Red sympathizers blamed for Catholic persecutions in North Viet Nam
Vietnamese officials allege Vietminh forces persecute Catholics in the Red River Delta by imposing masses and insignia fees. Vietminh agents deny wrongdoing, claiming Catholics are unmolested. The dispute is tied to a broader propaganda battle and political aims ahead of cease fire elections.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Vietminh
Red River
Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Delta
Five Deaths Found in Plane Crash Wreckage Near Ironton
Rescuers located four soldiers and a civilian pilot killed when a single engine plane exploded and crashed in rugged hills southwest of Ironton Missouri. The men, from Camp Chaffee Arkansas, were on leave to Grand Rapids Michigan. Identifications followed for Earle Simmons Kenneth Vandenberg Frederick Vanderlagt and Jack Hill all from Grand Rapids with pilot Fred Murphy of Fort Smith Arkansas. Cause of the blast remains undetermined.
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Ironton
Ozark
Missouri Highway
Frank Sheible
Camp Chaffee
Ark
Grand Rapids
Mich
Earle W. Simmons
Kenneth M. Vandenberg
Byron Center
Frederick W. Vanderlagt
Jack R. Hill
Hill
Axel
Fred Murphy
Fort Smith
Harriman Enters Gubernatorial Race on Democrat Side
Averell Harriman former mutual security administrator announces he will seek the Democratic nomination for New York governor but plans no active campaign until delegates are chosen at the September state convention He appears alongside Franklin D Roosevelt Jr who has opened headquarters and both are among ten possible candidates Balch surveys public sentiment through a postcard poll
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New York
Averell Harriman
Mutual Security
Democratic Party
Harriman
Citizens Union
WNBT
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
D-Lib
Roosevelt
Richard H. Balch
Pennsy Girl Inmates Break Out Of School
Six girl inmates from Pennsylvania Training School at Morganza escaped their cottages twice last night and were returned to Washington County Jail.
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Pennsy Girl
Washington
Pennsylvania Training Scnce
Morganza
Washington County
Deadlocked Senate to resume AEC talks today
Fresh from a long session senators moved to resume discussions on atomic energy control. Senate leaders signaled willingness to bargain but a clear compromise remained uncertain as Knowland and Johnson proposed different limits on debate.
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Senate
Washington
Weber
Knowland
California
White House
Gore
Sen. Gore
Dtenn
Lyndon Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Sen
Morse
Indore
Congress
Eisenhower Labor Drive Aims at Union Votes This Fall
Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell leads a push to win union votes for the Republican ticket. He plans seven major union appearances before November and a radio-TV script touting pro labor policies. The plan invites targeted local tailoring to each congressman and region.
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Washington
Eisenhower
James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
New York
Congress
John Dooms
Red China Silent After British Liner Shot Down
Peiping radio made no comment on the July incident over Hainan where fighters shot down a British air liner. London lodged a formal protest. Canton reported a warning to foreign military aircraft to stay away from the area. A U.S. Air Force plane rescued nine survivors, one later died.
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Tokyo
Red China
Hainan
Peiping Radio
London Foreign Office
Peiping
Canton
U.S
Jack T. Woodyard
Hainan Island
London
Foreign Office
Teenager Kills Boy Friend At Hampton Drive In
In Hampton Virginia a 14 year old girl fired a miniature 22 caliber pistol at her 16 year old companion while they sat in a car at a drive in theater. The bullet pierced his body just under the right collar bone and he died within minutes. The girl was charged on a juvenile petition and released on bond for a hearing August 4 at Hamp ton Juvenile Court. She claimed she had never held a gun before and that Kulman handed her the weapon then told her to pull the trigger. Kulman, a Brooklyn native who moved to Newport News seven years ago, died at the scene.
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Newport News
Harvey Kulman
Paul J. Parker
Hampton Juvenile Court
Philadelphia
Kulman
Brooklyn, N
Miami jail fugitive questioned in Virginia rape kill case
Miami jail fugitive Norman E. Buchanan 28 was arrested at Gate City Virginia for questioning about the rape and killing of Judith Ann Roberts July 7 in Miami. Detective Charles Sapp identified Buchanan who escaped from the Miami stockade in February after a 109 day of a 420 day sentence.
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Fla
Gate City
Judith Ann Roberts
Charles Sapp
Norman E. Buchanan
Miami Stockade
Buchanan
Sapp
Judith Ann
James Roberts
Baltimore
Harry Rosenberg
Chester Eldredge
India Accepts Chair of Indo China Cease-fire Commission
NEW DELHI July 25 Prime Minister Nehru announced India has accepted the chairmanship of the three nation Indo China Cease-fire Supervisory Commission. The announcement confirms India's leading role in overseeing the truce efforts with China and outlines the commission's supervisory duties and regional scope.
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New Delhi
India
Nehru
Indochina
Texas Campaign Hues Tilt Toward Runoff For Governor
Governor Allan Shivers and Ralph Yarborough appear headed to a runoff in Texas Democratic primary as Shivers leads by 17 158 votes with 1 273 100 counted and 60 000 to 80 000 still to tabulate. If no candidate wins a majority, the Aug 28 runoff will decide the governorship.
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Dallas
Tex
Allan Shivers
Ralph Yarborough
Texas
Shivers
Yarborough
Texas Election Bureau
Robert L. Johnson
Democratic Party
Far East Tension Shapes Ike Rhee Talks Ahead
Washington reviews sharpened risks as Syngman Rhee travels to meet President Eisenhower and top officials. Plans on Far East military cuts may be revised, amid Red pressure over Formosa and Hainan, with Rhee seeking expanded U S aid to raise Korea to 35 to 40 divisions and add jets and ships.
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Far East
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Eisenhower
U. S
United States
Formosa
Peiping
Chiang Kai-shek
Joint Chiefs of Staff
U. S.S
Indochina
Rhee
Seoul
White House
Defense Wilson
Adm
Arthur Radford
James A. van Fleet
Vietminh Launch General Assault on Nha Trang Coast
Saigon reports Vietminh forces attacked Nha Trang on the China Sea coast 180 miles northeast of Saigon, with sabotage on bridges. Attacks also flare at Phu My Vietri in the Red River Delta and Qui Nhon Tuy Hoa as French air power is deployed. The cease-fire north of the partition line is set to begin Tuesday at 7 am.
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Indochina
Nha Trang
China Sea
Geneva
Hanoi
Phu My
Vietri
Red River
Capricious Crow Gobbles Garden TV Cop Wait
A crow that disrupted a garden prompted a police call. Officers found neighborhood children had coaxed the tame bird into W. T. Hall’s home where it watched TV perched on a piano. The crow was taken to the station as a jail bird, with plans to rehome it.
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George Hanna
Bobby Jones
Tabor
Myles
Sergeant Jones
British Protest Over Cathay Pacific Flight Downing
London reports British Charge d Affaires Humphrey Trevelyan delivered a note to Peiping protesting the Friday shooting down of a Cathay Pacific airliner off Hainan Island. Ten people died. Britain says the fighters could only be Chinese.
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Hainan
United States
Red
Eisenhower
London
Humphrey Trevelyan
China
Hainan Island
Foreign Office
Peiping
Britain
Pilot Describes Aftermath Of Attack Off Red China
U S Air Force Captain Jack Woodyard recounts the rescue of survivors from a downed airliner near Hainan Island as two carrier groups hang nearby. A 6 year old girl, Chinese woman, and other passengers are pulled aboard the SA16 Albatross amid large seas and debris, with injuries and shock reported among the survivors.
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Hainan Island
Woodyard
Hong Kong
Philip Brown
Clark
Washington, D.C
U.S. Air Force
Airman 20
Stevenson Blames U S Policy For Indochina Fallout
Anchorage July 26 Adlai E Stevenson charged that U S policy defaulted and France salvaged what she could in Indochina as he criticized the administration and right wing Republicans for failing to negotiate or fight. He said colonialism in Asia died with World War II and blamed France for the misfortune.
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Alaska
Adlai E. Stevenson
U. S
France
Indochina
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Democratic Party
Anchorenge
Democrats
McKinley National Park
China
Free Asia
Orient
Russia
Asia
Body found in Bath County thicket near Warm Springs
The body of Ralph Joseph Welchel, 28, of East Point Georgia, was found by Alvin Byrd and Lawson Sivley in a thicket near a creek on a Bath County farm about 20 miles from Warm Springs. An autopsy is planned. Welchel had left home May 24 with about 355 dollars to enroll at Asbury College Wilmore Kentucky and had not been heard from since.
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East Point
Bath County
Leo Lockridge
Ralph Joseph Welchel
Jefferson Court
Loasiepe
Bath
Alvin Byrd
Lawson Siviey
Otis
Lockridge
Georgia
Welchel
Asbury College
Wilmore
Welcher
Eisenhower Says Masses Long For Peace Amid Global Tensions
President Eisenhower declares it is only governments that are stupid and that masses in all nations long for peace. He defends spiritual values of the free world and contrasts them with the Communist world during a World Christian Endeavor convention address at the Mayflower Hotel. He warns free peoples must unite to meet opposition led by force and state surveillance.
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Eisenhower
MVD
International Christian Youth Association
Mayflower Hotel
God Bless America
The
World Organization
Daniel A. Poling
Philadelphia
Camp David
Maryland
Family Perishes As Fire Sweeps Birmingham Home
A Birmingham family of six died when a fire destroyed their dwelling. Alfred Betts and five of his children perished. Mrs Betts escaped from a bedroom window with a four month old baby in her arms, suffering injuries.
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Birmingham
England
Alfred Betts
Runaway Groom In Court Today
Percy William Herman, 49, faces in court pretrial moves over illegal interstate transport of cash and jewels belonging to his former bride Dyell Prather Havens of Palm Beach. Seized assets totaling 213500 and jewelry are at issue. Herman seeks suppression with government opposition. Havens, 67, alleged he fled after a brief Palm Beach marriage, later annulled.
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Richmond
Percy William Herman
Federal District Court
Herman
Dyell Prather Havens
Palm Beach
Fla
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Hermee
U. S
James R. Moore
New York City
Sterling Hutcheson
Hutcheson
Kathleen M. Nagler
FBI
Havens
Stafford County
Four Die in River Bottom Gas Line Blast Near Savannah
Rescue teams ended 24 hours of dragging and reported four dead and one injured after a premature dynamite blast under the Tennessee River near Savannah. The victims were H. W. Pearson, W. C. Hocutt, Elmer Russell, and H. S. Justice. Surviving crew member Milton Swain, 28, was rescued in fair condition at a Hardin County hospital. Joe Hamm of Tennessee Gas said the blast occurred as the crew drilled into an existing dynamite hole beneath the river.
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Tenn
Tennessee
H. W. Pearson
Birmingham
Ala
W. C. Hocutt
Winfield
Elmer Russell
Tennessee Gas
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