Israel Prepares for Any Threat as Border Crisis Mounts
Israeli forces stand ready along the border as Arab massing along Jordan raises concern. Brig. Chaim Laskov is named commander of the southern front with armored units from T-34 tanks seized in Gaza and Sinai. Sunny skies mask the mobilization while kibbutz farmers continue daily life near the Syrian frontier.
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Robert Musel
Israel
Middle East
Sinai Peninsula
Benat Yacov
Syria
Chaim Laskov
Southern Front
Assaf Shimhoni
Laskov
Gaza Strip
Jordan
Laskey
Cool Air in Comeback Smog Lurks in Bay Area Weather
The Bay Area will see cooler weather as fog and a new weather front move in ending a weeklong heatwave. Forecasters warn of a stagnant air mass causing smog, with overcast nights and mornings but mostly fair afternoons. Dense fog yesterday slowed traffic and briefly closed San Francisco airport.
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Pacific
Bay Area
Sweather Bureau
California
Sierra Nevada
San Francisco
Six Britons Found Guilty of Mutiny in Military Trial
Six British army reservists were found guilty of mutiny in a military trial here. The prosecution said the men were disgruntled by their recall to service after Egypt's seizure of the Suez Canal. All pleaded innocent.
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Nncosta
Egypt
Suez Canal
Nightlife Limited Opens in Port Said for Soldiers
Port Said’s two nightspots the Bluebird and Splendide are expected to open to provide French and British soldiers a place to study belly dancers. Doubts exist about staying open after a p.m. curfew as movement after dark is heavily restricted and gun confrontations are common.
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Port Said
Ins
Wight
Bluebird
War Crisis Blamed in Adlai Loss
Democratic National Chairman Butler says Middle East crisis and Ike's popularity propelled Eisenhower to reelection. GOP Chair Hall argues President's popularity doomed GOP bid to regain Congress. Butler cites suburban and Negro vote losses and farm issues as Democratic gains in Congress.
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Washington
Deut M. Butler
Middle East
Eisenhower
GOP
Leonard W. Hall
Congress
Butler
Hall
U. S. News and World Report
Adlaid Stevenson
Democratic Party
Big City
Real Estate Experts Predict Suburban Sprawl and Part Time Farms
California realtor B D Seden at the National Association of Real Estate Boards convected a future of widespread suburban living with lands partly used as farms supplying perishables. He cited farm broker surveys, Agriculture Department data, and county advisers as basis for unprecedented demand for part time farming. Another speaker, John Hall of the Mortgage Bankers Association of America, warned mortgage terms will tighten after a long era of easy money.
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ST. Louis
California
B.D. Seden
Vista
Calif
National Institute of Farm Brokers
National Association of Real Estate Boards
Seden
Reading
Department of Agriculture
County Farm Acvisers
John Hall
Mortsard Bankers Association of America
Birmingham
Ala
Wat
Hall
Leandro Council Tonight Votes on School Walkway Bids
San Leandro officials meet at 7 pm to act on bids for Grover Cleveland school walkway and five properties for off street parking during the Christmas shopping season. The first call drew no bids. a second call is planned with bids due December 20 and opening scheduled for December 24 at 7 pm.
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San Leandro
Grover Cleveland
Increase in Red Code Signals Reported
Allied headquarters in Nicosia report a rise in Russian coded wireless signals to the Middle East. British monitors noted a 26 sword per minute four letter code, clearly Russian, according to informed sources.
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Nicosia
Nals
Middle East
Freeway Car Smash Up Kills Fremont Sailor
A Fremont sailor died early yesterday when his car overturned on Eastshore Freeway just south of the Alameda county line. Manuel Maldonaco Jr. of Centerville, Fremont, 19, died at San Jose hospital from a fractured skull. Four others in the car and eight more in two families nearby suffered minor injuries.
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Fremont
Santa Clara County
Alameda
San Jose’ S Hospital
Manuel Maldonaco ‘Jr
Balboe Way
Centerville
Moffett Field
Seven Children Die in Cincinnati Tenement Fire
A three story brick tenement fire in Cincinnati killed seven children and a 26 year old woman. Police said the blaze spread from a pile of waste near a basement staircase, reaching the roof. Firefighters worked about ninety minutes to control the flames. Victims named include Edne Dyas 26 and James, Beverly, Jocelyn, Arelene Moore, and Johnnetta Clark’s children Larry and Terry Clark.
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Cincinnati
Henry Scott
Scott
Edne Dyas
John
Beverly
Jocelyn
Arelene Moore
James Moore
Arprevi Lous
Larry Clark
Terry Clark
Johnetta
Clark
Stockton Boy Hangs Self at Home
A 12 year old boy, Alan Akers of Stockton, hanged himself from a balcony rope at his home. His parents, Everett and Mrs. Akers, found him dangling after discovering the makeshift noose tied to closet stakes. Police reported no immediate motive and are investigating the tragedy.
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Stockton
INS
Alan Akers
Everett Akers
Thome
Alan
Police Break Up Wild Gang Fight in Richmond
Police dispersed a riot at a drive-in restaurant at 23rd and Esmond streets in Richmond. About 20 youths were involved. Patrolman Walter Coughlin was knocked down and assaulted, treated for scalp wounds at Kaiser hospital.
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Richmond
23Rd
Esmond Streets
Walter Coughlin
Kaiser Hospital
Gunman Admits Robbery Series in Oakland Case
Gaston John Faria of Oakland confessed to a series of liquor store holdups. He admitted pistolwhipping a liquor store owner and his wife during a robbery and was arrested early Saturday in Albany after a $982 liquor store robbery.
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Albany
Oakland
Gaston John Faria
Albury
Record of Hayward Traffic Incidents This Year
In Hayward during the current year and the same period last year there were four fatal traffic incidents in the last seven days. Three pedestrians were injured and two others. total property damage amounted to 3500 dollars. The week’s worst violation cited a driver failing to yield to a marked crosswalk.
Six Traffic Deaths Mar Local Picture
The Record introduces a weekly feature counting traffic fatals in Hayward with this year totaling six fatals through October and injuries rising to 11 percent, while non fatal accidents show improvement. City totals include 455 kinds through October, versus 790 last year.
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Hayward
Six killed in head on crash near Victorville
Six people including an Adelanto family died in a head on collision on US 66 north of Victorville early today. Lorraine Gibbs 25 driver of the Gibbs car, Charles 24, Judith Anne 11 months, Norma Jean Muse 7 were killed. Bobbie Jean Blankenship 26 of Oro Grande and Arnulfo Chavez 22 of Victorville also died when Blankenship crossed into the wrong lane.
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Victorville
Here
California Highway ~Patrol
Lorraine Anne Gibbs
U. S
Oro Grande
Blankenship
Arnulfo Chavez
CHP
Hungary Rebellion Crushed as Soviet Forces Suppress Uprising
Vienna reports the Hungarian freedom fight dwindled after 20 days as 200,000 Soviet troops crushed guerrillas. Famine and chaos followed, with Imre Nagy ousted and János Kádár promising bread while hinting Nagy could be recalled.
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Vienna
UPA
Hungary
Janos Kadar
Moscow
Imre Nagy
Kadar
Nagy
Budapest
Fire Destroys Oakland Plant After Oven Explosion
An industrial oven exploded at Hexcal Products Co in Oakland causing a blaze with over 400000 dollars in damage. The plant at 951 Giftsstreet was a total loss and four workers were on the night shift with Frank Gassway injured by flying debris as more than 100 firefighters fought the blaze.
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Oakland
Hexcal Products Co
Frank Gassway
First of Troops Due Tomorrow
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold announced Egypt would accept a UN police force. The first elements will arrive tomorrow, with Major General Burns coordinating in Cairo. Observers traveled from Jerusalem to Cairo as air raid alerts sounded in the capital. Moscow moves and NATO concerns frame the broader Middle East crisis amid the 1956 session.
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United Nations, N
United Nations
Dag ‘Ammarskjold
Egypt
U.N
Suez Janal
Moscow
Middle East
Hammarskjold
New York
Cairo
U.N. Polase
Naples
Jerusalem
Port Said
U.N. General Assembly
Hungary
London
Baghdad
NATO
Syria
Missing hunter believed dead near Rainbow Lake
Norris Head of Gilroy California went missing October 30 during an elk hunt in Rainbow Lake country northwest of Gunnison Colorado. A blizzard struck two days later and his body, presumed buried in snow, led the sheriff to call off the search.
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Gunnison
Colo
Gilroy
Calif
Rainbow Lake
Here
Norris Head
Two Newsmen Die In Egypt Battle
Paris based report says American photographer David Seymour aged 31 of Magnum Photo Agency and French photographer Dean Roy aged 35 of Paris Match were killed by Egyptian fire while advancing into no man’s land near the Suez Canal in the Kan a area during fighting.
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Egypt
Port Said
Suez Canal
el Cap
Paris
INS
French Defense
No-Man's-Land
Kan
David Seymour
Magnum Photo Agency
Dean Roy
Paris Match Magazine
Chinese Volunteers Register to Aid Egypt War Effort
Hong Kong report says Chinese volunteers begin signing up to assist Egypt in its war against aggression. Premier Chou En-lai promises 600 million Chinese people will lend a helping hand with military medical engineering transport and supplies. A new Chinese workers committee coordinates nationwide registration centers and aid for Egyptian resistance near the Suez Canal. Formosa is labeled part of China and urged to pursue peaceful liberation.
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Hong Kong
Ths
Chou En-lai
Peiping
Egypt
Suez Canal
Formosa
China
Volunteered troops pledge heightens Middle East tension
Israeli sector reports say Russia guaranteed volunteer troops to fight Israel if Syria Jordan or Israel clash. pact signed in Moscow with President Kuwaily promises immediate military economic and political aid. observers link Syrian failure to visit Moscow to empty handed talks and note guerilla activity aimed at provoking Israel.
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Jerusalem
Russia
Israel
Moscow
Shukri Kuwaily
Soviet Union
Zene
Syria
Jordan
Egypt
Kuwatly
Lebannon
Middle East
Nuri El-Said
Iraq
Iran
Turkey
Pakistan
Britain
Arab Leaders Set for Parley in Beirut Conference
Syria President Shakii El Ruwaty and King Saud of Saudi Arabia left Damascus today to join Arab heads of state in Beirut to discuss Middle East tension. The Lebanese president Camille Chamoun called the conference last week and invited leaders of all Arab governments except Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser.
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Damascus
Sytig
Syria
Shakii el Ruwaty
King Saud
Saudi Arabia
Damascug
Middle East
Ces
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