Explosion at Kansas station kills two firemen
An earth shaking blast at a service station in Kansas City Kansas area killed two Kansas City Missouri firemen, Virgil Sams and Neil Owens, and injured over 100 people including 60 firefighters. More than 60 firefighters were hurt as crews from both sides of the state fought a massive blaze with damage estimates in the hundreds of thousands of dollars.
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Kansas City
Kan
UPI
Finn Linlbaun
Kansas City, Mo
Virgil L. Sams
General Hospital
Neil Owens
General
Kansas Cities
Kansas
Janesville Man Found Dead In Car From Suspected Self Inflicted Gunshot
Jamesville Wis UPI reports 39 year old Robert Arnold was found dead in his car with a 12 gauge shotgun across his lap in front of Kenneth Short’s home. Short called police after discovering Arnold slumped at the steering wheel. An apparent suicide note was begun but illegible. Arnold had recently faced unemployment and a broken marriage, according to his father Frank.
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Janesville
Wis
UPI
Robert Arnold
Kenneth Short
Arnold
Short
Frank
Prince Philip to Meet Eisenhower in Aberdeen Visit
Buckingham Palace announced Prince Philip will meet President Eisenhower on his August 28 Aberdeen arrival. The pair will drive to Balmoral for lunch with Queen Elizabeth II.
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London
Buckingham Palace
Prince Philip
Eisenhower
Aberdeen
Balmoral
Queen Elizabeth II
Manitowoc Man Tries Suicide in Jail After Wife Slaying
Adolph Marquardt aged 52 awaiting charges in the shotgun slaying of his wife, 50, last Friday, cut his throat in Manitowoc County Jail and was rushed to a hospital. In Pasadena California an expert warned another large earthquake may occur within two weeks in Yellowstone National Park.
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Manitowoc
Wis
UPI
Adolph Marquardt
Pasadena
Calif
Yellowstone National Park
Eisenhower to address farm legislation in radio TV speech
President Eisenhower agreed to present the administration case on farm legislation to the American people in a radio television address, likely after Congress adjourns. The move signals an effort to gain public support for farm policy amid legislative debate.
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Gettysburg
UPI
Eisenhower
Congress
Nations mull raising nuclear talks to heads of government
Western sources say the United States and Britain may pause the protracted test ban conference and elevate negotiations to the leaders level in Geneva to speed progress.
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Geneva
UPI
United States
Britain
Knife Wound Fatal To Youth in Brawl
A 20 year old youth was fatally stabbed in a Latin American brawl outside a Cuban coffee stall in Miami Florida. Police said about 200 persons witnessed the melee not stemming from Cuban politics. Jose Gavila and another shaved headed youth argued with several unidentified youths over appearance.
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Miami
Fla
Jose Gavila
Fourth Ave Residents Protest Widening Plan
Ray Hudson and fourteen neighbors protested a 36 foot wide pavement planned for 4th Ave between 59th and 60th St. They want a 30 foot street with no west side parking. City public works cited encroachment on a 66 foot right of way and surveys supporting a five foot eastward shift, which would endanger trees and fences on the east side.
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Hudson
4Th Ave
59Th
60Th St
George Clarke
5Th Ave
C. R. Nicolazzo
Nicolazzo
Clarke
Maiden Lane
Judge Rules Boys Must Go to Russia Board Wont Favor Racists
The Little Rock Board of Directors rejected segregationist claims that police brutalized demonstrators during a Central High School protest. They said officers acted legally to maintain order and referred civil rights complaints to the Justice Department. Four Black students attended two formerly white schools with no incidents reported.
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Central High School
U.S. Justice Department
Wesley Pruden
Capital Citizens Council
Justice Department
Federal Bureau of Investigation
FBI
Washington
Pruden
Two Kenosha Laundries Strikebound After Talks Collapse
Strikes began at Werner's Kenosha Laundry and Swan Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co after last minute negotiations failed. Local 161 had set a noon deadline and earlier reached tentative deals with three laundries offering a ten cent hourly pay raise.
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Kenosha
Armand Bellaver
Laundry Workers Local 161
Werner
Kenosha Laundry and Cleaners
Swan Laundry and Dry Cleaning Co
Bellaver
Fink's
Laundry and Dry Cleaning, Inc
Ward
Drive-In Cleaners
Werner and Swan Laundries
Robert Werner
Haiti Troops Besiege Invaders On Southwest Coast
Haitian forces pressed siege against a 30 man invader group on a mountain along the southwest coast near Port au Prince. The invaders are thought to be Cuban led by a Cuban official denounced by Fidel Castro as an adventurer attempting to embarrass the revolution.
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Port Au Prince
Haiti
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Wasp Fire Kills Two Aboard USS Wasp Near Quonset
The 27000 ton carrier Wasp docked at Quonset Point Rhode Island suffered a fire and explosion at sea killing Lt. (j.g.) Jim Frank Hagan of Marianna Florida and Airman Apprentice Donald Howard Trask of Keene New Hampshire. Twenty others were injured as a helicopter engine failed and exploded below deck during an effort to fight the blaze.
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Quonset Point
R. I
UPS
Wasp
Navy
Jim Frank Hagan
Marianna
Fla
Donald Howard Trask
Keene, N. H
Hagan
Trask
Climber Scorched After Grabbing High Tension Wire
Seventeen year old Daniel Platten of Green Bay climbed a utility pole to escape heat and touched a live wire. He was severely burned and told police he sought a breeze and cooling air up top.
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Green Bay
Daniel Platten
Platten
Death of Britain's first qualified aviator Claude Grahame-White
Claude Grahame-White 79 Britain s first qualified aviator and air mail pilot died today in London. He earned pioneering status in early aviation and contributed to air mail services and flight development in Britain.
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London
Claude Grahame-White
Britain
Weather outlook with warm humidity and scattered storms
Forecast calls for warm humid conditions tonight and Thursday with a low 65 to 73 and a high in the 90s tomorrow. Isolated thundershowers possible Thursday afternoon or evening. Noon readings span 75 Southport 82 Downtown 88 West Side. Overnight low 57, heat index 74. Tuesday 75/58. Pollen 49. Sunrise 6 03, sunset 7 46.
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Southport
30th Avenue Crossing Opens Next Monday in Kenosha
Mayor Eugene R. Hammond announced the 30th Ave crossing over the KD railroad tracks will open Monday at 10 a.m. The wig wag signals and gates are not yet installed, with flagmen paid by the railroad until installation. The event aims to ease traffic around American Motors after a vacation period.
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30Th Ave
Eugene R. Hammond
Kenosha
Hammond
North Western Railroad
American Motors
Roosevelt Rd
Judge orders return of Kozmin brothers to Russia by October first
Chicago UPI a Illinois judge ruled four Kozmin brothers Richard 12 George 11 Paul 10 and Peter 2 must be sent to their parents in the Soviet Union by October 1. Chief Justice Kluczynski said the state showed no just cause to keep the youths and that parental rights and the children’s natural ties outweigh relocation abroad. The ruling followed the siblings’ custody under court wards after their parents were held in a mental institution and later returned to Russia in 1957.
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Chicago
UPI
United States
Russia
Thomas Kk. Kluczynski
Illinois
Georgi
Madezhda Kozmin
Richard
George
Paul
Peter
Foster and Baptist Church
Kluczynski
Boris Kolodyazhny
Washington
Break Up War in Boston as Police Break Up Street Gang Clash
About 30 policemen with drawn guns broke up a threatened street gang war on Tuesday night. Whites faced Negroes on the two sides in the tense confrontation, preventing violence in the city.
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Boston
Thompson Reports Acid Attack Attempt Near Stop Light
Rep. Frank Thompson Jr. of New Jersey said a stranger leaned from a parked truck and sprayed him with an acid like liquid at a stop light. He dismissed it as the work of a crank and could not identify the truck or occupants. The incident happened Tuesday morning.
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Washington
UPI
Frank Thompson Jr
D-N.j
Thompson
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