Third Blaze Hits Subway in Brooklyn Tunnel Fire
A tunnel fire in Brooklyn tied up the subway system for hours. The blaze began in a cable feeding the third rail at 1:30 a.m. near President Street on the Nostrand Avenue line, with two lines shut down and passengers evacuated. No injuries were reported as fire crews worked through smoke to locate the cable fault and restore power.
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New York
Brooklyn
President Street
Nostrand Avenue
Nosland Avenue
New Lots Avenue
Interborough Rapid Transit Division
Subway
Atlantic Avenue
Insurance Company President Facing Embezzlement Charge
W L Bridges Jr president of State National Life Insurance Co was charged with embezzling thirty thousand dollars. Prosecutors say he funneled funds through three banks into his private account the W L Bridges Agency. The case ties to a broader audit of Bridges and his father whose firms faced state receivership and investigations into fraudulent transfers totaling over five hundred thirty six thousand dollars.
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Dallas
W. L. Bridges Jr
State National Life Insurance Co
Tottering Insurance Empire
Bridges
W. L. Bridges
Cedar Hillman
G. H. Langdeau
W. L. Bridges Sr
Midlothian
State National
W. L. Bridges Agency
State National Life
Langdeau
Bridges Jr
George R. Russell
Russell
Reds Stall on Disarmament Ahead of UN Assembly
Geneva sources say the Soviet Union is stalling on disarmament until the United Nations General Assembly opens in the fall to seek propaganda value for Khrushchev's plan and to gain support from uncommitted nations. Western allies insist on prior verification measures and technical studies before any treaty.
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Geneva
UPS
U.S
United Nations General Assembly
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Government troops ambush rebels in Phong Dinh province
In the Mekong Delta Phong Dinh province government forces clashed with Communist rebels at Mon Cay, killing 60 rebels including a battalion chief. Government losses were three dead and five wounded, according to the semiofficial Viet Nam news agency.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
UPI
Moncay
Mekong River
Phong Dinh
West Texas salt water eyed for future use by engineer
AP reports H R Drew of Texas Electric Service Co says West Texas briny water is abundant and could become a water source as de-salting develops. TESCO has built a 40-foot electrodialysis prototype to remove salt from inland brackish waters, with a Fort Worth unit producing 30,000 gallons daily for about 10,000 people.
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Texas
Texas Electric Service Co
H. R. Drew
Fort Worth
Process Industries
American Society of Mechanical Engineers
Drew
TESCO
West Texas
Cit
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Sis
Monahans
Night Club Stripper Testifies Before Grand Jury
A Sunset Strip stripper testifies before a federal grand jury in Los Angeles, flown from San Francisco to discuss Mickey Cohen's financial affairs. She says she was told to appear and bring documents but had none. Testimony is secret.
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Los Angeles
Beverly Hills
Sunset Strip
San Francisco
Mickey Cohen
Former Senator Testifies in Dallas Fraud Trial
Robert L. Proffer testified for two hours in Dallas as a federal jury heard fraud charges against Proffer and H. A. Adkison over Teachers' Professional Investment Co and Professional Business College. He said he was elected president of both firms without knowledge of the elections, received little information on assets, and that his name and signature were used in advertising without his consent. He claimed $10 in shares and said money came as commissions, expenses, and two loans.
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Dallas
Robert L. Proffer
Denton
Proffer
H. A. Adkison
Fort Worth
The Old West Not Dead Yet in Hale County
Bennie Armold a 60 year old Hale County farmer is jailed on a charge of fence cutting. Dist Atty Joe Cox said Armold used a tractor to cut a neighbor’s barbed wire to free 52 cattle that had strayed into the neighbor’s pasture during a grazing dispute.
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Plainview
Bennie Armold
Hale County
Arnold
Texas
Joe Cox
Gifts Accepted By Red Cross In Chile Disaster
Gifts for Chilean earthquake, tidal wave, and volcano victims are received by the Odessa Chapter of the American Red Cross at 21934 West Third. Mrs. Clara G. Lee says the national Red Cross sent $175,000 after the May 21 quake, and the Children's American Red Cross added $25,000 that day.
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Odessa
American Red Cross
West Third
Clara G. Lee
National Red Cross
Minnesota volunteers circulate petitions for Stevenson
Advertising executive Myles Spicer, chairman of a draft Stevenson committee, said Wednesday more than 1,000 volunteers circulated petitions statewide seeking the Democratic presidential nomination for Adlai E. Stevenson.
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Minneapolis
Television Schedule Fragments From Local Stations
A dense TV listing aggregating THURSDAY FRIDAY and Tueday slots across KOSA KCED KOMD KVKM and KVKM-TYV. It lists programs from news and weather to soap operas and game shows with channel numbers and start times. Channel notes claim station responsibility for the accuracy of the listings.
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Kosa-Tv
Betty Hutton
Interpol
Shotgun Slade
Mr. Lucky
Texas Today
THURS
Kvkm-Tv
Perspective
Border Patrol
Dimension
Kvkm-Tyv
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Texas Rangers
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