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Newspaper
Middletown Journal
Location
Middletown, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Oct 08, 1956
Page
10
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In Rome and Vatican City the 17th century pope Innocent XI was beatified in St. Peter's Basilica. Pope Pius XII praised him as reformer and defender of church rights. The beatification drew over 35,000 worshippers as his body lay in a crystal coffin before the altar of St Sebastian.
In East Pakistan's Dacca twenty four people were injured as rival groups supporting joint and separate elections for Hindus and Muslims clashed. Police used clubs to quell the disturbance after a meeting favored by joint voting was disrupted. The government banned public meetings and the Pakistan Parliament weighs separate or joint voter rolls for the two major communities.
Rep. Adam Clayton Powell of New York declares he cannot campaign for either Adlai Stevenson or Eisenhower as a Negro. He urges Abyssinian Church parishioners to think as Americans first and avoid party alignment, questioning how he can campaign for either candidate.
A party worker was jailed amid complaints that pamphlets violated a city ordinance. A speaker urged the audience to elect Republicans O'Neill and Deidre O'Neill and Socialist Labor candidates while urging voters to write Eric Haas across ballots, though not counted.
Radio Peiping reports that China will provide Nepal with 0 million Indian rupees about $12,650 in economic aid over three years. Nepal currently receives about 1 million dollars annually in US aid, a policy seen as aligning with India.
Maud Allan, famed for the controversial Salome portrayal with a papier mache John the Baptist head, is dead at 76 after nearly two years bedridden. Born in Toronto in 1880, she moved to California as a child and rose to international fame in 1908 before ending her stage career after a 1938 auto accident.
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