Britain and France Sink Warship in Suez Canal War
In a Beirut broadcast President Nasser vowed to fight to the last drop of blood as Britain and France bombed Egyptian airfields and ships. Cairo announced the sinking of the Egyptian warship Akka in Timsah Lake near Ismailia while reports said another frigate Domiat sank in the Red Sea. Air raids targeted Abu Sueir Fayid Kabrit and Kasfareet as Egypt cut oil shipments to Europe and severed ties with Britain and France.
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Lebanon
Nasser
Egypt
Cairo
Suez Canal
Europe
Akka
Timsah Lake
Ismailia
Britain
France
Sinai Desert
Sinai Peninsula
Mediterranean
Jordan
Abu
Sueir
Fayid
Kabrit
Canal Zone
Inchass
Kasfareet
Canal
Red Sea
Suez
Admiralty
Domiat
Uns
Newfoundland
Dr. C. E. Holzer Dies at 69 Gallipolis civic leader founder of Holzer Hospital
Dr. Charles E. Holzer Sr. 69, a leading Gallipolis figure and founder of Holzer Hospital, clinic, and nursing school, died after five days of critical illness. He shaped medicine and regional development, building bridges, a college, and civic bodies. Funeral services set for Saturday at St. Peters Episcopal Church with burial at Mound Hill Cemetery.
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Gallipolis
Charles E. Holzer
Ohio Valley
Holzer Hospital
Holzer
St. Peters Episcopal Church
Albert Chappelear
Mound Hil Cemetery
C. J. Waugh
Merger Plans Announced for Mayflower and Buckeye Union
U S Senator John W Bricker and Frederick E Jones presidents of Mayflower Insurance Co and Buckeye Union Insurance Co announced merger plans on Wednesday. The collaboration aims to fuse the two Columbus based firms into a single entity pending regulatory approval and market strategy alignment.
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Columbus
Mayflower Insur Co
Buckeye Union Insurance Companies
U. S
John W. Bricker
R-Qhio
Frederick E. Jones
Italian WWII Leader Dies
Italian veterans gathered in a north Italian village to honor Marshal Pietro Badoglio 85 as funeral plans unfold. Relatives from Rome travel to arrange state funeral with military honors. Badoglio, who rode into Addis Ababa in 1996 and was chosen to replace Mussolini in 1943, had long retired.
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Gnagcany
Italy
Pietro Badoglio
Rome
Addis Ababa
Vittorio Emmanuele III
Mussolini
Vilage
Grareano Badogio
Fears NATO death blow as Britain and France threaten Egypt
Augusta Ga. special representative F. George warns that military action by Britain and France against Egypt could destroy NATO. He tells the Augusta Herald that Israeli mobilization and threats in Jordan stem from shared pressure by England and France, with Israel encouraged by their moves.
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Augusta
Wal
F. George
D-Ga
Britain
France
Egypt
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
George
Eisenhower
Iraq
Augusta Herald Today
Baghdad
Jordan
Land
UN Convenes Emergency General Assembly Over Suez Crisis
The UN General Assembly was summoned after Britain France and Israel attacked Egypt and the Security Council failed to act due to vetoes. The assembly will consider collective measures including possible armed force and other steps to address the Gaza Suez conflict.
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United Nations
N. Y
UN General Assembly
Britain
France
Israel
Egypt
UN Security Council
Suez Canal
U.S
Council
Yugoslavia
Ith
Security Council
Assembly
United States
Budapest calm breaks after nine days of gunfire
After nine days of bombardment and fighting in Budapest the capital enjoyed bright sunshine as residents searched for food and relatives. Russian troops reportedly withdrew to bases but a cordon remained around the city. Demonstrators demanded the removal of a murderers’ government while clashes continued near the southern rail station and secret police were hunted. Rumors tied Cardinal Mindszenty to a new government surfaced without confirmation.
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Moscow
Nagy
Kossuth Square
Budapest
Prague Radio
Josef Cardi Mindszenty
Cardinal Mindszenty
Lausche Calls Special Session of Legislature
Governor Lausche schedules a special session for November 9 to seek anti strike legislation and mandatory arbitration after a 110 day Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co dispute. Portsmouth area remains without emergency phone service as strikers deny responsibility for violations and law orders potential deployment of national guard.
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Lausche
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio Consolidated Telephone Co. A
Portsmouth
George H. A
St ‘Bender
Roger Cloud
Ohio House
Ohiational
U.S. Supreme Court
Portsmouth Voluntary Citizens Committee For Law Enforcement
Communications
U S Scientists Awarded 1956 Nobel Prize in Physics
The Nobel Prize in physics was awarded to three U S scientists for the invention of the transistor. William Shockley of Pasadena Jay Basdeen Urbana and Walter Brattain Murray Hill shared the $38 633 prize. The award recognizes advances in solid state physics and the rapid tech progress they enabled.
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Stockholm
Sweden
U. S
Bell Telephone Co
William Shockley
Pasadena Calif
Jay Bardeen
Urbana, Il
Walter 4H. Brattain
Murray Hill
N. J
Rubber workers strike Firestone plants nationwide
United Rubber Workers accuse Firestone Tire & Rubber Co. of failing to raise contract provisions to parity with other rubber companies. The strike hits eight cities, idling about 21,000 workers.
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Laniun
Firestone Tire & Rubber Co
United Rubber Workers Today
Firestone
Mid East Crisis In Ohio Politics Sparks Peace Slogan
DiSalle Kennedy peace theme dominates Ohio campaign as Kefauver aids in Toledo. ONeill criticizes highways as inadequate while Kennedy rallies in Warren and Youngstown. DiSalle calls for broader access and united Western support amid national Middle East tensions.
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Mid-East
Ohio
Kennedy
Oneill
Associated Press
Middle East
Middle West
Mahoning County
United States
DiSalle
Estes Kefauver
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Toledo
Warren
Youngstown
Republic
George H. Bender
Frank J. Lausche
Legis
Britain
France
Israel
Nasser
Convincing Proof That These Little Want Ads Pay Big Dividends
An advertisement cites a successful Messenger Classified ad result with a out of town caller buying a coat on sight at advertised price. It promotes writing result-driven ads and mentions contact numbers 28105 and 31242 for Miss Holliday to assist.
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Messenger
Miss Holliday
Man's rights violated claim prompts FBI review
David Louis Cockey Bennett a 39 year old unemployed man from Louisville says police arrests for loitering violated his civil rights. He reports 134 prior arrests since 1958 and asked the FBI to investigate after being seized five times in the past week.
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Louisville
David Louis Cockey Bennett
Bennett
FBI
Brink of War Adlai's Theme For TV Talk
Stevenson canceled two upstate New York addresses to fly to New York City for a nationwide television radio talk on his theme that Eisenhower policies have brought the world to the brink of war. He scrapped talks in Syracuse and Rochester but would speak at a Buffalo rally at 9:30 p.m. EST after the New York appearance. Hostilities in Egypt crowded out other issues as he pressed to seize the peace issue.
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Pepesburg
Antat Stevenson
New York
New York City
Eisenhower
Democratic Standard-Bearer
Syracuse
Rochester
N. Y
Buffalo
Teleca
Roger Tubby
Stevenson
Tater
Egypt
Sheppard case reopened over new false lead claims
A 19 year old girl fabricated a story on Wednesday prompting Assistant Prosecutor Saul S. Dan to seek a reopening of the Marilyn Sheppard death inquiry from the July 4 1954 bludgeon case.
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Pard
Saul S. Dan Facequ
Marilyn Sheppard
Eisenhower Seeks UN Role in Middle East Crisis
President Eisenhower, after ruling out U S armed force, urges UN action to end bloodshed in the Egypt Israel Britain France crisis. He warns against U S involvement and notes evacuations of Americans from Egypt Israel Jordan and related advisory measures as the Suez tensions unfold.
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Washington
UN General Assembly
Israel
Egypt
Britain
France
Congress
Eisenhower
State Department
Jordan
Department
Air Force
Maritime Administration
Usds
United States
President Eisenhower Plans Return To Campaign Activities
President Eisenhower reportedly plans a return to the campaign platform with a Philadelphia rally to discuss the Middle East crisis. His Democratic opponent Stevenson warned the world is on the brink of war again, criticizing Eisenhower’s foreign policy. Time of the address listed as 9:30 p.m. FST.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Philadelphia
Stevenson
Piburg
New York
Press Strikes for Wages in Cleveland Strike
Pickets from the American Newspaper Guild marched outside the Cleveland Press in the city’s first newspaper strike since 16. The 23-year-old Cleveland Local No. 1 staged the action after midnight as contracts expired. Wages were the main issue with the existing minimum at 122.50 after five years. Other trades claim higher demands. management offered a raise early today in an after deadline meeting, but the guild refused.
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Cleveland
American Newspaper Guild
Cleveland Press
The
Press
Cleveland Plains Dealer
Cleveland News
Russian and English chemists win 1956 Nobel prize
Nikolai N. Semyonov of the Soviet Union and Sir Cyril Hinshelwood of Oxford University share the 1956 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for discovering rules of molecular behavior in reactions. Their work underpins plastics development and influenced later atomic research, with Semyonov becoming the first Soviet Nobel winner and Hinshelwood receiving $38,633.
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Nikolai N. Semyonov
Sir Cyril Hinshelwood
Oxford Universit
Ohio editors split endorsements in Eisenhower era polls
A 101 newspaper survey across Ohio shows Eisenhower favored overall with Bender and O'Neill leading in Senate and Governor contests. Cleveland Plain Dealer and Cleveland Press back Lausche, DiSalle, and Stevenson receive mixed support among metropolitan and weekly papers.
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Columbus
Ohio
Eisenhower
GOP
George H. Bender
William O'Neill
Associated
Pine
Mally Jeng
Republican
Asagat
Declarea Temselves
Volta Independent
Enepepers
Jorsement
Adlai E. Stevenson
Toledo Blade
O'Neill
O’ing Lausche
Cleveteilland Plain Dealer
Cleveland
Press
Youngstown Vindica
Akron Beacon Journal
Columbus Citizen
Cinc
Democrat|cinnati Enquirer
Toledo
Michael V. DiSalle
Blade
Yke Stevenson
Stevenson
DiSalie and Bender
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