Barricaded man fights 125 cops in three hour gun battle
Ernest Craig 28 waged a three hour siege, firing from windows with two revolvers and a rifle as 125 officers tried to arrest him. Police set fire to the home, shot him as he fled, and he died after the flames. Two-year-old Drake Atkins was wounded during the clash. Over 500 spectators watched the showdown.
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Associated Press
Chicago
Ernest Craig
Craig
Charles McCabe
Marshall Pidgeon
Lloyd Netergall
Drake Atkins
Lawrence Mack
Mack
Atkins
New Wrinkles Keeping Peace in Video Homes
Chicago architect Rudolph Matern proposes living room layouts that integrate television with folding partitions. Designs show wall built TV sets, snack shelves and pass through openings to allow adults and children to share space without distraction. He says TV will be a focal point and homes built for it will be more saleable.
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William J. Gonwas
Chicago
Dad
Mother
Junior
Rudolph
Matern
Jamaica
N. Y
Alice Nelson
WBKB
Sediuy
Junior DAR Group To Sponsor Fall Show at Royal Theater
Junior Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution will present a fall style show at the Royal Theater in Princeton on August 22. The event will follow the first showing of the picture there, it was announced.
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Wri or _ PRINCETON
Daughters of the Am
Radio Program Schedule Details and Adjustments
A fragmented radio schedule lists Eastern Local Time with hour shifts for Central Mountain and various program blocks. It includes news, kiddies hours, sports, drama, music, talks, operas, and dance bands with several network labels and station codes.
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Nbe
Cbs Network
Abc
West
Mbs-Eart
Mbs-West
Abe
Cbs
Win
Chs
Mbs
Mbe
Paul
Avalle
St. Louis
Dhs
Fat Man
Brooklyn
F.B.L
Abe Blue
Heinle
Abe Meek
Finchantment Musicale
Across and Down Clues Puzzle Fragments
A highly fragmented OCR of a crossword puzzle page lists many across and down clues with garbled entries including references to dates prices instruments and actions. The readable parts show partial clues and stray words without a coherent solution or grid.
West Virginia and Ohio Railway petition hearings set
Public Butler of the Kanawha Service Commission scheduled a hearing August 26 in Charleston on the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway petition to discontinue agency and passenger trains serving 31 communities across Kanawha Boone Lincoln Logan and Raleigh counties.
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Charleston
Butler
Kanawha Service Commission
West Virginia and Ohio Railway
West Huntington
Elmer O N. H. Creek
Kanawha
All- Grieder
Vineam County
Boone
Lincoln
Logan
Raleigh
Hospital Planned On Naval Grounds
The Naval Observatory Grounds near Washington were selected for a 23 000 hospital center with 1 000 beds if Congress allows moving the observatory. The board named Maj. Gen Philip B Fleming president and Mrs Millard E Tydings elected vice president.
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Associated Press
Washington
Naval Observatory
Congress
Observatory
Charlottesville
Philip B. Fleming
U. S. Maritime Commission
House Group Agrees To State Flood Fund
The House Appropriations Committee backs a 5,065,000 flood control appropriation for West Virginia projects. It also supports a 2,800,000 Monongahela River lock and dam plan, amid Senate conference deadlock on the Army civil functions bill. The reservoir program envisions Sutton, Bluestone River, Parkersburg, and Point Pleasant projects totaling several million dollars.
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House Group
Ihe
Great Washington
House Appropriations Committee
West Virginia
Cannon
D-Mo
Monon
Senate
House Committee
Sutton
Virginia
Parkersburg
Point Pleasant
Diversification Pays Off in the Everglades
In Belle Glade Florida farmers broaden crops to include sweet corn beef cattle and ramie alongside winter vegetables and sugar cane The Everglades region from Okeechobee west to Clewiston and Clewiston to Okeechobee shows new prosperity with modern homes schools and public buildings replacing old stacks Sugar cane has grown into the region s largest single industry employing over 6000 workers Cross breeding improves cattle herds Brahmas and Devons yield heavier calves Sweet corn harvests reach about 1000 carloads from 6900 acres with profits cited around 1000 per acre Ramie fiber from 1400 acres to be 1 500 000 pounds with new Port industries planning 600 more acres next year.
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Gene Plowden
Belle Glade, Fla
Florida Everglades
Okeelanla
Clewiston
Kerth Tea Okeechobee
Big Lake
Glades
Jerseys
Everglades Experiment Station
Devon
H. L. Speer
Beach County
Newport Industries, Inc
Brothers Held For Murdering In Kentucky Shooting
Two Thornton brothers were charged with murder after an early morning shooting in which 24 year old Burt Sonny Bates was killed and his younger brother Herman Bates wounded. Suspects Jesse Earls and Ernest Earls are jailed in Letcher County after Ernest was shot in the leg and treated at the jail.
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Associated Press
Wiitesburg
Thornton
Burt
Sonny) Bates
Herman
Seco. Ky
Sheriff's Office
Jesse Earls
Ernest
Letcher County
Head of Ku Klux Klan Succumbs To Heart Attack
Samuel Green, Imperial Wizard of the Ku Klux Klan, died of a heart attack in Atlanta. The organization planned to name a successor next week as concerns rose about a possible resurgence of Klan influence in the South.
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Ku Klux Klan
Associated Press
Atlanta
Samuel Green
Klan
Giecen
Dr. Green
South
Milton Man Dies In Truck Wreck
James Andrew Sadler, 62, of Milton Route 2, died when a truck overturned near Salt Rock in Cabell County. Four others escaped serious injury. Willard I. Paugh of Barboursville drove the vehicle. Sadler, a State Road Commission employee for six years, was crushed beneath the truck after leaving the main road and falling over a 10 foot embankment.
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Associated Press
Huntington
James Andrew Sadler
Milton
Salt Rock
Cajbell County
Sadler
State Road Commission
Willard I. Paugh
Route 2
Barboursville
Sadfer
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