Anaconda Reveals Plans as Hurricane Diane Heads for Mainland
Hurricane Diane, the fourth tropical storm, moves toward the Georgia South Carolina coast with 115 mph winds. Forecasters mark hurricane warnings for Georgia, South Carolina, and parts of North Carolina as advisories prepare to issue.
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Miami
Fla
Georgia
South Carolina
Diane
Cecil Gentry
North Carolina
Florida
Gentry
Jacksonville
Connie
Atlantic
Virginia
Death by self in Sullivan Jail after DWI arrest
Michael Kuci 62 of Jackson Hill hanged himself with a belt in the Sullivan County jail early Sunday after a Saturday arrest for driving while intoxicated on U. S. 41 near Mary Sherman Hospital. The body was found about 7 30 a m by Sheriff Harold Conner. Surviving are his wife Euelah a stepdaughter Janie Sgtani of Manchester Tenn and two
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Sullivan
Ind
Michael Kuci
Jackson Hill
Sullivan County
U. S. Highway 41
Mary Sherman Hospital
Harold Conner
Burel Huff
McHugh
Shelburn
Indianapolis
Euelah
Janie Sgtani
Manchester
Tenn
Two Youths Arrested for Check Fraud in Seneca County
Chief of Detectives Willard Gantz announced that Gene Allen Carrick 18 of Caruthers and Louis Thomas Brown 21 of Bloomville admitted passing worthless checks. They were arrested by Police Officers Melvin Cardinal and Martin and will be turned over to Ohio authorities. Brown is also wanted for passing fraudulent checks after escaping from an officer in Tiffany.
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Willard Gantz
Seneca County
Ohio
Gantz
Gene Allen Carrick
Carruthers
Louis Thomas Brown
Bloomville
George Maloof
Tiffany
Brown
Carrick
Melvin, Cardinal
Martin
Weather Forecast Brief for Berean
Mostly fair conditions expected at noon with calm to light winds. Sunrise at 6 02 and river stage noted as rising slightly.
Weather Forecast for Terre Haute and Vicinity
Mostly fair tonight and Tuesday with low of 6 and high of 5. Wednesday outlook calls for mostly fair and warm conditions. Indiana part is partly cloudy with little temp change. low tonight 5 to 6 and high Tuesday 5 to 6. Temperature at street thermometer 57 at 2 p.m.
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Terre Ewaute
Indiana
Circle Strikers Overturn Cars In New Riot
About 100 to 150 strikers and sympathizers rushed Perfect Circle's New Castle foundry, overturning four cars after a bus was stoned outside. One officer and several workers injured, nine arrested on contempt charges. Union figures and company officials clash over injunctions and wages.
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New Castle
Ind
Perfect Circle
Randolph
Hall
Fred Sumpter
Perfect Circle Corp
Chesley Judy
Indianapolis
Muncie
Kentucky
Carl Batchfield
C.il.0
United Auto Workers
Richard Shoptow
Alva Harrison
Joe Lowery
Wendell Reagan
Harry Ridout
Loren Ashberry
Charles W. Stephens
Batchfield
C.so. United Auto Workers
Richmond
Hagerstown
Richeee Saas
Sullivan Youths Honored for Saving Livestock
Keith Deckard and Carolyn Deckard of Sullivan Indiana were cited by the American Veterinary Medical Association for saving 100 sheep and 6 pigs from a barn fire and sprinkling another building with a garden hose until fire crews arrived. They were among 25 youths recognized at the association convention for acts of kindness to animals.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Kieth
Carolyn Deckard
Sullivan
Ind
American Veterinary Medical Association
Carolyn
Rhee presses bid to oust red truce inspectors
In Seoul President Syngman Rhee declares determination to force out U S guarded Communist truce inspectors calling them spies. General Lyman Lemnitzer returns to Korea as mobs again demand Polish and Czech team removal. Rhee urges restraint but vows to continue action until the Foreign observers are expelled.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S. Far East
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Bottern
South Korea
Syngman Rhee
Lemnitzer
Far East
Japan
Republic of Korea
Rhee
Fair and Warmer Weather Forecast After Connie Passes
Indiana clears after hurricane Connie with winds and showers fading. Weather Bureau predicts highs of 85 to 88 and lows 60 to 64, with Sunday highs from 74 to 87 across Fort Wayne to Evansville. Outlook for Wednesday is mostly fair and warm.
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Indiana
Weather Bureau
Fort Wayne
Evansville
Indianapolis
South Bend
Officials Seek Identity of Body in Box Car
Decatur Indiana August 15 state police sought the identity of a man found dead in a box car at the Nickel Plate Railroad yard over the weekend. Authorities said the man had been dead for several days.
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Decatur
Ind
Nickel Plate
Crowds Pack Vigo County Fair Opener
Vigo County Fair opened for an eight day run with heavy Sunday attendance. Judges awarded about 1,500 prizes since judging began Friday including 4-H and women’s department exhibits. Tonight Jose Chitwood and his auto daredevils perform, and the 4-H Club Chorus appears at the grandstand. Tuesday is Children’s Day with free admission for under 12 and a children’s western horse show at 10 in front of the horse barn.
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Vigo County
Jose Chitwood
Kenneth Hazledine
Jim Austin
Millard Francis
Paul Finkbiner
Jack Capps
Man Accused of Driving on O Hare Runway
Joseph F Balaja aged 63 was speeding on a clear Chicago road when US Air Force police pursued him Sunday He said he was lost and a stranger told him to turn left. he did not know he was driving on the runway of the O Hare Air Force Base field.
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Chicago
Joseph F. Balaja
Balaja
U.S. Air Force
O'Hare Air Force Base Field
Today and Tomorrow at the Fair Tonight and Tomorrow
Vigo County 4 H Girls Chorus at 7 45 P M Joie Chitwood World Champion Daredevils at 8 P M Judging events cover 4 H and open classes including poultry beef sheep with dress review divisions I VII Free gate for children Rides start 6 P M Farm equipment and horse shows in morning Parade and Stars on Parade conclude the day
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Vigo County
4-H Girls
Joie Chitwood
Daredevils
Tribune - Star Tournament of Music
Camp Workers to be Questioned in Scout Death
Authorities planned to question ten camp employees at Camp Wabaningo in Muskegon Michigan in the search for a sex pervert who killed 12 year old Peter Gorham. Gorham's mutilated body was found in a swamp ten miles north of the camp after he had been missing since July 5.
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Muskegon
Mich
Peter Gorham
Wabaningo
Here
Axel E. Pederson
Michigan
Illinois
Evanston
Ill
Lester Hunt
Indiana Traffic Deaths Rise In Rural Roads In First Half 1955
Indiana state police report 389 people died on rural roads and highways in the first six months of 1955, up 11 from 378 in the same period of 1954, while urban street deaths fell from 109 to 108. The six month statewide total rose to 497 from 487, with August 7 totals showing 601 for 1955 and 604 for 1954.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Plane Missing With Six Aboard From Rocky Lake to Regina
An Imperial Oil Co. aircraft with six people aboard was reported missing early today after departing Saturday night from Rocky Lake, Saskatchewan, bound for Regina.
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Imperial Oil Co
Rocky Lake
Regina
Saskatchewan
Cayuga Girl Faces Murder Trial In Juarez
Patricia McClellan Arthur an 18 year old from Cayuga Ind is held in Juarez jail charged with the fatal shooting of Albert J Arreola a 24 year old El Paso police officer. She says the shooting was an accident. An early trial is expected though local political shakeups may cause a delay.
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Juarez
Mex
Cayuga
Ind
Patricia McClellan Arthur
Albert J. Arreola
el Paso
Arthur
Kenneth McClellan
S. B
Bill) Isbell
Louisville
Juarez Crystal Palace
Marcelino Lastra
Jack Niland
Chihuahua
Steto Maynez
Mexico
Boy 15 Survives Half Mile in Water Pipe
A 15 year old boy from Torrance California survived a half mile swept through a 36 inch underground pipe after swimming near a flood control dam. Accompanied youths directed rescuers to the spillway outfall where picnickers revived him with artificial respiration.
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Corona
Calif
Mike Elliott
Torrance
Mike
Elliott
Actor Tyne Refuses to Answer Questions on Communist Ties
Broadway star George Tyne refused to answer House Un American Activities questions about Communist Party membership. He said he would not invoke the Fifth Amendment and warned he could face contempt citations. The subcommittee opened three days of hearings with 27 witnesses called.
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New York
George Tyne
House Un-American Activities Subcommittee
Francis E. Walter
D. Pa
Tyne
Giant aluminum plants announced for Montana and Indiana
Anaconda Aluminum Co opens a 65 million dollar primary aluminum plant at Columbia Falls Montana and announces a 25 million dollar American Brass Company aluminum mill to be built in Terre Haute Indiana. The Terre Haute site will begin soil tests in July with operations planned for late 1956 and capacity targets of 120 million pounds per year by 1956. About 450 workers will be employed at full production. Ongoing output will include ingots billets sheet and strip extrusion of tubes rods and shapes. Raw material is 120000 tons of Jamaica mined alumina per year.
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Great Falls, Mont
Anaconda Aluminum Co
Anaconda Aluminum Company
Terre Haute
Anaconda Copper Company
Columbia Falls
Mont
American Brass Company
Montana Falls
Ind
Torrington, Conn
Caples
Russel B. Caples
Anaconda
Jamaica
B.W.I. Alumina
Rioting Convicts at Washington Prison Surrender and Release Hostages
Walla Walla Washington August 15 twelve rioting convicts surrendered and released ten hostages after Warden Lawrence Delmore Jr backed by armed guards threatened them. The inmates initially seized 11 guards at 10 15 p m during dinner and freed one, Gerald Lehan, with demands. Guards used tear gas and a warning shot to retake control and soon secured cells across the prison while three guards were briefly held in a cell. Continued on page 2 column 2.
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Walla Walla
Wash
Lawrence Delmore Jr
Delmore
Gerald Lehan
Struggle for Power in China Reported
The United Daily News reported a power struggle in Red China between Premier Chou En-lai and Communist Chief Liu Shao-chi. The dispatch from Taipei Formosa is dated August 15.
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Taipei
Formosa
United Daily News
Red China
Chou En-lai
Liu Shao-chi
Scientists warn atomic radiation dangers to human future
Geneva August 15 A top American geneticist Dr William L Russell Oak Ridge Tennessee warned at the atoms for peace conference that hereditary changes from radiation may be 15 times higher in mice than fruit flies He urged limits on population dose and suggested temporary delaying procreation after irradiation Carter of Harwell agreed on international study and called for a ten year program to assess effects with experts fearing potential birth defects from atom bomb tests
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Geneva
Atoms For Peace Conference
William L. Russell
Oak Ridge
Tenn
T. C. Carter
Medical Research Council
Atomic Energy Research Establishment
Harwell
Carter
Russell
Oak Ridge Laboratory
Therp Miller Brothers Face Federal Drug Charges
Terre Haute druggists Thurman and Fred Miller were freed on $3,000 bond in Indianapolis after being charged with refilling prescriptions in 1953 and 1954 without physicians' permission. The Miller brothers operate the Miller Drug Store at 412 Wabash Avenue and live at 1928 North Thirteenth Street.
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Thurman Miller
Fred
Terre Haute
Indianapolis
Miller Brothers
Miller Drug Store
Wabash Avenue
Morth Thirteenth Street
Eleanor Roosevelt Arrives Tokyo En Route to Bangkok
Mrs Eleanor Roosevelt lands in Tokyo on August 15 en route to Bangkok for a World Federation of United Nations Associations meeting. She marks the anniversary of Japan's World War II surrender and expresses hope for renewed friendship.
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Tokyo
Eleanor Roosevelt
Adi
Bangkok
World Federation of United Nations Associations
Japan
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Circle
United Press
Giant
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Eleanor
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