Red land and sea forces reported pounding Quemoy Que Moy Island group
Nationalist intelligence reports indicate both land and sea movements around the Quemoy archipelago as Communist shelling exceeds 16 000 rounds in 19 hours and could precede an invasion. Officials say tactics suggest area bombardment to degrade defenses before an amphibious assault near next week under favorable tides.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy
Defense Ministry
Sunda
China
Tiu Hoh-tu
Central News Agency
Tan Islets
Red Maintains
Clevelander Kidnapped and Robbed in Downtown
Donald E. Diggs, an Avis Rent-A-Car employee, was abducted on a downtown sidewalk by three men. They drove him to Gordon Park in a stolen car, robbed him of 3000 dollars in three canvas bags, tied him to a tree, then left. A witness alerted police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cleveland
Gordon Park
Donald E. Diggs
Avis Rent
Diggs
Mixed Up Dog Brings First Day Laughs
On the first day of school a boy tells his teacher about his dog. The boy describes the dog as a mixed up kind sort of a cocker spaniel, provoking a humorous classroom moment.
Temporary injunction stops pupil assignments in Charlottesville
Charlottesville Virginia corporation court judge George M Coles orders a temporary injunction preventing the school board from assigning any pupils to city schools through October 15. The move mirrors a Norfolk case and prompts the Virginia Pupil Placement Board to offer to handle admissions to white schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlottesville
Corporation Court
George M. Coles
Norfolk
State Supreme Court
Virginia
Jupiter Is Success Shatters Transatlantic Test
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla AP The Army reports a complete success of a Jupiter intermediate range missile test sending a 1500 mile Atlantic crossing. The launched warhead carried no nuclear device and the missile is slated for operational use under tactical conditions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic
Defense Department
Nixon and Eisenhower Rally GOP for Congress
President Eisenhower and Vice President Nixon delivered pep talks to the Republican National Committee in Chicago, pledging full support for the 1958 congressional elections. Eisenhower urged hard work and turnout while warning against defeatism. Nixon conveyed the urgency of the campaign and offered all efforts to help win.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Eisenhower
Nixon
Republican National Committee
GOP
Isenhower
Washington
Tel
Lewisburg
W. Va
Meade Alcorn
Dick Nixon
Alcorn
House
Senate
Sixty Escaped Fire After Northwest DC-8 Crashed Near Minneapolis
Sixty passengers struggled from a hole in a burning Northwest Orient DC-8 after clipping a fence and skidding a mile through a cornfield near Wold-Chamberlain Field. One crew member and all others on board survived. At least 49 were hospitalized, including Rep. Don Magnuson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Minneapolis, Minn
Northwest Orient Airlines
Agen
Don Magnuson
Magnuson
Sen
Warren Magnuson
D-Wash
Wold Chamberlain Field
Minneapolis-St. Paul
Oregon
Washington
Pittsburgh
Cleveland
Detroit
Milwaukee
E. C. Wiegand
Sandusky
Ohio
Airlines
Jerry Christian
Christian
Metroplitan
Minneapolis
James Wilkinson
Seattle
W. J. McGinnis
A. R. Mielke
Marge Gallagher
Northwestern Hospital
Ancher Hospital
St. Paul
Veterans Hospital
Toledo man kills woman then takes his own life
Police say 48 year old George Meuborn of Sylvania shot and killed 62 year old Violet Betz in a case Wednesday night then fatally shot himself with a .22 caliber pistol. Investigators call Meuborn a rejected suitor of the divorcee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo, Ohio
George Meuborn
Sylvania
Violet Betz
Meuborn
Nobel Prize Winner Ernest C. Lawrence Dies at 57
Nobel Prize laureate Dr. Ernest C. Lawrence, head of UC Berkeley's radiation laboratory, died at Palo Alto Hospital at age 57 after years of ulcerative colitis. A pioneer of the cyclotron, he built a world renowned lab that aided nuclear research and medical and agricultural advances. He had attended Geneva talks on detecting nuclear explosions before returning home ill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Palo Alto
Calif
Ernest C. Lawrence
Palo Alto Hospital
Lawrence
University of California
Radiation Laboratory
Geneva
Peralta Hospital
Oakland
Berkeley
Thompson Leaves Moscow for 3 Week Holiday Abroad
U S Ambassador Llewellyn Thompson departed Moscow on an Air Force jet for a three week vacation in Germany and Italy. He is expected back on September 20.
Arkansas Senate approves plan to close public schools
The Arkansas Senate sent to Governor Faubus a bill to close any public school threatened with integration and lease it to private operators. The measure would permit displaced students to attend any school of choice, including church schools, while a governor could close Central High if needed. Five of seven Negro students bound for Central High had returned from Washington with scholarships.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Little Rock
Ark
Arkansas Senate
Orval E. Faubus
Faubus
Ray S. Smith Jr
Hot Springs
Arkansas Atty
Bruce Bennett
National Assn. For
Advancement of
Colored People
Central High School
Central High
Washington
New York
Virgil Blossom
Horace Mann
Eight Men Indicted In Terre Haute Betting Syndicate
Federal grand jury indicts eight men in a three million dollar betting syndicate tied to football and World Series bets. Prosecutors say the operation owed taxes on over three million dollars in wagers. Arraignment set for Sept. 4 in Terre Haute with trial possible in November.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Merrill Swedlund
Don A. Tabbert
Atorney
Treasury
Ters
Tabbert
U. S. District Court
Terre Haute
Chicago
Leo Shaffer
Jules Horwick
Congress
Shaffer
Horwick
Winnipeg
Edgar
Racket Probers Turn To Circus Carnival World
Senate Rackets Committee focuses on circuses and carnivals in its inquiry into Teamsters violence and corruption. Testimony from eight circuses and carnivals is sought as Harold Gibbons faces questions about ties to a 300-pound aide Robert Baker who suffered a heart attack while awaiting new testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
Rackets Committee
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Big Ringling Brothers
Barnum & Bailey Circus
St.Louis
Harold Gibbons
Union Vvice
Gibbons
Robert
Barney) Baker
Baker
Daisy Threatens New England With Northerly Turn
A hurricane watch covered southeastern Massachusetts and Rhode Island as Hurricane Daisy, with 125 mph winds, moved north in the Atlantic. Gale warnings stretched from Provincetown to Morehead City with tides two feet above normal along North Carolina's outer banks as Daisy neared Cape Hatteras and turned northward.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Miami Fla
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Atlantic
Daisy
Cape Hatteras
N.C
Weather Bureau
Provincetown
Mass
Morehead City
North Carolina
New England
Gordon Dunn
Cape Cod
Southeastern Massachuset
Grand jury to hear Human Torch death case in Michigan
A hearing was set to decide if a grand jury should probe the Human Torch death tied to Teamsters Local 614. Michigan Attorney General Paul Adams and Oakland County Prosecutor Frederick Ziem filed for inquiry following statements by Mrs. Irish Harrelson about Leann Harrelson and Kierdorf burns. Habeas hearings were planned for Mrs Harrelson and Herman Kierdorf with potential releases if charges are not filed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pontiac
Mich
Teamsters Union
Frank Kierdorf
Michigan
Atty
Paul L. Adams
Oakland County
Frederick Ziem
Lesterday
Irish Harrelson
Leann Harrelson
Teamsters Local 614
Kierdorf
Harrelson
Mary Ann Thon
Herman Kierder
Mrs. Thon
Shooting Suspect Held After Arrest in Indianapolis
Artemio Callejos, 30, one of two men wanted in the fatal shooting of Jes sie Gomez, 33, at Chatta nooga, was seized in Indianapolis. Mercer County Sheriff Bruce Barber said Greg Prado, 33, remains at large. both men are migrant tomato pickers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Celina
Ohio
Artemio Callejos
Jessie Gomez
Chattanooga
Indianapolis
Mercer County
Bruce Barber
Greg, Prado
Court Urges No Delay in Little Rock School Integration
The Supreme Court opened an extraordinary session urging immediate integration at Little Rock Central High. The NAACP pressed to end the two year delay. the White House and Justice Department signaled support for swift action, amid broader desegregation tensions nationwide.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William P. Rogers
American Bar Assn
Los Angeles
Supreme Court
Little Rock
Washington
National Assn
Little Rock Central High School
J Naacp
Eisenhower
J. Lee Rankin
Rankin
Executive Branch
James C. Hagerty
Rankin’s
Hagerty
Justice Department
Warren
NAACP
U.S. District Court
Circuit Court of Appeals
St. Louis
Circuit Court
16-Year-Old Kidnaps Child in Framingham Case
Weston J Babineau’s stepson Richard Gray 16 held a neighbor's 4 year old girl prisoner from 2 a.m. to morning in Framingham Massachusetts. Gray was arrested at gunpoint and held on $50,000 bail for holding against will breaking and entering nighttime and larceny. The victim Carole OConnell survived unsexually mistreated and returned home for a family birthday cake.
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Framingham
Mass
Weston J. Babineau
General Motors Assembly
Richard Gray
Carole O'Connell
Edward T. McCarthy
Gray
Carole
McCarthy
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