Navy Jet Crashes Near Jefferson Killing Two Airmen
A Navy training jet crashed in a Jefferson County cornfield about 15 miles east of Centralia at 4:15 PM local time, killing two Glenview Naval Air Station personnel aboard. Witnesses reported a blast in the air, then a fiery crash with wreckage strewn over a quarter mile. State police found a flight plan confirming Glenview origin. no Navy confirmation yet.
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Navy
Centralia
Glenview Naval Air Station
Chicago
Jefferson County
Kell
Marion
Glenview
Naval Air Station
Diane Now Rainstorm Brings Moderate Winds to Mid Atlantic
Diane the hurricane moved north from the Carolinas into Virginia and West Virginia with winds dropping from near 100 mph to 20 35 mph. It caused high tides and flooding in northeastern North Carolina and damaged crops in Virginia while beaches saw wave damage. South Carolina damage described as practically negligible.
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Richmond
Diane
Virginia
West Virginia
Pennsylvania
Southside
Weather Bureau
Carolinas
North Carolina
Washington, N.C
Pamlico River
Edenton
Hertford
Elizabeth City
N. C
Wrightsville
Carolina
Kure
Atlantic
South Carolina
Landslide Buries Family in Vermont Killings
In Jonesville Vermont a family of three, David Cutter and his wife Elsie about 40, and their daughter Patricia aged 3, were killed when heavy rain caused a bank washout along the Winooski River and an embankment collapsed burying them.
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Jonesville
David Cutter
Elsie
Patricia
Winooski River
Lana Turner Injured in Acapulco Bath Tub Fall
Actress Lana Turner suffered a concussion after a bath tub fall in Acapulco Mexico last week, disclosed by her studio. The report notes the injury occurred while she was filming and outlines no further condition details.
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Lana Turner
Hollywood
Acapulco
Mex
Weather and lake level Readings at Crab Orchard and Little Grassy
The report notes temperatures from yesterday and today with highs near 91 and clear conditions. It lists lake levels at Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake, both 5 to 6 inches below spillway as of today, plus sunrise and sunset times.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Miners Welfare Fund Posts 103 Million Balance Rise
United Mine Workers chief John L. Lewis announced the welfare and retirement fund grew over 10 percent to a June 30 1955 cash balance of 103,607,911. Revenue reached 129,227,658 with 119,184,791 in expenditures, largely from royalties under labor agreements.
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Washington
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW Welfare and Retirement Fund
Lewis
Welfare and Retirement Fund
Girl 7 Dies After Swallowing Pennies in Copper Fatality
In Waltham Massachusetts Judith K Hamilton 7 died after swallowing pennies two weeks earlier. Medical examiner T Morton Gallagher cites stomach and throat inflammation worsened by copper in the coins. The girl hid the act until X rays revealed the pennies last Friday.
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Judith K. Hamilton
T. Morton Gallagher
Great Meadow Prison Revolt Suppressed in New York
Guards and state police used night sticks and guns to end a 26 minute uprising at Great Meadow Correctional Institute in Comstock on Aug 18. Eighteen injured along with two troopers and a guard from a stray shot. 174 rebels returned to cells. Headed by McHugh, officials cited contagion from a Nebraska revolt and a five minute ultimatum given but not met.
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Comstock
N Y
Great Meadow Correctional Institute
New York
Thomas J. McHugh
McHugh
Canton
Joseph Conboy
Conboy
Nebraska Penitentiary
Actor Manson Refuses to Admit Communist Ties at HUAC Hearing
Alan Manson 36 born Brooklyn testifies before HUAC in New York and refuses to answer whether he was a Communist party member. He joins George Hall in balking at questions as the inquiry probes show business ties. Manson says work scarce since 1946 and mostly summer stock. Keane, named by Hall as a former Communist, cites amendments and denounces the hearing as an inquisition while defending patriotism.
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Alan Manson
Communist Party
House Un-American ‘Acivilities Committee
Manson
George Hall
Brooklyn
Hall
Madeline Lee
Jack Guilford
George Keane
Keane
Francis E. Walter
Hodge to Seek Re election as Illinois Auditor at GOP Rally
Springfield Aug 18 AP State Auditor Orville E Hodge announced at an Illinois Republican rally that he plans to run again for auditor of public accounts next year The Governor's Day event drew 5 000 to 6 000 Republicans with Gov Stratton and U S Sen Dirksen leading speakers Dirksen touted a peaceful peacetime economy and enforcement of laws while Stratton praised progress and called for a continued Republican leadership 95 000 attended the livestock judging peak at the fairgrounds
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Springfield
Orville E. Hodge
Fairgrounds
Hodge
Stratton
U. S
Everett M. Dirk
Auditor of Public Accounts
Dirksen
Ople
Poderec
Chicago
Apparent Scholar Well Prepared For Opening Of School
Police arrested a 13 year old boy after a Sunday burglary at an advertising firm. He admitted taking 1500 pencils and told officers he planned to start pretty soon. The incident occurred in Dallas Texas on August 18 with AP reporting.
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Dallas
Tex
Mop To Replace Swab But Sailors Will Still Have To Push It
Norfolk reports the deck swab will become a mop after October 1 under a new federal stock number system. The change aims to unify allied forces descriptions and simplify purchasing and distribution at the Norfolk Naval Supply Center, affecting about 50 000 general items.
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Norfolk
Norfolk Naval
Polio Cases Rise in Week as Massachusetts Sees Jump
The Public Health Service reported 1,781 new polio cases last week with no reports from Vermont and Wyoming. Massachusetts saw a 30 percent rise with Boston tallying 114 cases, up from 84, while the overall total was 26 percent higher than the corrected prior week and 6 percent below the 1954 week.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Vermont
Wyoming
Massachusetts
Boston
Davy Crockett Land In Tennessee Offered At $1 A Square Inch
An acre near the birthplace of Davy Crockett is offered for sale at one dollar per square inch by New Frontiers Inc a Florida promotion group. Courthouse records show Joe Garrett Jr of Miami bought the acre for six thousand dollars. If every square inch sold gross would reach two million three hundred fifty two thousand two hundred forty dollars. The deed restricts each square inch to residential use.
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Davy Crockett
New Frontiers, Inc
Florida
Joe Garrett Jr
Miami
New PW Code Emphasizes Endurance Under Interrogation
A newly issued military code urges all captured servicemen to withstand pressure to reveal information while avoiding disloyalty. Based on Korean War lessons, it promotes high endurance, obedience to prison leadership, and no sign of surrender, with emphasis on training from home to combat readiness.
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Washington
Eisenhower
John E. Hull
Hull
Far East
U N Command Admits Plane Intruded Over DMZ
Panmunjom August 18 AP U N Command says an unarmed American trainer was shot down by North Korean antiaircraft fire over the demilitarized zone while performing a routine training flight from Kimpo Air Base The incident marks the 10th time in ten months that unarmed aircraft were fired upon by Reds according to Maj Gen Harlan C Parks A sixth line cut for brevity.
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Panmunjom
Korea
U.N. Command
Demilitarized Zone
North Seas
Harlan C. Parks
Military Armistice Commission
Parks
Air Force
Kimpo
Seoul
U. S
Reds
Nehru cites 22 dead in Goa march outcome
Prime Minister Nehru told Parliament the Goa march and other confrontations led to 22 deaths and 225 wounded with two missing. He described the action as a peaceful invasion of Portuguese India and noted continued resistance to Portugal’s holdings.
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Nehru
Goa
India
Portugal
Ryan, Longshoremen’s Head Indicted by U S
Joseph P. Ryan, 71, former president emeritus of the International Longshoremen's Assn. Ind, was indicted by a federal grand jury on charges of evading payment of 32,777 dollars in income taxes from 1949 through 1952. Ryan led the ILA for 25 years, resigning in 1953 and serving as president emeritus at 10,000 dollars annually.
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Joseph P. Ryan
The
International Longshoremen’s Assn
Ind
Ryan
ILA
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