Arrests Trigger Red-Backed Strike in Singapore
Five Chinese union leaders were arrested in Singapore, launching a Communist backed general strike. About 17,000 workers reportedly stayed home, and 2,000 buses halted as 70,000 union members were called out. Police prepared for possible riots linked to last month’s violence. Adenauer expected to meet Eisenhower the next day.
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Weather For Other Areas
Wet weather extended across much of the nation with residual dampness in Chicago after nine days of rain. Temperatures ranged from the 40s in the Great Lakes and Wyoming to the 70s in the Great Plains and Ohio Valley as skies cleared in parts. Small showers occurred last night over the western plains, parts of Indiana and Illinois, and the Northeast.
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Ilinois
French Red Leader Declares U S Workers Paupers at Convention
Benoit Frachon, head of the Communist led French General Confederation of Workers, opened the union's 30th national convention with a speech branding the United States as a land of five million unemployed. He claimed U S automobile workers faced a 12 percent wage drop from prewar levels and that 80 percent of American farmhouses lack electricity.
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Benoit Frachon
General Confederation of Workers
United States
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Kansas drivers chosen for national truck rodeo
Three Kansas drivers will represent the state in the national truck rodeo in Washington next October. William Wright won first in single axle trailer, Paul Mendenhall won tandem axle trailer, and Dennis DeWitt took the straight truck championship for the second year. Each received 100 dollars from the Kansas Motor Carriers Assn.
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Kansas
Washington
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Paul Mendenhall
Dick's Transfer Co
Dennis DeWitt
Western Star Milling Co
Saina
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English Girl, Seventeen, Cuts Leg to Win Boyfriend
Dawn McFarland, 17, cut off her leg after polio left it shorter, hoping to win Gerald Manley's love. She underwent amputation at a hospital and now uses an artificial leg, enabling walking and dancing. He sent an engagement ring and promised marriage when he returns from Malaya with the British army.
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England
Dawn McFarland
Dawn
Gerald Manley
Gerald
Malaya
Snail Eating Frenchman Is Suspended From Club
In Porthcawl Wales George Loughlin a 45 year old newsstand operator was suspended for three months by the United Services Club for eating snails at a club gathering and causing consternation among other members.
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Porthcawl
Wales
George Loughlin
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Busboy Suspect For Terrorizing Singer
North Hollywood California police arrested Joseph M Cannon a 25 year old hotel busboy on suspicion of robbery amid a home invasion targeting singer Alice Low known as the Champagne Lady of the Lawrence Welk orchestra Three men wearing masks restrained bound and photographed Low and her family at her residence in a night described as terror and torture Cannon worked at the Beverly Hills Hotel and allegedly knew Miss Lon with photos of her in his possession detectives said she had been out with the band at the Aragon ballroom in Ocean Park and was attacked after returning home
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Caiif
Alice Low
Lawrence Welk
Joseph M. Cannon
van Nuys
Frank Lynch
Don Sheldon
Beverly Hills
Lon
Aragon
Ocean Park
Considerate thieves swap wheels for battered set in Denver
A Denver man reported to police that two wheels were taken from his car yesterday. The thieves left behind an old, battered replacement set, suggesting they considered the act but chose a minimal, less-equipped swap.
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