Civilian questioned over American citizenship claim in Berlin
In Berlin a civilian handed over by the Russians after seven years in Soviet labor camps was questioned by U S officials to verify his citizenship claim. Fredrick Charles Hopkins from New York City is under guard with two soldiers missing since 1948, awaiting medical exams as they face possible desertion charges.
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West Berlin
U.S
Frederick C. Hopkins
U.s.state Department
Murray Fields
Brooklyn
N.Y
Wilfred Kumis
Amesbury
Mass
Vienna
Berlin
U. S
Fredrick Charles Hopkins
New York City
Pvt
Wilfred €. Comnish
Cpl
Bayside
N. Y
Grishman
Hopkins
Army
Comnish
Arctic
Moscow
Court Rejects Restrainer On Vote Machines
Ohio Supreme Court refused to issue a restrainer to block a Cincinnati vote on a $3 million voting machine bond issue. Chief Justice Weygandt set Sept. 28 for oral arguments at John A. Benjamin’s request to halt the ballot question. Benjamin challenged legality of the bond and $1,500 cost to print and count ballots. Hamilton County election board had urged county commissioners to buy voting machines through a bond issue.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Cincinnati
Carl V. Weygandt
John A. Benjamin
Benjamin
Hamilton County Election Board
Hook Resigns Cabinet Post
DENVER President Eisenhower accepted the resignation of Charles R. Hook Jr. as deputy postmaster general effective Oct. 1. Hook said personal reasons compel his return to private business. He previously was VP in charge of personnel for the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad and is son of Charles R. Hook, chairman of Armco Steel Corp.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Charles R. Hook Jr
Hook
Post Office Department
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad
Charles R. Hook
Armco Steel Corp
Pilot lands crippled plane on Hamilton County farm
Miss Estalla Snyder, a Tiffin pilot, landed her crippled aircraft safely yesterday on a farm in Hamilton County after the plane was crippled in flight.
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Cincinnati
Estalla Snyder
Hamilton County
Gaza Front Tensions Drift as Peace Pledge Reinstated
Israel and Egypt grapple with a fragile Gaza frontier truce after a border clash left two Israelis dead and one captured. The UN armistice commission ruled both sides violated the 1948 accord in the Aug 22 incident as talks stalled and fighting continued.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Egypt
Gaza
Gaza Strip
U.N. Egyptian-Israel Armistice Commission
F. X. Giacomaggi
Giacomaggi
E. L. M. Burns
U.N
Agderaeleated Senk
Burns
Spirit Wins Over Flesh at 58th Episcopal Convention
In Honolulu the 58th Protestant Episcopal Church convention records show meetings lasting to 5 30 pm except Saturday. Deputies resisted the heavy schedule but granted it with weak unanimous consent amid Hawaii’s beaches and sunshine.
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Honolulu
Tropics
Protestant Episcopal Church
Hoosier Killed Near Hillsboro
Ora R. McKinney, 52, of Spurgeon Indiana, died in a crash eight miles east of Hillsboro Ohio when his car collided with a truck. Emerson Jones, 48, of Chillicothe, the truck driver, was not injured per state patrol.
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Hillsboro
Ohio
Ora R. McKinney
Spurgeon, Ind
Here
R. L. Jenkins
Emerson Jones
Chillicothe
Stevenson Attacks Eisenhower Policies Stir 1956 Debate
Sen Hickenlooper says Democrats would be on unsound ground attacking Eisenhower foreign policy in 1956 as Adlai Stevenson criticizes the president. Stevenson claims policies favor both wings of the party and fault farm programs while Hickenlooper defends the peacemaking approach and says allies view U S policy as sound.
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Washington
Sen
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower International
Look Magazine
Stevenson
Paul M. Butler
Europe
Release Approved In Geneva Free Americans From China
China informed the United States that nine American civilians in China, six of them women, were cleared to return home. Wang Ping-nan offered exit permits for two more immediately and another in two to three months as part of ongoing talks begun August 1 to free or permit exit for 41 Americans. The list includes Emma Barry, Ralph Boyd, Juanita Huang, Robert Parker, Howard and Mrs. Lischke Ricks, Eva Dugay, Nadesha Romanoff and Irene Romanoff, with Bishop Walsh and Pete Huizer also noted as free to leave on visa applications.
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Geneva
China
United States
Wang Ping-nan
U. S
U. Alexis Johnson
Wang
Emma Angelina Barry
Shanghai
Ralph Sharples Boyd
North American Syndicate
Washington, D.C
Juanita Byrd Huang
Southern Baptist
Mount Olive
Miss
Robert Howard Parker
Philadelphia
Howard Lischke Ricks
Bills Motors
Edward Walsh
Pete Huizer
Bank of America
Bishop Walsh
William C. Walsh
Cumberland
Maryland
Charles Sydney Miner
American Asiatic Underwriters
the Metropolitan Land Co
C. V. Starr Enterprises
Weather Outlook For Miami Valley Winds And Warm Temperatures
The Miami Valley faces windy conditions tonight and Wednesday with cooler temperatures. The forecast calls for fair warm weather today, a low in the 50s tonight, and a high around 85 on Wednesday. Labor Day peaked at 92 degrees at 2 50 p m, with a low of 64 at 7 a m today.
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Miami
Labor Day
Tropical storm Gladys spares Texas but threatens Mexico
Tropical storm Gladys weakened after passing near Tampico and drifted toward Mexico, threatening floods across a wide area. In Tampico half the city lost power, heavy wind damage and flooding affected low-lying districts, while the Rio Grande Valley remained alert for possible rises.
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Brownsville
Tex
Gladys
Mexico
Tampico
Texas
Weather Bureau
Rio Grande Valley
Burea
Rio Grande
Mexico City
Mexican
Panuco
Port Isabel
Galveston
del Rio
Alice
Flora Seen Not Threat to U S Coast as Hurricane Turns North
MIAMI Florida hurricane Flora curves away from the United States coast and is deemed not a threat by the Weather Bureau. Forecaster Cecil Gentry notes the storm should move north into an upper air current, remaining far from the mainland as it heads toward Bermuda.
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Miami
Fla. W
Flora
Atlantic
United States
Miami Weather Bureau
Cecil Gentry
Nantucket
Bermuda
Ohio Toll Is 39 29 In Traffic
Ohio logged 39 fatalities from Labor Day weekend auto crashes, with 29 deaths on roads. An Associated Press tally covers 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday and notes two Pennsylvania Railroad train crashes with no deaths, Buckeye Lake boat sinking, and a light plane crash near Springfield.
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Ohio
Associated Press
Pennsylvania Railroad
Bucyrus
Butkeye Lake
Manhattan Limited
Buckeye Lake
Springfield
Murderer Wilbert Coffin Bluffs Jail Escape
Wilbert Coffin, a 44 year old Quebec prospector sentenced to hang for murder, escaped prison using a soap gun and seized keys before surrendering after 144 hours. He sought a ride toward the Quebec bridge before the driver alerted authorities and Maher, his defense lawyer.
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Quebec
Wilbert Coffin
Gaspe
Coffin
Raymond Maher
Quebec Bridge
Maher
Gaston Labrecque
Richard Lindsey
Hollidaysburg
Hunter
Lindsey
Eugene
Albert Claar
Labor Day Driving Toll Tops Records Across Nation
Traffic deaths over Labor Day weekend reached 438, with 80 drownings and 90 other fatalities, totaling 608. The National Safety Council noted the toll stayed below 1951 records and urged continued safety efforts through year end amid an estimated 60 million motorists on 25 million vehicles.
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America
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Safety Council
Associated Press
Wait and See as Townsend Dodges Princess Margaret Question
Group Capt. Peter Townsend refused to discuss romance rumors with Princess Margaret at a Belgian Embassy cocktail party. Returning to Britain from Brussels he heads to Farnborough Air Show and will travel to London for the air attaches conference, while Princess Margaret leisure time at Balmoral with the royal family continues.
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London
Peter Townsend
Princess Margaret
Royal Air Force
Queenlizabeth II
Townsend
Britain
Brussels
Farnborough
Labor Day Weekend Claims 49 Canadian Deaths in Wrecks
Ottawa reports seventy two Canadians died violently during a three day Labor Day weekend. highway accidents caused 49 fatalities while eleven were drowned and twelve died by other causes. the toll nearly doubled from last year’s Labor Day total.
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Ottawa
Heat Wave Smashes Records In Los Angeles Area
LA endures a blistering heat wave with temperatures hitting 101 to 110 degrees across the week. The Weather Bureau forecasts a 105 degree peak downtown while smog alerts raise eye irritation concerns. The coroner reports 55 direct heat deaths and 280 additional natural deaths linked to heat, with crop damage in the millions.
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Los Angeles
Mercury
Sweet Mayhem in Blackpool as Man Fined for Candy Stick Attack
Brian Winter was fined five pounds after an incident in Blackpool England where he struck a man with a yard long candy stick. The court case noted the weapon measured four inches thick and the offense occurred Monday.
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Blackpool
England
Brian Winter
Man Hit By Car Dies In Ohio Patrol Area
Harry Benton Cook, 74, of Rt 3 Wheelersburg, was struck and killed by a car after alighting from a bus and starting to cross U S 52 five miles east of Sciotoville, near Portsmouth Ohio.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Harry Benton Cook
Rt. 3
Wheelersburg
iSciotoville
Miss America Time Gals Set For Atlantic City Battle
Forty nine contestants from across the nation gather in Atlantic City for the Miss America 1956 pageant opening tonight on the boardwalk. The field will be narrowed to 10 semifinals by Saturday, then five finalists, with Lee Meriwether crowning a successor for a $50 000 prize package.
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Atlantic City
Lee Anne Meriwether
San Francisco
New Mexico
Wyoming
Washington
Chicago
District of Columbia
Hawaii
Canada
Pennsylvania
Palm Ulrich
Sinking Spring
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