U.S. Breaks Major Uranium Stock Swindle
Washington reports a federal breakthrough in a major uranium stock swindle led by Anthony J. Farago of Rochester. Farago, alias Fargo, was indicted for mail fraud after promoting Uran Mining Corporation ventures with false statements. The scheme targeted more than 200 Rochester area investors and claimed sites in New Mexico.
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Washington
UPS
Rochester
N. Y
Arthur E. Summerfield
Anthony J. Farago
Fargo
Summerfield
Farage
Uran Mining Corporation
Farago
Derenda Canyon
Sierra County
N. M
Wild Horse Canyon
N.M
Uran
Joans
Jets and Tanks Fight Rebels in Tripoli Lebanon
In Tripoli, rebels and Lebanese forces clash with tanks and jet strafing. Rebel claims report 10 to 15 killed and 30 to 40 wounded in six hours as besieged insurgents hold the old city. Iraq Petroleum Co workers cannot report to duty amid the unrest.
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Beirut
Lebanon
UPID
Satd
Tripoli
Camille Chamoun
Iraq Petroleum Co
Father Beats Baby Son Fatally
An 18 month old boy, John Robert Campbell, died after injuries from his father in Atlanta. Police cited belt marks and bites on the child. Helen Campbell of Roswell Ga admitted beating the boy with a belt and later biting him. The child died two hours after surgery. A day earlier Danny Summers, 3, died after his father Harold C Summers confessed to beating him with a belt for soiling his pants.
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Atlanta
UPS
John Robert Campbell
Helen Campbell
Roswell
Campbell
John Robert
Danny Summers
Harold C. Summers
Spaeth bans rock in Meramec Caverns innovation
Cant Dig It. Dr Sigmund Spaeth named to oversee musical programs at Meramec Caverns. He bans the recent innovation saying there will be rock but no roll in this cave.
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Standon, Mo
UPI
Sigmund Spaeth
Meramec Caverns
Auto Workers Call Chrysler Unionists Meet Over Plant Closures
The United Auto Workers called a meeting of Chrysler local officers after a crackdown on stewards led to two plant closures and mass layoffs at the Plymouth body and assembly plants. The proposed labor bill would require financial disclosures, secret ballots, term limits, and anti corruption provisions for unions.
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Detroit
Chrysler
Plymouth
Trim
General Motors
Ford
UAW
U.S. Expels Soviet Official Over Secret Materials Bid
The State Department expelled Nicholai I. Kurochkin, a Soviet embassy third secretary, for attempting to buy secret Army manuals and related material. He is expected to depart within one or two days, following Moscow's expulsion of John A. Baker Jr. weeks earlier.
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Washington
UPI
State Department
Nicholai I. Kurochkin
Russia
John A. Baker Jr
U.S
Moscow
Three Platypuses Arrive at the Bronx Zoo
The Bronx Zoo welcomed three six month old platypuses Pamela Paul and Patty arriving by plane from Australia. They fill a gap since Penelope disappeared last August and are hoped to remain permanent guests at the zoo.
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New York
Bronx
Australia
Pamela
Paul
Patty Platypus
Penelope
Seaman's Error Said To Sink Submarine Stickleback
A Navy board heard Electrician's Mate J C Robert B Mehrling caused the Stickleback disaster by turning a rheostat the wrong way. The submarine sank off Oahu May 29 after being rammed by the Silversmith. no casualties occurred.
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Honolulu
J. C
Robert B. Mehrling
Navy Board of
Oahu
Silversmith
Mehrling
William L. Lehmbeck
Donna Knott Dies After Delicate Heart Operation
Relative of three year old Donna Bunny Knott reports she died at 1 53 a m EDT in a Midwest hospital a day after a heart operation. The city mourns as prayers and donations flowed following her illness and the mayor had proclaimed Donna Knott Day.
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Plainfield
Donna
Bunny) Knott
Midwest
Donna Knott
Bunny
Allen Caswell Jr
New Market
Cuba Cracks Terrorist Gang in Havana Area
Police in Havana say they disrupted a terrorist cell by arresting 12 people on subversive charges. Raids recovered machine guns incendiary bombs and dynamite. The suspects are said to be followers of ex president Carlos Prio Socarras now in Miami who denies fomenting rebellion against Batista.
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Havana
Cuba
Carlos Prio Socarras
Prio Socarras
Miami
Fulgencio Batista
Graham Crusade Attendance Compared in San Francisco
Evans Billy Graham office released figures compare his San Francisco crusade with New York 1957. Across 34 meetings in each city Madison Square Garden drew 592,200 attendees while the Cow Palace hosted 545,300. Decisions for Christ reached 19,710 in New York and 19,551 in San Francisco.
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San Francisco
Billy Graham
Madison Square Garden
San Francisco Cow Palace
Cow Palace
Graham
Air Force cites civilian pilots in restricted airspace violations
Washington AP reports the Air Force accuses civilian pilots of intruding in prohibited military air zones and notes morale and effectiveness concerns amid near collision claims. Senate panel approves funds for air safety measures including 1612 million for the CAA and 4 315 million for the Airways Modernization Board.
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Washington
Air Force
Inspector General
Air Force Headquarters
Senate Appropriations Committee
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Airways Modernization Board
Commerce Department
Ten-year-old Tim Schlepp Hangs Self in Montana Hayloft
Brady Montana AP report says Tim Cornell Schlepp, 10, accidentally hanged himself with a buggy whip while climbing a ladder to a hayloft. The whip looped around his neck when it jammed on a ladder rung. Coroner Ev Wyse identified the cause. the body was found by the boy’s mother, Mrs Leonard Schlepp.
56 Picked Up In Game Raid
New York police raided a boarded Brooklyn store and seized 56 people described as gambling in a $110,000 dice game. Assistant Chief Inspector William G. Kimmins led the raid, finding an elaborate gambling setup with a refreshment table and a 20 foot dice table in the Bath Beach area. Information led to the operation four days earlier.
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New York
Las Vegas
Brooklyn
William G. Kimmins
Bath Beach
Student Found Dead in Woods in Quebec
An inquest was scheduled into the death of 26-year-old John R. Bouck of Massapequa New York found in rugged bush country near LA SABRE Quebec with a bullet through his head and a .22 rifle by his body. Police said no indication of foul play. He vanished from MIT classes April 19 and surfaced in Quebec two days later.
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LA Sabre
Massapequa
N.Y
John R. Bouck
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Quebec
Golden Rule Skipper and Crew Sentenced in Nuclear Protest
Golden Rule skipper Albert Bigelow 52 from Cog Cob Conn and three crewmen received 60 day sentences for conspiring to sail the 30 foot ketch into the Enivitok nuclear test area despite a federal injunction. The four crew members were among a group linked to the Society of Friends and attempted the voyage to protest US tests. The Coast Guard halted a first attempt May 11.
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Honolulu
U. S
mid-Pacific
Albert Smith Bigelow
Navy
Cog Cob
Conn
Eniwetok
A. L. Wirin
Los Angeles
San Francisco
William O. Douglas
U.S. Supreme Court
Douglas
Wirin
Washington, D. C
Bigelow
Coast Guard
William Huntington
St. James
Long Island
N. J
George Willoughby
Blackwood Terrace
Orion Sherwood
Poughkeepsie
Society of
Exile Seen For Kremlin Big Shot Suslov
London reports say Mikhail A. Suslov, a top Kremlin leader and key Stalinist ally of Khrushchev, has disappeared from public view since mid May. Observers link his absence to possible removal from favor as Bulganin’s fate also emerges, signaling an infighting in Moscow.
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London
UPS
Mikhail A. Suslov
Kremlin
Nikita 5S
Khrushchev
Moscow
Suslov
Nikolai A. Bulganin
Black Sea
Odessa
Communist Party
Russia
Presiidium
Politburo
Pravda
1926 Conviction Worth $37 700 in False Imprisonment Suit
H A Clements, 68, Kilgore case operator, sued Texas for $146000 damages claiming false imprisonment after a 1926 robbery conviction. He served 600 days before release when another man confessed. It was the first suit under the new false imprisonment law.
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Longview
Tex
Nail Pins Arson Charge on Man
ZEBULON N C AP Police said tenant farmer Albert Cheatham attempted arson to win back his wife by pouring oil in her cabin and setting a fire. He escaped as the cabin collapsed after his pants snagged on a nail. Cheatham was later charged with arson.
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Zebulon
N. C
Albert Cheatham
Cheatham
Harriman Baker clash over Kefauver primary remarks
Washington notes detail Harriman's 1950 recollection of backing Kefauver in the Senate primary and Baker's prison terms for a stench bomb. New York records show additional sentences and parole history. Ives and Harriman dispute charges as Hoffa era ties surface amid Senate labor committee scrutiny.
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Cal
Washington
Harriman
Kefauver
Estes
D - Tenn
Baker
Senate Labor Rackets Committee
New York City
State Correction Department
New York
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
De Gaulle reassures Arabs and Berbers as Algeria plan advances
Andre Malraux says De Gaulle returns from Algeria convinced Moslems seek full equality. Algerian nationalists in Egypt and Tunisia reject the plan and vow 34 years of independence fight. De Gaulle to address France on radio likely Saturday about his Algeria trip.
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Algeria
Andre Malraux
de Gaulle
Egypt
Tunisia
Malraux
France
British Broadcasting Corp
of Public Safety
Salan
Algiers
Lucien Neuwirth
Mahoney Urges GOP to Fight and Defeatism
State Senate Majority Leader Walter J. Mahoney told the Ulster County GOP convention that defeatism is the only thing that could beat Republicans in the fall election. He praised a rising confidence among Republicans and urged fighting spirit in the 1958 campaign.
Tornado Victims Bury Dead
MENOMONIE Wis AP This tornado stricken area begins burying its dead behind road blocks ordered by Gov Vernon Thomson to keep curiosity seekers out. Funeral services are set for three victims with Colfax hardest hit where 12 died. Red Cross reports 330 injured and 432 homes and farms destroyed with losses in the millions.
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Menomonie
Wis
Vernon Thomson
Thomson
Wisconsin Trafffic Patrol
National Guard
Colfax
Red Cross
Weau-Tv
Eau Claire
Chamber of Commerce
Slayer Dies On Gallows At Dawn In Utah
Barton Kay Kirkham 21 died on the gallows at dawn in Point of the Mountain Utah after two years in prison for a grocery store holdup in which two people were killed. He reportedly asked God for forgiveness as the trap door dropped him six feet into the canvas lower section. Sheriff George Beckstead quoted Kirkham saying he had no remorse before the execution.
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Point OF
Utah
Barton Kay Kirkham
George Beckstead
Kirkham
Sheriff Beckstead
Area residents earn degrees at RPI 152nd commencement
Three Seneca Falls men earned degrees at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute during its 152nd commencement. William A. Bair earned a bachelor of civil engineering and Arthur M. McComb earned a bachelor of mechanical engineering. RPI president Robert Paxton delivered the commencement address.
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Troy
Seneca Falls
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Robert Paxton
General Electric Company
R.P.I
William A. Bair
Henry A. Bair
Cayuga St
Arthur M. McComb
J. N. McComb
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