Weather and war notes from the era of shifting fronts
A report highlights a potential Atlantic disturbance that could become a hurricane. A heat wave ends as a cooler air mass moves south. Lt. Guy H. Bumpas returns after six days as a prisoner. The U S delegation tours the Soviet Union and European allies discuss protest sincerity. The Northeast faces historic floods with over 200 fatalities and billions in damages. 34,169 families in the East homeless.
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Peace Offering Of Reds Queried
Washington reports the United States and allies are drafting proposals to test Soviet peace aims and expose propaganda. Plans target UN disarmament talks in New York on August 29, Adenauer’s Moscow visit on September 9, and a four power foreign ministers meeting in Geneva on October 27. Officials seek clearer evidence of Moscow’s attitude shifts and true aims.
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United States
United Nations Subcommittee
Russia
Moscow
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West Germany
Bulganin
Farmers Homeward Bound from Berlin Visit
U S farm delegation returning from a monthlong tour of Soviet farmlands in Russia Ukraine and SiberiaAdvocates more exchanges of visits and deeper cooperation noting mutual gains The group led by Dean Lam bert of the University of Nebraska outlines a 14point program calling for more machinery less central control and wider expert exchanges Moscow radio says the government appreciated the visitors criticisms of its agricultural methods
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U.S
Soviet Union
W. V. Lambert
University of Nebraska Agricultural School
Russia
Ukraine
Siberia
William E. Reed
Agricultural and Technical College
Greensboro
N.C
United States
Moscow Radio
Cooler Air Advects South Across Central U S
A widespread cool front moved southward across the north and central plains and the western Great Lakes early today. Temperatures fell 5 to 15 degrees from yesterday with readings in the 50s in North Dakota and northern Minnesota and in the 60s to low 70s elsewhere. Showers and thundershowers accompanied the air mass from southern Kansas northeastward across Missouri, northern Indiana and Illinois.
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Great Lakes
North Dakota
Minnesota
Kansas
Missouri
Indiana
Illinois
Red Play In Germany Is Seen Red Play In Germany Is Seen
In Bonn Germany officials and industrialists foresee the Soviet Union seeking a larger share of West Germanys industrial output during Chancellor Adenauers Moscow visit next month The Kremlin reportedly lures with a large trade turnover and Moscow Bonn normal relations Russia supposedly offers about 800 million dollars in annual trade Bonn officials say Russs need for machinery grows as factory workers shift to farms to ease agricultural crisis
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Soviet Union
West Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Moscow
Russia
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East
Eisenhower to Inspect Eastern Flood Areas by Air
President Eisenhower will make an aerial inspection tomorrow of six states in the Eastern flood area and confer with relief leaders on the scene. In New Jersey Florida announces Miss Marjorie Dunn 18 Sarasota Florida State University is the 1955 college queen. In Tokyo Foreign Minister Mamoru Shigemitsu plans talks in Washington on relations with the Communist world trade issues and war criminal releases.
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Asbury Park
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Sarasota
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Tokyo
Mamoru Shigemitsu
Japan
Washington
Guerrilla warfare feared in Oued Zem area
In the Atlas foothills of French Morocco, authorities fear a terror campaign blending Mau Mau tactics from East Africa with guerrilla warfare seen in neighboring Algeria. French security forces respond to rising attacks as residents face intensified unrest in the region.
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East Africa
Algeria
Pilots Return Is Set From Korean Front
SEOUL Air Force Lt. Guy H. Bumpas of Jackson Mississippi is scheduled to recross the line to freedom tomorrow after six days as a prisoner of the Communists. He will be returned with Army Capt. Charles W. Brown of West Louisville Kentucky whose plane was shot down. Brown was killed and Bumpas suffered a possible skull fracture. The Army will have a helicopter and a doctor to meet them. The Communists claim the plane was spying and call the captain murdered by a gang of gunners while Parks denounces the charge.
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Flood Conditions Reported Across Northeastern States
Flood ravaged states report high death tolls and widespread damage. In Pennsylvania thousands inoculated over typhoid risk from contaminated water. Connecticut deaths reach 66 with 70 missing. state funds urged for rebuilding. Massachusetts at least 13 dead. Rhode Island suffers one death and emergency measures. New Jersey six dead with millions in damage. New York reports four deaths as Red Cross shelters care for 800 families. Federal SBA to assist industries and camps this week.
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Eisenhower Eyes Geneva Talks Report En Route to Denver
President Eisenhower awaits a report on the Geneva atom talks from Lewis L. Strauss, chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, who will reach Denver today. Strauss led the American delegation and may brief the President tonight or tomorrow aboard the President’s plane.
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Chaplain Visits Chicago Killer Denied Jail Church Services
Richard Carpenter, 26, who confessed killing a detective and wounding a patrolman, was denied permission to attend Roman Catholic services in county jail. Chaplain Cronan Murphy visited him. Murphy was Carpenter’s only visitor as Carpenter remained under special guard in the maximum security wing. Detective William J. Murphy’s killer and Officer Clarence Kerr’s shooter status was noted while Kerr improved at St Mary’s Hospital.
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Snake Cult Breakup After Rattlesnake Incident
In Harlan Kentucky state police arrested Rev. William Vernon of Keokee Virginia after he handled four deadly snakes before about 2000 worshippers in a mountain hollow. Vernon faces a Kentucky law violation and was released on bond ahead of a trial next Friday near Caywood. The Pentecostal Holiness meeting aimed to confront a rattler that fatally bit Lee Valentine in Fort Payne Alabama. The snake was confiscated along with others, ending the service after about three hours.
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Keokee
Mountain Hollow
Vernon
Kentucky
Caywood
Pentecostal Holiness Church
Lee Valentine
Fort Payne
Ala
Atom Talks Close With Mixed Outlook On Peace Use
At the Geneva atoms for peace conference closing weekend the United States outlined a 15 to 20 year path to competitively affordable atomic power. Canada and Britain projected growing nuclear role, while Russia anticipated hundreds of kilowatts in operation by 1960 and a 100 000 kilowatt plant soon. The U S showcased a portable 2000 kilowatt reactor and Homi Bhabha praised the potential for widespread use in underdeveloped areas.
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Britain
Russia
Homi Bhabha
India
Few Clouds and Showers Dominate Weekend Weather
In Sarasota and Florida, expect partly to mostly cloudy skies with scattered showers and thundershowers through Tuesday. Temperatures rise to 88 to 95 degrees with nightly lows around 74 to 80 as coastal winds stay gentle to moderate.
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Two States Seek 130 Missing After Northeast Floods
The Northeast reels from floods with 186 dead and up to 130 still missing in Pennsylvania and Connecticut. Bridges down, factories damaged, towns like Torrington endure destruction and emergency aid hubs rise as officials warn of continuing health risks and losses.
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Connecticut
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Flood Routs 34169 Families In Six States
The Red Cross reports 34169 families displaced by floods in six eastern states with 439 homes destroyed and about 14000 damaged. In Pennsylvania the health crisis is worsened by thousands of dead chickens and livestock drowned. Scranton faces an acute water shortage supplied from 17 Army canvas tanks. A survey of camps in northeast Pennsylvania finds 43 camps with adequate food and water for children.
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Red Cross
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Scranton
New Squall Is Watched
Weathermen tracked a squally disturbance moving westward over the Caribbean and Atlantic from the southern Bahamas to Jamaica. Forecasters said it shows no signs of tropical development and is traveling about 400 miles per day.
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