Tornado Toll in Birmingham Area Tops Twenty One
A Birmingham area tornado killed at least 21 people and injured more than 200 leaving 400 homeless. Red Cross said over 100 houses were destroyed while hundreds sustained damage across McDonald’s Chapel and nearby suburbs. Emergency wards opened as hospitals rushed staff to treat the injured.
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Birmingham
Ala
Red Cross
Roscoe Whatley
McDonald's Chapel
Sandusky
New Georgia
Sayreton
Whatley
Ensley
Roy J. Self
Margie Blake
Huntsville
Alabama
Tuscaloosa
Anniston
Centreville
Montgomery
Dothan
Mobile
Betty Duncan
Rodney
Melvin Duncan
Salvation Army
National Guardsmen
Lloyd Noland Hospital
Fairfield
Two Lows Push Cooler Air Into Miami Valley
Two low pressure systems bring cooler air to the Miami Valley with showers. Forecast calls for mostly cloudy windy and cool conditions today tonight and Tuesday with a high near 45 and a low around 35. Sunday’s unofficial high reached 59 and the morning low was 39. Weekend rainfall totaled 0.10 inches.
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Depesters
Miami Valley
War II Plot Recalled By Ieardi Trial
Ex Army Lt Aldo L Icardi faces perjury charges for denying knowledge of a World War II mission that allegedly led to the death of Maj William V Holohan in Italy. The Mangostine mission involved Italian partisans and a poisoning claim, with conflicting accounts of Holohan’s disappearance after a Sept 1944 parachute jump near Lake Orto.
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Washington
Aldo L. Icardi
William V. Holohan
Italy
Icardi
Holohan
Pittsburgh
House Armed Services
Mangostine
Ieardi
Carl Lo Dolce
Rochester
N.Y
Tullio Lussi
Landi
Battle Lines
Lake Orto
Defense Department
Iearch
Lo Doice
Lo Dolce
House Armed Services Subcommittee
Rep. Cole
R-Ny
Kilday
D-Tex
Search
Munists
Bulgarian Premier Chervenkov Requests Resignation
London Belgrade radio announced that Vulko Chervenkov has requested to be released from his duties as premier of Bulgaria. He had faced criticism and was denounced by the Bulgarian Communist Party Central Committee as a little Stalin.
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London
Belgrade
Vulko Chervenkov
Bulgaria
Chervenkov
Communist Party
Central Committee
Stalin
Trapped in mud two boys dive to tragedy in Ohio
In Martins Ferry Jefferson County two schoolboys on a fishing trip sank waist deep in a strip mine spoil bank. Alex Lishick 10 survived after 16 hours with Mike Stankok 8 dying. Rescuers from 150 to 200 volunteers searched through night and day until help arrived. Mike died after falling again in the mud while Alex cried for help.
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Martins Ferry
Ohio
Alex Lishick
Adena
Mike Stankok
Alex
Martins Ferry Hospital
Jefferson County
Mike
Alexander Lishick
St. Casimir’s Parochial School
Paul Stanko
Israel Shows Off Military Might In Holiday Parade
Israel staged a display of military strength in Tel Aviv featuring 2 French Mystere jet fighters as part of a national celebration. Premier Ben-Gurion warned foes of heavy retaliation if war comes, while Egypt and Arab states claim vigilance against perceived threats amid UN mediation.
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Israel
Egypt
Jordan
Syria
Lebanon
Dag Hammarskjold
U.N
Hammarskjold
Gaza Strip
Haifa
Egyp
Czechoslovakia
David Ben-Gurion
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Ben-Gurion
Soviet Bloc
United States
Europe
Izhak Ben-Vai
Cairo
Nasser
Two Ohioans Hit, Husband and Wife Critically Hurt
Louis A. Carlson, 56, and Maria Eva Carlson, 58, of Marion Ohio, were critically injured in a collision on U S 13 W near Louisville Kentucky last night.
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Louisville
Louis A. Carlson
Maria Eva
Marion
Ohio
U.S. 13
Here
Adlai Sees Victory On 1st Ballot
Adlai Stevenson, visiting Southern Pines North Carolina at his sister’s home, says he plans to win the Democratic presidential nomination on the first ballot. He predicts winning the Florida primary on May 29 and will stay through Wednesday while resting and drafting speeches.
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Southern Pines
N.C
Adlai Stevenson
Chicago
Florida
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Stevenson
North Carolina
Moore County
Stevenson For President Club
Illinois
Negroes Prepare to Switch Party in 1956
Gloster B. Current of the Nashville NAACP predicts large numbers of Negroes will desert the Democratic party in 1956. He spoke to about 300 members opening their membership drive and urged blacks to press for civil rights legislation under Senator Eastland as a key obstacle. Early returns suggest a significant shift in voting, especially in pivotal northern states where black voters hold weight.
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Nashville
Tenn
Gloster B
National Assn
Advancement of Colored People
Democratic Party
Nashville Naacp
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Senate Judiciary Committee
Congress
Democratic Congress
Eastland
Murray Plans Church Wedding After Bus Stop
Don Murray age 26 and Hope Lange 21 announce plans for a church wedding after finishing the film Bus Stop. The couple wed in a civil ceremony Saturday in Beverly Hills, confirming a private marriage before their formal vows.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Marilyn Monnie
Don Murray
Hope Lange
Eisenhower to Explain Verdict on Farm Bill Tonight
President Eisenhower plans a national radio address to discuss the farm bill amid strong veto signals. A veto message is anticipated as aides say the White House will announce a decision today.
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Ike
Washington
White House
Eisenhower
People of America
Integration By Methodists Unlikely Now
MEMPHIS Tennessee The secretary of the General Conference of the Methodist Church predicted the quadrennial meeting will postpone action on racial integration. Dr Lud Estes said a commission would study the issue and report to the 1960 meeting. Also to be considered are women preachers ministerial rights new theological schools and a petition to raise 37 million dollars for church colleges.
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Memphis
Tenn
General Conference of the Methodist Church
Lud H. Estes
Minneapolis
General Conference
Estes
Eisenhower Vetoes Farm Bill Citing Harm to Agriculture
President Eisenhower vetoed the farm bill asserting that high price support would harm agriculture regions nationwide and hurt consumer interests. The veto message targeted lawmakers as the measure faced passage in Congress.
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Eisenhower
Ex-Convict Shot Down In Gun Duel at Cocktail Lounge
In St Louis a 49 year old ex convict Frank Bird paroled January 6 from Missouri State Penitentiary was killed in a shootout during an attempted holdup at a cocktail lounge. His companion Robert Lee Orr, 32, was wounded in the neck and a woman customer Mildred Watts, 56, was critically wounded as two detectives interrupted the attack. The pair had entered through a rear door and Bird attempted to grab a wallet as the detectives confronted them, sparking a volley of 13 shots. Bird had previously escaped from Missouri prison in 1937 and was recaptured in Cleveland later that year after involvement in bank robberies with about $50,000 in loot.
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ST. Louis
Ohio
Frank Bird
Missouri State Penitentiary
John Grogan
Bird
Robert Lee Orr
Nicholas Valenti
Terrence McKenzie
Mildred Watts
Jennings
City Hospital
Valenti
Missouri
Cleveland
Graham Trial Jury Chosen
Denver report states that jurors are being selected to try John Gilbert Graham, 24, on murder charges for a dynamite bombing of an airliner last November that killed 44 people. He is accused of killing his mother, Daisie E. King, 55, to collect $37,500 flight insurance, a claim he disputes. The trial may last five to eight weeks.
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Denver
John Gilbert Graham
Daisie E. King
Kremlin Twins to Visit London Amid Disarmament Talks
Reports say Khrushchev and Bulganin aboard the Soviet cruiser Ordjonikidze departed Kaliningrad for Portsmouth. London speculation links their arrival with possible disarmament breakthroughs or gold loans, while Eden seeks pact on trade and Middle East issues. Widespread security concerns followed vandalism at Karl Marx's statue and arson attempts near Tass halls.
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London
Deamview Burtwania
Beintriowsa Hug
Vvnist
Khrushchev
Kremlin
England
Baltic
Kaliningrad
Moscow
Portsmouth
Britain
U.N
United States
Russia
France
Canada
Eden
Middle East
Germany
Karl Marx
Tass
Xavier Seniors To Face Charges In Walnut Hills Robbery
Cincinnati police say three Xavier University seniors will be charged for the assault and robbery of Dennis Carnes a Walnut Hills salesman early Saturday. The suspects Donald Turney John McGinn Jr and Donald Graves are named with their ages and hometowns. two were varsity players on the 1955 Xavier team.
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Cincinnati
Xavier University
Walnut Hills
Dennis Carnes
Donald James Turney
Fort Wayne
Ind
Xavier
John J. McGinn Jr
Chicago
Donald J. Graves
Cleveland
Odd Mishaps Claim 15 Lives Across Ohio Over Weekend
An Associated Press survey shows 15 deaths in Ohio from Friday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight including nine traffic fatalities. A clergyman’s wife was killed in a car crash that also killed the husband two days later. In Franklin County a 65-year-old train conductor died on top of a moving freight engine. Akron saw a 700-gallon ammonia tank explode at a rubber plant, with one dead and four injured, the second fatal plant incident in a week following a prior flash heart attack death.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Franklin County
Akron
Prep Pupils Nominate Ike Nixon At Ohio Mock Convention
About 700 students from 53 central Ohio high schools held a mock Republican national convention at Capitas University. Eisenhower secured unanimous nomination on the second ballot with 492 votes, Knowland 182, while Nixon won on the first ballot with 404 votes. The event followed a parallel mock Democratic convention nominating Kefauver and Laushe.
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Columbus
Ohio
Eisenhower
Nixon
Wiliam F. Knoweland
Knowland
Calisfornia
Capeitas University
Sen. Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Frank J. Lausche
Charlie Wulumu Death Song Ties to Tribal Rite
Darwin Australia 19 year old aborigine Charlie Lya Wulumu showed brief improvement after five days in an iron lung at Darwin Hospital. Doctors suspect subconscious belief in death song blocked swallowing. Tribe elders and women sang at Yirrkalla mission on instruction from his mother in law.
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Darwin
Australia
Charlie Lya Wulumu
Darwin Hospital
Charlie
Yirrkalla Methodist Mission
Arnhem Land
Wulumu
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