Rails Unions Meet Today to Seek Accord
Washington AP report says railroad and union negotiators meet today to break weeks of deadlock over jobs with progress possible in 24 to 48 hours. Wirtz attends both sessions while monitoring Kennedy plan and ICC involvement in work rules dispute.
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Washington
3. E. Wolfe
W. Willard Wirtz
Wirtz
House Commerce Committee
Kennedy
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Labor Department
Conductor Denies Train By Gone On Jokes
SANA BARBARA California AP reports a conductor denied being left by his train while a motorist claimed to have picked up a hitchhiking conductor between Santa Barbara and Carpinteria. The man identified as J L Johnson of San Luis Obispo said the train stopped to check a cracked rail but he did not miss the train.
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Sana Barbara
Calif
J. L. Johns
Santa Barbara
Carpenteria
J. L. Johnson
San Luis Obispo
Southern Pacific
Daily Mail
San Francisco
Los Angeles
Summerland
Lulu to Belt Out Swanee in Poland in 3 day festival
LuLu Porter 22 enters an international song festival in War saw Poland as the first U.S. entrant since World War I. She will perform English and Polish songs, including Everything's Coming Up Roses and Swanee, with a 10 city tour promised after the contest. Her arranger Jack Smalley polishes Polish lyrics.
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Lulu Porter
Hollywood
Poland
LuLultry
Culture
Art Porter
LuLu
Shelbetter
Warsaw
U.S
Jack Smalley
Ye Little Club
Lena Fforne
Judy Garland
Recon aircraft to check remnants of Hurricane Arlene
Miami Florida AP reports reconnaissance aircraft depart to assess remnants of Arlene about 1000 miles east-southeast of Florida. Forecaster Gordon Dunn notes rising pressure north of the storm could push a reintensification and a more westerly turn. Maximum winds near 30 knots and movement north-northwest at 14 mph.
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Miami
Fla
Arlene
Atlantic
Florida
Gordon Dunn
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Tiros VI
Rights Leaders Confer To Map Strategy
NAACP calls three day strategy conference in Washington with hundreds of leaders to meet Congress members and urge meaningful civil rights legislation. Walter Reuther to speak as organizers plan grass roots activity and emphasize continued momentum for the August march for jobs and freedom.
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Washington
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
Congress
Legisla
Walter Reuther
Afl-Cio
United Auto Workers
NAACP
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
Walter Fauntroy
Sy Posner
New York
Fauniray
Capitol
Dynamite Deaths Rock Maine Woman and Ex in Laws
Paul D. Piece, 22, lieutenant in the US Coast Guard Academy class of 1963, is held without bail in the dynamite killings of his ex wife’s parents at their Jonesport cottage. He pleads innocent to two counts of attempted murder. hearing set for Aug. 14. Six people injured or killed in the blasts include Larson N. Kelley, Alice Kelley, and the couple’s children. Pierce resigned his commission after an inquiry into his marriage, which violated academy rules.
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Machias
Maine
Paul D. Piece
Coast Guard Academy
Jonesport
Pierce
Larson N. Kelley
Alice
Cynthia
Scott
Kelleys
Academy
Francis A. Brown
Kelley
Hiroshima Remembrance Marks 18 Years Since Bomb
Mourners gather in Hiroshima while survivors recall the 1945 blast as rain and ash fell. Officials note 91,233 dead or missing and honor victims at the Peace Memorial. The world presses advances in a nuclear test ban amid a fractured disarmament conference.
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Hiroshima
Japan
Onter
Hamas
Moscow
Enola Guy
Miracle Poe
Hamai
Waweo
Shinzo Hamai
United States
United Kingdom
Soviet Union
Red China
Red Chijese
Anti Bias Arrests Rise Across Nation in Civil Rights Tensions
Police arrested 21 Negroes and a white woman in Pine Bluff Arkansas for refusing to leave a hamburger stand. In Gadsden Alabama 14 Negro teens faced arrest for seeking service at a white lunch counter. Brooklyn pickets chained themselves at a construction site while 20 were arrested citywide. A NAACP led civil rights strategy conference opens in Washington while a mass march is planned for August. An integrated show at Miles College in Birmingham faced stage collapse injuring two. MLK addressed thousands, calling the Birmingham effort a prelude to the Washington march. Over 200 Negroes demonstrated at Atlanta City Hall over inadequate facilities. In Brownsville Tennessee a white civil rights leader was jailed after a Saturday protest, with police denying brutality claims. Tulsa leaders urged local action to curb discrimination, while head of the Junior Chamber opposed the Washington march.
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Ark
Gadsden
Ala
New York City
Washington
Brooklyn
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Birmingham
Miles College
American Guild of Variety Artists
Martin Luther King Dy
Atlanta
Brownsville
Tenn
Congress of Racial Equality
Eric Weinberger
Norwich
Conn
Tulsa
Okla
U.S. Junior Chamber of Commerce
Marble Toadstools Stolen From Denver Home Yard
Police seek two marble toadstools two feet tall valued at 250 dollars each taken from Edwin J. Miller's yard on Monday.
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Denver
Edwin J. Miller
Miller
Thousands of GIs Turn to Charity for Living Aid
An AP survey shows thousands of Army Navy Air Force and Marine personnel rely on relief groups and state aid as official pay fails to cover basic needs. Relief societies report millions in loans and grants to food rent and utilities while some families seek off duty work or private aid.
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Washington
Army
Navy
Air Forces
Washington, D.C
Untary
Army Emergency Relief
Navy Relief Society
Air Force Aid Society
New York
New England
Whidbey Island Naval Air Station
Washington State
Whidbey
Congress
Pentagon
Secretary of Defense
Robert S. McNamara
Anne
Edsel
Ford
McNamara
Catholic Church
Romance rumor ties Christina Austin to Henry Ford II
Christina Austin a Milan based divorcee says she and Henry Ford II are just friends and not involved romantically. Ford and wife Anne Ford announced a separation after 23 years of marriage. Austin, once married to William Austin, says she met the Fords in Paris years ago and visits New York regularly.
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Henry Ford II
News York
Christina Austin
Newsmen
Henry Ford
Paris
New York
Ford
Ford Motor Co
Anne
Austin
William Austin
Milan
Rope
Anne McDonnell
Char
Mercedes Douglas Plans Wedding After Split From Justice Douglas
Beverly Hills AP Mercedes Douglas 46 to marry Washington attorney Robert B Eichholz 52 today at a friend’s home six days after divorcing her husband U S Supreme Court Justice William Douglas who wed a secretary in Buffalo New York. Douglas’s third marriage follows prior unions and two children.
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Calif
Mercedes Douglas
U.S. Supreme Court
William ©. Douglas
Robb
Mrs. Douglas
Joan Carol Martin
Douglas
Buffalo
N.Y
Montana
Washington
Eichholz
Treasury Department
Goldendale
Wash
Mildred Riddle
la Grande
Ore
Horses Charged With Careless Driving on Highway
Denver AP reports James Anderson Ronald Befus and Melvin Befus were stopped by a state patrol while riding horses on a freeway. Charges filed by Irving Ettenberg accuse them of careless driving and riding non motorized animals on a highway.
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Denver
James Anderson
Ronald Befus
Melvin Befus
Irving Ettenberg
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