Kansans flee as Kansas River floods break levee
North Topeka evacuated under sirens as a 75 yard breach in a 32 by 40 foot levee unleashed rapid flooding. 1,000 dike workers and volunteers aided evacuation. seven drowned, six missing, and 25 deaths linked to midsummer floods across Kansas and Missouri.
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North Topeka
Kan
Resi
Kansas
Missouri
Forbes Air Base
Ray Kerr
U.S
Kansas River
Ewer
Wat Lems
UN Patrols Open Seven Mile Advance In Korea Front
U N patrols pushed about seven miles into enemy territory on the east central front as communist forces mass near 400000 troops on the west central front. Gen Ridgway stayed near Kaesong as armistice talks lag and airfields and heavy guns moved toward the frontline.
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Korea
U. N
U.N
Matthew B. Ridgway
Kaesong
Tered Oe
Byongeate
Apex Armer
Kumhwa
McAllister
Hamburg
N.Y
Melister
Stock Market Edges Higher On Light Volume
The market posted modest gains mid-session in quiet trading, duplicating yesterday’s low-volume pattern. Gains appeared across steels oils chemicals aircrafts coppers motors rails with names like U S Steel Bethlehem General Motors Kennecott California International Paper Douglas Aircraft lifting fractions.
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New York
Glass Company
Korea
U.S. Steel
Bethlehem
General Motors
Standards
New Jersey
California
Kennecott Copper
International Paper
Douglas Aircraft
DiSalle Considered as Chandler's Successor as Baseball Czar
Washington report says Price Controller Michael V. DiSalle may become baseball's high commissioner at about 65 000 dollars annually after A. B. Chandler resigns. Informed owners plan to meet August 1 to choose the successor. DiSalle declined to confirm or deny the rumor.
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Washington
Michael V. DiSalle
Big League Baseball
Price
A. B. Chandler
Crackles Hint to the vacationer
One of the best little traveling aids you can take along is money.
Dulles unveils soft Japanese peace plan with wide rearmament
The United States publicizes a conciliatory Japan peace treaty draft granting full sovereignty and no cash reparations while allowing rearmament and industrial growth. It swaps Formosa and Okinawa island claims, keeps some bases under U.N. trusteeship, and links security with Australia and New Zealand in a broader Pacific accord.
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Washington —i
United States
Japan
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
Great Britain
San Francisco
U.S
Australia
New Zealand
Formosa
Bonin
Ryukyu Islands
Okinawa
U.N
Mapai
Samni
Russia
China
Pacific
Incident halts Korean truce talks near Kaesong
Reports from Korea describe a pause in cease-fire negotiations as Communists blocked Allied press entry to Kaesong. UN officials demanded access while Red radios failed to reply, signaling a test of good faith. the stand sparked a tense clash over press rights and motion toward Kaesong.
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RED Command
Korea
Real
Gon Py
Boston
Ae Il
Kaesong
United Nations
U.N
Max B. Ridgway Y
Washington
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Joy
Matthew B
Idgway
Horace
Seoul
Native Sons Honored At Centennial Pageant Night
The city’s Centennial celebration continues with the pageant High Point Then and Now tonight at Albion Millis stadium drawing 2000 to 2500. A portrait of John Carter will be presented to the city by Mr and Mrs J O Carter of Garden City Kansas. Mary Lou Culler, Miss High Point, crowned by State Representative O A Kirkman, amid beauty queen attendants. The pageant portrays High Point’s growth from a timbered wilderness to a major industrial city with dance sequences and scenes of Indian village and British occupation.
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Joe Leslie
Enterprise
John Carter
J. O. Carter
Garden City
Kan
Carter
North Carolina Railroad
Albion Millis Stadium
Mary Lou Culler
Joanne Ronk
Chambr of Commerce
High Point
Culler
O. A. Kirkman
Kirkman
Joe Kinley
Barbara Simons
Candy Crawford
Ruth Miller
Doris Porter
Rachel Gilmore
British Turn Cold Shoulder On Harriman
W Averill Harriman faced a British rebuff as he prepared to visit Tehran to push for a sick Iran oil accord. Sir Francis Shepherd said Harriman would not mediate the crisis, citing Mosadegh’s demand that talks fit Iran's oil nationalization law.
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United Press
W. Averill Harriman
Tehran
Iran
Francis Shepherd
Harriman
Mohamed Mossadegh
U.S
Mossadegh
Iranian Oil Co
Abadan
Anglo-Iranian Board
Weather Snapshot With Temperature Extremes
Tonight's low 67 degrees and tomorrow's high 96 degrees. Last night dipped to 63 with today reaching 93.
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Frank H. Bartholomew
All
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Corers
Juanita Myers
Helen Pendry
Jackie Harding
Knox Bridge
Wade Renfrow
Lois Setzer
Jimmie Jeffries
Charlotte
Official Weather Bureau
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Los Angeles
Miami
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Mt. Mitchell
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