Earhart Mystery: Natives Claim Earhart Executed by Japs
San Francisco radio newsman Fred Goerner says Amelia Earhart and navigator Fred Noonan crash landed on Saipan Bay in July 1937 and were executed by Japanese forces. Goerner cites native recollections, parts from a pre war plane, and cooperation with the San Mateo Times to support the claim.
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San Francisco
UPI
Amelia Earhart
Fred Goerner
KCBS
Fred Noonan
Saipan Bay
Paul Mantz
Santa Ana
Miss Earhart
Goerner
Saipan
Marianna
Central Pacific
San Mateo
Calif
Maximo Akayama
Noonan
New Guinea
Howland Island
Honolulu
US Coast Guard
Howland
Stop Kennedy Move Stalled by Factional Dems in DPA
The stop Kennedy movement falters as veteran Democrats split on the path to the nomination. Harry S. Truman publicly backs a single candidate strategy while omitting Adlai Stevenson and leaving room for Stuart Symington or Lyndon Johnson to unite behind one choice. ADA opposition targets Johnson, complicating a unified front.
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Lyle Wilson
Los Angeles
UPI
Stop Kennedy
Democratic Party
Harry S. Truman
HST
Massachusetts
Kennedy
United States
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Kennedy Truman
Adlai F. Stevenson
Truman
Stevenson
Eleanor Roosevelt
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Johnson
Symington
Cuba Grants Power to Seize US Owned Property
Premier Fidel Castro's government moved to expropriate remaining US owned property in Cuba in retaliation for a possible cut in Cuba's sugar market. The law allows the president and prime minister to seize enterprises and property of US citizens or those with major US ownership on declaration of necessity and to pay 30 year bonds funded by excess sugar sales. The president and prime minister may appoint administrators and select experts to value expropriated assets for indemnity.
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Havana
UPI
Fidel Castros
Cuba
U.S
United States
United States of America
Congress
Castro
Osvaldo Porticos
July 6 1960 historic to-dos and notable birthdays
On this day in history 1699 Captain Kidd was seized in Boston and deported to England. 1747 John Paul Jones was born in Scotland. 1854 the Republican Party began at a Jackson Mississippi convention. 1885 Louis Pasteur inoculated a human for the first time. 1944 a deadly Hartford circus fire killed 168 and injured 350. Thought for today cites John Paul Jones.
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Mars
Saturn
William Kidd
Boston
England
John Paul
John Paul Jones
Scotland
Jackson
Midh
Louis Pasteur
Hartford
Conn
Garden Grove 10 mile race to be rerun July 24
The second annual Garden Grove 10 mile handicap foot race will be rerun July 24 after many runners from last week’s race ran off course. Other items note a London TV with four controls spoken by a man of a large family, an Australian parrot singing Yankee Doodle, routine police work weariness, a London airman sending back tools, and a summer trip to Colorado Springs for Edward and Mrs Brownlee.
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Garden Grove
Calif
UPI
Press Quarters Open at Convention
Los Angeles headquarter operations for the 1960 Democratic convention ramp toward full use. Pacific Telephone & Telegraph has installed over 1,000 private telephones and will add more as needed. The Rex Room hosts Western Union with about 100 teletype machines handling up to 300,000 words per hour, among the largest setups ever for a political event.
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Los Angeles
UPI
Pacific Telephone & Telegraph Co
Biltmer
Rex
Western Union
John W. Inwood
Eisenhower to act on powers to cut Cuban sugar imports
President Eisenhower said he will act soon to empower himself to reduce or eliminate Cuba's sugar market share. The move follows Tuesday's suspension of Cuban sugar imports and aims to retaliate against Castro for seizing US property. The administration warned Cuba's economic ties with the free world could be destroyed if Castro does not relent.
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Washington
UPI
Esenhower
Fidel Castro
Cuba
Free World
Castro
Commodity Stabilization Service
Eisenhower
U. S
U.S
Esso
Texaco
British- Dutch Shell
United States
Loveless Sees Johnson Voting Rule Clash at Democratic Nominating Convention
Iowa Gov. Herschel Loveless head of the rules committee warned that Johnson supporters may seek to alter convention voting rules, testing Kennedy opposition. He said the committee will likely keep current rules that allow states to switch votes during roll calls, barring a change.
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Des Moines
UPI
Herschel C. Loveless
Lyndon B. Johnson
Iowa
Loveless
Harry S. Truman
Los Angeles
John Kennedy
Dmass
Johnson
LeRoy Collins
Florida
Rules Committee
Florida teen backs Johnson five years before voting
James L Fortuna Jr., a 16 year old Jacksonville high school senior, campaigns for Lyndon B. Johnson. He has written to officials nationwide, calls himself Johnson’s honorary Florida campaign manager, and cites Johnson’s experience and appeal against the Communist threat.
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Jacksonville, Fla
UPI
James L. Fortuna Jr
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Johnson
Florida
Fortuna
Jim
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