Plane disaster in Canada kills 79 aboard DC4 in thunderstorm
A chartered four engine DC4 carrying veterans and families from Britain to Ontario crashed in a swampy field near Quebec City. The crew of six and 73 passengers including 33 men 41 women and five children perished. Pilot Norman Ramsay of Montreal had prior license suspension for negligence. Royal Canadian Air Force rescuers found no survivors. Maritime officials cited unknown causes.
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Issoudun
Que
Britain
Canada
Quebec City
Maritime Central Airways
London
Toronto
Imperial Veterans Division
Canadian Legion
Ontario
Norman Ramsay
Montreal
Iceland
St. Lawrence River
Quebec
Canon Alexandre DeBloir
Ste Croix
Ste. Croix
Plone
Maritime
Royal Canadian Air Force
Trenton
Ont
Ramsay
Canadian Transport Department
Brampton
Canadian Air Lines Pilots’ Assn
Woman Dies at 103 in Proctorville
Death Sunday claimed 103-year-old Mrs. Salley S. Earl at her home in Proctorville. She was believed to be Lawrence County's oldest resident.
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Ironton
Weather Summary and Five Day Forecast Drift
Oho clearing tonight with a low near 65. Tuesday expected fair and cooler with highs 80 to 85. West Virginia shows scattered thunderstorms tonight turning cooler with lows 56 to 63 and Tuesday partly cloudy and cooler. Five day forecast notes near normal temperatures, cooler Tuesday and Wednesday, warmer Thursday and Friday, then cooler Saturday with possible showers Friday and Saturday. Other cities list varied conditions from clear to cloudy with highs around the 70s to 90s in places like Des Moines Chicago Fort Worth and San Diego with seasonal changes.
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Oho
West Virginia
OHLO
Cleveland
Clouuy Yesceseres
Des Moines
Albuquerque
Bismarck
Chicago
Fort Worth
Helena
Kansas City
Louisville
Syderay
Miami
Paul
New York
Seattle
Cloudy
Traverse City
Clears
Meany Council Face Problems in AFL-CIO Talks
Chicago AP report says the 29 member AFL-CIO executive council held a four day closed conference to discuss housecleaning and union corruption reports. George Meany planned a news conference after the sessions as scrutiny on leaders grows. Maurice Hutcheson invoked the Fifth Amendment during a Senate inquiry into land sales tied to Indiana highway rights of way.
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Chicago
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Senate
Washington
Aflcio
Senate Committee
Executive Council
Maurice Hutcheson
Carpenters Union
Hutcheson
Senate Public Works Committee
Indiana
Private detectives target Gable Gardner Crawford as trials resume
In Los Angeles a private eye says Clark Gable Ava Gardner and Joan Crawford may face subpoenas in the Confidential magazine criminal libel trial. Attorney Crowley seeks about 100 witnesses from film circles while prosecutors question the witnesses admissibility and relevance.
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Los Angeles
Clark Gable
Ava Gardner
Joan Crawford
Superior Cour
Fred Otash
Gable
Gardner
Crawford
Otash
Arthur J. Crowley
Fred Meade
Marjorie
Crowley
Dep. Dist. Atty
William L.rizzi
Ritzi
Youth Cannot Win in Traffic On S Main Street
Akron youth Ronald Lee Hine, 19, was arrested for speeding after drag racing on S Main Street. He posted bond in Barberton Municipal Court and was later charged again with obstructing traffic, with a $100 bond set on both charges.
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Akron
Earl van Sant
Ronald Lee Hine
S. Main St
Barberton
van Sant
Young Hine
Mental Patient On Trial Kills Wife in Swanton
A 41 year old man on trial from a mental institution stabbed his wife to death in Swanton while their three children attempted to intervene. He loaded her body into his car and drove to Mercy Hospital where she was pronounced dead.
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Toledo
Swanton
Preston Fisher
Mercy Hospital
French Banks Boost Dollar Exchange For Tourists
Lines of American tourists queued at Paris banks as the government offered 70 francs more per dollar. Finance Minister Felix Gaillard added a 20 percent premium on exchange rates for foreign tourists, raising the rate from 350 to 420 francs per dollar and applying to most foreign exchange operations.
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Paris
Felix Gaillard
Gaillard
Officials Investigating Typhoid Fever Source
Indiana health officials expected to learn today what brought typhoid fever to St Francis Convent near Oldenburg. Twenty five Catholic nuns are ill with the disease. State Health Commissioner A C Offutt positively identified the disease for the first time Sunday night as typhoid fever.
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Oldenburg
Ind
Indiana
St. Francis Convent
A. C. Offutt
Stolen Bullitt Estate Money Figures in Louisville Case
Louis ville police and FBI agents charged Carl Jackson and James Easley with safebreaking and housebreaking after a theft of around 200000 dollars from William Marshall Bullitt’s Oxmoor estate last November. Arrestees include Alphonso Gillespie Cora Mae Palmer Henry Johnson and Bozzia Griffin.
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Louisville
William Marshall Bullitt
Oxmoor
Carl Jackson
James E. Easley
Os Jackson
FBI
Alphonso Gillespie
Cora Mae Palmer
Jackson
Henry Johnson
Bozzia Griffin
Easley
Bullitt
Rescuer Blames Fresh Blizzards on Eiger Tragedy
Fresh snow halted rescue efforts for three climbers on the Eiger north wall as a fourth, Claudio Cordi, was pulled to the summit in a daring ascent. Stefano Longhi, 44, of Lecco, Italy, believed dead after being found motionless and entangled on the rope, with rescue observers noting a possible rope shift during the storm. Alfred Helepart, a German guide, completed Cordi’s ascent after two risky descents, while the Eiger’s north face looms over 6000 feet of vertical rock.
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Grindelwald
Switzerland
Eiger
Witsen
Stefano Longhi
Lecco
Italy
Longhi
Claudio Cordi
Cordi
Alfred Helepart
New York
Empire State Building
Helepart
Eiger Mountain
Alps
Man hit by a bat and left with a broken leg
Columbus report says 58 year old Robert Milliken was struck in the right leg by 30 year old Jack Ellison who was held on a drunken charge. Milliken says Ellison previously struck him on the head. Milliken has a wooden left leg and remains hospitalized.
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Jack Ellison
Milliken
Ellison
Millikan
State board to weigh higher science math graduation requirements
Columbus report says the state board of education will consider a proposal to raise high school graduation requirements in science and mathematics. Current policy mandates one unit each in science and mathematics. The plan would require two science units and one math unit or two math units and one science unit.
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Columbus
State Board of Education
Office of
E. E. Holt
FTC accuses Reynolds of unlawful promotional discrimination
Washington The Federal Trade Commission charged the R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co. of Winston-Salem North Carolina with illegal discrimination among its customers in granting promotional allowances. The complaint says the company pays allowances to some customers and not to all and in unequal amounts.
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Washington
Federal Trade Commission Today
R. J. Reynolds Tobacco Co
Winston-Salem
N. C
FTC
Rights bill standoff as parties seek edge in voting reform
In Washington the Civil Rights Bill drags through parliamentary snarl. House Democrats push for Senate bill acceptance or a narrow compromise on jury trials for voting rights. Republicans aim to send the measure to a conference to strengthen it and remove administration objections. Both sides expect no action before Tuesday.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Attempt to Escape Bees Proves Fatal
A 10 year old boy named Terry Schemck from Middleburg Pa died after being chased by a swarm of bees into a road where he was struck by a passing automobile near Selinsgrove Pa State police said the incident occurred as he and three friends played near a road about 15 miles west of Selinsgrove when they overturned a bees nest
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Selingsgrove
Here
Terry Schemck
Middleburg
Schemck
Fire Injuries Fatal In Cambridge Route Woman
Mrs. Paul Patterson aged 50 of Cambridge Route 3 died at University Hospital after severe burns from an oil stove explosion in her home last Tuesday.
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Columbus
Paul Patterson
Cambridge
University Hospital
First Call Sold the Jersey-Guernsey Cow
M. W. Herron of Athens Route 2 says they sold the Jersey-Guernsey cow to the first caller. Cow was fresh by July 18. Call 27784 after 4 p.m. This note promotes Messenger Classified Ads and urges readers to place livestock ads post fair.
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M. W. Herron
Jersey
Guernsey
Athens Rt
Former union leader testifies on Johnny Dio reform aim
Anthony Doria told the Senate Rackets Committee that racketeer Johnny Dio wanted to erase his criminal record and become an honest labor leader, but society blocked him. Doria, ex secretary treasurer of the Allied Industrial Workers Union, defended Dio amid questions about his fitness for union work.
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Washington
Anthony Doria
Johnny Dio
Doria
Dio
Senate
Allied Industrial Workers Union
UAW
Afl-Cio
Chicago
Angelo Inciso
Heaton
Auto Workers Union
Incisco
Inciso
Independent Union Industrial Workers of America
Carmine S. Bellino
AFL
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Americans in Moscow weigh trip to China as passports debated
Six young Americans refused to surrender passports to Red Chinese authorities while remaining assured of a planned eight day tour of Peiping. Fred Grab of Alexandria, acting collection agent, said the group of 42 will decide if separate papers suffice. Nina Landau and David Hollister joined the list, while Bob Walz withdrew. The 150 member U S delegation splits as members head home to Western Europe or prepare a Chinese tour.
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Moscow
Fred Grab
Alexandria
Grab
U.S
Europe
Nina Landau
David Hollister
New York
Bob Walz
Peiping
Leningrad
Warsaw
Prague
Berlin
London
Council Debates Bridge Replacement Amid Effigy Protest
In Salineville Ohio five stuffed dummies sat on a Main Street railing to symbolize the city council opposed by residents. The council approved county plans to replace the two bridges over Yellow Creek with four men and Mrs Margaret McNichol set to lead the project.
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East Liverpool
Yellow Creek
Salineville
City Council
Columbiana County Commissioners
Margaret McNichol
Main St
Ohio 39
Ohio Airman Held After Robbery Attempt in Japan
An airman from Marion Ohio aged 19 was held at Yokota Air Base Japan as Japanese authorities charged him with robbing and attempting to assault a taxi driver.
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Yokota
Japan
Air Force
Marion
Ohio
Uprising in Oman Ends as Nizwa Falls to Sultan Forces
New York Times reporter Sam Pope Brewer says British-led forces captured Nizwa after a four week revolt led by Imam of Oman and his brother Taleb. American grenades found at rebel sites in Firq raise suspicions of Saudi support with U.S. military aid. Leaders in Nizwa surrendered. inhabitants portrayed as loyal under coercion.
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Manama
Bahrain
Muscat
Oman
Nizwa
Sam Pope Brewer
New York Times
Taleb
Suleiman bin Hayma
Brewer
Firq
Saudi Arabia
Game Turns Into Tragedy in York Nested Shell Blast
Four boys died when a souvenir bazooka shell exploded during a play war game in York Pennsylvania. Victims were Gary Weaver 15 Joseph Weaver 10 Lynn Baker 10 and Stephen Baker 9. Investigators seek how the shells were obtained and the Weaver brothers reportedly brought the shell home from Ft Bragg North Carolina after a visit to their brother.
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York
Gary
Joseph Weaver
Lynn
Stephen Baker
Weaver
Donald
Ft. Bragg
N. C
Teenagers Cause Less Than One Fifth of Accidents
In Ohio, the Department of Highway Safety reports teens under age 20 caused 18.5 percent of 62,993 reported crashes with death, injury, or $100+ damage, totaling 11,660 accidents in the first five months.
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Columbus
Ohio
Department of Highway Safety
Plane lands on Pennsylvania Turnpike causing traffic jam
Police cleared a highway as David E. Stone, 22, of Shaker Heights Ohio, attempted a landing after four low passes at the Butler barracks. The light plane clipped a pole and tire blew out, lightly damaging a parked truck. Stone escaped injury and traffic stalled for three miles both ways.
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Butler
Butler Valley
David E. Stone
Shaker Heights
Ohio
Stone
IRA Blasts British Barge In Fifth Weekend Incident
In Belfast police report the outlawed IRA blew up a government barge on Lough Neagh after seizing it from its moorings in County Tyrone. The attack marks the fifth weekend incident attributed to the IRA amid its bid to unite Ireland under one government.
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Belfast
Northern Ireland
Irish Republican Army
IRA
Britain
Irish Republic
10 year old boy among 15 Ohio traffic fatalities this week
A 10 year old Scioto County boy Keith Frye of Lucasville Route 2 was struck on Ohio 139 near New Boston Saturday night and killed by a motorist who did not stop. More than 100 tips led to Sunday arrest of Paul Martin 19 of Minford for hit skip driving and a man slaughter charge to be filed.
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Scioto County
Ohio
Keith Frye
Lucasville
Ohio 139
New Boston
Paul Martin
Minford
Body Recovered From Ohio River Near Parkersburg Belpre
The body of 73 year old Oliver Meed of Belpre was recovered Sunday from the Ohio River. Authorities believe he jumped into the river from the Parkersburg Belpre Bridge about six hours earlier.
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Parkersburg
W. Va
Belpre
Ohio River
Oliver Meed
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