Congo Police Prepare for Possible Reprisals in Embassy Fight
In Leopoldville Congo a police officer warned a catastrophe could strike if officers lose control after a battle near the Ghana Embassy left Colonel Joseph Kokolo dead. Englishman John Meredith Roberts arrived as a bandleader linked to Baluba tribesman movement while President Kasavubu and Foreign Minister Bomboko left for Paris amid UN security measures.
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Leopoldville
A.A.P
Pascal Kapella
Joseph Kokolo
United Nations
Leonardville
Kapella
Ghana
New York
Kasavubu
Congo
Paris
Justin Bomboko
College of Commissioners
Two Women Die In Separate Sydney Street Incidents
In Balmain and Marrickville two women were killed tonight. Iris Noonan, 36, of St Peter's Grove Street, died after alighting from a truck and was believed to have fallen under it. A second unidentified woman was found fatally injured in Balmain with no known cause.
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Sydney
Balmain
Marrickville
Iris Noonan
Grove Street
St Peter's
Christmas easing for banks but tighter credit urged
The Reserve Bank orders general restraint on lending with a target average 16 percent asset reserve. Dr Coombs explains the seasonal easing while urging banks to curb borrowing for stock holdings imports consumer and trade credit construction and large capital projects. Emphasis on export finance and rural and mining sectors. Page 3.
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Coombs
Reserve Bank
Whippings Ordered for Two Youths in Adelaide Case
In Adelaide Juvenile Court on Friday magistrate W A Scaies sentenced two 17 year old youths to a total of 26 lashes for recent armed hold ups at Savings Bank branches. Colin Ellis Loughhead and George John Bass will receive 10 8 and 8 strokes respectively. Both are to be held at Magill Reform School for two years and suspended driving licences until further notice.
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Adelaide
South Australia
Savings Bank of
S.A
W. A. Scaies
Colin Ellis Loughhead
Brigalow Avenue
Kensington Gardens
George John Bass
Crossley Avenue
Croydon Park
Magill Reformatory
Greek Priests Aid Archbishop on Holy Land Tour
Archbishop Fisher, aged 73, travels with Greek Orthodox priests to Jerusalem. He visits the Church of the Holy Sepulchre and the Stone of Anointing amid a strenuous day of walking and prayer before continuing to Istanbul and Rome.
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Jerusalem
Canterbury
Geoffrey
Church of the Holy Sepulchre
Christ
Odon
Son Born to the Kennedys
A son was born early today to President-Elect John Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy in Washington. The dark-haired baby weighed 6 pounds 2 ounces and both mother and child were reported well. The Kennedys already planned to name him John F Kennedy Jr if a boy.
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Washington
A.A.P
John Kennedy
Palm Beach
Florida
Kennedys
John F. Kennedy
Jnr
Kennedy
Carol
Youths Hurt In Crossing Smash At Maragong Level Crossing
Two youths were injured when their car was pushed 50 yards along railway tracks by a locomotive at Maragong level crossing in Sydney. Police had not released names. Both were admitted to Parramatta Hospital with shock and injuries.
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Sydney
Maragong
Parramatta Hospital
Plan To Develop Australian NZ Aluminium Industry
A £120m scheme by Consolidated Zinc and Kaiser Aluminium plans bauxite mining at Weipa Queensland a 361000 ton alumina plant and a 120000 ton aluminium reduction plant at Invercargill New Zealand. It includes an 80 mile hydroelectric project and expansion of Bell Bay Tas via 1964 to 601400 tons.
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N.Z
Melbourne
Australia
New Zealand
Consolidated Zinc Corporation
Kaiser Aluminium and Chemical Corporation
Consolidated Zinc
L. B. Robinson
Kaiser Aluminium
D. H. Rhodes
Weipa
Queensland
Invercargill
South Island
Manapouri
Te Anau
Bell Bay
Tasmania
Pacific
Broken Hill
Kaiser Industrialeoncern
Britain
Spain
Africa
India
Argentina
CommonwealthAluminium Co. Pty. Ltd
Vena
Spooner
Northern
Finland Joins Trade Pact Move and Saimaa Canal Lease
In Moscow President Kekkonen signed a joint statement allowing Finland to associate with the seven nation European Free Trade Association. The accord also lets Finland lease part of the Saimaa Canal for timber shipping for 50 years in former Finnish Karelia.
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Helsinki
Russia
Finland
European Free Trade Association
Kekkonen
Moscow
Saimaa Canal
Finnish Karelia
Benn seeks to renounce peerage face by wife support
Anthony Wedgwood Benn fights to stay Labour MP for Bristol South after inheriting a viscountcy. His American-born wife Caroline backs him fully, likening the issue to colonial independence and calling the peerage a political death sentence.
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London
A.R.P
Anthony Wedgewood Benn
Caroline
Wedgwood Benn
Labour
South Bristol
House of Commons
Lord Brancasta
House of Lords
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John Meredith Roberts
Leopoldvile
Europe
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Kasai
Country Party
McEwen
Austrian Country Party
Left
Farle Page
Federal Council of the Country Party
Canberra
the Kennedys
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