Forrestal Navy Launch Sets Record as Gigantic Carrier Floats
The USS Forrestal, the Navy’s largest warship yet, began flooding and floated at Newport News before a christening ceremony. With only about three quarters complete, the 1,036 foot carrier is slated for sea trials in a year and will house atomic bombers on extended missions.
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Newport News
Navy Today
Forrestal
James Forrestal
Secretary of Defense
Wilson
Secretary of the Navy
Charles Thomas
Adm
Robert Carney
Naval Operations
Pentagon
Congress
Air Force
Navy
Strategic Air Command
Britain
New York
Brooklyn Bridge
Empire State
Van Fleet Breaks With McCarthy over Attack on Eisenhower
Gen Van Fleet renounces support for Sen McCarthy after reading his attack on President Eisenhower. He had been a committee member in the effort to muster 10 million signatures against censure and criticized McCarthy’s methods while reaffirming opposition to communism. Stratemeyer led the mobilization and Crommelin directed the drive.
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Auburndale
Fila
van Fleet
Joseph McCarthy
Wisconsin
Eisenhower
McCarthy
Senate
United States
Sup- Wan
8Th Army
Korea
George E. Stratemeyer
Winter Park
Fla
Far East Air Force
Adm
John G. Crommelin
Monsoon Rains Lash Singapore Malaya in Third Day
Severe monsoon rains pounded Singapore and Malaya for the third day, swelling flood waters and causing two deaths. Officials report extensive damage, affecting millions in losses and displacing thousands across vast regions. The Malayan Meteorological Service logged 8.69 inches of rain in the last 24 hours, a record for the period.
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Singapore
Malaya
Bhengorege Homeles
Kuala Lumpur
Fedeal
Malayan Metorological Service
Shooting Starts As Fight Ends In Cleveland Cafe
In Cleveland a cafe argument led to gunfire as police confronted Samuel Williford 26. He wounded Patrolman DeZort, then Officer Kahoe shot Williford dead after he refused to drop a revolver. Cafe owner Marion Motley, former Browns fullback, said the dispute began over $1. Motley's brother William T. Williford witnessed the shooting.
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Cleveland
William J. Kahoe
Henry C. DeZort
Samuel Williford
Williford
DeZort
Kahoe
Marion Motley
Cleveland Browns
Motley
William T. Williford
Grandmother Doss Faces Fifth Murder Charge in Poisonings
Nannie Doss, known as the five husbands killer, is charged with murdering Frank Harrelson amid arsenic findings. Additional deaths attributed include Arlie Lanning, Richard Morton Sr., and Samuel Doss. Tulsa jail holds her. toxicology and autopsies continue on related cases in Alabama, North Carolina, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
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Arlie Lanning
Lexington
N.C
Richard Morton Sr
Emporia
Kan
Samuel Doss
Tulsa
Louise H. Hazel
Doss
Robert Lee Higgins
Davie Weaver
Gadsen
Ala
Weaver
Joe Smelley
Alabama Bureau of Investigation
Lula Bartlett
Gadsden
Smelley
Charley Braggs
Alabama City
Three Americans suspended by UNESCO unit in Uruguay
UNESCO says three of eight American staffers refused to answer U S loyalty questions last summer and were suspended. Four others with expiring contracts have leave with pay and may be rehired. Director General Lut her Evans noted one American stays on rolls, case under review. Names were not released. One identified as David Leff defied U S orders to testify.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
U.N. Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization
U. S
Unesco
Luther H. Evans
Evans
U.N
David Leff
U.S
United States
Paris
Crosby Auto Crash Suit Settled for 100000
A Los Angeles announced settlement ends a $1,051,400 auto accident damage suit against Bing Crosby on the eve of trial. The $100,000 verdict settles the case against the entertainer and related parties, avoiding further court action.
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Los Angeles
Bing Crosby
Mendes France Wins Narrow North Africa Policy Vote
Paris Premier Pierre Mendes France secured a 294 to 265 approval in the National Assembly for his policy toward Tunisia Morocco and Algeria. He argued terrorism has fallen and pledged continued force to preserve France presence in North Africa while offering amnesty to the Fellagas.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
National Assembly
France
Assembly
Tunisia
Morocco
Algeria
North
Africa
Fellagas
Mendes-France
Tu‘aisia
Midget Circus Clown Hero Saves Aerialist in Sarasota
Alvin Schwartz a 48 inch tall man with 105 pounds is hailed as a hero after saving Gladys Rimmer a Ringling Bros aerialist from a 30 foot fall. He broke her fall while sustaining several broken ribs and was later discharged from hospital. Rimmer received treatment for shock.
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Sarasota
Fla
Alvin Schwartz
Gladys Rimmer
Miss Rimmer
Ringling Bros. and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Schwartz
Doctor Sheppard Denies Murder As Trial Moves On
In Cleveland Dr Samuel Sheppard testifies in his defense denying he killed his wife Marilyn Sheppard last July. He recounts interactions with Susan Hayes and describes aggressive police questioning and a long 11 hour grilling to force a confession. He demonstrates a detective's blows with a paper prop calling for acquittal.
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Cleveland
Samuel Sheppard
Marilyn Sheppard
Susan Hayes
Miss Hayes
Ineanar
Wrich
Sheppard
Magilyn Sheppard
Eisenhower Plans Change of Voting Residence to Gettysburg
President Eisenhower reportedly plans to change his voting residence from New York City to Gettysburg Pennsylvania where he and Mrs Eisenhower are building a new farm home near Camp David. They drove from Washington and may inspect the battlefield residence ready early next year. White House inquiries were made about Gettysburg court house voter registration hours.
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Thurmont
Eisenhower
New York
Gettysburg
Camp David
Maryland
Catoctin Mountains
Washington
White House
Adams County Court House
Pennsylvania
New York City
Columbia University
William F. Weaver
Harold D. Payne
Frederick
Camp Lejeune
N.C
Two Robbers Loot Suburban Supermarket in Shaker Heights
Two young men robbed a Cleveland area supermarket in sub Shaker Heights yesterday taking $14 after threatening to shoot two clerks. Both suspects appeared to be in their 20s.
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Clueland
Sub- Shaker Heights
Lima Man Killed Attempting to Halt Taverns Holdup
A 22 year old Lima resident and Army veteran John Rogers Mooney died when he tried to stop a $2 000 holdup at a south side tavern. Three masked gunmen burst in about midnight, one hooded, and Mooney lunged for a gun at close range. He was among five patrons in the cafe. he was shot twice as he moved to defend others.
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Lima
Ohio
South Side
John Rogers Mooney
Mooney
Philip L. Martino
Ex-con used coin flip to choose fatal harm in Everett case
Earl C. Runyon, an ex convict and former fighter, confessed that he decided by a coin flip how to kill Violet Mae Williams, 26, after plotting to steal welfare checks. He described choking her for nearly an hour and planned to finish the job after release from prison.
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Runyon
Violet Mae Williams
Workers End Strange Year Of Silence
In Chesterfield England crane operator Ron Hewitt 29 spent a year alienated when 300 colleagues refused to speak to him for spurning a one day strike. The conflict divided unions with Hewitt in a different union than his coworkers. The workers ended the silent feud as Ted Boyce of AEU mediated.
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Chesterfield
England
Ron Hewitt
Hewitt
Amalgamated Engineering Union
AEU
Ted Boyce
Bageeewitt
Williams
Remington Case Not Gang War
Acting prison official Fred T. Wilkinson denied gang warfare involvement in the slaying of former government economist William W. Remington at Northeastern Federal Penitentiary. Remington died last month after a beating. three fellow convicts have been indicted for murder. Washington continues an inquiry into prison activities at the time of the killing.
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Lewisburg
Fred T. Wilkinson
William W. Remington
Northeastern Federal Penitentiary
Remington
Wilkinson
New York Post
Washington
James V. Bennett
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Three Michigan Schoolboys Drown in Wolf Lake
In Muskegon Michigan three schoolboys James Allison 13 Terrance Johnson 4 and David Baker 14 drowned after falling through thin ice on Wolf Lake. Elmer Gulli ver 15 escaped but failed to save his friends. He ran for help but it arrived too late.
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Muskegon
Mich
Wolf Lake
Elmer Gulliver
Jim
Terry
Elmer
James Allison
Terrance Johnson
David Baker
Pope Pius XII Has Fairly Good Night Amid Illness
Vatican source reports Pope Pius XII slept fairly well after a serious gastric illness that nearly killed him nine days ago. He remains seriously ill but shows slow signs of strength and recovery.
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Vatican City
Vatican
Pius XII
U N Secretary General Takes Lead To Free 11 American Airmen
Dag Hammarskjold gained a strong U N Assembly mandate to seek release of 11 U S airmen jailed by Red China. The 47 to 5 vote backed US led resolution condemning Peiping and calling for their freedom amid East West tensions. Hammarskjold will use emissaries and mediation channels to secure releases.
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U. N. Assembly
Dag Hammarskjold
Red China
Hammarskjold
United States
Peiping
Fiers
Yugoslavia
Assembly
Costa Rica
el Salvador
Kelco N. van Kleffens
Hammarsk
U. N
Russia
Jaco Malik
Kremlin
Malik
U. S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Anthony Nutting
Arthur S. Lall
India
Heiping
Hammarskjem
72 Indian Miners Trapped After Flood in Central India
Reports from New Delhi say 72 miners are trapped underground in a central Indian mine about 100 miles from Nagpur after flood waters poured in from an air shaft. Thirty eight coworkers escaped to safety as waters surged into the shaft. Details remain hazy and rescue efforts continue.
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New Delhi
India
Nagpur
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