Russians Display New Supersonic Jets at Air Force Day
In Moscow, Russia staged a large air show featuring fighters, bombers, transports, and helicopters. A highlight was 48 new supersonic single-jet fighters, with 50 twin-jet fighters and a sleek twin-engined jet transport drawing crowds of about 100000. The display included a radio controlled glider, Yak-18s, gliders, and a mass parachute drop as Premier Bulganin and Khrushchev observed alongside foreign air force chiefs.
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Moscow
Russia
Tushino Air Idt
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Georgi Zhukov
Klementy Ee
Uier
Mission Filled Visitor Dies in Cincinnati Hotel
Thomas Farrell 78 of Los Angeles died last night in a downtown Cincinnati hotel after fulfilling a cross country mission to visit his childhood home and a hospitalized brother. Farrell and his daughter Ruth arrived June 27 and spent a week in Glendale reminiscences before he suffered a heart attack and was pronounced dead on arrival at General Hospital.
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Cincinnati
Thomas Farrell
Los Angeles
Calif
Farrell
Glendale
Ruth
General Hospital
Nationalist Jets Fight Four Communist MIGs
Four Chinese Nationalist Thunderjets were attacked by four Communist MIGs north of Matsu Island about 100 miles north of Formosa. One MIG was heavily damaged but all Nationalist planes returned safely, air force headquarters reported.
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Taipei
Formosa
Matsu Island
Resolution Restricting Candidates Adopted
Ohio Seventh-Day Adventists adopted a resolution at the Mt Vernon Bible Conference calling for legislation to bar anyone who manufactures distributes or sells alcoholic beverages or narcotics from running for public office. The measure was passed by more than 4000 attendees at Mt Vernon Academy.
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MT. Vernon
Ohio
Seventh-Day Adventists
Powder Puff Derby Entry Escapes Crash
Ruth Nitzen of Inglewood Calif survived a crash about 72 miles southeast of Lubbock Texas during the All-Woman Transcontinental Air Race the first national powder puff event. She had 200 hours flying time in a Cessna 140 and was solo after refueling at Midland. The race, delayed by bad weather, features a handicap system to even speeds and less night or instrument flying. Other contestants include Mickey Clark of Florissant Missouri and a San Diego pair Isa belle McCrae and Betty McNeil arriving in Dayton Ohio after long legs from El Paso. Doris Langher and Gladys Mutter of Chicago reported 160 mph averages on the Long Beach to Terre Haute leg.
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Tex
Ruth Nitzen
Inglewood
Calif
Here
Nitzen
Midland
California
San Gorgonio Pass
Springfield
Mickey Clark
Florissant
Phoenix
el Paso
Mexico
Cassas Grande
Ariz
Long Beach
San Diego
Isabelle McCrae
Betty McNeil
Dayton
Ohio
Doris Langher
Gladys Muter
Chicago
Terre Haute
Ind
Bridge collapse injures dozens near Cherokee
A suspension footbridge at the Cherokee Indian Reservation collapsed into the Oconaluftee River near Cherokee North Carolina on Sunday. Two women died and about 40 people were injured, 18 of them hospitalized in Sylva and Bryson City. The bridge, 150 feet long, drew large crowds and witnesses say jumping on the bridge caused the failure.
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N. Co
Oconaluftee River
Sylva
Bryson City
Henry
T. Haile Jr
Daisy
Tenn
Lawrence Rainwater
Atlanta
Osley Bird Saunooke
Lightning Kills Mother and Three Children in Picnic
A bolt of lightning struck a tall oak during a Columbus picnic killing 27 year old Eda Rossetti and her three children Julia 15 months, 4 year old, and John 6. Only survivor is Quido Rossetti who escaped with burns and shock and is treated at University Hospital Columbus. Witnesses described a blinding flash and victims hurled up to 59 feet from the tree.
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Columbus
Ohio
Here
Quido Rossetti
Rossetti
Eda
Julia
John
University Hospital, Columbus
Three Killers Granted Parole Eligibility in Ohio
Gov. Lausche commuted the sentences of Alonzo Deans Herbert Jennings and Samuel Bailey from second degree murder to manslaughter making them eligible for immediate parole if the pardon and parole commission orders. The move marks a potential Independence Day release for the three killers.
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Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Alonzo Deans
Herbert Jennings
Samuel Bailey
Pardon and Parole Commission
Lausche
Vivian's Aviaries and Aquarium Wants Ad Trade Boost
Vivian's Aviaries and Aquarium in Logan Southeastern Ohio offers parakeet hens and related birds sold via Messenger Classified Ads. The ad notes parakeet hens babies or breeders normals Opaline Y F or Latino priced at $1 with items limited to the week. Closed Mondays.
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Vivian
Logan
Ohio
Messenger
Vivian's Aviaries and Aquarium
Norwood
Success Seen For Premier Segni in Italy Cabinet Bid
Premier-designate Antonio Segni moved to form a government amid Italy's crisis, reporting to President Gronchi by Tuesday on cabinet prospects. He met Liberal leaders to gain backing, while Liberals resist Segni's farm reform policy and his left-of-center coalition plans.
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Rome
Antonio Segni
Italy
Giovanni Gronchi
Mario Scela
Segni
Christian Democrat
New Eruptions Seen In Volcanic Islets
A Japanese government ship reported new eruptions in the Bayonnaise Rocks, a volcanic islet chain about 360 miles south of Tokyo between Japan and Iwo Jima. The main islet formed after September 1952 activity and vanished after a second eruption in March 1953, leaving the area unstable.
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Tokyo
Pacific Ocean
Japan
Iwo Jima
Panama Cabinet Resigns to Let Arias Pick Government
President Ri cardo Arias Espinosa faced a political shakeup as eight cabinet members quit Sunday night to give him a free hand in forming his own administration. The National Assembly designated Arias to finish the term after the assassination of the previous president, signaling a potential reset of Panama's leadership.
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Panama
Ricardo Arias Espinosa
National Assembly
Arias
Airman pleads to triple murder in Texas home
Ellis Lauhon Jr., 26, an AWOL airman, confessed to killing Mrs. Ruby McPherson, her mother Mrs. Zola Norman, and her son 12 in Dickinson Texas on June 22. He claimed fear of Air Force capture drove the slayings and said he hoped to reach Japan with a Japanese wife. He described the sequence from hitchhiking with McPherson, to the killings, theft of $23 and two rings, and subsequent shootings in El Paso and a Texas filling station.
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Galveston
Tex
Ruby McPherson
Zola Norman
Dickinson
Here
Ellis Euclid Laudon Jr
Japan
Nogales
Mexico
Mrs. McPherson
Air Force
McPherson
Bea Tex
Sulphur
John
Jack
Air Police
Lauhon
Ste
el Paso
Edward Highet
Lancaster Bookkeeper Charged With $100000 Theft
A 44 year old Lancaster bookkeeper confessed stealing about $100000 from her employer over eight years to pay blackmail to a former husband. She is free on $10000 bail after her bond was posted by her current husband Edward Hassell. Detectives say she falsified accounts to hide withdrawals while still married to Huber, who faces charges of email conspiracy and illicit activity. Her husband’s father is accused of receiving stolen goods and conspiracy. The woman lived in a west Lancaster home in relative luxury.
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Lancaster
Kathryn A. Hassel
Edward Hassell
Hassel
Mee Huber
Huber
Irish Open Qualifying Led by Carr Weetman Ayton
Irish amateur Joe Carr and Scotland's Laurie Ayton both shot 67 to lead the British Open qualifying at St Andrews while England's Harry Weetman matched the mark. Byron Nelson of Roanoke, Texas, trailed after a 67 plus. Carr set a course record 33 34 67 on the New Course, with Weetman and Ayton equaling the record on the Old Course.
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ST. Andrews
Scotland
Joe Carr
England
Harry Weetman
Laurie Ayton
America
Byron Nelson
Roanoke
Tex
Carr
Weetman
Ayton
Wealthy miss final installment thrill of life
Wealthy individuals find one of life’s greatest thrills in paying the last installment, per noted social writer. The quip points to the satisfaction of clearing debts as a rare moment of financial closure.
Slaughter Toll Feared As Holiday Traffic Rises
The Associated Press reports 276 killed on highways by 10 am during the Independence Day weekend with 147 drowned and 79 dying of other causes, totaling 502 deaths in the three-day period. Ned Dearborn of the National Safety Council urges a halt to highway fatalities amid a grim national toll.
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National Safety Council
Stowette
Ned Dearborn
Associated Press
Iowa City
Iowa
Seattle
Ohio Toll Holds Steady Through Holiday Weekend
Ohio reported nine traffic deaths from 6 p.m. to 6 a.m. with five other fatalities and eight other deaths from other causes. Capt. Wilmer B. Vance attributed the low toll to favorable driving conditions, while national safety counts showed higher deaths elsewhere. Weather forecasts warned of heat and scattered storms, with temperatures rising across the Midwest and South.
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Ohio
Wilmer B. Vance
State Highway Patrol
West Virginia
National Safety Council
U. S. Weather Bureau
Midwest
New Nation Founded In Philadelphia 175 Years Ago
A Philadelphia report marks a historical anniversary noting a new nation formed there with the Declaration of Independence adopted by the original 14 states and the ideals later echoed in the Bill of Rights. It cites the belief that all men are created equal and endowed with rights including life liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
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Philadelphia
Reds Push India Program United Left Front Drive
In New Delhi the Communist party shifted to press government funds from the village program through disputed gifts and weapons. The Politbureau resolution calls a united front of Indian leftists including dissident Congress members to boost the party’s influence and support Nehru’s administration.
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New Delhi
India
Communist Party
Oday
Politbureau
Nehru
Congress Party
Parcel Post Smugglers Nabbed in Formosa Bust
Chinese Nationalist police say they broke a gang using international parcel post to smuggle narcotics into Formosa from Hong Kong worth about 1.3 million dollars. Press reports put arrests at 31.
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Taipei
Formosa
International Parcel Post
Hong Kong
Dock Strikers Back at Work In England
Britain's 18 000 waterfront strikers returned to the docks ending a six week stoppage that idled hundreds of ships and cost the nation millions. Union rift between Northern and Southern factions of the National Amalgamated Stevedores and Dockers Union persisted as crews resumed work in London Hull Manchester Liverpool Birkenhead Rochester and Garston.
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London
Britain
Hull
Manchester
Verpool
Birkenhead
Rochester
Garston
Crazy Hose Continues Subterranean Capers
Downey California residents watch a mystery hose continues to drain water at a steady pace of three inches per hour. Skeptics tug at the line a couple of times and a person named Pes patches what remains above ground of the 50 foot length.
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Downey
Calif
Father of Three Dies After Boat Capsizes
MOUNDSVILLE W Van James Butler of Toronto Ohio a year old father of three children drowned in the Ohio River after a boat capsized on the riverfront authorities reported no other passengers were injured and the body was recovered nearby mourners gathered at the Butler home to plan services
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Moundsville
van James Butler
Toronto
Ohio
Ohio River
Johnson Hospitalized After Heart Attack in Washington
Senator Johnson suffered a serious heart attack and was described as still in serious condition at Bethesda Naval Medical Center in Maryland. He had been stricken Saturday and remained out for weeks, with questions about the impact on Eisenhower’s program in Congress and potential rival proposals.
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Washington
B Johnson
Don Y
Nike
Sae Sion
Johnson
Bethesda
MD) Naval Medical Center
Senate
Eisenhower
Congress
Double Death Follows Wife's Wish After Heart Attack
A wife allegedly cried I want to die with you and five minutes later both died. Their son Dr Sidney S Goldstein said she died of a heart attack, with the husband reportedly perishing in the same event.
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Sidney Sr. Goldstein
Teen Ager Slain in Texas Gang Fight
In San Antonio a teenage boy was knifed to death and his brother and another man were seriously stabbed near a park Sunday night. Police believe a fight with a Pachucos gang sparked the violence, a group known for long hair garish clothes and pegged pants.
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Texas
San Antonio
Tex
Mt Etna Eruption Sparks Distant Flames View
Citizens miles away watched Mt Etna erupt from its northeast crater Sunday night. Officials said there appeared no immediate danger as the volcano continued to vent activity and raise concern of future ramps.
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Catania
Sicily
Mt. Etna
Val
Etna
Bear snatches girl near Libby Montana camp
More than 250 armed men scoured the Kootenai Forest south of Libby for a bear believed to have seized a two year old girl from a tent near a logging camp. Mrs Curtis reported seeing no child in the tent, prompting the search aided by bloodhounds sent from Deer Lodge.
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Mont
Kootenai
Here
Ida
Mortimer E. Curtis
Deer
Fager
Fagerberg
Deer Lodge
Curtis
Edward Stark
St. Seer
Meigs County man electrocuted by wind blown power line
Homer Franklin Williams 32 of Langsville Route 1 died after touching a 13 200 volt line across a pickup near Emory Rogaski tavern at the Chauncey junction. Witnesses say he ignored warnings and tried to remove the line with cardboard. Firemen and ambulance staff failed to revive him. Surviving are wife Arvilla Chalfan Williams and two sons Homer Franklin Jr. and Paul Arthur. An infant son died previously. Funeral plans set for Chauncey/Jagers home and Wellston burial.
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Meigs County
Chauncey
Homer Franklin
Langsville
Emory Rogaski Tavern
Chauncey - Dover
Bernard Porter
Highway Patrol
Mr. Williams
Wit Neves
Williams
Porter
Mr. Williames
Gilbert Courtney, Jr
Williames
John H. Elias
Athens County
R. EB. Henderson
Virgil Phillips
Harnden
Athens
A Construction Co
Ia University
Route 1
Chart Chaffin
Athena Son
Willams
Ce Neal
Arvilla Chalfan Williams
Homer Franklin, Jr
Paul Arthur
Jagershore
Wellston
Bananas to be enclosed in protective film under Jamaica rule
The Jamaican Banana Board ordered a new measure to encase all bananas from Jamaica to the Kingdom in polyethylene film. The move aims to keep bananas fresher and better protected during export and transit, according to a Board spokesperson.
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Washington
Department of Said
Jamaica
Jamaican Banana Board
Grenade Found in Reviewing Stand in Manila
A live hand grenade wrapped in a newspaper was found today in the reviewing stand where officials and foreign dignitaries prepared to observe the July 4 independence anniversary. The grenade was discovered before the stand was occupied.
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Manila
Marmerandstand
Prominent Lawyer Dies in Phoenixville at 62
Maj Lemuel Bradford a prominent Philadelphia lawyer died Sunday at his country home in Phoenixville Pa from a heart attack He was 62 years old and well known in legal circles with ties to the city and region
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Phoenixville
Lemuel Bradford
Philadelphia
Maharaja Singh of Udaipur Dies at 71 in New Delhi
Maharaja of Udaipur Wy Singh dies at age 71 in New Delhi during a visit. The ruler had led the state from Udaipur and was a prominent regional figure. The death prompted official condolences from local authorities and royal households.
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New Delhi
India
Udaipur
Wy * Singh
Udaipur City
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