Two Cars Collide. One Killed Five Hurt in Green Lake
A Montana woman ran a county road into Highway 73 at Berry's Corners, killing Thomas Moyen of Skokie and injuring five others. The Simoulis car, headed north, carried three passengers including Peter Simoulis and his wife. Mrs Florence White of Glasgow Mont and her companions were injured. White suffered a heart attack on hospital arrival. The crash marked Green Lake County's first fatal highway crash since 1955.
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Illinois
Thomas Moyen
Skokie
Green Lake County
Waupun Hospital
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Florence White
Glasgow
Mont
Lloyd Schoephoester
Green Lake
Montana
Chicago
Moyen
Peter Simoulis
Simoulis
Marcy
Edna Feldt
Minogna
Marquette
Fred Wellnitz
Feldt
Wachholz
Princeton
Lloyd and
Leroy Schoephoesier
Five Polio Cases Reported in Milwaukee House
Five youngsters from the same Milwaukee duplex are in good condition at a city hospital with polio. Four are paralytic but none have bulbar polio. All had not received polio vaccine. Ages range from two months to 14 years. Milwaukee totals rise to 31 cases this year with no deaths.
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Milwaukee
Pat Scott
John Armon
Reds Rectify Airplane Invention Claim in History Issue
The magazine Questions of History rejects claims that a Russian invented the airplane during the Stalin era. It argues the Wright brothers, not a Russian, deserve credit, though the piece critiques earlier sensational attributions in Soviet-era discourse.
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Moscow
Questions of History
Wright Brothers
Mite Kidnapped and Sergeant Shot by Russian Flyer
North Branford Connecticut police and federal officers investigate the shooting of Air Force Sergeant Albert Drepperd 26 who was wounded in the mouth and throat after a man in a pale green uniform abducted his wife Grace 27. Bloodhounds search for the couple as the 19 month old child Steven is cared for by a policewoman. The assailant claimed to be a state officer then a Russian flyer.
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North Branford
Drepperd
Steven
Dreppered
Navy Men Film Jet Trails at 60 Below
Navy aerologists photographed jet vapor trails from 40 000 feet during a four hour flight from Minneapolis to an alfalfa field near Stevens Point. Lt Cmdr M Lee Lewis and M D Ross endured 9 degrees below zero in bulky cold gear aboard a 67 foot balloon gondola built by General Mills. A flying laboratory plane tracked the mission while gamma telescopes and time lapse cameras collected data for University of Minnesota researchers for the Office of Naval Research. The test aims for higher altitudes include a pressurized gondola to advance cosmic radiation studies.
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Stevens Point
Navy
M. Lee Lewis
M. D. Ross
Washington
Minn' Seapolis
Here
General Mills, Inc
Minneapolis
University of Minnesota
Office of Naval Research
Orvil Anderson
Albert Stevens
Dulles Aims Bipartisan Support On Suez Crisis
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles seeks bipartisan congressional backing for Suez crisis plans. He met with President Eisenhower and White House leaders to discuss an London conference starting next Thursday. Britain France and the United States reportedly propose international control of the Suez Canal with five guiding principles.
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John Foster Dulles
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Dulles
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Egypt
White House
Suez
London
Middle East
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New York
U.N
Dag Hammmarskjold
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France
United States
Suez Canal
World Court
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Panama Canal
Arabs Threaten To Destroy Suez Canal Crisis
London talks on the Suez crisis surface as diplomats seek support for the London conference while Cairo rallys 5000 in anti West demonstrations. Egypt threatens to destroy the canal rather than lose control amid Nasser’s nationalization move.
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Atrike
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Daly Sketch
Maj
Salem
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Russia
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Tito
Yugoslavia
United States
Washington
Suez
U.S
Canal
Middle East
Mediterranean
Cyprus
Middle Eest
England
Manchester Guardians
West
Vv. K. Krishna Menon
India
Nehru
New Delhi
Foreign Affairs Committee
Parliament
First Real Hurricane Betsy Rips Atlantic Toward West Indies
The first major hurricane Betsy battered toward the West Indies with winds up to 320 mph. It neared Dominica before noon as Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands were placed on hurricane watch. Weather aircraft monitored the storm from San Juan and plans flew to gather data.
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Miami
South Atlantic
West Indies
Dominica
U.S
Puerto Rico
Virgin Islands
San Juan
Pal
Truman weighs neutral stance in Democratic race
Former President Truman signals he may be reconvinced but leans one way as Harriman and Stevenson push for endorsements. He expects to reveal his choice at a Sheraton-Blackstone news conference amid a busy schedule of supporters and a tense Democratic National Convention buildup.
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MR. Truman
Blackstone Hotel
Chicago
Harry S. Truman
Adlai Stevenson
New York
Averell Harriman
Truman
Harriman and
Stevenson
Harriman
Gov. George Leader
Pennsylvania
Froman
Adlai
Harrian
Syunesiman
London
Suez Canal
Suez
United States
Egypt
Iil
Britain Rejects Demands For Parley Delay In Med Crisis
Britain rebuffs Russian demands to delay talks and shift to Cairo as forces mass in the eastern Mediterranean. A Daily Express report says engineers are moving from Germany to convert an unnamed port into a heavy-traffic base. Two aircraft carriers have joined reinforcements, and the troopship Dilwara departed with thousands of infantry.
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Britain
Cairo
Daily Express
Germany
Mediterranean
Dilwara
Wrong Way Incident Ends with Car Crash Injuries
Marcel Holton, 21, stood on the front bumper with the hood raised as another youth drove the car. John Riley Jr., 19, said his view was blocked by the hood and he crashed into a parked vehicle. Holton suffered two broken legs.
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East ST. Louis
Marcel Holton
John Riley Jr
Holton
Die, 6 Burned In Blast Aboard German Vessel
A German freighter Hiedberg exploded aboard off Lewes Delaware killing two crewmen Juergen Schwittner and Herbert Gueldner and burning six others. The ship en route from Puerto Ordaz Venezuela to Philadelphia carrying iron ore, broke from the engine room blast that ripped the bridge and forced rescue to Beebe Hospital. The vessel, 277 feet long, launched in 1942, was towed later for repairs and possible voyage to Philadelphia.
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Venezuela
Philadelphia
Puerto Ordaz
Delaware River
Heinz Nauersberger
Heidberg
Rosario
Argentina
Carcarana River
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