Eight Die In High Speed Troop Train Collision Near Baton Rouge
A Marine troop train collided head on with the Southern Belle near Simmesport Louisiana killing eight and injuring about sixty. The crash was blamed on a garbled message and the troop train crew allegedly ignored an order to switch tracks. The First 90mm AA Gun Battalion was aboard. more than fifty people were hospitalized and Marines aided in the rescue.
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Simmesport
J. C. Roberts
Baton Rouge
R. R. Sutter
Kansas City Southern
Sutter
Camp LeJeune
N.C
San Diego
Calif
Brooke Army Hospital
Fort Sam Houston
Tex
Toledo Strikers to Receive Bronze Medals for Strikes
About 800 members of UAW Local 12 in Toledo will be awarded bronze medals for participating in a series of strikes tied to a push for an area wide industrial pension system. The strikes touched nine plants. the pension now covers about 2,000 workers across 19 plants.
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Toledo
Cio-United Auto
Armed Services
Richard T. Gosser
UAW International
UAW
Three Children Die In Indiana Car Crash Drowning
In Hammond Indiana a car carrying a family and parents collided with another vehicle and plunged into a drainage ditch with about five feet of water. The parents escaped but three children Oliver Meyers six Erwin Meyers four and Morris Meyers seven months drowned. The parents Mr and Mrs Francis Meyers from Chicago survived.
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Hammond
Ind
Oliver Meyers
Erwin Meyers
Morris Meyers
Francis Meyers
Chicago
Soviet Troops Reported Massed in Romania
The Greek army newspaper Strati ntika near said today that large Soviet troop concentrations are reported massed in Romania. The dispatch said the troops consist mostly of armored and artillery units.
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Athens
Greeece
Stratintika Near
Romania
Cannonball Man Refuses Army Artillery Posting
Donald F. Nothdorft known as Donaldo Zacchini, 22, arrives for Army basic training at Fort Sheridan and says he does not want to serve in the artillery after a career as a professional human cannonball having been shot from cannons over 2800 times.
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Fort Sheridan
Donald F. Nothdorft
Nothdorft
Donaldo Zacchini
Missouri Air Project Faces Fight Over Defense Bill
A dispute over a proposed Air Force installation in Grandview Missouri delays action on a 5.768 billion military construction bill. The plan would move Continental Air Command to Grandview to boost Air Reserve and Guard programs, with a contested amendment by Rep Gross to remove Grandview.
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Washington
President Truman
Missouri
House
United States
Grandview Mo
Jackson County
Truman
Independence
Air Force
Armed Services Committee
Continental Air Command
Mitchel Field
Long Island
Grandview
Air Reserve
Air National Guard
Gross
R LA
Sedalia
House Armed Services Committee
Vinson
D-Ga
House Armed Services
Russia
Army
Navy
Joint Armed Services
Senate
Wife shoots husband over Korean War fears in Virginia
Navy officer Lieut. Edgar O. Robinson was wounded and hospitalized after his wife Marian Eyleen Robinson fired at him in Arlington County Virginia. Police quoted her saying she was worried over conditions and feared separation due to the Korean War. She was charged with felonious shooting while he received treatment and was moved to the Bethesda Maryland Navy hospital.
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Washington
Navy
Arlington County
Edgar O. Robinson
Navy Medical Center
Bethesda
Marian Eyleen Robinson
Husband Slain In Breaking Up Wifes' Trust
COLUMBUS AP The former Norwich school superintendent Don ald Bamfield 47 was killed in his home as his estranged wife Carr ie 34 and private detective Robert Butler 29 of Columbus were held. Edward Penn 24 of Columbus a laborer admitted shooting Bamfield during a confrontation at 800 Bryden Road as Butler knocked and said Western Union. Bamfield and Penn struggled. a single shot fired. Police found Bamfield dead with two revolvers in the apartment. Bamfield's divorce suit is pending and the couple share a 12 year old son.
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Columbus
Norwich
Muskingum County
Donald Bamfield
Edward Penn
Bamfield
Carrie
Robert A. Butler
Butler
Bryden Road
Bramfield
Western Union
Penn
Bamfields
Miss Nancy Chaffee to Wed Pittsburgh Star Ralph Kiner in California
Miss Nancy Chaffee sixth ranking American woman tennis player will wed Ralph Kiner Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder in All Saints Chapel Santa Barbara California on October 13. Hank Greenberg will be best man with Max West among six ushers. Nancy’s maid of honor is Gerry McCabe. The couple known for a sport shop venture plan a private ceremony with tennis and baseball connections.
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Manchester
Mass
Nancy Chaffee
Ralph Kiner
Pittsburgh Pirate
All Saints Chapel
Santa Barbara
Calif
Fred Foye
Boston Traveler
Hank Greenberg
Kiner
Greenberg
Cleveland
Pittsburgh
Detroit Tigers
Max West
Boston
Cincinnati
Los Angeles Club
West
Nancy
Gerry McCabe
Tommy Harmon
Michigan
Butchers Seek Higher Hamburger Prices Amid OPS Review
Retail meat dealers pressed for increased hamburger, chuck, round steak and beef roast prices while asking ceilings on sirloin and rib loin roasts to be lowered. The Office of Price Stabilization reviews the beef program and officials said dealers urged rises of three to four cents for hamburger and a substantially lower sirloin price.
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Washington
Office of Price Stabilization
OPS
British Unveils Rapid Firing .280 Rifle in Tests
Britain introduced a stockless rapid firing .280 rifle, claiming higher rate of fire than the Garand and Enfield but weaker penetration. ATC committee will study it this fall and report to Western defense ministers. production timelines remain several years, with no final decision to adopt.
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Glenn Williams
Eng
Britain
United States
Atlantic Treaty Organization
Northerners Attack Plant Dispersal Plan
Congressional members from industrial regions denounce President Truman's plant dispersal policy aimed at spreading industry to resist atomic attacks. They argue it wastes defense effort and drains vitality from established regions while using defense contracts loans and material allocation to enforce it. New England lawmakers denounce the plan as outrageous while opposing party lines unite.
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Washington
Congress
Truman
New
Green
D-Ri
Special Mass for Virgin Mary to be celebrated worldwide
Vatican sources say a special mass honoring the Virgin Mary will be celebrated in Catholic churches worldwide on August 15, the feast of the Assumption. The 1950 dogma proclamation marked the 25th Holy Year, and Pope Pius XII will celebrate in his private chapel at Castel Gandolfo before a three week rest starting next Tuesday.
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Vatican City
Pope Pius
Castel Gandolfo
Lake Albano
Vatican
Ohio Government Girl Nabbed For Killing Twin Babes
ARLINGTON Va AP A 25 year old government clerk was charged with murder after police found newborn twin girls dead in her apartment She said she gave birth unaided Thursday and smothered them in a blanket The woman Ruth Alice Beverage of Athens Ohio was arrested at her desk in Arlington Hall an Army Signal Corps installation The landlady reported a blood spattered upset apartment and the babies were in a small suitcase Police named the father as a serviceman.
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Alington
Ruth Alice Beverage
Miss Beverage
Athens
Arlington Hall
Army Signal Corps
Explosion Injures Two at OSU Lab on Fourth Floor
An early morning explosion at Ohio State University's engineering and experimental laboratory injured two people. Bowers sustained burns and is in critical condition, Al Harris also burned and in fair condition. Officials estimate equipment damage at 20 to 30 thousand dollars and campus damage near 2 thousand. Fire Chief warned of dangerous hydrogen buildup.
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Columbus
Ohio State University
Engineering and Experimental Laboratory
George O. Brown
Bowers
University Hospital
al Harris
University
Chief Brown
Man Cleared by Truth Drug in Wife Death
Abner Hatley of Blytheville Arkansas 26 was cleared by a truth drug test and released by prosecutor Joseph E Killian after a coroner's report suggested sleepwalking at the time of his wife's death. Betty Hatley 23 was found dead in a rural school yard on July 15 with autopsy showing ruptured liver and broken ribs. Hatley denied beating his wife during a drinking spree and said they slept in the school yard.
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St, Joseph, Mich
Abner Hatley
Blytheville
Ark
Betty
Joseph E. Killian
Hatley
Peace talks at Kaesong stall as Joy denounces Communists
Vice Admiral C Turner Joy told Lt General Nam I that the Reds had slammed the door on any progress in Kaesong cease fire talks. He accused Nam of presenting a political price for a temporary truce and failing to negotiate.
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Robert B. Tuckman Munsan
Korea
Adm
C. Turner Joy
Kaesong
United Nations
Nam I
Red
Nam
38Th Parallel
Joy
Reds
Pyongyang
Televised Crime Hearings Face Court Test
The Senate Crime Investigating Committee's contempt rulings against Cleveland witnesses Morris Kleinman and Louis Rothkopf move to federal grand jury scrutiny. The case centers on televised hearings and witness rights, with potential jail or fines for contempt as districts consider next steps.
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Washington
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
Senate
Cleveland, O
Congress
New York
Morris Kleinman
Louis Roth
Kefauver
D-Tenn
United States
Cain
U. S
Pleven Cabinet Wins Confidence Vote in France
Premier Rene Pleven's new conservative cabinet won a confidence vote 390 to 222 in the National Assembly after an all night delay over cabinet makeup. The session followed a breakfast meeting at the Elysee Palace and signals a rightward shift without Socialists or Communists. Robert Schuman remains foreign minister as France plans September alignments with allies and the Japanese peace treaty.
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PARIS
Rene Pleven
National Assembly
Pleven
Vincent Auriol
France
Elysee Palace
Robert Schuman
Charles de Gaulle
Bill Would Okay Many Union Pacts
Senate Labor Committee approved unanimously a Taft Humphrey bill to validate thousands of union labor contracts tied to NLRB use. The measure, sponsored by Taft of Ohio and Humphrey of Minnesota, stems from a Supreme Court ruling on non Communist oaths for AFL and CIO officers.
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Washington
Senate Labor Committee
Taft
R-Ohio
Humphrey
D-Minn
Supreme Court
AFL
CIO
National Labor Tions Board
NLRB
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Pat Hollon
Marilyn Gehm
Coralie Weikel
Journal
Bill Weith
Virgin Mary
Ohio
OSU
Truth
William P. Nuckols
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South Korea
North Korea
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Nam II
Peiping Radio Today
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Kleinman and Rothkopf Re
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