Sailors Move to Landing Plan for Santa Maria Passengers
U S Navy and rebel captain Henri Galvao clash over where to land the 588 captive passengers from the liner Santa Maria in Brazil. Recife and Belem are cited as possible ports as talks continue with safe conduct promised for Galvao to discharge the group.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
U. S. Navy
Santa Maria
Recife
Belem
Brazil
Henrique Galvao
U. S
Henry Galvao
Cmdr
Cross
Angola
Bank robber folders $85,750 from Gary Trust branch
A gunman forced James H. Sackett at Gary Trust & Savings Co to unlock the vault and night depository. He escaped with about 85 thousand dollars in cash and other deposits, after tying Sackett in the men’s room. Detectives later arrested a Gary man and his wife but found no solid link to the crime. The weapon was described as a pistol or a sawed off shotgun. The robber warned of return if Sackett appeared at the window.
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Gary
Ind
Tme
James H. Sackett
Gary Trust & Savings Co
Sackett
George Frieling
Weather Outlook For Indiana Illinois This Weekend
Light snow and wind to continue tonight into Sunday with warmer spell then a turn to colder weather. Indiana sees partly cloudy skies tonight and a high around 15 to 25 Sunday. Illinois reports cloudy, less cold tonight with a chance of light snow and a sunny, colder Sunday.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Illinois
Evansville Records 13 Below Zero Amid Frigid Indiana Weather
Frigid air grips Indiana with sub zero readings across central and southern regions. Evansville records 13 below, Indianapolis hits 10 below matching a January 28 all time low, while Terre Haute sees 5 below. Fires rise as cold persists.
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Indiana
Evansville
Indianapolis
Terre Haute
South Bend
Fort Wayne
Lafayette
Louisville
Cincinnati
Evansille
Fliers Return From Russia to Reunite With Children
Air Force Captains John R. McKone and Freeman O. Olmstead, held in a Soviet prison after their RB47 was shot down, head home with families greeting them at Andrews AFB. President Kennedy led the welcome and Topeka plans a future homecoming for the crews.
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Washington
Air Force
John R. McKone
Freeman O. Olmstead
Kansas
Topeka
Kennedy
Siberia
Olmsteads
McKones
McKone
Olmstead
Barents Sea
Andrews Air Force Base
White House
Hulman Renamed Flood Chairman in Indiana
Anton Hulman Jr was renamed chairman of the Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission at Indianapolis. Ralph Roessler of Marion was named vice chairman. The commission approved stream related projects including a Midwest Steel waste plant near Burns Ditch and multiple bridge, sewer, and crossing works across several counties.
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Anton Hulman Jr
Indiana Flood Control and Water Resources Commission
Indianapolis
Commission
Ralph Roessler
Marion
Midwest Steel Corporation
Burns Ditch
Prairie Creek
Daviess County
Wabash River
Peru
Clinton
Mississinewa River
St. Joseph River
Fort Wayne
Hobart
Lockport
Greens Fork Creek
Wayne County
Kokomo Creek
Kokomo
Fidel Castro regime predicted to fall within 18 months
Luis A. Baralt Jr., 33, former Cuban ambassador to Canada, told reporters in Pittsburgh that Castro’s regime will be overthrown within a year and a half. He said he expects change soon and does not think it will take too long.
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Pittsburgh
Luis A. Baralt Jr
Fidel Castro
Canada
Castro
Cuba
Baralt
Six Americans On Trial For Death Penalty In Cuba
Six Americans charged with attempting to join anti-Castro rebels faced a La Cabana military court today as prosecutors seek the death sentence. The men from Massachusetts Alabama South Carolina North Carolina Illinois faced trial after alleged Florida training claims and a Jan 7 Havana entry.
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Havana
la Cabana
Florida
United States
Fidel Castro
Marathon Key
Fla
Havana Harbor
George R. Beck
Norton
Mass
Tommy L. Baker
Dothan
Ala
Donald Joe Green
Clover
S. C
James E. Bean
Cedar Falls
N. C
Alfred Eugene Gibson
Durham
Leonard Louis Schmidt
Chicago
Four Explosive Issues Await State Assembly
Indiana lawmakers prepare for a busy Monday with four major issues on taps. Reapportionment right to work repeal time law repeal and a capital punishment referendum headline the House and Senate calendars as the 61 day session nears its halfway mark.
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Indianapolis
UPD
Indiana General Assembly
House
Senate
Senate Chamber
Nelson Grills
Legislative
Walter Baran
East
Chicago
Public Policy Committee
Indiana
Mauna Kea Named World’s Tallest Mountain by Base
United Press International reports Mauna Kea in Hawaii is the world’s tallest mountain when measured from base to peak totaling 33,464 feet, 13,784 feet of which lie above sea level.
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United Press International
Mauna Kea
Hawaiian Islands
Iowa Biochemical Corp Fails To Meet Its Second Payroll
In Sheldon Iowa Northern Biochemical Corp failed to meet its payroll for the second week running as a $2 million bank embezzlement crisis hit the firm Depositors lined up in subzero cold to collect insured deposits FDIC paid 972400 to 736 depositors while executives faced legal action and scrutiny over the bank collapse
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Iowa Biochemical Corp
Sheldon
Iowa
UPI
Northern Biochemical Corp
Sheldon National Bank
Northern
Sheldon National
Burnice Geiger
Sioux City
Here
Hugo Buerger III
Denver
Elliott Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Harold Kistner Jr
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
FDIC
Father Is Fired In Race Dispute In New Orleans
John H. Thompson, 33, was fired from his $73 weekly job as assistant soda fountain manager after his white son Gregory attended McDonogh No. 19 School amid token integration in New Orleans. Demonstrators and a federal marshal accompanied the boy home as tensions rose in the city.
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Hell
John H. Thompson
Associated Press
Thompson
J. C. Adams
McDonogh No. 19
Gregory
New Orleans
McDonogh
Apartment Razed By Fire After Truck Crash
Fire damaged a two story apartment at 1438 Wabash avenue with 17000 in losses. Three residents, Mrs. Virginia Riddle Mrs. Carmen Harrison and Miss Hattie Thurman, fled into sub zero weather after the blaze began shortly after midnight. Earlier a fire truck crash at Seventh street and College avenue injured a firefighter and caused 10000 in equipment damage. Driver Arthur J. Marshall 45 was treated for injuries after his unit collided with Walter W Mitchell 20 who was later fined 2175 for failing to yield to an emergency vehicle. The Wabash fire was traced to an overloaded furnace and fire crews remained on scene overnight.
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Wabash Avenue
Virginia Riddle
Carmen Harrison
Hattie Thurman
Seventh Street
College Avenue
Arthur J. Marshall
Thirty-fourth Street
Walter W. Mitchell
RR 1
Terre Haute
Charles Whitehead
Homer Kemp
College
Mitchell
John Wachtel Corp
Indianapolis
Clayton Shorter
RR 3
Rockville
Oak Street
Norman Fesler
Marshall
St. Anthony Hospital
East Wabash
Frank Klampt
Wall Collapse Kills at Least Five Firemen
Fire at a six story factory in Chicago triggered an extra alarm blaze. Walls folded burying 15 or more firefighters with at least eight rescued or hospitalized. Two battalion chiefs among the missing. damage estimated at 500000.
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Chicago
Raymond Daly
Daly
Harold P. Sullivan
Couple found suffocated in Boonville home
Boonville Indiana. Leo Elikoser 52 and his wife Eva of RR 4 Boonville were found dead of suffocation in their home today. Authorities say the couple likely died Friday night when a gas floor furnace burned up the oxygen as outside temperatures fell to 10 below zero.
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Boonville
Ind
Upi
Leo Elikoser
Eva
RR 4
New Vigo School Budget Approved Consolidated for 1961
Max Gabbert superintendent said the State Board of Tax Commissioners approved Vigo County School Corporation’s consolidated budget for 1961. The action followed Jan 2 board moves to unite 12 former districts into one unit with no change in total allocations. Gabbert Pierson and Maehling attended a hearing in Indianapolis.
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Max Gabbert
Vigo County School Corporation
State Board of Tax Commissioners
School Board of Trustees
Gabbert
Charles Pierson
J. J. Maehling
Indianapolis
Fires Fatal to Two in Indiana Burnings Claim Several Lives
A spate of fires across Indiana killed two people and forced many to flee into subzero cold. John Colgate, 32, was found dead beneath debris in a burned Indianapolis home. cause undetermined. Mayme Kennedy, 62, died from burns after her husband Manuel, 83, perished earlier. Additional blazes damaged a Sand Blasting Corp plant and structures in Elkhart Gary Munster Butlerville and Indianapolis. Over 15 residents escaped a three story six apartment blaze on U S 20 in Gary. Continued on page 2 column 5.
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Indiana
John Colgate
Indianapolis
Mayme Kennedy
General Hospital
Manuel
Industrial Sand Blasting Corp
Elkhart
Riblet Products Co
Gary
Munster
Butlerville
U. S. 20
Minnie Arneson
Sanitary district plans approved by state board
The State Stream Pollution Control Board approved preliminary plans for Terre Haute to build a sewage plant during a meeting in Indianapolis. It issued pollution abatement orders to Cannelton Newburgh North Judson and Goshen, noting Goshen's 25 year old plant is inadequate and others lack facilities.
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Terre Haute
State Stream Pollution Control Board
Indianapolis
Cannelton
Newburgh
North Judson
Goshen
United States Steel Corp
Gary
Midwest Steel Corp
Portage
Roach-Appleton Manufacturing Co
South Bend
Oakwood Park
Kosciusko County
Hawthorn Hills
Hamilton County
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Bulletin
Webster
Galvay
Adm
Robert L. Dennison
Navy
Allen E. Smith Jr
Caribbean Sea Frontier
Naval Headquarters
Smith
Galvao
Dennison
James Harrington
Azores
Africa
U.S. Weather Bureau
Surise
Hulman
FLOOD
Fidel
State Assembly
Vigo
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