Baseball Special Derailment Result Seen As Track Fault
In Steelton Pennsylvania a baseball special derailed injuring about 100 and killing 19. Officials say track alignment likely caused the crash but a full investigation is pending. The line resumed service as crews began salvage and recovery near the Susquehanna River.
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Killer Awaits Decision on Electroecution
CHICAGO The electric chair looms Friday for Paul Crump a condemned killer who wants to live but whose chances may hang on a word rehabilitation Crump 32 who has spent the last nine years in jail for a slaying he doesn't deny is making his final appeal to escape electrocution His appeal to be heard today in a special session of the Illinois Parole and Pardon Board is without legal precedent in the state Crump's lawyer Donald Page Moore has asked the board in a 211 page brief for clemency to spare his client's life on the ground that a vicious criminal has become a decent man CHICAGO Thomas H Robinson Jr 55 an escaped convict who was ranked the nation's public enemy No 1 after he kidnaped a wealthy Kentucky socialite for 50 000 ransom in 1934 was held by police today for a 14 drug store robbery SOFIA Bulgaria Big price increases for basic food stuffs went into effect today in Communist Bulgaria as an incentive to farmers to produce more THE HAGUE Netherlands Charles P Hebert 63 Canadian ambassador to the Netherlands died Sunday of heart attack
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Soviet Navy Claims World’s Most Modern Fleet
Adm. Sergei Gorshkov says the Soviet union has built the world's most modern navy anchored by atomic submarines armed with rockets and torpedoes with nuclear warheads. Pravda Navy Day feature notes faster subs and underwater missile capability.
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Soblen Offered Asylum With Home Secretary’s Approval Pending
London reports Robert A. Soblen, serving a life sentence in the United States as a Soviet spy, has been offered asylum in an unnamed European country. His refuge requires Home Secretary Henry Brooke’s consent. Soblen fled after posting bail, jumped bail last month, and previously slashed himself aboard a London flight en route to the U.S. He also faced rejection of entry to Israel as an immigrant. In Ohio, Charles Lind of Cincinnati was elected commander of the Ohio Disabled Veterans at the convention’s close.
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Robert A. Soblen
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Henry Brooke
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Israel
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Charles Lind
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Ben Bella Seeks Power Amid Bloodless Algerian Coup
Algerian guerrilla troops seized Algiers in a bloodless coup seen as backing dissident Vice Premier Ahmed Ben Bella. Opponents including Amar Oussedik, political commissar of the Algiers autonomous zone, were arrested as the Algiers government dissolves. Ben Khedda and other officials reportedly faced arrest or removal.
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Nine Americans disciplined at Sputnik camp in Crimea
Moscow radio reports that eleven U S youths at the Sputnik International Youth Camp in Crimea were disciplined for distributing anti Soviet pamphlets to locals.
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Moscow Radio
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Albany Integration Fight Heads To Court Hearing
The Albany movement in Georgia moves toward a federal court battle over protests and boycotts as 266 people were arrested last week. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and 9 others were jailed after a prayer session near City Hall, while a small turnout offered prayers and left as police maintained order.
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Governor DiSalle Uses TV to Pivot Reelection Campaign
Columbus report says Governor Michael V. DiSalle transformed a news conference into a television campaign vehicle. A New York crew filmed a 30 minute program with DiSalle and several newsmen, addressing a dispute over a state fairgrounds building, listing appointments, and inviting questions for his Republican opponent James A. Rhodes. DiSalle departs Tuesday for a three week tour through Delaware, Morrow, Crawford, Wyandot and Marion counties.
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Michael VY
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New York
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Wyandot
Marion
Ohio Health Director Probes Thalidomide Use
Columbus Ohio Health Director Dr Ralph Dwork said his department is investigating how widely the drug thalidomide was available in the state. He hopes to determine the extent of access and, if broad, to conduct a wide spread study of its effects. Thalidomide is linked to birth defects when taken during pregnancy.
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Ohio Health
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Dwork
Jackie the Ohio winner heads to Miss America pageant
Sandusky 19 year old Jacquelyn Jeanne Mayer known as Jackie won Miss Ohio at Mansfield after reading St Joan and winning swim suit and evening gown contests. She stands 5 foot 5 with 36 22 36 and has sung with Fred Warings Pennsylvanians while a Northwestern freshman plans to record and appear on television but cannot travel with the group as Miss Ohio.
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Buckeye
Atlantic City
Jacquelyn Jeanne Mayer
Jackie
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St. Joan
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Fred .Waring
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Accident Toll Reaches 17 in Ohio Weekend Wrecks
Four drownings lift Ohio weekend death toll to 17 as two-car crash near Wooster Saturday claims four lives. Sunday a grandfather and grandson die in a head on collision east of Cincinnati and two others killed west of Paulding.
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Associated Press
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Cincinnati
Paulding
Non-Military Planes Grounded for Sky Shield III Training
Colorado Springs report notes all non military airplanes in the United States and Canada will be grounded for five hours during Sky Shield III training. The North American Air Defense Command schedule Saturday from 2 p.m. to 7 30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time.
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Drowning at Burr Oak Lake Claims 8-Year-Old Randy Sheets
The first drowning in Lake Burr Oak history occurred early Sunday when Randy Sheets eight of 1073 Harris Ave Columbus disappeared from the camping area. His body was found in about five feet of water tangled in weeds at 10 a.m. near a 100 foot embankment after campers and officials searched the lake and woods. The boy slept in a pup tent with other children and wandered into the water, his father reporting he sometimes walked in his sleep. The body was taken to Jerry Spears funeral home in Columbus.
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Plans Told For Congo Unification
Katanga President Moise Tshombe's reaction to a new constitution proposed by Premier Cyrille Adoula will determine peaceful unification plans for the Congo. The draft would grant provincial autonomy as a concession to Tshombe's demand for weaker central authority. No immediate Katanga response was reported from Elisabethville.
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Cyrille Adoula
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Talks Resume Today In New Guinea Dispute
Washington reports Dutch Indonesian negotiators resume talks today to prevent war over the western half of New Guinea. Mediator Ellsworth Bunker and negotiators met Sunday at a secluded estate in Middleburg Virginia, and informants say the discussions went well.
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New Guinea
Ellsworth Bunker
U. S
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Senators Locked In Over Satellite Ownership Debate
United States Senate faces another filibuster round as liberals push to block private ownership of a proposed communications satellite company. The 50-50 stock split plan by the administration aims to launch and operate satellites with public and private backing. The tactic, led by Mike Mansfield and opposed by Hubert Humphrey, tests civil rights and other agendas amid long deliberations and strategic maneuvering.
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Senate
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D-Minn
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McClellan Pushes Probe Into Sub Strike Payoff Claim
Sen John L McClelland says a powerful unionist demanded a payoff to settle a strike halting work on 11 nuclear submarines at General Dynamics Groton plant since July 19 He seeks Senate Investigations subcommittee hearings but faces opposition from filibuster opponents in the Senate.
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John L. McClelland
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McClellan
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Senate
Wayne Morse
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Morse
McClelland
Groton, Conn
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Eisenhower Apologizes for Misstatement in Sweden
Former president Dwight D. Eisenhower apologized in Stockholm for remarks that socialism in Sweden caused a rising suicide rate, drunkenness, and lack of ambition. He told about 2000 at the railway station that he was wrong and he apologized. The former president, his wife and two grandchildren are visiting western Europe.
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Sweden
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Europe
Ohio Pensioners Gain $7 Million In Benefits This Month
Ohio old age pensioners received 7 million dollars this month with total benefits dipping 98 051 dollars from June. Recipients fell from 84 689 in June to 4 515 in July while health care payments reached 1.4 million dollars, down 115 831 from June. Training for Ohio's 37th Infantry Division began at Camp Grayling Michigan as annual summer drills moved into high gear. President Kennedy will hold a news conference at 4 p.m. Wednesday per White House schedule.
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Ohio
James A. Rhodes
Camp Grayling
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37Th Infantry Division
Washington
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White House
Pierre Saliniger
Steubenville Edges Athens in Junior Legion Opener
Steubenville’s Pat Eddy sparked a three run first inning to fuel a 4-2 win over Athens K T Crosen Post 4 in the State Junior American Legion tournament at Ohio University. Eddy allowed one more run after a rough start while Steubenville pitcher Lee Brecker shut Athens down. Athens had six hits with runs in the third and fourth innings.
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Nations Meet To Aid India With Global Support
Washington diplomats from several nations gathered at the World Bank to finalize plans for matching U S dollars for India’s large development program. They have pledged 450 million toward matching the American 500 million in credits for the second year of the five year plan.
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