Isahaya Overwhelmed As 280 Dead In Kyushu Flood Surge
A violent Kyushu storm dumped 29 inches of rain in 24 hours flooding Isahaya and surrounding areas. Official counts listed 280 dead and 280+ missing or unaccounted, with 109 known injured and fears the toll could rise into the thousands. Rescue craft from Japan, the United States Navy, and U.S. Air Force aided efforts amid washed-out rail lines and closed highways.
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Tokyo
Japan
Meajor Island
Kyushu
Isahaya
Nagasaki
Omura
Isaharya
Isakaya
Isa
Governor Seeks Rain As Massachusetts Faces Drought
Governor Foster Furcolo appealed to residents to pray for rain amid a two month drought growing in alarming proportions. Archbishop Richard J. Cushing ordered priests to recite a rain prayer during daily Masses as water restrictions loom for about 20 million people in seven Boston area cities and towns.
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Boston
Massachusetts
Foster Furcolo
Richard J. Cushing
Slain Roommate in Burlingame Murder Revealed
Miss Catherine Elvins, 20, was beaten and stabbed in a Burlingame apartment. Her roommate Flaine Soule, 19, of Freeport New York admitted the killing and robbery motive saying she needed money for bills after Elvins received a 160 dollar check. The autopsy cited 26 blows and 20 stab wounds.
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Burlingame
Calif
Catherine Marie Elvins
Seattle
Attv
Keith Sorenson
Miss Elvins
Miss Soule
Paul B. Jensen
Partly cloudy and warmer. SI forecast
For Southern Illinois the outlook is partly cloudy and slightly warmer tonight and Saturday. Lows in the upper 60s tonight with a near 90 degree high near Hick Saturday. Saturday night low around 70. Yesterday’s high 86 and noon today 88. Crabon Orchard Lake 1 inch above spillway. Little Grassy Lake level near spillway.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
FTC to tighten rules on cigarette ad claims
The Federal Trade Commission seeks a tougher stance on cigarette advertising claims amid possible links between smoking and lung cancer. FTC Chairman Secrest said a survey will gauge consumer understanding to curb deceptive labeling and protect the public from misleading ads.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Robert T. Secrest
House
Public Health Service
Secrest
Commission
Blatnik
D-Minn
Surgeon General
Senate Draws Battle Lines On Jury Trial
Senator Russell led Southern opposition to the civil rights bill, vowing to use every weapon to defeat it unless a jury trial amendment is adopted. Republicans reported President Eisenhower wants the voting rights section approved with little change as the film debate nears a key vote on jury trials.
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Washington
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Eisenhower
Senate
Jeader
Dixie Forces
O’mahoney
D-Wye
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Knowland
California
White House
British Doctor Fined in England for Multiple Offenses
Lewes England July 26 AP Dr John Bodkin Adams was fined 2350 pounds about 6580 dollars for licencing lar ceny cremation forgery and dangerous drugs He pleaded guilty to 14 of 16 charges acquitted previously in London He denied two charges and the court dismissed them Adams was ordered to pay all prosecution costs The guilty counts include falsely claiming no pecuniary interest in wills of three patients for whom he signed cremation papers
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Lewes
England
John Bodkin Adams
London
Old Bailey Court
Adams
Reds Fight Subversion in China Government Drive
Red China said 175000 government workers in 61 departments are hunting nonconformists. The campaign targets those who criticized the Communist party, with many reportedly violating rules.
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Hong Kong
Red China
Jhat
Communist Party
SIU Trustees Approve $1 Million Payroll Boost and New Home Economics School
Southern Illinois University trustees approve a $1 million payroll increase and create the School of Home Economics. Eileen E. Quigley named dean. departments include Clothing and Textiles Adeline Holtman and Food and Nutrition Marion A. Wharton. SIU expands to five schools, two colleges and two divisions with new master’s degrees across multiple departments.
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Southern Ilinois University Board of Trustees
Eileen E. Quigley
Adeline Holtman
Marion A. Wharton
Betty Jane Johnston
Anna Carol Fulls
SIU
School of Agriculture
School of Communications
College of Education
School of Fine Arts
College of Liberal Arts and Sciences
Five Story Cairo Building Collapse Kills Sixty Three
A five story building collapsed during a wedding celebration in Cairo on Thursday night. Sixty three people were killed and thirty two injured including Fatima the veiled bride and her bridegroom Man sour Abdel Hamid who was seriously hurt. Police said the lower floors were over 70 years old and government orders to remove them were ignored.
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Cairo
Egypt
Fatima
Mansour Abdel Hamid
Missile Tests Create Barrier in New Arms Talks
London July 26 AP. Space missiles push a new barrier in U S disarmament talks as East and West split on ensuring space launched objects avoid warlike missions. Harold E Stassen urged a scientific committee to limit outer space research to peaceful purposes with work to begin within three months of a first stage agreement. Soviets studied the proposal but historically oppose new study committees and demand a halt to nuclear tests for two to three years.
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London
U. S
East
Harold E. Stassen
Valerian Zorin
Zorin
Five Vote Margin Kills Federal School Aid Bill
Rep. Augustine B Kelly of Pennsylvania pins defeat on President Eisenhower after a 208 203 vote to strike the enacting clause. The measure would have created a 1 billion federal school aid program tied to integration rules, but an anti segregation amendment doomed it and Republicans and Democrats split on responsibility.
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Washington
Augustine B. Kelly
Dpa
House
Eisenhower
Kelley
Rep
Frelinghuysen
R-N
McConnell
R-Pa
GOP
Congress
James C. Hagerty
White House
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
Wainwright
Supreme Court
Anne Wheaton
Clues Sought In Desert Search For Airliner Vanishing
In Victorville California investigators probe Mojave Desert wreckage to explain how S F Binstock vanished from a Western Airlines Convair after a loud bang 10 000 feet up. Federal officials weigh theories of explosion or structural failure as search teams recover debris and seek the missing jeweler.
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Victorville
Calif
Mojave
Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Nev
Binstock
Western Airlines
Convair
California
George Air Force Base
Here
FBI
SIU Approves Record Internal Budget for 1957 58
Southern Illinois University adopts a record internal budget of 13 416 923 for 1957 58 with 8 222 261 payroll and 282 155 library boost. Faculty salaries rise on merit, 60 new appointments, and new employee benefits rules approved.
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Southern Illinois University
SIU Board of Trustees
Als Jyuost
STU
Delyte W. Morris
SIU
Morris
William V. Connell
International Stapling Co
Herin
Williard A. Benson
Atomic Energy Commission
William W. Heusner
University of Minnesota
Colonel Gets Panama Post
The Army ordered Col. John C. Nickerson to a routine Panama Canal Zone post. He loses rank and command and will serve as an engineers facility inspector not connected to missiles or R and D. Nickerson was convicted by a Jedstone Arsenal court martial of violating security regulations by divulging secret information.
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Washington
Army
John C. Nickerson
Panama Canal Zone
Nickerson
Jedstone Arsenal
Huntsville
Ala
Japan Curbs Reds Travel Over Moscow Clampback
Japan restricts Soviet diplomatic travel in response to Moscow limits on Japanese. The action mirrors bilateral retaliation and highlights growing Cold War tension between Tokyo and Moscow involving diplomatic movement controls.
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Tokyo
Svwoviet
Japan
Moscow
Army helps run oil field amid unrest in Sumatra
The Indonesian government asked the army to assist in operating the Ticd North Sumatra oil field to counter Communist labor unrest as of July 26.
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South Jakarta
Ticd
North Sumatra
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Yasujiro Tachikawa
Chikara Imasato
Yoko Komori
Japanese Navy
Coast Guard
U. S. Navy
U. S. Air Force
FIC
S. F. Binstock
North Hollywood
Civil Aeronautics Board
Cugged
Ord
Air Force
Ike
Panama
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