Airliner crash on Guadeloupe kills 112 on board
A Boeing 707 operated by Air France crashed in a forested hillside near Pointe-a-Pitre Guadeloupe during a storm. The plane carried 102 passengers including seven children and four babies and a crew of 10. no survivors were reported. The craft came from Paris to Santiago de Chile.
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Air France
Caribbean
Guadeloupe
New York
Pointe-a-Pitre
Paris
Santiago
Chile
U.S. Coast Guard
J. Carmenier
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Boeing
France
Leeward Islands
Andre Fernand Alfred Lesieur
Line
Charles de Gaulle
Burglars Loot Lumber Firms Including Ogden and Adams
In Cedar Rapids thieves stole about $1,200 from the Ogden and Adams Lumber Co. after breaking in through a warehouse door and a window. Other targets along with Hatch and Brookman Lumber Co., Drew's Sporting Goods, and Robinson’s Wholesale were hit during the night. Robbery at Ogden and Adams involved a torn vault door and an acetylene torch. investigators report an incomplete inventory and a safe that was cut open. One suspect escaped as officers closed in on a Robinson’s break-in attempt.
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Ogden and Adams Lumber Co
Thirty-second Street Drive
Hatch and Brookman Lumber Co
Eighth Avenue
Drew’s Sporting Goods
First Street
Robinson’s Wholesale Co
Sixteenth Avenue
Hatch and Brookman’s
Drew’s
Robinson's
Ogden and Adams Company
Denver Adams
Charles Gearhart
Robert Kelchen
Kelchen
Woman Drowns In Wading Pool
A 70 year old widow visiting her daughter in Cedar Rapids drowned in a wading pool early Friday. Mrs. Lillian E. Beelow of Janesville Minnesota was staying with Mr. and Mrs. Adrian Janson at 1948 Thirtieth Street Drive SE after a recent heart attack. Her body was found at about 8 a.m. by the Jansons' 11 year old son Jerry. The pool is about 1 1/4 feet deep and 10 feet in diameter. Sheriff deputies and the medical examiner investigated the drowning.
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Cedar Rapids
Lillian E. Beelow
Janesville, Minn
Adrian Janson
Thirtieth Street Drive
Jansons
Jerry
Gilbert Owes 3 Million in Taxes Fled to Brazil
New York AP reports financier Edward Gilbert who fled to Brazil owes 3.34 million dollars in federal income taxes. Tax officials filed liens for the amount against property he may own.
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New York
Edward Gilbert
Brazil
Taxi
Tshombe Rejoins Talks With Adoula After U.N. Findings
President Tshombe returns to negotiations with Premier Adoula in Leopoldville following U.N. investigations that Tshombe’s charges of an armed attack on Katanga were unfounded.
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Tshombe
Adoula
Leopoldville
U. N
Katanga
Free immunizations given to Linn County children
A Linn County clinic at city hall immunized 136 youngsters with polio, small pox, tetanus, diphtheria, and whooping cough shots. Most children received two or three injections. future Friday clinics 9:30 to 11 a.m. will continue until all county children are served without appointments.
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Linn County Medical Society
Linn County
Four Missing Climbers From Wilson Grandson Found Safe
The White House reported four climbers including Woodrow Wilson Sayre, grandson of Woodrow Wilson, have been found in Nepal in weak condition. They were located in a village near Namche Bazar and request helicopter evacuation.
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Washington
White House
Woodrow Wilson
Nepal
Army
Katmandu
Khum Jung
Namche Bazar
Salinger
States Department
U.S
Woodrow Wilson Sayre
Mt. Gya Chungkang
Nepal-Tibet
Adenauer and Rusk Reach Full Accord in Bonn Talk
Chancellor Adenauer and Secretary of State Rusk announced a three hour meeting produced full agreement on mutual interests including Berlin. They said their thoughts and aims coincide and that explorations for Berlin negotiations with Moscow remain to be discussed with Russia.
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Associated Press
State Rusk
West Berlin
Willy Brandt
Bonn
Adenauer
Rusk
Berlin
Moscow
Russia
U.S. Berlin
Washington
Dutch Claim Paratroop Losses In New Guinea Action
Hollandia reports that more than half of 450 Indonesian paratroops dropped since April 26 have been put out of action. The statement comes from Dutch authorities in the New Guinea theater.
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Hollandia, New Guinea
Rail-Union Talks Again Broken Off
CHICAGO UP I The railroads cut off negotiations with five operating unions for the second time over featherbedding work rules. J E Wolfe chief railroad negotiator said weeks of talks yielded no settlement and that progress would require a board proposal. The most debated change seeks elimination of about 40000 fireman jobs over several years.
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Chicago
UPI
J. E. Wolfe
National Mediation Board
Wolfe
Dirksen Attacks Ag Dept Over Estes Inquiry Gestapo Mentioned
Senate Republican leader Dirksen denounces Agriculture Department reviewed correspondence of Mundt and Curtis in Estes probe as Gestapo tactics. Secretary Freeman defends, Mundt and Curtis say letters may be published in friendly papers. Page 3 continues.
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Washington
UPI
Dirksen
R-Ill
Agriculture Department
G.O.P
Billie Sol Estes
Department
Agriculture
Freeman
Mundt
S.D
Curtis
Neb
Halleck
Ind
House
Senate
Estes
Senate Investigations
McCormack Urges Uncle to Stay Out of Kennedy Race
Massachusetts Attorney General Edward McCormack asks his uncle Speaker John McCormack to refrain from campaigning for his nephew in the Democratic Senate nomination fight against Edward Kennedy. He cites the risk of obscuring the core issue of candidate qualifications and stresses the need to keep national policy unity front and center.
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Boston
Edward McCormack
John McCormack
Edward
Ted”’ Kennedy
U.S. Senate
McCormack
Ted Kennedy
Ed McCormack
Massachusetts
United States
House Kills JFK Plan But Bipartisan Talks Begin
Administration spokesmen and Republicans planned substitutes after a surprise 215 to 205 House vote killed the JFK production controls bill. Lawmakers pledged to pursue new proposals in coming days.
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House
Washington
UPI
Kennedy
Farm bill amendment on department workers backfires in vote
Before the final house vote Rep Griffith offered a tongue in cheek amendment stating the agriculture department shall never have more employees than American farmers. It drew laughter and passed on a voice vote but Rep Albert demanded a head count and the result was reversed 230 to 171.
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Washington
Griffith
R-Mich
Agriculture Department
Albert
D-Okla
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Isle
Hill
Safe
Cedar Rapids News
Beelow
Percy Harris
Gilbert
Today's Index
Daily Record
Farm Marion Movies Society
By John Weyland
Cooley
D-N.c
House Agriculture Committee
Wickersham
Dokla
Iowa
Merwin Coad
Freeman-Cooley
Republican Party
Benson
Eisenhower
By Vincent Burke
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