German Ace Names U S Flier in Will
A WWII fighter pilot Maj Norman L Widen of Minneapolis believes he matches the unnamed American named in the will of German ace Anton Hafner who shot him down over Tunis in 1942. Widen and fellow officer Capt James B McClary compared faces from a diary and a photo to identify the captured airman, recalling his ME109 crash and capture. Hafner had shot down many Allied planes before his death.
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Great Falls
Mont
Norman L. Widen
Minneapolis
Anton Hafner
Tunis
North Africa
Hafner
Widen
29Th Air Division
Malstrom Air Force Base
James B. McClary
Air Force Times
McClary
Golly
Biskra
Bizerte
Hoffman
North Carolina Democrats To Repay National Party Loan
North Carolina Democrats prepared to hand the Democratic National Committee a 50000 loan repayment. State leaders Bert Bennett and Mrs. Henry Cromartie planned to deliver the check, with funds expected to come from a Jefferson Jackson Day dinner next month. Cromartie also discussed possible federal appointments and noted Mrs. Charles W. Tillett joined the U N Commission on the Status of Women.
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Washington
North Carolina
National Party
Democratic National Committee
Bert Bennett
Bennett
Henry Cromartie
Democratic Executive Committee
Commerce
Luther Hodges
Charles W. Tillett
Charlotte
U.S
United Nations Commission On the Status of Women
Lady Barwick Sells Clothes for Charity at Thimbleby Hall
Lady Barwick plans a charity sale of her own clothes at Thimbleby Hall in Yorkshire next week. Sir Richard Barwick opposes involvement and will not be at home for the sale, while the former film star notes proceeds may aid several causes.
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Eddy Gilmore
London
Barwick
Sir Richard
Thimbleby Hall
Yorkshire
Lady Barwick
Richard
James Mason
Eric Portman
New Ties With Europe Are Sought
Under secretary of State George Ball leaves for Europe to push free world aid and urge other industrial nations to increase their shares. He will attend a DAG session in London March 27-29 with Bonn Paris and other capitals to discuss aid problems and potentially make the DAG a clearing house for allied aid under OECD.
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Washington
George Ball
Europe
Ball
London
United States
Japan
Bonn
Paris
DAG
Organization For Economic Cooperation and Development
OECD
U. S. Senate
International Economic Organization
U. S
Rusk Talks Today With Gromyko
Secretary of State Dean Rusk meets with Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko to discuss Laos and U S Soviet relations. The talks aim to press Moscow to halt military airlift to Laotian rebels and seek a neutral interim government in Laos amid cautious optimism.
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Joan M. Hightower
Washington
Dean Rusk
Andrei Gromyko
Laos
Kennedy
U. S
Rusk
U. S.S
Nikita Khrushchev
Moscow
Khrushchev
Boun Oum
Gromyko
U. N. General Assembly
New York
State Department
Mikhail Menshikov
Arkady Sobolev
U. N
Adlai Stevenson
Chester Bowles
Charles E. Bohlen
Fay D. Kohler
Persuasive Farmwife Outsmarts California Gunman
Douglas Wayne Thompson surrenders after a weeklong manhunt ended in Poplar Bluff Missouri. A 70 year old farmwife Eva Clanahan talked him into surrendering saving officers from a final shootout. Thompson and Sam me Tucker face first degree murder charges in Cape Girardeau death of Herbert Goss.
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Poplar Bluff
Douglas Wayne Thompson
California
Thompson
Raymond S. Glover
Glover
Glen E. Davis
Davis
Eva Clanahan
Don Crittenden
Tucker
Calvin W. Johnson
San Luis Obispo
Calif
Mother and five children die in Sandy Ridge fire
In Stokes County near Sandy Ridge a two story rural home burned early today killing mother Pauline Hawkins 36 and her five children Gallion 13 Larry 9 Teresa 6 Timmy 5 and Danny 3. Father Ed Hawkins escaped by leaping from a second story window. grandfather Howard Hawkins also fled. Firefighters to remove bodies hours later. cause not yet determined.
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Danbury
N.C
Sandy Ridge
Stokes County
Pauline Hawkins
Gallion
Larry
Teresa
Timmy
Danny
Ed Hawkins
Howard Hawkins
Hawkins
Buffalo Rd
Blue Ridge Foothills
N.C. Highway
Weather Across Nation Sees Rain Sleet Snow Spread Eastward
A cold front drives a widespread precipitation pattern from the Rockies to the Appalachians with rain sleet and snow. Temperatures plunge to record lows in the Northeast while the Great Lakes region warms, and severe thunderstorms lash the Southeast.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Appalachians
Burlington
Houston
Maine
Upper Great Lakes
Sault Ste. Marie Mich
Virginia
Carolinas
Gordonsville
Blue Ridge Foothills
Front Royal
Raleigh
S.C
Great Lakes
New England
Gulf Coast
Alabama
Birmingham
Midwest
Iowa
Ohio
Mississippi Valley
Central Plains
Plateau States
Pacific Northwest
Lebanon
N. H
Florida
U S Sets Independent Africa Course At U N
The United States told Western allies it will pursue an independent Africa policy. After a Security Council vote on Angola, the U S delegation said Stevenson acted with Kennedy and Rusk approval, signaling possible shifts on racially charged colonial issues.
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Tom Hoge
United Nations
N.Y
United States
Africa
General Assembly
Security Council
Portugal
Angola
U. S
Kennedy
South Africa
U.N
Ruanda-Urundi
Portuguese Angola
Southwest Africa
Adlai E. Stevenson
White House
Francis W. Carpenter
U.S
Stevenson
State Department
Dean Rusk
Gov. Stevenson
Carpenter
Rebel Threat Grows as U S Shapes Laos Troops
U S officials say royal Laotian forces must hold cities but rebels may overrun countryside until Washington can train and mobilize loyal troops. The U S has expanded its 100 man mission and increased arms shipments while pressing for a neutral Laos and a Viet Nam era rotation to improve training amid Pathet Lao strength.
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Washington
U. S
Laos
United States
Pathet Lao
Viet Nam
State Department
Department
Royal Laotian
Pathet Ne
Bourguiba Sees Hope for French Algerian Peace Talks
Tunis President Habib Bourguiba told Radio Luxembourg he believes both France and Algeria want negotiations to end the North African war. He cited his talks with Charles de Gaulle and Ferhat Abbas as paving the way for peace and said De Gaulle has committed to the peace path.
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Andrew Borowiec
Tunis
Tunisia
Habib Bourguiba
Radio Luxembourg
Bourguiba
Charles de Gaulle
Ferhat Abbas
de Gaulle
Algeria
Polite Swing by Maestro Benny Goodman Meets Soviet Musicians
In New York Basin Street East two Soviet musicologists Konstantin Sakva and Izrail Nestyev met Benny Goodman backstage. They discussed his popularity in the USSR and the difficulty of recording access while Goodman joked about six years of auditions. He then paid the Russians’ bill before the encounter ended.
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New York
Manhattan
Benny Goodman
Konstantin K. Sakva
State
Izrail V. Nestyev
Sovietskaya Muzyka
United States
State Department
Basin Street East
Goodman
Nestyev
Tion
Soviet Union
Benny
Russia
Sakva
Moscow
Salva
Coolsville
Bandstand
Fayetteville Wreck Kills One Person in North Carolina
A southbound station wagon carrying Yale students plunged over an embankment near Fayetteville, killing Theodore C. Joiner of La Jolla California and seriously injuring Sidney B. Woods III of Milton Massachusetts and New York City. The I-95 crash occurred two miles north of Fayetteville as the driver possibly dozed. the car carried tennis equipment.
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Fayetteville
N.C
State Highway Patrol
Yale
Theodore C. Joiner
Hypatiaway Drive
la Jolla
Calif
Highsmith Hospital
Sidney B. Woods III
Woods
Milton
Mass
New York City
Here
Interstate 95
Sunday Enterprise Highlights Language Study At Tomlinson School
The Sunday Enterprise previews a new foreign language program in the fourth and fifth grades at Tomlinson School as part of an expanding elementary language effort. The issue promises a feature on Death Valley in Davidson County and a profile of Guilford County fire marshal Robert Wallace Grant and his rural coordination work.
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Parlez-Vous Francais
Tomlinson School
Death Valley
Davidson County
Enterprise
Robert Wallace Grant
Washington, D. C
Guilford County
Grant
Guilford
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