Truman Targets Dulles and Ike in War Debate
President Truman assails Dulles and Eisenhower as he campaigns for Adlai Stevenson. He accuses Republican leaders of courting war risk with Russia and vows to keep the campaign train rolling, hinting at a 1956 bid and continued party support.
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Truman
Adlai Stevenson
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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W. Va
Russia
Europe
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Kremlin
Clarksburg
Stevenson
Crestline
Fatal Labor Day Weekend Traffic Toll in Ohio
The Associated Press reports 21 people died in Ohio traffic accidents during the Labor Day weekend from 6 p m Friday to midnight Sunday. The toll is two higher than last year. Total deaths across all causes reach at least 31, including four drownings and eight miscellaneous fatalities. John B. Risner, 66, died Saturday night from injuries after his pickup struck a tree in Vinton County.
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Associated Press
Ohio
John B. Risner
Vinton County
Horseman Charged in Traffic Fatality
WELCH West Virginia A horseman rode his horse over and fatally injured Oscar Christian 78 of Avondale. Bogue Waldron 30 of Avondale was charged with manslaughter after admitting he was riding the horse last Friday night when the incident occurred.
Plane Crashed Near Buckeye Lake Site Reported
State Highway Patrol and Civil Aeronautics authorities investigate reports of a plane crash dive into Buckeye Lake late Tuesday. Matty Brown the lake superintendent corroborated accounts of a high speed descent toward the water.
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State Highway Patrol
Civil Aeronautics Authorities
Buckeye Lake
Matty Brown
Brown
Eisenhower Sweeps South to Cheerful Rallies and Attacks
Dwight D. Eisenhower drew massive crowds in Atlanta Jacksonville and Miami as he campaigned across the South on a two day 3400 mile swing. Supporters cheered his denouncement of Truman era corruption while promising clear policies on peace inflation labor agriculture and graft.
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Ala
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Ike
Stevenson Plans Foundation Speeches Amid GOP Attacks
Gov Adlai Stevenson shuns direct response to Republican charges in Illinois. Instead he focuses on foundation speeches outlining farm policy and major issues. Senator Everett Dirksen led the GOP attack in Springfield, while Stevenson prepares a farm policy speech in Kasson Minnesota en route to Wyoming Montana and the Pacific Coast.
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Pacific Coast
Storm Grounds UN Warplanes and Hits Sinanju Airfield
A tropical storm grounded UN warplanes in Korea and lashed infantry as rain reached 3 inches. Fifth Air Force said only weather recon planes flew, while Allied fighters hit the Sinanju airfield 155 miles north of the Western Front, reporting 70 direct bomb hits and no Red planes seen. Seoul endured overnight gales, with winds around 69 miles per hour. Communist patrols and trouble surged along the front in the past 48 hours.
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Korea
U. S
Fifth Air Force
Sinanju
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Wholesale Food Price Index Holds Steady at High Level
New York reports the Dun & Bradstreet food index remained unchanged this week at 6.70, still near the year’s high after five weeks of increases. The index sits 1.8 percent below the 6.82 level a year ago, with the year’s low of 6.31 set on April 22.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet
Youth Dies In Cell Fire
A 20 year old mental hospital escapee Charles Crabtree of Obetz died in a cell fire he started at the county jail. He set fire after tearing padding from his cell and refused to leave as guards responded at 7:50 a.m. He had been brought to the jail from St Francis Hospital earlier in the week.
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Charles Crabtree
Obetz
St. Francis Hospital
Crabtree
Cleveland School Board Passes Dog Tags for Students
The Cleveland Board of Education voted Tuesday to offer dog tags as identification for school children.
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Cleveland
Board of Education
Prominent Engineer Questions Russian A-Bomb Claim
Carlton S. Proctor, president of the American Society of Civil Engineers, says he does not believe Russia possesses a single atom bomb and that Russia's atomic explosions were likely premature tests. He notes 1930 dam work near Leningrad and argues totalitarian states deter trust and cooperation.
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Russia
Carlton S. Proctor
New York
Proctor
American Society of Civil Engineers
U. S
White House
Svirstroy
Leningrad
Stepbrother Slays Youth In Argument
In Middletown Ohio Lester D Breese 13 was killed by a shotgun shot fired by his 14 year old stepbrother Charles E Long after an argument over a comb Deputy Sheriff Loren Justin said Long retrieved a shotgun from another room and shot Lester in the abdomen after the weapon misfired earlier.
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Lester D. Breese
Charles E. Long
Charles Walke
Dorothy Long
Loren Justin
Long
Charles
Lester
Rosalee
Rhodes Attacks Fergusen on Public Travel Costs
James A. Rhodes Republican nominee for state auditor accuses Ohio taxpayers of paying for State Auditor Ferguson's trips to upscale resorts. He cites Ferguson and an assistant spending 15 days at a Florida convention in 1947 and seven days at another New Jersey event that year.
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James A. Rhodes
Ohio
Joseph T. Ferguson
America
Rhodes
Columbus
Ferguson
Florida
New Jersey
Coal Diggers Remain Out of Pits Near Pittsburgh
Western Pennsylvania coal miners walked out again closing three Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp. mines near California, Pennsylvania, south of Pittsburgh. An official cited a month old grievance over dismissals as the walkout trigger.
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Jones and Laughlin Steel Corp
Steel Company
California
J&l
Auction of 16 flashy cars seized for back taxes begins
The Internal Revenue department starts auctioning 16 flashy cars seized for back income taxes. About 000 was claimed when 19 cars were taken.
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Cleveland
Internal Revenue Department
Coal miners face new contract talks with potential strike
John L. Lewis signals possible demands as United Mine Workers and anthracite industry resume talks on a new pact to replace the Sept. 30 agreement. If no deal by month end, a strike by hard coal diggers and 400000 soft coal miners looms amid production, safety, and wage policy discussions.
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John L. Lewis
Lewis
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UMW
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
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Wilkes-Barre
Pennsylvania
Kentucky
Tennessee
Utah
Route 35 crash kills two Gallia women
Two Gallipolis women died and three others were injured in a three car collision on Route 35 near Chickamauga state roadside park at 8:20 p.m. One woman died en route to Holzer Hospital and another died during surgery. Injured were Naida Carter, Donald Parsons, George Sutherland, and Harold Wright. Parsons and Sutherland, connected to electric and construction firms, were hospitalized with multiple injuries. Carter’s condition was good.
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Chickamauga State Roadside Park
Yvonne M. Slagle
Second Ave
Mary Alice Lupton
First Ave
Naida Jean Carter
Harold O. Wright
Wert
State Highway Patrol
Mise Siege
Parsons
Wright Auto
Wright
Miss Slagie
C. J. Waugh
Miss Lapton
Frank Wetherholt
George A. Hout
Route 35
Chickamauga Bridge
American Gas and Electric Corp
Sutherland
Soillitt Construction Co
South Bend
Ind
Appallachian
Ohio Power
DiSalle Plans Seven-Hour Talkathon Across Columbus Media
Michael V. DiSalle will talk for seven straight hours today on Columbus radio and television stations in a bid for the U S Senate seat. He will answer questions phoned in and invite Republican John W. Bricker to join the talkathon, with no questions screened and aims for bipartisan participation.
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Michael V. DiSalle
Toledo
U. S. Senate
John W. Bricker
DiSalle
Bricker
Freighter Hopeville Fire Kills Two, Burns Four
Fire swept the Norwegian freighter Hopeville early today in Norfolk harbor. Coast Guard and Navy men battled two hours to extinguish the blaze. The 440 foot 5300 ton ship carried manganese ore and mahogany logs. two foremen were killed and four crewmen burned. Names of the dead were not released.
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Coast Guard
Navy
Hopeville
Ex-Sailor Questioned in Slaying Case
A 22 year old former sailor held for questioning in the murder of Arthur Moore 61 of Connett was released after a lie detector test and alibi placing him in Coshocton at the time. Moore a World War I veteran with a wife and siblings was found strangled in an east side rooming house with hands and feet bound. Funeral services were held at Asbury Church with burial in Asbury Cemetery.
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Arthur Moore
Connett
Coshocton
Moore
Car E. Telbeck
Asbury Church
Carroll Chesser
Asbury Cemetery
Mabel Moore
Nelsonville
Norman
Cleveland
Beatrice Allison
Orwick
N. Y
Esther Kelley
Ashland
Ohio
Novice Leads Nevada Race
Tom Mechling, a Washington DC newspaperman, surged ahead of Alan Bible in Nevada’s Democratic Senate primary as counts narrowed. Bible led earlier, but Mechling gained statewide momentum with Southern Nevada returns supporting him while total ballots remaining were about 500.
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Reno
Tom
Bible
Mechling
Nevada
Martins Ferry Soldier Killed In Hillsville Crash
Pfc Cyril Edward Hicks of Martin's Ferry Ohio died Tuesday near Hillsville when his car went off a steep embankment and overturned.
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Hillsville
Cyril Edward Hicks
Martin's Ferry, O
Four Prisoners Escape Sparks Hunt in Athens County
Four inmates Zeke Holbert Ray Slaughter Ray Taylor and Jesse Jennings escaped early Tuesday by crawling through a jail window hole and moving through four bars. Sheriff Bateman and Deputy Porter concentrated searches in the eastern part of Athens County with sightings tied to a clothing theft near Guyaville. The jail’s overcrowding and shared bullpen conditions are cited as factors in the escape.
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Guyaville
George Bateman
Guyeville
Bernard Porter
Zeke Holbert
Zanesville
Ray Slaughter
Cleveland
Ray Taylor
Broadwell
Jesse Jennings
Giouster
Sherriff Bateman
Athens
Taylor
Connett
Utley
Holbert
Slaughter
Mansfield Reformatory
Sheriff's Department
Mt. Hermon
Jennings
Bateman
Crowded Boat Sinks on the Ganges Near Lucknow
In Lucknow, India eighty people, mainly women and children, drowned when an overloaded boat sank in the Ganges in mid stream. Few details were available as reports reached New Delhi.
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New Delhi
India
Ganges
Lucknow
Caudle witness sheds light in Justice probe
Justice Department probe leaders received new leads after Caudle testified for over five hours in a closed hearing. Rep. Chelf said more work lies ahead and the panel doubts finishing by October 1. Caudle, former top tax prosecutor, joined the department in 1945 and was fired last November for outside activity.
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Washington
T. Lamar Caudle
House Investigating Committee
Rep. Cheif
Dky
Caudie
Judiciary
Justice Department
Caudle
Truman
Chelf
Keating
R-N.y
Atty
Tom C. Clark
Supreme Court
Clark
J. Howard McGrath
Three Escape Lima Hospital
Three inmates from Lima State Hospital for the Criminal Insane fled last night after using two hostages to bluff guards. The men identified are John T. O Bant, John Auld, and Michael Chepak. authorities say they are fairly dangerous and an extensive search is underway.
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Lima
Lima State Hospital
John T. O’bant
South Bend
Ind
John Auld
Toledo
Michael Chepak
Youngstown
R. E. Bushong
Byrd Silent on Presidential Choice
Senator Harry F. Byrd of Virginia remains silent on his presidential choice amid the 1948 campaign. Analysts expect Byrd to maintain silence until after the November election, as he has opposed the Truman administration and did not join third party movements.
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Winchester
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
Truman
Byrd
Former Judge D J Barnes 83 Dies in Sidney
Sidney Ohio mourns former appellate court judge and Shelby County prosecutor J D Barnes age 83 who died Monday at his Sidney home. Barnes served as a county prosecutor and later on the state appellate bench.
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Sidney
C.—C
J. D. Barnes
Appellate Court
Shelby County
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