Gladys Makes Landfall Threatening Floods Along Rio Grande
A storm named Gladys struck near Brownsville Texas with winds near hurricane force and is forecast to bring heavy rains and possible flash floods along the Rio Grande from the Gulf coast to Roma Texas. Disaster officials warned of widespread area flooding as the system moves northwest toward Presario and the Marte Gomez Reservoir.
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Brownsville
Tex
Gladys
Alice
Rio Grande
Eighth Pass
Soto la Marina
Mexico
San Fernando
Presabelazucar
Marte Gomez Reservoir
Roma
Atas Rio
Wednesay
Falcon Dam
Middle
Upper
Nueces
Weather Bureau
Rio Grande Valley
Padre Island
Texas
Beaverhead Fire Rages Near Ralston in Montana Forest
About 90 men fought a six mile from Ralston range and forest fire in the Wise River district of Beaverhead National Forest. The blaze blackened around 400 acres before a push to containment by midweek.
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Ralston
Wise River
Beaverhead National Forest
Butte
Deerlodge National Forest
Fred Mass
Mass
John Theriault
Dillon
Forest Service
Missoula
Beaverhead
Vern Sylvester
Wise River District
Deerlodge Forest
California
Gary Wetzteen
Whitehall
Donald Abbott
Philipsburg Ranger District
Fred M. Fite
Oregon
Redding
Calif
Fite
Mystery Men Returned From Soviet Captivity
Three Americans held by Russia for seven years were turned over to U S authorities in East Berlin. Pvt Wilfred C Comish Cpl Murray Fields and Frederick Charles Hopkins were processed at the U S provost marshal after a Russian handover.
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Russia
U.S
Berlin
U. S
East Berlin
State Dept
Karlshorst
West Berlin
U. S. State Dept
Wilfred C. Comish
Vienna
Cpl
Murray Fields
U. S. Constabulary
Nuernberg
Frederick Charles Hopkins
New York City
Hopkins
A. E. Dubois
Cumish
Rowley
Mass
Burton Martin
Kumis
Preston Lane
Plaistow
Comish
Austria
Fields
Michael Feingersch
Bayside
Queens
N. Y
Herman J. Bailes
Feingersch
Cornish
Ike Likely to Run Again. Nixon Says Eisenhower in Prime Shape
Vice President Nixon told reporters after a Labor Day meeting with Eisenhower that close aides and the vast majority of Republican leaders expect Eisenhower to seek a second term. He praised the president’s health and morale, saying he has never looked better and remains confident in his governance. The president’s decision, Nixon noted, will hinge on his health.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Denver
Nixon
Eisenhower
Nervous Peace Reached Over Gaza Border Clash
Cairo reports a border incident when an Israeli patrol entered the Egyptian held Gaza Strip firing on Egyptian forces. Egypt and Israel pledged to honor the cease fire as U N truce chief Burns urged restraint. Casualty figures vary with four Israelis claimed by Egypt and three Israelis missing per Israeli accounts.
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Cairo
Egypt
Gaza
Israel
Gaza Strip
Tabet el Assra
U. N Truce Commission
E. L. M. Burns
U. N. Truce Supervision
Jerusalem
U. N
Department of Information
Burns
Motorists Urged to Slow for School Zones in Butte
Butte police chief Ernett Sullivan urged careful driving as schools reopen. Special patrols will guard children, but drivers must slow within three blocks of schools and stop for loading buses to prevent tragedies.
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Ernett Sullivan
Butte
Sullivan
100 MPH Crash Kills Utah Trio near Elko
Elko Nevada three Sault Lake City men die in a head on collision on U S 40 16 miles east of Elko. Lorin Bird and Harry Brown occupants of one car and John Reeve driver of the other died instantly. Sheriff reports possible liquor in Brown car.
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Elko
Nev
Headon
Sault Lake City
Lorin Albert Bird
Sherman Ave
Harry Crawford Brown
Second Ave
John H. Reeve
Seventh South
J. C. Haarris
Brown
Reeve
U. S. 40
Flood in San Sebastiano kills and devastates hamlet
A 45 minute cloudburst triggered a flash flood in Tagliacozzo Italy washing through San Sebastiano. Four women drowned and ten people are missing as fifty houses collapsed and six hundred residents were left homeless.
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Tagliacozzo
Italy
San Sebastiano
Logging Halted Across Western Washington
Logging operations in western Washington were ordered shut down from Monday midnight to Wednesday midnight due to extreme forest fire hazards.
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Olympia
U.P
Washington
Sultan of Morocco Defies Nationalist Terror
Sultan Mohammed Ben Arafa defies nationalist pressure by saying he will rule until God calls him. French officials back a policy of cooperation with moderate nationalists while a general strike looms in Casablanca. Catroux seeks Ben Youssef’s approval for a new French approach to Morocco.
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Rabat
French Morocco
Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Pierre Boyer de la Tour du Moulin
Moulay Arafa
Casablanca
Boyer de la Tour
Morocco
Madagascar
France
Georges Catroux
Mohammed Ben Ben Youssef
Catroux
Ben Youssef
Paris
California heat toll tops 269 as heat wanes
The Los Angeles coroner's office reported 269 heat related deaths since the heat wave began last Wednesday, with 99 degrees recorded Monday in the first relief after six days of scorching temperatures. Officials noted the surge overwhelmed death tallies but attributed many natural deaths to the heat.
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Los Angeles
U.P
California
First National Election in 1789
First National election held in the U S was on Friday January 7 1789 when George Washington was elected President. Want Ads in the paper promote renting buying hiring selling and lost article recovery with ad writer contact. Also a classified for an E flat alto saxophone by Buescher with phone 0000.
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U.S
Yorktown
George Washington
No Road Deaths Known in State
Weather cooled Montana over the Labor Day weekend making for ideal outings. No fatal road accidents were reported, though J. R. Warnstadt 84 was killed by a train in Dillon Friday night.
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National Safety Council
Montana
J. R. Warnstadt
Dillon
Butte
Kalispell
Lewistown
Great Falls
Billings
US Air Force receives first two B57 jet bombers in Pacific
The United States Air Force announced the arrival of the first two B57 jet bombers at Yokota Air Base after a 10,000 mile flight from the United States. The aircraft will provide a longer range atomic punch for American forces in the Pacific in case of hostilities.
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Tokyo
U.P
U. S. Air Force
Pacific
Yokota Air Base
United States
Carrier to be Recommissioned in San Francisco
The aircraft carrier USS Bon Homme Richard undergoes a 30 month modernization and will be recommissioned in dockside ceremonies at the San Francisco Naval Shipyard on Tuesday.
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San Francisco
U.P
Bon Homme Richards
San Francisco Naval Shipyard
Nation observes Labor Day amid ratcheting politics and tolls
Washington marks the 74th Labor Day with public tributes and calls to end age discrimination. Eisenhower urges honoring workers and ending job bias against those over 45. Meany and Reuther foresee greater labor influence as AFL and CIO merge.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Denver
George Meany
American Federation of Labor
Walter Reuther
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Mitchell
Shrine of the Sacred Heart
Patrick A. O'Boyle
John F. Cronin
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Archibishop O’boyle
Lablor
Meany
Cardinal
Truman Attacks Administration On Labor Day Speech
Former President Harry S. Truman blasted the Eisenhower era labor policy at a Detroit Labor Day rally as 60 000 AFL CIO members marched to show their unity in a looming merger He urged support for a Democratic candidate in 1956 while warning Republicans about rough campaigning and criticized federal power moves in Hell's Canyon Idaho during the Snake River project.
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Detroit
Harry S. Truman
CIO
AFL
Truman
Motor City
Harry
Hell's Canyon
Hell
Idaho
Federal Power Commission
Snake River
Idaho Power Co
Toll of Labor Day weekend traffic hits 555 deaths
National Safety Council figures show 555 lives lost over a 78 hour Labor Day window from Friday 6 p m to Monday midnight. Highway crashes caused 400 deaths, 73 drownings and 82 miscellaneous fatalities with 25 million vehicles and 60 million people on the roads.
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Ned H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
Dearborn
Associated Press
The
Safety Council
Mining City Reverts to Mountain Standard Time
Mining City residents enjoyed an extra hour of sleep as Butte returned to Mountain Standard Time until spring. The Anaconda Company mines and other operations planned to resume at 7 am on standard time after the Labor Day holiday. Daylight Saving Time had been in effect since April 24.
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Butte
Anaconda Company
Montana Weather Brief Fair and Warm With Tstorms
Montana east: Tuesday and Wednesday fair with a few afternoon thunderstorms in the southwest. Cooler east, warmer northwest Tuesday. highs 75 to 85 with little change Wednesday. Montana west: fair Tuesday and Wednesday. The table notes max temperatures for 12 hours and minimums for 18 hours ending 5 30 p.m. Monday.
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Montana
Mountain Towns Evacuated as Sierra Fires Grow
Forest fires in the Sierra Nevada near Fresno forced evacuations of two mountain communities and a Sequoia National Forest scout camp. Fire raged near General Grant Grove with 7,000 acres burned, 1,000 firefighters battling the flames and pumper trucks called in. Northern California saw multiple fires around Eureka Humboldt Trinity and Siskiyou counties as heat and low humidity persisted.
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San Francisco
Sierra Nevada Mountains
Fresno
Sequoia National Forest
Sequoia Lake
Grant Grove
Hume Lake
State Division of Forestry
Sacramento
Humboldt County
Klamath
Trinity Rivers
Bull Creek
Petrolia
Showers Rock
Air Force Announces First Official Supersonic Record
The Air Force says Col. Horace A. Hanes flew an F100C Super Sabre at about 822.135 mph over an 11 mile course near Palmdale, about 40,000 feet, on Aug 20. The record surpasses earlier marks. speed of sound varies with altitude and a new measurement system was installed near Palmdale.
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Philadelphia
Air Force
Horace A. Hanes
Palmdale
Calif
Hanes
National Aeronautics Assn
F. K. Everst
Charles Yeager
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