Hollings Comments Stir Gov Hodges In Runoff Race
Gov Hodges expresses surprise at Hollings endorsement of Dr I Beverly Lake in North Carolina runoff race. He notes Sanford described as moderate on segregation and reiterates policy of not commenting on other states elections while urging turnout for June 25 runoff. Dispatch also reports Tibetan guerrilla clashes with Chinese forces near Gyantse and refugee flows into Bhutan and Sikkim with multiple political angles.
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Raleigh
Hodges
South Carolina
Ernest Hollings
Beverly Lake
Carolina
Hollings
Lake
Terry Sanford
Sanford
Dr. Lake
Gov. Hollings
North Carolina
Parc
Bhutan
Gyantse
Lhasa
Tibet
Ladakh
Nepal
Sikkim
Kennedy Stops in Michigan To Court Delegates
Sen John F Kennedy visits Mackinac Island Michigan to court the 51 Democratic National Convention delegates. He holds talks with Gov G Mennen Williams and state party leaders amid speculation on Michigan backing.
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Mackinac Island
Mich
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Michigan
Kennedy
White House
G. Mennen Williams
Williams
Khrushchev Advances New Arms Proposals
In Moscow Premier Nikita Khrushchev sent new disarmament proposals to all nations. The letters outline staged suppression of all means to deliver nuclear weapons, including rockets and long range bombers, with details to follow.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
United Nations
Kennedy Johnson push toward Democratic nomination gains
Sen. John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts and Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas show headway toward narrowing the Democratic presidential field. The two campaign for delegates ahead of the Los Angeles July convention while Symington and Stevenson remain in contention. Johnson gains national boost from Scripps-Howard endorsement. Kennedy wins support from the Textile Workers Union and targets Pennsylvania and Minnesota delegations.
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Washington
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Los Angeles
Sen
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Adlai E. Stevenson
Sanford Weighs Debate in North Carolina Runoff
A spokesman for gubernatorial candidate Sanford says a debate with opponent Lake will be announced later. Lake and Sanford aides met in Raleigh to map strategy while Lake criticizes local papers for biased coverage and stresses broader policy issues beyond segregation.
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Raleighp
Te Sanford
Sanford
I.everly Lake
Robert Morgan
Lake
Bert Bennett
Morgan
Thomasville
H. Cloyd Philpott
North Carolina
Asheville
Midwest Swept By Cool Front
A cool front moved across the midsection triggering thunderstorms. Rain amounts reached over 1 inch in Shreveport Louisiana Emporia Kansas and Burlington Iowa with clear and dry conditions elsewhere apart from fog along the West Coast and New England.
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Associated Press
Lake Superior
Louisiana
Shreveport
Emporia
Kans
Burlington
Iowa
West Coast
New England States
Broadway Theaters Face Lockout Over Equity Dispute
A Broadway blackout looms as Actors Equity cancels The Tenth Man and threatens one night suspensions across 22 houses. Producers say one show shutdown could trigger a citywide closure while negotiations on a pension plan stall.
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New York
Actors Equity
Producers
Equity
Booth
New York League of Theaters
League
Broadway
Gates Ordered Alert Upon Learning Talks Would Be Scuttled
Secretary of Defense Thomas Gates testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee that a Paris alert was prudent after learning Khrushchev planned to wreck the summit. He defended the measure as a sound precaution, not a force movement, and said he would take the action again if needed. He also discussed U2 intelligence gains and responsibility for the alert.
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North Carolina
Hodges
State Ports Authority
Ed Kirk
State Department of Conservation and Development
SPA
Gates
Washington
Thomas S. Gates Jr
Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U.S
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Army
Navy
Air Force
Marine
Senate
HCS
Thomas S. Gates, Jr
Unlawfully Confined 63 Years Sparks Court Release Debate
Henry Sullivan, 85, freed from Logansport State Hospital after 63 years of confinement without a declared insanity finding. He had served a 1 to 14 year term for stealing brass worth 15 dollars, later transferred by executive order to a mental hospital. Sullivan seeks full discharge and lawsuits over family farm and a 1923 railroad death. Hospital officials fear he may return to confinement within weeks.
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Logansport
Ind
Henry Sullivan
Indiana
Henry
Logansport State Hospital
Sullivan
Ernest J. Fogel
Fogel
Western leaders foresee six to twelve month stalemate with Soviets
Western leaders predict a six to twelve month stalemate with the Soviet Union and Western powers amid periodic crises as Moscow and China probe for weaknesses. Berlin and Southeast Asia are seen as danger points with no major challenges likely soon. Macmillan and de Gaulle push European ties while Herter, de Murville, and Lloyd discuss East West strategy at a SEATO foreign ministers meeting.
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Soviet Union
Berlin
Southeast Asia
Mier
Nikita Khrushchev
Harold Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Britain
European Common Market
European Atomic Community
Coal and Steel Community
Macmillan
Paris
de Gaulle
Christian A. Herter
Maurice Couve de Murville
France
Selwyn Lloyd
Herter
Southeast Asia Treaty Organization
SEATO
Far
Paroled after decades for mass murder case in Florence
Ed Mund Bigham aged 81, once convicted of killing five family members in 1921, won parole today before the South Carolina Probation Parole and Pardon Board. State Sen. Ralph Gasque urged release and offered help with housing and work. The case drew attention from Rev. Charles M. Kelley, a prison chaplain, who testified about Bigham’s behavior in prison.
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Columbia
Edmund Bigham
Florence County
Probation, Parole and Pardon Board
Bigham
Ralph Gasque
Marion
Charles M. Kelley
First Church of the Nazarine
Raleigh
N.C
Eugene Fallen
Florence News
Gasque
Kelley
State Supreme Court
Smiley
South Carolina
Post Says Powers' Father Invited To Visit Son
Washington Post reports Oliver Powers of Pound Virginia invited by Soviet authorities to visit his son Thomas G Powers the pilot of the U S reconnaissance plane shot down in Russia He declined comment on the report May 16 he applied for a passport a State Department official refused to confirm or deny any detail.
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Washington (Ap
Washington Post
Thomas G. Powers
U.S
Russia
Oliver Powers
Pound
State Department
Lads Die In Stolen Plane After Flight Attempt
Two brothers aged 14 and 12 stole a single engine plane at Cable Air Field, learned from a driving book, and died in a 10 minute flight that ended in a fiery crash near a school. A small dog also perished. witnesses heard the engine sputter before the fatal dive.
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Pomona
Calif
James A. McDonald
Thomas
Spe
D.F. Archer
Cable Air Field
Claremont
Walter Cable
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India
Bradsher
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Dzong
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Dalai Lama
Jigme Palden Dorji
Legg
Sen. Kennedy
By Jack Bell
Johnson
Scripps-Howard
Textile Workers Union of America
Pennsylvania
David L. Lawrence
Minnesota
Boarith
Midwest
By John M. Hightower
Mr. Kelley
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