U S Warned of Europe Nuclear Force in Briefing
In New York Secretary of Defense McNamara announced to the Economic Club of New York that the United States can field about 400 million tons of tactical nuclear force in Europe. He framed it as reassurance to allies amid Berlin tensions and Cuba concerns, stressing readiness and deterrence.
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United States
Soviet Union
Europe
Robert S. McNamara
White House
State Department
Economic Club of
Khrushchev
U.S
Berlin
Moscow
Cuba
McNamara
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
U. S
Man Stricken After Killing Deer In Bland County
John Harold French, 54, of near Bluefield Virginia, died of a heart attack Monday after noon while deer hunting in Dismal Creek Bland County. He shot and dragged a deer to camp, then collapsed eight miles from the highway. He was pronounced dead at 5 p.m. at a nearby way-station. Survived by wife Evelyn Mills French, daughter Phyllis McClintock, sons Ralph Gerald French and Edward B. French, four sisters. Body at Dudley Memorial Funeral Home. Funeral arrangements incomplete.
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John Harold French
Bluefield
Bland County
National Electric Coil
Bluefield-Tazewell
French
Tazewell
James Tabor
Brushfork
Mercer County
Elbert Harmon
Dudley Memorial Funeral Home
Laing Appeals Contempt Conviction Over Dog Ricky Case
Laing appeals a contempt conviction for failing to produce the dog Ricky for execution. He argues he no longer owns Ricky and cannot perform the act. The Supreme Court review is set for the next session, with prior U S Supreme Court rulings on Ricky’s case noted.
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Laing
Harvey Lutins
Roanoke
Ricky
Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Giles
Fire hits boardwalk area hotels leaving nine dead
A blaze ripped through hotels row ing houses and nearby structures along the Atlantic City boardwalk. At least nine people were killed and 18 reported missing as authorities battled the fire and searched for victims.
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Atlantic City Boardwalk
Yale Professor Barghoorn Back From Moscow Jail
Yale University scholar Frederick Barghoorn returned to the United States after a prison stay in Moscow on espionage charges. His mother said he was handcuffed and fed poorly, weighed 10 pounds less, and was kept incommunicado. He plans no immediate discussion of the case and will publish his fourth Soviet Union book in 1964.
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New Haven, Conn
Yale University
Frederick Barghoorn
Moscow
Barghoorn
Yale
Associated Press
Washington
United States
Elizabeth
Warsaw
Poland
Nazi Gestapo officer sentenced for Lodz murders in Poland
Hannover Germany AP Guenther Fuchs 52 a former Gestapo officer was given life imprisonment by a German court for wartime murders of Jews in Lodz Poland The trial lasted six weeks and convicted Fuchs of aiding and abetting in the murder of 1000 Jews Otto Bradfisch Lodz Gestapo chief was convicted of aiding and abetting in the murder of 22000 Jews in Lodz
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Germany
Guenther Fuchs
Gestapo
Lodz
Poland
West Germany
Fuchs
Otto Bradfisch
Bradfisch
Vinson 80 Retires After Half Century in Congress
Congressman Carl Vinson of Georgia, a longtime House Armed Services chair, turns 80 and announces retirement at end of current term. Known as "Uncle Carl" and "Swamp Fox," he wields vast defense knowledge and has shaped decades of military policy amid clashes with McNamara and Kennedy.
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Vinson
House
Strategic Armed Services Committee
Washington
Carl Vinson
D-Ga
House of Representatives
Milledgeville
Military
House Armed Services Committee
Nuclear Free Zone Proposed in Latin America
United States rejected Cuba’s demand to surrender Guantanamo Bay as the price for a Latin American nuclear free zone. Cuba tied its support to U S withdrawal from Guantanamo and inclusion of Puerto Rico and the Panama Canal, complicating the regional proposal.
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Guantanamo Naval Base
Latin America
United States
Charles C. Stelle
General Assembly
Carlos M. Lechuga
Puerto Rico
Panama Canal
Guantanamo
U.S
Pistol and Hose Shown In Murder Trial Evidence
In Minneapolis AP report, Richard L. Sharp testified at the murder trial of T. Eugene Thompson, charged with killing his wife Carol Thompson last March 6. The German luger pistol and a rubber hose allegedly used in the crime were entered as evidence. Mastrian, the alleged middleman, was named by Sharp as involved in plans to kill a church-going mother of four for her insurance.
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Carol Thompson
Richard L. Sharp
Minneapolis
T. Eugene Thompson
St. Paul
Sharp
Norman Mastrian
Mastrian
Thompson
Six Die in Head-On Georgia Crash Involving Families
A head-on collision on a highway hilltop near Cedartown Georgia killed six people in two cars. Three victims were a Springville Alabama family father mother and son. The other three were Cedartown men. The impact was so severe that cars’ makes and models could not be distinguished by officers.
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Cedartown
Springville
Ala
Monster said to haunt Vaal Dam spotted near Johannesburg
Reports describe a snake headed bellowing monster in South Africa's Vaal Dam near Johannesburg. Weekend watchers failed to photograph it despite a prize from a Johannesburg newspaper. Witnesses claim a flat head eight inches wide and a length of 20 to 25 feet. The provincial government warned against shooting or harming the creature, with prosecutions planned to protect all dam waters creatures.
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Johannesburg
South Africa
Vaal
Scores
Gvernment
Debris Search Continues After Fatal Surfside Fire
At least nine people died and 16 were missing after a million dollar blaze at the Surfside hotel in Atlantic City. Firefighters used a crane to sift through debris as the fire spread to adjacent hotels on the Boardwalk. The Surfside, a kosher elderly guesthouse owned by Milton Rauer, housed about 40 people. one victim died at Atlantic City Hospital and another guest perished later. The FBI sent a fingerprint identification team to assist authorities.
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N. J
Atlantic City Boardwalk
Atlantic City Hospital
Surfside
Michael Bloomberg
Bloomberg
FBI
Washington
Surf- Side
Milton Rauer
Morristown, N.J
Farley Charged With Felonious Assault In Matoaka Shooting
Virgil Farley of Matoaka was charged with felonious assault after shooting William Minor in the legs at Farley home around 7 15 pm. Minor was in satisfactory condition at Princeton Memorial Hospital. Farley a North American Aviation plant employee signed a statement saying he fired after Minor was fooling around with his wife. Bond set at 1000 pending preliminary hearing before Magistrate James E Belcher on Saturday morning.
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Matoaka
Princeton Memorial Hospital
W. A. Johnson
Virgil Lewis Farley
James E. Belcher
Princeton
Johnson
Farley
North American Aviation Plant
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