Integration Moves Ahead Slowly Across States
Public school integration advances with minimal violence as Alabama leader Martin Luther King Jr. is arrested for loitering outside City Hall during a bus boycott. He posts a $100 bond and a Friday hearing is scheduled. In Norfolk, the school board loses a bid to delay racially integrated classrooms as U S Dist Judge Walter Hoffman denies deferral pending Supreme Court rulings on Little Rock.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Martin Luther King Jr
Montgomery
City Hall
King
Norfolk
U. S. Dist
Walter E. Hoffman
Hoffman
U. S. Supreme Court
Little Rock
Ark
Supreme Court
Five Dead in Gulf Storm Rages Across Florida
Tropical storm Ella lashed southern Florida and western Cuba with gale winds and squalls, leaving at least five dead, seven injured, and four missing. Winds up to 70 mph feared to rise to hurricane force as Ella heads into the Gulf of Mexico from Cuba. Coast Guard searched for four men missing after leaving Key West for Sugarloaf Key. Injured residents in Key West include several with minor injuries and one back injury. Gale warnings, small craft advisories, and gusts up to 33 mph were reported in Miami.
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Fla
Ella
Florida
Cuba
Gulf of Mexico
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Sugarloaf Key
Hava
Gulf
Weather Bureau
Warren Fowlkes
Dana
Brian
Chester Warren
Clarence Carter
Warren
Greater Miami
Florida Keys
Florgs
Palmach
Fort Myers
USDA Starts Taking Soil Bank Applications
The Agriculture Department begins accepting applications from farmers to retire land next year under the soil bank program. About 275 million dollars available to pay those who sign contracts, plus 100 million for five to 10 year retirements. Officials aim to retire at least 12.5 million acres and raise annual rentals to 13.50 per acre. Caution urged due to this year's high yields and possible crop bets for 1959.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Soil Bank
Iceland Britain fishing clash sparks protests and clashes
Reykjavik heats up over a 12 mile limit dispute as British trawlers backed by naval frigates fish inside Iceland’s zone. Demonstrations target the British ambassador while Icelandic papers call the act armed aggression and urge severing ties.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Britain
Ludwig Josephsson
Pilot Leaves New York on Global Flight
George Preston Williams a 34 year old former Navy pilot took off from Idlewild on a round the world attempt in a four passenger Mooney aircraft named Wings for Peace. He plans a nonstop 4312 mile hop to Rome in about 26 to 27 hours then a route via Bobay Singapore San Francisco and Mexico City.
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New York
George Preston Williams
Navy
Idlewild
Rome
Globe
Wings For Peace
Mooney Aircraft, Inc
Kerrville
Tex
Williams
Bobay
Singapore
San Francisco
Mexico City
State Toll Rises 41 From Last Year in Minnesota Crash
Minnesota traffic toll climbed to 455, up 41 from a year ago after a crash on Highway 29 near Alexandria. Enoch W. Knutson, 68, died in the crash as his car left the road and plunged down an embankment. Mrs. Oscar Hanson, riding with him, is in critical condition.
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Alexandria
Minn
Minnesota
Garfield
Enoch W. Knutson
Highway 29
Oscar Hanson
Prisoner Locks Sheriff in Cell Then Escapes at Mankato
In Mankato Minnesota a jailed youth, Robert Sullivan 18 of North Mankato, lured Sheriff Jay Mickelson to a cell on a phony plumbing task, locked him in, and escaped. Sullivan had pleaded guilty to second degree grand larceny and was awaiting sentencing for stealing an electric saw from a farmer near Amboy.
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Mankato
Mankato, Minn
Jay Mickelson
Robert Sullivan
North Mankato
Mickelson
Sullivan
Blue Earth
Amboy
U S Will Meet Threat to Islands, Commander Says
Secretary of Defense Neil McElroy warned that the United States will deter rather than wage war if the Red Chinese escalate. He spoke at an airport upon returning from a Chicago American Legion appearance about the Quemoy bombardment and a possible attack on Nationalist-held territory.
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Washington
Neil McElroy
Far East
Quemoy
McElroy
American Legion
Chicago
Dulles Reviews Far East Crisis Ahead of Report to Eisenhower
Secretary of State Dulles ends a intensive study of the China crisis with Joint Chiefs of Staff to brief President Eisenhower. A Newport conference with the President is planned after a Pentagon briefing back from vacation. The question centers on whether the United States would defend Quemoy and Matsu and other Nationalist islands near Formosa.
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Dulles
Eisenhower
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nathan Twining
Defense Department
Newport
R. I
State Department
Pentagon
United States
Quemoy
Matsu
China
Formosa Strait
U. S
Formosa
State Patrol Expands Fleet With Third Plane
Minnesota State Patrol adds a third aircraft to its traffic enforcement fleet. Chief Paul Martz says the planes will patrol all regions and assist in pursuing speed violators, aided by bright yellow symbols on highways in over 90 locations.
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ST. Paul
Minnesota Highway Patrol
Paul Martz
Truman Warns Soviet War Drive Persisting Since 1945
Former President Truman told the American Legion convention that the Soviet Union has been preparing for war since 1945 and the United States now trails in arms and missiles. He pressed for a stronger defense and warned of a real crisis in the missile age. He condemned reduced U.S. armed forces as a grave mistake and urged readiness to confront total war if needed.
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Chicago
Harry S. Truman
Soviet Union
Truman
United States
The
American Legion
Free World
Defense
Neil McElroy
Legionnaires
Eisenhower OKs 1.1 Billion Public Works Bill
President Eisenhower signed a 1 118128835 public works appropriation, praising essential river harbor flood control and reclamation work while criticizing unbudgeted starts. The bill funds Army Engineers and the Interior Department for dozens of projects, including Minnesota flood control and navigation efforts and planned starts reaching nearly 1% billion dollars.
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R.I
Eisenhower
Congress
Army Engineers
Interior Department
Army Engineer
Reclamation Bureau
Minnesota
Red River
North
St. Anthony Falls
Mississippi River
St. Paul
South St. Paul
Mankato
North Mankato
Lost River
Buffy Brook
Minnesota River Navigation
Boy Struck by Mower Wire Dies in Illinois
Four year old Timothy Forkins of St Charles Township near Chicago died from a copper wire fragment that pierced his forehead while playing near a mower as his father Russell Forkins mowed the lawn. Police reported the rotary mower flung the hidden wire and the boy died of blood loss and infection.
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Evanston
Ill
Timothy Forkins
St. Charles Township
Chicago
Russell
Nationalists Slip Through Red Blockade
The top U S commander on Formosa said American help is coming to meet the Communist threat against the Nationalists. Vice Adm Smoot declined to specify the aid while noting it would require combined Nationalist and U S efforts to overcome the blockade and Red bombardments of Quemoy and nearby islands.
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Taipei
Formosa
U. S
Adm
Roland N. Smoot
United States
Quemoy
Smoot
DFL Candidate Blames Dulles as U S War Risk Grows
Joseph Robbie the Democratic Farmer Labor candidate for 5th District Congress told a Minneapolis ward party gathering that the United States may be lured into war on the Chinese mainland by John Foster Dulles blundering belligerncy. He argued foreign policy in the Far East is being steered toward Chiang Kai Shek.
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Dulles
Robbie
Congress
United States
John Foster Dulles
Joseph Robbie
Minneapolis
Far East
Chiang Kai Shek
Formosa
Ree
Walter Judd
R-Minn
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