Truman Urges Civil Rights Issue For Democratic Platform
Former President Truman called for including his civil rights commission report in the Democratic platform. He urged platform writers to review the 1947 findings that angered Southern delegates as he arrived in Chicago. He said he will announce his personal candidate for the nomination before the convention opens and was greeted warmly by supporters including Adlai E Stevenson.
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Chicago
Truman
Civil Rights Commission
Kansas City
Adlai E
El Monte Girl Electrocuted While Playing With Puppy
A 2 year old El Monte girl died after sticking a finger in a wall socket while playing with her puppy. Karen Marie Guadagnoli died at El Monte Medical Center. Firemen from County Rescue Unit 40 gave aid but could not revive her. The body was taken to Addleman Funeral Home.
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el Monte Medical Center
Karen Marie Guadagnoli
Richard Guadagnoli
N. Merced
County Fire Dept. Rescue Unit 40
Addleman Funeral Home
PCC Eases Penalty On Grid Seniors
The Pacific Coast Conference eased penalties for senior players at UCLA USC Washington and California who had under the table payments. Ineligible for 1956, they may now play in five consecutive games chosen by themselves or their coaches. Expulsion warnings proceed for probationary schools by spring. Stanford opposed the measure.
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Ore
Ucla
USC
Washington
California
PCC
Stanford
Oregon
Oregon State
Washington State
Idaho
Hypertension Puts Johnson in Hospital
Charles G. Johnson California's 75 year old state treasurer was hospitalized yesterday with hypertension. His secretary said it is not a heart attack and doctors at Sutter Hospital report his condition as fair. Dr. Milton Sarkisian evaluated him at Goodyears Bar and ordered hospitalization. The treasurer has faced criticism from the legislative budget committee over banking dealings. Governor Knight said he is not qualified to continue in the post he has held since 1923.
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Charles G. Johnson
California
Florence House
Sutter Hospital
House
Milton Sarkisian
Sierra County
Goodyear’s
Johnson
Legislative Budget Committee
Knight
United States Aims World First Atomic Merchant Ship
The United States hopes to have the first atomic powered merchant ship sailing before 1960. Maritime Administrator Clarence G Morse said the construction time depends on the reactor type chosen.
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Washington
United States
Clarence G. Morse
Baseball Today American League scores and results
American League and National League box scores with game results. Sequenced lines show Washington, New York, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Milwaukee matchups. Notable pitchers Rogovin Negray Erskine Kaiser Nuxhall Chit on.
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Walker
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Shepard
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Kaiser
Chit
Nuxhall
Freeman
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Bailey
St. Louis
Milwaukee
Dirksen
Pohotsky
Conley
Phillips
Whittier official dies suddenly at 56
Whittier based California Department of Fish and Game official D A Clan ton age 56 and assistant superintendent of hatcheries died of a heart attack at his home last night.
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Whittier
D. A. Clanton
California Department of Fish and Game
Support Grows for Herter as Stassen Sees 50-50 Chance
Harold E. Stassen said Gov. Christian A. Herter now has a 50 50 chance of winning the Republican vice presidential nomination at San Francisco. He cited rising mail and money as proof of growing support for an Eisenhower Herter ticket and announced Missouri's Elroy W. Bromwich endorsed the ticket. Stassen added he would name delegates committed to Herter and noted strong backing from Oregon Washington California New York New Jersey Connecticut Massachusetts and Pennsylvania.
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Harold E. Stassen
Christian A. Herter
Massachusetts
San Francisco
Stassen
Nixon
Herter
Eisenhower
Elroy W. Bromwich
Missouri
Bromwich
Oregon
California
New York
New Jersey
Connecticut
Pennsylvania
21 Die in Burma Airliner Crash
A government owned Union of Burma Airlines Dakota crashed in central Burma on a Rangoon to Mandalay flight. The airliner carried 17 passengers and four crew. initial reports said there were no survivors.
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Burma
Union of
Burma Airways Dakota
Mandalay
Long fled convict fights extradition in California
James Autry a 43 year old escapee who has lived in Los Angeles for eight years refuses to sign an extradition waiver. He says he will appeal to both California and North Carolina governors seeking review of his return to a North Carolina prison after 16 years of freedom.
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Los Angeles
North Carolina
James Autry
California
Blonde Accepts Ride but Not the Kisses
Donna Barton a 31 year old blonde department store buyer accepted a ride with a stranger at Temple and Alvarado Streets and was torn and pushed from the car at Georgia Street Receiving Hospital. She suffered a sprained wrist and knee bruises and said the man appeared a gentleman before the attack.
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CNS
Donna Barton
Georgia Street
Miss Barton
S. Alvarado St
Temple
Alvarado
Delegates Begin Balloting for 1956 Democratic Nominee
Delegates to the Democratic National Convention will start balloting for the 1956 presidential nominee shortly after 6 p.m. Pasadena time on Thursday August 16. The article notes the convention headquarters in Chicago and directs readers to page 11 for the complete campaign program.
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Chicago
Pasadena
Truman declines to endorse Stevenson at Harriman event
In a station greeting for Gov. Averell Harriman, Harry S. Truman said he would remain neutral in the presidential nomination battle. He later said he hoped to decide before the convention and would inform the public whom he supports, but he offered no endorsement that day.
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Stevenson
Averell Harriman
Harriman
Aluminum Workers End 9 Day Strike
In New York the Aluminum Co. of America announced a three year no strike agreement with United Steelworkers of America ending a nine day stoppage by 18 000 workers across 12 Alcoa plants. The company plans a swift return to work as local conditions allow.
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the Aluminum Co. of America
United Steelworkers of America
Alcoa
Five Killed in Oregon Wreck Near Grant Pass
Five San Francisco Bay area tourists were killed and three injured when their Alaska bound carry-all crashed with a Pierce Freight Lines truck on the Pacific Highway two miles south of Grant Pass Oregon. Ed Jones of Portland the truck driver had a bruised shoulder.
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Ore
San Francisco Bay Area
Pierce Freight Lines
Here
Ed Jones
Portland
Conductor Whistles onstage as flute solo fails
Aberdare Wales concert ends in second place as conductor Leonard James fills missing flutist with a whistle. The flutist claimed to have stepped off briefly to collect pay, leaving the audience and judges unimpressed.
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Aberdale
Wales
Leonard James
Schubert
James
Aberdare Orchestra Society
Aberdare Orchestra
Russia accepts invitation hints at Panama Canal talks
Russia accepted its invitation to the London Suez conference tonight with a hint it may demand internationalization of the Panama canal and other world waterways. The acceptance came in a note handed to the western big three and other embassies.
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Moscow
Russia
Panama Canal
Bitter Heart Mine Tragedy Ends Hope For Trapped Miners
Rescue crews abandoned hope for 243 miners trapped in the Bitter Heart mine near Marcinelle Belgium after a fire rekindled. Nine dead, six rescued earlier. Belgian mines administrator Andre van Heuvel kept fighting the blaze amid dangerous carbon monoxide levels.
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Marcinelle
Belgium
Bitter Heart
Andre van Heuvel
Armed robbery reported in Lone Pine area
Inyo County sheriff records the first armed robbery in three years after Mrs. Rose Martin was robbed at gunpoint of $10 outside Lone Pine High School. Deputies arrested Paul R. Antoniak, 35, about 25 miles south of Lone Pine after tracing his car license plate.
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Lone Pine
Inyo County
Sheriff's Office
Rose Martin
Lone Pine High School
Paul R. Antoniak
Police Stop Leads to Scolding Instead of Ticket
In Los Angeles a policeman pulled over Marc Brown for a minor violation and glanced at a car filled with toys books blankets and baby gear. Brown recalled yesterday that the officer put away his book and told him he could not afford a ticket and would simply be yelled at.
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Los Angeles
Marc Brown
Brown
Owl Drug Hosts 600 Children at Sheriff Show and Rodeo
In Los Angeles the Owl Drug Co will host 600 underprivileged children at the 12th annual sheriff s show and rodeo on August 19.
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Los Angeles
CNS
The
Owl Drug Co
Centerville Tornado Strikes Iowa Town Amid Heat Wave
A strong tornado and damaging winds struck Centerville Iowa near midnight tearing down power lines and a roof while windows shattered and trees uprooted. Four inches of rain fell on Rockport Missouri as northern Missouri faced 77 mph gusts and Kansas City saw about 50 mph winds. No deaths were reported.
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Iowa
Centerville
Weather Bureau
Rockport
Kirksville
Kansas City
Air Force Plans Six Month Reserve Training Expansion
The Air Force will adopt a six month reserve training program similar to the Army and Marines. It plans to recruit about 2,500 six month trainees between October 1 and July 1, 1957, after previously opposing and resisting the plan.
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Washington
Air Force
Army
Marines
Service
Congress
Butchers-Retail Clerks violence trial resumes deliberations
SAN DIEGO jury resumes a second day of deliberations in the eight-man Butchers-Retail Clerks violence trial. The retrial follows earlier proceedings with attorneys outlining the case and witnesses.
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San Diego
Missing Azusa pair renewed search by sheriff deputies
Two Azusa children Brenda Howell 11 and Don Baker 13 missing since Monday morning remain the focus of a sheriff search across the canyon and foothills. Capt. Robert Summers said there were no fresh leads as crews comb the area near Morris Dam where the youths were last seen and where items of theirs were found.
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Robert Summers
Sheriff's Juvenile Bureau
Canyon
Brenda Howell
Fay Howell
Fort Bragg
Don C. Baker
Jess Baker
Rockvale Ave
Brenda
Mary D. Edwards
N. Rockvale Ave
San Gabriel Canyon
Don
Morris Dam
Gas Leak Sets Lawn Ablaze in Sherman Oaks
Mr and Mrs Paul Schori battled a spreading lawn fire for nearly two hours before a gas company emergency crew shut off the main line. Investigators say leaking gas permeated the yard and a stray match or cigarette started the blaze.
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Sherman Oaks
Paul Schori
County Supervisors Meet to Discuss Highway, Taxes and Ballot Proposals
More than 150 members of the California County Supervisors Assoc meet to discuss highway construction county sales taxes and policies on November ballot propositions.
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Eureka
California
Mrs FDR recounts doctors' reassurance to FDR in 1944
The New York Times quotes Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt recalling doctors told her husband he could continue full presidential duties. They found him well and active after May 1944 exams and advised daily rest for his heart.
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New York
New York Times Today
Franklin D. Roosevelt
the Times
Eisenhower
Dulles Invites Leaders to Suez Parley
Secretary of State Dulles invites Democratic and Republican congressional leaders to a Sunday meeting to receive a report on the Suez Canal crisis.
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Washington
Dulles
Congress
Russia questions Suez talks and invites in London
The report notes Soviet representatives urged postponing the talks and expanding invitees to include more Communist and Arab nations. It also states Russia will be in London a week from today if the conference opens on schedule and raises the Panama issue while questioning why the Suez canal is singled out among waterways.
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Russia
London
Panama
Halt Buildup Britain Calls Off Airlift of Troops
Britain halted its emergency buildup in the Mediterranean with no official explanation. The defense ministry ordered a halt to an airlift of 3,000 soldiers to British Suez, delaying ships, planes, and supplies tied to maintaining free passage through the canal.
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London
Mediterranean
Suez Canal
Defense Ministry
British Overseas Airways Corp
British
Weather forecast notes clouds and fog in morning
A night and early morning with low clouds and local fog gives way to mostly clear skies today and tomorrow. The forecast continues through August 9 with typical regional conditions expected.
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