Five Die As Elk River Crossing Crash Kills Familia
A passenger train struck a car at a crossing in Elk River Minnesota killing five people including Rev Edward A Dicke his wife and their two children plus a companion Edwin Kroll The engineer said he could not stop the 30 mph west bound train signals were working and the car hesitated on the tracks as onlookers described the scene.
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Elk River
Minn
Gordon Tesch
Sherburne County
Edward A. Dicke
Trinity Lutheran Church
Long Prairie
Martin
Concordia College High School
St. Paul
Ralph Williams
Williams
Charles M. Nelson
Nelson
Tesch
A. N. Dare
Elk River Star News
Princeton
Minke
Reds Lose 9 Jets in Week
Allied jet fighters shot down nine Communist MIGs over the past week without loss to own forces, while anti-aircraft fire claimed an F80 Shooting Star a T6 spotter plane and a B26 Invader that did not return. UN infantry halted Chinese advances on a Western Front hill near Chorwon after night bombers and heavy artillery softened the position. Eighth Army reported light fighting along the 155 mile front.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Chorwon
Eighth Army
Retired chiefs form makeshift Calgary baseball team
In Calgary, Canada, five fire chiefs and four police chiefs have retired on pensionable age since 1943, enough to form a baseball team. The remark underscores a steady turnover among top city officials over decades.
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Calgary
Canada
Ridgway warns Russia on new war risk at D-Day anniversary
Gen. Matthew Ridgway in a Normandy speech at Utah Beach warned that a new totalitarian threat from Communist leaders would provoke dreadful destruction for them and their power. He urged resolve to defend freedom and warned against interpreting Western patience as weakness.
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Ste. Mere Eglise
France
Matthew B. Ridgway
West
Europe
Normandy
82Nd A*orne
Utah Beach
Ridgway
Marciano to Fight Matthews in 10-Round Heavy Clash
New York promoter Jim Norris of the International Boxing Club completed plans for a ten round heavyweight bout on July 28 at Yankee Stadium. Unbeaten Rocky Marciano of Brockton Massachusetts will face Harry Matthews of Seattle Washington in the main event.
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New York
Jim Norris
International Boxing Club
Yankee Stadium
Rocky Marciano
Brockton
Mass
Harry Matthews
Seattle
Wash
Roberta Peters and Merrill Amid Divorce Rumors
Opera stars Roberta Peters and Robert Merrill sign a separation agreement after ten weeks of marriage and an off stage split. They will perform tonight at a benefit concert in Brooklyn and continue with planned summer appearances while pursuing possible reconciliation.
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New York
Roberta Peters
Robert Merrill
CBS
Merrill
Israel
Ebbets Field
Brooklyn
Philadelphia
New York City
Lewisohn
Miss Peters
Bronx
Met
Eisenhower open to meeting Stalin for peace
General Dwight D. Eisenhower said at a New York news conference he would consider arranging a meeting with Premier Stalin to promote peace though he doubts East West differences are negotiable while Soviet suppression of free government remains. He stressed work and sacrifice ahead to secure peace amid probing questions on Hiss and Rockefeller ties.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Stalin
Soviet Union
United States
Father Divine
Josephson
Eisenhower
Rockefellers
Hiss
Carnegie Foundation For International Peace
Pennsylvania Group to Meet Taft Ike at RNC
Governor John Fine announced Pennsylvania's 70 member GOP delegation will meet Sen. Robert A. Taft and Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower face to face. Arrangements will be made soon to conduct the meetings in line with the wishes of Eisenhower and Taft.
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Pennsylvania
Taft
Ike
Harrisburg
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John
Fine
Gen
Eisenhower
Farmer Burned in Fifth Tractor Mishap in Minnesota
WILLMAR Minnesota a Prinzburg farmer Clarence Bolt 40 suffered serious burns in the fifth tractor accident in West central Minnesota in eight days He was in Rice Hospital in poor condition after his tractor burst into flames clothes caught fire He extinguished the blaze and went to a neighbor who drove him to the hospital Earlier accidents in the run included two killed and two injured.
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Willmar
Minn
Prinzburg
Minnesota
Clarence Bolt
Rice Hospital
Brownsdale Fire Truck Douses Blaze on Station Roof
Brownsdale volunteers battled a roof fire at the fire station after a painter dropped a cigarette near the adjacent water tower. Fire Chief Leo Senst said the blaze was out in ten minutes, with $15 to $20 damage. Fireman George Donovan activated the electric siren and the crew arrived swiftly.
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Brownsdale
Leo Senst
Senst
George Donovan
Reds Grab Berlin Farm Amid West Berlin tension
Berlin reports the Soviet led communist forces seized the Frohnau estate the majority of its land sits in the French sector while buildings lie in the Soviet zone they evicted 15 residents and took cattle amid ongoing traffic restrictions and refugee outflows Reuters notes Moscow backed plans to bolster armed defense with a projected 180 000 to 375 000 troops and to convert the FDJ youth into a military pool as East German authorities push for faster mobilization.
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Richard Kasischke
Berlin
Red People’s
Frohnau
West Berlin
Walter Ulbricht
Moscow
Germany
Free German Youth Movement
FDJ
People’s Police
Peace talks continue as the steel strike drags on
The CIO Steelworkers strike against 650000 workers enters a third day of talks at the White House with no comments from CIO president Philip Murray or industry head Ben Moreell. Government plans to divert steel to weapons are outlined, with no clear breakthrough and potential use of non-struck plants and direct contracts under consideration.
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Washington
White House
CIO
Philip Murray
Ben Moreell
Jones and Laughlin Steel
Lovett
Department
Defense
Truman
War Contract Probe Fizzles In Dull Hearing
A House judiciary subcommittee recessed amid denials and admitted falsehoods in a probe of alleged political intervention in war contract fraud. Detroit attorney George Petzer testified he wrote a four a.m. note linking former Attorney General J Howard McGrath and Willam Boyle to a war contracts case after drinking. Walter Sprague testified Petzer left the note in a hotel room as he pursued recovery of 25000 dollars in overcharges by Advance Plating Company of Detroit.
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Washington
House
House Judiciary
U. S
Detroit
Atty
J. Howard McGrath
Willam M. Boyle
George T. Petzer
Walter Sprague
Petzer
Sprague
Advance Plating Company of
Truman Says Air Force Can Bomb Anywhere in Korea
President Truman told 35th Division veterans in Springfield that the US Air Force in Korea can bomb the enemy at will almost anywhere in his territory. He warned against slashing defense and aid budgets, cited possible new Koreas, and defended air superiority despite limits on the Yalu frontier.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Springfield
Truman
United States Air Force
Korea
Robert A. Taft
Russia
Taft
Stalin
United States
Kremlin
Asia
Europe
Berlin
Paris
Tokyo
Shrine
France
129Th Field Artillery
North Korea
Yalu River
Uses Water Tank to Put Out Boxcar Fire
MILWAUKEE freight train engineer spots fire on cattle car roof and shuts off trailing cars. He drives to Minnesota Falls and positions the engine under the water tank. An eight inch stream quickly extinguishes the blaze.
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Granite Falls
Minn
Milwaukee
Minnesota Falls
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Edwin K. Kroll
William . Kroll
Reds
Jets
Milo Farnets
Gen. Ridgway
By Joseph Dynan
Andrew J. Feinman
Metropolitan Opera
Lke
Alger Hiss
State Department
Emanuel Josephson
Rockefeller Internationalism
Reds Grab Berlin Farm
West Germany
Radio Berlin
Karl Eduard von Schnitzler
Radio
Long John Silver
Harriet Lewandowski
Long John
Defense Lovett
Defense Department
National Production Authority
B. L. Livingstone
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Pius XII
Vatican
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