Cargo plane crashes near Guam with 19 aboard
A Military Transport Service C124 crashed into the Pacific about 50 miles west of Guam with 19 people aboard. No survivors found yet. Debris and three bodies spotted by a Naval Air Station amphibian. The plane, based at Travis AFB, was en route to Clarke AFB in the Philippines and vanished shortly after takeoff. The search involved two US helicopters, a navy recon plane, radar picket aircraft, and surface craft.
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Guam
Pacific Ocean
Naval Air Station
John Walker
Air Force
Military Transport Service
C124
Philippines
Naval
Walker
Navy
UFS
Travis Air Force Base
Fairfield
Calif
Clarke Afb
Lightning Strikes St Louis Trolley Injuring Eight
A streetcar in midtown St Louis was struck by lightning during a night incident. The conductor reported a flash fire and eight people were injured and sent to hospitals. Fire crews contained the blaze as passengers remained aboard the trolley.
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St. Louis
UPI
St Louis
Board delays Central High opening amid Supreme Court case
The Little Rock school board postponed the Central High start to Sept. 15 to await the Supreme Court ruling on integration. If required to proceed with integration, the board will address opening status after the court meets on Sept. 11, with Superintendent Virgil Blossom saying they will “cross that bridge when it comes to it.” Separately, San Francisco Police Chief Frank Ahern died of a heart attack in his box during the Dodgers-Giants game. Vernon Pick and his brother, uranium interests, arrived in Seattle after a 24 hour disappearance and engine trouble forced a landing near Annette Island Alaska.
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Little Rock, Ark
UPI
Little Rock
U.S. Supreme Court
Central High School
Central
Orval Faubus
High Court
Virgil Blossom
Supreme Court
Central High
San Francisco
Frank “Ahern
Seals Stadium
Ahern
Seatile Upi
Vernon Pick
Alaska
Pick
Saratoga
Calif
Lloyd
Warroad
Minn
Annette Island
Petersburg
United States Fide Coast Guard
Lake Union
Fairbanks
Blaze in Modoc National Forest Burns 700 Acres
In Alturas California UP I reports that more than 360 firefighters battled a fierce Modoc National Forest fire in sizzling heat. The blaze broke out anew at both ends late afternoon and threatened acreage could not yet be determined amid forecasts for high temperatures low humidity and strong winds.
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Alturas
Calif
Formosa Warships Sink 12 Red Boats
Nationalist warships in the Formosa Strait battle off Quemoy Island sank 12 Red Chinese torpedo boats. Four warships took part in the engagement near Taten islets and Amoy region, with casualties and damage reported on both sides amid ongoing shelling across the strait.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy Island
Defense Ministry
Formosa Strait
Lizo-Lo Bay
Tatan
Cre
Quemoy
Taten
Con
Amoy
Tel Ae
Quemoys
Formosas Strait
Tan Islets
Tungting
Jinte Amoy
Red-held
Weather man puzzled by witch doctor exchange
A bizarre wartime style item reports assistant weather man Wallway questioning a witch doctor who described prescribing pills and a small toddy after meals. The piece shifts to a traffic crash in Anaheim where Clyde Hummel, 21, of Rockhill Missouri, a sailor on the JSS Ashtabula, died in a two car collision on Katella Avenue.
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Clyde R. Hummel
Rockhill
JSS
Ashtabula
Katella Ave
Anaheim
Missouri Pilot Dies in El Toro Crash
An Air National Guard jet from the 170th Fighter Interceptor Squadron based in Springfield Missouri crashed after takeoff from El Toro Marine Corps Air Station on Monday afternoon. The pilot, Lt. Howard D. Jones, 26, of St Louis Missouri, was killed in the explosion and crash.
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Air National Guard
Springfield
Toro Marine Corps Air Station
Howard D. Jones
Og St Louis, Mo
Gale Winds Expected in Florida
Miami reports hurricane Ella weakening from peak 115 mph to about 85 mph as it nears Cuba. Forecaster Arnold Sugg warns winds of 30 to 60 mph could extend from the Florida Straits to Palm Beach and Fort Myers while the storm may disorganize and relocate along Cuba’s north coast.
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Miami
Fla
South Florida
Ella
Cape Cruz
Cuba
Florida Straits
Palm Beach
East Coast
Fort Myers
Gulf Coast
Arnold Sugg
Santiago’de Cuba
Sage
Ioast
Bride-to-be beaten as hair and gown are destroyed
An aspiring bride, Luci Jodey, was assaulted by six girls who cut her hair to the scalp and ripped her wedding dress. Separately, sheriff's deputy Ker mit Kynell retires from a TV quiz show with winnings totaling $25,500.
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Kermit Kynell
Page Bel
Three Die and Forty Five Hurt in Long Beach Area
Three people were killed and 45 injured in weekend holiday traffic crashes in the Long Beach area. National tolls listed include 392 dead nationwide from traffic incidents, 108 by drowning, and 12 in plane crashes, totaling 583. Law enforcement issued thousands of citations while trying to curb accidents. Local fatality: Mrs. Jane M. Ogden, 75, Esperanza Avenue, struck on Ocean Boulevard near Esperanza Avenue Saturday night.
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Long Beach
Jane M. Ogden
Esperanza Ave
Killer Whale Spurs Beach Attendance and Lifeguard Warnings
Nearly one million people spent Labor Day at Southland beaches as a 40-foot killer whale drew crowds. An estimated 175,000 on local sands and 200,000 along the Redondo Manhattan Hermosa strip. Lifeguards reported eleven stations alerted with several hundred in the water fleeing when a fin appeared off Point Dume. The whale swam from Zuma to Trancas before vanishing, reportedly not attacking.
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Monnday
Southland
Redondo-Manhattan-Hermosa Beach
Zuma Beach
Point Dumie
Kirby Temple
Trancas Beach
Seven Men Held In Phantom Sniper Shooting Case
San Pedro detectives arrested Fred Montoya, Robert Martinez, Dowell, Jorge Chavez, Alex Wilen, Cleo Ariza, and Louis Montoya in connection with the phantom sniper attack that left Mrs Barbara Zamarripa critically injured. Police say the seven, described as close friends, were detained without weapons.
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Barbara Zamarripa
San Pedro
San’ Pedro
Rancho
Zamarripa
Harbor General
Fred Montoya
St. San Pedro
S. Palos Verdes St
Robert BR. Martinez
George Mo
Os Angeles
Dowell
Jorme C. Chavez
Compton Blvd
Palos Verdes St
Alex Wlenaf
Compton
Doza
S. Cabrillo Aves Res
Cleso Ariza
W. Santa
Ambush
Cruz Ave
Jesse
Lomell
Zamatripa
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Y ‘West
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Ultimo Ave
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Raystoft Ave
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St. Mary's Hospital
Stephen N. Bartlent
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