Hollywood Mourns Suzan Ball and Carmen Miranda
Suzan Ball died at 21 from cancer in Beverly Hills after a long illness linked to a knee injury in 1953. Carmen Miranda, 41, died in Beverly Hills from heart failure after a strenuous day filming with Jimmy Durante, leaving widower producer David Sebastian.
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Hollywood
Suzan Ball
Carmen Miranda
Miss Ball
Valiant Suzan
Beverly Hills
Miss Miranda
Ard Long
David Sebastian
Humboldt picnic for Monarch cement plant workers honors accident-free year
A Thursday gathering at Humboldt's Community Park fed 1100 to 1200 attendees with 400 pounds beef and baked ham 250 dozen buns 125 dozen cupcakes 3000 celery and 3000 carrot sticks 75 pounds butter 16 gallons relish plus beans chips coffee tea and ice cream. A plant official said the crowd included carrying age children and a professional entertainment program closed the event.
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Humboldt's
Monarch Cement Plant
Showers Reach Some Regions As Heat Relents
The Associated Press reports scattered showers and cooler air relieved heat in parts of the Midwest while the Eastern and Southern regions remained hot. Western Lake Superior expected to cool toward Lake Ontario tonight, but the South stayed hot. Chicago saw relief from 11 days above 90, yet southern Illinois and Indiana stayed hot. Readings hit 100 in Boston and New York, with 94 in New York City and 97 in Philadelphia. Southwest deserts logged 100 plus in Blythe Thermal and Gila Bend at 104. Northern Plains and Northern Great Lakes stayed in the 60s. The map showed thundershowers from eastern Kansas to the Southern Great Lakes and another from eastern Colorado to the Dakotas.
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Midwest
Lake Superior
Lake Ontario
Chicago
Illinois
Indiana
Boston
New York
LaGuardia
New York City
Philadelphia
Southwest
Desert
Blythe
Thermal
Calif
Gila Bend
Ariz
Delbert Lewis Injured in Beach Steuben Crash
Delbert E. Lewis 1017 N. Garfield sustained left arm abrasions when his car collided with Earl R. Barlow’s vehicle at Beach and Steuben yesterday. Barlow cited for failure to yield. Both cars badly damaged. Lewis car left the roadway and halted after 48 feet.
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Delbert E. Lewis
N. Garfield
Earl R. Barlow
Beach and Steuben
Barlow
Beach
Lewis
Steuben
Curth
Partly cloudy weekend forecast with heat wave in Kansas
The forecast predicts partly cloudy skies and little temperature change through Sunday with highs around 95 to 100 and lows in the 60s to 70s. Showers drenched southeast Kansas last night, with Lecompton 1.63 inches and Trousdale 1.41 inches, Topeka recording 0.94 inches, while western areas stayed hot reaching 100 in Salina and Garden City.
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Topeka
Kansas
Lecompton
Trousdale
Weather Bureau
Goodland
Dodge City
Ira Heize to Apply for Parole on Oct 4
Ira Heize serving up to five years in state prison for grand larceny will apply for parole on October 4. He pleaded guilty in Neosho County District Court at Erie on October 13, 1954, to taking several sacks of feed from the Melton Beckman farm southeast of Galesburg.
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Ira Heize
Lansing
Heize
Neosho County
Erie
Melton Beckman
Galesburg
Armory bids to be opened in Pittsburg for $100000 unit
Topeka announces bids to be opened September 1 for a single unit National Guard armory in Pittsburg. State architect Dwight Brown says the brick or native stone building will cost about $100,000.
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Topeka
National Guard
Pittsburg
Dwight Brown
Dutch engineer calls moon share wealth plan for space cooperation
Simon van Munster of Aviolande Aircraft Factory in Papendrecht says nations must unite to explore the moon and share any findings. He proposes a world wealth division through the UN and UNE and notes IAF has contacts for cooperative space research. He cites a possible 1980 moon reach and stresses global teamwork.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Simon van Munster
Aviolande Aircraft Factory
Papendrecht
Netherlands
van Munster
U. N
International Astronautical Federation
IAF
UNE
Natow
Fall Festival Kicks Off September 29 With Parade Queen Contest
The Junior Chamber of Commerce announces its 12th annual Fall Festival will run September 29 to October 1. Dale Stemple says food and crop exhibits return with cash prizes and ribbons. Entry opens to the trade area as plans for a parade and entertainment unfold, including a JayCee queen contest to select a representative for the American Royal. Dean Skinner and Ralph Walters are general chairmen.
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Junior Chamber of Commerce
Dale Stemple
Stemple
JayCees
Dean Skinner
Ralph Walters
Cloudburst Destroys Barn as Cripple Creek Floods
A one hour cloudburst in Cripple Creek Colorado caused flash floods and a 25 foot crest of rain runoff. Lightning struck the Huston home damaging the attic while a barn owned by August Fry burned in the storm. Sheriff Rufus Jones reports up to three inches of rain fell in an hour.
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Cripple Creek
Colo. U
Rocky Mountains
Marie Huston
Here
August Fry
Huston
Rufus Jones
Colorado Springs
Traffic Fatalities Reported In Topeka Area 1955
State Accident Records Section lists traffic fatalities in the Topeka area in the last 24 hours with figures for today and a comparison to the same period in 1944. The report shows 312 fatalities to date in 1955 and 318 for the corresponding period in 1944.
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Topekap
Kansas
Western Kansas Pair Face Manslaughter
Lamar Colorado man Leonard Milburn and Mrs. Thalma Cook of Garden City face man slaughter charges after a Thursday highway crash. Cook drove Milburn’s car into a bridge abutment, killing 39 year old Finche Ayers of Lakin. Milburn Cook and two other occupants were injured. Cook had prior reckless driving and drunken driving charges.
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Lamar
Colo
Leonard Milburn
Lakin
Kas
Thalma Cook
Garden City
Gov Hall Charges Civil Service Board Members With Neglect
Gov. Fred Hall charges James D. Gilmore and Harold P. Trusler with neglecting duties and aiding violations of civil service laws. A hearing is set for Aug. 18. Emmett S. Graham faces no charges at this time. Gilmore and Trusler deny wrongdoing and refuse to resign.
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Topeka
Fred Hall
State Civil Service Board
James D. Gilmore
Independence
Harold P. Trusler
Emporia
Hall
Emmett S. Graham
Abilene
Gilmore
Trusler
Graham
American Farmers Criticize Russian Farm Methods
Touring U S farmers visited the Stalin collective near Rostov and voiced criticisms to Moscow radio. Delegate Asa V. Clark of Pullman Washington noted grain must be cleaned twice and questioned the efficiency of Ros-Sal-Mash Works machines, saying harvest cleaning was not fully effective.
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London
Rostov
Moscow Radio
Clark
Asa V. Clark
Pullman, Wash
Ros-Sal-Mash
Governor Hall Views Guard Parade at McCoy
Governor Fred Hall of Kansas and Lt. Gov. James T Blair of Missouri observed a parade of the 35th Infantry Division at Camp McCoy Wis. About 9 000 National Guardsmen participate in the annual two week training. A Kansan delegation and Blair's Missourians joined the visit.
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Camp Mccoy
Wis
Fred Hall
Kansas
James T Blair
Missouri
35Th Infantry
Hall
Blair
Air Conditioning Plant Too Hot for Workers
Louisville workers at Marley Co an air conditioning equipment maker quit work as heat rose in the shop. The night shift walked out Wednesday and neither shift has returned until electric fans are installed or weather cools.
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Louisville
Marley Co
Woman Resembling Missing Mrs. Allen Sighted Near Welda
Chanute police watched southbound traffic after a report that a woman resembling Mrs. Wilma Allen of Kansas City was seen in a car at Welda. A Neosho County licensed vehicle stopped for coffee and doughnuts, then headed south on US169 with a woman resembling the missing Kansas City resident aboard.
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Chanute
Wilma Allen
Kansas City
Welda
Neosho County
Mrs Short Hurt In Car Mishap Near Chanute
Mrs. Ella Short of 417 West 3rd was hospitalized with facial cuts a left leg injury after a collision on US 169 north of Chanute last night. Grogan of Chanute stopped behind a stalled circus truck. Chambers car struck Grogan rear. Mrs Short suffered a slight knee fracture and facial lacerations from windshield glass.
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Ella Short
US 169
Chanute
Gary Lee Grogan
B. A. Chambers
N. Steuben
Lige Matlock
Howard Carder
Chanute Police Department
Clarence Sheldon
Lloyd Baker
Highway Patrol
Bandit Refuses Cash From Newark Cleaner
A gunman entered Taft's Cleaners in Newark New Jersey yesterday confronted clerk Mary Madeski with a revolver and asked for money. She opened the register finding only four dollars. He exclaimed is that all and left promising to return later with no cash taken.
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Newark
N.J
Taft's Cleaners
Mary Madeski
Eisenhower Makes Farm Visit. Air Force Plane Details Revealed
President Eisenhower traveled to a Gettysburg area farm in a new blue and white Air Force plane costing about seventy five thousand dollars. He will act on hundreds of post session bills before returning to Washington for a Cabinet meeting.
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Air Force
Congress
Eisenhower
Washington
The
Aero Design & Engineering Co
Bethany
Okla
White House
Denver
Colorado
Search Fails in Missing Wife of Kansas City Auto Boss
Kansas City AP reports no leads in the search for Wilma Allen 34 missing since Thursday during a shopping trip. Her bloodstained clothes and car were found with about three to six hours age blood at a Union Station area parking lot. Her husband, a noted auto dealer, doubts kidnapping for ransom and recalls her warnings to children to scream if strangers tried to enter their car.
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Kansas City
Wilma Allen
Allen
Eugene Pond
Allens
Pond
William Allen Jr
Seventy Three Austrians Freed by Russians Return Home
Seventy three Austrians released from Russian camps arrived at Bad Voeslau near Vienna. They were handed to Austrian authorities with information on their alleged crimes. Two hours after arrival in Vienna, all were released by Austrian officials.
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Vienna
Austria
Bad Voeslau
Overland Park Woman Killed in Headon Crash
Mrs. Harry Bishop, about 57, of Overland Park Kansas, died in a two car headon collision on Highway K10 west of Topeka last night. Her husband 58 and their son Keith Bishop 17 and Paul Phillips 21 Topeka were seriously injured Phillips was alone in his car. He faces reckless driving charges in a prior crash near the same spot.
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Topeka
Harry Bishop
Overland Park
Kas
K10
Here
Keith Bishop
Paul Phillips
Phillips
Man Shot and Killed in Crowded Pennsylvania Station
Patrolman shot and killed a man in crowded Pennsylvania Station during a chase after a $68 garage robbery last night in New York.
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New York
Pennsylvania Station
Hiroshima marks 10th anniversary of atomic destruction
Hiroshima observes the 10th anniversary with an appeal for world peace. About 50,000 people gather at Nakashima Peace Park to honor victims and pray for a future without nuclear war. Mayor Watanabe urges continued global effort toward true peace, as 500 doves are released. Police count 78,150 dead in the bombing.
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Hiroshima
Japan
Nakashima Peace Park
Tadao Watanabe
Two Airmen Die In Car Truck Collision
Two airmen stationed at Forbes Air Force Base Topeka were killed in a car truck collision near Holton Kansas on U S Highway 15. The State Highway Patrol identified the dead as James W Lindsey and Albert W Eudy.
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Holton, Kas
Forbes Air Force Base
Topeka
Holton
U. S. Highway 15
State Highway Patrol
James W. Lindsey
Albert W. Eudy
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