Missing Wife's Bloodstained Auto Found
Kansas City August 5 AP police found a bloodstained 1955 convertible abandoned near 22nd and Broadway. Mrs Wilma Allen 34 wife of William Allen Jr an automobile dealer is missing since Thursday noon. Police theorize kidnapping and murder with robbery unlikely due to her small cash use. She has two sons Billy 11 and Bobby 8.
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Kansas City
Peece
Reoe
Wilma Allen
William Allen Jr
North Kansas
22Nd and Broadway
Union Station
Eugene Pond
Allen
Film Actors On TV Strike
Hollywood Aug 5 AP The actors singers and announcers who work on television entertainment films began a strike. SAG said members will not work on filmed shows except for five producers with new contracts. Dispute centers on residuals for second run pay and minimums rising from 70 to 82 for day players and 250 to 287.50 for weekly freelancers.
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Hollywood
Screen Actors Guild
Guild
Alliance of Television Film Producers
Association of Motion Picture Producers
Champaign Man Dies in 26th Floor Fall in Chicago
John E. Stark, 34, of Champaign Illinois, died after plunging from a 26 floor office building in Chicago. Police could not determine if he fell from a window or the roof.
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Champaign
Chicago
John E. Stark
Ill
Hot Humid Weather Forecast For Southern Illinois
The forecast calls for continued heat and humidity in southern Illinois with partly cloudy skies. Tonight and Saturday remain hot with lows in the mid 70s and highs around 95. Yesterday reached a high of 95 with a low of 66, and evening readings showed 84 at 6 pm. Sunrise is 5:05 pm and sunset 7:06 pm. Crab Orchard Lake spillway and Lake State spillway noted.
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Olinois
Eisenhower to Offer Reds New Arms Inspection Plan
President Eisenhower plans to press Russia with a new disarmament inspection proposal as Bulganin rejects sharing military blueprints and aerial surveys. Ike warns UN branded Red China blocks recognition while Russia favors its own plan but may consider others. Bulganin says Moscow will study exchange of information and mutual aerial inspection.
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Reds
Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
Bulganin
Soviet Union
U. S
Red China
United Nations
North Korea
Moscow
Supreme Soviet
Soviet Russia
Geneva
Connie Becomes First Major Atlantic Hurricane of Year
Connie, a dangerous hurricane with 125 mph winds, nears the Leeward Islands and Puerto Rico under hurricane alert. Warnings stretch to the Leeward islands and Virgin Islands as forecasters expect continued west to west-northwest movement for 6 to 12 hours with possible intensity increase. It remains too distant to predict U S mainland impact.
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Miami
Fla
Leeward Islands
Puerto Rico
Weather Bureau
Leeward Chain
Virgin Islands
Florida
Connie
U. S
Typhoon Heads Toward Formosa 700 Miles Southeast
The Weather Bureau warned ships to avoid a medium force typhoon moving toward Formosa. The storm lay about 700 miles southeast of Formosa with a projected approach note issued today by the agency.
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Taipei
Formosa
Weather Bureau
Gypsy Girl Says She Was Sold By Father
A 15-year-old girl told police she was kidnapped by gypsies and forced into their wandering carnival life before claiming she was sold by her father for 2000 dollars. The girl named her parents as Mr and Mrs Mike Toney of New York. police pursued leads but could not locate them. Sheriff Lonnie Cooper held the girl overnight and planned further checks before deciding on action.
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Jonesboro
Ark
Chicago
Ruby Toney
Lonnie Cooper
Mike Toney
New York
Cooper
Gusses
Stinkex Puzzle Entries Bring In Over Two Thousand for Prize
Puzzles for No. 43 drew slightly more than 2 670 entrants by noon today as aba fans submitted on back of cards. Prize pays winners ten percent extra.
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Aba
Pilot Sacrifices Landing Bid as 30 Die in Crash
A Convair crash near Fort Leonard Wood Missouri kills all 30 aboard after Capt Hugh Barron Tulsa Oklahoma twice tried to land crippled airliner. Eyewitnesses report flames, exploding engines, and a low final approach over Lieb er Heights. The 27 passengers and three crew included eight women two children and a Maryknoll priest. Barron previously saved 40 lives during a November emergency landing at Midway/Glenview.
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Ft. Leonard Wood
American Airlines
Mons
A. J. Brewster
Hugh Barron
Tulsa
Okla
Convair
Forney Ai
Athena
Lieber Heights
Pvt
Beverly Streeter
Asbury Park
N. J
Lebanon
George L. Krock
Maryknoll
N. Y
Barron
Chicago
Midway Airport
Glenview Naval Air Station
Sunburn Treatment Fatal Seaside Holiday Ends in Tragedy
Richard J. Banner, 32, died from an aspirin overdose after taking pills to ease sunburn pain during a seaside holiday. The coroner ruled the death an accident.
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Richard J. Banner
Banner
Americans Released From China In Hong Kong Parade
Eleven U S airmen who were held in China pose in new uniforms on the steps of Fan Ling County Club in Hong Kong shortly after their release. The group includes majors and captains from Maryland to California, with a mix of hometowns and ranks.
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Fan Ling County Club
Hong Kong
John Arn
Yank Airmen Reach Tokyo After 30 Months in Communist Prisons
Eleven U S airmen freed from Red China prisons arrived in Tokyo on their way home from peiping and hong kong. They denounced the charges of spying and will undergo medical checks before returning to the United States via the Alaska route.
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U. S
Manila
Hong Kong
Douglas MacArthur
Bataan
Lawrence S. Kuter
Far East Air Forces
FEAF
Japan
United States
Alaska
McChord Air Force Base
Wash
Red Cross
Airman
C. Daniel ©. Schmidt
Redding
Calif
Schmidt
John Knox Arnold Jr
Silver Spring
Sea Air Forces Headquarters
Arnold
Red China
China
Oil Executive Removed From Interior Post
Oil company official was removed from a Interior Department advisory group on foreign oil supplies as part of a probe into unpaid government jobs held by businessmen. The House subcommittee noted three other businessmen found in improper \"loan\" positions during the Eisenhower era and corrected voluntarily.
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Washington
Stanley N. Barnes
House Judiciary Subcommittee
Oil Company
Interior Department
Barnes
Philip Young
The
Civil Service Commission
Civil Service Ission
Girl in coma to celebrate 3rd birthday in Park Ridge party
Debbie Ann Hadfield, aged 3, has slept since November from sleeping sickness. In her Park Ridge home, her mother Jean Hadfield arranged an informal party with ice cream and cake hoping the sound of friends might reach her in the semi conscious state. Doctors released her from Billings Hospital in Chicago to continue care at home.
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Debbie
Billings Hospital
Chicago
Jean Hadfield
Fumes Fells 89 Workers at Burbank Plant
Noxious fumes sickened 89 workers, mostly women, at the Advance Electric and Relay Co plant in Burbank. Seventeen remained in hospital, others sent home after treatment as doctors expect full recovery. Fumes spread from iso amyl alcohol used for cleaning.
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Burbank
Calif
Electric Company
Advance Electric and Relay Co
Jean Merner
Women’s Adarsh Sabha Urges Ads Against Display
The Adarsh Mahila Sabha urged businessmen to stop displaying women’s clothing in advertisements calendars and other commercial displays. They called the portrayal an insult to purity simplicity and sacrifice and framed the appeal in New Delhi on August 5.
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New Delhi
Adarsh Mahila Sabha
Cadet Landy Denied Naval Reserve Commission Over Mother’s Communist Ties
Kings Point N Y Aug 5 AP honor graduate Eugene W Landy 21 denied a naval reserve commission over his mother’s former Communist party membership. He will graduate with top honors and receive a Bachelor of Science degree and merchant marine officer qualification. The academy cited a Navy order barring commissions without a counterstatement. Landy plans to study admiralty law at Yale.
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Eisenhower
W. W. White
Defense Department
Esso Export Corp
Sen. Neely
D-Wva
White
Kings Point
N. Y
U.S. Merchant Marine Academy
Communist Party
Naval Reserve Commission
Eugene W. Landy
New Jersey
Par
Gordon McLintock
Landy
Naval Reserve
Navy
the Daughters of the American Revolution
Academy
Russian War Relief
Surance
Reds
New York City
3Rd Naval District
Yale University
Admiralty Law
House Blast Fatal Bloomington Battle Aug. 5
An explosion heavily damaged the Glenn Miller home near Bloomington injuring five and killing a house occupant. Miller, a 45 year old jeweler from Downs, and his family survived with injuries. Nanty Miller, 16, cut her arm escaping through a broken window to lead siblings to safety. Cause of blast unknown at this time.
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Glenn Miller
Downs
Miller
Nanty
Trains Collide At Ashmore Near Charleston
Twelve cars of two New York Central freight trains derailed in a crash at Ashmore eight miles east of Charleston at 4 30 a m. Officials suspect a brake beam caused derailment as eastbound train at 22 mph struck a westbound train at 5 mph. No injuries reported. Track torn up. traffic rerouted via Pennsylvania lines. Wrecking crews from Mattoon Illinois and Terre Haute Indiana worked to clear the right of way. most wreckage cleared by 11 a m. today.
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New York Central System
Ashmore
Charleston
Mattoon
Terre Haute
Ind
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