Estes Data Locked Up Available Amid Estes Inquiry
An agriculture department official said Friday that records of the department s relations with Texas financier Billie Sol Estes have been sealed to prevent loss while remaining accessible to the FBI and congressional investigators. Senator Mundt and Republican leaders press for a speedy broadened probe into Estes multi million dealings with the government. The locked office has been unoccupied since April 20, as staff transfers and record handling were reviewed amid testimony naming Estes gift giving by Emery Jacobs and related resignations.
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Texas
Billie Sol Estes
George Barnes
Freeman
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Estes
Mundt
R-S.d
Senate
Eisenhower
Barnes
N. Battle Hales
Emery Jacobs
Agricultural Stabilization and Conservation Service
Jacobs
Rebels Seize Coastal City In Venezuela
A battalion of marines seized Carupano, Venezuela, in a revolt against President Betancourt. Loyal forces moved to quell the uprising while the navy prepared a response. The rebels, led by Capt. Jose Teodoro Molina, occupied the radio station and called for revolution. Street clashes in Caracas injured six students and a policeman, not clearly linked to the Carupano action.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Carupano
Romulo Betancourt
de Corbeta
Jose Teodoro Molina
Betancourt
U.S
Porto la Cruz
Fourth U.S. Nuclear Blast in Pacific Tests
The United States detonated its fourth nuclear device in the Pacific test series. The weapon, dropped from a plane, occurred near Christmas Island in the intermediate range and was reported by United Press.
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Washington
UPS
U. S
Christmas Island
Recall of 40,000 GIs From Europe Studied
Senator Stennis said defense officials consider recalling about 40,000 non combat troops from Europe. The move aims to curb dollar outflow and improve the combat ratio in U S armed forces.
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Europe
Washington
Stennis
D-Miss
Senate Defense Preparedness Subcommittee
U.S
Nasser Shooting Report Denied by Informed Source
An informed source rejects a Daily Telegraph report claiming President Nasser was shot and wounded. The Telegraph cited a supposed Israeli radio report and claimed the gunman was Ali Amer, brother of the UAR armed forces commander. Nasser is described as sound and well.
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Cairo
Nasser
London Daily Telegraph
Telegraph
Ali Amer
United Arab Republic Armed Forces
U S Helicopter Crashes in South Vietnam
A U S military helicopter stationed in South Vietnam crashed on Friday. A spokesman said there were no immediate indications of casualties or whether the aircraft was shot down by communist guerrillas.
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Saigon
U.S
South Vietnam
Mrs Longstreet Dies at 99 Widow of Civil War General
Helen Dortch Longstreet, widow of Confederate General James Longstreet, died at 99 in Milledgeville Georgia. Born April 20 1863 in Carnesville she married the general September 8 1897. She defended his Gettysburg conduct and worked as a riveter at Marietta bomber plant during World War II.
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Milledgeville, Ga
Helen Dortch Longstreet
James Longstreet
Lee
Gettysburg
Marietta
Life sentence given to Dr. Edwin Goss in schoolroom murder
Dr. Edwin E. Goss, 68, Muscatine dentist, was sentenced to life in Fort Madison penitentiary for first degree murder in the Durant schoolroom slaying of his wife Inez, 68. He pled guilty after a April 12 hearing with fourteen witnesses. Goss shot his wife on February 22 and then attempted suicide. They had been separated since last summer and Mrs. Goss had filed for divorce. Judge Donald P. Barnes noted deliberation but said the man must live with his conscience.
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Tipton
Edwin E. Goss
Muscatine
Fort Madison
Inez
Donald P. Barnes
Goss
Polaris missile flight tests with advanced nose cone
Cape Canaveral report states a Polaris missile armed with an advanced nose cone and guidance system was launched from a land pad on a flight exceeding 1,500 miles Thursday night.
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Cape Canaveral
Rusk Seeks NATO Backing for Berlin Talks
Secretary of State Rusk urged NATO allies at the spring meeting to keep probing talks with the Soviet Union on Berlin. He warned that a Berlin crisis may not be resolved permanently and urged exploiting the Soviet attitude. French and West German ministers endorsed continuing dialogue, joining British support for extended negotiations.
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Athens
Rusk
NATO
Russia
Berlin
Soviet Union
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Bush
Kennedy
Couve de Murville
Schroeder
Lord Home
Rail Wage Plan Draws Fire From Both Sides
Non operating rail unions and railroad executives criticize the Public Board recommendation for a 10.2 cent hourly raise totaling about 100 million dollars annually. Unions call it too low, executives say it is too high, with Kennedy to decide the final action.
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Washington
Kennedy
G. E. Leighty
Titov Lost On Factory Tour In Baltimore
Soviet cosmonaut Gherman Titov and his wife arrived late for a tour of Bethlehem Steel Sparrows Point after a motorcade misdirection. An election board supervisor led Titov to the plant after the driver wandered off, with Titov commenting Baltimore is bad and noting U.S. mills are bigger. He met workers, exchanged souvenirs, and planned events with John Glenn.
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Baltimore
Gherman Titov
Titov
Bethlehelm Steel
Sparrows Point
Washington
State Department
Tony Pawlikowski
Baltimore Harbor Tunnel
Jits
Ikowski
Pawlikowski
John Glenn
Col. Glenn
Glenn
Five Held in Tokyo Crash Fatal to 154
A Tokyo crash that killed 154 and injured 165 led to arrests of five including the freight engineer Hori Manakami and three rail staff on suspicion of criminal negligence. The wreck involved a freight train overrunning signals and colliding with two commuter trains. No Westerners among the victims.
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Tokyo
Hori
Fumi Manakami
Manakami
New Car Sales in Cedar Rapids Reach Record April
April new car sales in Cedar Rapids totaled 555, the highest monthly total since 1954 and likely the Linn County record. The Linn County Report from Adcraft Advertising and Letter Service shows 555 units, surpassing prior peaks of 551 in June 1960 and 541 in April 1959. President Ray Allen of Allen Motor Co. notes weather improved in April after a harsh winter boosted demand.
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Cedar Rapids
Linn County
Tory
Adcraft Advertising and Letter Service
Ray Allen
Allen Motor Co
William Schamberger
Cedar Rapids Auto Dealers Assa
Longshore Union Official Archie Brown Sentenced
Archie Brown, a Local 10 executive board member of the International Longshoremen's Union, was sentenced in San Francisco to six months for violating the Landrum Griffin Act. The offense bars communists from union leadership, with a possible year and $10,000 fine upon conviction. His defense will appeal, and he remains free on $5,000 bail.
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San Francisco
Archie Brown
U.S
Albert Wollenberg
Local 10
International Longshoremen’s Union
Brown
Liberty
Landrum-Griffin
Sukarno Withdraws Bill Amid Political Row
In Jakarta President Sukarno faced a major setback after he pulled a bill mandating only one third of the new legislative assembly be elected. He ordered the measure returned to the Supreme Advisory Council as broad party opposition denounced dictatorial provisions.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Sukarno
Legislative Assembly
Supreme Advisory Council
Kennedy urges open trade in New Orleans speech
President Kennedy in New Orleans calls for a genuine Atlantic partnership through expanding two way trade. He says trading, not timidity, will bring more jobs and national security, as thousands greet him along a 14 mile motorcade to a new $10 million wharf.
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Kennedy
America
Free World
Winston Churchill
Joseph Giarruso
Mr. Kennedy
White House
Louisiana
Jimmie Davis
Victor Schiro
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