Typhoon Lashes Japan Killing 1,500 and Feared Dead
A powerful typhoon struck northern Japan last night leaving an estimated 1,500 dead or missing. The Hakodate harbor disaster on Toyo Maru caused 1,252 aboard casualties and fires wiped out Iwanai as rescue crews combed wreckage along affected coasts.
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John Randolph
Tokyo
Japan
Japan Sea
Hokkaido
Tsugaru Straits
Iwanai
Hakodate Harbor
John C. Randolp
U.S
Misawa
Hakodate
Maritime Safety Force
Alfred H. Stone
Toronto
Canada
Christian Press
Donald B. Orth
Army
Pfc
Frank Goodken
Dubuque
Iowa
Nanaehama Beach
Toyko
Autumn Weather Stays Mild With Light Northeast Showers
The nation experiences fair and mild conditions in most regions. A few light showers affect the Northeast and clouds hover over the northern Great Plains. Thunder showers occur in the southern Rocky Mountains and Gulf Coast. Overnight lows reach 46 in Green Bay and 47 in Alpena.
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Associated Press
Great Plains
Rocky Mountain
Gulf Coast
Green Bay
Wis
Alpena
Mich
Argonne mother welcomes 19th child in Forest County
Mrs. Clara Samz, 37, of Argonne Wisconsin, has given birth to a nine pound boy, the family's 19th child. The brood includes six sons and twelve daughters, and the family grieved a 5 year old son Marty who died last month.
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Argonne
Wis
Clara Samz
Forest County
Marty
Milford High School Boycott Over Desegregation Clash
Ten of eleven registered Negroes attended Milford High School while more than two thirds of 1562 white pupils stayed home amid fears of violence and opposition to racial integration. Dr George R Miller stated fewer than 30 percent of white students reported as Milford police and state troopers maintained order after a weeklong school shutdown.
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Milford, del
Milford High School
George R. Miller
Delaware
Milford
Four Die In Minnesota Weekend Road Crashes
Four people perish in separate Minnesota accidents over the weekend. A father’s car plunged into the Whiteface River near Meadowlands killing his two children and injuring the mother. Another collision near Alexandria claimed Brundell and Berg. Rescue efforts pulled the kids from the river while Bennett and his wife received hospital care. A separate three car crash near Hinckley sent four more to Rush City Hospital.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
David Wood
Grand Rapids
Ida Mae Bennett
Keith Brundell
Nelson
Lavern Harvey Berg
Osakis
Meadowlands
Oliver Bennett
Duluth
Brundell
Berg
Alexandria
Bennett
Rush City
Minn
Hinckley
U. S. 61
Nations Gathering in London on German Rearmament
Western foreign ministers meet in London to decide if West Germany will rejoin the Western defense camp. Dulles pushes for rapid German rearmament within NATO limits while Mendes France seeks a European controlled armament framework. Adenauer expected as talks unfold amid Paris protests and Kremlin propaganda.
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U.S
State Dulles
London
West Germany
Atlantic Alliance
Dulles
Pierre Mendes- France
Paris
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Anthony Eden
Winthrop Aldrich
Mendes-France
Washington
Brussels Pact
Britain
France
Belgium
Luxembourg
Netherlands
Italy
French Assembly
European Defense Community
Kremlin
AFL Expected to Condemn Fund Abusers
The AFL convention in Los Angeles prepares a strong statement to condemn union officials who drain welfare funds. Delegates will back investigations by Senate and House into welfare fund handling and consider broader oversight without pushing federal legislation. Leaders like David Dubinsky and George Harrison have urged curbs on the laws governing funds.
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Norman Walker
Los Angeles
American Federation of Labor Convention
AFL
Senate
House
Eisenhower
David Dubinsky
George Harrison
Dubinsky
CIO
North
Chicago
Des Moines
National Brotherhood of Packinghouse Workers
Don Mahon
McCarthy Crossexamined: Senate to Censure Over Zwicker Abuse
A Senate special committee recommended censure for Senator Joseph McCarthy for contempt toward the Senate and its committees and his alleged abuse of Brig. Gen. Ralph W. Zwicker. The panel also found three other charges insufficient for censure and urged rules against one man hearings. The full Senate will vote at a special session on November 8.
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McCarthy
Senate
Harold Beckley
Watkins Committee
Joseph MacCarthy
R-Wis
Ralph W. Zwicker
McCarthy Committee
Capitol
Washington
Sen
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wisconsin
Special Committee
Select Committee
United States
Army of the United States
Zwicker
New York
Camp Kilmer
N.J
Watkins
Utah
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Dakota
Carlson
Kansas
Stennis
Mississippi
Ervin
North Carolina
McCarth
Subcommittee
Hendrickson
Tragedy at Oakland Farm as Youth Strangled by Rope
An 18 year old Gray Wallace Brooks died on his parents farm near Oakland when a swing rope looped between two pine branches became a noose. He fell while climbing with his sisters and was found unconscious with rope around his neck.
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Austin
Oakland
R. W. Storke
Freeborn County
Carl Lindah
Sanford Egge
Gray
Duluth Branch to Build New Dorms
Contracts totaling $1,388,716 were let for construction of eight dormitory units and a student service center at the University of Minnesota Duluth Branch. The center includes a lounge meeting rooms student offices clubroom cafeteria and a large third floor ballroom. All contracts were awarded to Duluth firms.
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ST. Paul
University of Minnesota
Duluth
Board of Regents
Parking Lot Acquisition Shrouded in Sorrow
A Pittsburgh hotel advertises the acquisition of a new parking lot with the headline Parking is such street sorrow. The notice frames the plan as a response to local parking woes and reflects somber tone in public space development.
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Pittsburgh
Labor Party Conference Opened Divided Over Germany Rearmament
Britain's opposition Labor party opened its conference with unified rhetoric toward Red China while facing inner splits over rearming West Germany. Attlee urged coexistence with the Communist world and proposed inviting Soviet and Chinese leaders to Britain, as Bevanites push against German rearmament. The outcome hinges on resolutions amid strong union backing and the London nine power talks.
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Scarborough
England
Britain
Labor Party
China
Germany
Soviet Union
Red China
Clement Attlee
Aneurin Bevan
Attlee
Peiping
United Nations
Bevan
West Germany
Bevanites
Anthony Eden
London
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