U S Probe of Magazines Urged by Senator Kraft
Senator Fred Kraft of San Diego calls for a federal inquiry into scandal magazines and Hollywood private detectives. He urges Congress to pass federal legislation to suppress the magazines, saying the field is beyond state limits and a national disgrace exists.
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Sacramento
Fred Kraft
San Diego
Hollywood
Congress
Kraft
State Department of Business and Professions
Light Plane Wreckage to Be Checked Near Joshua Tree
Light plane wreckage found on the eastern slope of a mountain in Joshua Tree National Monument may be the craft missing since Saturday with four aboard. Army fliers spotted the wreckage Monday night but could not land due to rough terrain. Mrs Marjorie King engineer and veteran pilot was at the controls guiding her mother and an English couple to Imperial for the California midwinter fair.
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Joshua Tree National Monument
India
Kraft
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Marjorie King
Vate
Marjorie Kum
la Jolla
and Trons
Jacob Wierdsma
Aon
Eng
Ge Ae
King
Priends
Imperial
California
Red Sculptor Attacks Pope Pius XII at Moscow Congress
Soviet sculptor T. Konyenkov, 82, denounced Pope Pius XII with a cross in one hand and an atomic bomb in the other, declaring the Vatican an embodiment of evil. Delivered to the First National Congress of Soviet Artists and Sculptors, the speech was called the most violent attack on Roman Catholics since Stalin’s era. Konyenkov, a New York City resident from 1924 to 1945, framed the Vatican as a source of world evil.
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Moscow
Pravde
T. Konyenkovy
Stalin
S Konyenkov
Konyenkoy
New York City
Slayer in Georgia executes after self inflicted wounds
Slaying suspect in Reidsville Georgia was wired into an electric chair after cutting both wrists with a razor blade and attacking a guard. He spoke with a priest before execution and died at 10 26 a m. Warden Ballcom reported five guards were injured during the process and a guard needed stitches on his lip. Fields last words asked for forgiveness and a meeting in heaven.
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Reidsville
Georgia State
Jennings E. Fields
R. PF. Ballcom
Fields
FBI Joins Search for Missing Camden Attorney
The disappearance of 58 year old attorney Mrs I Maude Crawford from her Camden home drew FBI involvement. Sheriff Grover Lienbaker said two agents from Little Rock arrived Monday to conduct an inquiry to determine if any bureau jurisdiction violation occurred. Crawford was a longtime member of the Camden law firm Gaughan McClellan and Laneyke.
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Camden
Ark
I Maude Crawford
FBI
Grover Lienbaker
Little Rock
Alton M. Bryant
Crawford
Camden Law Firm
Gaughan, McClellan and Laneyke
John McClellan
D-Ark
Knight Urges Legislature to Back Water Plan
Governor Godwin J. Knight urged the California Legislature to set aside partisanship and approve a water program including 38 million dollars for Feather River work and support for the Oroville Dam, saying facial north south and party cleavages are unnatural. The governor spoke at a crowded news conference, noting existing appropriations and the possibility the legislature could kill the dam project if desired.
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Sacramento
Godwin J. Knight
California
Oroville Dam
Knight
Sailor Shot by Officer After Station Robbery
A sailor aboard the destroyer Wiltsie identified as Larry Frazier age 18 was shot three times and wounded while police attempted to arrest him after a service station robbery. The officer said he fired when the suspect pulled a gun, and Frazier was taken to Naval Hospital with wounds to shoulder, chest and wrist.
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Anu Wan Utt
Larry ‘Robert Frazier
U. S
Wiltsie
Naval Hospital
Excises Income Up Says Revenue Unit
Washington reports federal excise and sales tax receipts for six months of 1956 totaled 55.325 billion dollars. The Internal Revenue Service released the figure noting the prior year’s six months saw 5.075 million.
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Washington
Infernal Revenue Service
College Cheating Seen as Custom in Major Schools
A survey by Philip E. Jacob, University of Pennsylvania, for the National Conference on Higher Education finds systematic cheating on exams common at large colleges. It notes that despite bold college talk, students’ sexual morality remains conventionally modest. Across Chicago and Cornell, students show little use of chastity as a personal life criterion and colleges influence appears minimal.
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Chicago
Philip £. Jacob
University of Pennsylvania
National Conference On Higher Education
Cornell University
Ithaca, N.Y
Okinawa Leader Dies at 56 in Army Hospital
Okinawa leader Goeku, descendant of Okinawa's former ruling line, dies of stomach cancer at Fort Buckner U S Army Hospital at age 56. He was one of the Pacific island's leading citizens and a notable local figure.
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Okinawa
Chosho Goeku
Oral
Pacific Island
U.S. Army Hospital
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