OU Student Killed In Homecoming Weekend Crash
A fatal early Sunday crash near 41 to 45 N Lancaster St in Athens left Edwin H. Brainard III dead on arrival at Sheltering Arms Hospital and Robert Downey injured. Downey, 23, Ironton, drove a 1955 car owned by William A. Phillips of Ironton. Brainard had lived in Tiffin Hall East Green. Police continue investigation as bystanders watched.
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Ohio University
N. Lancaster St
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Edwin H. Brainard, III
Parkersburg
W.va
Robert Downey
Ironton
Downey
William A. Phillips
Phillips
N. Congress St
Brainard
Tiffin Hall
East Green City
N. Lancaster
Cecil MecGlone, Jr
Lancaster
McGlone
Bert Adalora
Canton
Eleanor
Adalora
Phillips Auto
Fire Department
Pair Swept Into River Near Noroton Bridge
In Stamford Connecticut a dark night on Camp Avenue Bridge sent Mr and Mrs William Fox of New Canaan into the Noroton River. Fox clung to a tree while his wife grabbed bushes downstream. Manuel Caccavello tied a clothesline about his waist and helped pull all three from the river with other rescuers aiding until help arrived.
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Stamford
Conn
Noroton River
Camp Avenue
William Fox
New Canaan
Fox
Manuel Caccavello
Mrs. Fox
Tfmen
Wetherby Sees Solid South for Dems Adlai Pick
Kentucky Governor Lawrence Wetherby said the South will vote solidly Democratic in 1956 if Eisenhower does not run. He named Adlai Stevenson the strongest Democratic candidate and noted the Southern Governors Conference will discuss highway and water projects along with growth while segregation may or may not be a topic. Alabama hosted the council with governors from Arkansas Delaware Florida Georgia Kentucky Louisiana Maryland Mississippi North Carolina Oklahoma South Carolina Tennessee Texas Virginia and West Virginia present.
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Point Clear
Ala
Kentucky
Lawrence Wetherby
South
Adlai Stevenson
Eisenhower
Wetherby
Texas
Tennessee
Florida
Virginia
Stevenson
Averell Harriman
New York
Estes Kefauver
Alabama
Jams E. Folsom
Arkansas
Delaware
Floorida
Georgia
Louisiana
Maryland
Mississippi
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
West Virginia
Automation Seen Holding Bright Future
President Walter Reuther of the CIO told a Senate subcommittee that automation could yield a four day work week longer vacations and higher living standards. He urged careful planning to avoid unemployment and proposed gradual work week reductions early retirement social welfare loans retraining and community aid to cushion workers displaced by new machines.
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Washington
Walter Reuther
CIO
Reuther
Senate
House
Religious Sect Leader May Be Ousted Soon
In Saigon Cao Dai military chiefs plan to oust aging pope Pham Cong Tac due to his opposition to Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Gen Nguyen Thanh Phuong led a secret meeting endorsing the move amid South Viet Nam’s referendum vote next Sunday to depose Chief of State Bao Dai.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Cao Dai
Pham Cong Tac
Nguyen Thanh Phuong
Tac
Ngo Dinh Diem
Phuong
Bao Dai
Regency council seeks calm in troubled Morocco
In Rabat a new regency council met to urge calm as France faces a confidence vote in Paris over Algeria policies. Mohammed El Mokri chaired. Mohammed El Bekkar, exiled Sultan Mohammed Ben Youssef’s representative, drew attention amid Franco Spanish border fire claims and a push to form a representative government with Ben Slimane named as potential prime minister.
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Rabat
Morocco
Edgar Faure
National Assembly
Paris
Algeria
Council of the Throne
France
Spain
Mohammed el Mokri
Mohammed el Bekkar
Mohammed Ben Youssef
Ister
Ben Slimane
Fez
Premier Faure
United Nations
Pierre Boyer de Latour
Visitor exchanges with USSR seen as risk and opportunity
Des Moines editor Lauren Soth urged that farm delegation exchanges between the United States and the Soviet Union reduce misunderstanding. He noted Americans know little about the USSR, and visiting Russians would see advantages of a free competitive system. Soth warned against overconfidence in collapse of communism and called for continued exchange amid a UN anniversary celebration.
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Lauren K. Soth
Des Moines Register and Tribune
United Nations
Soth
U. S
Ussr
Soviet Union
Russia
Effinger Dies Believed Head of Black Legion
Virgil H Bert Effinger 82 dies in Lima Ohio with services set for Tuesday He had long denied being the national commander of the Black Legion a secret terrorist group tied to the Ku Klux Klan An arrest in the 1930s charged him with criminal syndicalism and possession of explosives but he never stood trial The Black Legion operated in Ohio Michigan and Pennsylvania during the 1930s.
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Lima
Virgil H
Bert) Effinger
Black Legion
Effinger
Legion
Ku Klux Klan
Ohio
Michigan
Pennsylvania
Ohio Turnpike records first fatality in two weeks
The Associated Press reports twenty four people died in traffic over the weekend along Ohio highways. Rain slick roads increased hazards as the toll for the period from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight yesterday topped normal levels.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Snow First of Season Hits New England States
Snow blanketed parts of Massachusetts Hampshire and Vermont with up to four inches accumulating Sunday as the season opened in New England.
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New England
Boston
Massachusetts
Hampshire
Vermont
Westinghouse Electricians Strike After Deadline Passes
Westinghouse Electric Corp CIO electricians strike nationwide after midnight deadline with no contract. About 44,000 members in 29 plants affected, 30 other operations untouched. Disputes include wages time study rules and contract length. Arbitration clause offered by Westinghouse debated.
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Pittsburgh
CIO Electrical Workers
Westinghouse Electric Corp
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
Westinghouse
Bricker opposes Ohio jobless pay boost plan
Senator John W. Bricker of Ohio denounces a proposal to raise unemployment compensation as exorbitant and unsound and urges voters to defeat it on November 8. The proposal has strong backing from the Ohio State Council of Machinists AFL, while Phil Hannah of the Ohio Federation of Labor says the AFL is giving full support to the measure.
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Columbus
John W. Bricker
Ohio
iOhio State Council of Machinists
AFL
Phil Hannah
Ohio Federation of Labor
Protest Rumbles Cloud Romance of Princess
Storm clouds engulf Princess Margaret and Peter Townsend amid opposition from royal circles and parts of the Church of England. Rumors of royal disapproval swirl as Windsor visits and church figures weigh a possible marriage, while Townsend resists questions and Margaret faces public scrutiny amid the enduring romance.
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London
Margaret
Peter Townsend
Church of England
Duke of Edinburgh
Elizabeth II
Royal Air Force
Marie Louise
Queen Victoria
Canterbury
Margaret- Townsend
Townsend
Berkshire
John Wills
Wills
Elizabeth
Windsor Castle
Royal Chapel
Wills Home
Townsend Wnt
Will's Forest Lodge
Atom Plants Negotiating three year industrial peace
Denver reports that the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union CIO is negotiating at three atomic plants, including Oak Ridge Tennessee, Paducah Kentucky, and Jamestown New York. Contracts signed for three years cover about 6000 workers with Union Carbide at Oak Ridge and Paducah, and Carborundum Metals at Jamestown. Negotiations continue with Goodyear Atomic at Portsmouth and Monsanto at Miamisburg.
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Denver
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers International Union
CIO Gays
Ohio
Oak Ridge
Union Carbide Nuclear Co
Paducah, Ky
Carborundum Metals Co
Jamestown, N. Y
Goodyear Atomic Corp
Goodyear Rubber
Portsmouth
Monsanto Chemical Co
Miamisburg
Peron Laid To Rest On Paraguayan Ranch 10th Anniversary
In Asuncion Paraguay Juan D Peron was driven to a ranch for interment marking the 10th anniversary of the coup that brought him to the Argentine presidency. The ceremony underscores a historic milestone as supporters recall his rise amid regional tensions.
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Asuncion
Paraguay
Juan D. Peron
Argentina
Hays questions Russian strength as overhyped
Rep. Wayne L. Hays of Ohio, visiting Russia, says the West overrates Soviet military power and cautions Russia could not sustain a major war logistically. He warns against concessions on German reunification or Red China’s UN entry, as he and others prepare for talks in Geneva and a tour of southern Europe and the Middle East.
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Germany
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
Russia
House
Rus
Hays
Lester B. Pearson
Geneva
China
United Nations
Foreign Affairs Committee
State Department
Rome
Italy
Israel
Spain
Young hunter dies in accidental shooting near Mason County
Wyoma Ridge 13 year old Harold Monroe Lee died instantly from a shotgun blast while climbing over a fallen tree trunk to pursue a rabbit on the Glen Pearson farm near his home. Mason County coroner Dr. Edna Gettles ruled it an accidental shooting after the single barrel gun discharged. The boy, a Wyoma school seventh grader, had urged to go hunting despite warnings from his mother and grandparents. The family heard the shot during breakfast around 7 to 8 am. the grandfather later found the boy near the fallen tree.
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Point Pleasant
Wyoma Ridge
Harold Monroe Lee
Audrey Nibert Lee
Wyoma School
Sin
Edna Gettles
Mason County
Young Lee
Glen Pearson
Harry M. Nibert
Woman clings to tree as rescuers fail near Redding river
In the Saugatuck River, a woman held a tree for six hours as 30 rescuers tried to reach her. Exhausted, she let go 20 feet from shore after a car with her husband sank. He is believed drowned. she survived. Local residents identified as Edward A. Phoenix and wife of Redding.
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Redding, Conn
Saugatuck
Edward A. Phoenix
Redding
Albert Venning
West Redding
Life a Failure Note Found on Taos Bank Robber
FBI shot dead a 24 hour bank robber identified as Thomas Keith Fisher of Akron after a bank hold up in Taos New Mexico. The getaway money was recovered and a suicide note on the body claimed a failed life and requested guns be sent to his father if he did not survive.
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Taos, N. M
FBI
Thomas Keith Fisher
Akron
First State Bank of
Taos
Bomblike Oil Blast Kills 3 In Oklahoma
In Wilson Oklahoma a vintage oil field blast killed three oil well shooters and injured six others. About 100 quarts of nitroglycerin exploded with a force like a 5000 pound bomb as workers prepared to loosen underground oil sand. Police believe a wire touch could have triggered the detonation.
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Wilson
Okla
Oklahoma City
Slaver Faces Trial in Sanity Hearing
Otto A. Loel, a 44 year old once listed among the FBI's 10 Most Wanted, faces a sanity hearing in Oklahoma City to determine if he is mentally responsible for the stabbing death of California housewife Elizabeth Jeanne Henderson. Henderson, 31, was found stabbed 13 times in a Comp ton motel on January 10, 1954. Loel told psychiatrists he fought with her but had no memory of the slaying. He claimed a cross country trip with Henderson began after meeting her in a California bar.
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Oklahoma City
Otto A. Loel
California
Loel
FBI
Sanford
Fla
Boy Held in Theft Of Valuable Nickel
A 15 year old Lima boy is being held for questioning in the theft of an 1882 Liberty Head five cent piece valued at $5000. The nickel is a rare proof coin, one of nine minted and never placed in circulation, not listed in catalog logs.
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Lima
Floods Fade Yet Rain Persists Across Northeast States
The region endures renewed rainfall forecasts for Monday and Tuesday as flood losses rise. 38 lives feared dead across six states with millions in property damage. About 6900 families affected, including 3200 in Connecticut and 1500 in New York and New Jersey. Transportation crippled, factories flooded, and rescues ongoing by air and water. Connecticut remains hardest hit with 15 dead or presumed dead, plus major plant shutdowns in Naugatuck affecting 5000 workers.
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Associated Press
American Red Cross
Connecticut
New York
New Jersey
Pennsylvania
U. S. Weather Bureau
Boston
Massachusetts
Rhode Island
Fairfield County
Waterbury
Diane
New York State
Weather Bureau
Adirondacks
Mohawk
Red Bank
N. J
Vermont
Katie
Haiti
Dominican Republic
U. S
Naugatuck
Rhodes Hopes Check Will Augment Funds
State Auditor James A Rhodes hopes a $201334 check to the U S government may help Ohio secure more than a million dollars in federal old age pension funds. The Ohio payment was the largest of 689624 81 mailed to settle 107 claims approved by the sundry claims bill.
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Columbus
James A. Rhodes
U. S
Ohio
President Eisenhower Advances In Recovery Amid Defense Talks
President Eisenhower progresses in convalescence at Fitzsimmons Army Hospital as defense officials led by Secretary Wilson and Adm. Radford join him in a military affairs conference. Daily cardiograms end due to steady improvement while Col. Mattingly prepares to take post at Walter Reed Hospital.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Wilson
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Fitzsmans Army Hospital
Col
Thomas W. Mattingly
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
Capital
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Gallipolis Glouster
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