White House Petition Seeks American Trial for Girard
Ottawa Illinois residents led by Louis Girard deliver a petition to the White House urging an American court trial for William Girard in the death of a Japanese woman. The case prompts debate over U S Japanese war crime trial agreements and involves counsel to the President and a Tokyo firing range shooting.
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White House
Girard Case
Washington
William S. Girard
Ottawa
Ill
Girard
Edward A. McCabe
Eisenhower
Louis
Chicago
Flo
Louis Girard
Shirley
ABC
William Girard
Naka Sakai
Japan
Congress
U.S
Tokyo
United States
Camp Whittington
Defense Department
Nixon
East Lansing
Mich
Administration
Itsuro Hayashi
Midwest site eyed for federal maximum security prison
A deep freeze grips a proposed federal maximum security prison project reportedly narrowed to three Southern Illinois districts or one Missouri district. Backers seek a definite site by next January after a $1.8 million appropriation was cut from the budget. The plan would house dangerous inmates and employ about 700 workers during construction and operation.
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Illinois
Missouri
Kentucky
Tennessee
Crab Orchard
Ken
Neth J. Gray
West
Frankfort
Myr E. Alexander
Bureau of Prisons
New Hearing For Chessman
The Supreme Court orders a new hearing for Daryl Chessman in a 5-3 decision. Justice Harlan writes for the majority, upholding concerns over the California Supreme Court's affirmation of Chessman's conviction. Justices Douglas Burton and Clark dissent. Chief Justice Warren abstains.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Daryl Chessman
California
Uisen
Harlan
Chessman
San Quentin
Chamber
Douglas
Burton
Clark
Warren
Black
Frankfurter Brennan
Whittaker
California Supreme Court
Rec
English Harbor Frogman Body Found
The headless body of a man in a frogman suit was found eleven miles from the area where Cmdr. Lionel Crabb disappeared thirteen months earlier. Officials said the body may be Crabb, but identification was pending and the mission remains unexplained.
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Cmdr
Lionel
Buster) Crabb
Admiralty
Crabb
Chichester
Portsmouth
Stock plunge on report of Ike illness shocks market
New York June 10 AP reports a sharp market decline amid news President Eisenhower had an upset stomach and heart and intestinal specialists were summoned. Losses were cut after a partial recovery, with oils and steels worst hit and the Dow off about three points at midday.
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New York
Eisenhower
New York Stock Exchange
Plane Crash Kills Four In Pacoima Housing Suburb
A Piper Tri Pac er crashed into a single story home in Pacoima California on Sunday night killing four aboard. Eight guests celebrating a birthday survived unhurt as neighbors called it a miracle. Victims include Owen Summers Wallis 33 Henry Harris Smith 42 Robert F Peterson 52 and Terrance Patterson Lockhardt 33 all from Chico. The plane was piloted by Smith a construction company owner en route to Santa Monica.
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Pacoima
Calif
San Fernando Valley
Los Angeles
Barry Worth
Owen Summers Wallis
Henry Harris Smith
Robert F. Peterson
Terrance Patterson Lockhardt
Chico
Santa Monica
Smith
Weather summary for Southern Illinois with storms and temps
Cloudy and warm conditions persist with a chance of thundershowers tonight and Tuesday. Low tonight near 70, high Tuesday in the mid 80s, with Tuesday night low near 70. Temperatures yesterday reached 68 to 79, sun up at 4:28 a.m. and down at 7:32 p.m. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake levels near spillway.
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Southern
Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Victim In Critical Condition After Hit and Run Attack
Chicago police say Lusky truck driver William Kay beat and slugged Artur Laskey after ramming cars on the Southwest Side. Laskey, 42, is in Evangelical Hospital in critical condition with multiple injuries including a fractured nose and jaw. Kay, 27, was arrested after tips named his car and he faces charges for leaving the scene, failing to report, driving on the wrong side, and negligent driving.
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Wiliam Kay
Artur L. Laskey
Laskey
Evangelical Hospital
Kay
William McMillan
President Eisenhower Remains Satisfactory After Upset Stomach
President Eisenhower rests comfortably after an upset stomach with no heart or recent-operation link. Doctors Mattingly Heaton Snyder report normal vitals, no current nausea, and no plans for hospital transfer. Milton Eisenhower, Johns Hopkins president and Ike’s brother, also ill with kidney infection on doctors’ watch.
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Hagerty
Mattingly
White House
Eisenhower
Heaton
Snyder
Dulles
Capitol
Saratoga
Sherman Adams
New England
Adams
Nixon
Milton S. Eisenhower
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Johns Hopkins Hospital
Milton
Bomb Kills Seven at Algiers Casino Bandstand Dance
A terrorist bomb exploded under the Algiers casino bandstand as couples danced on a seaside terrace. Seven youths died and 83 were wounded, many from prominent Algiers families.
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Algiers
Casino de la Corniche
St. Eugene
Lucky Starway
Alligator Escapes Texas Zoo Tailors Backyards
A 2% foot alligator appeared in a Texas yard after a zoo escape. Mrs. Boykin alerted others. the reptile was restrained by her husband and a neighbor and turned over to police. Authorities link the incident to a zoo escape and ongoing security issues.
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Texas
R. D. Boykin
Pauling Eyes Worldwide Plea to Halt Nuclear Tests
Nobel laureate Linus Pauling plans a France lecture tour to rally scientists from Russia Britain France and others to back a global appeal calling for an immediate international agreement to stop testing nuclear weapons. He cites leukemia and bone cancer deaths from fallout and argues three nations should halt explosions.
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Relman Morin
Associated Press
New York
Linus Pauling
Pauling
California
France
United States
Russia
Britain
E. D. Lewis
California Institute of Technology
Atomic Energy Commission
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Walter Reed
Howard M. Snyder
Paul Dudley White
Boston
Isidor Ravdin
Philadelphia
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Doctors Hospital
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Harry S. Truman
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