Africans Rally for Freedom in Sophiatown Mass Meeting
Duma Nokwe, youth secretary of the African National Congress, urged South African blacks to seize control of their resources and demand equality as tensions rise over apartheid plans. About 2,000 demonstrators gathered in Sophiatown, a poor township near Johannesburg, criticizing the move to relocate blacks to a segregated area ten miles from the city.
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Sophiatown
Union of South Africa
Duma Nokwe
African National Congress
Jalt
Moscow
Peiping
Alan Paton
Johannesburg
Congress Party
Enieh
South
Arica
Indianapolis Blast Smashes Lilly Plant Injuring Dozens
An Eli Lilly chemical plant on Indianapolis near south side was gutted by a large blast last night. Six workers and 11 firefighters were injured as diluted acid and foam burned feet and ankles. Hundreds of rescue personnel evacuated victims and contained flames to prevent explosions of nearby hazardous compounds.
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Indianapolis
Eli Lilly & Co. Chemical
Civil Defense
Red Cross
Coe reports runoff expenses in Democratic race
U S William Coe files with the State Election Board showing 2901.25 spent in an unsuccessful runoff for the Democratic governor nomination. The itemized totals include 1634.10 for travel and 1267.15 for telephone and telegraph. Legal ceiling is 3000.00.
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Oklahoma City
U. William ©. Coe
State Election Board
Coe
Andy Anderson
Elk City
Film Stars' Homes Threatened By Fire
A 20 acre brush fire in Coldwater Canyon destroyed one house and endangered several film stars dwellings before containment. Actor Jack Palance supervised fire crews and wet his home rear with a garden hose while nearby homes of Ward Bond Ella Raines and producer Charles Feldman faced risk. George Raft also had a home two blocks away.
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Los Angeles
Coldwater Canyon
Jack Palance
Ward Bond
Ella Raines
Charles ‘Feldman
Palance
George Ratt
Darko Tribesmen Challenge Gallup Indian Capital Claim
Indians from Anadarko Oklahoma challenged Gallup New Mexico over being the Indian Capital of the World. They blocked U S Highway 66 with tribal dances to dispute Gallup’s claim as Kiowa Robert Goobi attended the American Indian Exposition.
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Gallup
N. M
Anadarko
Okla
Beng
Robert Goobi
Cool Thief Takes Purse While Visitor Watches
Mrs Nancy Sexson, visiting Mrs Gladys Moline in Omaha, reported a man entered, approached a table, grabbed Sexson’s pocketbook containing $3, and walked out saying I am taking this with me. A guest witnessed the incident.
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Omaha
Nancy Sexson
Gladys Moline
Suez Agreement Wins Parliament Approval in ten to one vote
Parliament approves Churchill plan to pull British troops from the Suez Canal zone by a 257 to 26 margin after he argues the Suez bases are obsolete due to H bomb developments. The deal would move 3000 troops within 20 months with U.S. support, while Turkish and eight Arab nations remain under threat.
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London
Churchill
Suez Canal Zone
House of Commons
Commons
House of Lords
Suez
U.S
Turkey
Cir
Britain
Airline Pilots Plan Strike At Midnight
The AFL Air Lines Pilots Assn says it will strike American Airlines at midnight. ALPA president Clarence Sayen reports all of American's more than 1,200 pilots will participate.
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Chicago
AFL Air Lines Pilots Assn
American Airlines
Clarence Sayen
ALPA
American
Allies Weigh to Block Red Pact European Security Plan
Washington signals stronger stance with Britain and France against a Soviet bid for a wide European security system that would include the Red bloc. Officials say U S Britain and France plan coordinated replies while preserving Western Europe Defense Community opposition to Soviet aims and to NATO reforms.
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Washington
U. S
Britain
France
London
Paris
Indo- China
United States
U.S
O’Brien To Hang For Wite Slaying At Fort Leavenworth
Bernard J. O’Brien a 32 year old Army warrant officer will be hanged at Lansing Kansas prison for murdering his wife Dorothy in Germany over two years ago. Convicted by an Army court martial in 1952 the death sentence was approved by President Eisenhower and execution likely after midnight. O’Brien drove with the body to a rural area near Munich and crashed the car to falsify the death. His mother Mrs Day A Bond of San Antonio approved his body’s donation to the University of Kansas Medical Center.
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Fort Leavenworth
Kan
Bernard J. O'Brien
Germany
O'Brien
San Antonio
Kansas State Penitentiary
Lansing
Dorothy
Eisenhower
Ware, San Antonio
Watch Tariff Hike Ends Strike Threat
Elgin Illinois and Lincoln Nebraska plants, about 4000 Elgin National Watch Co. workers, drop wage demands after the Presidents tariff increase on imported watch movements by 50 percent. Walter W. Cenerazzo, president of the American Watch Makers, says the union cancels a wage increase request at the Wal tham Watch Co. plant in Wal tham Massachusetts, aiming to help the industry gain market share. The union plans no general wage increases or re-opening for one year amid contract talks and other issues.
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Elgin
Elgin National Watch Co
Lincoln
Neb
Presidente
Walter W. Cenerazzo
American Watch Makers
Waltham, Mass
Waltham’ Watch’ Co
Navy Wife Bears Child In Airliner
In Honolulu a 23 year old wife gave birth aboard an Hawaiian Airlines flight after stewardess Betty Chinn noticed distress. Pilot Ernest Vary returned to Maui Airport and the baby girl was born minutes before landing with assistance from Miss Chinn. The father, Victory H. Crooks, is in electronic technician school at Treasure Island near San Francisco.
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Honolulu
Eaene Ae
Hawaiian Airlines
Betty Chinn
Charlotte Crook
Ernest Vary
Maui
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