Firemen Probe Tunnel for Three Bodies After City Sewer Blast
In North York a 7 man sewer crew faced a fire sparked by a short circuit. Firemen wearing gas masks work to recover three bodies trapped 30 feet underground as fumes hinder rescue. two of the three have been located. Victims named Fusillo Mantella Alexander Correglio Allegrzza Velentini Andruschuk.
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Toronto
North
York
John Fusillo
Guido Mantella
Alexander
John Correglio
Pasquale Allegrzza
Walter Andruschuk
Charles Velentini
Coup Against Government Reported in La Paz Bolivia
Dawn clashes reported in La Paz as an attempted coup against President Hernando Siles Zuazo is described as isolated but ongoing. Three dead, seven wounded, mortar and machine gun fire. streets blocked. rival candidates Paz Estenssoro and Guevara pledge support to quell the rebellion.
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LA Paz
Boliva
Reuters
Hernando Siles Zuazo
Lcalllvnal Y Callliari Wvater
Victor Paz Estenssoro
Walter Guevara
Siles
Bolivia
Falange
Estenssoro
Nationalist Revolutionary Movement
Guevara
Frooke Promises Changes to Alberta Town Planning Laws
Alberta Municipal Affairs Minister A J Hooke pledged potential changes to town planning legislation in the legislature. He noted many residents cannot obtain adequate compensation for property lost to zoning decisions and said elected municipal councils could gain final authority if zoning bylaws are adopted.
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Edmonton
A. J. Hooke
Alberta
Ernest Hansell
Hooke
Provincial Planning Advisory Board
Police seize L'Humanite claims on Army coup report
Paris police seized the Communist L Humanite which charged Brig Gen Andrew J Goodpaster an Eisenhower aide filed a secret report on the French Army. The piece said the report alleged certain officers were turning the army into a machine for a coup d etat and asked for by Allen Dulles.
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Paris
L’humanite
Andrew J. Goodpaster
Eisenhower
United States
Allen Dulles
France
Algeria
de Gaulle
Soviet Union proposes partial test ban with moratorium
In Geneva the Soviet delegate S K Tsarapkin proposed accepting a partial nuclear test ban if all world powers agree to an immediate moratorium. The plan excludes small underground tests and hinges on Western acceptance. U S Wadsworth called it a serious attempt. British officials weigh the move amid ongoing deadlock.
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Geneva
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Russia
Wester
U.S
James J. Wadsworth
Tsarapkin
Wadsworth
Washington
Moscow
New Mexico
Northwest Airlines dive injures two near Lansing
A Northwest Airlines Stratocruiser with 73 aboard dived about 300 feet to avoid two military jets over Lansing Michigan. A passenger and a stewardess, Tarcaret Higgins and Sherry Carter of Minneapolis, sustained neck injuries. The airline and military disputed danger.
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Minneapolis
Northwest Airlines
Lansing
Mich
Arthur W. Smith
Flight 7
New York
William Smith
Tarcaret. Higgins
Sherry Carter
Morris Chaifen
Indiana
Martha Collins
Kirkland Lake
Ont
Chalfen
Air Crash Investigators Probe Northwest Electra Disaster
Detectives with a power shovel dug into a crater in a southern Indiana farm to recover wreckage and bodies from the Northwest Airlines Electra that exploded in flight killing 63. Officials weighed bomb or turbulence as possible causes while relatives were invited to a memorial service at the crash site.
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Tell City
Ind
Northwest Airlines
Indiana
Kirkland Lake
Ont
St. Paul
Northwest
Airlines
The
Civil Aeronautics Board
Air Force
James P. Moore
Louisville
Minneapolis
Chicago
Miami
Fla
Joe Wilson
Wife Acquitted Of Old Murder In Mental Hospital Case
Victoria report recalls the 1947 murder of car dealer William A. Davis. Edith Etheline Davis was found not fit for trial and later acquitted by insanity. she was returned to Es sendale Mental Hospital. Exhibits disappeared and two saucers remained as few evidentiary items. Investigator James Vance was expected to testify but had a stroke.
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B.C
Brimette
British Columbia
James Vance
Trial Within a Trial Over Admissibility In Victoria Case
Two witnesses died and a third questioned for admissibility of preliminary hearing evidence. Justice Verchere ruled the testimony inadmissible due to possible insanity affecting defendant’s opportunity to examine or counsel. A former Victoria detective and Mrs. Davis spoke of bloodstains and paranoid concerns respectively.
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David Verchere
Victoria City
Davis
Two Admit Killing of Two Postal Investigators
Police say George Wilson and William Perkins admitted the slayings of postal investigators John McAuliffe and Ben Spizzirri after seizing them for mail theft. A scrawled license number and car keys led to the suspects who claimed drugs impaired their actions.
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Chicago
George Wilson
William Perkins
John McAuliffe
Ben Spizzirri
Ambassador Bonsal to Return to Havana Post
The U S state department said Ambassador Philip Bonsal will return to his Havana post early, possibly next week. Cuba accused the United States of instigating Lt Cmdr Miguel Pons's defection, a claim Washington called absurd and groundless. Prospects for U S Cuba relations showed some brightening after Castro's hostile speech.
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Washington
U.S. State Department
Philip Bonsal
Havana
Department
United States
Cuba
Cmdr
Miguel Pons
U.S
Bonsal
Fidel Castro
Castro
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Canadian Pacific Railway
J. Cenic
Suffield
Medicine Hat
CPR
Vancouver
Alan Macfarlane
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