42 Warrants Issued In Drug Crackdown
A Associated Press report details 42 warrants issued in a drug crackdown as the Northeast faced a violent storm system from Virginia to Massachusetts. Seven deaths were reported, with damage including toppled trees and power lines, crumbled buildings, and livestock losses. No floods were forecast by weather officials.
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Associated Press
Virginia
Massachusetts
Weather Bureau
Fergusonville
N. Y
Ray Hawley
New York City
Texas Town Menaced By Runaway Well
Daring oil field firefighters swarmed to Hawkins Texas to combat a runaway well spraying burning gas 200 feet into the air. Fire crews battled the blaze as authorities sought containment and safe shutdown of the out of control well.
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Texas
Hawkins
Tex
East Texas
Government probes lax sale of stimulants to truck drivers
A national crackdown against illegal stimulant sales to truck drivers led to 42 arrest warrants across Virginia, North and South Carolina, and Georgia. The action follows a four year undercover investigation by the Justice Department, with FDA inspectors posing as drivers to locate dispensing points.
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Washington
Atty
Gen. Brownell
Welfare Folsom
Food and Drug Administration
Justice Department
Virginia
North
South Carolina
Georgia
Well Known Drug Store Operator Dies In Winnsboro
Winnsboro obit notes James Doyle Perritt a 44 year old druggist dies suddenly at home. Funeral at First Methodist Church followed by military rites at Winnsboro Cemetery. Perritt served in World War and worked 20 years with Meyers Drug Company. Survived by wife Marie Perritt a sister Leo Norris and father Dave Perritt.
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Winnsboro
James Doyle Perritt
First Methodist Church
W. H. Bengston
C. B. Hall
Mulhearn Funeral Home
New Winnsboro
American Legion
Perritt
Bufe Schriber
Sid Walker
D. McCarthy
W. E. Marineaux
Julian Duncan
Pete Lupo
Meyers Drug Company
Marie Perritt
Leo Norris
Franklin
Dave Perritt
Police Recover $6,000 Worth of Stolen Coffee
New Orleans officers recovered nearly six thousand dollars worth of coffee stolen from the William Reilly Coffee Co. A laborer, William Victoria, was arrested for investigation. The stolen cargo was found in a warehouse at 024 Harmony in the uptown area after the empty truck was abandoned at Eighth and Laurel streets.
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New Orleans
William Reilly Coffee Co
William Victoria
W. T. Brown
Eighth
Laurel Streets
Harmony
Uptown
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Radford Urges Bill of Responsibilities Alongside Rights
Admiral Arthur Radford, chair of the Joint Chiefs, urged a national “bill of responsibilities” to accompany the Bill of Rights. He argued freedom rests on faith and duty, warning Communists gain ground where conviction is weak and calling for teaching liberty’s meaning and a service mindset.
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Washington
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
America
National Conference On Spiritual Foundations
Radford
Coast Guard Helicopter Rescues Four Offshore
A Coast Guard helicopter rescued four men stranded on a barge off Gosier Island about 60 miles southeast of here. The operation underscores ongoing maritime search and rescue efforts in coastal waters.
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New Orleans
Coast Guard
Gosier Island
Here
Midwest Farm Republicans Warm to Hog Price Plan
Republican members of the Senate Agriculture Committee in Worthington Minnesota praised Agriculture Secretary Ezra Benson for a plan to buy 85 million dollars worth of surplus pork and lard to curb price slides. Senators Mundt and Thye urged faster action as the committee tours the Midwest gathering farmer testimony for a new farm price support law.
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Worthington
Minn
Senate Agriculture Committee
R-Minn
Senate
Midwest
Southwest
Des Moines
Iowa
Senate Committee
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Hubert H. Humphrey
Spessard L. Holland
Milton R. Young
R-N. D
Thye
Mundt
GOP
Bensons
Folsom Criticized by Baptist Group Over Prayer Remark
In Alabama, Governor James E. Folsom faced censure from the Bessemer Baptist Association after he reportedly said at the Southern Governors Conference that a invocation was a "Damned good Baptist prayer." The group urged conduct befitting an elected leader and criticized his public display of alcohol. Press secretary Ralph Hammond defended Folsom as a strong Baptist missionary, noting he was away.
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Bessemer
Ala
James E. Folsom
Folsom
Alabama
Point Clear
Birmingham Fost-Herald
Murray L. Seay
Elba
Bessemer Baptist Assn
Ralph Hammond
Montgomery
Jim Folsom
Baptist Church
Hammond
Briton Accused Of Tipping Off Missing Spies
Labour MP Lt. Col Marcus Lipton named Harold Philby former Washington embassy official as the third man in the Burgess and Maclean spy case. Burgess and Maclean disappeared in 1951 and were accused of spying for the Kremlin. Lipton pressed Parliament after Eden rejected a special committee. The white paper hinted at a third man. Lipton issued a threat after Eden spoke.
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London
Labor
Parliament
Today
Washington
Guy Burgess
Donald Maclean
Marcus Lipton
Harold Philby
Burgess
Maclean
Foreign Office
Tron
Kremlin
Lipton
Eden
Laborite
Herbert Morrison
Churchill
Harold Macmillan
Air National Guard Fires Up Sudden Combat Readiness Drill
The Air National Guard conducted an unannounced drill named Operation Stopwatch to test alerting, manning and deployment of forces across the nation. Colorado Springs Air Defense Command headquarters issued the start signal at 8 28 am EST, with first interceptors from Andrews AFB Md taking to the air ten minutes later as part of national air defense readiness.
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Washington
Air National Guard
Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Colo
Andrews Air Force Base
Temperatures Dip in Twin Cities Amid Clear Skies
The Twin Cities saw a sharp early Tuesday drop to a 34 degree low between 4 30 and 5 30 a m as the CAA noted 51 degrees the day before and a noon reading of 64. Forecasters expect clear skies all day and a pollen count of 60 for Tuesday.
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Twin City
CAA
Oil Well Fire Near Hawkins Largely Controlled
Salt water pumped into nearby wells seemed to cap a fierce Hawkins oil well blaze on Tuesday though firefighters warned the blaze remains at its most dangerous stage.
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Hawkins
Tex
Firefighters Prepare Heavy Move Against Gas and Oil Well
Glare fills the night as firefighters plan a campaign against a wild gas and oil well. The town of 2000 faces risk from potential underground pressure that could push burning oil onto nearby lots. Three frame houses and one brick home were evacuated hours earlier while crews consider heavy equipment to tow structures if needed.
NATO Ministers Endorse Western Proposals On Tense World
Paris foreign ministers of NATO endorsed the Western Big Three plan to ease global tensions. John Foster Dulles Harold Macmillan and Antoine Pinay outlined a memorandum to the Soviet Union, with aims including Germany reunification and a general European security pact.
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Paris
Atlantic Alliance
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
U. S
John Foster Dulles
Harold Macmillan
Antoine Pinay
Soviet Union
Geneva
NATO
Dulles
Germany
Macmillan
U. N
Coronary Attack Fatal To Former Partner Of HST
Eddie Jacobson, 64, a former business partner of Harry S. Truman, died in Kansas City after a coronary attack. It was his second attack in four weeks following a prior minor heart attack two years earlier. Truman expressed deep shock and said he would miss his friend and hoped to see the family soon. Jacobson ran a midtown Kansas City menswear store and began the haberdashery venture with Truman after World War I, a business that briefly thrived before failing and influencing Truman’s later political path.
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Kansas City
Eddie Jacobson
Harry S. Truman
Mr. Truman
Jacobsons
Jacobs
Truman
France
129Th Field Artillery
Jackson County
White House
Bids Authorized for Monroe Sewerage System Project
Monroe city commissioners authorized advertising for bids to construct the sewerage system in sewerage district D between Texas Avenue Winnsboro Road and South Fourth to South 11th. No cost estimate was given.
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City of
Monroe
City Commission Council
Commissioners of the Sewerage District
Texas Avenue
Winnsboro Road
South Fourth
South 11Th
Candidates avoid comment on secret Southern Gentlemen group
Baton Rouge convention reveals a secret pro segregation club the Southern Gentlemen denounces NAACP as agitators and calls for Nezro troops from Camp Polk to be kept out of Baton Rouge. Many candidates refuse to discuss the group citing uncertainty of its strength. The debate hints at a tense racial posture in Louisiana politics.
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Baton Rouge
Ku Klux Klan
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Nezvro
Camp Polk
Eisenhower politics off limits amid hospitalization talk
President Eisenhower remains in the hospital after a heart attack as aides and leaders deny discussing a second term. White House secretary Hagerty refuses to answer political questions while Ambassador Lodge says no time to discuss future politics.
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James C. Hagerty
White House
Eisenhower
Hagerty
Henry Cabot Lodee Jr
U. S
United Nations
Lodge
FBI Scratches For Clues In Robbery At Weapons Base
FBI investigators sought expert safe crackers after a daring raid on a Sandia base branch bank of the Bank of New Mexico. About $47 655 was stolen with $4 500 in coins scattered and the vault emptied. Branch manager John T Weining reported the crime. The theft followed two other NM bank robberies in the past 13 months.
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Albuquerque
N. M
FBI
Sandia
Bank of New Mexico
John T. Weining
New Mexico
Taos, N. M
O'Connor warns fight against polio not over
Basil O'Connor president of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis cautioned at a New Orleans press conference that the polio battle is far from finished despite the Salk vaccine. He outlined Foundation research on polio chemistry vaccine duration and prevention, and said enough vaccine should inoculate all children aged one to nine by 1956.
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New Orleans
Basil O'Connor
National Foundation For
O'Connor
Louisiana
Mississippi
Florida
Foundation
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Fred Kelleway
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Twin Cities
HST
W. M. Harper
T. L. van Fossen
Coastal Asphalt Co
South 23Rd Street
DeSiard
Grammont
Moore Electric Co
Poh!man and Wilbanks Company
Hipp Marx Alley
Ske
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O’connor
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