Massive Houston Fireworks Blast Kills Four, Injures Seventy Three
A storehouse explosion at the Alco Fireworks facility in Houston rockets through a city block. Four people are dead and 73 injured as over 40,000 pounds of fireworks ignite, destroying homes and triggering a $3 million damage estimate. Kenneth B. Williams, 35, Alea’s general manager, sustained minor injuries and faces investigation after hammering into a display frame containing explosives. The blast occurred within 15 seconds, with charred homes and a mushroom smoke column reported.
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Houston
Rey Hofheinz
Alco Fireworks and Specialty Company
Kenneth B. Williams
Alea
Williams
Italy Votes For Pro Western Bloc In Key Election
Italy faces a pivotal vote over five years of Western democracy with leftist Communists and right wing Fascists and Monarchists both active. About 30 million Italians choose 590 Chamber seats and most Senate seats, with Premier Alcide de Gasperi leading a pro American coalition amid expected declines from the 1958 result.
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Rome
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Senate
Alcide de Gasperi
de Gasperi
IMS
Taft Predicts Senate Upholds Air Force Cuts
Sen Taft predicted the Senate will sustain President Eisenhower's Air Force funding cuts amid a tough fight. Gen. Vandenberg seeks to restore a 143-wing minimum, aiming to recover more than five million dollars cut from the Air Force budget. Taft warned restoration would not add new planes in the coming year.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
R-Ohip
Senate
Eisenhower
Hoxt S. Vandenberg
Air Force
Congress
Giant Oil Tankers Ram in Delaware Bay
Two vast oil carriers collided in Delaware Bay early Saturday causing explosions and fires. Ninety crewmen were involved in the rescue, with 82 saved from the water by coast guardsmen Army engineers and civilians. One man died and three are missing. a survivor count notes 50 picked up by a small Army boat. The Phoenix, a 124000 ton vessel, sank after the collision with the Pan Massachusetts, a 11081 ton tanker carrying 150000 barrels of high octane gasoline. Survivors blamed whistle-signal confusion for the crash.
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Wilmington
Del
America
Delaware Bay
Coast
Army
The
Red Cross
Joseph Donnnedy
Marcus Hook
Massachusetts
Philadelphia
Houston
Tex
Phoenix
Pan Massachusetts
Washington
Gen. Hoyt
S. Vandenberg
Russia
Free
Europe
Korea
USAF
Ussr
Siberia
United States
U.S
Iron Curtain
Atom Bombers Break Infant Speed Records
Fifteen U S Air Force B47 Stratojet bombers flew from Limestone Maine to Fairford England in five hours twenty two minutes averaging 575 mph setting three new infant speed records in a day. The planes completed a non stop 3120 mile crossing as part of a three day transfer of 45 aircraft from MacDill Field Florida to Europe.
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Fairford
Bidault Eyes French Post as Postwar Cabinet Leader
Veteran politician Georges Bidault will seek National Assembly approval to head France's 19th postwar cabinet on an austerity platform. He accepted President Auriol's invitation to form a government after Mayer's cabinet fell in May.
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Paris
Georges Bidault
National Assembly
France
Auriol
Bidault
Rene Mayer
Buckeye Boys State Opens At Camp Perry With 925 Juniors
About 925 selected high school juniors from two parts of Ohio will arrive Friday June 12 for a 19 day Buckeye Boys State run by the American Legion. W L DeWeese, long time dean of the mythical 49th state, said the youths will spend the first weekend learning practical politics and campaigning for offices in 20 cities, four counties and the state government.
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Camp Perry
Ohio
Buckeye
American Legion
W. L. DeWeese
20 Children Rescued In Cincinnati Blaze
A fire in a five story tenement in Cincinnati rescued between 30 and 50 people including 26 children and an 80 year old woman. Mrs Mabel Hamilton, 37, fell ten feet from a fire escape and suffered bruises and cat scratches.
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Cincinnati
Mabel Hamilton
Korea Aid Urged During Korea Week Proclamation
Washington president declares Korea Week beginning Saturday and urges citizens to donate generously to aid Korea relief efforts. The call emphasizes public support and national solidarity for the Republic of Korea during the crisis.
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Korea Aid
Washington
Isenhower
Air 190
Ctizens
Texans Face Water Crisis in Laredo
LAREDO Texas The chairman of the State Board of Water Engineers met with city and county water officials to revive the Rio Grande flow past Laredo. The river has run dry for the first time in at least 50 years threatening domestic use and irrigation as pumps are shut down and only a small emergency supply remains in tanks.
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Laredo
Tex
State Board of Water Engineers
Rio Grande
Laredo Air Force Base
Embittered Koreans Threaten Total Boycott of Truce Actions
President Eisenhower and top aides plan to offer new guarantees of U S support to South Korea to prevent a veto of the approaching armistice. Ambassador You Chan Yang warned that Rhee and his government will not sign and may fight on unless assured of U S backing before the cease fire takes effect.
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Washington
Hiserhower
State
Defense Department
South Korea
White House
United States
Syngman Rhee
State Dulles
Bucknell University
Lewisburg
Paul Douglas D-Ii
Eisenhower
You Chan Yang
Rhee
United Nations Command
United Nations
Korea
Plains Youth Gamers Win Ohio Marble Title
Bill Stalder a 14 year old from The Plains won the Ohio marble shooting championship in Cleveland. Runner up Bill Finnerty also of The Plains and both will compete in the national marble tournament at Asbury Park New Jersey later this month. The victory was telephoned to Athens American Legion officials and the pair qualified through a Legion tournament at Athens on May 9.
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Marbust
The
Plains
Cleveland
American Legion
Athens
Stalder
Legion
Carter
the Messenger
Bill Finnerty
the Plains
Asbury Park
WN. J
Edwin T. LaVelle
Athens County
Jim McCulloch
Deanville
Charles Dixon
Ollister
McCulloch
Reds Break UN Defense Spurring Drive in Korea
North Korean Reds breached the Allied main line in eastern Korea on Saturday, advancing 500 yards at four points before South Korean forces regained about half. Reports from Panmunjom suggested possible arms talks progress with a new truce buffer zone. Over the week, Chinese and North Korean forces seized more than a dozen outposts and main-line positions, though the lost area covered only a few square miles. In a major assault, 750 to 1,000 North Koreans overwhelmed three South Korean outposts near the main line, then punched into the line itself in four sectors east of the lake fortress, driving deep before counterattacks reeled them back.
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Seoul
Red
Lake the Gook's Castle
Ban on Press To Be Aired At OSU Trustees Meeting
Ohio State University trustees will be asked to drop the policy barring the press from meetings. Columbus attorney Carlton S. Bargusch will introduce the proposal at Monday's session. OSU is the only one of six state universities with such a ban, Miami already changing its policy.
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Columbus
Ohio State Uniersity
Carlton S. Bargusch
Dargusch
Ohio State
Miami
James W. Huffman
Colnmndus
OSU
Congress To Adjourn In August Taft Says
Senator Robert A. Taft said Republican leaders favor adjournment by August 1 and quitting for the year. He preferred a longer recess to October but noted all leaders want to quit for the year. Taft warned major legislation like statehood for Hawaii may have to wait for the next session.
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Congress
Taft
Washington
Robert A. Taft
Congress Tn
Ohio
No Trade With Enemy Pledge Demanded of Allied Nations
Senator Mundt urged allied nations to pledge not to trade with Communist China before the U S becomes involved in another Korea. The Senate investigations subcommittee listed 162 ships known to trade with China between December 19, 1952 and April 30, 1953, 100 of which were British. The panel said Defense Department confirmation supported the findings and faulted the British Information Service for dispersing evidence.
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Washington
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Korea
United Nations
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
China
Subcommittee
Department of Defense
Mundt
iBritish Information Service
Friends and Allies
Ist Statewide Crime Control Meet Slated
Ohio Attorney General C William ONeill announced the first statewide crime control conference for local law enforcement to be held in Columbus on June 19 20. The two day session involves the Ohio Association of Prosecuting Attorneys and the Buckeye Sheriffs Association with FBI participation.
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Columbus
C. William O'Neil
Ohio Association of Prosecuting Attorneys
Buckeye Sheriffs’ Association
FBI
O'Neill
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Herbert Brownell
J. Edgar Hoover
Ex Athens Man Dies in Crash
Peter E. Young, 29, former Athens resident and UC student, was killed in an auto accident near Berkeley California Friday. He was son of Kelvin Young of San Jose. Survived by Athens relatives, funeral plans incomplete.
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Peter E. Young
Athens
Berkeley
Calif
Kelvin Young
San Jose
Youngs
University of California
Lydia McKinley
B. Young
Aternal
Trandmothers
Meles
Gerald Kyle
Baker Young
E. B. Young, Jr
Vet Hospital Patient Dies in Hotel Plunge
A Chillicothe Veterans' Hospital patient, Harry Hyle of Cleveland, died after falling from an eighth floor hotel window in Columbus. Acting Franklin County Coroner John H. Richardson ruled the death a suicide. Hospital officials said they did not know Hyle had left until notified.
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Columbus, O
CPI
Chillicothe Veterans’ Hospital
Sanitus
Harry Hyle
Cleveland
Franklin County
John H. Richardson
Hyle
Body Found in Culvert Near Ironton
Unidentified man, likely a transient, was found dead Friday stuffed in a culvert near Ironton. Coroner Marty Nenni estimates the victim died six months to a year ago.
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Ironton
Here
Marty Nenni
Yank Units Mark D Day Ninth Anniversary Observed Saturday
At Omaha Beach in France a small group from the U S 1st Division gathered to mark the ninth anniversary of the June 6 1944 invasion. Led by Lt Col John C V Finks the officers and enlistedmen paid homage to the dead of The Big Red One as Edmond Ovion mayor of Colleville sur Mer addressed the ceremony and vowed friendship.
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Omaha Beach
France
Normandy Beach
U. S
Germany
Europe
John C.V. Finks
16Th Infantry Regiment
Edmond Ovion
Colleville-sur-Mer
Queen Knighted Everest Heroes On Eve Of Coronation
Elizabeth II awarded knighthoods to Col. John Hunt and Edmund Hillary for the conquest of Mount Everest. The Queen also noted honoring their Nepalese guide Terasingy Bhutia. Hunt led a 15 man British expedition to the 29,002 foot peak, which had blocked 11 prior attempts since 1921. Hillary, a New Zealander with Tensing, planted the Union Jack on the summit on May 29.
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London
UPI
Elizabeth II
John Hunt
Edmund Hillary
Everest
Terasingy Bhutia
Hunt
Hilary
South Korea Threatens Walkout as Panmunjom Talks Continue
Embittered South Korea warned of a total walkout from Panmunjom truce negotiations as Red and UN Command teams meet to narrow differences over armistice terms. President Rhee urged Eisenhower to accept a South Korean counter proposal or allow continued fighting amid rising Seoul and Washington tensions.
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Munsan
South Korea
Red
UN General Assembly
Seoul
Washington
You Chan Yang
Syngman Rhee
Eisenhower
Pyung Tung Tai
Choi Duk Shin
Choi
Oh Ki Chang
Rhee
I. Withiray
Korea
U. S
Hse
Fiserhower
U. S Joint Chiefs of Staff
Adm
Arthur Padford
Tokyo
Panmunjom
Athe
Truce Could Save U S Billions Yet Hold Korea Troop Pause
Senator Tart says a Korean truce might save the United States about two billion dollars yearly in war costs. He and Senator Wiley agree troops cannot be withdrawn without a permanent peace. Rotation of the 25,000 troops could continue, and UN forces may be balanced against the Communists to deter a truce-breaking surprise.
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Washington
UPKM
Tart
Ohio
U. S
Wiley
R-Wise
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Taft
U. S.roops
Korea
Wisconsin
United Nations
Senate
Pacific
Britain
France
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
McCarthy
New Evidence In Rosenberg Case Fueled By Perjury Claims
A motion for a new trial on grounds of new evidence was filed in federal court by Julius and Ethel Rosenberg's defense. They allege David Greenglass and his wife Huth committed perjury and cite an affidavit from Bernard Rosenberg claiming Greenglass stole a uranium sample from Los Alamos. The Group for Justice argues Greenglass faced government pressure over the alleged theft.
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New York
Julius
Ethel Rosenberg
Greenglass
Los Alamos
Committee To Secure Justice
Rosenberg
Rosenbergs
Report Raps Aid Agencies In Europe Asia Investments
A House subcommittee reported that eight government agencies failed to stimulate American investments in Europe and Asia. It called some efforts disappointing and urged more vigorous action including tax benefits guarantees and trade treaty negotiation to encourage private capital. The hearing reflected the combined views of business and administration witnesses.
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Washington
House
Europe
Asia
Pri Jcapital
House Foreign Affairs Surb
Administration Maps Plans To Ward Off Business Slump
Washington reports the Eisenhower administration is drafting plans to counter a potential postwar business downturn. The move centers on public works studies, credit term liberalization, tax adjustments, and private investment incentives to stimulate growth without rushing brick and stone projects. Officials aim to use federal aid as a catalyst rather than grants to create work.
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Washington
Eseanhower
White House
Silent Movie Idol Succumbs
William Farnum, 76, famed silent film star known for a famous fight scene, died Friday in a hospital after cancer and uremia. Born in Boston on July 4, 1876, he debuted at 16 with a Shakespeare troupe and rose to matinee idol status in Hollywood by 1944, appearing in The Spoilers.
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T Tilly Wood
uPi
William Farnum
Brenes ¢Ser
Boston
Hollywood
Rex Beach
the Spothers
Three Die in Truck Car Crash Near Sivan
Coroner C. Paul identified three victims of a weekend crash three miles west of Sivan at U S and Oni. Ellis Mciveal, 46, of Chicago, the driver, Mae a woman believed to be his wife, and Charles W. McMasters 21, of Cleveland, a sailor hitchhiker, died when their car rear ended a freight truck.
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Sivan
Oni
C. Paul
Ellis Mciveal
Chicago
Mae
Charles W. McMasters
Cleveland
Worker Electrocuted In Marietta Accident
Charley D. Presett twenty six of Parkersburg West Virginia was electrocuted Friday when a steel cable he was handling touched a high tension wire at the Afdyte project across the Muskingum River in Marietta. Presett worked for Wilco Zarth Movers Inc and was moving logs at the time of the accident.
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Marietta, O
Charley D. Presett
Parkersburg
W. Va
Prewett
Wilco Zarth Movers, Inc
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