Dulles and Macmillan Seek West Berlin Path Ahead
U S Secretary of State Dulles and British leaders align against Soviet proposals on West Berlin and Germany while a final policy awaits Macmillan's Moscow scouting mission. Macmillan plans to meet Khrushchev in Moscow within weeks to gauge Soviet attitudes on East West Germany.
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U.S
Dulles
West
Soviet Union
West Berlin
Germany
Moscow
Macmillan
House of Commons
Nikita Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Washington
Belwyn Lloyd
Uncan
Paris
Bonn
Couple Arrested for Attempt to Sell Twin Boys in Houston
Clark Dean Stillion and Rosemarie Stillion, both 24, were charged after two juvenile officers posed as buyers and bought the 8 year old twins Thomas James and George Frederick Lewins with a bill of sale for 500 dollars. The Stillions, former air force members from Michigan and Britain respectively, were jailed. The couple claimed it was for the children’s good while noting the twins’ siblings were not offered for sale. The four other children were left with juvenile authorities.
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Houston, Tex
Michigan
Clark Dean Stillion
Brighton
Mich
Rosemarie
Stillion
Snes
Air Force
Mrs Stillion
Thomas James
George Frederick Lewins
Nancy
Tina
Fire destroys unoccupied house in Conshohocken area
Firefighters responded to a blaze in an unoccupied house in the Conshohocken suburb of Philadelphia. The fire was traced to a wood fire under a 2,800 gallon still. Blaze liquor agents said they had been tracking a still in the area for the past two months.
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Conshohocken
Case Inn
Philadelphia
Probe LaGuardia Crash Asks If Mechanical Faulted
Investigators pursue causes after an American Airlines Electra crashes into the East River near LaGuardia with 73 aboard. Eight survivors, including a copilot and stewardess, and 22 bodies recovered. Pilot Captain Albert De Witt killed. Civil Aeronautics Board leads a 25 member probe into possible mechanical, altimeter, or pilot error factors.
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New York
LaGuardia Field
American Airlines
East River
Frank Hlavacek
Wilmette
Electras
American
Albert H. de Witt
Decatw
de Witt
Joseph O. Fluet
Civil Aeronautics Board
Chicago
Wrong Body Sent Home From Crash In Florida
In Gaffney, a distraught couple waited as Navy and FBI searched for their son’s body from a Florida highway crash. The wrong body was sent home for burial. the FBI confirmed the recovered body was Lawrence H. Geis of Milwaukee. Other victims include Jerry Robert Driskill of Gaffney, 23, and Donald L. Tullis, 19, of Racine, Wisconsin, with efforts to intercept the train carrying the Wisconsin bodies in Chicago.
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Gaffney
8. C
Navy
FBI
Florida
Lawrence H. Geis
Milwaukes
Roy K. Moore
Charlotte
N. C
Gaff
Khrushchev Urges West to End Cold War at Moscow Speech
In a closing address at the 21st Congress, Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev urged the Western powers to end the cold war. He offered guarantees for Western access to West Berlin if his plan to resolve the crisis was accepted, and invited President Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union. He warned that the USSR now has means to strike against aggressors globally.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
West Berlin
United Nations
John Foster Dulles
Khrushchev
Dulles
Soviet Communist Party
United States
Eisenhower
Soviet Union
Soviet Attack Evidence Triggers U S Probe
Washington reports publicly confronting Soviet leaders with evidence that two Soviet jet fighters shot down an unarmed U S transport plane on September 2 near the Turkey Armenia border. The crash killed 6 to 17 Americans. a taped radio exchange and a State Department summary detail U S efforts to obtain information.
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Washington
United Stites
Russia
U.S
State Department
Soviet Union
Cla
U. S
Tukey-Armenia
Armenia
Richard M. Nixon
Bate
Job Foster
Menshikov
Murphy
Reds Free 5 Americans From Germany Amid Cold War Tensions
U S Army pilot Richard Mackin and four other soldiers held in East Germany were released after Red Cross negotiations with East German authorities. The men, who disappeared in Berlin in late 1960, crossed into West Germany near the border. Mackin, 27, from Washington D C, parachuted into East Germany last December and later ran out of fuel in his small plane.
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Hameerhausen
Per
Germany
Richard Mackin
East Germany
Mackin
Washington, D. C
Elwyn Bell
Hill City
Kan
Kenneth G. Carlson
San Leandro
Calif
James W. Hayes
Baltimore
Melvyn Hamp~ton
Ber~lin
American Red Cross
Red Cross
U. S
Soviet Union
Marienbor
Convict-Started Fire Quelled at Brushy Mountain Mine
A fire started by rebellious convicts at Brushy Mountain State Prison was under control but smoldered. Prisoners set a mountainside mine ablaze before ending a 14 hour shift, warden Frank Liewellys said, with firemen preventing spread into the Cumberland Mountains mine shafts.
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Brushy Mountain State Prison
Frank Liewellys
Cumberland Mountains
Eisenhower Pushes Weaker Civil Rights Bill in Congress
President Eisenhower sent to Congress a watered down civil rights bill amid bipartisan hope and opposition. The plan would grant limited federal authority to intervene in school desegregation and voting rights disputes, with backing from Vice President Nixon but strong Southern and GOP opposition. Proposals to inspect registrars books and fund orderly integration faced resistance, while funds for military family schools in closed classrooms drew criticism.
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Washington
Nixon
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Atates
Eisenhower Plane Lands in Valdosta Amid Foggy Georgia Visit
President Eisenhower, en route from Washington with George M. Humphrey, landed at Moody Air Force Base Valdosta Ga after instrument landing due to dense fog and rain. The trip, marked by poor weather, disrupted plans to land at Spence AFB Motr ie Ga as the weather slowly cleared and the president remained in a cheerful mood upon arrival.
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Thomasville
Eisenhower
Piney Woods
Washington
George M. Humphrey
Treasury
Moody Air Force Base
Valdosta
Humphrey
Spence Air Force Base
Mottrie
Humphrey Place
Moody Base
Georgia
Presume Craft Down In Ocean Near Bermuda
A four engine B 50 Superfortress weather plane with a 12 member crew is missing and presumed down in the North Atlantic about 300 miles northwest of Bermuda. Coast Guard planes Navy flying boats and a Bermuda cutter race to the area amid rough seas winds up to 40 miles per hour and low visibility. A Japanese freighter reported seeing a burning plane crash and disappear earlier Wednesday morning. The lost aircraft was en route to collect weather data from a routine flight over the North Atlantic. The Coast Guard cutter Mackinac and other ships are in the search.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
APY
Atlantic
Aoid
Coast Guard
Navy
Kindley Air Base
North Atlantic
Coast Guard Cuter Mackjinn
Homes Deserted By Flood Victims
Flood crest along French Creek forces Meadville residents from 3,000 homes. Army blasting crews remove debris as surface water recedes. Red Cross reports 21 thousand dollars in emergency aid and shelter costs exceed nine thousand dollars.
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Meadville
French Creek
Simonetti
Nolay
Mendville
Red Cross
Kingsley Hall
Stone Methodist Church
Nixon Nursing Two Broken Ribs After Fall
Vice President Richard M. Nixon injures two ribs after slipping on an uneven sidewalk in front of his home. He remains mobile and jokes about the incident, noting unusual courtesy from his daughters Pulriti Wh and Tulir during recovery.
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Richard M. Nixon
Nixa
Nixon Xaid
Pulriti
Tulir
Hope's Eye Stricken Mollywood Star Bob Hope
Bob Hope, the 64 year old comedian, suffers a blood clot in his left eye causing blurred vision. His doctor ordered rest and treatment with expectations of quick improvement.
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Hope
Mollywood
Bob Hope
U S Pilot Confesses Plot To Kill Castro
A former U S Navy pilot named Alan Robert Nye confessed to coming to Cuba in December to kill Fidel Castro. The 31 year old allegedly promised 100000 dollars by Brig Gen Carlos Tabernilla of the Batista Air Force. Nye, from Whiting Indiana with Coral Gables Florida ties, was arrested December 26 in Oriente province. He denies the assassination aim, says he wanted to aid rebels, and is held in Havana jail with access to consular and U S reporters. The statement says his confession was voluntary and he was treated well by revolutionary police.
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Havana
National Police
U.S. Navy
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Alan Robert Nye
Batista Air Force
Carlos Tabernilla
Nye
Whiting
Ind
Coral Gables
Fla
Oriente
Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Dominican Republic
Tabernilla
United States
Revolutonary
Wrong Turn Plane Rakes Car on Runway at Hopkins
A Cleveland man driving to pick up his wife wandered onto Hopkins Airport runway Wednesday night. A four engine C130A Hercules struck the car, ripping propeller tips and leaving six gashes in the steel roof. He escaped unharmed as guards directed him off the tarmac after the alert.
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Chev
Atden Bird
Cleveland
Hopkins Air
Bird
Lida
Held
Contol
Convoy Halt Sparks Suspicion on Border Incident
Four U S Army drivers held by Soviet border guards for over 50 hours say they sensed the halt was prearranged at Marienborn. Spokesman Specialist Elwood Johnson of Brooklyn, N Y, says the drivers could not explain the feeling but believed the delay was planned. The convoy, from West Berlin to Munchenheim, resumed after Eisenhower protested the lack of cargo inspection.
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Helmstedt
Germany
Boviais
Elwood
Johnson
Brooklyn
Sid
Marienborn
Iron Curtain
West Berlin
Muninheim
West Germany
Cpl
Richard
Masiero
Stockbridge
Mars
Berlin
Mar=lenborn
Mas Jslero
U. S
Eisenhower
Man 84 Dies After Dog's Death in San Marino
In San Marino California AP report John N Craig 84 was found dead in his cottage six weeks after his boxer Duake Schoen was euthanized for incurable cancer. Police found a bullet wound to his head and a revolver beside him. No motor were found.
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San Marino
Calif
John N. Craig
Duake Schoen
Craig
Tie
General Telecom, union announce tentative tract agreement
Erie AP bulletin reports General Telephone Co and the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers say a tentative labor contract has been reached covering about 1,275 employees. Agreement details await ratification by union members and company officials.
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