Kassem Claims Triumph Over Commie Rebels
In Iraq, Premier Abdel Karim Kassem's regime claims it has crushed a pro-Red revolt and army mutiny in the northern oil fields, while Cairo and Damascus dispatches report ongoing clashes with hundreds of casualties. The fighting coincides with Iraq's anniversary of Kassem's 1958 coup, as order is variably described.
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Lebanon
Abdel Karim Kassem
Iraq
Cairo
Damascus
Kassem
Ahmed Saleh Abdi
Baghdad
Nasser
United Arab Republic
Kirkuk
Fleet Admiral Daniel Leahy Dies at 84 in Bethesda
Admiral of the Fleet William Daniel Leahy, wartime chief of staff to President Roosevelt, died at Bethesda Naval Hospital at age 84 from a cerebral vascular accident. A native of Hampton Iowa, Leahy began service in 1897 and fought in four wars before serving as CNO and later as Puerto Rico governor and ambassador to France.
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Washington
William Daniel Leahy
Franklin D. Roosevelt
White House
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Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Leahy
Hampton, Iowa
Naval Academy
Chi
Puerto Rico
France
Commander In Chief
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Five Hurdles Bar End to Congress in 1959 Session
Washington AP report outlines five major hurdles delaying adjournment Civil rights labor regulation housing highways and interest rates. Committee action begins this week with senators and representatives signaling sessions into September and perhaps a target around August 22.
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Washington
Senate
House
State Conservation Worker Dies in Minnesota
Edgar E. Luecke, 43, a soil conservation service employee with the USDA for a decade in southwestern Minnesota, died Sunday in Owatonna, reportedly from a heart attack.
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State Conservation Service
Owatonna
Minn
Edgar E. Luecke
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Soil Conservation Service
Minnesota
Fidel In Seclusion As Peasants Rally For Castro Support
Thousands of straw-hatted farmers arrive from up to 500 miles to Havana for an anniversary gathering of Castro’s 1953 attack. Castro remains in seclusion and is seen as still prime minister by Dr. Corticos, amid a standstill government and tension over Urrutia.
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Federal Bureau of Land Management
Fremont National Forest
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Cuba
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Havan
Oriente
Prado
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Boston
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Urrutia
Corticos
Rarlan man bitten by snakes may lose arm
Rarlan Kentucky AP report says Earl Adkins 34 of Stanfill was bitten three times by rattlesnakes and is hospitalized. Doctors warned he could lose his left arm though he says he supports medicine alongside faith.
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Rarlan, Ky
Earl Adkins
Stanfill
Crowd Delays Lifesaving Efforts In Lake Death
An excited crowd at Shadow Lake near Toronto hindered a lifeguard and a rescuer as they attempted mouth to mouth resuscitation for 8 year old David Laur of Toronto. The boy died on the shore after being pulled from the lake. Lifeguard and rescuer describe the scene as chaotic and hampered by crowd actions.
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Stouffville, Ont
David Laur
Toronto
Shadow Lake
Frank Lamon Jr
David
Trapped Subway Trains Blocked by East River Blaze
Four hundred subway passengers faced panic as fire trapped two trains in a tunnel under the East River, delaying service for about 30 minutes on Sunday.
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New York
East River
West offers continuation of foreign ministers talks on German issue
At Geneva the Western bloc proposed a continuing conference of foreign ministers with West and East German advisers to press for a German peace settlement. Christian Herter outlined the plan after rejecting a Soviet all German committee for unification, aiming to keep big power control and widen contacts between Germanys.
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Berlin
Russia
U. S
Christian A. Herter
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Andrei Gromyko
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East Germany
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Germany
Herter
Britain
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
U.S
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Big Four Commission
Big Four
U S Personal Income Rises to Record June Rate
Washington reports June personal income at a record 382.9 billion dollars annually as hiring rises and factory hours lengthen. Wages and salaries reach 261.1 billion, up 1.3 billion from May, while government transfer payments ease from May highs amid the recession.
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U.S
Washington
Negotiators Buck Odds in Effort to Break Steel Strike
Pittsburgh AP dispatch says government mediator Joseph F. Finnegan aims to end the nationwide steel strike now in its sixth day. Separate talks with steel industry and United Steelworkers proceed as production losses reach 214 million dollars and 50 million in wages. related sectors face furloughs. President Eisenhower orders quick settlement, while union calls for wage gains and better benefits and industry seeks cost containment.
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Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
New York
Basic Steel Industry
United Steelworkers
Eisenhower
Finnegan
James P. Mitchell
Tragedy as Man Falls From Fourth Floor
New York police say 45 year old Charles Scott fell from a fourth floor apartment Sunday night and was impaled on an iron fence. Officers spent about 20 minutes sawing four spikes to free him before transporting him to a hospital in serious condition.
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New York
Charles Scott
Plastic Gets Test in Balloon Launchings
Three large super pressure balloons launched in Northfield Minnesota in a Navy test to hold constant altitude for 59 hours. The sausage shaped balloons, 10.2 feet in diameter and lengths 3.75 and 190 feet, drift toward New England as instruments log air pressure and helium control data.
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Northfield, Minn
U.S. Navy
New England States
G. T. Schneldahl
la Crosse
Wis
State toll now 299 in Minnesota crashes
Two Pipestone teens Mark Cunningham 16 and Tom Johansson 17 died in a crash about seven miles northwest of Pipestone. Lindon Lassell 15 Montevideo suffered severe injuries. A Frost man Arthur Tenneson 69 died in a separate Beardsley area crash. toll for 1959 rises to 299.
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Minnesota
Beardsley
Mark Cunningham
Tom Johansson
Pipestone
Lindon Lassell
Montevideo
Arthur Tenneson
Frost, Minn
Elmore
Faribault County
Lowa
Tenneson
Gustaves A. Robertson
Minneapolis
Robertson
Edith M. Har- Neb
Mike H. Eisenberg
San Gabriel
Calif
C. Wayne R. Lampi
Stillwater
Minn
Petaluma
Two Rock Army Base
Two Men Drown in Twin City Area Lakes
Sunday saw two drownings in Twin City area lakes. Robert H. Niles, 28, of St. Paul, disappeared while swimming at White Bear Lake. a five foot deep water recovery followed and autopsy ruled drowning. Leroy Milton Fehling, 23, of Minne tonka drowned at Lake Minnetonka after falling from a dock. bystander Dick Hughes, 18, pulled him from the water but failed to revive him.
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Twin City
Robert H. Niles
St. Paul
White Bear Lake
Niles
Leroy Milton Fehling
Min
Lake Minnetonka
Minneapolis
Dick Hughes
Fehling
Hughes
Weather Update From The Herald Site
The Herald reports readings from the roof of the fire station at 8 30 am. High in the last 24 hours was 84 degrees and the low in the last four hours was not specified. Clear conditions prevail. AT THE Herald Office.
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