Riots Over Beach Teen Races Trigger National Guard Action
In Daytona Beach Florida a Saturday night riot involving 3000 to 4000 youths and spectators caused extensive property damage after police clashed with racers. National Guard troops were deployed 1 am Sunday and remained on alert until 10 pm. About 85 people were detained, 46 charged with affray, and several officers and firefighters were hurt.
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Daytona Beach
Fla
National Guard
Ocean Beach
A. O. Folsom Jr
Folsom
Columbus Raises Funds for Montgomery Bus Boycott Defenders
Columbus Negroes contributed 2128.38 for the defense of those arrested in the Montgomery Alabama bus boycott. The drive was led by Barbee William Durham of the local NAACP chapter with church donations noted. Antioch Baptist Church in Cleveland gave 603, Cincinnati NAACP planned a meeting to raise similar funds.
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Columbus
Ohio
Montgomery
Ala
Barbee William Durham
National Assa For the Advancement of Colored People
Cleveland
Antioch Baptist Church
Cincinnati
NAACP
Catholic Camp Sparks Accusations Over Segregation Debate
Orleans Parish School Board member Emile A. Wagner Jr accused Catholic institutions of unwittingly aligning with sinister forces during a Loyola of the South event. Archbishop Rummel echoed charges against segregation defenders while Hulan E. Jack denied any association with listed subversive groups amid tensions over racial integration.
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NEW Orleans
Orleans Parish
Emile A. Wagner Jr
Loyola of the South
Hulan E. Jack
New York City
Manhattan
Joseph Francis Rummel
Wagner
Loyola
Rummel
United States
Jack
Committee On Un-American Activities
U.S. House of Representatives
Folsom vows to keep order at Alabama campus
Governor James E. Folsom pledged to maintain order at the University of Alabama after riots sparked by Autherine Lucy's admission. He met with university president O. C. Carmichael in Tuscaloosa and said he would protect students and uphold lawful processes, including a court hearing on Lucy's readmission.
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Birmingham
Ala
James E. Folsom
University of Alabama
Folsom
O. C. Carmichael
Tuscaloosa
Autherine Lucy
Carmichael
U.S. District Court
National Guard
Miss Lucy
Alabama
Airplane Returns For Passengers After Missed Takeoff
A Northwest Orient airliner diverted back to Cleveland Hopkins Airport to pick up two servicemen from Charleston West Virginia who missed the Pittsburgh departure. Pilot Captain A C Kirkpatrick turned around the plane after officials learned the delay totaled about ten minutes, saving the pair a twelve hour wait.
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Cleveland
Northwest Orient
Charleston
W. Va
Pittsburgh
Cleveland Hopns
A. C. Kirkpatrick
Get Out Illinois Mayor Told After Saying Get Out
Aurora Illinois mayor Paul Egan 57 who rose from relief rolls to office in 1953 faced censure and resignation calls after writing a letter to Soviet deputy premier Anastase Mikoyan denouncing limits on free speech. The council condemned the letter and demanded his resignation at a boisterous session.
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Aurora
Paul Egan
Russia
Egan
Anastase I. Mikoyan
United States
Mikoyan
National Conference of Mayors
Washington
D.C
Soviet Union
U.S
United States of America
John P. Thill
Esenhower
Val Peterson
Mayors’ Conference
Wesley McKelvy
Edward J Rgan
Chicago
Auroraé
New Cyprus Peace Move Seen After Lennox-Boyd Trip
British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd made a hurried predawn departure from London stirring talks of a fresh Cyprus peace effort. He aimed to obtain firsthand information and improve strained relations as Cypriots push for union with Greece and demand amnesty for terrorism convictions, including death sentences. Archbishop Makarios’s stance and talks with Governor Sir John Harding frame the potential compromise.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Alan Lennox - Boyd
Lennox - Boyd
London
Colonial Office
Greece
Britain
Makarios
Mediterranean
Lennox-Boyd
John Harding
Weekend Toll Reaches 30
A brutal Ohio weekend saw exactly 30 deaths in 54 hours from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Sunday due to traffic crashes and high winds. Twenty five highway fatalities, four wind-related deaths, one accidental shooting, eight from two auto crashes, with 17 deaths Saturday, eight Sunday and four Friday.
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Ohio
Eaton
Bowling Green
Speed Boat Capsizes Off Potomac Killing Five
Five people drown when a motorboat capsized on the Potomac River near Cobb Island Maryland after flipping in windchopped water. Victims include Kay Roundtree 20 and her nieces Glenda Stafford 18 and Kay 16 of River Springs Maryland Russell Walling of Colonial Beach Virginia and Peyton C Wodzell owner of the boat. Rescued were Linda Knight and Barbara Ann Russell treated for shock. All five bodies recovered.
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LA Plata
Potomac River
Kay Roundtree
Washington
Glenda Stafford
Kay
River Springs
Russell Walling
Colonial Beach
Peyton C. Wodzell
Warrenton
Wodzell
Maryland Tidewater Fisheries Commission
Linda Knight
Barbara Ann Russell
Miss Roundtree
Bainbridge Naval Air Station
Cobb Island
Maryland
Sheriff's Office
Brazilian Troops Push Deep Into Amazon to Chase Rebels
Brazilian forces advance along an Amazon River tributary aiming to corner air force rebels led by Maj. Haroldo Veloso. Rebels seized food for 300, fled Santarem to Itaitube Airport, then to Jacare Acanga as government troops closed in with possible air support.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Amazon River
Jacare-Acanga
Santarem
Haroldo Veloso
Amazon
River City
Rio de
Dulles Warns Red New Look Hides Old Aims
Secretary of State Dulles warned that the Soviet Union’s new look policy hides the same aims of world domination. He urged expanded U S economic aid to target countries and long range funding of about 100 million dollars a year. He said Congress must authorize more foreign spending to counter the Russian campaign and boost overall aid to nearly 1.9 billion dollars this year.
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Philadelphia
State Dulles
United States
Piadelphia Bulletin Forum
Dulles
Russia
Congress
U.S
Eisenhower
Jock
Verdict Coming Up
President Eisenhower, returning from Georgia, may reveal plans for a second term this week. A news conference tentatively set for Wednesday could disclose his political intentions after a long health test that included quail and turkey hunting and multiple golf rounds at the Humphrey estate in Thomasville.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Georgia
Humphrey
Thomasville
Showers and Windy Weather Loom Tonight
A weak windstorm from New Mexico may hit the Miami Valley tonight bringing showers and thundershowers. Mild weather gives way to mostly cloudy windy cold conditions with highs near 62 and tonight's low around 32.
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New Mexico
Miami
Bomber Crashes into House Killing Four Near Xenia
A large jet bomber crashed into a house on the Wilmington pike about 14 miles south of Xenia. Four crew members are reported killed with four bodies recovered from the wreckage. The home struck is believed to belong to farmer Lawrence Snell on the Montgomery Greene county line.
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Dayton
Here
Lawrence Snell
Wilmington Pike
Xenia
Montgomery
Greene County
Nations To Launch Atom Parley
Nations around the world begin a two week conference in Washington to decide the form of a world atoms for peace agency. The United States pushes for autonomy as a specialized UN linked body while the Soviet Union seeks a veto enabled by UN Security Council oversight.
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Warren Rogers JR
Washington
United States
Russia
World Atoms For Peace Agency
Uner
United Nations Security Council
U.N
Moscow
U.S
Australia
Belgium
South Africa
France
Britain
Portugal
India
Brazil
Czechoslovakia
Canada
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Unhurt After West Coast DC3 Crash Lands Near Moscow
Fifteen aboard a West Coast Airlines DC3 escaped serious injury when the plane crash landed in a snowstorm on a hill about three miles northeast of the Moscow Pullman Airport. Pilot A H Whithead and Dr D M Loehr walked to a nearby farmhouse. Merrill Boyd helped move five women passengers to the road for an ambulance. Passengers were taken to a Moscow hospital. all but three released to a hotel.
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Moscow
Idaho
West Coast Airlines
DC3
Moscow-Pullman
A. H. Whithead
D. M. Loehr
Merrill Boyd
Packed Church Fills Dallas First Methodist
Kenneth Ritchel, a salesman, drew 2700 attendees to a Dallas Sunday service at First Methodist Church by inviting all denominations, clubs, and celebrities. President and Mrs. Eisenhower, Gov. Shivers, Atty Gen. Sheppard, and Arthur Godfrey were thanked. the crowd filled the church with the congregation singing the Lord's Prayer. Ritchel urged continued attendance and credited faith with making the event possible.
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Dallas
Texa
Kenneth Ritchel
First Methodist
Ritchel
Senhower
Allan Shivers
John Ben Shepperd
Arthur Godfrey
Robert E. Goodrich Jr
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