High Point Man Killed as Tank Explodes Near Airport
Rufus Whitakey of High Point superintendent of the High Penn Co. was killed in an explosion that rocked the Greensboro High Point Airport area. Several others injured, one seriously, as 1,500 gallon tank likely exploded. Firefighters rushed to rescue victims and extinguish the blaze.
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Rufus Whitakey
High Point
High Penn OU Co
Greensboro-High Point
Ares
High-Penn Co
Guilford College Rd
Guilford and
Sedgefield
Whitaker
Allies To Test Red Sincerity in Coming Talks
The United States and major European allies propose a test of Soviet peace aims through a sequence of international conferences. The plan includes the UN Disarmament subcommittee meeting in New York on Aug 29 and a Geneva four power foreign ministers meeting starting Oct 27.
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Washington
United States
United Nations
Russia
Moscow
Britain
France
West Germany
Bulganin
Austria
Germany
Hungary
Romania
U.N
U.S
Eisenhower
Stalin
Adenauer
Geneva
Saar Group Seeks to Head Off Rioting
The Saar Plebiscite Commission met to prevent further rioting surrounding the October vote on the Saar’s future. A pro German party rejected a proposed truce. other pro German factions refused armistice. Rioters wounded 31 people, including 12 police, during protests sparked by Premier Hoffmann’s calls for Europeanization.
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Saarbruecken
Saar
Fernand Dehousse
Belgium
Communist Party
Jonannes Hoffmann
West Germany
France
Terror Campaign Shocks Moroccan Mine Town Oued Zem
In Oued Zem near Casablanca a 4,000 tribesmen allied with 2,000 townspeople attacked the mining town. They killed about 50 Europeans, burned houses, and damaged infrastructure. Foreign Legionnaires restored control by evening. damage tallied at about 300,000 dollars. France faces wider unrest as Moroccans outnumber troops.
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Morocco
Atlas Mountains
East Africa
Ala
Casablanca
Oued Zem
Foreign Legion
Sultan
Mohammed Ben Youssef
Smaala
France
Ben Youssef
Foreign
Frene Co
Reserve Pilot Dies In Crash
A 21-year-old Naval Reserve pilot from Macon died when his F4U Corsair crashed into a pine thicket near the Atlanta Naval Air Station. Lt. (j.g.) John Hume Hume was aboard. The engine reportedly failed on takeoff as he tried to return to base. Survivors include a sister Mrs Donald Mundale of Asheville North Carolina and a brother William Godfrey Hyrne Jr. of Norfolk Virginia.
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Atlanta
Naval Reserve
Macon
Atlanta Naval Air Station
J.g
John Hume Hume
Navy Public Information Office
Donald 0. Mundale
Asheville
N.C
William Godfrey Hyrne Jr
Norfolk
Wreck clears after 110 car L and N freight pileup
About 100 crewmen from two Louisville and Nashville work trains spent the night clearing scattered wreckage after 40 freight cars piled up at an abandoned Delrose Tennessee station. One building was demolished as the northbound 110 car freight broke down. No injuries were reported. The cause of the wreck was a boiler ace.
French Troops Strike Rebels in North Africa Toll Feared Heavy
French forces led by troops and Foreign Legionnaires used tanks and planes against rebel bands in Morocco and Algeria amid weekend raids that left an estimated up to 1,000 dead. Riots flared nationwide as Aix les Bains talks begin on greater self rule for the protectorate.
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Casablanca
Morocco
Foreign
North Africa
Althouw
Paris
Algeria
Edgar Faure
Antoine Pinky
Aix Les Bains
Oued Zem
Tadla
Legion
Marrakesh
Mediterranean
Aide Questions Ike Run as 1956 Race Uncertain
White House aide Howard Pyle says President Eisenhower has not indicated plans for a 1956 campaign. Pyle notes a free for all if Eisenhower runs, with Nixon as a possible candidate. Pyle, ex Arizona governor and now presidential assistant, does not know if Stevenson can be defeated.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Cern
Howard Pyle
Pyle
Arizona
Nixon
Adlai Stevenson
Egyptian Soldiers Are Killed in Gaza Border Clash
Egyptian military officials report three Egyptian soldiers killed and five wounded in a 2%hour exchange of fire with Israeli forces near Gaza. The clash occurred as Maj. Gen. Burns prepared to visit Cairo for frontier talks and follows an Israeli claim of an Egyptian post being fired on near the demarcation line.
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Gaza
Palestine
Salah Gohar
Egyptian War Ministry
Palestine Department
Cairo
Edson L. M. Burns
Canada
U. N. Truce Supervision
Salah
Haman
Egypt
United Nations Ed Armistice Commission
Jerusalem
Gaza Strip
Israel
U. N
Swedes Spot Submarines Off Coast
Swedish navy reports a freighter sighted three unidentified submarines off the east coast near Finngrundets lightship Gavie in the Gulf of Bothnia. Submarines followed the freighter for twenty minutes before submerging, with no lights or markings observed.
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Stockholm
Sweden
Finngrundets
Gavie
Gulf of Bothnia
Baltic
Deserters To Return
Deserter Murray Fields of New York City, missing since June 1948 from Nuernberg Germany, reappears as one of three Americans to be released by Russia. Army records list him as Murray Feingersch and identify Cornish as deserters, to be arrested and tried upon return to U.S. custody.
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Heidelberg
Germany
U.S
Murray Fields
New York City
Russia
Nuernberg
Fields
2Nd Constabulary
State Department
Vienna
Army
Murray Feingersch
Cornish
Soviets May Seek Larger Trade Share in Adenauer Talks
West Germany eyes bigger sales to the Soviet Union as Konrad Adenauer plans a Moscow visit next month. Bonn officials say Moscow seeks normal relations and a large trade turnover, but industrialists warn delivery risks and limited current exports.
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Germany
Soviet Union
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Moscow
Russia
Adenauer
Kremlin
Bonn
Orang
Connes
Soviet Bloc
Ike Plans Aerial Flood Inspection
President Eisenhower announced plans to survey hurricane and flood damage by air, flying from Denver to Hartford to confer with E. Roland Harriman of the American Red Cross. Governors of flood ravaged states invited. relief funds urged.
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Denver
Hower
Eisenhower
White House
Hartford
Conn
E. Roland Harriman
American Red Cross
Red Cross
Washin
American Assn
Philadelphia
Washington
Iselphia
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Connecticut
Port Jervis
New York
Columbine III
Bradley Airfield
Harriman
Crippled Freighter Is Towed Toward Scottish Shore
A 7133 ton British freighter, battered by gale and listing, was towed toward Scotland by salvage tugs Salveda and Nickerts as its captain and mate abandoned ship after 53 hours aboard. Salvage terms depend on port arrival and the ship is not declared derelict. A second tug stood by but could not reach the vessel.
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London
George
Nickerts
Northeast Flood Toll Mounts as Rescue Efforts Continue
The Associated Press reports a rising death toll near 200 with 130 still missing across Pennsylvania Connecticut and neighboring states after floods devastated towns like Torrington and Putnam. Homes factories and bridges were destroyed while emergency aid measures including typhoid serum drops and dry ice supply refrigeration were deployed.
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Associated Press
Pennsylvania
Connecticut
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
New Jersey
New York
Virginia
Torrington
Conn
Putnam
Benson Praises Soviet Farm Chiefs During Washington Visit
Secretary of Agriculture Benson lauded visiting Soviet farm chiefs as peace ambassadors amid a six week tour of American farms. He urged applying U S agricultural advances to Soviet farms while stressing that free enterprise underpins American abundance and farmer independence.
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Washington
Benson
America
Agricultural Research Service
Soviet Union
Atomic Power On Way Fast
At the atoms for peace conference, nations outlined timelines for nuclear power. The United States cites 15 to 20 years to general competitiveness with conventional fuels, Britain foresees 40 percent of electricity from nuclear by 1975, and Russia aims for several hundred kilowatts of power by 1960 plus a 100 000 kilowatt plant. The meeting highlighted US reactor plans and a first peacetime Russian reactor, with optimism for rapid global adoption in coming decades.
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Geneva
United States
Canada
Britain
Russia
Ueed
Sor Atomic P
Homi Bhabha
India
Bhabha
Aia
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