Nine Killed As Flying Boxcar Crashes Into Homes
A C119 Flying Boxcar on a routine night flight crashed near Charleston Air Force Base striking three houses in Liberty Park. Nine or more victims were reported among airmen and civilians. four civilian bodies were recovered. Survivors listed include pilots and crew from multiple states. the scene saw flaming debris and a tail elevator left hanging in a tree.
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Charleston
S. C
Charleston Air Force Base
Base Public Information Office
Liberty Park
Air Force
Robert L. McNeal
Windber
Francis L. McShane
North Charleston
James John Maher
Wilkes-Barre
C. Keith Halls
Smoot
Wyo
John W. Glahn
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert B. McGovern
Lubbock
Tex
William Rich
Asheville
N. C
Thomas P Korshalla
East Plymouth
James C. Miller
Houston
Lawrence G. Bradley
Buena Park
Calif
E.c
Bobby H. Bruce
Tennessee
456Th
18Th Air Force
David Nelson
U N Flier Bumpas Freed After Week In Captivity
Lt. Guy H. Bumpas an Air Force flier shot down by Communist gunners was freed and walked unaided across a bridge near the Korean truce line. He and observer Capt. Charles W. Arnold were flown to an Inchon hospital. Bumpas had a fractured skull and facial injuries.
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Kumhwa
Korea
Guy H. Bumpas
Air Force
Bumpas
Assenger
Army
Charles W. Arn
West
Louisville
United Nations Command
Brown
Army Hosiital
Inchon
Seoul
Jackson
Miss
Red
Reds
North Korea
Red China
Peiping
Demilitarized Zone
French air cover assaults Moroccan stronghold in mountains
French armored columns supported by fighter planes struck Berber mountain strongholds east of Oued Zem as 4,000 tribesmen attacked Oued Zem. French officials warned of high casualties possibly reaching 1000 in Morocco, with Algeria also suffering hundreds dead. Gen. Raymond Duval was killed in a plane crash.
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Casablanca
Rabat
Meknes
Kasba Talda
Oued Zem
Morocco
Algeria
Atlas Mountains
Abd el Krim
Marakech
Kenifra
Khourighba
Raymond Duval
Capsizing Of Vessel Is Probed In Maryland Inquiry
Coast Guard board of inquiry resumed the case into the Levin J Marvel capsize near Annapolis with 14 dead. Skipper John H Meckling, survivor and former fireman, testified about using an auxiliary powerboat to move the 128 foot vessel while declaring the craft not a passenger vessel at the time. Officers noted Marvel’s lack of federal inspection under 700 gross tons and 100 ton passenger rules.
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Baltimore
Levin J. Marvel
Coast Guard Board of Inquiry
John H. Meckling
Chesapeake Bay
Marvel
Alfred W. Kabernagel
Meckling
Kabernagel
Annapolis
E. H. Thiele
H. C. Moore
John Ferguson Jr
Gore
Kabernagle
Kling
En Gary
Ind
Coast Guard
North Carolina Sees July Record 8.467 Million Chickens
The State Crop Reporting Service reported a July record of 8,467,000 commercial chicks hatched in North Carolina, surpassing last July's 6,586,000. The gain indicates strong poultry output for the month.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Atlanta Lawyer Gambrell Elected ABA President
Smythe Gambrell of Atlanta elected president of the American Bar Association for the coming year, succeeding Loyd Wright of Los Angeles at the 78th annual meeting. Gambrell has 33 years of practice in Atlanta, taught at Emory, and founded the Atlantic Legal Aid Society. He and his two lawyer sons are prominent in the profession.
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Philadelphia
P.E. Smythe Gambrell
Atlanta
The
American Bar Assn
Loyd Wright
Los Angeles
ABA House of Delegates
Joseph D. Stecher
Toledo
Ohio
Harold H. Bredell
Indianapolis
Gambrell
Belton
S. C
ABA
Association
Conference of Bar Association Delegates
House of Delegates
Indian Envoy Targeted Over Racial Ban in Houston Restaurant
India's ambassador to the United States G L Mehta and his secretary B A Rajagopalan were asked to move from the main dining room of Horizon House Restaurant by supervisor Mary Alley who said she thought they were Negroes. The Houston Post cited six witnesses confirming the request and noted Texas law forbidding mixed dining and a federal contract banning discrimination at the airport. The pair, en route to Mexico City from Washington, complied and left for a smaller room. They departed before reporters could reach them.
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Houston
Tex
India
United States
Mary Alley
Frank Gibler
Alley
Texas
Houston Post
Gaganvihari Lallubhai Mehta
B. A. Rajagopalan
Mrs. Alley
Mexico City
Washington
Living Costs Rise Second Straight Month
The government reports July living costs rose for the second straight month with the consumer price index up three tenths of a percent. Food and service prices increased, lifting wages by about one cent per hour for roughly 650,000 GM and Ford workers under index linked contracts.
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Washington
General Motors
Ford Motor Companies
Mother Gives Away Daughter In Bar Incident Leads to Kidnap Report
Cleveland police held Wanda Jo Patty 20 of Knoxville Tennessee after she reportedly gave her 23 month old daughter Patricia Ann Patty to a stranger in a bar. She later told officers she was dying and was found unconscious on a lawn. After hospital treatment for malnutrition and shock she said the baby had been kidnapped.
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Cleveland J
Wanda Jo Patty
Knoxville
Mario
Patricia Ann Patty
City Hospital
Vasquez
Creeks Flood Fayetteville Streets After Early Storm
In Fayetteville North Carolina a near cloudburst sent two creeks through low areas flooding streets and washing out sections. The Red Cross opened a refugee center at a Negro USO center as residents evacuated. Fire crews rescued about a dozen families while several small dwellings flooded near Cross Creek. The Lumberton area reported over four inches of rain and rising rivers threatening homes.
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Fayetteville
N.C
Red Cross
Highway Patrol
Cora Lillian
The
Col
Hand Larsen
Cross Creek
Carl Cain
Lumberton
Lumber River
Johnny McNeill
South
Lumabel
Eisenhower Pledges Aid and Red Cross Drive for Flood Areas
President Eisenhower pledges a special Congress session if needed to fund flood relief for northeastern states. He calls on the public to give quickly to the Red Cross, cites a plan for long term flood prevention, and notes an initial emergency fund estimate of 75 million dollars.
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Conn
Eisenhower
Congress
Red Cross
Roland Harriman
North
South Carolina
Jadley Airfield
Peterson
Vast Flood Damage Seen Across Northeastern States
President Eisenhower surveyed flood wreckage as the Northeast faced heavy losses. Death tolls by state included Pennsylvania 93, Connecticut 60, Massachusetts 13, Rhode Island 1, New Jersey 6, New York 4, Virginia 3. Connecticut feared the worst. Ribicoff projected damage "well over a billion."
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Associated Press
Eisenhower
Denver
Pennsylvania
New Jersey
New York
Connecticut
Massachusets
Rhode Island
Massachusetts
Virginia
Abraham A. Ribicoff
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U.N
Strauss
Man Heads Bar Association
Geneva
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Russia
AEC
U.S
United Nations
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