Explosion Damages Homes in Boston Area
A predawn blast in a 25 foot metal shed at a South Boston sewage tunnel project damaged hundreds of homes across South Boston Dorchester Hyde Park Milton Dedham Hull and Squantum. Debris including steel pipes and wooden beams was flung over a wide area injuring one child and causing numerous cuts from flying glass. Police cordoned off the area as investigators searched for the cause of the explosion near a dynamite detonator mound.
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Boston
Dorchester
Hyde Park
Milton
Dedham
Hull
Squantum
South Boston
Barbera Ann Nanyokas
John Madden
Gertrude Young
Air Force C97 limps toward Hawaii after engine loss
An Air Force C97 carrying 65 passengers loses two engines en route to Hawaii and may ditch in the Pacific. The pilot reports five hours four minutes of fuel, with a possible landing at Hilo if tanks stay dry. Coast Guard and Air Force planes race to intercept and escort the troubled transport.
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Honolulu
Air Force
Iawali
Pacific
Hilo
Coast Guard
Military Air Transportation Service
House Sidesteps Civil Rights Bill Decision
The House delays action on the civil rights bill after the Senate passes it 72 to 18. President Eisenhower may seek a special session if he can sign a acceptable measure. Debate centers on a jury trial requirement for criminal contempt in federal courts.
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Senate
House
Martin
Massachusetts
Eisenhower
Congress
Sf Camese
Knowland
California
Eeley Committee
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Russell
Khrushchev Warns West Germany Faces Rocket Threat
Russian Communist party chief Nikita Khrushchev told East German lawmakers that a war over Germany could bring hydrogen rockets against the United States and warned against Western plans to use West Germany as a base. He urged disarmament and condemned Adenauer while backing East Germany’s regime.
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Berlin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Germany
United States
Khrushchev
West Germany
Red Chieftain
Ay Menton
Konrad Adenauer
Kremlin
Adenauer
Russia
Federal
Moscow
East Germany
Spy Abel to be Returned to New York for Deportation Hearing
Abel, described as a top Soviet spy linked to atomic and military secrets, was held in Edinburg for return to New York where he posed as a Brooklyn artist in 1948. He faces deportation after an arrest at McAllen Camp. four Russians were named as coconspirators in the case, with connections to postwar espionage networks.
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Edinburg
Tex
New York
Canada
McAllen
Cotention
Emil R. Goldfus
Brooklyn
Abel
Moscow
Kremlin
Vatali G. Pavolov
Russupa
Ottawa
Alan Nunn May
Klaus Fuchs
England
Julius and
Ethel Rosenberg
U.S
J. C. Hall
FBI
Peer P
Reino Hayhanen
West
Government forecasts 1957 cotton crop at 11.9 million bales
The Agriculture Department projects the 1957 government controlled cotton crop at 11,897,000 bales of 480 pounds gross weight. This compares with 13,310,000 harvested last year and 13,669,000 for the ten year average. The report notes quotas and soil bank program, with reserves near 11.4 million bales. The acre yield is seen at 416 pounds, down from last year and above the ten year average. condition Aug 1 at 21 percent of normal.
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Washington W
Agriculture Department
Soil Bank
British Troops Move to Seize Firq in Oman Clash
British and Sultan of Muscat and Oman forces prepared to storm Firq near Nizwa after a long advance through rough desert. Commanders in Manama reported 250 Sultan troops at Izz with contingents from nine tribes en route to reinforce. Local mines and anticipated resistance raise the stakes as Britain seeks a quick end to the revolt amid regional tensions.
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Sam Pope Brewer
New York Times
Oman
Britain
Muscat
Firq
Nizwa
Fahud
Izz
Brewer
Manama
Bahrain
Persian Gulf
Associated Press
Middle East
Hubert Patch
Bernard Burrows
Sultan Patch
Cyprus
Egypt
Syria
Soviet Union
Saudi Arabia
Blough Defends Steel Prices Before Senate Panel
United States Steel chair Roger M Blough told the Senate Antitrust subcommittee that the recent steel price rise is not inflationary and called the high price of steel a myth. He argued steel remains cheap per pound and cited authorities noting only a negligible effect on cost of living.
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Washington
Roger M. Blough
United States Steel Corp
Blough
Senate Antitrust Subcommittee
Pli
U. Steel
Chile Vy
Ewan Clague
U. S. Commissioner of Labor Statistics
U. S. Steel
J. S. Steel
Uni
Vacationing couple seeks missing daughter in Florida
Navy family from Lindenhurst New York searches for 11 year old Mary Elizabeth Jones who separated from parents near New Bern North Carolina en route to a Florida vacation. The Lenowsky family and a 12 year old Priscilla joined the hunt as authorities track a 1955 white Ford station wagon with New York plates. The parents plan to move toward Deland while keeping highway patrol informed.
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Jacksonville
Flawn
Navy
Florida
Priscilla
Mary Elizabeth Jones
Lenowskys
Jones
Daytona Beach
Deland
Highway Patrol
Lenowsky
New York
New Bern
Lave
Dio Paroled as He Heads to Senate Racketeering Probe
Convicted labor racketeer Johnny Dio leaves New York City Prison on parole to testify before a Senate committee in Washington on racketeering in labor. Dio and two others await sentencing after last month’s conviction on a union shake down conspiracy.
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Johnny Dio
New York City
Washington
Senate
Dio
Dio Faces Questions By Probers In Senate Hearings
Senate Rackets Committee questions racketeer Johnny Dio about a alleged alliance with James Hoffa to gain labor power in New York. Testimony links Dio to infiltrating and guiding phantom Teamster locals with Hoffa aid. Five witnesses named as Dio associates refused to discuss him.
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Washington
Johnny Dio
Senate
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
New York
McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Rackets Committee
Dio
Hoffa
Memop Aeares
Victor Riesel
Midwest
Teamsters Union
Dave Beck
Robert F. Kennedy
Abe Brier
Sidney Hodes
Nat Gordon
McElroy Urged for Speedy Defense Confirmation
Senate leaders endorsed Neil H. McElroy for secretary of defense and urged a swift vote while requiring him to divest from defense contract holdings. McElroy, 52, president of Procter & Gamble, will await a Senate hearing and a final decision after conflict-of-interest reviews.
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Washington
Senate
Neil H. McElroy
Soap Company
McElroy
Procter & Gamble Co
Eisenhower
Charles E. Wilson
White House
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Cincinnati
Wilson
General Motors
Pentagon
Lyndon B. Johnson
Dtex
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Byrd
D-Va
General Electric
Chrysler Corp
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Joseph Nauyokas
Yar
Barbara Ann
Bulletin
America
Otto Grotewohl
N.Y
Committee
Johnson
Procter and Gambie
Harvard
Petoskey
Mich
Jessie Ann Wilson
Michigan
Secretary of Defense
Defense Department
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