Sheriff Quells San Antonio Jail Riot With Blazing Pistol
A Bexar County jail riot ended after Sheriff Owen W. Kilday fired 12 paraffin shells and five live rounds into a dark cell block. One prisoner Escobedo died from a stomach wound. two others, Galvino and Reyes, were wounded. The uprising began after convicts learned of solitary confinement for Johnny Crawford and Manuel Penlaver.
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San Antonio
Texas
U.P
Owen W. Kilday
Rodolfo Reyes
Galvino
Reyes
Bexar County
Kilday
Escobedo
Johnny Crawford
Manuel Penlaver
Compromise Housing Bill Passed as Congress Adjourns
The Democratic controlled Congress adjourned sine die after approving a compromise housing bill despite President Eisenhower’s objections. The House also settled pay raises for congressional staff and shelved sugar quotas. Foreign policy and defense measures largely favored the administration, while major domestic proposals faced delays or defeat.
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Washington
U.P
Congress
Eisenhower
House
E.D.T
Senate
Inlis
Lyndon B. Johnson
Johnson
William F. Knowland
G.O.P
Congress Achieved seven month session highlights
A year summary notes Formosa powers to president, three year trade law, four year draft extension, future active reserve program, tax extensions to next March, 45 000 public housing units, mortgage guarantees, pay raises for officials and workers, wage rise to 1 next March, Hawaii and Alaska statehood defeated, highways program proposals stalled, atomic ship and peace engine issues debated, fair price supports approved, social security age considerations for widows and disabled, and renewed efforts on school construction and natural gas regulation actions.
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Eisenhower
House
Senate
Formosa
U.S
Formosa Straits
Congress
Five Children Drown in Lake Kannapolis
Five young siblings and a cousin die after wading into a lake near Kannapolis North Carolina. Milton 11 Ronald 10 Ray 8 Janet 7 and Gloria Jean Ervin 6 drowned while Patricia Ervin 4 warned their father. Coroner cited a possible sudden drop into a deep hole in the lake.
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Kannapolis
N. C
Milton
Ronald
Ray
Janet Page
Houston Page
Gloria Jean Ervin
Vate Lake
Ervin
Patricia Ervin
Gloria
G. H. Brown
Indiana Traffic Toll Reaches 574 For August
Indiana's 1955 traffic deaths climbed to 574 last week with 15 more fatalities added. Police warned August is a peak accident month and noted July's low fatalities threatened by a mid summer rise.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Coke Prices Rise in Britain for Winter
London reports domestic coke will cost $4.20 more per ton next Monday, lifting average price to $52.89 per ton as coal prices had already risen last month.
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London
Britain
Weather forecast for Terre Haute and vicinity
Mostly fair hot and humid conditions with a chance of thunder showers this afternoon and Thursday afternoon. Low tonight around 72, high Thursday near 95. Indiana forecast similar with scattered afternoon thundershowers mainly in the south portion.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Weather Man's Tune: Heat Wave Sweeps Across States
Forecasters warned of continued hot weather with no relief for four to five days. Temperatures topped 100 in Iowa and California while New York and Chicago posted near record highs. The heat caused dozens of deaths in Iowa and accelerated nationwide heat records.
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Washington
U. S. Weather Bureau
Atlantic
Iowa
Chicago
Mercury
New York City
Paso Ables
Calif
Pierre
S. D
Marengo
Baltimore
Allentown
Deep South
46 New Polio Cases In Boston
Boston officials report 46 new polio cases statewide raising total this year to 602 with Boston accounting for 259 cases. Mayor John B. Hynes calls a meeting with state officials to discuss creating a pool of nurses physiotherapists and hospital resources to cope with the outbreak and potential emergency needs.
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Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
John B. Hynes
Leygate
State Health Department
Hynes
Boy 14 Drowns at Keystone Gravel Pit
Richard Wayne Ramseyer, 14, son of the Ramseyer family of Petroleum, drowned late Tuesday while swimming at a gravel pit pond with his brother in Keystone Indiana.
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Keystone
Ind
Richard Wayne Ramseyer
Alfred Ramseyers
Petroleum
Fires Leave 9000 South Vietnamese Refugees Homeless
In Saigon on August 3 the official news agency reported that 9,000 refugees from North Viet Nam have been made homeless by fires set last weekend in Phuoc Ly village, a camp housing 15,000 refugees, with arson suspected as the cause.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
North Viet Nam
Phuoc Ly
Bulgaria Names Suspects In Airliner Shootdown
Bulgaria admitted two its fighters shot down an Israeli airliner killing 58 and promised to punish those responsible. The government apologized for pilots rash action and offered indemnities to victims’ families and to Israel. The El Al plane, with 13 Americans aboard, exploded near the Greek border after ignoring signals to land.
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London
Bulgaria
Eaenanethia
Pceppvhdiviit
Israel
el al Israel Airlines
Greece
United States
Britain
Rockville Armory Work Is Ordered
Indiana Adjutant General announces a $190,000 National Guard armory to be built at Rockville this fall. Col. John W. McConnell says the facility will serve 200 men and double as a civic center.
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Indianapolis
Indiana Adjutant General's Office Today
Rockville
John W. McConnell
Infant Survives Train Accident in Iowa
Twenty month old Sandra Kay survived a train accident in Mason City Iowa after the locomotive and six cars passed over her. She was not touched by the wheels and her condition was described as good at a hospital.
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Mason City
Iowa
Sandra Kay
Dixon Stands Put On Earlier Probe Replies
Senate inquiries hear Edgar H. Dixon defend prior testimony on Dixon Yates contract despite charges of conflicts. Kefauver reads a long statement alleging issues in the executive's earlier testimony and questions Dixon about Adolphe Wenzell whose report President Eisenhower and Hoover had seen.
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Washington
Edgar H. Dixon
Senate
Dixon-Yates
Dixon
Estes Kefauver
D. Tenn
Daniel James
Adolphe H. Wenzell
First Boston Corp
Eisenhower
Hoover
Man Electrocuted At Adams County Fair
Marion McKean, 42, of Monroe, was electrocuted Tuesday when he touched a 7 500 volt high tension line while wiring at the Adams County 4H fair in Deatur Indiana.
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Atur
Ind
Marion McKean
Monroe
Adams County
Freed Airman's Wife Reveals Second Husband
SODA SPRINGS Calif Aug 3 The red haired wife of a modern mob Arden says she loves the man she married in the belief her husband to be freed Thursday by Red China was dead Mrs Una Schmidt 20 disclosed she married Alford D Fine a High Sierra lumberjack last September without divorcing her husband Daniel one of 11 US air men jailed by the Peiping regime as spies She faces a choice between her two marriages and the good Lord And she had a two year old child born after she learned her husband was shot down over North Korea
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Soda Springs
Calif
Arden
Una Schmidt
Alford D. Fine
High Sierra
Daniel
U.S
Peiping
North Korea
Schmidt
Doomsday Anniversary Looms At Nagasaki School Site
Nagasaki on Aug 3 recalls the Aug 9 1945 atomic bombing of Shiroyama Grade School that killed 1300 students and teachers. A new building stands on the site with a bronze schoolboy statue and two doves in the courtyard.
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Gene Kramer
Nagasaki
Shiroyama
Japan
Oppose A-Bomb Pulpits Teach Peace in Schools
A newspaper column notes efforts to inform pupils about the dangers of the atomic bomb and world peace. It mentions teachers guiding students to reflect seriously on world peace, with continuation on another page.
Geneva Parley Hints Time For Conference Outcome
Western diplomats tracking the Geneva talks said Peiping may win UN membership only after a genuine cease fire in the Formosa Strait and a proof of good faith toward Washington. They noted Secretary of State Dulles pressing China to renounce force, while civilian releases from Red China loom as a possible early agreement. Diplomats expect further talks between U S ambassador to Czechoslovakia Alexis Johnson and Red Chinese ambassador Wang Ping-nan to secure the civilian return within several sessions.
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Geneva
U.P
United States
China
Peiping
United Nations
Red China
Washington
Formosa Strait
John Foster Dulles
Formosa
Dulles
U.N
Chou En-lai
U. Alexis Johnson
U. S
Czechoslovakia
Wang Ping-nan
Poland
Freed Fliers Reported Near Hong Kong
Eleven American airmen freed by Communist China were reported to have reached Canton and will travel to Hong Kong by train. U S officials warned against delays while crews arrange interviews and reunions with families. Red Cross help arranged for telephone calls and cables to relatives in the United States.
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Hong Kong
China
Canton
U. S
Royal Observatory
Kwangtung
E.D.T
O'’Wighton D Simpson
Air Force
New Territories
Red China
Maj
Ralph Bryant
Far Eastern Air Force Information
Clark Field
Red Cross
Tokyo
Richard Tomlin
Santa Fe
N. M
United States
U.S
Driver Killed as Car Crashes Into Bridge Abutment
Gary Indiana reports James S. McLaughlin 16 of Evergreen Park Illinois died when his car apparently veered from sleep and struck a bridge abutment on U S Tuesday night. Injured were his sister Joan 16 Maurine K Fahey 17 Oak Lawn Illinois David J Kav a 17 Chicago and Stanley Davis 3% Worth.
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Gary
Ind
James S. McLaughlin
Evergreen Park
Ill
U. S
McLaughlin
Joan
Maurine K. Fahey
Oak Lawn
David J. Kava
Chicago
Stanley Davis
Worth
Rules Truck Driver Ends Own Life in New York
The body of Wilfred L. Hawley 31 a truck driver from Nappanee Indiana was found in a ditch near a tractor trailer west of Brocton New York Coroner Morse said he shot himself with a .22 caliber revolver Hawley appeared to stagger from the cab after firing striking himself in the heart Police found no motive for the shooting and the truck owned by Koppes Inc Nappanee was involved.
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Brocton
N. Y
Wilfred L. Hawley
Nappanee
Ind
U. S
Broceton
Theodore S&s. Morse
Hawley
Koppes, Inc
Cost Of Living Holds Level In June
The National Industrial Conference Board reports the all items index at 100.2 for June, unchanged from May and 0.1 percent below June 1954. One dollar had a purchasing power of 99.8 cents using 1953 base, and 54.9 cents using January 1939 as base.
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New York
National Industrial Conference Board
Princeton Boy Dies of Injuries After Accident
Indianapolis Aug 3 Freddie McFadden eight Princeton boy died in a hospital after being struck by an automobile in front of his home near Princeton on June 5. He never regained consciousness.
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Indianapolis
Freddie McFadden
Princeton
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