Mollet Calls Nasser Apprentice Dictator Over Suez Crisis
Premier Guy Mollet denounces Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser as an apprentice dictator and promises a joint Western reply to the Suez Canal seizure. He urges a united western policy with Britain and the United States, citing Nasser’s stance on Algeria and linking it to international tensions.
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Paris
INS
Guy Mollet
Gamal Abdel Nasser
France
Suez Canal
Mollet
Assn
Christian Pineau
London
Nasser
NATO
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Algeria
Suez Canal Company
Canal
Free Nations
Near
Middle East
Mediterranean
U. S
Britain halts exports to Egypt over Suez crisis
London reports Eden announces stopping all war material exports to Egypt amid Nasser's seizure and nationalization of the Suez Canal Co. He rejects any control by a single power and backs possible alternative routes. Britain freezes Egyptian assets and debates a long term canal solution while talks with the United States and France continue.
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London
INS
Anthony Eder
Egypt
Suez Canal
Eden
House of Commons
Anthony Eden
Foreign
Egyptian Canal Co
Commons
Suez
House
Sir Anthony
al Quader
Portsmouth
Royal Navy
Nasser
Anthony
Lord Reading
House of Lords
Israel
Britain
Foreign Office
Minnie Mermaid Seeks Chaser Amid Sarasota Forecast
Minnie Mermaid comments on governors of North and South Carolina enjoying drinks in Sarasota with a forecast of scattered thundershowers. The Sarasota forecast calls for Partly cloudy conditions today and Tuesday with highs near 88 to 96 and breezy winds.
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North
South Carolinas
Minnie Mermaid
Sarasota
Fireball At Texas Oil Plant Kills Nineteen, Injures Forty
Nineteen men die and forty are injured when a series of explosions hit the Shamrock Oil and Gas McKee Refinery Tank Farm near Dumas Texas. A massive orange fireball was seen as far as Amarillo with 100 spectators witnessing the catastrophe. Witnesses describe brutal heat and devastation as workers perish in the flames.
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Dumas, Tex
INS
McKee
Shamrock Oil and Gas Corp
Dumas
Amarillo
Bob Hamilton
Moore County
Tank Farm
Bill Lask
Moore County News
Stassen Seeks Meeting With Eisenhower Over Nixon
Harold E. Stassen flew from Washington to Gettysburg for a surprise conference with President Eisenhower. The disarmament adviser says he asked for the appointment to discuss his plan to dump Vice President Richard M. Nixon and potential replacement by Massachusetts Gov. Christian Herter. He would not confirm specific topics but hinted multiple subjects would be covered.
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John Foster Dulles
Washington National Airport
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
INS
Harold E. Stassen
Washington
Stassen
Richard M. Nixon
White House
Massachusetts
Christian Herter
Nixon
NAACP Faces $100000 Contempt Fine in Alabama
In Montgomery a $10 000 fine against the NAACP has risen to $100 000 if Alabama records are not produced by 5 p m today. Circuit Judge Walter B Jones ordered turnover of membership lists bank accounts property lists and correspondence. Thurgood Marshall said the group would issue no statement until today.
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Montgomery
Ala
National Assn
Advancement of
Colored People
Alabama
Walter B. Jones
NAACP
Jones
Thurgood Marshall
Cie
New York
Organiza
Tion
Court Rejects Dismissals in McKeon Court Martial
Marine Sgt. Matthew C. McKeon faces four charges over the Ribbon Creek march deaths of six recruits. Navy Captain Irving N. Klein denied three motions to dismiss counts two three and four. The seven member tribunal adjourned for final ruling with no objections to Klein's rulings.
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James L. Kilgallen
Parris Island
S. C
INS
Matthew C. McKeon
McKeon
Ribbon Creek
Navy
Irving N. Klein
Emile Zola Berman
Klein
Edward L. Hutchinson
Hutchinson
Emile Zola Ber
Circus Back On Circuit Rumor Circles Summer Return
The Ringling Bros and Barnum and Bailey Circus faced no confirmation of a resumed summer tour. Reports claimed a Chicago opening on Aug 24 for a 10 day engagement, but executives Burke Ringling North and Waldo were unavailable or unaware. The Winter Quarters buzz centered on the potential revival.
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Ringling Bros and
Barnum & Bailey Circus
Chicago
Michael Burke
John Ringling North
Pat Waldo
Britain battered by violent summer storm at sea and on land
A 24 hour gale in Britain caused at least 13 deaths and left 12 yachts missing in the English Channel. Six died ashore from falling trees as winds up to 90 mph caused extensive crop damage, landslides, and floods. Shipping halted between Britain and France with two passenger ships unable to dock.
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London
Britain
English Channel
France
Liverpool
Southsea
le Havre
Boulogne
Crewman claims Stockholm horn silenced before Doria collision
Bernabe Polanco Garcia, a 36 year old Stockholm crewman, says the foghorn was silent and the engines reversed as the two liners collided off Nantucket. The Doria sank within a day, with 2 crew dead, 18 missing or presumed dead, and 37 unaccounted. 1,706 aboard. unaccounted reduced from 73 to 77.
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New York
Stockholm
Bernabe Polanco Garcia
U S Presses Egypt Over Suez Canal Move
Washington reports Secretary of State Dulles decried Nasser's move to nationalize the Suez Canal Company as a grave blow to international confidence. Undersecretary Hoover protested Nasser's statements about U S claims, warning the action could affect canal operations and U S maritime interests.
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Dulles
Suez Canal Company
Latin America
Hoover
Herbert Hoover Jr
Nasser
United States
Aswan
Holver
Ahmed Hussein
State Department
Hussein
Cairo
Amail Hoover
Suez Canal
Nineteen Teens Fall On Mt Hood Crevasse Tragedy
Nineteen teenage climbers plunged into a crevasse on Mt Hood in Oregon. One boy died of suffocation and many others were injured. Doctors treated victims on the mountainside and at the Silcox hut as snow tractors moved those stabilized down toward safety. Lynn Kaufman, 16, of Larchmont New York, died at the scene after being swept into the crevasse amid the collapse.
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Timberline Lodge
Ore
Mt Hood
Silcox
Crater Rock
Lynn Kaufman
Larchmont
N. Y
Matthew Mirkovich
Los Angeles
County seeks right to sell public beaches plan
County moves to obtain authority to sell public beaches as discussions appear across pages 9 and 2. Jeff Jernigan prepares for a trip to Akron for Soap Box Derby finals while plans to resume Medfly spraying are noted.
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Jeff Jernigan
Akron
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