Explosion Ravages Roseburg Downtown Killing 4-Year-Old
Emergency crews search rubble across 22 blocks after a huge blast that leveled 35 buildings and damaged 350 as 11 known dead and 20 feared. The truck carried 2½ tons of dynamite and 4 tons of ammonium nitrate mix. 100 injured, 16 still hospitalized. George Rutherford, 47, of Chehalis, Wash., driver, is released.
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Roseburg
Ore
Red Cross
George B. Rutherford
Chealis, Wash
Village Doctor Visits Queen Elizabeth at Balmoral
Ballater's Dr George Middleton called on Queen Elizabeth II at Balmoral Castle. He did not examine the 33 year old expectant monarch who is due early next year. Tourists and telegrams filled Balmoral as world congratulated the Queen on her impending third child. The Queen plans riding and fishing to pass the coming months.
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Balmoral
Scotland
Britain
George Middleton
Ballater
Middleton
Balmoral Castle
Ball
Young man scales New York Coliseum to cut Soviet flag
Andrew Ladanyi 19, Hungarian-born, sneaked into a Soviet cultural exhibit at the New York Coliseum and tried to cut the 24 by 36 foot emblem. He fell from a fourth-floor window during exit, suffering spinal injuries. police charged unlawful entry. Ladanyi immigrated with family to Long Island City in 1949.
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New York
Andrew Ladanyi
New York Coliseum
Ladanyi
Ludanyi
Hungary
Long Island
Queens
Kharkov Professors Sanctioned for Bribe Scandals
MOSCOW AP reports that ten Kharkov institute professors were severely punished for taking bribes of 3000 to 15000 rubles to admit students who failed entrance exams. Komomol Pravda noted no bribing students were expelled.
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Moscow
Kharkov
Komomol Pravda
Young Communist League
WSAZ President Rogers to Address COVIC Meeting
Lawrence H. Rogers president of WSAZ Inc Huntington will address the Central Ohio Valley Industrial Council summer meeting in Ironton Ohio next Tuesday.
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Huntington
W. Va
Lawrence H. Rogers
Wsaz, Inc
Central Ohio Valley Industrial Council
COVIC
Ironton
Ohio
Youngest OSU PhD candidate to receive degree this summer
Bienvenido O. Juliano of Columbus will earn a philosophy doctorate in chemistry at Ohio State University summer commencement on August 28 in absentia. He will be 23 on August 15 and is the son of a botanist and a dentist.
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Columbus, Ohio
Bienvenido O. Juliano
Ohio State University
OSU
Juliano
Calamba
Laguna
Philippine Islands
Jose R. Juliano
Teodora Ochoa Juliano
Jose Juliano
Philippine Atomic Energy Commission
Heiress Leaves England on West Africa Sea Voyage
Katharine Dowsett, heiress to a shipping fortune, sailed from Tilbury aboard the freighter Mendi Palm with a companion, while her lover Edward Langley remains jailed for contempt after elopement attempts. Newsmen identify a second woman as Dowsett’s stepmother in the escort. The ship’s first stop is Freetown, Sierra Leone.
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Tilbury
England
West Africa
Katharine Dowsett
Katharine
London
Edward Langley
Langley
Scotland
High Court
Jhockside
Theother
Gladys Dowsett
Mendi Palmig
Freetown
Sierra Leone
Flu Hits Indonesians Near Bandung
Jakarta AP reports influenza affected 75 residents in eight villages around Bandung during June and July as health authorities document the outbreak.
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Jakarta
Bandung
Ohio girl in aid home brags of royal romance
Lynn Waldron 22 of Pepper Pike Ohio said she is engaged to Prince Basundhara of Nepal. Police said she was found in a Honolulu foster home after claiming amnesia and being drugged. Basundhara reportedly left for Tokyo while Waldron awaited return to the mainland.
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Ohio
Honolulu
Nepal
Welfare Department
Lynn Waldron
Pepper Pike
Cleveland
Prince Basundhara
Tokyo
Miss Waldron
Maluhia Hospital
Basundhara
Mahendra
Breakfast From Sea Leaves Mullets Stranded in Tide
In Southend England on a Saturday free breakfasts by the thousand were gathered as red mullet stranded with the ebb tide. Bathers scooped them from tidal pools by the hundreds leaving a makeshift feast in the surf.
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Sea Southend
England
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