Ottawa meter tags mark hours and fines amid thefts
Ottawa police report new parking meter tags will enforce hours from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Wednesday after a change shifting Saturday night hours to Wednesday. A burglary at Alfred Harrison Grocery removed cigarettes and a butcher knife but burglars fled, leaving loot behind. Also, four Southwestern Bell employees begin direct distance dialing briefings as phones switch to dials later this month. In Chicago, a thief stole a four foot gold trophy at a Loop hotel during an American Legion ceremony, missing the cup and base valued at about 350 dollars.
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Ottawa
Eugene Flaherty
Alfred Harrison Grocery
S. Cherry
Fred Disque
Charles Ratliff
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Chicago
American Legion
Loop
Legion
Department of Pennsylvania
C. A. Tesch
National Americanism Commission
Tesch
Pennsylvania Department
Drunk Man Describes Moonshine Discovery Near Nashville
In Nashville Tennessee an intoxicated man told police of a nearby spot where he allegedly drank and filled up from a spigot. Officers located the site and found and smashed a 100 gallon all copper moonshine still.
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Nashville, Tenn
Plane Crash Near Guam Kills 18 En Route to Philippines
A Military Air Transport Service plane with 19 aboard crashed in the Pacific near Guam as it neared Clark Air Base in the Philippines. Debris and three bodies were found 30 miles west of Guam after an air-sea search failed to locate survivors. The craft, seven crew, 12 passengers, departed Guam at 5:55 a.m. on the last leg of its journey.
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Guam
Military Air Transport Service
Pacific
Cig4
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Clark Afb
Philippines
Air Force
Navy
John Walker
Naval Air Station
Weather COUNTY FORECAST Scattered showers through Wednesday
County forecast notes scattered showers or thunderstorms through Wednesday with cooler conditions in the Marais des Cygnes valley this afternoon or Wednesday. Highs today range from 87 to 95 with overnight lows 65 to 70 and Wednesday highs in the 80s.
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Marais Des Cygnes Valley
Four youths held after grade school vandalism incident
Four 13 year olds will face juvenile court on Wednesday for broken windows, sprayed ink, and destroyed science kits at Eugene Field School. Police linked break ins to multiple thefts earlier in the summer and found fingerprints and obscene wall writing.
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Eugene Field School
Franklin County
Eugene Flaherty
Bill Wheeler
Clyde Johnson
Robert Cowdin
Cliff McGuffin
Flaherty
Ion
Grace Metz
Tremont
Schamann
Ottawa Police Department
Lloyd Ballhagen
Faubus Says U S Marshals Being Mustered In Crisis
Gov. Orval Faubus said U S marshals are being mustered for potential use in the Little Rock school integration crisis and vowed to resist federal force. He criticized the board's delay of opening Central High and said he would close schools to oppose federal actions, calling the court order unconstitutional.
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Faubus
U.S
Little Rock, Ark
Orvald. Faubus
Little Rock
Central High School
U.S. Supreme Court
Fabus
U.S. Dist
Harry J. Lemley
Supreme Court
High Court
Farbus
New York Times
Holiday Turnpike traffic high despite few crashes
Nearly 76,000 vehicles used the Kansas Turnpike over a four day Labor Day weekend with only three accidents on the 236 mile toll road. Gale Moss, general manager, cited the figures noting traffic below the Memorial Day peak but above the July 4th weekend. One injury occurred when a Houston woman, Laura Schmidt, 59, suffered rib fractures and a dislocated disc after her car crossed the median near Admire and ended in the opposite lane.
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Wichita
Kansas
Laura Schmidt
Houston
Tex
Admire Sunday
Torpedo Boats Break Up Landing in Quemoy Battle
Forrest Edwards reports from Pescadores on the Quemoy action as Communist torpedo boats attacked a convoy rich with 400 Marines and foreign correspondents. Shellfire and a submarine alert followed a night of chaos with boats lost and crews scrambling for shore.
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Forrest Edwards
Fred Waters
Quemoy
Edward
Pescadores
Nationalists Claim Red Boats Sunk
In Formosa waters the Chinese Nationalists said their warships sank 11 Communist torpedo boats and likely a 12th while breaking up a convoy to Quemoy Island. They also reported sinking three Communist gunboats and eight motorized junks near Amoy as Red shore batteries pounded Quemoy with 857 shells in 90 minutes. The attack disrupted a troop carrier, allowing only 30 of 370 reinforcements to reach Quemoy.
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Taipei
Formosa
Quemoy Island
Quemoy
Amoy
Pescadores Islands
Tatan Islet
Great Buffalo Hunt Ends With Owner Slaying Livestock
LINWOOD Kan AP Leavenworth County ends a days long buffalo chase after owner Donald Carbaugh shoots the 1500 pound cow with a .30 30. The animal, kept as a herd starter near Linwood, had wandered into traffic prompting reports from motorists. The buffalo was butchered at Lawrence. it had an unrelated year old calf and was not known to be aggressive.
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Linwood
Kan
Leavenworth County
Eudora
Arden Rhyne
Rhyne
Donald Carbaugh
Carbaugh
Lawrence
Toll of Death on Highways Near Labor Day Record
Traffic deaths during the extended Labor Day weekend approached the NSC prediction as the tally neared six hundred. About 30 million cars traveled homeward Monday, with 40 plus fatalities in the final hours and a total possibly matching last year’s 636 for the three day holiday period.
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America
National Safety Council
Ten Killed on Kansas Highways During Labor Day Weekend
Ten traffic deaths were recorded across Kansas over the four day Labor Day weekend ending Monday night. The toll includes fatalities near Liberal Pratt Manhattan Beaver and Topeka with victims including Kelly Dean Johnson 22 near Liberal and three Ft. Riley soldiers southeast of Manhattan. Other victims listed include Dorothy Brown 39 Tyler Texas Thomas Doerfler 18 Liberal Frederick W. Cooper Sedgwick and David William Kneemeyer 41.
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Associated Press
Kansas
Kelly Dean Johnson
Oklahoma
Harold Jeffries
Holsington
Beaver
Thomas Doerfler
Liberal
Frederick W. Cooper
Sedgwick
Burrton
David William Kneemeyer
Topeka
London Race Riots Prompt Police Clampdown Notting Hill
In Notting Hill London rioters, mostly teenagers, smashed windows of Negro homes as embattled residents retaliated with bottles from rooftops. Police with Alsatian dogs arrested 34, bringing total since Saturday to 57. Nottingham also saw clashes with 1,000 whites. five jailed, 19 fined.
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London
Notting Hill
Paddington
Britain
West Indies
Nottingham
Home
Richard A. Butler
Rev William Ward Resigns Post Here
Rev William Ward resigns as pastor of Federated Church at 5th and Main with resignation effective at the end of September The Wards will move to California to join Garvalia Presbyterian Church in South San Gabriel They recently came to Ottawa from California and had vacationed there while arranging the planned change
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William Ward
Federated Church
5Th and Main
California
Garvalia Presbyterian Church
South San Gabriel
Ottawa
Fists Fly In Dispute Over Fishing Rights
In a violent clash off Iceland’s east coast British fishermen and Icelandic coast guardsmen fought aboard a trawler in the no fishing zone. The Icelandic radio said guardsmen seized by a British frigate, while London reported no violence.
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Reykjavik
Iceland
Iceland Coast Guard
Eastbourne
Britain
Coast Guard
Royal Naval
London
Funeral Today For General E. P. King
Funeral services are set for Maj. Gen. Edward P. King who commanded US forces on Bataan at the 1942 surrender. He died Sunday night of a heart ailment in Brunswick Georgia and will be buried Wednesday at Flat Rock North Carolina near his summer home. King was a native of Atlanta.
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Brunswick
Edward P. King
U. S
Bataan
Philippines
Flat Rock
N. C
King
Atlanta
Rainfall totals and winds across the state
Ottawa measured .85 inch of rain over the weekend with a portion falling last night and this morning. Gridley in the Neosho valley saw 4.67 inches last night while Leroy reported 4 inches. Wind topped 68 mph in Topeka with several other towns reporting rainfall values including Burlington 3.39 and Madison 2.25 inches, Oswego 1.08, Augusta 3.51, and others mentioned in the scattered reports.
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Ottawa
Gridley
Neosho Valley
Leroy
Topeka
Burlington
Madison
el Dorado
Jola
Oswego
Howard
Allanta
Augusta Age
Oe Sia
Son
Lo. and. News
Mage L. Nowe
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