Hurricane Whirling Out to Sea Strikes NC Coast
The fierce storm moved along the North Carolina coast at 12 to 15 mph, delivering 100 mph gusts earlier and causing extensive damage in New Bern, Morehead City, and surrounding areas. Shelters opened with evacuees, while Washington, Belhaven, and other towns reported localized flooding and high water during the event.
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Atlantic Beach
Morehead City
Manteo
Connie
North Carolina
Norfolk
Hampton Roads
Wea R
Anchorage
Tangier Island
Willoughby
Red Cross
New Bern
Washington, D. C
Pamlico River
Belhaven
Pamilico
Luther Hodges
North Carolinas
Diane
Washington
Wilmington
Elizabeth City
Peron Flee Triggers Talk of Peace Talks in Argentina
Reports say Peron fled as junta leaders named Molina as possible president and reassigned top police and gendarmerie heads. Military and police reshuffles followed threats to bombard oil refineries near Buenos Aires. Cardinal Corde rlies urged peace as curfew quieted celebrations and Peronist supporters remained subdued.
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River Plate
Buenos Aires
Jose Domingo Molina
Pes Ran
Charles Wirrth
Angel Juan Wani
Peron
Felix M. Robles
Andeling Bergallo
3Rd
Bergallo
Norberto Leoncio Mania
Gamboa
Federal Police
Benjamin Sanchez Mendoza
Cordoba
Bahia Blanca
Junta
Loel Held Sanity Ruling In Slaying Case
Loel, jailed for the slaying of Elizabeth Henderson in Oklahoma City, was ruled sane by Eastern State Hospital psychiatrists. Henderson, traveling from California with Loel, was stabbed 13 times and found under a motel bed. Loel was arrested years later in Florida for drunkenness. fingerprint checks linked him to a national crime list.
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Vinita
Okla
Austin Loel
Ivoman
Oklahoma City
Eastern State Hospital
Loel
Elizabeth Jeanne Henderson
Compton
Calif
Florida
U.S
Felix Adams
Los Angeles Public Schools Record Half Day Enrollment
Los Angeles city schools report 43580 pupils on half day sessions for opening week, a record. The total includes 28100 in elementary and 15480 in junior and senior high schools. The system plans 279 new classrooms within six weeks to ease crowding. Kindergarten enrollment is 27743, down 87 from last year. Total enrollment reaches 469129 versus 449170 last year.
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Los Angeles
Board of Education
Toj
Burgatow
Fifth Wife Sues Actor Grant Withers for Divorce
Cuban-born dancer Estelita filed a Superior Court divorce suit in Los Angeles on Monday against actor Grant Withers. The couple wed January 29, 1955.
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Grant Withers
Los Angeles
Estelita
Underground Communist Chief Held on Smith Act Charge
Morris Weiss, 45, an underground Communist leader, is held on $50,000 bail after FBI agents arrested him on a 6th Avenue subway platform. A Justice Department release says Weiss vanished from Chicago four years ago and has lived underground since, after eight months of study in Moscow in the late 1920s. The Smith Act bans conspiracy to overthrow the government by force, with a maximum 10 year prison term and $10,000 fine.
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New York
UPI
Morris Weiss
Weiss
FBI
6Th Avenue
Justice Department
Chicago
Moscow
Vernon Plant Fire Causes $100,000 Damage
Flames swept through 5090 bales of scrap paper and cardboard in a $100,000 blaze at the Container Corp of America. Four large storage sheds and a trailer loaded with 10 tons of cardboard were destroyed. Eleven cars burned. Fireman Louis Block and plant carpenter Ray Cox were overcome by smoke but suffered no serious injuries. Fire companies from Los Angeles Vernon Huntington Park and Maywood fought the blaze. Plant manager W P Quinn estimated damage at not less than $100,000.
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Vernon
Container Corp. of America
Louis Block
Ray Cox
Los Angeles
Huntington Park
Maywood
W. P. Quinn
Blaze Quickly Ended In Colorado Hospital
A small fire started by an acetylene tank at the Colorado State Hospital in Pueblo triggered a general alarm but was extinguished within minutes. Fire caused only minor damage and posed no danger to the 5,800 mentally ill residents housed there.
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Pueblo
Colo
Colorado State Hospital
Railroads urge law changes to allow rate cuts
Washington D A spokesman for the major railroads pressed changes in transportation law arguing current ICC rules bar railways from publicizing lower rates that compensate for cost advantages. The association backs a presidential advisory panel proposal to let regulated carriers set competitive rates without harming other transport modes.
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Washington H
J. Carter Fort
Washington
The
Association of American Railroads
House Commerce
Association
Congress
E Raylroads
Interstate Commerce] Commission
ICC
Fort
James Pinckney
American Trucking Assn
ATA
Weeks
Flemming
Nationalist China bids to oust Soviet Union at UN
Senior adviser to Chiang Kai-shek urges expulsion of Soviet Russia from the United Nations and calls on the 10th U N General Assembly to condemn China as an aggressor. Dr Chu Chia-Hua heads the Chinese Association for the United Nations and is among 40 advisers to the president.
Two Die as Air Force Refuel Plane Crashes
A KC-97 four engine Air Force refueling plane crashed while landing at the base, burning on impact and killing two of the 13 aboard. Eleven men escaped unharmed as the craft ran off the runway and exploded during the incident at the base. The aircraft was from the 41st Refueling Squadron.
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Air Faele Dade
Air Force
Radar Gun Aims to Halt Runaway Missiles
Los Angeles reports on a proposed low frequency radar gun system designed to detect and destroy runaway missiles before they can be perfected. The project, discussed by American Rocket Society members, would trigger safety exploders inside missiles to avert war risks, though reliability concerns and international tensions are noted.
Gruelling Car Eyes 25,000 Miles in Endurance Run
Danny Eames and a three man crew drive a stock 1956 Dodge sedan on a 10 mile course at Bonneville Salt Flats. They have surpassed 21,000 miles with an AA supervised test aiming to top 25,000 miles and challenge the 1928 10,000 mile Studebaker record for endurance.
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Bonneville Salt Flats
Utah
Danny Eames
Manhattan Beach
Calif
Dodge
Bob Gurvitz
Gurvitz
Studebaker
Keep Guard Up Avoid War Ex Navy Sec Dan Kimball Warns
Former Navy Secretary Dan Kimball told the American Rocket Society in Los Angeles that the United States can avoid major war for 200 years if it maintains strong defense. He warned that China’s Communists and others could exploit U S weakness and said only rapid readiness prevents a second global conflict.
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Los Angeles
United
Thaiser Wilhelm
Hitler
Tojol
George L. Meredith
Donalds
I. Thompson
White Sands
Proving Ground
N. M. United States
United States
Navy
Dan Kimbell
Kaiser Wilhelm
Tojo
Jane
Kimball
American Rocket Society
England
Slayer Executed on 28th Birthday at Soledad Prison
Harold E. Berry was executed in the gas chamber on his 28th birthday at Soledad Prison in Monterey County. He died for killing a fellow inmate with a lead pipe at Sole dad Prison in March 1954. Berry had been serving a life term for killing his brother Murrill on December 4, 1947 after a drinking bout at Van Nuys. Warden Harley A Teets said it was the first such execution on a man's birthday and the date was by chance set by the trial judge.
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San Quedun
Harold E. Berry
Berry
Soledad
Monterey County
Murrill
iTravel Note CURL Uavens Fort Devens Hostesses
USC Junior Hostesses at Fort Devens have traveled 181,142 miles or more than seven times around the world entertaining GIs since 1948.
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Curl Uavens
Mass
USC
Fort Devens
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