Ex Yale Star Crowley Acquitted in Tokyo Beating Death
Former Yale football player Joseph P. Crowley walks free in Tokyo District Court after judges find the prosecution failed to prove he caused the death of T A D Jones Jr. in a drunken hotel brawl. Autopsy cited cerebral hemorrhage as cause. Crowley vows innocence.
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Tokyo
Yale
Joseph P. Crowley
Brother-Inlaw
Imperial Hotel
New Maven
Saburo Yashima
Jones
Crowley
Betty
Hamden
Conn
Father rescues infant from burning home in dramatic jump
A New York father leapt from an attic window with his one year old daughter in his arms as flames enveloped a house. He landed on a roof eighteen feet below and dropped the child to a bystander before landing safely on the lawn. Both Robert Reynolds and Barbara were treated for burns and were otherwise uninjured.
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New York
Robert Reynolds
Barbara
Solons Probing Big Money Bills in June End Rush
Congress heads into a year end scramble to pass as many large appropriation and money bills as possible before July 1. Senate House compromises must be negotiated while battles loom over foreign aid anti racketeering civil rights and federal education aid. Presidential veto threats push cuts in housing and airports as Republican leverage wanes with few conservatives to push Eisenhower requests like higher gasoline tax and postage rates.
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Washington
Congress
Congress Sill
Eisenhower
Rain breaks Miami drought as June soaks 19.67 inches
Miami woke to sun after a record wet June with 19.67 inches of rain in 21 days. Forecasters warned of brief showers while crews plan pothole repairs and catch-basin draining as Everglades storms eased. Tornadoes and flooding had suburban impacts and delayed commerce.
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Florida
Miami
Tallahassee
Everglades
U.5
Weather Bureau
Meeting to Air Industrial Plans In Thomasville
City Commissioners invite CTOBS-3 section leaders and civic figures to a dinner meeting Tuesday to discuss industrial promotion plans. The chamber endorses hiring an industrial development expert for promotional purposes and contemplates a special city department to expand local industry and attract new and competitive trade to the area.
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Thomasville
Chamber of Commerce
Department
Compativte Ta
Herter to broadcast on Geneva talks stalemate
Secretary of State Christian A. Herter told President Eisenhower about the Geneva foreign ministers deadlock and will address the nation on a 15 minute live broadcast. He said the talks yielded no progress toward easing East West tensions and noted no summit was discussed with Khrushchev. The broadcast airs at 8:00 p.m. EST on major networks.
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Washington
Christian A. Herter
Eisenhower
Geneva
Herter
Soviet Union
Berlin
NBC
CBS
Abc-Tv
Hisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Andrei Gromyko
West Berlin
Germany
Escuminac Storm Claims Dozens At Sea
At least 12 fishermen dead and 22 listed as missing after a weekend gale battered the Gulf of St. Lawrence and Northumberland Strait. Planes found 92 derelict boats along the 30 mile coastline between Point Escuminac and Richibucto with no signs of life. Two survivors were kept alive by an air bubble in the overturned boat. Fishermen blamed the weather warning delays as gale warnings went out the previous Friday night.
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New Brunswick
Prince Edward Island
Hilaire Gauvin
Germain Chaisson
Lamevne
Gauvin
Charles Gauvin
Halifax Weather Bureau
Final Tribute Today For Ethel Barrymore
The Hollywood theater world honors Ethel Barrymore with a Requiem Mass at the Church of the Good Shepherd Beverly Hills. Mourners include Spencer Tracy Ana Claire Blanche Ring and Joseph Cotten. Her children Samuel Barrymore Colt John Drew Colt and Ethel Barrymore Colt Miglietta attend. Diana Barrymore could not travel due to burns.
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Hollywood
Ethel Barrymore
Church of the Good Shepherd
Beverly Hills
Mies Rarmimara Daina
Smod Ails III
Wwacou
Spencer Tracy
Ana Claire
Blanche Ring
Kelly and
Cotten
Miss Barrymore
Ren
Samuel Barrymore Colt
John Drew Colt
Ethel Barrymore Colt Miglietta
John Barrymore
John Jr
Dolores Bedell
Diana Barrymore
New York
Early Freedom Bid Is Eyed For Long
Gov Earl K Long's new attorney Joe Arthur Sims said a court action for freedom from a mental clinic could come as early as Wednesday. Sims visited Long at Southeast Louisiana Hospital where doctors report the governor cooperative and in satisfactory condition. Speculation centers on a sanity hearing as the state faces questions on who governs and Long's status.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Joe Arthur Sims
Long
Southeast Louisiana Hospital
Mandeville
Louisiana
Southeast Louisiana
New Orleans
Chester Williams
East Baton Rouge Parish
Joseph Arthur Sims
Hammond
Sims
Partly Cloudy Rain Likely Area Weather Update
Partly cloudy with scattered showers this afternoon or evening. Light south to southwest winds under 10 mph. High near 94 today and Tuesday, low around 71 tonight. Five day outlook shows near normal temps with coastal slight above normal and heavier rain in the northwest. Coroner action noted regarding a committal and possible habeas corpus writ.
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Covington
Mandeville
Florida Visitor Collapses Here DOA At Hospital
A Jacksonville man identified as John Everette 33 died on arrival at Archbold Memorial Hospital while visiting friends in Thomasville. An autopsy by Dr Herman Jones will determine the death cause. The bottle contents were sent for analysis. Funeral arrangements by Kirkland Cray Hughes Home for Funerals.
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Jacksonville
Archbold Memorial Hospital
Lynn Kirkland
John Everette
Thomasville
Kirkland
Everette
Herman Jones
State Crime Laboratory
Atlanta
J.D. Kirkland
Dillon’ Road
Kirkland-Cray- Hughes
Weekend Traffic Toll: One Killed in Area Crashes
Four crashes over the weekend left one dead and several injured. John H. Comerford, 42, of Bainbridge died in a two car crash at Calvary in Grady County, with Hazel Long Stucky, 38, of Cairo as the other driver. Five others were injured in that collision, including Pierce L. Brown and Nell Brown of Valdosta, Bobby L. Guthrie and Ruth Commerford hospitalized from the Comerford vehicle, and three more injured in separate single car and two car accidents around Thomasville and Camilla. The victims include Minnie L. Smith and Edwina Smith of Thomasville, Carlton Frazier, 43, Margaret Dempsey, 10, and Dennis Willis, 3, near Camilla, plus Cheater Edmondson and Carl Dobb of Thomasville in a Crawford Jefferson crash.
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State Highway Patrol
John H. Comerford
Bainbridge
Calvary
Grady County
Hazel Long Stucky
Cairo
Stuckey Auto
Pierce L. Brown
Nell Brown
Valdosta
Bobby L. Guthrie
Quitman
Ruth Commerford
Commerford
Minnie L. Smith
Cynthia
Camilla
Carlton Frazier
Margaret Dempsey
Dennis Willis
Frazer
Thomasville
Crawford and
Jefferson
Edmondson
Carl Dobb
Car Opera Re
Four youths receive life sentences in interracial rape case
In Tallahassee four white youths were sentenced to life in prison after being convicted of raping a Black female student. Circuit Judge W May Walker described the offense as horrible and noted the jury recommended mercy. The men were escorted from the courtroom to Raiford State Prison, with only officials, families, and a few reporters present.
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Ashe
Hach
God
Balford State Prison
Here
Raiford
Collinsworth
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