Lumumba Battle Expands as Congo Faces Kasai Clash
In Kasai and Katanga provinces Congo rebels and government forces clash amid Lumumba efforts to consolidate power. Belgian troops withdraw from Kamina base as U.N. assumes control to deter an invasion from Katanga backed by Moise Tshombe.
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Elisabethville
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Ka- Sai
U.N
Belgium
Kamina
Katanga
Ruanda-Urundi
Africa
Lumumba
Moise Tshombe
Kasai
Pascual Ngalula
Baluba
Arga
Bakwanga
Leopoldville
Tshombe
Kaniama
Pension Fund Ruling Expected in Wake Court
Judge Henry A. McKinnon was expected to rule today on whether he should hear a suit challenging the constitutionality of the 1959 Firemen's Pension Fund. Attorneys for Great American Insurance Co. and Hardware Mutual Insurance Co. argued after hearings with defense counsel for the state insurance department and the pension fund board. The State Supreme Court previously found a 1957 act creating a fund unconstitutional.
Indians Sit In At Dunn High For Indian School Access
Eugene Chance leads eight to ten Indians toward Dunn High School to demand admission for their children. He vows to sit during registration while the district maintains separate white, Indian, and Negro schools under North Carolina law. The group seeks equal rights without violence as relatives plan to enroll at Dunn.
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Dunn
James Chance
Chance
Hearing County
Glenn T. Profitt
Dunn High
Two Killed In Car Truck Accident Near Fayetteville
A car carrying Williams Simmons 24 and Ricky Hunt killed when it rear ended a large tobacco truck six miles south of Fayetteville. Ricky Hunt was in his mother’s lap. CO workers Williams Simmons died from head injuries while Mrs Catherine Hunt and others were treated and released. Driver Jake W. Bryant 21 Clinton reported seeing the truck too late to stop. Truck owner H W Miller Trucking Co of Durham. No charges filed.
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Fayetteville
Here
Williams Simmons
Clinton
Ricky Hunt
Catherine Hunt
Godwin
Cumberland County
Simmons
U2 Flight Justified By International Law Expert
Washington expert says an impartial court would find the U2 over the Soviet Union justified. Charles S. Rhyne argues Russia's closed society and threats justify a defensive action and that the flight was not an act of aggression under the UN charter. Powers was convicted by a Soviet court and sentenced to 10 years.
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Washington
Soviet Union
Russia
Rhyne
Francis Gary Powers
Tense City Waits For Decision
Secretary of State Herter returned from the Western Hemisphere ministers meeting saying the gathering showed solidarity in the Americas and strengthened inter American unity. In New Orleans a federal judge weighs a six weeks to one year delay of his May 16 order to integrate first grade classes awaiting a plan and court guidance.
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Washington
Christian A. Herter
Foreign Ministers Conference
Americas
New Orleans
Orleans Parish
J. Skelly Wright
Wright
A. P. Tureaud
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Tureaud
Gerard Rault
Charles E. Richards
OAS
Western Hemisphere
Cuba
Castro
Costa Rica
Latin America
Castro de
Conferees Renew Push on Minimum Wage and Aid
Senate and House conferees, still deadlocked, planned to resume talks on a minimum wage bill amid hopes for a compromise and predictions the issue could dominate the election. House action also awaited a decision on foreign aid funds, with a Senate vote restoring 190 million of a 265 million cut in the final appropriations bill.
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Washington
Senate House
House
Senate
Congress
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Winston L. Prouty
R-Vi
Prouty
Kennedy
Eisenhower
Mother Held In Poison Death Of Son
Police detained Mary Elizabeth Adams Giles 29, a pregnant mother of four, on murder charges after arsenic poisoning killed three year old Terry and harmed his siblings Teresa Anne five John Jr nine and Sandra Sue ten. Autopsy found Terry’s stomach “loaded with arsenic” and blood tests confirmed poisoning in all children. The Giles house was sealed off as neighbors brought in two more children for hospital care.
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Pearisburg
Mary Elizabeth Adams Giles
John E. Hopkins Jr
Virginia
Giles County
Giles
Terry
Castro Urges Giant Rally To Support Soviet Ties
Fidel Castro declared a Friday rally to defend Cuba's solidarity with the Soviet Union and denounce the United States and the OAS after the Costa Rica meeting. He claimed the U S is using aid and sugar quotas to pressure Havana and called Costa Rica a treasonous move.
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Havana
Cuba
Soviet Union
Fidel Castro
San Jose
Organization of American States
United States
Castro
America
Latin America
Defectors Believed To Have Taken Secrets To Soviets
Two NSA employees Bernon F. Mitchell and William N. Martin vanished in June after reporting a family visit. Traced from Ft Meade to Mexico and then Cuba, they are believed to have defected with valuable cryptographic information. Rep McCormack urged UN American Activities Committee inquiry.
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Soviets
Washington
National Security Agency
Soviet Union
John W. McCormack
Massachusetts
House
House Committee On UN
Bernon F. Mitchell
William N. Martin
Mitchell
Eureka
Calif
Martin
Ellensburg
Wash
Ft. Meade
Mexico
Cuba
Nixon hospitalized with knee infection at Walter Reed
Vice President Richard M. Nixon is in Walter Reed Army Hospital for a knee infection treated with antibiotics. His aide said he plans to stay active with four campaign schedules and speeches to use after his release in about two weeks.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Greensboro
N.C
Herbert G. Klein
Republican National Committee
Pres
Violence Flares Across South as Racial Clashes Erupt
Police returned gunfire after a car carrying two Black men crashed in Jacksonville. In Buford Georgia, white and Black youths clashed in a rock throwing incident leading to numerous arrests. New Orleans awaits Judge Wright’s ruling on school integration and Delaware faces court-ordered rapid integration. An attack on a service station attendant resulted in a near-fatal shooting but no death. Fires from kerosene bombs caused about $4815 in damage as Mayor Burns enforces emergency powers and rejects a biracial committee.
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Buford
Atlanta
New Orleans
J. Skelly Wright
Delaware
Jacksonville
Willie Green
Haydon Burns
Burns
Georgia
Barber Recovers $15000 After Hotel Loss in New York
Maxim Radin a 79 year old Oakland barber left his life savings in a battered linen valise at the Hotel Ashley in New York. He mislaid the hotel and wandered the city two days before police helped him. The valise held 11067 in travelers checks 3800 in cash 609 in gold and important documents. A Winnetka family later found the bag under a bed and returned it. Radin plans to return to Oakland and start over.
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Oakland
Calif
New York
Maxim Radin
California
Yugoslavia
Radin
Ashley
Michael Funk
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Charles S. Rhyne
American Bar Assa
Onorld Peace Through Law
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Herter
Lloyd Rittiner
Rittiner
Jimmie Davis
Emile Wagner Jr
Wagner
Davis
Federal
Terry Giles
Florida
Associated Press
Fla
Barber
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