Laos Premier Orders Kong Le Confined After Airport Welcome
Laos Prime Minister Souvanna Phouma orders Capt Kong Le to house arrest for 15 days after the paratrooper led an unsanctioned airport welcome for Soviet envoy Abramov. Souvanna, in Luang Prabang, called the scene Alice in Wonderland and denounced the display by Kong Le and his troops.
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Vientiane
Laos
Souvanna Phouma
Kong le
Souvanna
A. N. Abramov
Soviet Union
Luang Prebang
Abramov
United States resumes Laos aid and salary payments
The United States restarts its financial assistance to the neutralist Laos government and will cover salaries for troops who supported its rise. Russia offered to fill the gap after U S payments paused, a move not guaranteed to be enforced. Pro Communist elements in Vientiane may rally Kong Le’s paratroopers to protest the action.
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Washington
United States
Laos
Russia
U. S
Vientiane
Kong le
Burglars Grab $3 Million Safe From West Hollywood Home
Los Angeles sheriff's deputies reported a three million dollar safe burglary at the West Hollywood residence of retired broker Raoul Fernandez. The loot included about one million dollars in jewelry and two million dollars in non negotiable Coca Cola stock. Fernandez was out to dinner when the break in occurred.
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Los Angeles
Raoul Fernandez
West Hollywood
Katherine Johnson Candler Fernandez
Coca-Cola
Lee Bergman
Sheriff’s Detective Bureau
Fernandez
Eisenhower Warns on Khrushchev Attacks at UN Day
President Eisenhower urged a ceaseless push to strengthen and ensure success of the United Nations in a speech prepared for the dedication of the Hiawatha Bridge over the Mississippi at the Minnesota Wisconsin border. He did not mention Khrushchev directly but his remarks serve as an indirect reply to the Kremlin leader’s threats to boycott the UN. He praised the UN as a forum for airing differences and finding workable compromises ahead of United Nations Day.
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Eisenhower
United Nations
International Organization
Khrushchev
Teacher admits guilt in espionage case at Vienna
Mark I Kaminsky 28 of near Niles Michigan pleaded guilty to espionage before a Soviet court claiming the Russians promised a light sentence He was sentenced September 16 to seven years with suspension and expulsion Kaminsky and companion Harvey Bennett 26 of Tracy California were seized August 25 at the Soviet Czechoslovak border while preparing to leave the USSR Newsmen report Kaminsky said he gathered material for a book and the notebook was seized as espionage evidence The pair planned to return to the United States soon
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Mark L. Kaminsky
Jefferson Township
Mich
Kaminsky
Moscow
Harvey C. Bennett
Bath
Soviet Union
Vienna
Austria
Mark I. Kaminsky
Niles
Tracy, Calif
Czechoslovakia
U. S
United States
Russia
Newsman Shooting Probed in Portland
Police investigated a shotgun shooting of Donald Newhouse 41 production manager at the Oregonian and cousin of S I Newhouse publisher. He was grazed in the hip and thigh by pellets through a basement window Sunday night and treated. Both the Oregonian and Oregon Journal offered a $5000 reward for information leading to the shooter.
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Portland
Ore
Donald Newhouse
S. I. Newhouse
Newhouse
The
Oregonian
Oregon Journal
Stengel Fired by Yankees Over Age
Casey Stengel announced he had been fired by the New York Yankees saying he was told his services were no longer required. He stated the dismissal was due to his age during a press conference.
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NEW York
Casey Stengel
NEW York Yankees
Daughter Bridget Hayward dies by suicide in midtown apartment
New York police report Bridget Hayward 21 daughter of actress Margaret Sulla van and producer Leland Hay ward apparently killed herself Monday in her midtown residence. Assistant medical examiner indicated the suicide.
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New York
Bridget Hayward
Margaret Sullavan
Leland Hayward
Union Calls Vote on Back-to-Work Stance at GE Plants
The International Union of Electrical Workers plans a showdown vote on whether to resume work at General Electric plants amid a back-to-work push. Union president James B. Carey says 54 GE locals will likely back national leadership despite Local 301’s defection at Schenectady. Federal mediators met without progress as the union weighs accepting a truce proposal to preserve wages and conditions during talks for a new contract.
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New York
International Union of Electrical Workers
IUE
General Electric Co
James B. Carey
Carey
Local 301
Schenectady
N. Y
Leo Jandreau
Volunteers Trained in Czechoslovakia for Cuba Mission
Reports indicate several thousand so called volunteers are being trained and equipped in Czechoslovakia for military service in Cuba. The effort involves Communist organizers coordinating support and deployment plans across European bases.
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Cuba
Bogota
Colombia
Czechoslovakia
Guards Held Hostage by Convicts at Connecticut Prison
In Wethersfield Connecticut three guards were overpowered and held hostage for six hours in the Connecticut State Prison hospital ward. Convicts demanded a conference with a lawyer and a state representative and released the guards after the meeting. Walter Doolittle and Peter Kinosh were among the prisoners involved. Doolittle faces armed robbery, escape and riot terms. Kinosh has a one to five year sentence. State police stood by as the inmates released the guards unharmed and the hosts surrendered their weaponry included sharpened butter knives.
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Wethersfield, Conn
Connecticut
Gleason
Dudley
Doolittle
Kinosh
Richard Steinert
James A. Ough
Theodore L. Carbone
Joseph Mikalson
Carbone
Ough
Erudite Fibbers Face Biggest Question in Perjury Scandal
Charles Van Doren and about a dozen former quiz show contestants surrendered to face perjury charges in Manhattan. The defendants are accused of lying to a grand jury about being coached on Tic Tac Dough and Twenty-One. Each two count misdemeanor could bring up to two years in jail and $1000 fine if convicted. Van Doren, famed for Twenty-One and Tic Tac Dough, rose to national fame and faced arraignment with a troubled, anxious demeanor.
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New York County
Grand Jury
Charles van Doren
Timothy Horan
Hank Bloomgarden
Elfrida van Nordroff
New York
van Doren
Manhattan
Brooklyn
Elfrida van Nardroff
Special Sessions
John M. Murtaugh
Drumhead Justice in Cuba Cited by U S Officials
The United States accuses Cuba of drumhead justice in the execution of two Americans Alan Dale Thompson and Robert Otis Fuller. Washington warns Americans to avoid foreign disputes as a military tribunal postpones the sentencing of a fourth American Leslie Bradley in a fake Nicaraguan invasion case.
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Washington
United States
Cuba
State Department
Alan Dale Thompson
Robert Otis Fuller
Leslie Bradley
Castro
Nixon declines extra debate proposal in 1960 campaign
Vice President Richard M Nixon rejects Kennedy's offer of a fifth television debate citing scheduling issues. He proposes altering the upcoming fourth debate by extending its length and allowing public questions, but Kennedy dismisses the idea. An aide says dates and formats were the result of negotiated concessions.
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Washington
Richard M .Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Nixon
Kennedy
Columbus
Ohio
Khrushchev
United States
Nixon Kennedy clash in Florida campaign attack and defense stance
Vice President Nixon flies to Miami for a Florida clash with Senator Kennedy. Nixon accuses Kennedy of dangerous double talk on Quemoy and Matsu and reaffirms defense of the islands. Kennedy blasts Eisenhower blunders and communist influence as he campaigns for a stronger hemispheric leadership.
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Richard M. Nixon
New York
Florida
John F. Kennedy
Nixon
Kennedy
United States
Quemoy
Matsu
China Islands
Massa
Chusetts
Eisenhower
Sen. Kennedy
U.S
Free World
Nixon 'Person' Show Delayed By Network
New York CBS delays Nixon taped appearance on Person to Person until October 27. NBC and CBS confirm postponement affecting Vice President Richard Nixon and the program entry.
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Nixon
New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
Richard M. Nixon
American astro mice fly to Texas for follow up
Sally Amy and Moe the American astro mice travel to Texas for prolonged observation to determine if their 700 mile high space flight has lasting effects.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Sally
Amy
Moe
Texas
Kennedy ties Nixon to lack of compassion in hemisphere speech
Kennedy sought to link his Republican opponent Vice President Nixon to the country’s lack of compassion imagination and vigor in Latin American relations. The Democratic candidate outlined his views on arrival and planned to reinforce the theme in Tampa after addressing the American Legion. He called for an end to open warm backing of dictators and for a Western Hemisphere arms control effort.
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Miami
Fla
John F,. Kennedy
Eisenhower
Florida
Cuba
Hemisphere
Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
Tampa
American Legion Convention
Nixon
Armament Talks Top UN Agenda
The United Nations Political Committee begins work with disarmament as the top priority. Four disarmament questions are in the hopper covering Communist and Western arms proposals, nuclear test suspensions, preventing broader nuclear spread, and the Disarmament Commission report. Khrushchev outlined a plan. the United States Britain and Italy offered counterproposals with key differences on timing and UN reform.
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United Nations
N. Y
Khrushchev
United States
Britain
Italy
Lodge Promises Negro In Cabinet Of Nixon
Albany report says Henry Cabot Lodge promised that if Richard Nixon is elected president there would be a Negro in the cabinet. Lodge told reporters, This is a promise.
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Lodge
Nixon
Albany
N. Y
Henry Cabot Lodge
Richard M. Nixon
Red Envoys Spy in Miami Beach Says Large % Espionage Ties
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover estimated that between 70 and 80 percent of Iron Curtain diplomatic representatives in the United States have some type of espionage assignment. The remark highlights widespread Soviet espionage concerns during the Cold War period.
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Miami Beach
Fla
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Iron Curtain
Toledo man named president of Ohio Retail Food Dealers Assn
Walter A. Churchill of Toledo was nominated to succeed Ivan Bangert of Springfield as president of the Ohio Retail Food Dealers Association, with Cleveland speakers noting the need to unite retailers under the association banner.
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Seeks Food Post
Cleveland
Walter A. Churchill
Toledo
Ohio Retail Food Dealers Association
Ivan Bangert
Springfield
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