Nightly World News Roundup From The Islands To The Studio
Responding to Raymond Burrs appeal a plane from Suva Fiji carried medical supplies to Nuit Island hit by an unusual influenza outbreak affecting about 100 of 180 residents Burr who runs a plantation said he and others were briefly overworked and tired as authorities say the epidemic now appears under control.
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Raymond Burr
Parry Mason
Nuit Island
Suva
Fiji
Burr
Storms Punish Mid U S with heavy rain and tornadoes Easter
Storms battered the Midwest and South with 50 mile hour winds and hail as a cold front touched off tornadoes from Michigan to Texas. Severe showers drenched areas from the Lower Great Lakes to the Carolinas, flooding Chattanooga and causing property damage in Indiana and Kentucky while Missouri and Ohio reported strong winds and hail. One teen, Ricky Schuh, 14, was revived after a lightning strike. three tornadoes ripped through Hoosier country damaging barns and a high school in Wa bash Indiana.
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South
Midwest
U.S. Weather Bureau
Great Lakes
Carolinas
Mississippi
Chattanooga
Tenn
Oiio
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Ohio Valley
Pittsburgh
Mansfield
Ohio
Charleston
W. Va
Pacific Coast
Asloria
Ore
Washington State
Michigan
Texas
Rockies
Indiana
Chaysville
Haernage Bay
Ricky Schuh
Henderson
Hoosier Country
Tavnm Buktings
Wabash
Ind
Commuter Trains Brush in Philadelphia Minor Derailment
Two Reading Terminal bound trains collided and derailed a car near the Reading Terminal in center city Philadelphia causing morning delays. Each train carried 10 passengers and many walked the rest of the way after they evacuated. Cause of the mishap was not determined.
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Philadelphia
Reading
Center City
Up Loan
Staton
Easter prayers urge end to war and racial strife worldwide
Easter services across nations called for peace in Asia and an end to racial strife. Leaders from the United States and Rome urged harmony among all faiths, while scenes of celebration contrasted with violence in Jerusalem and Berlin as Vatican, Prague, and Canterbury voices stressed religious freedom and unity.
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Asia
Arthur Lee Kinsalving
St. James Episcopal Church
New York
Johnson
St. Francis Xavier Roman Catholic Church
Stonewall
Tex
Paul VI
St. Peter's Square
Rome
Martin Luther King Jr
Vietnam
Jerusalem
Ono Man’s Land
West Berlin
Adjudicated Post Office Clerk Case Noted in 1934
The report references a 1934 adjudication involving a second class master of Post Office at Long Beach California. It mentions examination by Su event, Los Angeles County, and lists an address on Sixth Street and Pine Avenue with a Bureau affiliation.
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Ori Iy
LKR
Long Beach
Galt
Ait Bureau
Vision of the Virgin Report Draws Crowds in Egypt Church
More than 200 people say they saw a vision of the Virgin Mary in a Cairo suburb church over four nights. About 2,000 gathered Sunday night as police kept watch and dispersed crowds by dawn. A chaplain described seeing a lady in white kneeling to pray. a grocer claimed binocular-watched the church rooftop for a sighting.
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Cairo
Ziioun
Eitoun
Matariya
Jesus
Joseph
Egypt
Altay
Ws House
West German Boat Rescues Defector in Baltic Collision
A West German submarine chaser collided with an East German liner while rescuing an East German defector who clung to a porthole. The incident near Pultharden Roedby caused minor damage to both ships, with the Najade and Voelkerforschung cited. Officials noted the defector was taken to Kiel.
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BOM
Germany
Baltic Sea
Wal
East Germany
Cuba
Manfred Semmich
Saxony
Kiel
Voelker Fecunischaft
Pultharden
West Germany
Roedby
Neumark
Defense Ministry
United States
Britain
France
Bonn
Berlin
West Berlin
Atom Use for Digging Canal OK
Washington reports results of an experiment using explosions to dig a canal. The Atomic Energy Commission says the technique looks promising after five buried charges in Nevada created a 300 foot wide, 900 foot long trench 80 feet deep. Rep Chet Holifield called the principle well proven and hopeful as further experiments are planned. A sea level canal across the Western Hemisphere is being seriously studied as an alternative to the Panama Canal by the Atlantic-Pacific Interocean Canal Study Commission.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Nevada
Chet Holifield
D-Calif
Panama Canal
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