Mixed races attend several Southern schools as integration unfolds
Across the South, Black and white students began attending mixed classes with limited incidents while authorities defer opening dates in some districts. In Kentucky Fulton High and Nelson County schools opened quietly, Arkansas delays at Little Rock linger, and tension rose in Van Buren with hostile signs but no violence. Oklahoma reports thousands in integrated classes. Texas schools start without major trouble. Virginia and others pause.
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Iceland Press Demands Severance Over British Fishing Row
Icelandic newspapers condemn British naval actions in a fishing dispute. Demonstrations near the British ambassador's residence followed clashes between British trawlers with frigates and Icelandic coastguard units inside Iceland's 12 mile limit. Premier issue calls vary from severing relations to negotiation.
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Thedvilijinn
Ludwig Josephsson
Pippin
Coast Guard
Holiday Fishing Tragedy Claims Four on Lake Erie
Coast Guard crews search Lake Erie waters east of Conneaut for three missing men after a Labor Day fishing trip ended in a 14 foot motorboat wreck. One body, Terrill Grammer, 30, washed ashore at Mill Creek, about 25 miles east.
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Ohio
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Coast
Lake Erie
Here
Mill Creek
Terrill Grammer
Dispute Closes Inland Steel Plant in Indiana Harbor
A relocation dispute over a company garage halted Inland Steel Co. at the Indiana Harbor works in East Chicago Indiana and idled about 19 000 workers today.
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Chicago
Ind
Indiana Harbor Works
Inland Steel Co
Col Frederick Palmer Dies at 86 Noted Foreign Correspondent
Charlottesville Virginia obituary reports Col Frederick Palmer 86 a famed foreign correspondent of the turn of the century and World War I era died Tuesday in Charlottesville.
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Charlottesville
Frederick Palmer
Dulles Readies China Crisis Study for Ike
Vice Admiral Roland Smoot, commander on Formosa, said U S help is coming to meet the communist threat to Quemoy and Matsu as artillery presses the offshore islands. He refused to detail aid or a defense commitment, while Eisenhower officials declined comment.
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Formosa
U. S
Roland N. Smoot
Eisenhower
Newport
James C. Hagerty
Smoot
Quemoy
Matsu
Hagerty
U. S. Taiwan
Pescadores Islands
Quemoy Islands
Ike Signs 107 Bills and Vetoes 12
President Eisenhower signed 107 bills and vetoed 12 in a wave of measures. The major actions include tax relief for small business, cuts in excise taxes for air taxis whisky distillers and movie tickets, and a higher national debt limit. A $887.4 million four year education aid program boosts federal support and student loans for college students.
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Newport
R.I
Eisenhower
U.S
Bender Ignores Senate Rackets Committee Visit
George H. Bender, former Ohio senator and Teamsters paid investigator, defends himself against what he calls a frosty reception by the Senate Rackets Committee. He denies political obligation or Teamster payroll ties and says reports of campaign contributions were false. The committee may soon summon Hoffa aide William Presser to testify in Cleveland.
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George H. Bender
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Bender
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James R. Hoffa
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Teamsters
William Presser
Hoffa
Ohio
Presser
Cleveland
Dulles Reviews China Crisis Ahead of Key Report
Secretary of State Dulles concludes a close three day study of the China crisis. He meets with the Joint Chiefs of Staff to weigh whether the United States will defend Quemoy and Matsu and other offshore islands near Formosa. Eisenhower will confer with Dulles in Newport.
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Dulles
Eisenhower
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Nathan Twining
Defense Department
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R. I
State Department
Pentagon
United States
Quemoy
Matsu
China
Formosa Strait
U. S
Formosa
Red China
Dayton Boy Attacked In Severe Bicycle Trampling Incident
Eight year old Robert Skinner Jr of Dayton was beaten run over three times by a bicycle and dragged along a railroad track by two youths aged 10 and 12. He is in serious condition at St Elizabeth Hospital with a amputated nose and multiple injuries.
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Dayton
Robert Skinner, Jr
Robert
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Eisenhower Veto Blocks Cooper Tire Grant
President Eisenhower vetoed a 616 312 dollar congressional grant to Cooper Tire and Rubber Co of Findlay Ohio. The firm claimed losses on seven Army contracts at the start of the Korean War.
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Newport
R& I
Eisenhower
Cooper Tire and Rubber Co
Findlay
Ohio
Ohio man skis across Lake Erie by homemade ski kite
Alphonse Woodall of Cleveland rode a speed boat tugging a large kite to sail 31 miles from Point Pelee in Canada to Cedar Point in the United States. He bounced in cold waves twice but stayed aloft an hour and 40 minutes. His wife in Cleveland exclaimed Oh boy, he made it.
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Sandusky
Lake Erie
Canada
United States
Alphonse Woodall
Point Pelee
Cedar Point
Woodall
Florida
Cleveland
Police Keep Mobs Down In London
London rioting persisted for a fourth night as police squared off with white mobs in Notting Hill and surrounding areas. Fifty nine arrests marked the largest roundup since tensions between whites and Caribbean immigrants flared nearly two weeks earlier. A calypso club in Bayswater was attacked with gasoline bombs as police with dogs restored order and battled rioters, with rocks and fire bombs entering nonwhite homes.
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Commonwealth
Scotland Yard
Notting Hill
Bayswater
Akron Woman Indicted In Slaying Of Son
Eleonora Avis Conklin of Akron Ohio was indicted by the Cambria County grand jury on murder charges for smothering her 3 year old son Gary at a Cambria County motel on August 8. She was arrested after a suicide attempt.
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Ebensburg
Eleonora Avis Conklin
Akron
Ohio
Cambria County Grand
Gary
Father protests ward of court in custody ruling
In Los Angeles Cheryl Crane’s father accuses the Superior Court of making the girl a ward of the court without an opportunity to petition for custody. He argues procedural fault in the custody decision.
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Los Angeles
Cheryl
Crane
Superior Court
Canton's Public Schools Start Special Study for Exceptional Children
Canton launches a program for exceptional children in grades three to seven with 385 tested and 209 selected. The students will be spread across three schools and integrated with regular classes for gym, music, assemblies, and recess. They share a strong interest in reading.
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Canton
Board of Education
U.S. Pushes Four-Point Space Plan At United Nations
The United States proposes to the UN General Assembly a four point plan to ensure space is used for peace and mankind. It calls for a special UN committee to study steps, a peace uses declaration separate from disarmament talks, a formal endorsement of peaceful utilization, and support for creating international machinery to achieve these aims.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
UN Assembly
Assembly
Youth's Death Unjustified in Akron Shooting
Akron Ohio police officer Earl Elliott shot and killed Richard Lee Martin 16 during a burglary arrest. Coroner William Pit tenger called the death unjustified while Police Chief Harry Whiddon said the action was legal. Prosecutor John Ballard to decide today on charges. Police said Martin and a 15 year old fled after the arrest and Elliott fired when he went to a phone for a cruiser. The Martin youth had a juvenile delinquency record.
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Akron
Ohio
Smmitt County
William J. Pittenger
Harry Whiddon
John Ballard
Earl Elliott
Pittenger
Elliott
Richard Lee Martin
Elliot
Martin
Weather Outlook OHIO AND WEST VIRGINIA SHOWERS THUNDERSHOWERS
Ohio skies expect thundershowers tonight and Thursday with warm spell. West Virginia sees scattered showers and cloudiness, especially in Ohio Valley tonight and Thursday, followed by a cool down into the weekend and a gradual warming trend next week.
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Ohio
West Virginia
Ohio Valley
Ohlo
Gibbons Testimony At Senate Probe Sparks Clash
Washington report says Harold J. Gibbons faced sharp questions from Robert F. Kennedy and John L. McClellan over links to violence during the 1953 Yellow Cab strike in St Louis. Kennedy accused Gibbons of offering only generic protests while witnesses tied to Teamster locals described incidents.
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Washington
Teamsters
Harold J. Gibbons
Robert F. Kennedy
Senate Labor Rackets
Gibbons
Teamsters Union
St. Louis
Kennedy
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Final Holiday Toll Shows 420 Killed on Highway
CHICAGO The final Labor Day week count from the National Safety Council reports 420 highway deaths, plus 114 drownings and 87 other fatalities from fires and plane crashes during the holiday period.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Truman Warns of Real Danger From Soviet War Preparations
Former President Harry S. Truman told the American Legion convention that the Soviet Union has been preparing for war since 1945 and that the United States trails in arms and missiles. He warned of a very real crisis in the missile age and urged readiness for war.
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Chicago
Harry S. Truman
Soviet Union
Truman
United States
National Convention of the
American Legion
Buck the horse saved after 45 minute trestle standoff
An eight year old boy watches as Buck the horse is rescued from a railroad trestle near Northridge California. Firemen and track workers place a torpedo warn the engineer. Seven firemen cradle Buck as they lift him off the ties. Buck is unhurt except for a scratched leg. The freight train arrives 45 minutes late.
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Northridge
Calif
Southern Pacific
Denny Hayes
Denny
Buck
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