Nautilus completes first trans polar undersea voyage
The United States announced that the atomic submarine Nautilus completed history’s first trans polar undersea voyage across the Arctic. Cmdr. Anderson led the crew from Pearl Harbor to Iceland with 97 percent of the 8000 mile journey under ice and reached the North Pole on August 3.
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United States
White House
Eisenhower
Arctic
North Pole
Arctic Ocean
Bering Sea
Greenland Sea
Cmdr
W. R. Anderson
Waverly
Tenn
Anderson
Iceland
Navy
Pearl Harbor
Hawaii
Polar
Point Barrow
Alaska
Atlantic Ocean
Greenland
Spitzbergen
Pole
Kidnap Slayer Lamarca Electrocuted in Sing Sing Chair
John Angelo Lamarca, the kidnapper of infant Peter Weinberger, was executed in Sing Sing prison at 11 p.m. He maintained hope of a possible reprieve until the end. Lamarca, 33, had kidnapped the 33 day old Peter on July 4 1956 and killed him by exposure after a ransom plot spanned several weeks.
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Ossining
N.Y
John Angelo Lamarca
Peter Weinberger
Sing Sing
Lamarca
George McKinney
Donna
Peter
Westbury
Morris Weinberger
Long Island
Brooks Kinsmen bid to buy Horticultural Station to save Hargrave
The Brooks Kinsmen Club offered to purchase the provincial Hort icultural Station at Brooks to retain former superintendent P D Hargrave, discharged by the government. A telegram asked for a selling price, noting a public subscription fund might cover it. Officials could not comment.
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Brooks
P. D. Hargrave
L. C. Halmrast
Hargrave
Ralph Shellenburg
Rancher and Son Burned in Blast Near Buffalo
Alf Campbell 52 and his son Allison were badly burned when a propane tank exploded in their basement while lighting a hot water heater. Mrs Campbell wrapped them in a blanket. four quarts plasma were flown from Medicine Hat to Empress hospital with help from Red Cross and Mannel Air Services.
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Alf Campbell
Allison
Medicine Hat
Tansley
Red Cross Blood Bank
Mannel Air Services
Empress
Manuel
Ted Shea
Calgary
Campbell
Defence minister maps sweeping changes after committee report
Ottawa reports defence department to undergo major reforms after acceptance of a critical estimates committee report. George Pearkes praises Art Smith and says new era begins facing missile threats, with army re equipment and navy reorganization including surplus HMCS Ontario and HMCS Quebec. Opposition leader Pearson concurs on the report’s value.
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Ottawa
Department of National Defence
Defence
George Pearkes
Commons
Defence Department
Pearkes
Art Smith
Calgary South
Royal Canadian Navy
Ontario
Quebec
Lester Pearson
Estimates Committee
Elusive B C Attacker Still Baffling Posse
Police struggle to locate the gunman murderer suspect in the Okanagan Valley after a four day pursuit. Reports placed him up to 30 miles away with searches near Penticton Kelowna and West Summerland yielding no solid lead. An earlier bevy of tragedies included the murder of Anita Budde and the deaths of three officers in the manhunt.
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B.C
British Columbia
Okanagan Valley
RCMP
Lake Okanagan
Mount Chapaka
Norma Dunn
Highway 97
Ralph Browne
Summerland
Bracken To Report Boxcar Shortage
Ottawa trade minister Churchill said a report by former PC Leader John Bracken on Western Canada boxcar shortage may be made public this session. The report is being written now and was noted in Commons in reply to CCF Leader Hazen Argue.
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Churchill
John Bracken
Western
Canada
Commons
CCF House
Hazen Argue
Traffic Toll Rises To Four In Alberta Crashes
The Canadian Press reports four deaths in two separate Alberta crashes on Thursday. Near Edson, two cars and a truck collided killing Mrs Lillian Edwards of Edson and Marc Bernard of Jean Cote, with Edwards’ 11 year old son also dying. In Wetaskiwin a two car crash killed Nan Cambrey of Penticton, B C, while George Eric Carlson of Post Falls Idaho and his wife and son suffered minor injuries.
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Edson
Wetaskiwin
Alberta
Edmonton
RCMP
Lillian Edwards
Marc Bernard
Jean Cote
Peace River
Edward
Nan Cambrey
Penticton
B.C
George Eric Carlson
Post Falls
Idaho
Novelist J. P. McEvoy Dies of Stroke at 64
New City New York AP J P McEvoy 64 novelist playwright and poet died at his home from a stroke He had been a roving editor for Readers Digest magazine for 20 years He authored at least 10 roadway plays and revues beginning with The Potters in 1924 and ending in 1939 with Stars in Your Eyes featuring Ethel Merman and Jimothy Durante
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New City
N.Y
J. P. McEvoy
McEvoy
Reader’s Digest
Magaine
Roadway
Ethel Merman
Jimathy Durante
Water Murmurs Under Floor at National Printing Bureau
Ottawa reports describe the Hull Quebec National Printing Bureau as an expensive swimming pool and a floating building. Gen. Hugh A. Young cites raised floors, flooded spaces, halted payments, and altered excavation costs amid contractor and architect concerns.
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National Printing Bureau
Hull
Que
Commons Public Accounts Committee
Hugh A. Young
Public Works
Gen. Young
Ernest Cormier
Miron Freres
E. P. Murphy
Cormier
Alphonse Fournier
Liberal Public Works
Exchequer Court
Murphy
Edmond Cloutier
Queen’s
W. E
UN Moves Into Mid East Meet
Delegates from all 81 United Nations member states gathered in New York for the General Assembly emergency session on the Middle East. Optimism rose after Soviet Russia relaxed demands for a Lebanon and Jordan withdrawal and shifted away from a summit conference plan.
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N.Y
General Assembly
Middle East
Security Council
United States
Russia
U.S
Lebanon
Jordan
Whitehorse Beauty Parlor For Men Stirs Sourdough Gripe
In Whitehorse Yukon a new beauty parlor for men sparks bemused talk among longtime prospectors. One sourdough quips about women attempting a wash and permanent wave for a beard and grease.
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Whitehorse
Y.T
Skookum Jim
Yukon
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