Escapee Jumps Train at Elan Found by Posse
Ellis Earl Blevins 29 escaped from a California prison farm during a westbound train stop in Blanchester. He broke a window, jumped, and fled as deputies and local police hunted for 90 minutes before finding him in an east west drainage ditch behind 122 West Fancy Street. He was recaptured with shackles and back in custody by late afternoon and was to resume the trip west with added restraints.
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Ellis Earl Blevins
California
Blanchester
Blevins
Clinton County
Donald Osborn
Elmer Pugh
Fancy St
Charles Alexander
W. Fancy St
Parkersburg
W. Va
George M. Ackerman
Wilmington
Cincinnati
Osborn
Floyd Foote
Tom Wilson
Alexander
Stanley Irwin
Robert Vanscoy
Blan
Glenn Thompson
Robert A. Morris
Sabina
Ackerman
State Patrol
Judge Warns of Gaspedalitis Ahead of Labor Day
Cincinnati AP report shows Judge Louis Schneider condemning a so called gas pedalitis as deadly speeds. He spoke while denying probation for Donald Gene Hughes 22 Milford driver of a taxi that struck and killed county Patrolman Emil Kleinwaechter 43 on Wooster Pike during traffic control last July 16.
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Cincinnati
Common Pleas
Louis Schneider
Schneider
Donald Gene Hughes
Milford
Emil Kleinwaechter
Wooster Pike
Here
Serial numbers released in Britain's great train robbery
London police circulated many serial numbers from the stolen bank notes as the seven million dollars allegedly taken in Britain's great train robbery are likely useless to the thieves.
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London
Britain
The Passing Show By I. C. Clinton
Within Wilmington limits there will be no refuse collection on Monday pickups moved to Saturday Aug 31. Lakewood and similar areas outside the city will have normal pickup on Labor Day.
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Wilmington
Lakewood
Fifty American Students Return From Madrid Trip
Fifty U S students who violated a travel ban by visiting Cuba arrived in Madrid from Havana and began returning home. Four chose to stay in Madrid amid fears of a hostile reception in New York. Two identified as John R Glenn and his wife, others unnamed. State Department will lift passports on U S return. leaders may face prosecution.
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Madrid
Spain
U.S. State Department
Cuba
Havana
New York
John R. Glenn
Huntington
Ind
State Department
United States
Medal Comes 20 Years Late In Middletown Ohio
Walter G. Arvin of Trenton received the Purple Heart and Bronze Star from Maj. Gen. Forrest Harding in Middletown. He was wounded twice in January 1944 during the Battle of the Bulge, while the Bronze Star cited meritorious ground operations. The medals were ordered by FDR in February 1944 but awarded in July of this year.
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Middletown
Ohio
Walter G. Arvin
Trenton
Forrest Harding
Franklin
Arvin
Europe
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Civil rights march in Washington marks beginning not end
About 200000 marchers, both Black and white, gather at the Lincoln Memorial to demand progress on Kennedy's civil rights bill. Martin Luther King Jr warns against complacency while President Kennedy calls the event a significant advance though work remains. John Lewis says Archbishop O'Boyle objected to his prepared remarks and he was forced to rewrite.
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Constitution Avenue
Washington, D. C
Lincoln Memorial
Washington
America
Martin Luther King Jr
President Kennedy
Congress
Kennedy
King
John Lewis
Patrick A. O’boyle
Lewis
Student Nonviolent Coordinating Committee
O’boyle
March
Caution Lights On in Rail Fuss After Strike Block Law
Congress quickly passed and President Kennedy signed binding arbitration legislation to avert a nationwide rail strike due to blocked work-rule disputes. The action, praised as protecting public interest, aimed to delay future discord amid ongoing wage and rule battles.
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Washington
Congress
Kennedy
House
Senate
Ohioan Confesses Auto Theft Role
In Hot Springs Arkansas two men pleaded guilty at trial start to operating an auto theft ring. Roy Edward Paulson 38 of Hot Springs and William Palmer 36 of Talmadge Ohio entered guilty pleas while sentencing was delayed. Four other men including Joseph Francis Newman 59 of Akron Ohio face trial on the charges.
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Hot Springs, Ark
U.S
Ohio
Roy Edward Paulson
Hot Springs
William Palmer
Talmadge
Joseph Francis Newman
Akron
Giant Steam Engine Retired
A steam locomotive that traveled nearly 400 000 miles across three states will be donated by Chesapeake & Ohio Railway to the City of Newport News Virginia on Labor Day. C&O No 2756, refurbished in Huntington West Virginia shops, will be towed to Newport News and placed on a concrete pedestal.
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Cleveland
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Newport News
C&o
Huntington
W.va
Dominican Republic Backs Peace Accord With Haiti
The Dominican Republic appeared to approve in principle a formula to ensure peace with Haiti. An OAS commission backing the plan reportedly secured Haiti's general endorsement earlier in the week.
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Dominican Republic
Haiti
Santo Domingo
Organization of American States
OAS
Newsmen Aid Wanted Man In Surrender to Police
The surrender of Thomas Trantino, alleged killer of two New Jersey policemen, is recounted by AP reporters and photographer after Trantino met his lawyer Enid Gerling in a Manhattan bar. He then walked to a nearby station to surrender.
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Thomas
Rabbi Tom) Trantino
New Jersey
Associated Press
Anthony Alborelli
Ray Howard
Manhattan
New York
Trantino
Enid Gerling
First Avenue
21St
22Nd Streets
Alborelli
East 22Nd St
George McNiven
Miss Gerling
Tony
Falco
Miners Trapped: Rescue Push Expands to 22 Inch Shaft
Rescuers pressed multiple drilling fronts at Hazleton as they enlarge a 12 inch shaft to 22 inches to reach miner Louis Bova, 54, trapped 16 days in the coal mine. Officials plan to lower a man into the hole if a path is found and the operation proceeds tonight.
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Hazleton
Louis Bova
Bova
H. Beecher Charmbury
State Secretary of Mines
Charmbury
Gordon Smith
York Returns Home After Long Illness
Sgt. Alvin York, 75, World War I Medal of Honor winner, is back at his mountain home near Pall Mall Tennessee after a stay in Nashville hospital. Doctors say he will be just as well at home and he enjoys the mountain air and water. He has been bedridden for nine years and faced multiple health crises including bedsores and a urinary tract infection. Mrs. York notes he no longer talks much and seems to care little.
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Pall Mall
Tenn
Alvin York
Nashville
York
Labor Day Weekend Traffic Deaths Seen in Range
The National Safety Council predicts 430 to 520 Americans could die in traffic accidents over the Labor Day weekend. The council also forecasts 17,000 to 21,000 injuries that will disable beyond the incident. The three day period runs from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday, with last year’s record at 501 fatalities.
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Chicago
National Safety Council
Armitage Named Sixth Dean of Ohio State Graduate School
Dr Richard H Armitage 45 longtime OSU faculty member becomes sixth dean of the Graduate School succeeding Everett Walters who leaves after seven years Walters named a Boston University vice president The school offers master and doctoral programs and enrolled 4373 last fall Reflects Armitages 1941 start in Romance Languages at OSU and Oberlin Oberlin BA 1939 and OSU MA PhD credentials noted
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Columbus, Ohio
Richard H. Armitage
Ravenna
Ohio State University
OSU
Armitage
Everett Walters
Boston University
Walters
Ohio State
Oberlin College
Utah Rescue Effort Stalled In Potash Mine
Five survivors were sought in a Texas Gulf Sulphur potash mine near Moab Utah after a Tuesday explosion. Eight bodies were found by Wednesday night as rescuers paused for 24 hours to establish a fresh air pocket at the shaft base.
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Moab
Utah
Casper Nelson
Nelson
Texas Gulf Sulphur Co
Right of Way Fund Released in Ohio Payments
An Ohio opinion by Atty. Gen. Saxbe clears payments of 5 to 6 million dollars to about 400 to 450 landowners for highway rights of way. State Auditor Tracy can proceed after deputy highway director signs the right of way bills, resolving prior delays tied to fiscal year funding.
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Columbus
Ohio
Atty
William B. Saxbe
Roger W. Tracy
Tracy
Saxbe
Oil Slick and Debris Linked to Missing KC135 Planes
An oil slick and debris resembling airplane parts were found in the Atlantic 560 miles east of Daytona Beach by a Bermuda rescue craft. The two KC135s with 11 crew were missing since Wednesday after fueling from Homestead AFB Florida. Searchers, including air and sea units from Orlando AFB, hurried to the scene as paramedics prepared to assist.
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Miami
Fla
Atlantic
Daytona Beach
Bermuda
Homestead Air Force Base
Air Rescue Service
Orlando
Afb
Homestead
Senate panel OKs limited nuclear test ban with no reservations
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee voted 16 to 1 to approve the limited nuclear test ban treaty without reservations. It advances to the full Senate for ratification, with Sen. Russell B. Long the lone dissenter. The committee rejected motions to delay action and to force access to Washington Moscow communications. Fulbright plans floor action on Sept. 9 and will file a report outlining understandings to avoid renegotiation of the pact.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Senate
Russell B. Long
D-La
Moscow
J. W. Fulbright
D. Ark
U. S
Fulbright
Judge Stays Execution of Big Libel Judgment in Butts Case
U S District Judge Lewis R Morgan stayed a 3 06 million libel award to Wally Butts pending motions for a new trial and Curtis Publishing Co A Saturday Evening Post article accused Butts of fixing the 1962 Alabama Georgia game The Post and Bear Bryant link were cited with jurors awarding 60 000 in general damages and 3 million punitive damages a record for libel judgments
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Atlanta
Wally Butts
Curtis Publishing Co
U.S
Lewis R. Morgan
Curtis
Butts
Saturday Evening Post
Morgan
Georgia
Post
Paul
Bear) Bryant
Alabama
Bryant
Soviet denounces raids on Cuba amid nuclear treaty talks
The Soviet Union condemned recent hit and run raids on Cuba and pledged continued support for Fidel Castro's regime. The report notes no timing for Cuba to join the limited nuclear test ban treaty and cites broader Communist bloc positions.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Cuba
Fidel Castro
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George D. Aiken
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Foreign Relations Committee
Sen
John Stennis
D-Miss
Cube
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