Two Elevated Trains Collide in Chicago Injuring Many
Chicago suffered a major rush hour crash on the northwest elevated line. At least 119 people were injured after two six coach all steel trains collided near Milwaukee Avenue between Damen and Western stations. Rescue crews evacuated hundreds as motorists noted the high structure and blocked exits.
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Chicago
Logan Square
Milwaukee Ave
Damen
Western Avenue
Dominick Paris
Frank Thielmann
St. Elizabeth
St. Mary of Nazareth
Hos
Restraining Order Upheld in Norfolk Public School Case
The 4th Circuit affirmed District Judge Hoffman's order blocking Norfolk City Council from withholding funds to avert integration. The ruling preserves access to public schooling for Satos children and 17,000 pupils, remanding for further proceedings with injunctive terms under jurisdiction.
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Richmond
U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Walter E. Hoffman
Norfolk
Circuit
Morris A. Soper
Hoffman
Satos
District Court
Virginia
Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals
Two Young Men Help Winchester Motorist Then Leave Card
Mitchell Heironimus nearly changed a flat tire when two young men arrived with a trouble light and lug wrench. They finished the job themselves and declined pay, handing a card praising them as outstanding members of the Hoppers Auto Club of Winchester Virginia. The card named Ronald it and Sam Markley.
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STAR
Mitchell Heironimus
Hoppers Auto Club
Winchester
Ronald It
Sam Markley
Garden Club Of Virginia Plans three day meeting here
Approximately 117 delegates from 43 garden clubs are expected for the Garden Club of Virginia annual meeting at the George Washington Hotel. The three day program includes business sessions, a tour of the White Arboretum at Blandy Farm, and social events hosted by Winchester Clarke and Little Garden Clubs.
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Wir
Garden Club of Virginia
George Washington Hotel
White Arboretum
Blandy Farm
Boyce
Winchester-Clarke Garden Club
Little Garden Club
H. Clay deGrange
Alf
Edward W
Barr
B. M. Knight
Irvan O'Connell
Alvin Pennypacker
W. H. Lawrence, Jr
Howard A. Holland
Manford D. Custer, Jr
Thomas Scully
Joseph A. Schroth
Joseph P. Dorsey
Bobbie Conrad
William F. Zarbock
John Pennypacker
William P. McGuire
Joseph A. Massie, Jr
Philip Glaize
Ridgely White
H K. Benham
The
R. E. Byrd
Tyson Gilpin
Kenmore
Fredertania
Stratford
Robert E. Lee
Woodrow Wilson
Staunton
Monticello
Ee of
Virginia
NAACP Urges Steady Push for Virginia School Integration
At a Freedom Sunday rally in Richmond with about 100 NAACP workers, Dr. Philip Wyatt urged against delaying school integration to appease moderate voices. He said America hastens in the jet age, and Virginians must not slow the 50 year fight to end segregation despite calls for patience. The event marked the 1954 Supreme Court ruling against school segregation.
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Richmond
Virginia
Philip Wyatt
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
All America
Dr. Wyatt
Wyatt
Virginia Union University
Supreme Court
Gates Named Deputy Defense Secretary
Washington AP report says Thomas S. Gates Jr. will become deputy secretary of defense succeeding the late Donald A. Quarles. Gates, retiring Navy secretary, planned private life but was chosen by President Eisenhower, stirring talk he may later become defense secretary.
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Gates
Defense
Washington
Thomas S. Gates Jr
Secretary of the Navy
Difense
Donald A. Quarles
Eisenhower
Defense Department
Bell H. McElroy
Quarles
McElroy
White House
Senate
Ieee A
Eisenhow
Series of Thefts and Break-Ins Reported in Winchester
Winchester police logged several thefts over the weekend including Patricia A. Thomas reporting a 17 inch portable TV a hi fi and a gold watch missing from her apartment valued at 170 100 and 50 respectively. Charles Beeler and Mrs Gray reported jackets and a hub cap stolen from cars. A vehicle theft and two juveniles were apprehended after a Saturday night recovery.
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Winchester
Patricia A. Thomas
W. Monmouth St
Charles Beeler
Highland Ave
Gray
Smithfield Ave
Marcus Adams
Western Powers Offer To Discuss Berlin Alone
In Geneva the Western powers proposed talks with the Soviet Union on Berlin separate from other German issues but said Berlin cannot be settled in isolation from German reunification. The move aimed to calm tensions as U S Britain and France and West Germany debate strategy at the conference.
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Geneva
Berlin
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
U.S
Andrei Gromyko
Isolain I
Christian A. Herter
Herter
Palace of Nations
Russia
Heinrich von Brentano
Red China renews shelling of Matsu in Formosa Strait flareup
Red China fired 444 shells at Matsu and nearby targets heightening nationalist fears of a new Formosa Strait crisis. A nationalist officer and two soldiers were killed as shells hit Matsu, Perkantang, and sea areas. A prelude to broader action remained unconfirmed.
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Taipei
Formosa
Red China
Matsu
Formosa Strait
Perkantang Island
Little Island
Defense Ministry
Quemoy Islands
Pekantang
Berlin
Germany
Liu Hoh-tu
Peikantang
Thor Photographs Indicate Spy in the Sky Potentialities
Washington reports a new Air Force project using a Thor missile nose cone camera to image separation at high altitude. Four photographs from the May 12 launch show the cone separating from the carrier rocket, highlighting potential for space surveillance and payload imagery.
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Thor
Washington
Air Force
Cape Canaveri
Fla
Aaminico
Woman Falls From Auto As Door Opens
A New York City woman named Katherine Cosgrove, 23, was injured when a car door opened and she fell from a 1957 Plymouth driven by Leslie Danker of Alexandria. She suffered abrasions to her left arm and knees and cuts to her right foot.
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New York City
Winchester Airport Speedway
Katherine Cosgrove
J. H. Smith, Jr
Leslie William Danker
Alexandria
Marshall Lamm
Richmond
Memorial Hospital
Harry Smith
Wernersville
Loring Sargent
Sunnyside
Ronald Jones
Baltimore
Rt. 11
Kernstown
N. Cameron St
Maurice Lake
Robert Edward Frye
Star Tannery
John Woodrow Willingham
Berryville
Frye
Mrs. Truman Undergoes Major Surgery
Kansas City AP reports Bess Wallace Truman, 74, wife of the former president, underwent a two hour and 45 minute breast tumor operation at a research hospital. Doctors described her condition as very satisfactory and said tumor malignancy would be determined after further laboratory tests in two or three days. President Truman said the operation was not as serious as expected.
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Kansas City
Bess Wallace Truman
Impromptu Get Together Traffic Crash in Lancaster
Three cars piled up on the Martindale Hinkletown road near Martindale in Lancaster. Drivers Lewis Martin Paul Martin and Clayton Martin were not related. No injuries reported.
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Lancaster
Martindale
Hinkletown Road
Lewis Martin
Paul Martin
Clayton Martin
Byrd Protests Military Housing Expenditures
Sen. Harry F. Byrd reviews Defense Department spending on Wherry Capehart military housing, noting 87 million over original cost with 84.4 million in repairs after takeover. He cites 33 251 units across 97 projects from 1949 to 1955 and FHA insured mortgages.
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Washington
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Defense Department
Byrd
Joint Committee
House Armed Services
House
Wherry
Kenneth B. Wherry
Navy
Air Force
Federal Housing Administration
Pine Capehart
Homer Capehart
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Thomas
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Calif
Julius Clausen
San Francisco
Jule W. Schoening
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Wae Cowell
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