Gas Trailer Blast Sets Homes Afire in Cincinnati
A gasoline truck trailer overturned and exploded near Harrison and State Avenues in Cincinnati, setting fire to 10 stores and homes and destroying at least four parked cars. One woman, May Barnett, 52, died during evacuation. her death likely from heart attack or shock. About 50 residents were displaced as flaming gasoline sprayed across frame buildings. Driver Larry Waitaker, 26, said the second trailer overturned as he left State into Harrison. he escaped the cab before the blast. Continued on Page A-3.
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Flying Jinx Skelton Flies Pan American Clipper
Pan American Clipper with Red Skelton on board landed safely in San Francisco after flying 600 miles on three engines from Honolulu. Coast Guard escorted the crippled craft 300 miles off the coast as Captain Williams Thomas feathered one engine to a safe approach.
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Pan Am
Red Skelton
Honolulu
Skelton
San Francisco International
Comb
Willliams Thomas
Coast Guard
Local Newspaper Page Index Snapshot
An index lists sections and page ranges for the issue including Churches on A-4 and A-5, Classified B-4 to B-11, Comics B-12, Death Notices B-4, Financial B-3, Shipping B-3, Sports B-4 to B-6 and B-7, Theaters B-2, Tides Temp B-3, and TV Radio B-4.
Steel Talks Ike Quits Hospital Drag With Rests at Gettysburg
Wage talks near midnight fail to break deadlock as 630000 steel workers prepare to strike. United Steelworkers and steel firms clash over a four year contract with reduced benefits while President Eisenhower rests at his Gettysburg farm after hospital discharge. He marks his 40th wedding anniversary with Mrs. Eisenhower as Hagerty reports the president plans convalescence.
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Lenin Will Call For Expulsion Of Stalin Published
Moscow reports the will of V I Lenin, dated December 23 24 1922 with a 1923 postscript, calling Stalin rude and unfit for high party posts. It urges the 13th Congress to replace him with someone more patient loyal polite and attentive to comrades.
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V. I. Lenin
Stalin
Communist Party
Soviet Union
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Lenin
Rocket Sets New Distance Record At White Sands
A Aerobe Hi rocket blasted 163 miles above Earth at White Sands proving ground to set a new single stage distance record. The prior mark was 158 miles set in 1954 by a Viking IT. The rocket uses a single burning cell for propulsion, unlike multi stage rockets that drop stages during flight.
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Ground
Aerobee-Hi
Viking
Murder of Rich Man's Daughter Shocks Springfield
Carol Elaine Drennon, 18, adopted daughter of Lawrence Drennon, a heavy equipment company owner and Grants Avenue Baptist Church assistant superintendent, was found stabbed 30 times on her home's patio. Her younger brother, in custody for questioning, claims they will not pin the crime on him. The grieving father, near collapse, was hospitalized as the family rushed home from Ridgecrest, North Carolina.
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Springfield
Carol Elaine Drennon
Lawrence Drennon
Grants Avenue Baptist Church
Pursuit Disturbs Professor Seeks Coed's Restraint
Champaign Illinois 34 year old University of Illinois psychology professor Jozef Cohen asked for a warrant to arrest former student Dawn Wolfe 22 for disturbing the peace after daily letters late calls and gifts. Wolfe reportedly pursued Cohen since spring 1955 when she was among 159 students in his class.
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Jozef Cohen
University of Illinois
Dawn Wolfe
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Miss Wolfe
Poised Polish Army Fire Strikes Poznan Rioters
Berlin AP reports Polish army artillery opened on workers defending Poznan during an anti-Communist bread revolt. French and Portuguese businessmen arriving in Frankfurt and Helmstedt cited estimates of 400 to 600 killed as Polish police escorted foreign cars through military patrols around Poznan.
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Poznan
Frankfurt
Thueien Delain
Meudon
France
Helmsted
West Germany
Harbor JC coed named New Miss Calif at state finals
A Harbor Junior College coed, Shirlee Garner Witty, 20, was chosen to represent California in the forthcoming Miss Universe Pageant after state finals in Hollywood. Judges narrowed 17 contestants to five before selecting the winner, a 110 pound, 4 foot 10 inch mother of a ten month old son from Wilmington.
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Colege Coed
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Hollywood
Shirlee Garner Witty
Pozhan
Shirtee
Harbor College
William
Longeshorsman
Wilmington
Jamong
Bite
Cindy Gary
Altadena
Darla’ Peaks
Garden Grove
Beverly Martinolich
San Diego
Roxanne Crosley
Whittier
Shirlee
Long Beach
Kidnaping attempt foiled by Anaheim police
A husky Anaheim father with four children tried to kidnap a Long Beach woman in an alley near 20th Street between Cedar and Chestnut. Lloyd B. Sanders, 23, of 1206 Groton Street, Anaheim, was arrested three hours later and booked on investigation of attempted kidnaping. The victim Lorraine Graves, 24, of 938 Temple Ave., said the man pointed a revolver and ordered her into the car but she screamed and escaped. Sanders admitted the attempt and claimed he used a bottle to simulate a gun. Police noted his job loss and his mother in law’s recent discussion of his finances prior to the incident.
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Anaheim
Lloyd B. Sanders
Groton St
Auty
Sanders
20Th St
Cedar and
Chestnut Aves
Lorraine Graves
Temple Ave
Merle
Long Beach Blvd
A. D. Hil
Orange Ave
Wedding Sunday Jimmy Bride-To-Be Secures License in LA
In Los Angeles a bride-to-be Mrs Gladys Owens and James Roosevelt obtained their marriage license shortly after the bureau opened. Both plan a Sunday wedding at a minister friend’s home and will later fly on American Airlines, amid light chatter about age and the unusual timing. Roosevelt arrived from Washington D C and was greeted by Mrs Ella Moody and others at the airport.
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Los Angeles
James Roosevelt
Gladys
Pho Trene Cowens
Pot County
Owens
American Airlines
Ella Moody
Washington, D. C
Moniaycense
Roosevelt
Lowers
Samuel B. Picone
Gladys Irene Owens
Torrential Rains Kill la Damage 700 Homes
At least two people are dead and more than 730 homes damaged in southern Japan as torrential rains and floods continue. The Tokyo Meteorological Observatory warns heavy rainfall will persist for another day.
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Tokyo
Japan
Tokyo Meteorological Observatory
Weather Outlook: Cloud Build, Cooler Afternoons Likely
A weather note indicates mostly cloudy skies with increasing low clouds tonight and early morning. Expect slightly cooler afternoon temperatures with modest cooling trend extending into the near term.
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