Pontecorvo Declares Atomic Work In Soviet Union
Bruno Pontecorvo, missing since 1950, says in letters published by Pravda and Izvestia that he is engaged in peaceful atomic projects in Moscow. He accuses Britain and the United States of using atomic energy for world domination and urges Western scientists to protest military uses.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Bruno ,Pontecorvo
West
Soviet Union
Britain
United States
Portecorvo
U. S. Joint Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Plso
Hng
Sistes
Pontecorvo
Volcano Erupts in Hawaii Forces Evacuations Near Pahoa
A lava eruption near Pahoa Hawaii triggers state of emergency and mass evacuation as lava flows threaten sugar cane fields and timber. About 400 people flee while authorities monitor a main lava stream several miles from the ocean. no deaths reported. Sightseers are held at Pahoa, and civil defense coordinates relief efforts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pahoa
Hawaii
Civil Defense
State of E
Sveepee
Rel Opikes
Weather Summary for Tonight and Wednesday
Partly cloudy tonight and very cold with low temperatures near 23 to 30. Wednesday will range from the extreme northwest to the extreme southeast with highs around 44 to 98. Extended outlook shows Thursday partly cloudy and mild.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sein
Wetton
Youth Caught After Flight From Agent
Des Moines area youth Donald Ayersman aged 17 fled after tussling with a state parole agent who was transporting him to Eldora. His car slid into a ditch near Mitchellville and he sought refuge at the Wayne McCoy farm before being recaptured by Highway Patrol.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Nevada
Iowa
Des ‘Moines
Donald Ayersman
Mitchellville
Joe Chocholka
Richard Brown
Harry A. Johnson
Des Moines
Ayersman
Eldora
Leece Ayersman
Johnson
Wayne McCoy
Clock key returned to Iowa museum after 22 years
A Lancaster Pennsylvania you can call a conscience led thief returned a clock key to the grandchildren clock in the Iowa State Historical Building autograph room. The key was taken in the 1930s as a souvenir and was found in a letter unsigned. Curator Claude Cook opened the mail Monday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Lancaster
Iowa State Historical Building
Claude Cook
B47 Jet Crashes Into Trailer Park Killing Five
A B 47 jet bomber slammed into a Lake Charles trailer park killing five people and injuring a civilian, as it tried to land at Lake Charles AFB after an engine failure. Crewmen Captain Clarence Wilson Captain Mark Veck Captain Elwyn McBee died along with Albert Morgan and his wife Kate. Deputy Sapp was burned and in critical condition.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lake Charles
Lake Charles Air Force Base
George Spotswood
Clarence Wilson
California
Mark M. Veck
Downieville
Calif
Elwyn B. McBee
Fort Worth
Tex
Calcasieu Parish
Albert Morgan
Kate
James C. Sapp
Lake Charles Afb
Spotswood
William Denton
Houma
A Shot Flash Seen Across Five States
A bright reddish flash accompanied Tuesday predawn detonation of the third atomic device in the 1955 test series. Observers from Las Vegas to San Francisco reported the flash and a strong thump felt at Yucca Flat. The Livermore project, centered on hydrogen weapons, produced the test with no hydrogen devices to be tested at the site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Las Vegas
Nev
Phoenix
Ariz
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Salt Lake City
St. George
Utah
Atomic Energy Commission
Yucca Flat
Nevada
Indian Springs
Caliente
Tonopah
Camp Desert Rock
AEC
Livermore
Calif
Tornadoes Struck Ohio Cities Causing Death and Damage
A tornado on Ohio's East Side killed a 43 year old housewife and injured six. Five basements were blown from foundations, three homes damaged, and damage exceeds 100000 dollars. In Troy another tornado caused about 300000 dollars in damage with no injuries reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Ohio
Troy
Director Named Chicago Regional Director of A F of L
Eugene P. Moats of Chicago was named Monday as regional director for Illinois Iowa Missouri Kansas and Nebraska. He succeeds George K. Reese who has been transferred to Washington D C to direct organizational activities in those states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eugene P. Moats
American Federation
Illinois
Iowa
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Moats
George K. Reese
Washington, D. C
Davis Named AEC Reactor Development Director in Washington
W Kenneth Davis is shown in his Washington office after the Atomic Energy Commission announced his appointment as director of reactor development. Davis will oversee AEC programs for nuclear reactor development in naval and aircraft propulsion as well as reactors to produce electricity for civilian and military use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Kenneth Davis
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Davis
AEC
Egypt Accuses Israel of Sneak Attack Killing 38
Egypt charges Israel with a night assault on an army headquarters inside the Gaza Strip killing 38 Egyptians and wounding 21 others. The Egyptian statement alleges civilians casualties and water infrastructure damage as Cairo seeks UN Security Council action.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Egypt
Israel
Gaza Strip
Jerusalem
Gohar
Gaza
U.N. Security Council
Educators Call For End To Flunking Students
A regional meeting of the American Association of School Administrators heard educators urge removing failures from classrooms. They propose narrative report cards and frequent parent teacher conferences, arguing current grades reflect past work and not future potential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Louis
American Assn
Newton P. Leonard
Providence
R. 1
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
J.C. Wright
Iowa
Wright
Cornell
Woman Found Slain Near Bettendorf
The nude body of a blonde young woman was found Tuesday morning near Highway 67 east of Bettendorf. Sheriff Wildman said the woman, believed in her late teens or early twenties, was identified from a billfold as Dolores Land of Rock Island. The body lay on the road edge about eight o clock, possibly dumped from a car, with a badly bruised head and tire tracks nearby. Two local boys discovered the body.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Davenport W
Highway 67
Bettendorf
C. H. Wildman
Dolores Land of
Rock Island
Duck Creek Bridge
Jim Barton
Charles Shukart
Sheriff's Office
Wildman
First 700 Club Concert Here Wednesday at Atlantic High
Atlantic high school music department opens spring concert series with cadet and high school bands junior high chorus and mixed chorus performing selections by Sousa Tschaikowsky Rodgers Hammerstein and more Proceeds from 700 club ticket sales fund uniforms instruments and equipment for the department directing teachers are LeRoy Dick and Delma Wright Soloists include Sidney Smiley Jean Johnson and Mary Maher with accompanying musicians and choirs listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlantic High School
700 Club
LeRoy Dick
Delma Wright
Sidney Smiley
Jean Johnson
Mary Maher
Eleanor Shackson
Karen Howard
Girls
Glee Club
Marjorie Moses
Judy Hutchinson
Charlotte Ackerman
Connie Kluever
Girls’ Glee Club
Betty-Gene White
Marcelyn Myers
Army supervises triple execution in Kansas
Three African American enlisted men died on the gallows in a Kansas execution the first since capital punishment resumed decades ago. Chastine Beverly Balty Louis M. Suttles and James Rig gins were hanged under Army supervision after a Ft Leonard Wood court martial convicted them for fatally beating Harry Langly a Waynesville cab driver and robbing him in 1951.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Harry Langly
Waynesville
Joe
Eisenhower
U S Planne Crashes Tokyo Ww The U S Air Force
A U S Air Force Flying Boxcar crashed Tuesday night 18 miles north of Ashiya Air Base on Kyushu Island. Seven men aboard bailed out over water and were rescued. one man died later.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
U.S. Air Force
Ashiya
Kyushu
Former witness Matusow refuses Texas probe questions
Ex Red Matusow declined to answer before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee invoking the Fifth Amendment. He wants time to study transcript of his 1953 Texas testimony before deciding on further questioning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harvey Matusow
Texas
Senate
Internal Security
Matusow
Internal Security Subcommittee
Texas Industrial Commission
Sen
Daniel
D-Tex
Moroccan leader Moulay Idriss assassinated in Casablanca
In French Morocco Casblanca two Moroccans died and four were wounded in shootings Monday night. Sherif Moulay Idriss founder of the moderate Democratic party of Freemen was killed Tuesday as he left his home. Two assailants fled on a bicycle. A French official noted the party favors collaboration with France but remains small and influential.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Casablanca
French Morocco
Sherif Moulay Idriss
Democratic Party of Freemen
Moulay Idriss
Churchill warns of nuclear threat and secure peace hope
In a Commons debate Prime Minister Churchill says the United States may have several times the Soviet H bomb strength but Russia could launch a full scale nuclear attack within two to four years. He notes Britain is building hydrogen bombs as deterrent and warns of a possible surprise attack with massive retaliation. He urges patience courage and resolve to achieve a fragile peace.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Churchill
United States
Soviet Union
Russia
North America
House of Commons
Britain
Free World
Bruno Pontecorvo
Soviet Russia
Economic Expert Urges Tax Cut in Senate Debate
Washington advocates press for an income tax cut as consumer buying power lags. Keyserling calls House plan of $30 per person next year inadequate and too slow to curb deficits, while Hoey opposes the measure and indicates it may be dropped from the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Seon Teceday
Keyserling
Hoey
Asury
House
Also Mentioned on This Page
U.S
Soviet
Imperialiete
Navy
John C. Stennis
Senate Armed Services Committee
Mississippi
Trailer Park
Palestine Affairs
Salah Gohar
Palestine
Tschaikowsky
Yoder
Glenn Miller
Gibb
South Pacific
Rodgers-Hammerstein Girls’ Glee Club
Beethoven
Heavenly Choir
Cain
My Bonnie Lass
Bottomley
Sullivan
Simeone
ARMY
U. S. Planne
Matador
Luis Miguel Gonzales Dominguin
Lucia Bose
New York
Rome
Dominguin
Ava Gardner
Senate Finance
Perents
Fey
Artin Alpersee
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!