Taishan Buildup and Matsu Island Threats Escalate
Taishan Islands fortified amid three days of Nationalist air attacks with a second Communist buildup along Fukien coast opposite Matsu. Nationalists establish 26 civil air defense centers to plan casualty minimization. Reports note naval and air strikes sinking and damaging several vessels, with Nanchishan fortified by about 5,000 troops and located near Formosa, Tachen Islands nearby evacuated with U. S. Seventh Fleet support.
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Taipei
Formosa
Taishan Islands
Nanchishan
Fukien
Matsu Islands
Defense Ministry
Information Service
Taishan Group
Taishans
Air Case
Nanchisan
Tachen Islands
U. S. 7Th Fleet
Impatient Bus Patron Takes Transportation Into His Own Hands
Chicago February 21 AP James E Burns a 19 year old accounts ant tired of waiting in the rain walked to a CTA depot and climbed into a parked bus driving off Police stopped him with a warning shot after Burns fled on foot He is held for questioning.
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Chicago
James E. Burns
Burns
Chicago Transit Authority
CTA
Six Children Die In Farmhouse Fire Near Here
Six children of a Negro tenant farm family died when a fire caused by an explosion destroyed their four room house a mile southwest of here. The children were Florence 15 Jesse 13 Alberta 10 Mildred 7 Robert 5 and Henry 2. The mother Mrs Galloway 38 and infant Ed mund were in critical condition at St Marys Hospital Cairo Illinois. Father Willie Galloway 48 was burned seriously and said Jesse woke to build a fire that led to kerosene exploding the stove and igniting the home.
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Here
Willie Galloway
Florence
Jesse
Alberta
Mildred
Robert
Henry
Galloway
Edmund
St. Mary’s Hospital
Cairo
Ill
Mississippi River
Robles
Two Tots Die In Salem Blast
A pre-dawn explosion and fire in Salem destroyed a five room house. Two children Bren da Pranch aged 10 and Jerry aged 7 died. Parents Leonard and Mrs Branch and three sisters were burned but survived enough to rescue three children. Firemen traced the blast to a gas line leak.
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Salem
Brenda Pranch
Jerry
Leonard Branch
UN accuses Communists of MIG buildup in Korea
At Panmunjom the United Nations Command charged North Korea with expanding MIG strength in the border area since the armistice. Maj. Gen. Leslie D. Carter cited the Feb 5 attack on an RB45 jet as evidence of rising Red air activity, while Lt. Gen. Lee Sang Cho dismissed the charges as baseless.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations Command
North Korea
Leslie D. Carter
Korean Military Armistice Commission
Commission
Carter
Lee Sang Cho
U. N
Lee
Los Angeles Hit by a Sharp Early Morning Earthquake
A single earthquake shock woke many residents in the west and southwest Los Angeles area early today. No damage was reported and there were no injuries.
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Los Angeles
Plains States Storm Shifts Into Canada
A blizzard from the Great Plains moved into Canada leaving deep snowdrifts up to 12 feet in Nebraska and stranding hundreds across Manitoba. In the U S several states reported fatalities and closures while Denver and Winnipeg logged frigid conditions and heavy snow.
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Associated Press
The
Weather Bureau
Great Plains
Canada
Nebraska
Manitoba
Winnipeg
Colorado
Utah
Montana
Wyoming
Red River
North Dakota
Dakotas
Denver
Sailors Die in Submarine Pompdon Blast at San Francisco Yard
Two sailors were killed and three others missing after a battery explosion and fire aboard the submarine Pompdon at San Francisco Naval Shipyard. Four sailors were seriously injured and two civilian rescuers hospitalized for gas exposure. The forward battery room sparked the blaze four hours after the initial blast as the vessel awaited sea trials after overhaul.
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Pompdon
San Francisco Naval Shipyard
Navy
Oak Knoll Hospital
Bobbie D. Pulliam
Marine Memorial Hospital
Howard F. Swift
South San Francisco
Robert E. Williams
Oakland
Calif
Austin R. Doyle
12Th Naval District
Philippine Sea
Mediator Seeks Meeting In Sangamo Strike
A federal mediator said he will call in both Sangamo Electric and IAM representatives to arrange a new negotiations session in the 12 day long strike at Sangamo Electric in Ordill. Mediator A M Okene was asked last month to mediate. No rentals have been held since last Monday. The walkout began as a wildcat action on Feb 10 and the IAM workers total more than 900.
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Sangamo Electric
Ordill
A. M. N. Okene
International Association of Machinists
They Got Him Dead After Harlem Gun Battle
A gunman August Robles died after a 90 minute chase through East Harlem streets. Police with 200 officers cornered him in a 112th Street tenement, engaging in a fierce gun battle that ended with Robles dead on a bedroom floor.
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Scrueby August Robles
East Harlem
August Robles
Jurcival
East 112 St
Robles
Colosseum
Lind
Desperado
112Th Street
Park Avenue
Simon
Jealous Lover Slays 3 and Kills Self in Atlanta
In Atlanta a jealous lover shot three people dead and then killed himself. Victims include former Georgia legislator John Verlyn Booth, 49, and shoe salesman Ira D. Lane, 49, with Mrs Ella Warren, 39, dying at a northeast Atlanta home. One woman, Anna Padgett Cone, widow of Chattanooga, seriously injured.
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Atlanta
Georgia
John Verlyn Booth
Georgia House of Representatives
Fulton County
Richard Russell
Booth
E. O. Mullins
L. T. Bullard
Alton Nix Treadway
Ella Warren
Ira D. Lane
Chattanooga
Tenn
Lane
Anna Padgett Cone
Mullins
Treadway
Truman Says U.N. Only Hope For World Peace
Former President Truman told dedicatory ceremonies for a National Guard armory in Maryville Missouri that the United Nations is the only hope for lasting world peace and that the United States must fulfill its obligations to the UN, with force if necessary, noting America's 1920 League of Nations lapse.
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Maryville
Harry S. Truman
United Nations
League of Nations
United States
Truman
National Guard
Headon Crash Fatal To 7 In Texas Family Among Victims
Seven people died in a head on crash on a three lane highway near Kingsville Texas three miles north of town in Mesquite County. Four family members were among the dead and three others were seriously hurt including a severely injured boy. Police find no clear cause for the collision.
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Kingsville
Tex
Headon
South
Texas
Mesquite Co
King of Five
Ater Ge
Four Bodies Found After Sandia Mountain Plane Crash
A search team reported four bodies found near a rock pinnacle in the Sandia Mountains after a Trans World Airliner crashed Saturday with 16 aboard. The wreckage was located on the cliff rimmed west face above Kirtland Field in Albuquerque, with rescue teams starting removal efforts at dawn and pack animals to assist.
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Sandia Mountains
Trans World
Kirtland Field
Albuquerque
Baltimore
James Bixler
Carco Air Ice
Free Thai Troops In Border Move Looms In Red China Tension
Bangkok reports Prime Minister Pibulsonggram warned 20 000 free Thai troops massed near Yunan Province of Red China threaten invasion. He said Pridi Phanomyong leads the force as SEA defense talks in Manila stress unity to curb Communist aggression and maintain peace in the region.
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Bangkok
Pibulsonggram
Yunan
Red China
Thailand
Southeast Asia Defense Treaty Organization
Pibul
Pridi Phanomyong
United States
United Kingdom
Philippines
Pakistan
New Zealand
France
Australia
Family Straws Decide Which Child Stays With Parents
Iris MacFarlane 4 chooses winner in Burling ton Ontario after a straw drawing to decide which of her children will remain with their parents. Three other children will live with family friends who volunteered to help. The mother Iris MacFarlane says there wasn't enough money to support all the children. The father William is crippled in an auto accident and doctors say he will not walk for three more months.
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Iris MacFarlane
Mom
Burlington
Ont
William
Workmen Say TVA Violated Layoff Rules
Paducah Kentucky February 21 1956 union officials claim the Tennessee Valley Authority violated layoff procedures at the Shawnee steam plant delaying the work by forcing 1002 idle workers from a 1108 crew. TVA acknowledged a reversed layoff order due to instrument men training needs.
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Paducah
Here
Union of
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Completon
Jobless Man Kills 4 and Then Takes His Own Life
In Uniontown Pennsylvania an unemployed steelworker, Robert Miller aged 42, killed his wife Helen 47 and daughter Dolores 17, along with two men, before shooting himself. Police sought motive as bodies were found in a coal cellar after a tavern report from Anthony Rivak 34.
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Uniontown
Robert Miller
Miller
Helen
Dolores
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