French Build Up as Nasser Talks Loom in Suez Crisis
Thousands of French troops boarded ships for the Mediterranean as talks between Nasser and a five nation committee approach. The Pasteur sails with 4,300 men to Algeria, with Cyprus base plans and preparations under way. A spy-ring crackdown in Cairo leads to British diplomat expulsions and Egyptian executions.
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Cairo
Egypt
Mediterranean
Nasser
Pasteur
Marseille
France
Algeria
Paris
Cyprus
Ritain
Suez Canal
Britain
Robert G. Menzies
Australia
London
United Nations
Suez
Virgil Moore
U. S. State Department
Menzies Group
United States
Sweden
Iran
Ethiopia
al Akhbar
James Swinburn
Charles Pittuck
James Zarb
John B. Flax
James G. Gove
New Raids On Border Hushed Up
Egypt reported to the United Nations three serious clashes with Israel, while Cairo minimized the events for its own public. The U N truce observers counted Egyptian casualties and noted Israeli withdrawals after raids near Gaza Rafah El Auja and the Sinai border. Israel meanwhile reported its own casualties from a land mine incident.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Egypt
Cairo
U.N
Sckbers
Gaza
Rafa
Gaza Strip
el Auja
Sinai
Negev
Drowns Three Teens in River Crash Near Zanesville
In Muskingum River south of Zanesville three teenagers died after their car left a county road, plunged down a 40 foot embankment, and flipped landing nose down in six feet of water. Driver Melvin Siders 16, Gary Spillman 16, and Janice Walker 14 all of Zanesville perished. A motorist nearby alerted authorities.
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Zanesville
Ohio
Muskingum River
Here
Melvin H. Siders
Gary Spillman
Janice Walker
Painting Debate Sparks Home Dilemma
Chuckle joke features Chuckle Joe and Jim arguing over wall color with Joe liking greer and his wife preferring yellow. Jim quips about doing the job again and choosing yellow.
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Joe
Greer
Jim
U S and Red China Earn Calm Exchange Over Downed Patrol Plane
A joint State and Defense Department release blamed Red China for the Aug. 22 shoot down of a Navy P4M Mercator over international waters near China. Sixteen crewmen are believed dead, with only two bodies recovered, while both sides used restrained language and cited possible navigational error.
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John A. Scali
Washington
United States
Red China
China Coast
State and
Defense Department
Sake Island
Lake Ontario
Chinese Main and
Red
China
Mystery Slaying Of Ballet Clerk In Greenwich Village
New York police hunted the killer and motive in the knife death of Pleiades Fieldgrove 26 found in a Greenwich Village courtyard. The Brooklyn native and ballet student worked as a clerk, left her two-room flat Thursday night, and was found stabbed with a purple dress, red ballet slippers, and a bloodstained girdle nearby. Police suspected rape but found no sign of a struggle. family details provided no clues.
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New York
Pleiades Fieldgrove
Greenwich Village
Othe Villene
Brunette
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Ion Pipe Manufacturing
John
Emma
Lois
Jane
Socialite Robert Chatfield Dies From Carbon Monoxide
Autopsy confirms carbon monoxide poisoning as the cause of death for 32 year old socialite Robert Chatfield. His body was found in a closed garage of a friend. Police say Robert Bellucci discovered the body in Chatfield's sports car in the Bellucci garage upon returning from vacation.
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Cinicinati
Robert Chatfield
Robert Bellucci
Chatfield
Bellucci
Case Of The Slipped Discs Hats Spark London Standoff
Moscow says Nina Ponomareva, 27, Olympian, may be in London while police search for her on shoplifting charges. The Soviet embassy claims immunity, while British officials insist on due process amid sharp editorials labeling the affair a provocation and a political frame-up.
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London
Moscow
Nina Ponomareva
Nina
Moscow Radio Today
British Foreign Office
Communist Daily Worker
Pravda
Oxford University
Leningrad
Soviet Union
Daily Mirror
Daily Sketch
Foreign Office
Air Force Weather Plane Crashes in Alaska
A four engine Air Force weather plane crashed on a tiny Susitna River island 50 miles northwest of Anchorage. Ten crew members were killed and one more is believed dead. The Eielson AFB aircraft left from Fairbanks as helicopters landed on a mud bank near the wreckage. Names of the crew were withheld.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Air Force
Susitna River
Air Force Deploys Goats to Clean Poison Ivy on Island
The Plattsburgh Air Force Base released five goats including a billy and four nannies on Crab Island in Lake Champlain. Helicopters will drop food to sustain them through winter as the island is prepared for recreation, with the goats eating poison ivy on the island.
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Plattsburgh
N. Y
Air Force
Plattsburgh Air Force Base
Crab Island
Lake Champlain
Milling Mob Breaks Up After Tennessee Riots
A several hundred strong angry mob in Clinton Tennessee halted traffic and chanted against school integration after a presegregation speech. No injuries or arrests were reported as National Guard or state patrol aid was sought but not sent. The incident followed similar unrest in Mansfield Texas and tied to court ordered school integration.
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Clinton, Tenn
Clinton High School
Mansfield
Tex
Texas Rangers
Clinton
W. E. Lewallen
National Guard
Asa Carter
Birmingham
Ala
Carter
North Alabama White Citizens Council
U. S. ‘Court
U.S
Robert L. Taylor
East
Tennessee
State Highway Patrol
Atty
Buford Lewallen
Ohio
Michigan
Glad Woodward
Oak Ridge
Joe K. Owens
Texas
U. S. Suh Circuit Court of Appeals At
Houston
Nixon's Dad in Whittier Tightens Battle With Illness
Vice President Nixon resumed bedside vigil in Whittier California as his gravely ill father Frank Nixon 77 shows slight improvement after Nixon flew from Washington D C Doctors say the elder Nixon remains very weak from a ruptured abdominal artery hemorrhaging stomach ulcer severe arthritis and arteriosclerosis and may die at any instant.
Paint Caused Death Of 23 Month Old In Cincinnati
The coroner's office reports that chewing paint off a window sill at the child's home caused the death of 23 month old Mark Walters in Cincinnati.
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Cincinnati
Mark Walters
Prices On Crops Take Sharp Dip
The Agriculture Department reports a 3 percent drop in farm prices from mid-July to mid-August, the sharpest since mid-1954, with year over year gains eroded. Benson notes declines are seasonal, driven by potatoes and vegetables, while cotton fruit and poultry show moderate dips.
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Washington
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Hong Kong Clamps Border To Refugee Inflow
Hong Kong shut its borders to refugees from Red China and required one emigrant leave for every admitted refugee. The government said facilities are at limit and housing is inadequate, with Hong Kong’s population rising from 1.85 million in 1949 to about three million. The Reds refused to halt the exodus.
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Hong Kong
China
New Volcano Erupts in Angola Endangers Iona Village
A new volcano eruption reported in south Angola showers lava and ash over the countryside near Iona. Planes spotted the activity. a jeep convoy has left for the remote settlement to assess the danger.
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Mossamedes
Angola
Iona
Stevenson Kefauver Campaign Attacks Eisenhower Image
Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver campaigned through five regional meetings with Democrats from 34 states, saying voters doubt Eisenhower's invincibility and focus on administration blunders in foreign policy. Republican leaders like Knowland and Simpson criticized Stevenson proposals and ADA backed the Stevenson-Kefauver ticket, warning against Nixon succession.
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Associated Press
Adlai Stevenson
Democratc
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Sen
Knowland
R-Calif
Senate
GOP
United States
Russia
Eisenhower May Seek Labor Support At Stamp Ceremony
President Eisenhower faces a possible bid for labor union support during a White House event to issue a Labor Day postage stamp. The AFL CIO Executive Council had endorsed Adlai Stevenson, and Hagerty said remarks would not be a major policy address. Eisenhower recalled the 1952 pre merger endorsement and praised those who resisted such a move.
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Richard Simpson
R-Pa
House Gop
Nixon
Americans For Democratic Action
Simpson
ADA
Stevenson-Kefauver
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Adlai Stevenson
Afl-Cio Executive Council
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Executive Council
AFL
CIO
Stevenson
Reunion of Quanah Parker descendants sparks bid to move chiefs grave
About 300 descendants gather in Lawton Oklahoma for a family powwow over moving Quanah Parker’s body from Post Oak Cemetery near Fort Sill to Fort Parker Texas. Neda Birdsong opposes the move, vowing to keep the remains in Oklahoma, while four of seven surviving children and Quanah’s widow Topay favor a relocation if needed. Quanah Parker, born to Cynthia Ann Parker, became Comanche chief after captured in Texas and died in 1911, buried beside his mother at Post Oak Cemetery.
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Lawton
Okla
Quanah Parker
Cythia Ann Parker
Post Oak Mission Cemetery
Ft. Sill
Ft. Parker
Tex
Neda Birdsong
Oklahoma
Quanah
Topay
Cynthia Ann
Mexia
Lawrence Sullivan Ross
Crowell
Poynor
Post Oak
Quanan
Cynthia
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Eielson Air Force Base
Fairbanks
Hawthorne
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