Parliament Plans Settlement of Canada Rail Tieup
Ottawa reports the 124 000 rail workers strike threatens coast to coast disruption. Parliament plans emergency legislation to order resumption of traffic and authorize actions to move rail services, with arbitration debated and a weekend restart anticipated.
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Ottawa
Canada
Canadian National
Canadian Pacific
Liberal Party
Canadian Railways
Toronto
Ontario
Quebec
British Columbia
Vancouver Island
Mainland
Canadian Congress of Labor
Trades and Labor Congress of Canada
Chicago art teacher completes 170 mile Colorado river trip
Florence Kibler of the American Academy of Art Chicago became the first woman to travel solo the treacherous Colorado river from August 10 at Hite Utah to Lees Ferry Arizona. She endured heat hunger and sunburn with an outboard powered assault boat and lost five pounds reaching Lees Ferry in good condition.
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Lees Ferry
Ariz
Chicago
Colorado River
Florence Kibler
American Academy of Art
Hite
Utah
Ray McGuire
Salt Lake City
Deseret News
McGuire
St. Paschal's Opens Formally Sept 11
St. Paschal's School will open for classes on Monday September 11. Registration for all students is scheduled for Wednesday and Thursday August 30 and 31 from 9:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. This year the high school adds the twelfth grade completing a four year senior high program.
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St. Paschal’s School
St. Paschal's High School
Evacuation of Navy Planes Ahead of Gulf Storm
About 480 navy planes from Pensacola area were moved to refuge bases in Memphis Tennessee to escape a gulf hurricane threat. The flights included planes from Pensacola naval air station Corry Field and Saufley Field as crews secured equipment and buildings.
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Pensacola
Fla
Memphis
Tenn
Pensacola Naval Air Station
Corry Field
Saufley Field
Naval Air Station
American youth congress delegates clash with the AP
Prague reports that the United States delegation to the World Student Congress accused the Associated Press of distorted reporting. Ches ter Davis led the committee for international cooperation in disputing AP coverage of Korea and other resolutions.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Associated Press
United States
U. S
Chester Davis
University of Chicago
Committee For International Cooperation
Congress
Korea
World Student News
Cominform
John Marqusee
Cornell University
Cominform Journal
Marqusee
Davis
Cech
Jack Marqusee
Benton Ave
Woodmere
N. Y
Cornell School of Industrial and Labor Relations
Cornell
Kim Bong UN
Kan Buk
Halstead Holman
International Union of Students
ALL BRAN Relief For Constipation Claims
Suffering from irregularity was eased by Kellogg's ALL BRAN breakfast cereal. A Cleve Ohio reader, Sam Plesky, reports feeling like a new man after using the product and urges others with dietary bulk issues to try it with water.
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Sam Plesky
Churchill Av
Cleve
Finding $20,000 on Road Turns Legal for Lumiansky
New Bedford Massachusetts August 29 David Lumiansky becomes owner of twenty thousand dollars found on a roadside last August. He says the case haunts him with many claiming or offering to spend the money and that he has not slept for four days. Under state law he gains ownership today.
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New Bedford
Mass
David Lumiansky
Lumiansky
Woman Confesses She Burned Truck in Domestic Dispute
Miami court records show Mrs. Virginia Lorns admitting she set fire to A. A. Anderverg's truck. She claimed ownership stake and jealousy over his relationship with another woman. Judge Cecil C. Curry jailed her 60 days.
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Miami, Fla
Virginia Lorns
A. A. Anderverg
Anderverg
Cecil C. Curry
Moonshiner Shot Dead By Federal Officer in Orchard
In Orchard Alabama on August 29 an alleged moonshiner named Jack Thompson. 51. was shot in the stomach by Joel L. Smith Jr head of the Mobile field office of the federal alcohol tax unit after Thompson leaped from his horse during an arrest attempt. A large still was destroyed and 80 gallons of whiskey seized.
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Orchard
Ala
Williams Holcombe
Jack Thompson
Joel L. Smith
Mobile
Federal Alcohol Tax Unit
Smith
Thompson
Burpless Cucumber Developed by Santa Barbara Dentist
In Santa Barbara Dr Charles R Pierce a dentist and amateur botanist has created a burpless cucumber. The white sweet variety results from a cross with lemon cucumber and other types and can be eaten skin and all like a candy bar. Mrs Pierce reports they make superior pickles and no gastric disturbance has been noted.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
Charles R. Pierce
Warm weather grips most of nation with hot interior
Chicago August 29 warm conditions dominated the country with readings above 100 in interior California Arizona and Nevada. Only cool spell stood in Lake Superior region while rain fell around the Great Lakes and showers touched Ohio eastern Tennessee and Kentucky with generally fair weather elsewhere.
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Chicago
Lake Superior
California
Arizona
Nevada
Great Lakes
Ohio
Tennessee
Kentucky
Plains
Lattimore Backs Independent Writers at Bread Loaf
Owen Lattimore condemns bulldozing and bullying of American writers as deadly to democracy. He warns fanatical groups seek a new standard of debate by accusation and vilification at Bread Loaf 25th annual conference. A Wentworth by the Sea cancellation and a Kiwanis Club pullout are noted alongside new invitation at Pike New Hampshire hotel.
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Bread Loaf
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Senate
State Department
Wentworth by-The-Sea Hotel
Portsmouth
N. H
Gloversville
N. Y
Kiwanis Club
Pike, N. H
Walter Jacobs
Lake Tarleton
Pike
Hunts Clothes As Folks Hunt Him
Aaron Black, 14, vanished after swimming at Four-pole creek in Huntington W V. His clothes were found on the bank prompting a frantic rescue by the fire department. After a forty minute search he returned home unharmed and explained he spent the time searching for his clothes.
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Huntington
W. Va
Aaron Black
Four-pole Creek
Aaron
Sylvia Black
Fire Department
Soldier on leave reads telegram of Korea wound
Pfc. Hubert R. Speer, on emergency US leave, read the defense department telegram announcing his wound in Korea. He had been home several weeks and said he left clothing in Japan, believing a fellow soldier wore his gear. He had appeared on Sunday's casualty list.
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Palestine
Tex
Hubert R. Speer
Defense Department
Korea
Speer
United States
Japan
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Shreveport
Coleman ST
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Youth Congress
A. P
Red
America
Louisiana Motor Transport Assn., Inc
Florida St
P. O
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American Trucking Associations
Washington
D. C
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