Chicago Racial Riots Prompt Police Siege and Car Burnings
Chicago faces a citywide tension as 200 officers patrol the far south side to curb post riot violence after a weekend flare up in Calumet Park and 106th and Ewing Ave. About 14 men and several youths are held for questions as white and Black residents clash. 12 cars burned and white motorists sparking scares attracted police escorts.
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Chicago
Calumet Park
106Th
Ewing Ave
Albert Anderson
Anderson
Chicago Transportation Authority
O Neill Seeks State Parks Expansion in Ohio Plan
Governor C William O Neill outlines a two year program to enlarge and improve Ohio lakes and parks. He says the effort will boost Ohio as a great recreational state as demand for outdoor leisure rises with population growth. He cites park attendance rising from 3 5 million in 1950 51 to over 12 million in 1956 57.
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Columbus
Ohio
C. William O'Neill
O'Neill
Dayton
Cincinnati
State Parks and Lakes
Cincinnati Coast Guard to Continue Weekend Patrol
Cincinnati district officials say the Coast Guard will extend a weekend safety patrol using Coast Guard Auxiliary craft. The patrol began Saturday and two days of observations found few violations among 75 boats checked.
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Cincinnati
Cincinnati-area
Coast Guard District
Coast Guard Auxiliary
New Ruler Takes Command After Guatemalan President Assassination
Col. Francisco Oliva, governing during a 30 day siege after Castillo Armas was shot, urged citizens to report suspected Red activity. The army warned it will harshly repress subversive outbreaks as officials seek to stabilize the country amid political turmoil and widespread mourning.
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Quatemala
Defense
Carlos Armas
Francisco Oliva
Castillo Armas
Roberto Castenda
Luis Arturo Gonzalez Lopez
Congress
Gonzales
Bier
Anderson Named Secretary of the Treasury in GOP Move
Robert Bernard Anderson, formerly of the Waggoner estate and a longtime Ike aide, succeeds George Humphrey as Secretary of the Treasury. Humphrey, 67, to become chairman of National Steel Corp., notes the party needs vigor, while Anderson, 47, shifts from deputy defense chief to top treasury post.
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George Magoffin
Humphrey
Robert Bernard Anderson
Eisenhower
White House
National Steel Corp
Anderson
Waggoner
Navy
Defense
Ventures, Ltd
Toronto
Greenwich
Conn
The
State Steps Up Litterbug Campaign
Ohio Department of Highways tightens its litter crackdown reporting 153 arrests in five months for debris on roadways versus 280 in all of last year. A spokesman noted convictions in nearly every case and the law imposes a $50 fine or 30 days in jail or both.
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Columbus
Ohio Department of Highways
Routine plane lands safely after distress call at sea
A C124 military air transport plane with 16 aboard landed at Naval Air Station Atlantic City at 10:21 a.m after jettisoning cargo and signaling possible ditching south of here. Cmdr. Roger W. Becker called it routine as Coast Guard boats raced to sea during the incident.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Naval Air Station
Coast Guard
Military Air Transport Service
Atlantic Ocean
Here
Cmdr
Roger W. Becker
Plane crashes through lines at private airport
A private plane ran out of gas and crashed through power lines carrying 69 000 volts but the pilot and a passenger escaped unharmed at a private airport in Boston Heights. The aircraft was badly damaged yet landed safely.
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Akron
Boston Heights
Ironton Man Held in $700 A&P Market Robbery
Ironton authorities hold Lester Akers, 36, Ironton, after his Ashland Kentucky arrest and return. He is being questioned in connection with the $700 robbery at the A&P Market Saturday night.
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Ironton
Lester Akers
Ashland
A&p
Weather forecast highlights scattered thundershowers tonight
The CHITO region shows partly cloudy, warm and humid conditions with scattered thundershowers tonight and a low 66 to 70. Tuesday brings occasional thundershowers with a cooler high around 86. Virginia notes considerable cloudiness with scattered thunder showers tonight and Tuesday, warm and humid, and a low near 65 to 72. Five day forecast expects temperatures about 2 degrees below normal, turning cooler Tuesday and Wednesday, with a warmer Friday and Saturday and about 1 inch of precipitation in thunderstorms Monday night or Tuesday. The Albuquerque area lists varied readings with clouds and 72 in Albuquerque, while several cities report cloudy or clear skies and temperatures mostly in the 60s to 80s range.
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Chito
Virginia
OHTO
Albuquerque
Bismarck
Kansas City
Los Angeles
Marquette
Oklahoma City
Cler
Prooniz
Portland
Ore
Salt Lake City
San Francisco
Jzempa
Clouay
Traverse City
Clear
Denied Murder Charges in Brockton Woodlands killings
Raymond F. Ohlson, 20, a convicted sex offender, pleaded innocent in Brockton District Court to two counts of murder in the stabbing deaths of John Logan, 12, and Edward Logan, 11. He was held without bond after allegedly forcing the brothers at knife point into the woods from a public pond. Ohlson had been released seven weeks earlier from a reformatory after six years for a similar attack and has a 1949 assault arrest on his record.
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Brockton
Mass
Raymond F. Ohlson
Woodlands
Ohlson
Brockton District Court
John Logan
Edward
405 Still Missing In Japanese Flood
About 40 000 rescue workers searched western Kyushu for 405 people still missing after four days of heavy rains. Police reported 591 bodies recovered, 152 251 homeless, and 75 458 houses flooded as more rain fell on southern Kyushu flooding over 8 000 houses.
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Tokyo
Kyushu
Edith Abbott Dies at 80 in Grand Island Neb
Edith Abbott a renowned leader in social welfare administration and education died Sunday night in Grand Island Nebraska. She was 80.
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Grand Island, Neb
Edith Abbott
Perry L. Green Dies in Mantua at 78
RAVENNA- Mantua resident Perry L. Green aged 78 and former president of the Ohio Farm Bureau Federation and a director at the Ohio Department of Agriculture died at his home Sunday. He had long served in state agricultural leadership and resided in Mantua. The obituary notes his prominence in Ohio farming circles and public service.
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Ravenna
Ohio Farm Bureau Federation
Ohio Department of Agriculture
Perry L. Green
Mantua Sunday
Moderate Parties Lead In Argentine Elections
Moderate parties won a decisive victory in Argentina as caretaker president Pedro Aramburu seeks constitutional reform. With over 7 million votes counted, reformists led the Popular Radical party by about 75 seats to 35 for anti reformists in the 205 member constituent Assembly, while Peronists urged blank ballots. The result signals a strong democratic shift away from Peronism, with Aramburu pushing to limit presidential power and empower the assembly.
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Buenos Aires
Pedro Aramburu
Argentina
Peronists
Venezuela
People’s Radical Party
Richardo Balbin
Arturo Frondizi
Balbin
Frondizi
Nine Seek McCarthy's Seat Special Vote Tuesday
In Wisconsin a special primary with nine candidates narrows the field for McCarthy successor. Turnout is about 25 percent of eligible voters, as campaigns focus on Eisenhower policy and economy. The August 27 general will decide the term ending January 1959.
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Madison
Wis
Wisconsin
U.S. Senate
Joseph McCarthee
Rvis
McCarthy
Vernon Thomson
Eisenhower
11 200 Mile Ham Radio Chat Links Two Scientists
Two U S scientists at opposite earth ends, Dr Charles R Bentley in the Antarctic and Maurice J Davidson in the Arctic, held a 11 200 mile radio contact while working on International Geophysical Year projects. They reported clear reception.
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New York
U. S
Charles R. Bentley
Antarctic
Maurice J. Davidson
Arctic
International Geophysical Year
West Opposes Blocking German Unification
The United States Britain and France pledged not to sign any disarmament agreement that would prejudice German reunification. A declaration by the three ambassadors and West German Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano says reunification requires free elections in both East and West Germany.
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Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Germany
Henrich von Brentano
Explosions Rock Two Ohio Pinball Properties in Wheeling
In Wheeling West Virginia authorities probe two bomb blasts that damaged the Pythian Building and the Downs Grill near Wheeling Island. No injuries reported. Three weeks earlier Charles Maroon found a bundle of 12 dynamite sticks on his Bridgeport Ohio auto showroom doorstep.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Ohio
Charles Maroon
Pythian
Wheeling Downs Race Track
Wheeling Island
Maroon
Auto
Bridgeport
Ten Die in Ohio Over Weekend Crashes and Tragedies
Ten persons died in Ohio traffic incidents during the weekend. A teenage girl burned to death in a trailer home, a boy drowned in the Ohio River, a teenage boy accidentally shot himself, and a two year old died from electrocution by an electric fan cord.
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Ohio
Major Break Probable In Cement Strike Talks
In Allentown Pennsylvania workers at Atlas Cement Co expected to approve a new contract today signaling a possible nationwide breakthrough. Atlas officials and the United Cement Lime and Gypsum Workers Union reached a tentative agreement Saturday night that could form the basis for broader settlement.
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Allentown
Atlas Cement Co
Atlas
United Cement, Lime and Gypsum Workers Union
Mexico City Quake Causes $8 Million In Damage
A deadly central Mexico earthquake toppled 50 buildings in Mexico City, killed at least 43 people, and caused over eight million dollars in damage. Rescue teams retrieved 32 bodies in the capital while Guerrero state suffered further losses including Acapulco. One foreign casualty was a Brooklyn tourist.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Acapulco
Pacific
Guerrero
Chilpancingo
Brooklyn
Sarah Dorfman
Attorney Talks With Wedler in Florida Claim Test
William Corrigan chief defense counsel from Cleveland's Sheppard murder trial arrived in DeLand Florida to question Donald Wedler a 23 year old convict who claims he killed Marilyn Sheppard Corrigan and aide Fred Garmone planned to stay to investigate the confession though Cleveland officers previously said Wedler's tale is the 26th in a long line of unconvincing denials
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Cleveland
Wedler
Oman Rebels Near by Sultanate Forces in Manama Report
An Omani communique says troops of the Sultan of Muscat and Oman with loyal tradesmen are closing in on Oman rebels in the Manama region.
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Manama, Bahrein
Muscat
Oman
Church Feud Surges After Coffee Hour Invitation in Brooklyn
In Brooklyn an Episcopal church long divided by a dispute over Rev. William Howard Melish saw fresh tensions as rector Dr. Herman Sidener and senior warden Cameron Beadle argued over access to the parish house during a coffee hour. Sidener warned Beadle to prove his wardenship while lamenting communal bitterness.
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New York
Brooklyn
Protestant Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity
Holy Trinity
William Howard Melish
Melish
Herman
Sidener
Long Island
Beadle
Dr. Sidener
St. Ann’s Church
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