Oberlin Soldier Pfc Gleason Dies in Alaska
Oberlin born Pfc Richard Gleason aged 21 with ties to Oberlin and South Amherst died in Alaska while serving with the Armored Cavalry near Sparrebohn north of Anchorage. He was 21, engaged to Mary Broadwell, and had prior stints at Ft Knox and Hiram College. His death date remains unavailable with Army telegrams promising details by letter.
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Pfc
Gleason
Alaska
Richard Gleason
Richard W. Gleason
East College St
Secretary of the Army
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Oberlin Board of Education
Armored
Calvary
Sparrebohn
Anchorage
South Amherst
Oberlin High School
Hiram College
Ft. Knox
Mary (Lou Broadwell
Hartley Broadwell
King St
Charles E. Wigton
Pfc. Gleason
Hong Kong Police Boat Disappears
A Hong Kong police launch with ten Chinese constables vanished from its moorings on the British colony’s south coast. Royal Air Force search pilots tracked the missing craft but found nothing, and the event heightens tensions as Peiping propaganda targets Hong Kong’s Chinese residents. The vessel patrolled Hong Kong waters for smugglers and embargoed goods and carried a Bren gun and Sten machine guns.
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INS
China
Royal Air Force
Peiping
Turnpike Route Conference Set with Local Officials
Columbus officials from Ashland Lake Cuyahoga Summit Ashland Richland Franklin Clark Montgomery Butler Hamilton and Lucas counties and cities were invited to meet with highway planners. Highway Director Samuel Lingell said the session on July 26 aims to hear local suggestions or complaints and to inform on potential city and industrial expansion impacts, not to discuss right of way.
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Cincinnati-Conneaut
Samuel Lingell
Highway Department
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Summit
Ashland
Richland
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Clark
Montgomery
Butler
Hamilton
Lucas
Weather Outlook For Northeastern Ohio Lifts Temperatures
Partly cloudy and warm today with scattered showers tonight and Friday after evening thunder showers. Highs near 92 Friday, low tonight 72. Winds on Lake Erie southerly about 15 mph, higher in showers. Temperature ranges and humidity recorded with sunrise and sunset details included.
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Ohio
Lake Erie
Eisenhower Offers Cement Food Aid For Danube Flood Areas
President Eisenhower proposed using surplus disposal powers to provide cement owned food to Danube flood victims in six countries, including Czechoslovakia Hungary and East Germany along with West Germany Yugoslavia and Austria. The White House estimates immediate needs at about four million dollars and ordered diplomatic missions to offer aid to local authorities. American troops are already assisting in West Germany and Austria with clothing and other relief.
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Eisenhower
White House
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Czechoslovakia
Hungary
East Germany
West Germany
Yugoslavia
Austria
U.S
Immigration Base On Famed Island To Be Abandoned
New York reports the government plans to move Ellis Island immigration operations to Manhattan within months pending attorney general approval. The historic 30 acre island served as a entry point for millions, with as many as 5000 processed daily in its peak era.
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New York
Ellis’ Island
America
Manhattan
Washington
Herbert Brownell Jr
Ellis Island
Duke to Start Tour Through Canada
The Duke of Edinburgh arrives in Ottawa today to begin a three weeks tour of Canada. The dashing young prince was seen off at a London airport by his wife, Queen Elizabeth. Philip's 15,000 mile trip through Canada will include a stop at Vancouver for the British Empire games the commonwealth version of the Olympics.
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Duke of Edinburgh
Canada
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Vancouver
Death Sentence For Soldier Is Approved
The Army announced that the death penalty for Pvt. John E. Day Jr. of Washington, D. C., has been recommended and forwarded to President Eisenhower. The case centers on military proceedings in the capital area and involves a verdict of death for the unnamed offenses leading to the sentence.
Gulf Coast Storm Barbara Hits Gulf Coast and Midwest Relief
A tropical storm named Barbara moved from the Louisiana coast across the Gulf region at about eight mph, with 60 mph winds and heavy rains aiding droughted areas of the lower Mississippi Valley. Thundershowers spread into the Midwest, bringing relief to parched farms and lawns but not ending the drought in the hardest-hit Midland regions. Chicago saw nearly an inch of rain in 12 hours as California and Western Pennsylvania faced heat waves and droughts.
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Midlands
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Louisiana
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Barbara
Lake Charles
Texas
U.S
Plains
Great Plains
California
Pennsylvania
Los Angeles
Los Angeles’ Area
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el Centro
Mercury
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Agriculture
Ross Rizley
Harvey Dahl
Agriculture Department
Allan Shivers
Eisenhower
Colorado
New Mexico
Wyoming
Learn to Drive Elyria Driving School Notice
A brief notice from Elyria driving school announces instruction offerings at Cel MA, highlighting driving lessons and schedules for new students. The fragment confirms program existence and contact details for enrollment.
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Elyria
First 5 Cent Drop Breaks Coffee Price Rise
New York buyers will see the first price cuts in a year as several leading roasters announce immediate five cent per pound wholesale reductions. Dealers say the savings will be passed to consumers right away.
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New York
Agent Hoeffer Suicide Ruled In West Germany Case
A U S Army board ruled Counter Intelligence Agent Wolfgang Hoeffer committed suicide last Friday in West Germany. Motives and links to Dr Otto John were not disclosed. Hoeffer, born in Germany, emigrated to the United States in 1938 and was shadowing John before the latter disappeared into East Berlin, with some reports hinting prior acquaintance.
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Konrad Adenauer
United States
Hoeffer
Counter - Intelligence Corps
John
West Berlin
Germany
Hochfer
East Berlin
Village Burned in Viet Nam After Failed Assault
Indochinese Communists burned a village near Than Ha in central Viet Nam during the night of July 26 27 after failing to seize a post from French forces. Rebel attacks extended across south and central Viet Nam and Laos as cease fire neared. The French High Command reported multiple clashes, train sabotage near Tourane, and several rebel fatalities in Kontum and near Laotian posts.
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Indochina
High Command
Than Ha
Viet Nam
Kingdom of Laos
Tourane
Kontum Plateau
Xieng
Khousang
Mahaxay
Done Talat
Muong
Substitute For McCarthy Censure Resolution Ready
Washington Illinois reports a Republican move to sidetrack the censure effort against Senator McCarthy by proposing a bipartisan special committee headed by Vice President Nixon to study McCarthyism. The Flanders censure bill is set for Senate action tomorrow, while Jackson urges an Army-McCarthy hearings report before adjournment to avoid an election document impression.
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Washington
Senate
H. Alexander Smith
R-N.j
Richard M. Nixon
Smith
Ralph E. Flanders
R-Vi
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Flanders
Henry M. Jackson
D-Wash
Congress
Jackson
Texas Heat May Match State's Size, Wealth
SWEETWATER Tex Mrs Elmer Stevenson swears it's true. While gathering eggs Wednesday she found an unusually warm egg laid under a tree a day earlier. She brought the out of place egg to her kitchen and cracked it. It was perfectly soft boiled by the 101 degree heat.
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Tex
Elmer Stevenson
Birns Sentenced For Tax Evasion
Cleveland hoodlum Alex Shondor Birns received a three year federal sentence after a conviction on three of four counts accusing him of evading more than 50 000 in taxes in Cleveland. He had been acquitted on charges of being a suspicious person and gambling earlier this year. Judge Charles J. McNamee imposed the term Wednesday.
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Cleveland
Alex (Shondor Birns
Birns
Charles J. McNamee
Birms
New Postmaster For Cleveland Nominated
President Eisenhower nominated Joseph S. Frantz as the new postmaster in Cleveland to succeed J. F. Prosser, who retired. The nomination must be approved by the Senate. An unrelated ad offers a new car to a customer on December 15 via The Resort Service Co.
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Lodi
Adv
Washington
Eisenhower
Joseph S. Frantz
Cleveland
J. F. Prosser
Senate
Rock fall in Nova Scotia mine kills two miners
In Springfield, Nova Scotia, a massive rock collapse deep underground at Cumberland Coal and Railway Co. mine killed miners Russell Gilroy, 40, and Everett Knowlton, 57, and injured nine others shortly after they commenced work.
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Springfield
N.S
The
Cumberland Coal and Railway Company
Russell Gilroy
Everett Knowlton
Priest Father John Baptist Maye Arrives in Hong Kong
Hong Kong reports Father John Baptist Maye a 44 year old Passionist missionary and Scranton native, one of six Americans promised freedom by Communist China, arriving after six years in China by train across the Bamboo Curtain.
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Hong Kong
INS
John Baptist Maye
China
Scranton
Lewis Direc tive Ends Mine Walkout at Nemacolin Mine
About 800 miners returned to work at Buckeye Coal Co. Nemacolin Mine in Waynesburg Pennsylvania after United Mine Workers President John L. Lewis ordered an end to the two day wildcat strike.
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Buckeye Coal Co
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
Two Die In Hartford City Cafe Blast
A lunch hour gas explosion collapsed roofs and ceilings of a two story cafe cigar store in Hartford City Indiana. Two men died Albert Creek 63 Trenton and William Keeley 28 Hartford City while fourteen others were injured.
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Hartford City
Ind
Albert Creek
Trenton
William Keeley
Rumors of Rutkowski Resignation Quieted in Ohio
Governor Lausche denied rumors that Liquor Director Anthony A Rutkowski would resign. He stated he has implicit confidence in the director, praising his integrity fearlessness and public service.
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Columbus
INS
Lausche
Anthony A. Rutkowski
Health officials warn of typhoid risk in Los Angeles
City health authorities issue a widespread alert as a typhoid fever outbreak endangers California and Hawaii. The illness claimed 11 year old Tim Nahm and hospitalized six others, with two more of 191 exposed people also hospitalized.
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Los Angeles
Calif
California
Hawaii
Tim Nahm
Universal Military Service plan eyeing forced reserve duty
President Eisenhower to NSC study a universal service plan ending direct draft into reserves. Defense officials outline a $759 million yearly program to build a 3,000,000 trained reserve immediately ready in emergencies, with continued regular drafting and a six year reserve obligation after initial service.
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Washington
Eisenhower
National Security Council
Defense Department
The
Security Council
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
John A. Hannah
Congress
Defense Chiefs
Quantico
Hannah
Aer
Top Level Officials To Meet Over Sheppard Murder Case
In Cleveland authorities scramble to decide whether Dr Samuel H Sheppard should be arrested for the murder of his wife Marilyn Sheppard The meeting aims to resolve questions raised by police and Bay Village officials while coroner Samuel R Gerber seeks a full report from Selective Service about why the doctor was not called for military service amid the investigation of the July 4 slaying His brothers cite deferments during medical studies and fatherhood.
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Samuel H. Sheppard
Cleveland
Sheppard
Bay Village
Susan Hayes
D. S
Samuel R. Gerber
Selective Service
Gerber
Bay Village leaders clash over Bay Village murder probe
In California last March two Bay Village councilmen attacked Mayor Houk and Police Chief Eaton over delays in the Mrs. Sheppard murder inquiry. Cleveland authorities warned of insufficient evidence for arrest while a three hour meeting approved $1000 for initial police work and a grand jury session was set to consider the case.
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Bay Village
Sheppard
Cleveland
Frank W. Story
J. Spencer ‘Houk
Frank T. Cullitan
Cullitan
Houk
John Eaton
Gershom M. Barber
Lester Shaffer
Eaton
Richard Weygandt
Barber
Weygandt
James McArthur
Cleveland City Hospital
Bert Winston
Chronicle-Telegram Want Ads Reel Readers In
Thousands testify to quick problem solving via classified ads. Fragments describe selling furniture including rug, lamps, irons, and a room setting at 20 Midd e Ave after 5:00 pm. Contact details imply ad-writing and buying services offered.
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Frolks Coe
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