Worst airliner crash kills 74 near New Jersey
Seven dozen aboard a Lav four engine Convair crashed 30 miles off Asbury Park after engine trouble. Only 64 passengers and 10 crew were aboard from Idlewild to Caracas. 18 Americans and 2 crew among the dead. Coast Guard and Navy ships recovered bodies as the craft sank in 120 feet of water.
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New York
INS
Atlantic Ocean
Asbury Park
N. J
Caracas
Venezuela
Coastguard
Coast Guard
Idlewild
Robert Craig
Navy
Linea Aeropostal Venezolana
New Jersey
Atlantic
Ervin seeks halt on Negro admission to Florida law school
Florida Attorney General Richard W. Ervin asks the Florida Supreme Court to invoke states rights to block Virgil Hawkins from entering the University of Florida law school despite a U.S. Supreme Court ruling ordering immediate admission. The brief argues immediate desegregation would endanger public welfare and cites the Tenth Amendment. Hawkins has pressed for swift admission, with the next law school term due in September.
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Tallahasseep
Richard W. Ervin
Florida Supreme Court
University of Florida Law School
Ervin
U.S. Supreme Court
Virgil D Hawkins
Daytona Beach
U.S
Hawkins
University At
Gainesville
State Supreme Court
Horace Hill
Board of Control
Law School
Asst. Atty
Ralph Odom
Supreme Court of Florida
United States Supreme Court
Florida
Supreme Judicial Body
Minnie Mermaid Promises Scattered Showers Forecast
Minnie Mermaid offers a cheerful forecast saying after noon or evening showers would be widely scattered if they occur. In Sarasota the forecast is partly cloudy through Thursday with widely scattered afternoon showers and mild winds.
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Minnie Mermaid
Sarasota
Tito and Zhukov vow united front in future war
Soviet Defense Minister Georgi Zhukov told Yugoslav President Tito that the USSR and Yugoslavia will fight shoulder to shoulder in any future war. The Kremlin ceremony followed Tito's three week visit as both sides signed communiques on UN China, German unification, and Formosa.
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Moscow
Yugoslavia
Communist Party
Georgi Zhukov
Tito
Zhukov
Eisenhower
Kremlin
Russia
China
United Nations
Germany
Formosa
Red China
Guttner Enters Sarasota Tax Collector Race
John Guttner, a Sarasota Junior High math and science teacher and former Republican clerk candidate, filed for the Sarasota County Tax Collector on the GOP ticket. He aims to replace Mrs. Claudelle Huff Lee, who withdrew after marriage, and will face Democrat Charie Hagerman in November.
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John Guttner
Sarasota Junior High School
Sarasota County
Guttner
Charie Hagerman
Ike Pineau View Algerian Crisis at Walter Reed
President Eisenhower met with French Foreign Minister Christian Pineau in a hospital room conference at Walter Reed. Pineau said the President wanted his view on the Algerian situation and the French people's status there in the wake of the five minute meeting with Secretary Dulles.
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Washington
Ins
Eisenhower
Christian Pineau
Walter Reed Army Hospital
John Foster Dulles
Pineau
Banker's Son Kidnapped in Boston Then Escapes to New York
John Thomas Degnan Jr., 27, told how he was abducted in Boston and threatened with death during a staged ride to New York. He escaped at Central Park West after eight in the morning and led police to the two suspects, Robert Burns and William Cleary, both 21, from Waltham Mass. Burns had Degnan’s wallet and keys. Cleary reportedly carried a navy flare gun.
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INS
Today
Boston
John Thomas Degnan Jr
Robert D. Burns
William John Cleary
Waltham, Mass
Manhattan
West 100Th Street
Degnan
Central Park West
Norman Haimowitz
Burns and Cleary
Burns
Cleary
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Brownell Declares Truman Prosecutions Finished
Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr says the justice department has closed prosecutions of Truman era graft cases after convicting 70 Communists in three years and 116 percent rise in tax evasion convictions. He notes 17 suspended workers returned to office after a Supreme Court ruling and outlines faster federal trials and streamlined court calendars.
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Ruth Montgomery
INS
Washington
Truman
Matthew J. Connelly
Theron Lamar Caudle
Justice Department
Harry S. Truman
Herbert Brownell Jr
Farm Official Quits Under Fire
Robert B. MacLeaish resigns as Farmers Home administration head amid Senate Civil Service Committee probes into heavy drinking and high jinks among agency officials. Witnesses cite Montana party involving kissing of wives. Texas firm contract loss linked to political ties. MacLeaish cites hypertension and says resignation voluntary. President Eisenhower’s press secretary Hagerty states resignation will be accepted.
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Washington
Robert B. MacLeaish
Farmers Home
Senate
MacLeaish
Eisenhower Administration
Senate Civil Service Committee
Montana
Texas Insurance
Farmers Home Administration
Agriculture Department
Benson
Ike's Staff Kept In Dark
Washington report says President Eisenhower has given no White House staffer any hint on whether he will stay in the presidential race. Press secretary James C. Hagerty notes no plan to send a message to a Republican group meeting Friday to arrange the nominating convention in San Francisco August 20.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
James C. Hagety
San Francisco
Pilot recounts sinking of stranded Venezuelan airliner
Five crew aboard a Coast Guard rescue plane describe the dramatic crash as the Venezuelan airliner dove from 8 000 feet into the Atlantic. The pilot, attempting to jettison fuel, spoke calmly before a wing burst and the craft exploded in flame. Oil slick and wreckage marked the scene hours later.
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U.S. Coast Guard
Atlantic
Frederick J. Hancox
INS
Floyd Bennett Naval Air Station
N. Y
Floyd Bennett
Worst Air Tragedies Through 1955 Summary
The article lists major air disasters with high fatalities. It notes a United Air Lines crash near Laramie Wyoming in October 1955 killing 66, a world crash near Cardiff in 1950 with 80 deaths, and other deadly events including lake Michigan crashes in 1950, Elizabeth New Jersey 1951, Washington DC 1949, Tokyo 1953 and Washington state 1952. It compares civilian and military losses, highlighting the 1953 Cl124 disaster near Tokyo with 129 deaths as the greatest.
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Associated Press
United States
United Air Winds
Laramie
Wyo
Cardiff
Wales
Dublin
Ireland
New York
Minneapolis
Lake Michigan
Miami Airline, Inc
Elizabeth
Eastern Airlines
Washington, D. C
Tokyo
Washington State
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