Dayton gunman kills girlfriend and others then dies
Russell Lee Smith, 28, killed his teenage girlfriend Jean Marie Gatewood, 16, and wounded multiple people in a Dayton spree that stretched across the city from the West Side to a theater, park, and streets before he killed himself. Police described a chaotic, rampage involving kidnapping and rape, leaving several victims in critical condition.
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Dayton
Ohio
UPI
Stan Kavy
Kavy
Russell Lee Smith
Jean Marie Gatewood
Pen Pickett
Ccie Curry
Smith
Paulette Couch
Miamisburg
George Christopherson
Charles Baltozer
John Wayne Offered Land Aid To Vietnamese Refugees
Vietnamese exile leader Nguyen Ky met in Washington with actor John Wayne who said he could help obtain land in Arizona for a kibbutz style refugee settlement. Wayne emphasized he would not fund or buy land with his own money, while Ky plans to visit the star and pursue a land base for several thousand refugees aided by Food for the Hungry Inc. and other sponsors.
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Washington
UPI
John Wayne
Nguyen Ky
Arizona
Ye Ne Wayne
Wayne
South Vietnam
San Diego
Jack Bailey
San Francisco
Bailey
Virginia
Madame Ky
California
Food For the Hungry Inc
Auburn
Mrs Ford dispels rumors with 6000 mile campaign
Betty Ford traveled six thousand miles last week to California, saying she feels stronger after emergency breast cancer surgery. She stated she will campaign in 1976 and that rumors she cannot support her husband running for a full term are hearsay. She noted her husband has stated he intends to run and she approves.
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Washington
UPI
Betty Ford
Seme
President Ford
Ex-Vietnam pilot turns to carpentry work in U S
Former South Vietnamese Air Force pilot Nguyen Duy Thuan, 29, now earns $2 an hour as a carpenter helper in San Antonio. He, his wife Nguyen Thi Muoi, and their two children escaped Saigon's Tan Son Nhut Airport on April 28 as Viet Cong rockets hit the area.
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San Antonio, Tex
UPI
Nguyen Duy Thuan
Thuan
Nguyen Thi Muoi
Saigon
Tan Son Nhut
San Antonio
Texas
Nguyen Duy Duy
Vietnam
Harry Davis
United States
Davis
Air Force
Dramatic Rescue At Grain Mill Explosion Heights in Iowa
A grain inspector badly burned by a Davenport grain mill blast was saved from rubble after being found by a signal from Robin Hood's hat atop a silo. Firefighters lowered from a National Guard helicopter, recovering Fred Rykerd and sending him to hospital. another man, Ferrel Cleeton, was killed and a third, Leon Robinson, remained missing amid debris. Authorities theorize a grain dust explosion caused the catastrophe that also left six wounded and damaged silos and an elevator.
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Davenport
Iowa
UPI
Robin Hood
International Foods
Fred Rykerd
Hampton
Ill
Rykerd
Iowa National Guard
Howard Goetsch
Davenport Mercy Hospital
Franciscan Hospital
Rock Island
Leon Robinson
Robinson
Leon
Ferrel Cleeton
Cleeton
Funeral services set for Moms Mabley in Harlem church
Funeral services are planned Tuesday at Abyssinian Baptist Church in Harlem for comedienne Jackie Moms Mabley who died Friday night in White Plains New York Hospital at age 75. The vaudeville and TV star suffered natural causes after a heart attack during filming and is survived by five children.
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New York
UPI
Harlem
Abyssinian Baptist Church
Jackie
Mabley
Miss Mabley
White Plains
N.Y
Loretta Aikin
Brevard
N.C
Moms Mabley
The
Savoy
NAACP
White House
Hartsdale
Cartoonist Mauldin battered photographing party cars
UPI Chicago cartoonist Bill Mauldin, 53, was treated for facial cuts and a broken nose at Henrotin Hospital after a man assaulted him while Mauldin photographed about 20 illegally double parked cars near a Daley family party on Lake Shore Drive. Mauldin and his wife were guests of Sun-Times executive VP J G Trezevant. police questioned Mauldin as the assailant fled in a taxi. The attacked car owner, Capt Eugene A Nolan, denied knowledge of the incident.
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Chicago
UPI
Bill Mauldin
Richard J. Daley
P $S
Mauldin
Henrotin Hospital
Chicago Sun-Times
Sun-Times
J.G. Trezevant
Lake Shore Drive
Chris Mauldin
Ill
Bill
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