Judge Halts Execution to Permit Plea
Lincoln Nebr a two weeks stay granted for Charles Starkweather 20 on death row just before scheduled electric chair. Judge Richard Robinson of Omaha stayed the execution to June 4 allowing time for habeas corpus appeal. Starkweather admitted gun and knife killings during a murder rampage 16 months prior. Caril Fugate daughter serving life in York.
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Lincoln
Charles Starkweather
Federal District
Richard Robinson
Omaha
Starkweather
State Penitentiary
John Greenholtz
Robert Klein
Greenbolts
Women's State Reformatory
York
Caril Fugate
Hattie Bowley
Caril
Nebraska
Book Circulation Curbed Over Rabbits Wedding Protest
A children's book The Rabbits Wedding drew Alabama protests after segregationists complained it reflected pre integration views. It was pulled from general library circulation and moved to reserve shelves. librarians may still request it for local libraries.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Emily Wheelock Reed
Alabama Public Library Service Division
Legisla
Robinson
Ture
E. O. Eddins
Ques
Robert
Publishers Clarify Author Statement On Book Content
A publisher issued a statement claiming the author saw no political significance in the work. In California, Williams said he was unaware that white furred animals like polar bears dogs and rabbits were considered broad relations of white beings.
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Harper Bros
Garth Williams
Williams
California
Killer executed at San Quentin after long clemency fight
Richard G. Riser, 33, was executed in the San Quentin gas chamber after three reprieves for a July 11, 1955 Hilltop Café double murder near Oakdale. His brother Roscoe, 34, received a life term. Gov. Edmund G. Brown denied clemency. Riser had been convicted in Stanislaus County in 1956.
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San Quentin
Richard G. Riser
Stanislaus County
Riser
Moe We
Edmund G. Brown
Roscoe
Earl Hastings
Pauline
Hilltop
Oakdale
Richard Riser
Folsom
Youth Testifies Beating by Long Beach Officers
Bell Gardens youth Laurence Handley Sligar testified he was beaten and choked unconscious on May 3 by Officers Ray Woolhether and Arnold Schmeling after arresting him for alleged fighting. He said his nose was broken and lip cut, and described repeated blows and a choke hold in a police car and on a parking lot near headquarters. Sligar, facing charges of intoxication disorderly conduct and resisting arrest, claimed he drank only one beer five hours earlier and denied resisting.
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Bell Gardens
Long Beach
Laurence Handley
Sligar
Lyman B. Sutter
Ray Woolhether
Arnold Schmeling
Jimmy J Jackson
Woolhether
Schmeling
Five Burn to Death in Ontario
Fire in Ontario home killsRobert Burk 29 unemployed dairy worker, his wife Joan 26, and four children Tony 7 Terry 4 Bobby Lynn 2 Barbara 6. Neighbors and firemen tried to reach the victims. Fire Chief says cigarette may have started fire in living room couch.
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Ontario
Robert Burk
Joan
Burk
Barbara
Tony
Terry
Bobby Lynn
Lloyd Hopkins
Reunion at police station ends nocturnal child search
Three year old Robbie Alan Mailander was found wandering near a supermarket parking lot after leaving home at 19326 Beckworth Ave. He was reunited with his mother Esther Mailander in the local Torrance police station after an overnight search. Robbie wandered while missing until officers, and his grandmother eventually helped him back to safety. The incident occurred Thursday night and highlighted the boy's affection for the officers as his mother arrived to take him home. Freedom from danger and reunification followed a tense evening.
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Torrance
Robbie Alan Mailander
Beckworth Ave
Mailander
Esther Mailander
Inglewood
Robbie
Andral Mailander
Robert
Pat Speaks
Piices
March
Long Beach
Los Angeles
U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Baxter Omohundro
Housing Bill Victory Lifts Democrats Hopes in House
In Washington, House Democrats won a walkaway victory by 261-160 as they passed a $2.104 billion housing bill backing large scale federal aid. Republicans opposed and the Senate had approved a similar measure. The vote intensified the clash with President Eisenhower over spending and the budget.
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Washington
Ray Puys
House
Efort
Congress
Eisenhower
State Assembly Passes Bill After Senate Overrides Veto
Democratic majority claims victory as Senate overrides Governor Brown’s veto on a supervisors bill. Reference to large federal aid packages for local public works and government loans, with earlier approval by the House Banking Committee of a 251 million program for housing aid.
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State Assembly
Senate
Ciov
Brown
House Banking Committee
Com
Weather outlook with scattered morning showers
Considerable cloudiness continues through Saturday with a chance of scattered morning showers. The forecast emphasizes overcast skies and light rain chances, typical for the weekend period.
Beach Section Page Listing Highlights
A catalog of sections and page ranges for the publication. It notes columns from Hal Boyle on A-17 and Bridge on A-17, plus multiple pages for classifieds, comics, editorial, sports, and vital statistics. No specific news event or narrative is provided.
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Hal Boyle
Wilson
U S Says It Will Resume General Arms Talks
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter told the Big Four at Geneva the United States is ready to restart general disarmament negotiations with the Soviet Union at any time. He urged Gromyko that Western and German unification linked security and disarmament measures be moved forward. He warned Russia is losing the propaganda battle over conflicting Soviet and Western German plans.
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Geneva
Christian A. Herter
United States
Soviet Union
Herter
Andrei 4. Gromyko
Russia
Germany
Gromyko
Maurice Couve de Murville
East
West Berlin
Hea
Berlin
Man Kills Himself with Plastic Bag in New York
Theodore Evans, 60, was found dead in his bed with a plastic bag over his head tied around his neck. The bag, a known child plaything, was used in the self inflicted death. The tragedy underscores ongoing concerns about suffocation hazards.
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New York
Theodore Evans
Carolina Infant Dies From Plastic Bag
A five month old boy in Winston-Salem North Carolina died Thursday after a plastic shirt bag became wrapped around his head. authorities reported. The incident was investigated by local police and the medical examiner's office.
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Rine Carolina
Winston-Salem, N.C
UPI
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