Navy Drew Pearson Clash Over Band Crash Charges
Navy chief Arleigh Burke took responsibility for the South American tour of navy bandsmen after columnist Drew Pearson charged secrecy surrounded the trip. Pearson accused the navy of misstatements and urged witnesses to testify before Congress.
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UPI
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The
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Brazil
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Naval Operations
South America
Eisenhower
Race Riot Averted at Tallahassee
Tear gas was used to break up a Negro student march in Tallahassee Florida after a face to face meeting between parading Negroes and white demonstrators. Gov Leroy Collins ordered campus confinement to avert disorder as sitdown protests continued in the South and at Princeton protests over segregated lunch counters.
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Florida
Leroy Collins
Florida A. & M. University
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Kansas
Colorado
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Massachusetts
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29 Percent Drop in Iowa Farm Net Income
Iowa's 1959 realized net income per farm fell to 3357 dollars, a 29 percent decline from 1958. The Agriculture Department cites lower receipts for hogs soybeans and eggs offsetting gains in cattle calves turkeys and wool amid higher production expenses.
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Washington
Iowa
Agriculture Department
West North Central
Minnesota
Missouri
Nebraska
Kansas
North
South Dakota
Pioneer V Sends Strong Signals From Space Flight
Pioneer V transmitted vivid radar-like signals Saturday night indicating a high performance as it moved through space. Scientists expected the beachball size craft to reach about 292,080 miles from Earth by midnight EST, traveling near 6,219 mph and gradually slowing under Earth's magnetic pull.
Jury Deadlock Prompts Retrial in Finch Murder Case
Los Angeles AP report: A jury of 5 men and 7 women failed to decide the guilt of Dr. R Bernard Finch and Carole Tregoff on murder and conspiracy counts after nearly 40 hours of deliberation. Judge Evans reset the case for March 17 in Department 100.
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Los Angeles
Finch
R. Bernard Finch
Carole Tregoff
Walter R. Evans
Superior Court Department
Miss Tregoff
Dr. Finch
Barbara Jean
Johnston Against Mail Rate Boost Opposes Eisenhower Plan
Senator Olin D. Johnston, chairman of the Senate post office committee, blasted President Eisenhower’s push to raise postal rates. He called the reasoning for higher charges ridiculous and warned first class mail users already pay well above the true cost, with the proposed plan pushing costs to more than 50 percent over actual handling costs.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Olin D. Johnston
D-S.c
Senate Post Office Committee
Johnston
Cuban Police Seize Two Americans for Questioning
In Havana two Americans Joseph Taylor and Roger Sharp were seized by Cuban police for ten hours of interrogation after being arrested at the agrarian reform program building. They were held at the Fidel Castro revolutionary army investigation department, stripped and searched, and denied calls to the U.S. embassy. Officials later released them with orders not to leave Cuba, while missing cameras and documents were reported as recovered or retained. Taylor, a congressional candidate from Stillwell Oklahoma, and Sharp, Tulsa based TV news director, asserted rights to embassy contact during the ordeal.
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Stillwell
Okla
Roger Sharp
KOTV
Tulsa
Oklahoma
Sharp
Agrarian Reform Program
Havana
Fidel Castro Revolutionary Army
Castro denies US complicity in Havana ship explosion
Fidel Castro told reporters he has no proof US involvement in the March 4 explosion of a French munitions ship in Havana harbor. He said he still has the right to wonder about the incident.
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United States
Havana
Fidel Castro
Castro
Harris Modifies Payola Ban Order
Rep. Oren Harris of Arkansas altered a payola probe ban, allowing access to investigation files for those entitled to see them. He said the change prevents subcommittee staff from opening files to members but he will arrange access upon request.
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Washington
Oren Harris
D-Ark
Payola
Dick Clark
Harris
Legislative Oversight Subcommittee
Subcommittee
House of Representatives
Former U N Official Benjamin A Cohen Dies in New York
Benjamin A Cohen a Chilean diplomat and former United Nations under secretary died Saturday at Doctor's Hospital in New York He would have been 64 next Friday Cohen served at the U N as assistant secretary general heading public information and later as under secretary in charge of the trusteeship department
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Benjamin A. Cohen
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Doctor’s Hospital
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U.N
Department of Public Information
House Begins Civil Rights Bill Voting Monday
Agreement reached by key house leaders to abbreviate debate and start voting on the civil rights bill Monday. Speaker Sam Rayburn and leaders from Southern factions and pro civil rights groups met as Senate and House aims align to avoid a lengthy conference.
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Washington
UPI
Procivil Rights
Sam Rayburn
Dtexas
Rayburn
Senate
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Congress
Rescuers Near Trapped Miners At Logan Mine
Advance rescue team wearing oxygen masks pierced deadly fumes to within 300 feet of 18 miners trapped in the Island Creek Coal Co mine near Logan West Virginia. Raymond E Salvati hailed the ventilation plan as working though the men trapped since Tuesday remain unaccounted for. A fresh squad entered to relieve earlier rescuers who ran low on oxygen.
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Logan
W. VA
Raymond E. Salvati
Island Creek Coal Co
Aged Chancellor Adenauer Arrives in New York
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived in New York for talks with President Eisenhower on Germany and Berlin. He was greeted at Idlewild by officials and will meet with Ben Gurion and Dag Hammarskjold, attend Mass, and attend several official functions hosted by Cardinal Spellman and German officials.
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New York
UPI
Konrad Adenauer
United States
Eisenhower
Germany
West Berlin
Wilhelm Grewe
Robert Ik. Wagner
James O’brien
Idelwild
Adenauer
David Ben- Gurion
United Nations
Dag Hammarskjold
Francis Cardinal Spellman
American Council On Germany
Georg Federer
L A Symphony Conductor Dies at Bandmasters Meeting
Arthur J. Babich age 67 conductor of the Los Angeles Symphonic Band collapsed and died Saturday during a business session of a bandmasters convention in Madison Wisconsin authorities reported He led the group for several years and was a prominent figure in regional music circles.
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Madison, Wis
Arthur J. Babich
Los Angeles Symphonic Band
Bandmasters
Adenauer Heads to Washington for Berlin Security Talks
Adenauer arrives in Washington to press the United States and its Western allies against offering concessions to Khrushchev over Berlin. He meets Eisenhower and Herter, urges firmness to deter a separate peace with East Germany, and warns that weakness could trigger a new Berlin crisis.
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Richard M. Nixon
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Khrushchev
Berlin
East Germany
Adenauer
Bonn
New York
Far East
U.S
West Berlin
Dulles
Eisenhower
Herter
United States
Car breakdown humor drives home highway caution
A humorous saying compares using hundreds of nuts to hold a car together with the single driver who can scatter it all on the highway, underscoring safe driving and vehicle maintenance.
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