Dying Hurricane Blows Out with Heavy Damage Across States
Hurricane Diane weakened to a low pressure area as it moved from Virginia into Maryland West Virginia and Pennsylvania causing four inch rains and major floods. Virginia North Carolina and Maryland reported road closures evacuations and crop losses including tobacco and corn with estimates from 22 to 27 million dollars in North Carolina and substantial tobacco damage in Virginia.
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Richmond
Diane
Pennsylvania
Virginia
North Carolina
West Virginia
Maryland
Baltimore
Reading
Manatawny Creek
Berks County
Bechtelsville
Carolina
Luther Hodges
Connie
Halifax
Pittsylvania
Lawmakers urged to require annual foreign travel for Congress
Senator Capehart pushes a plan to require all members of Congress to travel abroad each year as a duty for better understanding global responsibility. He heads to Istanbul to represent the U S at the World Bank IMF meeting, while others plan foreign trips funded publicly or privately.
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Washington
Sen
Capehart
Congress
Indiana
Istanbul
Turkey
United States
World Bank and International Monetary Fund
New York
U. S
Senate
House
Butte Clerks Union Votes Tonight on New Contract Offer
The Textile and Variety Store group of the Butte Retail Clerks Union and Butte merchants reached a contract agreement. Union and Silver Bow Employers Association committees will recommend terms to their bodies. The clerks union will vote Friday night on the proposal, after a planned strike had been scheduled for Saturday if no agreement was reached.
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Butte Retail Clerks Union
Butte Stores
Silver Bow Employers Association
Polio cases mount as 72 deaths feared in New England
New England polio cases continued to rise with an unofficial 72 deaths reported, mostly in Massachusetts. Health officials noted a flattening trend in Massachusetts, while Dr. Roy F. Feemster warned other regions may see cases grow before a possible decline. He explained an unusual pattern this year for Massachusetts, where the surge began in the Boston area, then spread outward.
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Boston
New England
Massachusetts
Roy F. Feemster
Massachu
Feemster
Connecticut
New Hampshire
Vermont
Rhode Island
Maine
U S and China fail to agree on freeing Americans held
In Geneva US Ambassador Johnson and China’s Wang Ping-ran failed to reach a formula to free 41 Americans detained by Peiping after a two hour and 20 minute meeting. No progress reported on repatriation with further talks planned. Meanwhile Japan learns 6000 Japanese in China won’t be repatriated. officials say they may return if they change their minds.
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Geneva
United States
Red China
Peiping
U.S
Alexis Johnson
Wang Ping-ran
Keichi Tatsuke
Shen Ping
Hadeen
Tatsuke
Troy Man Dies in Libby Two-Car Crash
William P. Baltimore, 32, of Troy, died in Libby hospital Thursday from injuries suffered Tuesday in a two car collision on U S Highway 2 near Libby. The Troy resident collided with Russell Caudell, also of Troy, five miles west of Libby. several others were injured. Baltimore’s death raised Montana’s 1955 traffic toll to 122, the fourth Libby area fatality in a week alongside a truck crash into a bridge abutment near Libby that killed Mr. and Mrs. Mahoney and an unidentified man.
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Libby
William P. Baltimore
Libby Hospital
Baltimore
Troy
Russell Caudell
Here
William Mahoney
Liquor Store Strike Threat Grips Montana
In Helena the threat of a strike looms over Montana liquor stores as the Butte Clerks Union demands raises of 50 a month for vendors and clerks. Stores in Butte and Walkerville account for about one eighth of statewide liquor sales, with Butte outlets posting nearly 2 million in sales last year. The union says it represents other city stores, while the State Liquor Control Board laments its limited power to raise wages. Strike set to begin on or after September 1.
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Helena
Montana
State Liquor Control Board
Butte Clerks Union
Butte
Walkerville
Silver Bow County
J. E. Rafn
Lewistown
Rafn
Great Falls
Havre
Missoula
Livingston
Anaconda
Two-Gun Cop Killer Captured After Chicago Manhunt
Rich ard Carpenter, a former convict who killed Detective William Murphy and wounded Officer Clarence Kerr, was captured on a Northwest Side rooftop after tear gas was used in a second floor room. The manhunt, Chicago’s largest since Dillinger, involved city, county and federal agents, with a special tips center and aerial search. Kerr is in critical condition. Carpenter was wounded in the leg and taken to hospital under guard.
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Chicago
Dillinger
Richard Carpenter
Exconvict
FBI
Desperado
John Dillinger
Biltmore Theater
Carpenter
William Murphy
Clarence Kerr
West Division Street
Kerr
Northwest Side
Horses and jackrabbits race for speed and ads
Fact or Fallacy notes a horse and jackrabbit both reach about 45 mph in speed. It promotes WANT ADS for swapping items for cash and lists a lost Springer Spaniel named Socks with a reward, including a contact phone number.
Hated Moroccan Sultan Seems at End of Reign
Senator Clinton Anderson voiced support for increasing U S funding for peaceful uses of atomic energy. He, head of the Joint Atomic Energy Committee, said the H bomb’s energy could be harnessed within 20 years. He praised the Atoms for Peace conference as worthwhile and favored wider isotope export to needy countries.
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Geneva
Clinton P. Anderson
D-Nm
U. S
Anderson
Joint
Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
Homi J. Bhabha
Eisenhower
Strauss
United States
United Nations
William F. Libby
Atomic Energy Commission
Libby
Wanton Barbarism Charged by U S in Airplane Incident
The United Nations Command accused the Communists of wanton barbarism after shooting down an unarmed U S trainer plane with two servicemen aboard over the neutral zone between South and North Korea. Maj Gen Harlan C Parks demanded a meeting of the Armistice Commission and condemned the incident as a dastardly act in a long pattern of violations.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations Command
U.S
5Th Air Force
U. N
South
North Korea
Harlan C. Parks
Military Armistice Commission
Air Force
Far East Air Force
Seoul
South Korea
J. W. Ingraham
Parks
Demilitarized Zone
Armistice Commission
President Paints and Fishes Again in Fraser Colo
President Eisenhower works with oil paints on a Rocky Mountain scene and fishes for trout at Fraser Colorado while vacationing at a secluded ranch. He catches one fish after two on Wednesday and shoots pistol at a nearby range. He rises before 6 a.m. to cook breakfast for his seven year old grandson David and stays at a cottage owned by Aksel Nielsen.
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Fraser, Colo
Eisenhower
Rocky Mountain
David
Aksel Nielsen
Denver
White House
Fraser
Bank robber aided by boy in Needham incident
NEEDHAM Mass A bank robbery sparked a pursuit and an unusual turn when Kevin Kenney 18 saw a man drop a money bag from the Norfolk County Trust Co scene. The youth, thinking the robber a messenger, called out and returned the bag, aiding the suspect's escape with about 18000 dollars in cash.
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Needham
Mass
Kevin Kenney
Norfolk County Trust Co
Radar Auto Excites Congressman Rabaut in Congress
Rep Rabaut of Michigan praised Carl Rashid's radar equipped auto as a safety breakthrough. The car uses a radar screen under the grill to halt the vehicle automatically if an obstacle appears, with a rear radar to protect pedestrians and property. Tests in Michigan reportedly stopped two cars at 50 mph, and Rabaut said the device won’t work below 10 mph or hinder parking, costing about the same as power steering and potentially lowering insurance.
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Rabaut
Congressional
Carl Rashid
Detroit
Michigan
Washington
Rashid
Witness Refuses to Say If He Was Red in Hearings
Tony Kraber former CBS executive acknowledged handling a $100,000 weekly budget in 1949 50 but refused to say whether he was a Communist then or now. The House Un American Activities Committee wrapped New York hearings after questioning six witnesses including Kraber and banjoist Peter Seeger.
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New York
House Un-American Activities Committee
Francis F. Walter
Kraber
Ivan Black
Peter Seeger
Alan Manson
Harold J. Salemson
Hollywood
David Kanter
CBS
CBS Radio Network
New York Burglar Disrupts Bronx Home But Steals Nothing
In the Bronx early hour, a bumbling burglar entered Mrs. Bertha Greenwald's home and woke her with a scream. He fled without taking items, dropping $15 of his own money in the rush. Police said the homeowner could keep it.
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New York
Bertha Greenwald
Bronx
Montana Weather Forecast Summary for Friday and Saturday
Montana weather outlook shows east region mostly fair Friday and partly cloudy Saturday with warm temperatures. Isolated afternoon and evening thunderstorms possible Friday mainly south, increasing Saturday afternoon especially in the southwest. West region sees fair Friday and partly cloudy Saturday with scattered afternoon storms, hot highs around 85 to 95.
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Montana
Moroccos Sultan faces end of reign amid killings
Nine Moroccans including two policemen were killed in Casablanca and surrounding areas as protests and riots spread. Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay, under pressure from Nationalists who refuse to work with him, was given days to form a home rule government but faces dwindling support. French authorities reinforced troops as a general strike looms, with Premier Faure criticizing the Sultan privately. Gilbert Grandval heads to Paris for consultations between French and Moroccan leaders.
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Paris
Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay
Morocco
Casablanca
Africa
Moulay
U. S
Mohammed Ben Youssef
Madagascar
Edgar Faure
Gilbert Grandval
Smokejumpers Hurt at Ovando Fire Evacuation
MISSOULA three of sixteen smokejumpers dispatched to a fire on East Spread Mountain ten miles north of Ovando were evacuated by helicopter Thursday after minor injuries from a hard landing at eight thousand feet. William L. Carver John D. Wall and B Fred Wolfrum suffered sprains and bruises.
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Missoula
East Spread Mountain
Ovando
William L. Carver
John D. Wall
B. Fred Wolfrum
Lolo National Forest
Middle Fork
Birch Creek
Conrad
Lewis and Clark Forest
St. Joe Forest
Lolo
Lewis and Clark
Train Derailment Hurts Thirty In Russell Mass
A Chicago to Boston passenger train derailed when flood swollen Westfield River undermined the tracks in Russell Massachusetts. Three cars and the locomotive slid down an embankment injuring thirty people. The consist included a baggage express and a mail car.
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Russell
Mass
U.P
Boston
Westfield
Boston & Albany
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Lewis L. Strauss
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
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Rep. Rabaut Dmich
Tony Kraber
Columbia Broadcasting System
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