Airliner Crash Kills Nine Near New Bedford Airport
A Northeast Airlines flight crashed in wooded, swampy terrain near New Bedford Airport Sunday evening, killing nine aboard including the pilot Malcolm Wordell and co-pilot Roger Sweetland Jr. Rescue teams faced access challenges, with the fuselage torn and the plane nose at a 45 degree angle.
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New Bedford
Mass
Malcolm G. Wordell
St. Luke's Hospital
Northeast Airlines 1003
Vincent J. Pitts
Wellesley
Roger W. Sweetland Jr
Arlington
George
Fire Department
Sandys Visits Hong Kong on Far East Defense Tour
British Defense Minister Duncan Sandys arrived in Hong Kong on a Sunday inspection tour of Britain's Far East defenses.
WM Learns of Saucer Secrets from Wife
A humorous fragment describes WM learning about flying saucers from his wife. The tale includes garbled dialogue about unexpected gifts and a late night interruption, with a mispronounced Nebrask a remark and a jest about a bottle driving success.
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Nebrashka
Adenauer wins big in West Germany vote landslide
In a record turnout of more than 20 million, Chancellor Adenauer and the Christian Democrats secured about 50.2 percent of 31,053,412 votes, beating the Social Democrats and Free Democrats as they prepare for a third term. The Socialists conceded defeat while major leftist strongholds fell.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Christian Democrats
Soci i
West
Socialists
Free Democrats
Adenauer
West Germany
Shipyard subsidence bid threats closure in a year
LA C says the Navy yard faces possible closure within a year if subsidence retardation is not funded. Observers warn oil removal under the yard deepens a public economic hole, risking impact on 7,000 employees and a payroll over 35 million dollars, second only to Douglas. Continued on Page A-8.
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Navy Shipyard
Certa
Navy
Douglas
Hurricane Carrie's Approach Forces Bermuda Evacuations
Miami Navy planes evacuated from Bermuda as Hurricane Carrie neared, about 100 miles away. Four B50 weather aircraft ordered to Palm Beach, one engine failed, another to ride out storm. Bermuda lies 900 miles east southeast of Cape Hatteras as the storm moves west-northwest at 13 mph.
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Miami
Fla
Navy
Bermuda
Carrie
Palm Beach
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Miami Weather Bureau
Hell
Palm Heath
Hase
Myrna Loy Leads UN Petition on Hungary Belief
Film star Myrna Loy helped present a petition to UN General Assembly President Prince Wan Waithayakon and Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold, urging continued UN investigation of Hungary and enforcement of a condemnatory resolution. The Hungarian press claimed Loy used sex appeal to influence officials, a claim disputed by supporters led by the Workers Defense League.
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New York
Myrna Loy
Sds
Hungary
U.N. General Assembly
Miss Loy
General Assembly
Prince Wan Waithayakon
Thailand
Dag Hammarskjold
Workers Defense League
Fo the UN
Hureery
Nepszabadsa
Loy
Mixa Loy
Prince Wancarm
Phone Workers Set to Strike
New York AP report on Western Electric and Communications Workers of America negotiations to avert a nationwide strike by about 238,000 Bell telephone equipment installers. Union chief Dunne says strike inevitible after rejecting second company offer. seeks 20 cent hourly raise plus travel pay and fringe benefits in a one year contract.
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New York
Western Electric Co
Communications Workers
America
Bell
WEW York
Western Electric
Are
Joseph Dunne
Communications Workers of America
Helsinki
Finland
Dunne
Occar
US States New Pacific Bomb Tests Planned Next Spring
The United States will begin a new series of nuclear tests in the Pacific next April aimed at developing a clean bomb. Tests will occur at Eniwetok proving grounds, with large hydrogen devices detonated, in the absence of a safeguarded disarmament agreement. The Defense Department and Atomic Energy Commission announced the plan, noting prior Nevada tests and the goal to defend against airborne or missile-borne threats.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
Eniwetok
Defense’‘Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada
Ernest
Woman Saves Two Buried Daughters
In Kingsland Arkansas a 29 year old widow, Mrs Ernest Bunt, dug from beneath a 14 foot embankment after gravel collapsed trapping her two young daughters, Joyce Ann four, Patricia Jinn fourteen months, and her husband. She freed the children with bare hands then found her husband buried and sought help, both children perishing in the cave in while she kept hope.
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Kingsland
Ark
Ernnest Bunt
Ernest
Faubus Holds Line On Little Rock Crisis After Eisenhower Talk
Arkansas Governor Orval Faubus said no shift in his stance on Little Rock integration following a 2 hour meeting with President Eisenhower. Troops will continue barring Negroes from Central High as classes resume, while the federal courts remain the forum for the dispute. Faubus noted possible troop withdrawal later if violence threat eases and said he provided FBI material to show bloodshed would have occurred without troops. He faces Friday court testimony seeking an injunction against further National Guard actions.
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Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas
Orval KE. Faubus
Eisenhower
Central High School
Laubus
Newport
R.L
Efavaus
FBI
Faubus
Ronald Davies
National Guard
Central School
Clement Threatens Guard to Enforce School Integration
Tennessee Governor Frank Clement said in a television broadcast he will call out the National Guard if needed to prevent violence from hampering school integration in Nashville. He noted guardsmen helped break up the Clinton riot last fall and asserted Tennessee will rely on the law.
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Nashville
Tenn
Frank Clement
National Guard
Clement
Clinton, Tenn
Tennessee
Independent Columnist Reveals Senate Leader’s Influence Secret
Drew Pearson explains how Senate Majority Leader John Son wins friends and influences people in a provocative column. The piece, appearing on Page A-8, also notes weekly summaries and roundups across the Southland on Page unspecified.
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Drew Pearson
Senate
Johnson
Democrats Blast Ike and Faubus Criticism Grows
A majority of the Democratic Advisory Council led by former President Truman and Adlai Stevenson condemned President Eisenhower for not taking a firm stand against defiance of law in Little Rock Arkansas. The statement also rebuked Governor Faubus for using the National Guard to block Black students from entering Central High School. The release urged upholding the federal Constitution and court orders, while noting the president’s missed chance to rally moral force nationally.
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Washington
Democratic Advisory Council
Truman
Adlai
Arkansas
National Guard
Central High
Little Rock
Faubus
Democratic Party
Counch
Eisenhower
Newport
Gov. Faubus
Hisenhower
Democratic National
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