26 Sep 1955
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Newspaper
Indiana Evening Gazette
Location
Indiana, Pennsylvania, United States of America
Date
Sep 26, 1955
Page
1
The AP News features argue both slow poke and high speed drivers are dangerous. Parents struggle to ensure safe driving habits as professional driving schools and high school programs expand with the help of the American Automobile Association providing training, textbooks, and testing devices.
New York and Connecticut PTA groups push professional driving lessons where high school courses are absent. The program claims fewer accidents among graduates, highlights stopping distance at 30 mph of 78 feet, and notes benefits like earlier license eligibility in New York and easier car borrowing with a diploma. Parents report mixed effects, from improved driving signals to challenges with teen scrutiny.
Five Americans and one Belgian soldier arrived in Hong Kong today after long detention in Red China. Kanady, 36, of Houston. Parker, 83, Philadelphia native. Emme Angelina Barry, 13. Marcella Munsterman Huizer, Walcott Indiana. Eva Stella Dugay, 62, Boston nun Sister Theresa. plus Roger Dev Riendt. Kanady was gravely ill, treated for phlebitis, and hospitalized. The group were among 41 promised freedom at Geneva. 10 others remain detained. Sister Theresa reported with bronchitis and seasickness.
The first U S trade fair of the atomic industry opens today with a preview for newsmen. Government officials ambassadors and members of Congress will attend. Organized by the Atomic Industrial Forum the exhibit showcases peaceful nuclear energy developments. About a third of 73 reactor models and exhibits were shipped from Geneva to the Sheraton Park Hotel where the fair runs parallel to the forum’s three day annual meeting.
Mexico City reports Pulque, the traditional drink from the maguey plant, is being bottled for the first time. It aims for better grade bars, restaurants, and supermarkets with flavored varieties, while noting pulque as stronger than food. The article mentions other spirits Tequila and Mezcal and a note on plant diversity at Kew Gardens with 5,000 species.
Klause Friedrich Glaubitz, a 27 year old German interpreter, says Russians branded him Charles Hopkins, an American agent. He was handed to U S Army authorities in Berlin after years of questioning, and his father later identified him as the missing son.
Air Force rushed doctors and medical supplies to Iwo Jima as a typhoon lashed the garrison. No casualties reported. Pacific Stars and Stripes said base was 70 to 100 percent flooded. Prison camp in Russia details emerge from Glaubitz case and family ties. Glaubitz says he does not know of any service for American intelligence.
Richard Lupino cousin of Ida Lupino nearly suffocated during a stage murder scene at the Hollywood Repertory Theater in Dear Murderer. The gag pillow and gas were removed as the curtain fell and Lupino, 26, was revived by an ambulance attendant with smelling salts.
Allied sources report Erich Raeder, former Grand Admiral of Hitler’s navy, released from Spandau war crimes prison due to age and frail health after a life sentence. The notice also mentions Maxmillan, emperor of Mexico, once Archduke of Austria at birth.
Washington reports a U S offer to Egypt mirrors a Russian proposal to supply arms including flanks artillery jet fighters and ships. Egypt shows interest while seeking U S financial aid. Israel warns any expansion of Arab military capability threatens its security. Russia allegedly proposes barter using Egyptian cotton. U S has surplus cotton to trade.
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