Freddy Mohler wins Akron soap box derby crown
A frail 14 year old from Muncie Indiana named Freddy Mohler won the Akron soap box derby with a 28 second run down the 9 75 foot slope, earning a 5000 college scholarship. His win came as fellow western entrants placed second to fourth while parents praised his perseverance through illness. The event drew sixty thousand spectators and benefited an Akron charity fund.
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Akron
Ohio
Freddy Mohler
Muncie
Ind
Ernest R. Mohler
Freddy
Bob Turner
Los Angeles
Dale King
Jon
Ronald Ford
Dale
Ronald
Freedom Village
Benjamin Conley
Columbus
Conley
Sixty Arrested in Cairo for Communist Propaganda
Sixty people accused of spreading Communist literature were rounded up in a large Cairo dragnet. Lt. Col. Gamal Abdel Nasser, interior minister, said raids seized duplicating machines and material, with a special military tribunal to try the detainees. He denied army officer involvement or dissension among leaders.
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CATRO
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Abdel Nasser
Cairo
Democratic Rally
Nasser
Hel
Mohamed Naguib
Faroul
Naguib
Canada Votes Today Liberals Set for Four More Years
Voters across Canada marked ballots in a widely expected Liberal victory. Sonia St. Laurent is seen securing four to five more years of power as the Progressive Conservative opposition doubts they can oust the premier. The Liberals held 181 seats to 43 for the Conservatives in the last Parliament, with 263 Commons seats at stake.
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Thomas
Carl Brisson
Toronto
Canada
Sonia St. Laurent
Liberal Party
Progressive Conservative
Tory
St. Laurent
Louis
House of Commons
George Drew
Drew
Liberals
W. L. Mackenzie King
Conservatives
Dixie States Picnic Cancer Guinea Pig Dies in Oklahoma
P. George T. Montgomery, 36, who joined the Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation after being told he had glandular cancer, died Sunday. His wife recently gave birth to a healthy boy a week early. A cancer specialist noted he refused sedatives in his final days to aid testing of treatments. The wife had asked for labor induction to ensure the father learned of his son’s birth. The event occurred Saturday in Bixby Park.
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Lahoma Ciyy
George T. Montgomery
Oklahoma Medical Research Foundation
Bixby Park
AFL Confab Opens Today in San Francisco
The California State Federation of Labor’s 51st convention opens today in San Francisco with about 1200 delegates. The body, representing 1,225,000 AFL members in the state, rejects claims of a Russian revolution after Stalin’s death and urges mutual security, economic cooperation, and joint programs amid the Soviet leadership change.
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San Francisco
California
Federation of ‘Labor
AFL
Federation
Labor
Russia
Stalin
Exship and Nationalism Support Among Colonial Populations
Fragmentary line cites exship and backing for nationalism among colonial populations. No clear event or date. Reads as a political or rhetorical reference within a broader discussion.
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Exship
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