Disarmament Talks Follow Eisenhower Push
Moscow Premier Bulganin says Soviet will study Eisenhower proposal for mutual information exchange and aerial inspection, but favors its own disarmament plan. He warned earlier that Ike’s plan could be ineffective due to vast territories where either side could hide weapons. Eisenhower still hopes for negotiations and says he will consider Russian ideas fairly. Separately, Bela Lugosi leaves Norwalk hospital after narcotics treatment and eyes a comeback in horror films.
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Moscow
Bulganin
Eisenhower
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Russia
Fesenhower
Unio
Thursdly
United States
Geneva
Belganiz
Soviet Union
Bul Fanin
Flash Flood Claims Life Of Motorist In Colorado
A Sterling Colorado man, Howard Everett Wood, 50, died when his car plunged into a creek after a bridge washed out during floods in northeastern and western Colorado. Minutes later, George Gilbert Cheney, 56, of Holyoke, driving west, swerved to avoid the washed out bridge but his vehicle went over the bank into the creek. Cheney survived with injuries.
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Denver
Colorado
Sterling
Colo
Howard Everett Wood
Coloradio
Wood
George Gilbert Cheney
Holyoke
Chenay
Driver puzzled by toy truck in Philadelphia hole
Police rush to a reported truck in a hole, alerting Water Bureau and Fire Rescue. An eight year old, Charles Tarutz, said he was just playing with his toy truck and did not know about the police report. An officer speculated heat may have affected a citizen.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Philadelphia
Water Bureau
Charles Tarutz
Classifieds Page Notes From 1955 Long Beach Press-Celebrail
A brief yet readable listing segment from the Long Beach Press-Celeaial issue dated Friday August 5, 1955. The page presents classified ads and telephone contact lines, with notices likely covering local sales, jobs, and services. The item preserves the newspaper’s era tone and layout for archival reference.
Freed Airman Learns Wife Remarried
Tokyo report says Airman Daniell Schmidt learned within a day of release that his wife Una Schmidt Fine had remarried after believing him dead. The story notes Schmidt, 29, and 11 other airmen freed by Red China arrived in Tokyo, while the wife’s marriage to Alford Fine, 21, had occurred during Schmidt’s imprisonment.
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Tokyo
Daniell Schmidt
Redding
Calif
Red
Schmidt
Janula
Hadi
Air Force
Cisco Gro Calif
Una Schmidt Fine
Worth Korea
Alford Fine
Reds
Three Climbers Killed in French Alps Incident
In a French Alps descent two climbing parties were reported to have tied ropes and become entangled. Three persons died including two priests and a woman, while another priest and two women were injured. The accident occurred near the Needles of Thorns in the French Alps during a Thursday climb. A separate Alpine death toll in Italy rose to one after Francesca Auteri fell 1200 feet near Bressanone while collecting edelweiss. FEAF spokesmen noted recovery plans and repatriation via Alaska route to McChord Air Force Base in Washington.
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FEAF
Japan
United States
Alaska
Azing
McChord Air Force
Wash
Albertville
France
John Ki
French Alps
Italy
Francesca Auer
Edelweiss
Bressanone
TV Actors Guild Goes on Strike
Hollywood reporters say the Screen Actors Guild initiated a strike at 12:01 a m. with members not working on filmed shows except for five producer firms that signed new contracts. The dispute centers on residuals for reruns and raises for day and weekly actors.
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TV Actors’ Guild
Hollywood
Screen Actors! Guild
Guild
Alliance of Television Film Producers and
the Assn. of
Motion Picture Pro
Actors’ Group
Lewister Enterprises, Inc
Lewman, Ltd
Jane Wyman
Eisenhower Heads to Gettysburg Farm for Study Session
President Eisenhower leaves Washington for Gettysburg to spend most of next week at the farm to study and act on bills passed by Congress. He plans to return briefly to Washington and then fly to Denver around August 14 or 15 for vacation longer than several weeks. Mrs. Eisenhower accompanies him and will stay at the farm until his brief Denver return to address the American Bar Association in Philadelphia August 24, then join him for the Denver return.
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Denver
Washington
Presi
Eiserhower
Gettysburg
Congress
White House
Eisenhower
American Bar Assn
Philadelphia
Lifers Escape With Bloodhounds From Oklahoma Penitentiary
Louis Jones a 34 year old life term inmate reportedly fled the Oklahoma State Penitentiary taking six tracking bloodhounds. Police and six carloads of officers scoured brush country near Allen Oklahoma, but Jones vanished as the dogs closed in. Farmers recalled seeing Jones with the dogs claiming to be the escaped man. Jones had been a trustworthy inmate assigned to handling the dogs.
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Allen
Okla
Jones
Janes
Ute
Pilot's Fight to Save 30 Told by Onlooker
A missing Kansas City socialite, Wilma Allen, 34, wife of a local auto dealer, vanished after a beauty parlor visit. A bloodstained car found near Union Station suggested kidnap and murder. An American Airlines flight meanwhile crashed at Fort Leonard Wood, killing all aboard. an eyewitness said the pilot nearly saved 40 lives before the craft went down.
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American Airlines
Fort Leonard Wood
Kansas City
Wilma Allen
Wiliam Allen Jr
22Nd 2Nd Broadway
Union Station
Eugene Pond
Leonard Wood
Allen
Islam
A. J. Brawster
Ft. Leonard Wood
Post Airport
Berserk Unionist opens fire at San Francisco union HQ
Charles F. Berglund known as Swede, 45, shot and wounded three business agents at the Marine Firemen's Union headquarters. Vincent Maione, head of the union, was killed. Henry Walker, 46, in critical condition. John Hatton, 46, not serious. Stuart Hunt, 38, grazed. Berglund defeated for recording secretary days earlier and dismissed from negotiations panel. Malone, union chief, survived a near-miss.
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SAN Francisco iI
Marine Firemen's Union
Vincent Maione
Tames English
Charles F. Berglund
Henry C. Walker
John Hatton
Stuart Hunt
Berglund
Uion
Hotel cook under siege with butcher knife in chest
CLEARWATER police say Raymond A. Shharles, 34, barricaded in his apartment Thursday night. A hotel cook plunged a butcher knife to the handle in his chest and survived after the owner and officers coaxed him out. He was listed in critical condition at a local hospital.
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Clearwaten
Flavel
Det
Lester Marston
Raymond A. Shharles
Typhoon Hope Aims for Formosa, 80 MPH Winds Reported
The Weather Bureau warned ships to avoid a medium force typhoon heading toward Formosa. Located about 700 miles southeast of Formosa and moving west at 11 mph, the storm named Hope by the U S Navy Weather Central at Guam reached maximum winds of 80 mph.
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Formosa
Taipei
Weather Bureau
U. S. Navy Weather Central
Guam
Hope
Newspaper Page Index Line Reads Like a Map
A dense newsroom index lists sections and page numbers for Beach Bombing, Boyle, Bridge, Classifieds, Comics, Crossword, Editorial, Financial, Obituaries, Radio and TV, Shipping, Sports, Theaters, Tides and Temperatures, Vital Statistics, Wilson, Women, and Your World with page designations across A and B sections. The note guides readers to locate each feature on the specified page.
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Boyle
Wilson
Tragic Disappearance In Big City Leads To Car Search
Allen and wife planned dinner out. babysitter used. Mrs Allen’s car found under viaduct at 10 pm with a torn blouse and suspected head wound. Police probe suspects foul play as investigators examine the trunk contents and search for fingerprints. The couple has been married 13 years and is described as devoted to family.
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Hugh Barron
Tulsa
Okla
Army Land
Allens
Weather outlook for the weekend
Partly cloudy at times through Saturday and mostly sunny by day. Temperature is expected to remain steady with little change across the period.
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Bela Lugosi
Metropolitan State Hospital
Norwalk
Goodby
Mary Judson
Phylis Holliday
Sarah Grieve
Evangeline Guerrero
Ike
By John M. Hightower
Russia
Red China
U.S
United Nations
North Korea
Tropper
State Hospital
Continent
Count
Eli
Teatment
Tussel L
Sparty
Metro‘politan
Metropian
Bela Lug
Biasko
Hole Arouses
Long Beach
Celeaial
VOL. Lavid
MKS
Schmidt Fine
Schreide
Fine House
Air Force Finance Center
Aubrey Rogers
Schmidt Tol
Thenother
Rogers
Tachikawa Air Base
Manila
Hong Kong
French Peak
Lifer
Pen
Hunt
Hed coTece
Lieber Heights
Weath
Beverly Streetar
Asbuty Park
Mel
Malone
Union Hall
Burelund
Berghind
Union
D Meslone
Hunt Gays
Hatton
Ullet
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