Adlai Plans Four More Radio Talks in 1960 Campaign
Adlai Stevenson expands radio and television outreach aiming for at least four additional fireside chats as he fights Eisenhower's campaign surge. Volunteers from about 30 states rally to back Stevenson while GOP plans to saturate airwaves are debated.
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Adlai Stevenson
Dwight Eisenhower
Radiotelevision
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Courthouse Square
Stevenson High Command
Chicago
Eisenhower
George Ball
Washington
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New York
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Colorful Show Opens in Hills of Northeast Iowa
The northeast Iowa road show presents matinee performances featuring Golden Maple and Sumac as leading figures with Sturdy Oak in a dignified role. Supporting cast includes Birch, Hickory, and Walt families with Ever Breens in a steady, unchanging presence. Stage design emphasizes natural settings and dramatic lighting by Sol while the Producer crafts props like pumpkins and cornfields for visual impact.
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Iowa
Guttenberg
Golden Maple
Sumac
Cottonwood
Milkweed
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Bevanites Fail To Force Cuts In Arms Budget At Labour Meet
Labor Party leader Clement Attlee's moderates repelled a Bevanite bid to cut rearmament spending at the annual convention. The Bevan-tinged Shop Distributive and Allied Workers union proposed reduce arms outlay to fund exports and social programs, but delegates voted 3,644,000 to 2 in favor of the moderates. The report notes Bevanites showed unexpected strength.
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Morecombe
England
Clement Attlee
Aneurin Bevan
Union of Shop, Distributive and Allied Workers
Britain
Ball
Stevenson
Embassy Handles Its Employes with Gloves
The U S embassy in Manila issued a bulletin urging all staff to observe precise office hours from 8 am to noon and 1 pm to 6 pm. It noted many arrive by 8 30 and said there was a misunderstanding about working hours.
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Manila
U. S
Chancery
British Atom Test Reported Off Australia
The London Evening News said the first British atomic explosion test occurred at the Monte Bello islands off Australia. Prime Minister Churchill flew to Scotland to brief Queen Elizabeth on the event.
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London
London Evening News
Monte Bello Islands
Australia
Churchill
Scotland
Polio New Case Drop Signal Turning Point
The Public Health Service reported a 16 percent drop in infantile paralysis cases for the week ended Sept 27, totaling 3,638 new cases. Officials said the decline likely marks a turning point in the outbreak.
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Washington
iPublic Health Service
Tea Rationing Ends in Britain After Twelve Years
London AP reports Britain will lift tea rationing this Sunday as price controls on tea are scrapped. Food Minister Geoffrey Lloyd George announced the change, marking the end of a 12 year restriction.
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London
Britain
Geoffrey Lloyd George
Farmhand 37 Kills Himself and Two Daughters in Marion
A 37 year old Marion farm hand Howard Ensley Matthews separated from his wife took his life and the lives of his two young daughters Dianna 7 and Cleo in a car parked near their home on the Adolph Boyson farm northwest of Marion. Coroner Robert Brosh said the trio died of carbon monoxide fumes about 12 30 a m. Matthews had run a hose from the exhaust through the left front window while the car sat with ignition on. Bader the farm owner found the bodies at about 6 10 a m Thursday.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion
Howard Ensley Matthews
Dianna
Cleo
Robert Brosh
Brosh
Harlan Snyder
Matthews
Adolph Boyson
Alburnett Road
Snyder
Arnold Bader
Bader
Linn County
Delaware County
Cehild
Stalin says Soviet won t attack capitalist nations
Stalin in Bolshevik article declares the USSR will not strike capitalist states while predicting inevitable wars among those powers. He argues Western democracies are tied to American rule and will seek to escape U S influence, framing world peace efforts as temporary. The piece coincides with a looming party congress in Moscow.
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Break Foiled In Prison Riot
In CHEIU ISLAND Korea US authorities say a riot by prisoners of war was a signal for a mass breakout of 5884 Chinese Reds. Major General Herren said troops moved in and broke the revolt with 56 rioters killed or fatally wounded and more than 100 injured.
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Cheiu Island
Korea
Thomas W. Herren
U. S
Trapper’s 15 Bears Fail to Draw Ike in Ashland
Ashland Wisconsin hoped to welcome General Dwight Eisenhower with a photo at a freezer staged display after Harry Hultman trapped 15 bears at a one a day pace. Eisenhower’s visit was canceled leaving plans in ashes and the town disappointed.
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Ashland
Wis
Harry Hultman
Dwight Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Fall Election Registration Opens Before Oct 25
City Clerk Maude Krebs reminds residents that registration for the November 4 general election closes ten days before election day. In person registration required, with address changes handled for families by one member. Registration hours are 3 AM to 5 PM weekdays and 9 AM to noon Saturdays.
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Maude Krebs
Thirteen Soldiers Escape Fort Dix Stockade
Thirteen soldiers escaped overnight from Fort Dix New Jersey stockade by tunneling 25 feet from their barracks to a fence. Nine prisoners remained at large as the escape was discovered in the early morning.
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Fort DIX
N. J
Yankees Tie World Series With 7 1 Victory over Dodgers
Brooklyn game recap notes New York Yankees 7 Dodgers 1 as Yanks rally with five runs in the sixth inning on a two on homer by Martin. Raschi toed the mound for the Yankees while Erskine started for Brooklyn. Play by play covers early innings and key defensive plays.
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New York Yankees
Brooklyn Dodgers
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Yankees
Erskine
Dodgers
Raschi
Yanks
Eisenhower Caps Illinois Visit With Rousing Welcome
General Dwight Eisenhower drew a crowd of about 20 000 in Champlin, Illinois, as he arrived in Adlai Stevenson’s back yard. In Urbana Champaign he urged youth support and warned on Korea, calling for Asian forces to bear front line duties with U S aid and urging a strong peaceful world order. He tied Lincoln’s cooperative leadership to his call for unity and restrained government, thanking Stevenson and visiting Lincoln’s tomb before a 16 000-strong crowd.
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Dwight Eisenhower
Illinois
Cham
Adlai Stevenson
University of Illinois
Korea
Mantle
Wood
Ling
Erskine
Berra
Loes
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Courthouse
Springfield
Demos Expecting Full House for Dinner Tonight
Cedar Rapids Democrats anticipate a full house at C.S.P.S. hall for a fund raising dinner honoring Joseph Mekota and featuring Sen. Estes Kefauver of Tennessee. The dinner starts at 6 36 p m with tickets at five dollars a plate as Kefauver plans to arrive by plane from Centerville after a 2 p m speech.
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Linn County
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Joseph Mekota
C.S.P.S. Hall
Third Street SE
Kefauver
Municipal Air- Inort
Centerville
Ouster Planned for Underworld Figures
Attorney General McGranery announced a plan to strip naturalized aliens of U S citizenship and deport them for involvement with organized crime. He said the effort could affect close to 100 figures in the underworld and related networks.
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Washington
McGranery
Herschel Loveless
Ottumwa
M. P.heagan
Dubuque
Bombs found near American embassy in Tokyo
Japanese police discovered three crude fire bombs in a vacant lot beside the wall of the American embassy compound, staging a security alert in Tokyo.
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