Half Hour Agony as Boy Falls in Hole
Joe Martin five of Downey spent thirty minutes upside down in a post hole six feet deep while digging dirt for an Edison Co power pole. Workmen pulled him out with a rope, he was treated for shock and sand in his eyes at Rancho Las Amigos Hospital. He told his parents he must have a bath tonight.
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Joe Martin
Downey
Joe
Edison Co
Rancho Las Amigos Hospital
Kenneth Martin
Clancey Ave
Egypt Train Crashes into Crowd Killing Dozens
In Kafr el Zaizt Egypt a diesel train plowed into cheering crowds at the station as President Mohammed Naguib arrived. He aided victims delaying his schedule. Authorities counted 26 bodies removed with fears the death toll could rise amid the fire-ridden week.
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Kafr-El-Zaizat
Egypt
Ikl
Mohammed Neguib
Nile River
Naguib
Cairo
Alexandria
Kuleib Jbyvar
Dulles urges Soviet acceptance of German unification by vote
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles urged Moscow at the Berlin conference to back a future Germany unified through free elections. He aligned with France and Britain in supporting a German unification plan and called for Germany to join a European national community including the Schuman plan and the European Defense Community. He warned against opposing European integration, stressing security through unity and a broader European order.
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Berlin
John Foster Dulles
Russia
Germany
Europe
Dulles
Georges Bidault
Anthony Eden
V. M.ipetea
Mosolovv
Schuman Plan
West Germany
European Defense Community
EDC
Molotov
Bidault
Earier
United States
Soviet Union
Ger
AEC Reveals Livermore Lab as H Bomb Site in California
The Atomic Energy Commission disclosed for the first time that a secret H bomb laboratory operates in Livermore California. Run by the University of California, the lab has about 1500 scientists and technicians and began operations in June 1952. Dr Edward Teller helped develop the hydrogen bomb designs here, and the facility supports nuclear weapons work formerly done at Los Alamos and Lawrence Livermore is preparing tests at Eniwetok Bikini.
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Washington
Livermore
Calif
Atomic Energy Commission
Congress
AEC
University of California
Commission
Edward Teller
Teller
ABC
Eniwetok~ Bikini Proving Ground
Pacific
House- Senate Atomic Energy Committee
T the
AFC
Los Alamos and
Lancia Laboratories
New Mexico
Jealous milkman confesses to Detroit tycoon killing
John Lange the 53 year old milkman nicknamed the Jack of Diamonds admitted shooting John W Mattson 53 traffic manager Atlas Steel Co as part of a love triangle. Lange said he discovered Mattson was two timing Estelle Jameson with Mattson and decided to kill him while he worked late at his office. Mattson left a note to Jameson found in his pocket. The case reveals multiple love triangles and letters from several women.
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Detroit
Detroit Steel Company
John Lange
John W. Mattson
Atlas Steel Co
Estelle Jameson
Mattson
Lange
Jameson
Dywe
Milwaukee
Marilyn Monfrey
Starlings Targeted by City Sound Weapon Try
Philadelphia officials tested loudspeakers at City Hall to scare starlings from their roosts, using three sound tracks aimed at driving them away. License Commissioner Smytko claimed it could rid the city of the birds, but the starlings remained perched as engineer Pyetko said there were technical difficulties and a retry was planned.
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Philadelphia
Pytko
Reds Build Maginot Korea Line Across Front
United Nations officers report the Communists are constructing a steel and concrete defense line along the 155 mile truce front in Korea. Night and day work includes trenches pillboxes tank traps and reinforced gun positions. Observers describe heavy digging constant blasting and persistent fortification by the Chinese and Reds as U N patrols monitor the neutral zone.
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Central Front
Korea
U. S
Reid
United Nations
Pfe
Donald B. Williams
Detroit
U. N
Graft Fund Incident in Henrico County Budget
Richmond reports a typographical error in the Henrico County budget mislabeling welfare department spending as graft and art supplies. Officials clarified the item and stated no change in allocations.
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Richmond
Henrico County
Welfare Department
Roosevelt presses on in race amid adultery accusations
James Roosevelt defies adultery charges and remains in the California 26th District congressional race. He told a Pasadena audience he will meet all commitments and continue his campaign. Separately, economists forecast unemployment to level off and possibly fall by March as jobless claims drop, though factory layoffs may lag.
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Pasadena
James Roosevelt
California
20Th Congressional District
Democratic Council
Roosevelt
Tom Mechling
Nevada
Los Angeles
Democratic National Committee
Paul Ziffren
Washington
Labor Department
Prison Camp Betrayers to Face Trial
SEOUL report says the U S Army will file court martial charges against former POWs who betrayed fellow Americans for Communist favors. An informed source notes the move follows delays while ensuring no more defectors would return to U S jurisdiction. Corporal Edward S Dickinson of Big Stone Gap Virginia is among those charged. 21 others were dishonorably discharged.
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Seoul
U.S
U. S
Edward S., Dickenson
Big Stone Gap
Reds
Surmer
Mer
Sitter Slays Boy Refusing to Go to Bed
Des Moines up. Chief Deputy Sheriff Ted Lyons said a 14 year old boy admitted fatally shooting the younger boy he was babysitting after losing temper when he would not stay in bed. Garry Browning signed a statement saying he loaded the shotgun and thought safety was on when he fired at Bobby Short Friday night. Bobby reportedly insisted he would not go to bed until ready. Coroner Dr. Walter Anderson testified the younger boy could not have shot himself as his arms were not long enough.
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Des Moines
Ted Lyons
Lyons
Garry
Browning
Bobby Short
Bobby
Walter Anderson
Polk County
16 British Skaters Drowned in Ponds
Lancaster Indiana reports Lancashire County police announced that 16 persons, many of them children, drowned today while skating on ice covered ponds across the county. An uncounted number had narrow escapes as authorities urged parents to keep children off the ice.
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Lancaster
Indiana
Lancashire County
Weather forecast notes night fog and Sunday afternoon haze
The forecast calls for night and morning fog with some haze Sunday afternoon. Temperatures show little change and no strong signals of precipitation or extreme conditions.
Classifieds and notices tease next editions
A brief content index lists where to find sections in a newspaper. It mentions Churches Comics Financial Obituaries Radio and TV Shipping Table Schools Sports Theaters and Tidal Temperatures across pages A-2 to A-8 and B-4 to B-10.
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Boyle
Tidal
Fog shrouds Southland as six Long Beach injuries reported
Dense fog blanketed the Southland for a second day with zero visibility at many airports. In Long Beach six injuries were reported in accidents from 7:30 a.m. to noon, including a police man. In Norwalk a woman, Alice Cox, 38, of Los Angeles, was killed when her car was struck by an eastbound freight train at Rosecrans and Marquardt Avenues. another driver, Harvey Samuel Armstrong, 37, of Los Angeles, was injured. The car was demolished after hitting a crossing signal. The scene followed a string of 30 Norwalk area accidents and added to chaotic regional travel.
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Southland
Norwalk
Santa Ana
Long Beach
Malibu
San Diego
Insand
Burbank
Los Angeles
Alice Cox
Santa Fe Crossing
Rosecrans and
Marquardt Aves
Harvey Samuel Armstrong
Los Angeles County General Hospital
Oscar W. Wyatt
Santa Ans
James V. Wilson
Elder Ave
Italy Crisis Overthrows Fanfani Cabinet in Voting
Rome reports the 11 day-old cabinet of Premier Amintore Fanfani toppled as the Chamber of Deputies rejected his government by 303-260 with 12 abstentions. The vote split along party lines, threatening Western European defense and raising the risk of a general election with strong Communist influence.
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Rome
Amintore Fanfani
Italy
Chamber of Deputies
Fanfani
Christian Democratic
Christian Democrats
Philly hotel offers American beer as coffee substitute
The Hotel Penn-Sherwood in Philadelphia announced a policy of serving American-made beer at the same price as coffee to replace coffee drinks at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A hotel spokesman said the aim is to curb coffee consumption, with menus noting the substitute alongside a verse encouraging beer with meals.
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Philadelphia
Hotel
Penn-Sherwood
Brazil
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