algerian provisional government says rebel forces killed 435 French soldiers and wounded 26 percent from December 3 to Friday.
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Algeria
Cairof
Slaying of Mom and Four Children Baffles Searchers
CAJON AP report: a coriant youth the family had befriended was sought for slaying four children and their mother Lois Pendergast in their home. Bodies found Friday night. authorities pursued Charles Harrison of Rochester, NY, as the teen suspect who had been living with the family.
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Thomas J. Pendergast
Charles ‘Harrison
Rochester
N. Y
Chicago Fire Kills Three Injures Seven in Four-Story Building
A blaze in a four story Chicago apartment building fatally burned three residents and injured seven others. Firefighters gained control in about 30 minutes as tenants fled into the cold. Owners and investigators identified several victims and noted the fire likely began in a third floor apartment with heat sources from hot plates in use.
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Chicago
Toop
Sam Weiss
Frank. Jackowski
Shilia. Rollinski
Stanley Bedicki
Gees
Weiss
Two Area Men Die in Accidents
Two area men died in separate accidents. James Sanders, 28, of 207 OS Vermont Ave Carson, died when his car hit a truck on Highway 1 north of Oceanside. Elwyn G. Parry, 32, of Atlantic Dr Compton, died when his car rolled in fog on Artesia Blvd near Central Ave in South Los Angeles. Sanders’s brother-in-law Elmer Crosseit, 28, was mildly hurt and passenger Mary E. Wright, 21, suffered a broken leg and facial injuries. Truck driver Gerard B. Shute, 34, was unharmed. Parry was said to be from Great Britain.
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Vermont Ave
Carson
Elwyn G. Parry
Suns
Atlantic
Compton
Sanders
Long Beach
Ford Plant
Oceanside
Two New Jersey Boys Drown While Sledding on River
Two brothers, Michael Berthold age 2 and Frank Berthold age 4, drowned after slipping from a sled into the icy Saddle River. Skindivers recovered the bodies today, authorities said.
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Saddle River
Michael Berthold
Frank
Coast Fog Tonight and Sunday Morning Forecast
Fog remains along the coast through tonight and into Sunday morning with otherwise clear skies. Temperatures show little change, keeping a mild, stable air mass across the period.
Snow and Ice Hit South with Ten Inch Arkansas Snowfall
Snow and ice spread from Texas to Alabama in a major winter storm. Arkansas reported ten inches in Pine Bluff and Helena, with four in Clarksdale Mississippi and two in Greenwood Arkansas. Temperatures plunged across the Midwest and Plains as warnings of hazardous driving remained in effect from the Rockies to the Deep South.
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Vile
Tenn
Merimond
Miami Beach
Hartheca Alabama
Georgia
Siningham
Great Lakes
New Finland
Army launches monkey into space then abandons search
The United States sent a squirrel monkey aboard a Jupiter missile from Cape Canaveral to test space travel effects. After six hours the Army canceled the search, citing a possible mishap in the recovery gear as planes and ships aided the effort. The nose cone reached about 20 miles altitude, with initial estimates of 600 miles later revised downward.
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Washington
South Atlantic
United States
Cape Casnaveral
Fla
Targer
Jheathy
D., A. Barclay
Army ‘Inke
Red China Boss Firing Said Near
Underground reports claim the Chinese Communist Party plans to replace Mao Zedong as chairman amid wide discontent with the commune system. Nationalist officials say events may unfold within six weeks, though it is unclear if Mao will lose party head status.
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Todey
Chinese Communist Party Central Committee
Urgention
Mao Tze-tung
Rei
China
Mao
Communist Party
Auprents
Les China
Bachelor Marries 33 Year Old Widow With Eight Children
Norren Burgess a Toronto customs officer earning 3900 a year weds Evelyn Teskey a 33 year old widow with eight children from Mooseheart Illinois The couple plans to bring the children to Toronto for Christmas Burgess says he will love nine people and will rely on his wife managing the home to keep the family together.
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Ont
UPE
Nornen Burgess
Burgess
Evelyn Teskey
Womon
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