Monty Declines Duel Offer From Italian Nationalist Leader
London AP Montgomery, after releasing memoirs critical of Italian troops, was asked to duel by Vincenzo Caputo, who claimed to defend Italian honor. Monty said he would frame the challenge and hang it on the wall, joking about weapons. caputo sought revenge for defamations against Italy.
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London
Viscount Montgomery
Italy
Monty
Rome
Vincenzo Caputo
Assa
Caputo
Montgomery
Guy Fawkes Riots Spark Massive London Disorder
London youths cause a citywide riot amid Bonfire Night celebrations. Police arrest over 90 in Trafalgar Square after two hours of clashes. shops burned in Paddington. 2,000 in Hampstead fight crowds. Lewes and Worthing report mass arrests and mob violence. widespread street battles across Oxford and Cambridge.
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London
Guy Fawkes
Britain
Guy
Trafalgar Square
Paddington
Hampstead
Lewes
Sussex County
Worthing
Rebels Seize Plane Over Cuba Amid Civil Unrest
An American listed traveler and 27 others vanished after a Cubana DC3 vanished over eastern Cuba. Rebels led by Fidel Castro are blamed for hijacking disrupting transport, as Holguin and Manzanillo remain areas of rebel activity. The flight was Havana to Guantanamo with planned stops at Manzanillo and Holguin.
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Havana
Cuba
Cnts
Robert Montgomery
U.S. Naval Base
Guantanamo Bay
Armando Piedra
Guido Kohly
Amado Cantillo
Oriente Province
Guantanamo
Manzanillo
Holguin
Oriente
Fidel Castro
Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Andres Rivero Aguero
Batista
Cayo Mambi
Moa Bay
Nickel and Cobalt
Nixon to lead GOP youth drive for 1960 bid
Vice President Nixon takes charge of reorganizing the Republican party with a youth‑focused campaign plan endorsed by President Eisenhower. The GOP seeks to rebound from a heavy 1958 election loss as canvasses continue on key Senate and gubernatorial races and a Nebraska governor contest hinges on mail ballots.
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Washington
Nixon
Eisenhower
GOP
Asa
Senate
Illinois
Nebraska
House
Charles W. Wursell
Ill
George E. Shipley
Shipley
Ralph G. Brooks
Victor E. Anderson
Brooks
Republi
Tabulating error reverses election result in California district
In Altadena Budd Brown learns she is not a congresswoman after a tabulating mistake. Edgar Hiestand, the incumbent, is re-elected in the 21st District. Registrar Benjamin Hite says a wrong digit shifted 33 000 votes to the wrong candidate. Mrs. Brown, 38, wife of Caltech scientist Harrison Brown, considers future political plans. Her mother Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde was a 1928 congresswoman and 1933 minister to Denmark.
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Altadena
California
Budd Brown
William Jennings Bryan
Brown
Edgar W. Hiestand
Benjamin Hite
Hiestand
Hite
Mrs. Brown
Harrison Brown
California Institute of Technology
Ruth Bryan Owen Rohde
Florida
Roosevelt
Denmark
Starkweather to testify again in Caril Fugate murder trial
Lincoln Neb Mass killer Charles Starkweather 19 scheduled to return to the stand in the first degree murder trial of his former sweetheart Caril Fugate 15 He faces cross examination on his claim she was an accomplice not a hostage as 10 people were killed in Nebraska and Wyoming last January by gun knife and clubbing Starkweather says Fugate was with him when he killed three family members and local teen Jensen and that on several occasions she could have left him while he drove westward and left her with loaded guns
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Lincoln
Neb
Charles Starkweather
Caril Fugate
Caril
Nebraska
Wyoming
Starkweather
Ae Jensen
Bennet, Neb
Jensen
Egypt and Japan to Sign Trade Pact
Cairo reports that Egypt and Japan will sign a new trade payment agreement on Saturday. The pact reportedly contains five main clauses and calls for an exchange of 60 million dollars worth of goods in one year using a cash payment formula.
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Cairo
Egypt
Japan
Heavy Buying Push Pushes Stocks to New Highs
A strong buying wave lifted the market to record highs in New York trading. Major issues surged early with General Motors up 75 cents and Du Pont gaining $2, while Boeing fell 87 cents as broad buying under inflationary psychology dominated the session.
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New York
Ord
General Motors
Jones & Laughlin
Radio Corp
American Telephone & Telegraph
du Pont
New
Central
Lorillard
Boeing
Supplies Land On Quemoy Amid No Shelling Day
Nationalist convoy landed ammunition dynamite and food for Quemoy Islands as Communists observed a no shelling day. A third landing this week followed by all sides easing bombardment, while a 320 ton freighter sank in rough seas and crew were rescued. The high command warned of possible poison gas use by the Communists, a claim denied by Nationalist and U.S. authorities.
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Quemoy
Quemoy Islands
Nationalist Defense Ministry
Formosa Strait
Yung Hamn
Formosa
Matsu
Red China
Tiger
Wang Shu-ming
U.S
States Corporate Tax Loss Greatly Reduced
Governor Hodges announced the 1957 legislative corporate income tax changes cut the two year loss to 5 087 000 instead of 14 million. Revenue officials said the new allocation formula reduced the net loss and benefited manufacturers selling nationally while increasing tax on those undercharged.
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Raleigh
Gov
Hodges
Revenue Department
James S. Currie
Hudson C. Stansbury
Department of Tax Research
North Carolina
General Assembly
Ice Breaks In Arctic Floe Stranding 21 Rescuers
Twenty one men at Drift Station A await rescue after a polar storm split the ice island in the Arctic Ocean. Air Force crews prepare to move across open water to reach the runway half of the camp for airlift. Names of stranded personnel and scientists are listed.
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Anchorage
Alaska
Arctic Ocean
Alaskan Air Command
International Geophysical Year Station
Barrow
Thule
Greenland
Air Force
Father Tom
James F. Smith
Richard van Natta
Decatur, Ill
George Coleman
San Antonio
Tex
T. A. Boger
C. Beaupre
MacNeel
George B. Marcus
J. M. Cecil
Pasternak Regrets Furor Over Doctor Zhivago Interpretation
Boris Pasternak sent a letter to Pravda expressing regret over the interpretation of Doctor Zhivago as anti Communist. He pleaded with Premier Khrushchev for a chance to restore his good name and noted exile would be equal to death for him.
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London
Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
Pravda
Pasternak
Soviet Union
Communist League
Khrushchev
Moscow Radio
Zhivago
Hodges Credits Voter Attitude for Jonas Victory in 10th
Raleigh AP reported Gov. Hodges blamed voter sentiment in the 10th District for Democrat Dave Clark's defeat by 4116 votes as Republican Charles R. Jonas won the seat. Hodges said strong opposition and local dynamics shaped the result and critiqued remarks by Paul Butler on civil rights planks. He noted Southern influence remains in Congress through chairmanships.
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Raleigh
Hodges
Charles R. Jonas
Dave Clark
Jonas
Eisenhower
Congress
Paul Butler
Cas
National Party
Butler
New Moon Rocket Uses Special Device to Correct Path
The Air Force moon rocket to launch Friday will carry a device to correct trajectory deviations. The prior October 11 flight fell short by about 500 miles per hour due to pitch errors, prompting a modification to the second stage engine cutoffs to boost speed and help reach lunar vicinity.
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Washington
Air Force
Moon
Southern Democrats Hold Key Senate and House Chair Posts
In the new 66th Congress Democrats expand control and mostly retain chairs across Senate and House committees. Southern conservatives keep 9 of 16 Senate and 12 of 19 House chairmanships, with only the Interior panel changing hands as Rep. Clair Engle leaves for the Senate and Rep. Wayne Aspinall expected to lead. The shift narrows Southern influence as more Northern and Western Democrats are elected.
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Washington
Senate
House Committee
House Interior Committee
Clair Engle
Calif
Wayne N. Aspinall
Cole
Hospital Patient Is Killed At Goldsboro Training School
In Goldsboro North Carolina a 13 year old patient at the Goldsboro Training School for Negroes shot a fellow patient with a pistol snatched from an attendant. The victim Henry Melvin of Garland suffered a superficial chest wound and is under treatment. Attendant Roosevelt Best was discharged for bringing a weapon into a dormitory.
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Goldsboro
N.C
M. M. Vitals
Henry Melvin
Garland
Roosevelt Best
Negro, About 30, Was Immediately Discharged. Dr. Vitals
Best
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