Cuba’s Money Crops Battered By Hurricane Isbell
Hurricane Isbell pounded Cuba’s Pinar del Rio with 80 mph winds and 100 mph gusts, damaging San Juan y Martinez tobacco plantations and driving thousands from homes. The storm moved toward Florida, with Key West alerts and Navy planes withdrawn as Cuba’s economy, already strained, faced renewed destruction.
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Fla
Isbell
Cuba
Pinar del Rio
Florida Keys
U. S
Hilda
Aguust
Havana
Miami Weather Bureau
Key West
Florida Gulf Coast
Everglades
Atlantic
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Fidel Castros
Flora
Cleo
Weather Bureau
Key West Navy Base
Goldwater Attacks Baker Case in Campaign Speech
Kansas City dispatch notes Senator Barry Goldwater charging President Johnson with delaying a Senate probe into Bobby Baker, linking Baker to the White House. The candidate calls the Baker affair a drag on Johnson as election day nears amid a clash with Democrats over free speech and alleged totalitarian tactics.
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Kansas City
Barry Goldwater
Johnson
Senate
Bobby Baker
White House
Goldwater
Baker
Lyndon Johnson Criticizes Republicans in New Jersey Rally
President Johnson told about 30000 in Bergen Mall crowd that Republicans are in temporary receivership and favor policies to repeal present law and veto the future. He urged national unity and leadership that respects the people while condemning factionalism and attacks on character.
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Paramus
N. J
Johnson
Republican Party
Bergen Mall
America
Cleveland Girl Slain In Reich Near Karlsruhe
Ann Marie Peterson a 22 year old student from Cleveland Heights Ohio has been missing since August 25. Her unidentified body was found near Karlsruhe by German Army soldiers during maneuvers and the case prompts a nationwide police search. Her mother Mrs Marie G Peterson traveled to Paris to view belongings from the victim and follow leads with U S Embassy officials in Paris.
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Stuttgart
Germany
Karlsruhe
Ann Marie Peterson
Cleveland Heights
Ohio
Munich
Paris
Marie G. Peterson
U. S
Europe
U.S. State Department
Ann M. Peterson
Miss Peterson
Cleveland
University Heights
Truman Falls at Home in Minor Injuries
Former President Harry S. Truman, 80, was hospitalized in Kansas City after a bathtub fall at his Independence home. He suffered a cut above the right eye and cracked ribs, with his glasses breaking and slicing the eyelid. He was treated in the emergency room and later deemed in satisfactory condition.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Independence
Wallace Graham
White House
Robert E. Adams
Adams
Arsenal Plot Arrests Stir Corpus Christi
Corpus Christi officers detained ex convict plumber Julius Schmidt 29 and Jerry Bird 27 for questioning after guns and Nazi items were seized from Schmidt home and his mother’s residence. They face investigation into a reported plan to kill President Johnson with a rocket launcher grenades and hundreds of rounds.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
Johnson
Julius Schmidt
Jerry Bird
Calallen
Guns and Nazi flags trigger Texas raid on Schmidt home
Officers, acting on a tip about threats to the President, found guns and Nazi flags in Corpus Christi. Authorities say no assassination plot is proved and both men face possible charges under the National Firearms Act. Deputies seized machine guns rifles and other weapons from Schmidt and his mother’s home in Nueces County.
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Texas
Schmidt
Nueces County
Johnnie Mitchell
Mitchell
Johnson
Teen Youth Jury in Hinsdale Delivers Restorative Sentences
In Hinsdale Illinois a Youth Jury of local teens handles sentencing for juvenile delinquents. They order constructive work like mowing and hospital tasks to foster restitution without police records, a system praised by Sgt. Beukema and Magistrate Brown. The jurors do not determine guilt, only punishment.
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Hinsdale
Ill
Chicago
John Beukema
Richard R. Brown
Brown
Hinsdale High School
Greg Mertz
Jacksonville
Fla
Sgt. Beukema
Four Children Die in Hillsboro House Fire
A blaze in a two story frame home near New Vienna kills four children aged 15 months to six years. Father Tom Turner, 38, rescues three other youngsters by throwing them from an upstairs window. The mother was outside. Turner may have sparked the fire and used gasoline on the coals by mistake.
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Hillsboro
New Vienna
Tom Turner
Turner
Martin Luther King Jr Wins Nobel Peace Prize
Oslo announces the 1964 Nobel Peace Prize to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. for nonviolent civil rights leadership. The prize totals 273 000 Swedish kroner with medal and diploma awarded in Oslo on December 10. King's role with the Southern Christian Leadership Conference and Montgomery Bus Boycott marked his historic achievement.
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Martin Luther King
Oslo
Norway
Martin Luther King Jr
Georgia
United States
Oslo Nobel Institute
King
India
Mahatma Gandhi
Atlanta
Crozer Theological Seminary
Chester
Montgomery
Ala
Southern Christian Leadership Conference
Eisenhower Plans Columbus Rally On 74th Birthday
Former President Dwight D. Eisenhower, age 74, smiles at the sun as he hints at playing golf. He is set to address a Republican rally in downtown Columbus at noon Thursday.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Columbus
Middletown Steel Chief Calls for Price Hikes
Armco Steel President Logan T. Johnston said profit margins on certain steel products are too low and prices should be increased.
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Middletown
Armco Steel
Logan T. Johnston
Detroit Auto Strike Nears as UAW and GM Narrow Gap
Detroit report says with under 48 hours to go toward a strike deadline, American Motors Corp and the United Auto Workers have reached agreement or are near settlement on key issues. The article notes potential plant walkouts and pressure on negotiations as deadlines loom.
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Detroit
American Motors Corp
United Auto Workers
GOP Denies Dem Charges of Spy Story
GOP National Chairman Dean Burch rejected Democrats’ claim that Republicans paid a party employee $1000 for confidential information. He called the charge a nonsensical story, tied to distractions from Baker Estes cases and Furcolo indictment. The affidavit involved Wayne Phillips and Teletypes operator Louis Flax.
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Dem
Washington
Dean Burch
Burch
Democratic National Committee
John M. Bailey
Bobby Baker
Billie Sol Estes
Foster Furcolo
Massachusetts
Wayne Phillips
Democratic Committee
Louis Flax
Flax
Society Artist Charged In Airman's Kidnap
Caracas police say society artist Angel Luque masterminded the kidnapping of U S Air Force Lt Col Michael Smolen. Six other Castroite gang members were under arrest. Luque, 30, allegedly hid Smolen in his two room studio for 86 hours and may be linked to the Distefano propaganda kidnapping and to the Col Chenaul case and a 1963 theft of five French impressionist paintings valued at 650000 dollars.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Michael Smolen
Luis Vera Romez
Interior Ministry
Angel Luque
Luque
Smolen
Gomez
Argen
Tine
Alfredo Distefano
Red Underground
James Chenault
Five Day Forecast Shows Warm Start to Week
The outlook calls for temperatures 4 to 7 degrees above normal with Cleveland 63 41 Columbus 65 42 and Cincinnati 69 46. Expect gradual warming until a cooler turn around Monday. Rain totals around or under one tenth of an inch in showers on Monday.
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Cleveland
Columbus
Cincinnati
Ex-Governor Furcolo Indicted Over 1960 Bribe Plan
Former Massachusetts governor Foster Furcolo and four Governor's Council members were indicted on charges of conspiring to arrange a bribe to gain reappointment of Anthony Dinatale as state commissioner of public works. Furcolo called the charge political and tied to a pre election probe by the Massachusetts Crime Commission.
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Boston
Foster Furcolo
Massachusetts
Anthony Dinatale
Mer
Furcolo
Massachusetts Crime Commission
Both Sides Confident In Britain
London reporting one day before the general election shows Labor bets favored by turmoil over a subway strike. Harold Wilson says a full vote will push a big Labour swing while Conservatives claim momentum from party blitzing and government cour to beat the Labour union ties.
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Britain
Labor Party
Harold Wilson
Liverpool
Labor
Peter Hyett
National
Richard A. Butler
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