France Strikes deepen crisis as premier sticks to plans
Paris reports a broad general strike paralyzing railways mines utilities and civil services. More than one million workers walk out while unions plan 24 hour action for doctors lawyers and office staff. Government troops mobilized to aid transport amid travel chaos and tourism losses. Premier Laniel remains unmoved in budgeting and retirement reform.
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France
Joseph Laniel
Socialist Workers Force
Paria
American Express
Cook's
Crane Upsets At Rendville Wreck Scene
CORNING A railroad wrecking crane overturned this morning while clearing freight cars from an earlier wreck in Rendville yards. The wrecker engineer W. B. Trowner and the fireman escaped unharmed as the crane toppled during the 10 car derailment on the New York Central line. White Canada bound paper cars were among the derailed loads. Three hundred yards of track were torn up. Train master L. W. Probasco expected the main line cleared by midday but track blockage remained.
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Rendville
W. B. Trowner
Columbus
Hobson
New York Central
Canada
L. W. Probasco
Middleport
Motor Boat Trek Ends in Sandusky After 4500 Mile Route
Harvey FE. Hecker, 75, a Spanish War veteran, steered a homemade 15 foot outboard motor car into Sandusky, concluding a 4500 mile water trip covering the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the Gulf, the Intracoastal Waterway, New York, and the Erie Canal. Hecker noted the roughest water was on the home stretch and cited a tough trip from Cleveland to Sandusky on Lake Erie. He paused to greet City Manager Karl H. Kugel at the foot of Columbus Avenue.
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Sandusky
Ohio
Harvey FE
Hecker
United States
Columbus Avenue
Karl H. Kugel
Mississippi
Gulf of Mexico
New York
Erie Canal
Cleveland
Lake Erie
Halliday Appointed Athletic Advisor at Rio Grande College
John F. Walliday of Gallipolis was appointed athletic adviser by the Rio Grande College board on Tuesday night. He was also named a member of the athletic council chaired by Dr. Raymon T. Allison.
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John F. Walliday
Rio Grande College
Board of
Halliday
Raymon T. Allison
Rhee to Honor General Dean After Prisoner Exchange
President Syngman Rhee said he will award South Korea's highest military honor to Maj. Gen William F Dean once he is released in the prisoner exchange.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Wiliam F Dean
Reds refuse to free POWs threaten armistice
U S officials say Communist refusal to return prisoners who have completed sentences violates the Korean truce and the Geneva Convention. Secretary Dulles calls for prompt repatriation of all UN prisoners held by the Reds. UN would reciprocate if not complied. Legal aides study international implications and note the need to inform governments of detainees.
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Washington
U. S
Dulles
United Nations
Unite Nations
Cobieshins Voting Heavy In Columbus and Dayton
Columbus voters defeated a six million housing project by nearly two to one with 31 945 voting against and 16 487 for unofficial totals. Dayton Democrats nominated the city s first Negro judge recently appointed by Gov Lausche.
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Dayton
Frank J. Lausche
Board of Elections
Robert T. Oecestreicher
Maynard E. Sensenbrenner
James A. Rhodes
Rhodes
Eisenhart Takes Command of Lockbourne AFB
The Air Force announced Col. Charlies M. Eisenhart has assumed command of Lockbourne Air Force Base in Columbus. He succeeds Col. Lewis F. E. Lyle, now assigned to the Air Force War College at Maxwell AFB Alabama.
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Columbus
Ohio
Air Force
Charlies M. Eisenhart
Lockbourne Air Force Base
Eisenhart
Lewis FE. Lyle
Air Force War College
Maxwell Air Force Base
Ala
Stevens predicts longer U S troop stay in Korea
U S Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens says American and Allied troops will remain in Korea for several years. He spoke after eight days touring with Secretary Dulles and met President Rhee, visiting Freedom Village before flying home. He said authorities are gathering information from returning POWs and assessing actions the government may take, while noting reports of prisoners jailed by the Communists for minor infringements.
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Korea
Seoul
U. S
Robert T. Stevens
Stevens
Dock Workers Cluster Urged to Quit AFL Ties
The 22 member ILA Executive Board in Chicago is split over severing AFL affiliation as AFL Council pushes to suspend the International Longshoremen's Association at the St. Louis convention starting September 21 amid accusations of racketeers and hoodlums within the union.
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AFL
International Longshoremen’s Association
ILA
St. Louis
Bundles for Congress Fueled by Pension Controversy
Sen Monroney notes the 1946 pension plan has collected over twenty million dollars from lawmakers in seven years while only one million has paid out in retirement checks. He says reluctance to retire keeps many members contributing despite pensions for others.
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Congress
House
Sen. Monroney
Dokla
Monroney
Congressional Pension Plan
Quakes Rock Grecian Isles for Fourth Day
Panmunjom reports show 400 prisoners freed in a day of the Korean War exchange including 100 Americans 25 British 25 Turks and 250 South Koreans. The transfer delayed slightly by Camp 1 coordination, with 14 seriously ill and 3 neuro-psychiatric cases sent to Letterman Hospital and General Walker en route.
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Travis Air Force Base
San Francisco
Letterman Army Hospital
General Walker
Korea
Haven
Inchon Harbor
Changsong
Kaesong
Hocking GI among POW returnees
Sgt. Rudolph A. Pavlik of Enter prise Hocking County was freed by the United Nations Command from a Communist patrol engagement. He had been missing since December 1, 1950, and is one of 11 Ohioans reported prisoners. Two SE Ohioans remain unaccounted for.
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Kagan Iigh
McConaha
Rosie E. McConaha
Logan
Bradley Ends Joint Chiefs Tenure as He Moves to Bulova Labs
General Omar N. Bradley relinquishes chairmanship of the Joint Chiefs of Staff on Saturday after four years as the U.S. military’s top officer. He will chair the board of Bulova Research and Development Laboratories, Inc., ending active duty. Admiral Radford succeeds him. Ridgway, Twining, and Carney also assume new service chief roles by Monday across Army, Air Force, and Navy.
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Omar N. Bradlvy
U. S
White House
Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bulova Research and Development Laboratories, Inc
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
JCS
Defense Department
Joint Chiefs
Matthew PB. Ridgway
J. Lawton Collins
Army
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
Hoyt Vandenberg
Navy
Robert B. Carney
Naval Operations
Willam Fechteler
Greece Quake Death Toll Seen Near Four Hundred
Strong earthquakes in the Ionian Sea islands persist for a fourth day. Officials report 150 dead but survivors expect the toll to exceed 400 as the Greek government rushes aid and U S Air Force units prepare helicopters to deliver food and medicine to isolated villages.
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Greece
Ionian Sea
Mediterranean
Tripoli
Jet Crash Kills Nine in Canada and Greece Quake Aftermath
A CF-101 all weather fighter crashed near Ville Jacques Cartier killing five children and two women in two homes while the two airmen died in the crash. Officials moved charred bodies to Montreal. In Greece Kefallinia islands suffered a new series of quakes with towns wiped out and calls for aid as survivors camped in open areas.
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Que
Montreal
St. Lawrence River
Marcel Bourassa
Michel
Ginette
Emilien Fournier
Samia
Kefallinia
Samis
Ithaca
Ulysses
Cat Rescued After Near Dryer Ordeal in Nelsonville
In Nelsonville a family cat named Tom was briefly trapped inside an electric clothes dryer after two three year olds Trista Evans and Johnnie Cavote turned it on. The cat emerged dizzy but unharmed though looking bedraggled and light headed, thankful to be alive.
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Nelsonville
Gesundheit
Trista Evans
Tom
Gloria In
Trista
David Evans
Fort St
Four Die in Oklahoma Storms And Lake Murray Disaster
Thunderstorms ripped across Oklahoma Tuesday night killing four people and injuring others. A squall near Lake Murray at Ardmore overturned a boat with four aboard, drowning three. A man electrocuted by downed power lines nearby.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Lake Murray
Ardmore
Sisters of Mercy Buy Site for New 350-Bed Hospital
The Sisters of Mercy of Cincinnati purchased a site on Tuesday for a new 350-bed hospital to be built in the city.
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BLY
Cincinnati
Sisters of Mercy of Cincinnati
Yank Airmen form Latest PW Mystery
A liberated American says the Communists may hold Allied airmen shot down in North Korea in a mystery prisoner company. Cpl. William H. Abbott reports Camp Two near Sinuiju contains four prisoner groups, with a fourth unlisted, and airmen allegedly moved through the area after lists were exchanged at Panmunjom in December 1951.
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Korea
North Korea
William H. Abbott
Jerusalem
Ohio
Camp Two
Sinhiju
Sinuiju
Panmunio
Piccioni abandons bid to form Italian government
Attilio Piccioni of the Christian Democrat said he will not pursue a middle-of-the-road government. He told newsmen he cannot complete the task as leader and asked the president to accept his renunciation to form a cabinet.
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Rome
Attilio Piccioni
Christian Democrat
Piccioni
Republic
Wife of airline executive leaps to pool in apartment dive
New York police said Laura Mae Creighton 36 wife of an airline executive dressed in a bathing suit and jumped nine stories from her roof into a four foot deep pool. She was taken to Coney Island Hospital in critical condition with no explanation for the act.
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New York
Laura Mae Creighton
Coney Island Hospital
15 year old held in Cleveland shooting spree in stolen car
Juvenile authorities in Summit County detained a 15 year old from Painesville on charges he drove a stolen car around the county and fired at passing vehicles. Police linked the spree to alleged readings of turnpike stayings.
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Cleveland
Painesville
Summit County
Four Prisoners Escape Mason County Jail
Four inmates escaped from Mason County Jail early today, Sheriff Charles A. Roberts reported. They broke out between 1 am and 5 am by prying a section of floor and a jail bar, then crawled out through a ventilation opening. Named escapees are Lawrence Hysell 27 Point Pleasant Robert W. Bibbie 40 Clarksburg Guy Finley 23 Gallipolis Ferry and Noah McDade 30 near Ambrosia.
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Point Pleasant
Mason County
Charles A. Roberts
Roberts
Lawrence Hysell
Robert W. Bibbie
Clarksburg
Guy Finley
Gallipolis Ferry
Noah McDade
Ambrosia
Pet Bear Kills Boy In Backyard Scuffle
In Flagstaff Arizona a 3 year old boy, Andrew Mark Palmer Jr., was killed by a 200 pound bear kept as a household pet. The mother was attacked while trying to rescue him and a neighbor shot the bear.
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Flagstaff
Ariz
Andrew Mark Palmer Jr
Polio Death in Athens County as Meigs Reports 15th Case
Athens County records its first polio death Gary Richard Gabriel eight from Columbus, while Meigs County reaches its fifteenth case Roy Lee Taylor ten month old from Middleport was diagnosed at Holzer and moved to Children's Hospital in Columbus. Ten Meigs cases lie in Rutland Township with Middleport seeing a second case this week.
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Athens County
Meigs County
Gary Richard Gabriel
Athens
Children’s Hospital
Columbus
Roy Lee Taylor
Paul Taylor
Middleport
Holzer Hospital
Gallipolis
Children's Hospital
Pomeroy
Meigs
Rutland Township
Rhee Rejects Coalition with Communists over Korea Unity
South Korea's President Syngman Rhee declares there will be no coalition government with the North as a path to unification. He asserts Seoul will go it alone if the Korean political conference fails within 90 days to resolve the unification crisis.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
South Korea
Korea
Rhee
Kasenkina marks fifth anniversary of Soviet escape
In New York Mrs. Oksana Kasenkina, who leaped from a Soviet consulate window to avoid return to Russia, plans a church service and a personal five year plan toast. She says she feels American, drives to the market, and no longer relies on interpreters or fear.
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New York
Oksana Kasenkina
Jackson Heights
Army announces 23,000 man October draft call
Washington reports the Army will induct 23,000 men in October, maintaining the 23,000 quota used in July August and September. Defense officials expect continued calls at the current rate until Korea stabilizes, with later quotas likely rising next July if Army strength stays near 1.5 million.
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Washington
Army
Pentagon
Ike To Name Union Boss To High Post
President Eisenhower plans to appoint David J. McDonald president of the CIO United Steelworkers to the 17 member Commission on Foreign Economic Policy. Republican Senators Martin and Duff of Pennsylvania were asked to clear the appointment and endorsed McDonald.
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Washington
Eisenhower
David J. McDonald
CIO
United Steelworkers
Commission On Foreign Economic Policy
Martin and
Duff
Pennsylvania
McDonald
Grand Jury Indicts Ohio Police Chief and Relative
GEORGETOWN Ohio April grand jury indicted Aberdeen police chief Elmer Hafer and his brother Carlos Hafer for assault with intent to kill. The charges stem from an arrest of a Maysville Kentucky businessman in Aberdeen.
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Ohio
Aberdeen
Elmer Hafer
Carlos Hafer
Maysville, Ky
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