New British Elections Called for Autumn
Prime Minister Sir Alec Douglas-Home announced that Britain's parliamentary elections will be held this fall. He said he would not ask the Queen to dissolve Parliament before autumn, with the term expiring the first week in November. Harold Wilson met Douglas-Home in the Commons after the statement amid GLC election polling.
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London
UPI
Alec Douglas-Home
Britain
Downing St
Douglas- Home
Labor Party
Harold Wilson
Douglas-Home
House of Commons
Conservative Party
Greater London Council
GLC
MacArthur Korea Conspiracy Interviews Stir Old Wounds
Two 1954 MacArthur interviews draw fresh attention to his Korea war dispute. The stories, published after his death, quote him alleging a British and State Department conspiracy sabotaged his efforts. Attlee calls claims absurd. Whitney calls the interview fiction.
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Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Bob Considine
Hearst Headline Service
James G. Lucas
Scripps - Howard
MacArthur
Lucas
Korea
Leftist Purge Agreed Upon In Brazil
In Rio de Janeiro, military and congressional leaders agreed on a sweeping antisubversion law to purge ex treme leftists from Brazil's Congress, government, and armed forces and sent it to Brasilia. The draft suspends constitutional rights temporarily as negotiations delay a new president's election to Friday or Saturday.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Congress
Brasilia
Joao Goulart
Air Force Keeps Hanscom Center to Protect Bedford Economy
Air Force Secretary Eugene Zuckert rejected New York leaders push to move the Electronics Systems Division from Hanscom Field in Bedford Massachusetts to Griffiss Air Base in Rome New York. He said retention at Hanscom best serves government interests amid a study of manpower and regional economic impact.
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F. Bradford Morse
Rmass
Zuckert
Morse
Hanscom
Kenneth B. Keat
Ing
R-N.y
Jacob K. Jayits
Alexander Pirnie
Massachusetts
National Aeronautics and Space Administration
NASA
Bedford
Boston
Air Force
New York
Rome
RAAMA
Make
Greater Boston Chamber of Commerce
Scranton Leaves Door Open to Draft at GOP Convention
Pennsylvania Governor William W. Scranton said he will not seek the Republican presidential nomination but did not rule out a draft at the national convention. He stressed he will not campaign for himself and would accept a nonengineered draft only if the convention deadlocks.
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UPI
Harrisburg
Pennsylvania
William W. Scranton
Scranton
San Francisco
Bunche arrives to ease Cyprus crisis as talks set
UPI reports Ralph J. Bunche, the UN troubleshooter, meets Greek Cypriot President Makarios and Turkish Cypriot leader Fazil Kuchuk to avert clashes over troop removal on the Nicosia Kyrenia highway. He warns against forceful moves and aims to reopen the Turkish controlled route with UN backing. Bunche begins a three day routine visit as Thant seeks extra peacekeeping troops from Ireland Finland and Sweden.
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Bunche
Makarios
Fazil Kuchuk
Nicosia-Kyrenia
U.N
Nicosia
Kyrenia
Thant
Ireland
Finland
Sweden
Governor To Sign Teacher Pay Raise
Boston reports Gov. Peabody will sign the bill lifting public school teachers minimum pay from 4500 to 5000 dollars starting Sept 1 1965. He cited three questions including purpose home rule and city affordability and noted broad state aid must accompany the raise. Opponents warned of annual costs while educators group projected lower figures. final votes passed with strong margins.
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UPI
Peabody
House
Massachusetts Taxpayers Federation
League of Cities and Towns
Massachusetts Teachers Association
Senate
Berkshire County
Edmund R. St. John Jr
Adams
George D. Hammond
Westfield
Thomas C. Wojtkowski
Wallace B. Crawford
Patrick E. Callaghan
Pittsfield
Warren A. Turner
Lee
Sidney Q. Curtiss
Sheffield
Edward S. Zelaza
Florida
Roger A. Sala
North Adams
Paul A. Cataldo
Franklin
Maurice A. Donahue
D-Holyoke
Massachusetts
Newland H. Holmes
Reymouth
Weekend Jail Terms Proposed by Judge Brooks
Judge Lawrence E. Brooks of Malden District Court proposed weekend jail terms to allow short-term offenders to keep their jobs and visit families. The plan, aired at the Tufts Assembly on Massachusetts Government, drew support from Corrections Commissioner George McGrath who urged sparing use and limiting it to misdemeanors.
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Medford
Mass
Lawrence E. Brooks
Malden District Court
Tufts Assembly
Massachusetts
Massachusetts Corrections
George McGrath
Freight To Halt Talks Resumed
Washington AP reports most U S railroads embargoed all freight at 12 10 a m Friday in a bid to avert a nationwide strike The labor secretary pressed continuous negotiations with union leaders as nearly 200 railroads face new work rules and a 12 01 a m Friday strike deadline The Illinois Central walkout sparked the stoppage and the price of labor versus management rules remains unresolved with both sides trading blame Oakham Mass sets state leading tax rate at 180 per 1000 evaluation exceeding Sterling at 116 per 1000
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U.S
Association of American Railroads
Secretary of Labor
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
Frulitless
H. E. Gilbert
Afi-Cio Brotherhood of Locomotive
Gilbert
Charles Luna
Afl-Cio Brotherhood of Railroad
Johnson
J. E. Wolfe
Illinois Central
Illinois Central Railroad
United Press International
Great Lakes
Gulf of Mexico
Congress
Wolfe
Oakham
Mass
UPI
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John E. Hull
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Scripps-Howard
Truman
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Yalu River
United States
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Heecame
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George C. Marshall
Defense
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Yalu
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Acheson
State
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Rusk
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Ralph Bunche
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