Barbara Powers Seeks Mercy in Moscow Secret Meeting
Barbara Powers and her lawyers disclosed a final private meeting with her husband Francis Gary Powers in his prison cell. They reported seeking mercy from Soviet leaders Brezhnev and Khrushchev for the 10 year espionage sentence and said the petition was mailed from a downtown hotel. If no meeting is arranged, Barbara plans to depart Moscow for Paris on Friday with her mother and doctor.
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Moscow
Francis Gary Powers
Barbara Powers
Shipeere Eye
Turkey
Soviet Union
Barbara
Frank Rogers
Roanoke
Rogers
Alexander Parker
Richmond
Leonid Brezhnev
Brezhnev
Khrushchev
Paris
Montine Brown
Milledgeville
James Baugh
Baugh
Powers
Oliver W. Powers
Pound
New York
West German says 1270 Communist agents surrendered in six months
Bonn report shows 1270 secret agents from East bloc nations surrendered voluntarily to West German authorities in the first half of the year. Courts sentenced 1799 spies from Aug 1951 to 1959 and 17182 were caught but not punished for compassionate reasons or quick confession.
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Bonn
Germany
U N Deterrence at Leopoldville Airport Amid Congo Tension
United Nations troops in Leopoldville fortified the airport with machine guns to block Congolese demands for control as Kasai turmoil persists. The Congo army completed an airlift to Kasai with 40 soldiers aboard the final plane. Lumumba opposition seeks greater autonomy in a new province.
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Leopoldville, the Congo
Ghana
U. N
Leopoldville
United Nations
Patrice Lumumba
Kasai
Lumumba
Interstate 77 Link Hearing Goes to Western Route
A North Carolina congressional and state house leader urged the highway commission to place the I-77 link as far west as practical. The hearing reviewed two western and eastern route proposals from Elkin toward the Virginia line with debates over cost, coverage, and regional impact.
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Mountairy
State Highway Commission
Hugh Alexander
Kannapolis
Kemp Doughton
Alleghany County
State House
Elkin
Virginia Line
Alexander
Virginia
Low Gap
Alleghany
Ashe
Watauga
Doughton
Winston - Salem
Winston-Salem
Mount Airy
Pipers Gap
Greensboro
Reeves Ymca Auditorium
Latron
U.S. 52
Lowap
Wilkes
High Point
Lexington
Charlotte
Stampede Kills Two After Train Crash in Osaka
A commuter train collided with a dump truck causing a fire. About a thousand passengers stampeded. Two people were killed and 33 injured in Osaka Japan.
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Osaka
Japan
Wage Bill Clears House Rules for Conferees
The House Rules Committee approved a coalition path for wage legislation by an 8-3 vote clearing conferees to reconcile Senate and House versions. The Senate would raise to 1.25 and expand to four million workers. the House to 1.15 and add about one million.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
Senate
House
Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Eisenhower
Rules Committee
Congress
Hodges Denies Sanford Partner as Watchdog
Gov. Hodges said Hugh Cannon, law partner of Terry Sanford, was on the state payroll to fill a job and rejected the idea he was the Sanford watchdog. He criticized newspapers for portraying Cannon in that role and said no official would term him a watchdog.
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Raleigh
Hodges
Terry Sanford
Hugh Cannon
State Department of Administration
Sanford
Cannon
Hodges condemns leaflet distribution near state workers
Gov Hodges criticized on the job distribution of a political leaflet by state worker and highway employee groups. He said some leaflets were given to highway workers during work hours and called it wrong while praising Democrats and attacking Republicans over teachers pay, Eisenhower spending, textile aid, and a possible Truman visit to North Carolina. Hodges suggested Oct 15 as a potential date for a Truman campaign stop.
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Raleigh
Hodges
Robert Gavin
Eisenhower
Congress
Harry S. Truman
North Carolina
Truman
Costs Rise For Fifth Month
Washington AP reports living costs rose one tenth of one percent in July, reaching a record fifth straight month. The Labor Department index climbed to 126.6 percent of the 1947-49 base, led by foods and gasoline, while prices for autos, appliances, and furniture declined. After tax earnings of a family of four’s factory worker fell to $81.23 weekly due to a shorter work week.
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Washington
Labor Department
Ewan Clague
Clague
Molotov Removed From Moscow Ambassadorship
W Averell Harriman says Molotov is being removed as Soviet ambassador to Outer Mongolia due to friendliness with Red China. Molotov reassigned to the International Oil Energy Commission in Vienna.
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Paris
W. Averell Harriman
U.S
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Outer Mongolia
China
Molotov
International Oil Energy Commission
Vienna
Soviet anti Peiping manifesto circulated to rally blocs
A Washington dispatch says the Soviet Union is distributing an anti Peiping manifesto to Communist parties worldwide to rally support against Red China's challenge to Moscow. It portrays a power struggle within the bloc and hints Khrushchev may seek an ideological quarantine of Maoist China.
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New York
Soviet Union
Peiping
Red China
Washington
New York Herald Tribune
Moscow
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Mr. Khrushchev
Mao Tse-tung
Bucharest
Lenin
Olympics Open In Severe Heat
In Rome the XVII Olympic Games opened amid intense heat before roughly 100000 at the new Olympic Stadium. President Gronchi arrived late as Greek, Argentine and Australian delegations paraded in, with the Nationalist Chinese protesting IOC rules. Adhemar de Silva attended as a notable Brazilian athlete.
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Rome
Giovanni Gronchi
Italy
Hcorps
International Olympic Committee
Taiwan
Adhemar de Silva
Foreign Aid Bill Approved by Senate in 67-26 Vote
The Senate approved a 3.989 billion foreign aid bill to assist friendly nations while barring aid to Cuba and the Dominican Republic. The measure, headed to a conference with the House, restores most House cuts, adds 100 million for crises like Congo, and supports Eisenhower’s request with bipartisan backing.
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Washington
Senate
Cuba
Dominican Republic
Senate House
Eisenhower
House
Congo
John F. Kennedy
Lyndon B. Johnson
Pension Bill Changes In Conferees Revisions Reported
Washington AP discloses Senate House conferees have struck a Senate provision allowing 62 year old men to retire with reduced Social Security. They also watered down earnings limits and withheld tax increases. Major grant expansion for medical relief to the poor remains under review with mental illness and tuberculosis care costs to be decided later.
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Washington
Senate House
Senate
Secretary
Arthur S. Flemming
Social Security Administration
House
Kennedy in Democratic Congress Faces Republican Southern Coalition
President Eisenhower edges toward gains with Democratic Congress as Kennedy struggles to push his new frontier agenda. Republican and Southern Democrat opposition shapes domestic rivals while foreign aid bills sail through, boosting Ike on national campaign terrain.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Democratic Congress
John F. Kennedy
Kennedy
Richard M. Nixon
GOP
Congo
Cuba
Senate
Congress
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