Spy Case Trial Is Assured
New York August 16 government official states Soviet Col Rudolf Abel 53 faces vigorous prosecution on a spy charge despite talk of dropping the case to avoid FBI secrets He says I have no intention of dropping this case Abel is held without bail in New York and could face the death penalty if tried authorities call him a colonel in the Soviet state security service and say he led an espionage ring
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New York
Rudolf Abel
Asst. U. S. Atty
William F. Tompkins
Abel
Congress
Supreme Court
FBI
United States
Soviet State Security Service
McAllen
Brooklyn
Lew Waar
Indian Dies Not Knowing He's Wealthy
William Chisholm, Shawnee Indian of Seminole Oklahoma, died poor yet heirs said he was due 76 000 in a late inheritance from his son bus ter. The money, tied up by red tape, awaited transfer to his guardian as bonds and cash near completion.
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Okemah
Okla
William Chisholm
Seminole
Buster
Indian Bureau
Chisholm
Jesse Chisholm
Clem Stephenson
South African Hostels Plan Stretch to Cairo
The South African Youth Hostels Assn announces a new chain of hostels from the Cape of Good Hope to Cairo. Planned locations include South Africa the Rhodesias the Congo and northward into the Sahara Algeria and Egypt.
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Johannesburg
South African Youth Hostels Assn
Cape of Good Hope
Cairo
South Africa
Rhodesias
Congo
Sahara
Algeria
Egypt
Marilyn Monroe Goes Home After Medical Crisis
Actress Marilyn Monroe left Doctors Hospital in a wheelchair then walked to a car with husband Arthur Miller supporting her. She had miscarried a baby and undergone emergency surgery on August 1 and appeared visibly tired yet said she felt wonderful while reporters placed her weight around 16 pounds under her usual 125 pounds. Warren Fisher, her press agent, accompanied the couple as about 200 onlookers gathered at the hospital entrance.
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Marilyn Monroe
Arthur Miller
Doctors Hospital
New York
Miss Monroe
Secrecy Clause Provoked editor protests over civil rights bill
W M Newton Jr Dallas Times Herald and Walsh Associated Press editors led a protest over a secrecy provision in both house and senate civil rights bills. They warned a two year study could criminalize publishing information from closed hearings. They urged excluding newspapers from penalties while noting the measure broadens government power and limits press freedom.
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Washington
W. M. Newton Jr
Dallas Times Herald
Newton
Sigma Delta Chi
Walsh
Associated Press
Senate
America
Newspapers Halted By Mailers Strike In Boston
Boston newspapers suspend Sunday editions as 300 mailers strike over contract talks. Six dailies and several Sunday editions are affected, with New York papers offering limited extra orders. Union seeks higher wages, publishers cite disruption to readers and press.
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Boston
International Or Union
Boston Daily
Evening Globe
Boston Herald
Boston Traveler
The
Daily Record
Evening American
Globe and Herald
Christian Science Monitor
Monitor
New York Herald Tribune
Weather Forecast for the Great Lakes and Missouri Valley
The Weather Bureau predicts fair conditions elsewhere with continued cool weather in New England and a cooling trend extending to the Missouri Valley and upper Great Lakes region.
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Upper
Mississippi Valley
New England
Missouri Valley
Great Akes
Ohio Valley
Virginia
North Carolina
Gulf Coast
Eastern Plains
Kies
Great Lakes
Ranger Carrier Commissioned for Pacific Fleet Duty
Norfolk Va August 10 The 60,000 ton aircraft carrier Ranger third in the Forrestal class was commissioned by the Navy and assigned to the Pacific Fleet Its first permanent duty will follow shakedown and training cruises in the Atlantic Adm Arthur W Radford retiring chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff delivered the commissioning speech praising Ranger's capabilities in a Navy release.
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Norfolk
Ranger
Navy
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Washington
Atlantic
One Hurt As Car Capsizes Near Trinity
A car carrying two Thomasville men overturned about 8 p.m. on Highway 62 one mile west of Trinity. Dwight Stout escaped injury. Donald Smith suffered possible head injuries and was to be examined at High Point Memorial Hospital. Stout blamed a blinded driver for not dimming headlights. the other car fled the scene.
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Thomasville
Trinity
Dwight Stout
W. Green St
Donald Smith
Hoover Street
High Point Memorial Hospital
Stout
Smith
Loan Manager Charged Over Worthless Check Case
Police say A P Gentry manager of Commercial Credit Corp faced a warrant on a complaint by Harvey Gay Warren of Woodbrook Court. Warren, who cashed a payroll check for 86.95 at a downtown supermarket, returned the check after it bounced, leading to the charge.
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A. P. Gentry
Commercial Credit Corp
Harvey Gay Warren
Woodbrook Court
Warren
France Overhauls Franc System To Boost Exports And Tourism
Gaillard unveiled a sweeping reform of the French import tax system after a two year period of varying rates. The plan expands the covered imports from 25 to about 60 percent and ends the costly social charge reimbursement scheme for exporters. A 15 percent foreign currency hotel discount is scrapped as ineffective. IMF approved the measures in an emergency meeting and OEEC was notified.
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Gaillard
France
Paul Ramadier
Grainard
Finance Ministry
Tunisia
Morocco
International Monetary Fund
Organization For European Economic Cooperation
Modernization Reaches Egyptian Threshing Floors
Cairo reports a rural transformation as peasants replace traditional water buffalo pounding with crushed grain laid on paved roads and driven over by automobiles, signaling a shift from age-old methods to mechanized threshing.
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Cairo
Egypt
Funeral services for Robert Burris at Sechrest Chapel
Funeral services for 94 year old Robert Franklin Burris will be held this afternoon at 2:30 in Sechrest Chapel. The Rev. Robert G. Tuttle and Rev. Woodrow W. Robbins will officiate. Entombment follows at Guilford Memorial Park Mausoleum. Burris, a retired Southern Railway employee, died Friday evening at High Point Memorial Hospital after months of declining health. The body remains at Sechrest's prior to the service.
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Robert Franklin Burris
Sechrest Chapel
Robert G. Tuttle
First Methodist Church
Woodrow W. Robbins
Lexington Avenue Baptist Church
Guilford Memorial Park
Burris
Southern Railway
High Point Memorial Hospital
Sechrest's
Mrs Woodson Dies. Salisbury Resident Mother of Local Figure
Mrs E H Woodson 70 of 408 S Fulton St Salisbury died at 7 p m Thursday at Duke Hospital Durham after several weeks as a patient She was born Patsy Smith in Liberty July 30 1887 She was active in First Methodist Church of Salisbury Survived by daughter Mrs Joe Lee Jr of High Point two sons Robert B and Smith Woodson of Raleigh one brother Troy Smith of Liberty and four grandchildren Funeral service 3 p m today at First Methodist Church Salisbury Rev Harold Robinson officiating Interment Chestnut Hill Cemetery Salisbury
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Salisbury
E. H. Woodson
Joe Lee Jr
High Point
S. Fulton St
Duke Hospital
Durham
Woodson
Patsy Smith
Liberty
Charles P
Ella Troy Smith
First Methodist Church of
Woodbrook Court
Robert B
Smith Woodson
Raleigh
Troy Smith
First Methodist Church
Harold Robinson
Chestnut Hill Cemetery
New Civil Rights Strategy Mapped by Eisenhower Officials
Washington Aug 10 Eisenhower administration officials push a final effort to strengthen the civil rights bill now a voting rights measure with Vice President Nixon backing. Justice Department lawyers draft proposals for a House Senate conference. No decision on final form or school integration. Nixon aims for action this session to avoid a stalemate and a possible November special session.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
Nixon
Justice Department
Republican House
Senate House Conference Committee
Congress
Knowland
California
Strategy Revamped for Limited Nuclear War Tactics
The piece notes a shift toward use of smaller nuclear weapons for limited aims and areas, reducing emphasis on massive retaliation. It cites Admiral Rad presenting a strategy for flexible forces ready for total or narrowly targeted conflicts, while acknowledging US stocks and weapon precision remain insufficient for two to three years.
Membership In Klan Group is Disputed
The Grand Dragon of the Knights of the Ku Klux Klan denies that an avowed Greenville Klan leader involved in the July 21 beating of Claud Cruell is a member of the state group. J H Bickley says he wants no stigma attached to the organization name and notes the Greenville branch once existed but withdrew into a South Carolina group.
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Columbia
Grand Dragon of the Knights of the Klan
Ku Klux Klan
Greenville Klan
J. H. Bickley
Marion Carpenter
A. Marshall Rochester
Greenville
Greenville County
Bickley
Rochester
Claud Cruell
Hos- Bickley
South Carolina
Molotov Joked About in Vienna Restaurant Gag
A Vienna paper reports a quip about ousted Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov. He enters a Moscow restaurant and, finding all tables occupied, tells the manager there are no jobs open.
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Vienna
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Moscow
HPC Trustee Dr. Pritchard Dies At 76
Dr. J. E. Pritchard 76, retired Methodist minister and longtime High Point College trustee, died at a local hospital after a week of illness. He entered the ministry in 1911, served 35 years as a pastor, retired 11 years ago, and is survived by his wife Laura Vestal Pritchard and several nieces and nephews. Funeral at Central Methodist Church Monday at 3 p.m.. burial in Old Asheboro City Cemetery. Body at Pugh's Funeral Home until 30 minutes before services.
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Asheboro
Randolph County
High Point College
Laura Vestal Pritchard
Central Methodist Church
Brunson Wallace
J. Elwood Carroll
Albert M. Smith
J. H. Carpenter
Pugh
Movie Mogul Louis Mayer Recovering From Illness
San Francisco August 10 Louis B Mayer a movie mogul is reported in very good condition at Stanford Hospital. The 72 year old is resting comfortably after entering the hospital Tuesday. Dr Arthur L Bloomfield said the anemia's cause has not yet been determined.
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San Francisco
Louis B. Mayer
Stanford Hospital
Arthur L. Bloomfield
Mayer
Bloomfield
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By Jack Bell
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