Flames Sweep Train Fire Kills One In Chicago
A fire on two wooden cars of an Evanston bound elevated train in Chicago killed one man and injured scores. Motorman Daniel Cullen, 47, was identified at the Cook county morgue. Sixteen injured were taken to St. Francis hospital as panicked passengers fled the burning car and jumped onto the tracks.
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Saul Friedman
Cook County
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St. Francis Hospital
West Texans Honor Native Sen Dyess Field Dedication
Abilene Air Force Base will be renamed for Lt Col William Dyess a native of Albany as Maj Gen Jacob Smart dedicates the field. A caravan from Albany and Dyess's parents will attend the 40 a.m. ceremony. Dyess earned the Distinguished Service Cross Silver Star Legion of Merit and Soldier's Medal posthumously for heroism during World War II.
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Abilene Air Force Base
William Dyess
Albany
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Philippines
Australia
Jacob Smart
Air Force
Richard Dyess
Dyezss
Pas
Burbank
Calif
Defense Budget Boost Expected for 1958
Defense Secretary Charles E. Wilson said after a conference with President Eisenhower that the defense budget for fiscal 1958 will be higher than the current $3.63 billion. He expects no substantial change in armed forces manpower and cited final form discussions with Budget Director Percival Brundage and officials.
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Augusta
Charles E. Wilson
Eisenhower
Wilson
Percival Brundage
W. J. MacNeil
Sherman Adams
Pearl Harbor 15 Years On A Navy Base Remembers
On the 15th anniversary of Pearl Harbor the article recalls the surprise attack that crippled 16 ships, featuring changes in naval defense. It notes obsolete battleships, modern carriers, and submarines shifted from the reef to preemptive air strikes, with radar and early warning planes now part of Pacific strategy.
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States Pacific
Armandas
Peat Harbor
Eden's Fate Unclear as Party Wins Confidence Vote
Britain’s Conservative party maintained power after defeating a Socialist censure motion on Suez and securing a confidence vote. The outcome left Prime Minister Eden’s future in doubt as the government faced internal tensions over the Egypt intervention and a slim parliamentary majority.
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Britain
Anthony Eden
House of Commons
Middle East
Eden
Labor Party
Egypt
New Cold Front and Snow Predicted for Odessa
A bristling cold front is expected to hit Odessa and area towns tonight with a possibility of snow flurries. After a milder high today, the low tonight may fall to 24 degrees, forecasters say. The piece also notes political turmoil in Britain over Eden’s leadership and the Suez crisis as Conservatives debate succession and policy.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
DPS Men Insist Photos Correct In NAACP Files
TYLER Texas UP two Department of Public Safety men testified it was impossible for photographed records from the NAACP files to be falsified They marked documents before photographing them and cited photos taken in NAACP offices in Dallas Houston Brownwood San Angelo Midland El Paso and Pecos with no records found in Abilene or Odessa They pressed to move a hearing on outlawing the NAACP in Texas from Tyler to Dallas or Austin
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NAACP
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Austin
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John Strother
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Brownwood
San Angelo
Midland
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Pecos
Abilene
Odessa
Hungary Labor Issues Warning On Arrests
A threatened general strike and bloodshed were warned by the Central Workers Council against the Soviet-imposed Hungarian government led by Premier Janos Kadár. The council pressed for worker representation rights as tensions escalated, while arrests and political pressure mounted. In the United States, testimony in the George Patt mail fraud trial described misuse of Benavides Independent School District funds by Parr and associates, with payments funneled through banks and district accounts.
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Houston
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Mit
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Kader
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Aron Tammassy
Secret Police Revived in Hungary Mass Arrests
Hungary’s secret police have returned to power and are carrying out mass arrests to quell anti Soviet demonstrations in Budapest and other cities. Janos Kadar’s government vows to dissolve the AVH, but signals suggest a rebuilt terror force under Soviet control to crush anti Communist opposition.
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Philippines win UN Security Council seat in first-ballot vote
The Philippines won a one-year term on the United Nations Security Council after a 51 to 20 vote over Czechoslovakia in the General Assembly with 74 affirmatives. Yugoslavia will vacate December 3 after a half-term accord. Kuznetsov protested the result as eastern bloc discrimination.
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Kumnitsov
Convicted The Face Sentences Three Men in Riesel Attack
In federal court in New York three men faced sentencing for conspiracy in the 1955 acid attack on labor writer Victor Riesel. Defendants include Leo Telvi, 76, brother of Abe Telvi, and Domenico Miranti, 27, with others named as involved.
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Leo Telvi
Abe Telvi
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Il Red Cross
Gondolfo
Sheikies
Georgian Flags Federal Judge in Despotic Knox Proce
Georgia lawyer Carter Pittman denounced a Knoxville Tenn federal court order as despotic and unlegal, comparing it to a bill of attainder. He argued the case involves 16 people arrested on criminal contempt for alleged interference with racial integration at Clinton High School and claimed the injunction rests on federal overreach rather than state law.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Carter Pittman
Georgia Board of Bar Examiners
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Mit
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Lene Griggs
Jackennville
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Clinton High School Reopening Talks Amid Tense Aftermath
FBI agents questioned Clinton residents today as the high school board and staff debated reopening the integrated school after last week’s anti Negro demonstrations and an assault on Rev. Paul Turner who escorted Negro students inside. Federal cases against demonstrators move toward Dec 2 trial while local officials hope for a Monday restart.
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Anderson County
Turncoats See Future In Others' Experience
UNITED PRESS reports on Artie Pate Aaron Wilson and four other returnees from Communist China and their mixed readjustments. The article profiles individuals including Otho G Tell a three year veteran and others facing unemployment jail terms and college plans while debating whether wartime choices define them and their country.
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Jewell
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Graart
Guided Missile Lost Escapes U S Control
A guided intercontinental Snark missile failed to stay under control after launch from Patrick Air Force Base Florida. It reportedly traversed toward the Brazilian jungle with possible impacts over the Atlantic Ocean leaving officials unsure of its final location. Pentagon spokesmen said no warhead was likely, and searches were planned to recover the runaway missile.
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