Two Ships Collide in East River Fire Crashes into Brooklyn Bridge
A freighter and a gasoline tanker collided in the East River near the Manhattan Bridge, causing a fiery blaze that shut traffic on the bridge. Forty nine crew members were rescued, with one death reported as photographer William Finn collapsed covering the blaze. Two crewmen on the tanker are missing.
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NEW York
UPI
East River
Manhattan Bridge
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Empress Bay
Coast Guards
William J. Gaynor
Nebraska
Weighter
Bert Deeley
Titb Daltellera
Deeley
Coast Guard
William Finn
New York Journal
American
Hartke Wins Democratic Nomination At Indiana Convention
At the Indiana Democratic convention in Greene county fifteen of nineteen delegates backed Hartke on the first ballot and Vance Hartke of Evansville was nominated for the U S Senate on the second ballot. John W Ax of Linton was nominated by acclamation for judge of the Indiana Appellate Court. One vote each went to Marshall Hanley Bartel Zandstra and Marshall Kizer on the first ballot.
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Greene County
U. S. Senate
Indiana
Vance Hartke
Evansville
U .S. Senate
John W. Ax
Linton
Mayor Hartke
Marshall Hanley
Muncie
Bartel Zandstra
Highland
Marshall Kizer
Plymouth
Handley
Hartke
D. Russell Bontrager
Elkhart
Philip H. Willkie
Rushville
Wendell L. Willkie
Young Willkie
Homer E. Capehart
Matthews
Kizer
Seleneiae
U.S
Floyd
Paul Tegart
New Albany
Zandstra
Hanley
Tegart
Lake County
Jack A. Haymaker
Logansport
Arthur R. Kinser
Bedford
John R. Walsh
Anderson
Hartford City
William C. Smith
Pastor’s Wife Killed in Hart Michigan Crash
Augusta Seemann 56 died when a vacation car crash on U S 31 in Hart Michigan injured the Rev Albert Seemann 60 and Georgene Seemann 22. Patricksburg Steubenville Lutheran Church members learned of the tragedy on Tuesday.
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Patricksburg
Ind
UPI
Patricksburg- Steubenville
Bloomfield Man Escapes With Minor Injuries In Auto Crash
Dale Workman 46 of Bloomfield suffered minor cuts and bruises after his car overturned on state road 54 about 2.5 miles east of Bloomfield. Two uninjured passengers were in the vehicle. He was treated at the county hospital and kept overnight. Police said he was returning home from Bloomington when the car lost control near MHarvey's Place. the car was demolished.
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Dale Workman
Bloomfield
Workman
County
Freeman-Greene
Bloomington
Mharvey
Goldfine Accused Of Paying Hotel Bill For Federal Judge
UPI reports explosive hearings on Sherman Adams ties to Bernard Goldfine. A $60 hotel bill for Federal Judge William T. McCarthy is alleged, with Goldfine claim denied by his lawyer, noting a single payment in 1954.
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Goldfine
Washington
UPI
Sherman Adams
Bernard Goldfine
Thomas B. Curtis
R-Mo
Securities & Exchang Commission
J. Sinclair Armstrong
William T. McCarthy
Boston
McCarthy
SEC
John B. Bennett
Rmich
Subcommittee
John Bell Williams
D-Miss
Bennett
Samuel P. Sears
Sears
New York
Rioters Demonstrate Outside U S Embassy in Moscow
More than 1 000 Russians gathered in front of the U S embassy in Moscow shouting insults in English and Russian. Authorities evacuated ground floor staff and lined the street with police as demonstrators carried placards and demanded the ambassador come out. No stones were thrown and no casualties reported in the first hour.
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Moscow
UPI
U. S
Llewellyn Thompson
Thompson
Richard Davis
Hungarian Peoples Republic
Former Indiana purchasing official named in road case trial
In Indianapolis UPI reports former Indiana purchasing director William E Clarkson testified as a defense witness in the highway scandal bribery trial of Elmer W Sherwood and William E Sayre. Clarkson denied using the alias W Carson or traveling to Miami Beach for favors, while hotel records tied a Carson stay to Feb 25 1956.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Indiana
William E. Clarkson
Florida
Arthur Moginner
Clarkson
George N. Craig
Elmer W. Sherwood
William E. Sayr
Miami Beach
Mogilner
Karroll
Sherwood
É Sayer
Craig
Virgil Red Smith
Robert Sherwood
Elmer Sherwood
Young Sherwood
Sherwood Associates
Sherwood-Sayer
Highway Department
Leroy K. New
Indianap lis 13 year old charged in fatal crash
Thirteen year old Elwood Hall of Indianapolis was charged with reckless homicide after a car he allegedly drove crashed into a wall killing 1 month old Cheryl Russell and injuring her mother. Police said the car was stolen and Hall is three years under the Indiana driving age.
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Indianapolis
UPI
Elwood Hall
Cheryl Russell
Democrats Select Hartke for Senate
Indiana Democrats nominated Evansville Mayor Vance Hartke for U.S. Senate after a newsy convention. Republicans label Hartke a truant legislator but praise his tireless campaign, while Hartke secured 1,084 votes on the final ballot to defeat Marshall Kizer and other rivals.
Risher Baby Popularity Contest votes end June 30
Bobby Lee Risher leads the first tabulation of the Baby Popularity Contest conducted by local merchants with at least five contenders close behind. The final voting deadline is 6:00 p.m. June 30, and the top three finishers will ride on a Fourth of July parade float.
Khrushchev Bolsters Position with Strengthened Secret Police
UPI reports Khrushchev increases control by promoting trusted lieutenants including Secret Police Chief Ivan Serov. Observers link the move to tightening security inside the Soviet camp, the end of collective leadership, and readiness for potential upheavals amid de Stalinization and past purges.
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London
UPI
Russia
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Ivan Alexandrovich Serov
Serov
Khrushchev
Lavrenti Beria
Invasion of Cambodia Charged by South Vietnamese
South Vietnamese troops invaded Cambodia and Premier Sim Var was charged in a radio broadcast. Var claimed Vietnamese forces penetrated seven miles into the northeast near Stung Treng on the Mekong River while Paris reports described multiple regiments inside Cambodia advancing, with cautious language from the Cambodian high commission.
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Pnom Penh
Cambodia
UPI
Sim Var
Stung Treng
Mekong River
Paris
Cambodian High Commission
High Commission
Cuban Rebel Leader Eduardo Garcia Killed in Havana Raid
Cuban military intelligence agents killed rebel leader Eduardo B. Garcia during a raid on Jouveilar Street in downtown Havana while searching for leader Agustin Navarrete. The communique said Garcia attacked the agents and was shot dead.
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Havana
Cuba
UPI
Eduardo B. Garcia
Fidel Castro
Jouveilar Street
Agustin Navarrete
Garcia
Redstone Rocket Soars High Over Cape Canaveral Night Sky
The Army launched a 62 foot Redstone rocket from Cape Canaveral's launch pad Tuesday night. The missile rose around 10 37 p m EST for about four minutes, trailing orange flame and burning graphite particles before vanishing among the stars. Powered by a Rocketdyne engine, the craft reached a near horizontal ascent before fading.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
API
Florida
Severe Thunderstorms Forecast In Indiana This Afternoon
The Weather Bureau issued a special severe weather forecast for an Indiana area roughly south of a Terre Haute to Muncie line. A few severe thunderstorms with a tornado or two are expected from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. CDT today.
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Indianapolis
UPL
Weather Bureau
Indiana
Terre Haute
Muncie
Funnel Clouds Reported Near Elkhart Indiana
Thunderstorms swept across Indiana with funnel clouds seen near Elkhart. A brief tornado north of Elkhart damaged trees and power lines but caused no injuries or major property loss. Weather officials forecast more showers and possible severe storms, with temperatures dipping below normal into next week.
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Indiana
Weather Bureau
Hoosierland
Wabash
Mercury
Fort Wayne
Evansville
Air Force C-119 forced landing near Kirtland AFB
An Air Force C-119 cargo plane made a forced landing in rugged terrain south of Kirtland Air Force Base New Mexico after takeoff. All eight aboard were unharmed and the aircraft did not appear severely damaged. It had stopped at Kirtland to discharge a passenger on its trip from Tinker AFB Oklahoma to Luke AFB Arizona.
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Albuquerque
N. M
UPI
Air Force
Kirtland Air Force Base
Tinker Afb
Okla
Luke Afb
Ariz
Kirtland
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Washington, D.C
National Sporting Goods Association
Association
G. Marvin Shutt
Eugene J. Cadou
United Press International
Robert W. Matthews
GOP
U.S. Senate
Benjamin Green-Field
Chicago
Risher Baby
Bobby Lee Risher
Randy Dennis
Donna Kay Lacey
Charles Buddy Rogers
Marty Bruce Schubla
Starlene Padgett
Cinda Lou Scott
Glenda Thomas
Melinda Sue Anderson
Keith Kline
Debra Denise Brown
Rhetta Jane Hill
Nelda Jane ‘Bough
Gail Ann Powell
Robin Lynn Curtis
Denise Archer
Danny Joe Roberts
Karen Kay Kirk
Michael Dickerson
Cindy Reynolds
Marina Joanne Davenport
Angeila Hall
Ricky Lovelace
Donna Sue Lawson
Jonnie Lynn Yenne
Carl Brian Smith
William Dale Bredeweg
Jindy
Marlene Brewer
Paul Michael French
Michael Haldeman
Roger Lehman
Dale Andrew
Nancie Hildenbran
Douglas Williams
Billie Jo Foglesong
Angela Osha
Robin Ellen Gooda
John Hildenbrandt
Kent Foglesong
Drick
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