Vargas Death Triggers Riots Across Brazil
In the wake of President Getulio Vargas's death by his own hand anti American demonstrations and riots broke out nationwide. Three killed and thirty injured as rioters attacked U S diplomatic posts and media outlets including the Diarios Associados offices. In Rio de Janeiro troops fired on a crowd after the Vargas aircraft left for southern Brazil.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Getulio Vargas
U.S
Vargas
Diarios Associados
Porto Alegre
Atlantic
U. S
Belo Horizonte
Air Ministry
Vargas Death Triggers Brazilian Crisis and US Ties
Brazil faces chaos as President Vargas commits suicide after generals force his resignation. Joao Cafe Filho ascends as president while Brazil declares eight days of mourning and troops patrol major cities. Vargas, once a US ally, is honored posthumously while political upheaval reshapes Rio Grande do Sol to Porto Alegre.
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Brazil
Kilis
Getulio Vargas
Vargas
Joao Cafe Filho
United States
Workers’ Guarantees
Germany
Sao Borja
Rio Grande Do Sol
Rio
Porto Alegre
Cafe
Carlos Lacerda
Eduardo Gomes
Gomes
Zenobia da Costa
da Costa
Judge Dismisses Watermelon Theft Case
Ripley Tennessee judge J R Lewis dismissed a case after three boys accused of stealing three watermelons from a farmer's patch were questioned. He quipped asking if any present had never stolen a watermelon as boys, prompting all to raise their hands and the case to be dismissed.
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Ripley, Tenn
J. R. Lewis
Bounty Offered for Ghost Capture in West Hollywood
West Hollywood Florida undertaker Alan Wright offers a $1000 reward for the capture of ghosts dead or alive. Wright says his new funeral chapel has stirred superstition fears that ghosts will come to town with his operations. He is reported as the first local undertaker.
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West Hollywood
Fla
Alan Wright
Church Assembly Fights Over Layman Candidate
In Evanston Illinois the World Council of Churches faces a potential floor fight as a lay candidate may be added to the nominating committee slate for six presidents. The motion to delay the vote 24 hours passed 158 to 146, with the committee to decide if seven names should be submitted or keep six. The slate includes Sherrill Barbieri Baillie Dibelius Michael and Johanon.
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Evanston
World Council of Churches
J. Earl Moreland
Martin Niemeller
Franklin Clank Fry
United Luaiheran Church In
Henry Knox Sherrill
Greenwich
Methodist
Argentine
Uruguay
Bolivia
John Baillie
Church of Scotland
University of Edinburgh
Otto Dibelius
United Evangelical Church
Germany
Michael
New York City
North
South America
Mar Thoma Johanon
Mar Thoma Church
South India
Cigaret Tax Revenue In Ohio Wobbles With Smoking Trends
State officials monitor cigarette tax income about 20 million dollars annually to assess impact of smoking changes. Treasurer Roger W. Tracy notes a drop in receipts last month and analyzes three fiscal years without a clear conclusion. Revenue varied by month with peaks in October and December.
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Columbus
Roger W. Tracy
Ohio
Ike To Wave Wand At Start Of Atom Plant
President Eisenhower will signal the start of construction of the first U S atomic power plant by waving a radioactive wand on Labor Day. He will speak from a Denver radio studio and remarks may be broadcast nationwide. The Shipping Post plant near Pittsburgh is a government project.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Shipping Post
Pittsburgh
Timeless Time Service Sought by Ohio Telephone Firm
The General Telephone Co of Ohio asked the state utilities commission to allow rates for a new time announcement service. It has signed a contract with a subscriber to provide the service to Marion area callers who will be able to dial and hear the correct time.
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Columbus
Marion
Tse General Telephone Co
Ohio
State Utilities Commission
Niagara Falls Chosen for World Boy Scout Jamboree
Niagara Falls Canada will host next year’s world jamboree of the Boy Scouts from August 18 to 28. Gen Dan Spry director of the International Bureau of the World Scout Movement announced the event and the subsequent general assembly of Scout leaders.
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Linz
Austria
Niagara Falls
Canada
Boy Scouts
Dan Spry
International Bureau of the World Scout Movement
Polio Claims Two Mothers in Butler County
Mrs. James Dickerson aged 28 of Middletown died from infantile paralysis about 12 hours after arrival at Mercy Hospital in Hamilton. She leaves three children and becomes the second polio death in Butler County within a week.
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Middletown
James Dickerson
Mercy Hospital
Hamilton
Dickerson
Butler County
Chinese planes drop rice to flood victims in Red China
Government sources reported Nationalist Chinese aircraft flew into the mainland at night and dropped rice for Yangtze flood victims. Units, numbering in the hundreds or thousands, reportedly released propaganda leaflets as they operated over Hupei Hunan Anhwei and Kiansi before returning safely to Formosa.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Hupei
Hunan
Anhwel
Kiansi
Blackmail Charge Filed Against James Lett
Cleveland Heights police filed a blackmail charge against 37 year old James Lett who admitted attempting to extort money from Kay M Halle a radio news commentator and department store heiress in a case reported Monday.
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Leveland
Cleveland Heights
James Lett
Kay M. Halle
Kaiser Aluminum Plans Large Ravenswood Mill Site
Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp confirms a multi million dollar sheet and foil rolling mill will be built on 2500 acres along the Ohio River six miles south of Ravenswood. Construction begins around January 1 with first output mid 1956, employing over 500 at completion and up to 1000 during peak building.
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Point Pleasant
Kaiser Aluminum & Chemical Corp
Ravenswood
Kaiser
Ohio
D. A. Rhoades
Ohio River Valley
Kaiser Aluminum
East
Middle-West
Newark
Halethorpe
Maryland
Trentwood
Wash
Halmette
New Orleans
Rhoades
Havenswood
Mil
Kaiser Aluminum Engineering
Heavenswood
Mead and Tacoma
Chalmette
Louisiana
Mississi River
West Virginia
Jamaica
Firework Hazard After Missouri Ammo Car Explodes
An ammo laden freight car burned in Frisco yards Springfield Missouri touching off a series of explosions. About 40000 to 5000 shells were aboard. Two yardmen Gerald Summons and Sam Gaston uncoupled the burning car and helped avert a larger disaster. One house was destroyed and another damaged, with one injury reported. Evacuations and road closures occurred within a mile as the fire burned out by midnight.
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Springfield
Frisco
Gerald Summons
Sam Gaston
JL. C. Carner
Dr Samuel Sheppard asks for house keys in murder case
Cleveland prosecutor says Dr Samuel H Sheppard indicted for first degree murder in his wife Marilyns death. He wrote from jail asking Bay Village police to hand over house keys and moved property to his lawyers. Police already removed a blood stained mattress a couch and two doors from the home as he awaits trial.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Frank T. Cullitan
Samuel H. Sheppard
Lee Cullitan
Bay Village
John Eaton
Eaton
Cullitan
Sheppard
Elephants Help Free Cars After Storm at Circus Lot
In Battle Creek Michigan circus elephants were used to free several cars stuck in mud after a sudden thunderstorm. Ringling Bros officials deployed the elephants to nudge and pull each vehicle to safety, a task that horses could not accomplish.
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Battle Creek
Mich
Ringling Bros Circus
Portrait target of overripe tomatoes protest at federal building
In Boston a large glass portrait of President Eisenhower was splattered with overripe tomatoes by protesters in the Federal Building. Police said the act appeared to protest his veto of a five percent pay raise for government workers.
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Boston
Eisenhower
Federal
Hopes Made For EDC After Move
Paris AP report says Premier Mendes France sent the European Defense Community pact to the National Assembly without government support and refused a confidence vote. Cabinet decisions ended government backing as Dulles and backers hold faint hopes while West Germany Netherlands Belgium Luxembourg have approved. Italy awaits French action.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes - France
National Assembly
U. S
State Dulles
European Defense Community
West Germany
Netherlands
Belgium
Luxembourg
France
Italy
Norwegian sisters report talking to saucer pilot
Two Norwegian women, Mrs Aasta Solvang and sister Edit Jacobsen, say they saw a flying saucer near Mofjell and spoke with a dark-haired, dark-skinned pilot who did not understand them. They described a craft of two saucers stacked and about 15 feet wide. police have opened an investigation.
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OBLD
Mra Aasta Solvang
Edit Jacobsen
Mofjell
Norway
Nordlands Folkeblad
Admiral warns on Soviet atomic submarine program
The Pacific commander in chief, Admiral Felix Stump, hinted Russia may build an atomic submarine, while Pentagon officials cite an estimated 350 to 400 Soviet submarines and a long Soviet drive toward nuclear propulsion. They note many subs are old, but atomic power could fit Russia’s global strategy and limited access to deep water.
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Washington
Pacific
Adm
Felix B. Stump
Pentagon
Russia
Stump
Baltic
Black Seas
United States
Special Shipbuilding Indusy
CIO Official Clubbed To Death In Cleveland
Raymond Weirouch, 36, vice president and chief steward of CIO United Auto Workers Local 515 at Iron Fireman Stoker Co., was dragged from his car and beaten to death by a club-wielding assailant in Cleveland. Police search for the killer. witness Walter Hahn described the incident as a car backing into a parking space before the attack. Weirouch, married with four children, was regarded as a good union man. local president H L Sorge doubted a union motive.
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Cleveland
Raymond Weirouch
CIO
United Auto Workers Local 515
Iron Fireman Stoker Co
Walter Hahn
Weirouch
Revision of Anti Red Bill Asked
Senator Jack Jackson of Washington urged the new Congress to take time for a thorough and resolute rewrite of laws affecting communists including the recently signed measure. He criticized the haste and lack of hearings and called for Justice Department input on the law’s enforcement and its effect on other statutes.
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Washington
Jackson
D-Wash
B4th
Congress
Eisen Eisenhower
Communist Party
Justice Department
Hyenas and Wolves Threaten Children in Uttar Pradesh
Report from New Delhi says hyenas and wolves in the hills and ravines of Uttar Pradesh have devoured 29 children since late April. Flooding during the monsoon drives animals into populated highlands, increasing danger to residents.
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New Delhi
Uttar Pradesh
India
Nepal
Death of Rev. George A. Lyles in Goshen Home
The Rev. George A. Lyles I, a retired Presbyterian minister, died last night at the home of his daughter Mrs. Thelma Schrag in nearby Goshen, Batavia, Ohio.
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Batavia
Ohio
George A. Lyles
Thelma Schrag
Goshen
Ex-Wellston Resident Named Kaiser Mill Manager Near Ravenswood
Ford R. Morrow, a Wellston native and Kaiser employee for about three years, will be manager of the new Kaiser mill near Ravenswood. His father says Morrow told him of a transfer from New Orleans to Ravenswood in a responsible position. Morrow previously helped locate the Philip Sporn plant at Graham Station and acquired land options for the plant.
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Point Pleasant
Wellston
Ford R. Morrow
Kaiser
Ravenswood
Morrow
Frank Morrow
New Orleans
Morrow Manufacturing Co
Philip Sporn
Graham Station
Tiny parents welcome baby Debra Jo in Los Angeles
Mr and Mrs Floyd Dixon described as the citys smallest parents have taken their first child home from French Hospital Debra Jo weighed 5 pounds 4 ounces at birth by Caesarean section on August 10 The couple are listed as 3 feet 11 inches tall and 3 feet 11 inches and 37 years old respectively.
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Los Angeles
Floyd Dixon
Debra Jo
French Hospital
Dixon
McCarthy Defense Hints Limited Witness List for Censure Hearings
Senator McCarthy’s defense strategy signals a small initial witness set as a Senate committee prepares to weigh five charge categories in censure proceedings. The six member panel may expand inquiry beyond the five initial charges, with Chairman Watkins noting openness to adding witnesses if needed. Flanders Fulbright Morse and others referenced as committee members outline the scope of upcoming hearings.
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Washington
McCarthy
Senate
Wisconsin
C Man Watkins
R-Uteah
Yeste
Watkins
Flanders
Fulbright
Morse
Thought Is Father Of Deed in Holdup
Newark New Jersey husband waiting in car outside a cleaners noticed a wave of robberies and warned his wife Julia Veith of Belleville who was robbed of 66 dollars by two men inside the shop.
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Newark
N. J
Julia Veith
Belleville
Maj John Eisenhower to Attend Army Staff College
Maj John Eisenhower left Ft Sheridan by automobile for Ft Leavenworth to report to the Army Command and General Staff College for training in tactics and administration. He is accompanied by his wife Barbara and their three children.
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Chicago
Maj
John Eisenhower
Ft. Sheridan
Ft. Leavenworth Kan
Army Command and General Staff College
Barbara
Pigeon Rides Mailman’s Cap on Buffalo Route
Daily on his Buffalo route, mailman Wal lis F. Van Tine is joined by a pigeon that perches on his cap and rides along part of the way. The bird began accompanying him last spring and the mailman does not mind the company.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Wallis F. van Tine
van Tine
Advisers Wife Dies in Washington
Mrs Perry A Fellows aged 57, wife of a planning director and adviser to Emperor Haile Selassie, died Sunday. Born in Albion Michigan, she served in Ethiopian government circles and accompanied the Ethiopian ruler during state matters.
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Washington
Perry A. Fellows
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