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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Nov 14, 1956
Page
1
Passive resistance continues across Hungary as workers stay home and factories idle. Rumors swirl that Yugoslavia’s Tito may intervene to end the stalemate while Russian tanks patrol Budapest and journalists join the general strike.
In Montgomery Alabama conflicting signals emerge as activists request a federal injunction to keep the car pool running while predicting a mass meeting at a Negro church to decide the boycott's fate. The case involves Judge Frank M Johnson Jr and ongoing federal court actions over desegregation measures.
London and Cairo radio reported about 60,000 destitute after the British and French attack on Port Said. The Ministry of Social Affairs aims to provide aid to refugees while the Health Ministry seeks help from international organizations.
In Dayton area Fairborn a woman confronts bus station owner Olg Smythe asking about the next bus. He asks where she is headed and she replies it is none of his business in a terse exchange.
Dag Hammarskjold awaited word from Hungarian authorities on leading a U N relief mission into revolt torn Hungary as Imre Horvath rejected an I N A team visit. The General Assembly backed Hungary queries 62 9 and plans to take up the issue without the committee. The U S urged the assembly to act asserting duty to address the Hungarian question while Moscow insisted the matter was internal. Aid donations streamed in from several nations amid the crisis.
Report on the Supreme Court ruling that bus segregation is unconstitutional in Montgomery Alabama. Reactions include Susie McDonald and three other Negro women who challenged laws, with praise from Martin Luther King Jr. and mixed responses from Southern officials and Klansmen amid protests.
President Eisenhower said the United States would oppose any Soviet or Chinese Communist volunteers intervening in Egypt, potentially at the United Nations. He noted the opposition’s form would depend on the circumstances as reports circulated of up to 50,900 Soviet volunteers ready to move into the Middle East.
The Soviet government allows service in the Middle East if requested and would not block volunteers. This week El Kony said more than 0,000 Soviet citizens had applied for permission to join Egypt’s forces.
White House warnings say any new armed forces into Egypt would breach the UN Charter. Eisenhower declines a unilateral US stance while affirming US support for UN actions. Reports cite Nasser resisting UN troops and potential Soviet volunteers. 250,000 Red volunteers reported. rallies and enrollments noted in Indonesia and Afghanistan.
Governor Frank J. Lavsehe announced a special session for November 26 to seek a law enabling the state to seize and operate a public utility in case of a strike during an emergency.
UN police units staged in CAPODICHINO Italy delayed departure to Cairo by at least 24 hours as political and supply issues punctuate the buildup. More than 300 soldiers arrived, with observers from Palestine aiding cease fire lines near El Cap and Ismailia. Britain France and Israel stance complicates arrangements, while Hungary relief work shifts attention.
Mexican coast guard and Texas shrimpers clash over territorial fishing rights. Capt. Tom Wilson of the shrimp boat Pescadora was lightly wounded by rifle fire and may be flown to Brownsville, Texas. A hearing will decide whether the ship and crew face charges or release.
Buford Ga Five Rock Prison convicts involved in a fresh outbreak of self mutilation did not claim they were protesting alleged brutal treatment or oppressive working conditions state prison director said. They smashed their legs Monday with 20 pound ers while returning to the quarry after a rest period and hid behind a rock during a two day outbreak.
A Nickel Plate Railroad freight train struck a car driven by Mrs. Melvin Gustwiller of Stanley in Henry County on Tuesday. The impact killed her 5 month old son Jerry and left her 5 year old son Kenneth injured, both taken to Defiance Hospital.
A humorous observation notes that crossing the international date line in the Pacific can erase a day, and mentions a highway line where an even bigger day loss is possible.
Cincinnati AP. Detective Eugene Moore testified Lyons admitted stabbing Hyde Park woman Mrs Audrey Evers Pugh after a fake fingerprint was shown. The witness said Lyons grew emotional, then said yes I stabbed her, later recanted. Coroner Dr Frank Cleve land displayed wounds not from household knives. Lyons is charged with murder after being arrested 45 days later following May questioning.
Authorities in Nicosia announced the killing of two Greek Cypriots. One was an un suspects rebel shot while trying to seize a gun. He was held at a police camp at Xeros on the island's north coast. The other victim, Andreas Papapaviou, a grocer, was shot by two gunmen in a market on the outskirts of Nicosia.
Joey Fillar of Wilmerding seeks sight like other kids. Lions Club funded glasses and ongoing eye treatment at the Pennsylvania Vision Institute in Pittsburgh. Surgeons anticipate multiple operations over about a year with potential full sight by Christmas 1957. Lions Club pledges over $500.
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