Memorial Day traffic toll estimated at 110 deaths
Millions of motorists head for highways as Memorial Day observances begin. The National Safety Council estimates 110 traffic deaths for a 30 hour period ending tonight. Seven states report fatalities and drownings and other accidents occur across Oklahoma New York Wisconsin.
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Associated Press
Colorado
Massachusetts
Michigan
New York
New Hampshire
Ohio
Washington
Oklahoma
Wisconsin
National Safety Council
Parades Mark Ohio Memorial Day Observances
Traditional parades across Ohio mark Memorial Day as businesses pause. Authorities warn motorists to expect strict traffic enforcement to curb highway deaths, with one fatality reported by 2 a.m. in joint operations.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Buckeye
Full Scale Boycott On Buses Urged
More than 200 Negro leaders call for a citywide boycott of Tallahassee buses to push for Negro bus drivers, a first come first served seating policy on black routes, and improved courteous treatment by white drivers. The action follows protests after two Negro women students were arrested for refusing to move to the rear of a bus.
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Tallahassee
Flaa
Florida A&m University
Frigidaire to Cut 1900 Jobs at GM Division in Dayton
Frigidaire division of General Motors will release 1900 workers within nine days in Dayton Ohio. The move raises GM job cuts to 2900 this month and 4300 since January 1, reflecting a broad downsizing across GM divisions.
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Dayton
Ohio
Frigidaire
General Motors
Nation observes Memorial Day across coast to coast
The 88th Memorial Day events honor war dead with ceremonies by an integrated military honor guard. President Eisenhower flies to Gettysburg for golf before returning to Washington. Wreath laying occurs at Arlington and across major cities including New York Chicago and Los Angeles. Navy Secretary Thomas speaks in San Francisco. Coast Guard cutter assists Gold Star Mothers at the Farallon Islands.
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Va.) National
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Hollywood Memorial Park Cemetery
Charles S. Thomas
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Senate Passes Mammoth Highway Bill After Midnight Vote
Senate approved a large highway program aimed at building an interstate system to connect major cities. The plan envisages a 13 year project with 90 percent federal funding, a penny a gallon fuel tax rise, and new taxes on tires rubber trucks and trailers.
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D-Tenn
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Uncle Sam
Foe of Trujillo Reportedly Thrown Into Furnace
District Attorney probes claim that Dr. Jesus de Galindez, Columbia University lecturer and Trujillo opponent, was kidnapped in March and thrown alive into a boiler aboard the Fundacion freighter in New York. Dominican activists cite ship contacts. authorities plan to question crew.
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New York
Jesus de Galindez
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Galindez
Columbia University
Trujillo
Caribbean Republic
Dominican Revolutionary Party
Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr
Er Fundacion
Dist
Atty
Frank Hogan
Silfa
Fundacion
Hogan
Steamship Line
Radar Radio Will Track Space Sphere
Capt. A B Metsger announced a special radio and radar tracking station to be set up in the West Indies to monitor a space sphere launched from Patrick Air Force Base in Florida. The facility will provide initial orbit fixes and rough estimates of the satellite’s path for a short live sphere expected to orbit at about 200 miles altitude for roughly 15 days.
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San Francisco
A. B. Metsger
Naval Research
West Indies
Patrick Air Force Base
Florida
Metsger
Assa
United States
Hunter Found Guilty in Wichita Falls Slaying
Airman Roy Allen Hunter, 18, Salineville Ohio, was convicted of murder with malice for the December 16 1955 killing of Jack Spangler 26 of Wichita Falls. He received a 35 year prison term.
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Wichita Falls
Tex
Roy Allen Hunter
Salineville
Ohio
Jack Spangler
Showers Slow Start At Indianapolis 500
A light shower greeted fans at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway for the 40th 500 mile race. Weather forecasts warned of intermittent showers up to the 10 a.m. CST start, with the damp track delaying17 the pace as cars prepared for the anticipated fiercely contested race.
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Indianapolis
Indianapolis Motor Speedway
Weather Bureau
Burglars Flee Shoes Behind After False Alarm Fire Call
In Inglewood California sirens from a fire engine responding to a false alarm prompted two burglars to abandon a car agency they were raiding. They fled on foot leaving their shoes behind as they escaped.
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Inglewood
Calif
Stevenson Narrowly Tops Kefauver in Florida Primary
Adlai Stevenson edged Senator Estes Kefauver in Florida's Democratic primary as results from 1680 of 1778 precincts gave Stevenson 212217 votes to Kefauver 204819. Kefauver called it a moral victory while Stevenson credited Florida voters and urged renewed effort toward California. Stateside, Eisenhower's Republican showing remained noncontested and Florida voters also chose Jerry W Carter to replace Richard Barker as national committeeman. Maryland-style sectional loyalties and California planning dominated the day for both parties.
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Kefauver
California
Stevenson-Kefauver
Eisenhower
Florida
Kentucky
Sen
Knowland
Rcalif
Richard D. Barker
State Committee
Barker
Jerry W. Carter
San Francisco
Russia
Alabama
Two London Prison Farm Escapees Recaptured
Franklin County sheriff deputies report Joseph Ferrall and John Myers were captured after escaping London Prison Farm Sunday night. Ferrall was nabbed near the Taylors residence, Myers was stopped along a railroad near West Jefferson. A third escapee, James Esson, a convicted murderer, remains at large.
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Columbus
Ohio
London Prison Farm
Joseph Ferrall
John O. Myers
Franklin County
Ferrall
Carl Taylor
Myers
Madison County
Robert Henry
West Jefferson
London
James Esson
Clements Wins Kentucky Senate Nomination in Lopsided Victory
Senator Earle Clements, Senate majority whip, crushed Gov. Chandler backed Joe Bates in Kentucky’s Democratic senatorial primary. Clements led with 204,994 votes to Bates’s 125,184 as Morton and others trailed in the field. He will face Republican Thurston Morton in the November election.
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Louisville
Earle C. Clements
A. B
Happy
Thruston B. Morton
Kentucky
Clements
Bates
James L. Delk
Morton
Julian H. Golden
Granville Thomas
U.S
Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Noble J. Gregory
William H. Natcher
Brent Spence
John C. Watts
Carl D. Perkins
Gene Siler
Gregory
Natcher
Watts
Perkins
Clemis
John M. Robison Jr
Frank Chelf
Weather Update Miami Valley Sees Warm Humidity
The Miami Valley remains warm with moist air in place as clouds linger. Forecasters anticipate cooler Canadian air by late Thursday or early Friday, with a mix of sun and clouds and scattered showers possible today and tonight. Thursday's high is forecast at 85, while rainfall yesterday totaled 0.25 inches.
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Souuseley Widus
Miami Valley
Middletown
Killed Near Hillsboro In Ohio Car Crash
George Edwin Fenton 47 of Greenfield dies after the car he was riding in goes off Ohio 28 in western Highland County.
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Hillsboro
Ohio
George Edwin Fenton
Greenfield
Highland County
Postal rates urged to curb $1000 a minute deficit
The House Post Office Committee urged Congress to raise mail rates to stop the Post Office Department’s about 460 million dollar annual deficit. The bill would boost first, second and third class rates, adding an estimated 432 million dollars yearly in revenue.
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Martha Cole Washington
House Post Office Committee
Congress
Post Office Department
House
McCormack
D-Mass
French claim wipe out rebel bands in eastern Algeria
French troops report destroying three rebel bands in eastern Algeria with heavy losses in a four operation sweep in Little Kabylie. In Setif near Perigotville nine to fifteen nationalists slain across multiple engagements as other bands suffer casualties and surrender. Premier Mollet weighs Algerian policy ahead of Assembly debate on North Africa.
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Algiers
Algeria
Kabylie
Setif
Constantine
Perigotville
Grand Kabylie
Mediterranean
Guelma
Medea
Paris
Mollet Sume
National Assembly
Farmtractor accident kills man in Springfield area
A farm tractor rolled forward as Foster Ballard aged 47 of Route 2 Mechanicsburg attempted to clear a clogged culvert near Ohio 54. He was struck and died at the scene Tuesday authorities said.
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Springfield
Ohio
Foster Ballard
Rt. 2
Mechanicsburg
Here
Radioactive Rain Hysteria Sweeps Japan Cities
Asahi reports mass fear over fallout from U S nuclear tests at Bikini Atoll hitting southwestern Honshu. Osaka Kyoto and Kobe residents show rising hysteria as authorities debunk some reports while scientists monitor rainfall radioactivity levels. Merchants sell rain gear and umbrellas as a publicity campaign grows.
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Asahi
Honshu
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Kobe
Kyoto
Japan
Hiro
Saka
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