Train Derailment Injures 42 En Route to Milwaukee Game
A special Milwaukee Road train carrying about 1,000 grade school pupils to a Braves-Dodger game in Milwaukee derailed after colliding with a gravel truck near Daplainville Wisconsin. Forty two were injured, 20 in bed, 22 ambulatory. one truck driver in serious condition. The train originated at Portage with 900 from Columbia County and 100 from Marquette County.
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Milwaukee Road
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Here
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Missing L. Ewing Scott Faces Possible Foul Play
L. Ewing Scott, 59, did not appear in court today and police fear he may have been killed. His abandoned car with bullet holes was found in Santa Monica. Attorney Beardsley reported no contact from Scott, while Judge Smith issued a bench warrant and moved the civil case to May 15.
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CNS
L. Ewing Scott
Santa Monica
Charles Beardsley
Scott
Wolfer Printing Co
A. Curtis Smith
Smith
Beardsley
Marianne Beaman
William H. Parker
Frank Belcher
Two Women Saved From Fiery Death In Home Fires
A Puente man and a Temple City woman saved themselves and others using blankets as fire swept two homes. Mrs. Helen D Johnson of Temple City alerted her daughter and escaped burns while Jim Tokaka smothered flames on his wife Shirley. Shirley Tokaka suffered extensive burns and was hospitalized, while Mrs Johnson received burns and is recovering.
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Temple City
Helen D. Johnson
N. Rosemead
Dorothy M. Holto
Jim Tokaka
Hayland
Shirley
San Dimas
Johnson
San Francisco
Tokaka
Covina Intercommunity Hospital
Southland Evacuation Plan Deemed Impractical
Mayor Norris Poulson rejected a proposed civil defense dispersal plan as impractical. He favored Lynch's interim plan urging residents to evacuate the congested civic center and return to suburbs, while warning that the basin plan would push people toward Riverside and San Bernardino, both critical target areas.
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CNS
Southland
Norris Poulson
Poulson
Lynch
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Riverside
San Bernardino
H Bomb Test Delayed by Weather at Bikini Atoll
On USS Mt McKinley at Bikini Atoll the H bomb test Shot Cherokee was postponed again. Acting scientific test director Dr William E Ogle said the blast may occur Thursday Bikini time or Wednesday US time, with a May 15 latest possibility due to weather delays.
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Bikini Atoll
William E. Ogle
Joint Task Force 7
Bikini
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Weather forecast shows clearing by afternoon with light drizzle
Partly cloudy today becoming mostly cloudy tonight and tomorrow morning with a chance of local drizzle or sprinkles. Clearing tomorrow afternoon. May 6 maximum 69 May 7 minimum 49. Full weather report on Page A-7.
Whitney Bass Fishing Championship Hooked by Ray Creel
Ray Creel won the Texas bass fishing championship at Whitney. Local anglers competed for top honors as Creel edged rivals in a tight finish.
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Whitney, Tex
Texas
Ray Creel
Pulitzer Prize Awards Announced for 1956
MacKinlay Kantor’s Andersonville wins best novel. The Diary of Anne Frank by Frances Goodrich and Albert Nackett takes outstanding drama. Other literary honors go to Richard Hofstadter for The Age of Reform, Talbot Hamlin for Benjamin Henry Latrobe, and Elizabeth Bishop for Poems North and South a Cold Spring.
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New York
MacKinlay Kantor
Andersonville
Anne Frank
Frances Goodrich
Albert Nackett
Richard Hofstradter
Benjamin Henry Latrobe
Talbot Hamlin
Elizabeth Bishop
President Names Area Sea Chief
The White House announced Vice Admiral Robert P. Briscoe will be commander in chief of Allied forces in Southern Europe, succeeding Admiral William M. Fechteler. President Eisenhower asked the Senate to promote Briscoe to full admiral in the new post.
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White House
Robert P. Briscoe
Europe
William M. Fechteler
Eisenhower
Senate
Briscoe
Inhalator Baby Weds in Beverly Hills
Patty Lou Williams, once an inhalator baby in 1935, married Sunday at Beverly Vista Community Church. County Fire Capt. Edmund Reed, who helped save her life, attended as a witness along with other relay workers after more than five days of effort totaling 131 hours and 39 minutes.
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CNS
Patty Lou Williams
Beverly Vista
Edmund Reed
Lightning Bolt Kills Mother and Children in Deal
A May cold wave with gale winds and lightning killed at least five people, including Mrs. Estelle Rediker and her three children, plus a maid, when a bolt ignited their three story Deal New Jersey home. The storm also claimed a woman in Delphi Indiana and caused damage in Pittsburgh and Oklahoma.
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Estelle Rediker
Deal
N.J
Delphi
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Pittsburgh
Steel City
Canada
Midwest
Oklahoma
Oklahoma City
New Inquiry to Hear 50 Witnesses in LA Rubble Inquiry
A state investigating committee opens five days of hearings into all phases of the Los Angeles City and County rubbish business. Public sessions start today with about fifty witnesses expected to testify.
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Los Angeles
CNL
11 000 Volts Knock Lineman From Pole In San Dimas
Edison Co maintenance electrician Clyde Richardson, 37, of Chino, was knocked 15 feet from a power pole at the Allen and San Dimas substation in San Dimas after contact with a live line. He suffered severe burns and was hospitalized at Pomona Valley Hospital.
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Pomona Valley Hospital
Clyde S. Richardson
Chino
Allen and San Dimas
San Dimas
Richardson
Connelly Caudle Schwimmer Face Federal Conspiracy Trial
In St Louis the conspiracy trial of Matthew J Connelly T Lamar Caudle and Harry T Schwimmer opens in U S District Court. Indicted December 1 they are charged with conspiring to defraud the government in an income tax case. Connelly a former Truman secretary Caudle a former Justice official Schwimmer represented Irving Sachs the St Louis shoe maker.
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Justice Department
Truman
Connelly
Caudle
Irving Sachs
St. Louis
Schwimmer
Sachs
High Court Denies Railway Mail Plea
The Supreme Court denied a hearing to five western railroads challenging a post office experiment that moves some regular first class mail by air. The lower court decision upholding Postmaster General Arthur Summerfield's authority remains in place. The program uses 2-cent surface mail routed by air when airspace is available.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Arthur E. Summerfield
Woman 54 bests gunman in liquor store duel
In Los Angeles a 54 year old woman shot and wounded a gunman during a liquor store robbery. The assailant fled but was later captured when his mother turned him in. The suspect Samuel Lee Chambers, 22, faced robbery and assault with intent to murder charges.
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Vermont Ave
Blanche Hagelstein
Frank Honza
Honza
Samuel Lee Chambers
Church Sniper Suspect Surrenders in New York
Todar chi Sava, 60, a handyman, walked into the district attorney’s office to surrender after a weekend shooting at St Dumitru's Romanian Orthodox Church left one worshiper dead and five injured. Police found a rifle and ammunition in his nearby room.
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District Attorney's Office
Todarchi Sava
St. Dumitru’s
Battleship Wisconsin limps home after collision with escort
The battleship Wisconsin arrived at Norfolk under its own power, damaged more than expected after a collision with destroyer escort Eaton. Eaton required towing by the tug Utina due to a 30 foot hole, delaying its voyage to port for repairs.
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Wisconsin
Eaton
Navy
Utina
Nagoya Fireworks King Kondo Dies In Factory Blast
In Nagoya Japan Kane matsu Kondo known as Nagoya's fireworks king and two workers were killed when the finishing room of Kondo's factory exploded.
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Nagoya
Japan
Kanematsu Kondo
Kondo
Demonstration Planned Over Los Angeles Rubbish Plan
Residential rubbish collectors and families set a demonstration at city hall before a public hearing on a city plan to collect combustible rubbish across Los Angeles. Mayor Norris Poulson backs a $3,363,905 expansion of city waste collection services now only in the harbor area.
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Los Angeles
CNL
City Hall
Norris Poulson
Harbor
Officials to Probe Waste Contract Potential Pressure Ties
After a morning executive session with Chief Investigator Lloyd Harris, about 50 witnesses are set to testify before the interim committee on governmental efficiency and economy. The hearings may widen to examine alleged pressure by groups in negotiating rubbish and disposal contracts and related irregularities in private collection services. Expected testifiers include Michael Harabedian, George Slater of Monterey Disposal Co., Ben Kazarian, Don Lapp, and Mayor Norris Poulson invited to speak at the State Building.
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Interim Committee On Governmental Efficiency and Economy
Michael Harabedian
George Slater
Monterey Disposal Co
Ben Kazarian
BKK
Monterey Park
George Brown
Don Lapp
Metropolitan Rubbish Collectors Assn
Norris Poulson
Seven U S Soldiers Die in France Auto Crash
In eastern France seven American soldiers were killed when their car collided with a 12 ton truck near Saint Dizier. The car reportedly traveled at 78 miles per hour. The truck driver, Albert Mudic of Paris, suffered minor injuries. Victims were returning to their Trois Fontaine base. identities withheld pending family notices.
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Saint Dizier
France
Albert Mudic
Paris
Trois Fontaine
Butlers Bid for Bagshot Seat Sparks Millionaire Endorsement
Sir Simon Marks, a chainstore magnate, says he will vote for his butler Donald Collins in the Bagshot rural council election. Collins, 5 foot 6, runs on the Conservative ticket in Millionaires Mile where Labor resistance is historically weak.
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Bagshot
England
Simon Marks
Donald Kenneth Collins
Collins
Sunningdale
Marks
Anthony Eden
Conservative Party
Labor Party
Eisenhower says U S aid totaling 900 million in 1955 half
President Eisenhower reported to Congress that the United States shipped about 900 million dollars in military supplies to free world partners in Europe and the Far East in the latter half of 1955. He described the foreign aid program as making good progress.
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Eisenhower
Congress
United States
Europe
Far East
United States to Supply Allies $500 Million in Advanced Weapons
Foreign Aid chief John B. Hollister told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that the U S plans to give its allies 500 million dollars worth of advanced weapons under the Military Aid Program He did not elaborate and defense sources indicate the weapons will mainly strengthen Western Europe air defenses.
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Washington
John B. Hollister
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United States
Hollister
Western
Europe
President urges foreign aid flexibility amid shifting Moscow tactics
The President cited U S aid exceeding 200 divisions and over 2 000 naval ships with about 300 air squadrons to bolster Europe as he urged Congress to grant longer term foreign aid powers. He warned Moscow would rely on subtle influence, demanding greater policy flexibility for future commitments amid strong opposition. Europe’s defenses were bolstered in 1955 by advanced weapons and planes, with atomic capable missiles like the Niki Corporal Honest John and Matador deployed in increasing quantities.
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U.S
Moscow
Congress
Europe
Baseball Today Wroms and Scores Across Big Leagues
The page lists only scheduled games with Cleveland at Boston and Detroit at Baltimore tonight. Cececarehi faces Stone for Cleveland, Trucks vs Wight for Detroit, and McCall vs Flowers in New York at St Louis. National League notes Brooklyn and other matchups shown with no detailed results.
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Stone
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Wight
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Flowers
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