Hall and Heady Executed for Greenlease Kidnap Slayings
Jefferson City reporters recount the 1960 gas chamber executions of Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady for the Bobby Greenlease kidnapping. The pair faced the chamber together after a long manacled wait, sharing light moments before the fatal sentence. The ransom money remains missing, fueling lingering mystery as deaths occurred at 12:04 a.m. CST.
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Bonnie Heady
Carl Austin Hall
Bobby Greenlease
Missouri State Prison
Time Schedule of Death Ride
In Jefferson City Missouri the time schedule for the execution of Carl Austin Hall and Bonnie Brown Heady was published. The sequence shows 11 24 p m two cars to death row 11 31 entry into the cars 11 36 entry into the death house 11 38 witnesses arrive 11 55 entry into the gas chamber and 12 12 a m the pair were dead.
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Jefferson City
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Brown Heady
Missouri
Death Row
Hall
Mrs. Heady
Heady
Army Installing First Guided Missile Battery
The Army announces the first Nike anti aircraft guided missile battery being installed at Fort Meade Maryland to defend Washington and surrounding areas. It describes Nike as the nations first combat ready surface to air guided missile system and the first supersonic guided missile demonstrating ability to knock enemy aircraft from the sky. The system is mobile with most units in all weather vans and can be air transported if needed. Installations will use government owned land to the maximum extent per technical requirements.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elton C. Fay
Washington
Army
Ft. Meade
Altimore
United States
Nike
Trainmen Win Wage Increase in Nationwide Settlement
The Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and the nation’s railroads announced a seven day negotiated settlement increasing wages by 5 cents an hour and folding 13 cents from the cost of living escalator into basic rates. About 200,000 members are affected and all receive an extra paid vacation week after 15 years, totaling three weeks. The cost to railroads and effective date were not immediately estimated. the raise took effect Wednesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Brotherhood of Railroad
Brotherhood
Family of Four Killed by Fumes
A physician found the Arellano family and their 8 year old cat dead from carbon monoxide fumes in a three room Omaha home. Eulalio 39 Concepcion 39 Magdelina 11 and Gloria 8 died after a gas stove and floor heater connected by copper wire were left on. The doctor had been treating the children for influenza.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omaha
Theodore Drolla
Eulalio Arellano
Concepcion
Magdelina
Gloria
Montana Highway Board awards seven road contracts
Seven Montana road and bridge contracts were awarded Thursday to low bidders totaling 1,740,500 by the Montana Highway Commission after hearing bids in Helena. Projects include 11.7 miles on the Shelby Chester Road and a 689 foot Toston bridge on the Three Forks Townsend Road.
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Helena
Montana
Montana Highway Commission
TOOLE
Shelby- Chester
Nilson-Smith
Great Falls
Broadwater
Toston
Three Forks-Townsend
W. P. Roscoe
Billings
Missoula
Bonner
Missoula Torah
Montana Engineering
Powder River
Carter
Broadus
Wyoming Line
Northwestern Engineering
Rapid Cue, & Im
Yellowstone
Billings South
Gambler Benny Binion Sentenced in Dallas Policy Ring
Texas District Judge Henry King ordered Benny Binion of Las Vegas to four years in prison for running a 1 million dollar a year Dallas policy racket. The sentence runs concurrently with three 5 year federal tax sentences issued days earlier, and may be reduced if parole alters the federal term. Binion pleaded guilty to the policy charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dallas
Tex
U.P
Texas
Henry King
Benny Binion
Las Vegas
Nev
King
Binion
Santa's Gift Spotter Ad Highlights Christie Furniture
In the Want Ad Gift Spotter section a holiday gift catalogue showcases quick ideas for family and friends. Christie Furniture is featured as one of Santa's favorite stores advertising this year.
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Christie Furniture
Owens children share birthday on December sixteenth
In Portland Oregon Mr and Mrs Harry Owens have three children each born on December 16 in different years Becky Lynn four Gregory Craig three and Bradley Thomas Wednesday The odds of such a birth pattern were calculated at 1 to 18 251 825 by a local mathematics professor Mrs Owens laughed at the odds saying it was planned that way.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Portland
Ore
Harry Owens
Becky Lynn
Gregory Craig
Bradley Thomas
Churchill Seeks Russian Security Pledge At Bermuda
Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons that Britain and allies aim to secure Soviet assurances against aggression, urging a Berlin Four Power meeting. He hailed Eisenhower's UN proposal on a peaceful atomic pool and urged French ratification of the European Defense Community to include West Germany.
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London
Churchill
Eisenhower
Russia
Soviet Union
Hitler
House of Commons
Bermuda
Berlin
United Nations
Washington
State Department
Henry Suydam
United States
Britain
France
Paris
West Germany
Eisenhower Pushes Sound Productive GOP Program in Congress
President Eisenhower and Republican leaders wrapped up the White House talks outlining a 1954 55 agenda with focus on budget restraint defense foreign aid absentee voting for overseas service members housing labor law changes and extended unemployment insurance coverage. The plan includes further budget reductions in fiscal 1955 and continued emphasis on a sound productive program for Americans with leadership from Albert Cole on housing initiatives.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Senate
House
GOP
Albert Cole
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Weather summary for Friday and Saturday
Partly cloudy conditions forecast across West and East of Divide with limited temperature change. Friday highs near 35 to 45 and Saturday around 35 to 45. Friday night lows near 20. prior period highs 42 and lows 11 through Thursday 5:30 pm.
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Divide
Montana
Billings
Belgrade
Broadus Ene
Butte
Seeeeeseespevese
Cut Bank
Dillon Sneaeeetaeteenees
Drummond
Glasgow Oees Saettenne
Great Falls
Havre
Helena
Kalispell
Seeeerees
Lewistown
Livingston
Miles City
Missoula
West Yellowstone Whitehall Pennee
Navy Plane With Nine Aboard Lost Off Iceland
A United States Navy P2V Neptune with nine crew members was reported missing and presumed dawn off Iceland after taking off from Keflavik. The aircraft radioed “all well” over the Westman Islands before fuel was expected to run out at 11:30 p.m. Thursday. The plane, an earlier model famed for straight line distance, was on a routine mission.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
U.P
North Atlantic
Keflavik
Westman Isles
Navy
Naegelen Leads in Early Votes to Head France
In Versailles 932 senators and deputies opened the race for France’s next president. Naegelen led on the first ballots with 14 candidates total, while four remained on the second ballot: Laniel Delbos Bidault. Auriol, 69, could reclaim the post only if he changes his plan to retire January 16.
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Versailles
France
Marcel Naegelen
Algeria
Versailles Palace
Joseph Laniel
Yvon Delbos
Radical Socialist
Moderate
Georges Bidault
Catholic Popular Republican Party
PRM
Vincent Auriol
Charles de Gaulle
Auriol
B29 Crash Death Toll Rises to 19
A flaming B29 crash into military housing at Anderson AFB Guam killed 19 people including three crewmen and six passengers plus two officers, their wives, and six children. The fire envelope burned quonset homes, a colonel family perished, and identification of all dead was announced as 12 remained hospitalized Friday.
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Guam
Anderson Air Force Base
Navy Hospital
United States
Air Force
Quonset Hut
Mountain Home
Dulles and Wilson Call NATO Parley Successful
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles said Paris talks on NATO were very substantial deterrent to war and he is encouraged by progress. Defense Secretary Charles Wilson called the meeting successful and predicted good results. Both cited a steady path for the alliance and noted U.S. aid and European Army issues.
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Washington
U.P
John Foster Dulles
Paris
Charles E. Wilson
NATO Council
Eisenhower
Wilson
United States
Dulles
Prisoner Talks Again Delayed Amid Translation Holdups
Panmunjom reports warn that delays in translating a 30 page protest by pro Red South Korean prisoners threaten to push back explanations before the armistice deadline. Allied officers seek other methods to recount the tale for 22 Americans 1 British and 77 South Korean converts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panmunjom
Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission
Kim Mun du
Alvin Taylor Pleads Innocent in Boulder Murder Case
Alvin Herman Taylor, 61, pleaded innocent to a first degree murder charge in Jefferson County District Court. The case concerns the November 29 shooting death of Earl Howard Streeter, 22, of Loudon, New Hampshire, near Jefferson City. Sheriff Dave Middleman quoted Taylor claiming Streeter was accidently shot during target practice. Taylor remains jailed in Jefferson County.
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Boulder
Alvin Herman Taylor
Phillip C. Duncan
John P. McGough
Jefferson County
Earl Howard Streeter
Streeter
Loudon
N.H
Jefferson City
Dave Middleman
Lewis and Clark County
Taylor
Flexible Supports Favored by Farm Bureau
The American Farm Bureau Federation urged ending mandatory high level price supports by end of 1954 and adopting flexible price floors. Allan B. Kline of Iowa was re elected president for a fourth two year term with Walter Randolph of Alabama named vice president. The convention rejected a push to extend high supports through 1956 and urged farmers to rebuild foreign markets and develop new domestic outlets to absorb surplus. The group argued price guarantees should protect against sharp downturns, not guarantee profits. Whether 90 percent parity supports for basic crops will expire in 1954 remains an upcoming issue.
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Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
Allan B. Kline
Iowa
Kline
Walter Randolph
Alabama Farm Bureau
Farm Organization
Tennessee
Harry Lane
Lewisburg
Federation
Congress
Economists Predict 1954 Price Stabilization In Agriculture
Franklin L. Parsons of the Ninth Federal Reserve District told Helena branch directors that 1954 should see price stabilization with employment and business near 1953 levels. He expects cattle prices to stabilize and consumer purchasing power to hold with limited declines, assuming no international flareup and easing security spending. Directors attending included Milburn, Corette, Heidel, Willard Johnson, Lund, Groth, and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Helena
Federal Reserve Bank
Franklin L. Parsons
Minneapolis
Parsons
Ninth Federal Reserve District
G. R. Milburn
Grass Range
J. E. Corette
Butte
A. W. Heidel
Broadus
J. Willard Johnson
George N. Lund
Reserve
C. W. Groth
Russians Trial Will Be Private
Moscow reports say the treason trial of Lavrenty Beria and six aides will be held in private without the accused present under a 1934 law. The law requires a in absentia secret sitting, 10 day evidence review, death penalty on conviction, and no appeal. Observers note Beria’s fate remains unclear.
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Moscow
Lavrenty Beria
Beria
Georgi Malenkov
Supreme Court
V. N. Merkulov
State Control
Merkulov
V. G. Dekanozov
S. A. Goglidze
Georgia
Joseph Stalin
P. Y. Meshik
Ukraine
L. E. Vlodzimirsky
MVD
Secret Police
B. Z. Kobulov
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Greenlease
U. S
William D. Tatman
Bonnie Brown
Carl
Highway Board
Gambler
Santa
Naegelen
NATO
Alvin Taylor
Farm Bureau
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