Some Trains Run in Canada Despite Back to Work Order
Ottawa reports partial rail resumption as about 118000 workers stay out. Canadian National and Canadian Pacific ran test trains while more employees across Montreal Windsor Belleville Calgary and Vancouver delayed returning. Telegraph and office services gradually restored as Parliament enforces an 18 percent wage increase and a two year jail penalty for noncompliance.
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Heart Attack Fatal to Former Attorney General
Former US Attorney General Howard McGrath, 62, died of a heart attack at his Narragansett summer home. McGrath, former Democratic National Committee chair, helped Truman era justice head and Rhode Island governor. He leaves widow Estelle and son David.
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PSC OKs Expansion Of City Bus Lines
The Wisconsin Public Service Commission approved City Transit Lines Inc to extend bus routes and shift runs to every 30 minutes. Seventeen new stops are planned, four will be dropped, with a public hearing held after objections from Oshkosh residents. A two to three month decision timeline followed, aiming to coincide with the new school year.
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Quiet Returns In Dayton West Side Riot
Dayton tense after a racially charged disturbance left one man dead and more than 20 injured. Ohio National Guardsmen and police kept order as thousands headed to work through the West Side. Police say 134 were arrested, mostly for disorderly conduct and weapons charges, amid looting and window smashing.
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Escapee Thomas Cattell Tracked After Jail Break In Birmingham
A prison guard at Winson Green Jail answered the front gate bell Thursday night and found that the visitor was escapee Thomas Cattell who had bolted from the jail two days earlier.
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Compromise on minimum wage approved by conferees
Senate House conferees agreed on a compromise minimum wage bill raising the floor to 10 dollars in 1968 and extending coverage to eight million more workers. The measure, favored by President Johnson and AFL leaders, advances to final actions in Congress despite House Republican opposition aiming for a 1969 start date.
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Knowles and La Follette Split on Picketing Ban
MADISON AP Gov Knowles seeks state court curfew on Milwaukee picketing amid racial protests. Atty Gen La Follette refuses, citing lack of legal basis and requiring actual harm. NAACP protests at Judge Seraphim home. National Guard deployed to curb crowds.
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City Assigns 10 To State Patrol
Oshkosh Police Chief Harry A Guenther followed an executive order from Governor Warren Knowles and dispatched 10 officers to the Wisconsin State Patrol for the Labor Day weekend. The plan, under Operation Stay Alive, involved three service cycles, one squad car, and possibly an extra unmarked patrol car, with salaries and expenses paid by the state.
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Tragic War Incident Near Saigon Kills Man and Buffalo
Police report a man named Pham Van Ho was killed when the water buffalo he rode stepped on a Viet Cong mine. The buffalo also died in the blast.
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Highway Toll Rises to 693 After Racine Crash
A two car crash on I 4 near Racine killed Robert L. Wren 42 marketing manager of Jacobson Manufacturing Co and raised the state highway death toll to 693. The other car crossed the median splitting the highway. three Chicago men in that vehicle were hospitalized.
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Jets Cut Viet Nam Rail Line In Air War Report
AP reports six US Air Force jet formations damaged the northwest rail link Hanoi to Red China in ten places. Two more planes were shot down raising North Viet Nam loss to 351. An F104 Starfighter and an A-1 Skyraider were downed by ground fire. A Viet Cong raid on a village voting office killed 12 and wounded 10, as Saigon copes with election-related violence. The South Vietnamese navy chief was dismissed in a shakeup amid staffing issues.
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France and Cambodia urge foreign troop evacuation from Vietnam
In Phnom Penh, France and Cambodia issued a joint declaration after Charles de Gaulle's visit calling for an immediate ceasefire and the withdrawal of all foreign troops from Vietnamese territory. The document, signed with Prince Norodom Sihanouk, urged strict adherence to the Geneva agreements and respect for Vietnam's independence and sovereignty.
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State of Emergency Declared After Greek Quake
The Greek government declared a state of emergency in central and western Peloponnesus after an earthquake injuring 20 people. The Social Welfare Ministry said 500 houses were destroyed across about a dozen towns and villages.
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Survivor of Labor Day Crash Warns Drivers
Rod Benson, 18, survivor, recalls the nation’s worst Labor Day weekend crash that killed seven others. He and his date Diane Swalhem, 16, dined in Madison and then met friends at Cambridge WI. a car full of teens, ages 14 to 21, died in a rural intersection after a pre-dawn crash blamed on an impaired driver.
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