Freight Wreckage To Be Cleared Today
New Haven railroad officials expected wreckage from yesterday’s freight train derailment near State Street extension to be cleared by 6 this morning. Repair crews worked through the night, moving 22 ton box cars as two locomotives and 123 cars were involved. Service was restored for some passengers by 3:25 p.m., with late trains 15 to 20 minutes behind schedule. Police and fire crews maintained a cordon as cranes lifted derailed cars and track work continued amid heat and mosquitoes.
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New Haven
New York
State Street
Bridgeport
Burr‘road
Babébound
Pssenger
Neal
New’ York
Norwalk
Danbury
C. S. Shannon
The
West End
Skywatchers Report Spot Sputnik III Over Bridgeport Area
Skywatchers in Bridgeport and vicinity reported sighting the Russian satellite Sputnik III over the area last night. Officials said the 1.5 ton object flashed across the sky 45 to 50 degrees above the horizon with rapid dimming and brightening as it orbited about 130 miles high.
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Bridgeport
Mignoak Yeater Gay
Sputnik III
Sqouin-Weslietn
Notin
Robert L. Brown
Milford
New Haven
Boston
Joseph Sidleau
Wilson Road
Brown
John
Mr. Sidleau
Mr. Brown
New Haven State Teachers College
Fear U S Columnist Slain in Iraq Rioting
Sausalito California July 15 AP State department said wildlife columnist Eugene Burns unofficially reported killed in Baghdad yesterday during Iraq revolutionary rioting. Embassy in Baghdad said Burns death informally reported by third persons. State department relayed to wife Olga Burns there is no verification. Burns was Associated Press correspondent in Pacific during World War II and telephoned Pearl Harbor news to AP San Francisco bureau.
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Burns
Associated Press
Pacific
Pearl Harbor
San Francisco
Probers reject Goldfine plan as House hammers questions
House investigators rejected Bernard Goldfine's proposal to seek a U S court ruling on the committee's questions. Chairman Oren Harris said a second case involving political interference was found and sent to the House Armed Services committee.
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Washington
House
Bernard Goldfine
special-House
Oren ‘Harris
D-Ark
Goldfine
Harris
Sherman Adams
Oe Harris
Mill
Ag‘ Raylairie
Worsted, Inc
Manchester
N.H
House Armed Services Committee
Congress
John Bell
Greenwich man kills friend of wife then commits suicide
George Bartlett a 48 year old Greenwich man shot and killed Alfred Ludovicy outside the home of his estranged wife Dorothy 37, then killed himself after firing at Bartlett's daughter Jo Anne 17 who was wounded in the foot. The fireman who intervened seized the weapon. Police say Bartlett had recently separated from his wife and had lived with a sister in Greenwich. Ludovicy is estranged from his wife and has a 14 year old son. Jo Anne remained at Norwalk Hospital in good condition.
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Norwalk
Greenwich
George Bartlett
River Wroad
Flax Hill Road
Dorothy
Alfred ' Ludogiey
Ludovicy
Bartlett
Anne
Ludovieys
Peter Cole
Gertrude Wagner
Flax Hill ‘Rodd
Jo Anne
Stamford
Norwalk Hospital
William H. McMahon
Magner
Downtown Redevelopment Group Emerges From Merchants Meeting
About fifty attendees at the Hotel Barnum formed the Downtown Redevelopment Association after a meeting addressing a parking refund plan and downtown revival. Vernon Behn was elected president with plans for a follow up meeting within ten days to advance the refund proposal and address two-way traffic on State Street and Fairfield Avenue.
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Vernon, C. Behn
Hotel Barnum
Downtown Redevelopment Association
State Street
Fairfield ‘Avenue
Louis Levine
June Business Gains Signal Broad Economic Recovery
The June reports show gains across most business sectors with the Federal Reserve index of industrial production up to 130 percent of the 1947-49 average, marking the second monthly rise after a low in April. Personal income rose to a seasonally adjusted annual rate of 351.8 billion dollars, just shy of last August’s peak.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Commerce Department
Marines Land in Lebanon to Bolster Regime
U S Marines landed ashore in Lebanon and formed a beachhead for peace in the Middle East. The United States sought UN action to protect Lebanon from aggression while warning of possible broader intervention. Between 1,000 and 1,500 Marines were in country with 5,000 planned, as regional turmoil worsened following Iraq’s revolt and officials’ killings.
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Lebanon
Pacific Force Put on Alert in Middle East Crisis
Honolulu July 15 AP The United States Pacific Command headed by Adm Felix B Stump was placed on alert at Pearl Harbor due to the Middle East crisis. The announcement said the Pacific Command is in an appropriate condition of alert as the Atlantic Fleet also announced a similar stance. Stump commands about 300000 men across the Pacific theater.
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Honolulu
United States Pacific Command
Middle East
Felix B. Stump
Pearl, Harbor
Pacific Command
Atlantic Fleet
Stump
Pacific
Rebels Free Seven of 29 Hostages in Cuba Crisis
Cuban rebels at Guantanamo began releasing captives from the 29 American servicemen held by the summer revolt. A second batch is anticipated after two U S Navy helicopters evacuated the first seven victims from the rebels highland stronghold.
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Guantanamo
Cuba
U. S. Navy
Cuban crew kidnapped by rebels near naval base
A bus of U.S. military servicemen was seized by rebels on June 26 near the naval base. The Cuban bus driver was freed today as U.S. consular officials led a week long negotiation to secure the sailors and Marines' return. Rebels had earlier released American and Canadian civilians.
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U. S. Naval Base
U.S
Crivan
Naval
United States Urges UN to Form Lebanon Military Force
The United States requests the UN Security Council to create an international military force to protect Lebanon's independence. Russia condemns the move and warns it could lead to global war, while the U.S. says forces stay until the UN can assume Lebanon's independence.
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United Nations
N. Y
United States
Jan International
Lebanon
U.S
UN Security Council
Soviet Union
Council
Russia
Middle East
Dag Hammarskjold
Addi
Marines Airlift From Cherry Point To Lebanon Crisis
The Atlantic Fleet began an air lift of Second Marine Division assault Marines from Cherry Point to reinforce Sixth Fleet Marines who landed in Lebanon earlier in the day. An Atlantic Fleet spokesman said undisclosed numbers arrived aboard Marine Corps transports for an undisclosed destination bound for the Mediterranean area. The Defense Department confirmed the Marines are headed for an intermediate destination in the Mediterranean.
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Norfolk
Atlantic Fleet
Cherry Point
N. C
Sixth Fleet
Lebanon
Marine Corps
Second Marine Division
Mediterranean
Washington
Defense Department
New Haven Road Criticized At Commuter Service Hearing
A Connecticut subcommittee hearing in Darien heard heavy criticism of the New Haven railroad over a possible tax subsidy. Greenwich official sited tax disparities with New York areas, while supporters discussed potential rate rises. Local commuters argued service costs rise faster than fares.
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New Haven Road
Darien
New Haven‘ Railroad
Intergovernmental Commission
The
Connecticut General Assembly
Rep
J. Tyler Patterson Jr
Old Lyme
Westport
Greenwich
New York City
Thomas J. Early
Fairfield County
George Alpert
Etsy
Greenwich First Selectman
Griffith E. Harris
Connecticut
New York
Westchester County
U S vows more aid if needed over Lebanon crisis
President Eisenhower pledged additional U S troops if required as 5000 Marines moved to Lebanon to aid the pro Western government. He warned of risks of intervention and accused Russia and Nasser's Arab Republic of fomenting the threat. The United States placed strategic forces on alert and canceled leaves.
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Eisenhower
U.S
Lebanon
Korea
Ike
Russia
Moscow
United Nations
New York
U.S. Atlantic
Nasser
Arab Republic
Mid East
China
Indona
Iraq
Congress
Mideast
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