Nixon Pledges West Will Stay In Berlin
Vice President Nixon began a four day visit to Britain with a pledge that the West will remain in Berlin. He warned against appeasement and spoke at a Pilgrims luncheon before a London return train ride to the city.
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Selwyn Lloyd
London
Victoria Station
Britain
Nixons
Berlin
West
Wii
Bern
P Very
Soand
U.S
John Hay Whitney
Eisenhower
St. Paul's Cathedral
Elizabeth II
Free World
Soviet Union
Democratic Party
Washington
Airlines Fight Halts as Courts Block Walkout
An 11th hour court order blocked a pilots strike at American Airlines, with Eastern Air Lines shutting down from flight engineer and mechanic stoppages. Trans World Airlines faced machinist strikes, while Capital Airlines prepared to return to normal operations. Judge Frederick V. P. Bryan required the pilots to show cause by Friday for any injunction.
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Miami
Fla
American Airlines
Air Line
Assn
American
Frederick V. P. Bryan
Eastern
Eastern Air Lines
Trans World Airlines
Bryan
Pilots Association
Capital Airlines
Capital
Pennsylvania Railroad
Universal Air
Prisoner Offered Cotton To Block Religious Services
In Oroville California Sheriff Larry Gillick offered inmate Donald Smith cotton to stuff in his ears citing protest over Tuesday night nonsectarian services. Smith 25 of Oakland is jailed awaiting trial on falsifying checks and had petitioned the U S attorney general and California attorney general alleging intolerable religious rants by local volunteers in jail.
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Oroville
Calif
Larry Gillick
Donald Smith
Oakland
Smith
U.S
California
Gillick
Living Costs Unchanged in October Says Labor Dept
Washington AP report shows the consumer price index at 123.7 of the 1947-49 average, unchanged from August and September. Food prices fell slightly while most other goods held higher, stabilizing the overall cost level and affecting wage adjustments for auto and related industries and about 200,000 others.
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Washington
Labor Department
Hersey E. Riley
Labor
Department
Riley
Small Nations Clash With Soviet Space Boycott At UN
At UN headquarters an 81 nation Political Committee backed an American led plan to form an 18 nation space committee for peaceful uses. The Soviet bloc opposed the move and threatened a boycott while Ireland Mexico and several Asian nations urged one last bid for East West accord.
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United Nations, N.Y
U.N
United States
Soviet Union
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Space Committee
India
Burma
United Arab Republic
U.S
Henry Cabbot Lodge
Ireland
Mexico
Valerian Zorin
Zorin
Icy Blasts Snow Sweep Across Northern Plains
Wintry weather hit the northern Rockies and Plains with cold winds and heavy snow. Blizzard conditions spread across the northern Rockies while warnings extended to North Dakota South Dakota and northern Minnesota. Temperatures plunged to zero in northern Montana and freezing in the Northeast.
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Associated Press
Rockies
Plains
Midwest
Yukon District
Northwest Plains
North Dakota
South Dakota
Minnesota
Great Lakes
Montana
Wyoming
Kansas
mid-Atlantic States
Appalachians
Macon
Sarasota
Fla
Tampa
Chatttanooga
Tenn
Ulbright says East Germany ready to negotiate over Berlin access
East German leader Walter Ulbright states the regime is prepared to negotiate with the Allies about access to West Berlin. He repeats the claim that Allies have no legal right to be in Berlin while signaling possible talks should Russia implement four power withdrawal and transfer routes to East German control.
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Berlin
Walter Ulbright
West Berlin
Ulbright
Ulbricht
Konrad Adenauer
Three Year Old Killed by Dog in Harborcreek Farm
In Erie Pa AP report Michael Kaminski aged 3 was fatally bitten and clawed by a pet German shepherd on the family farm in Harborcreek. Police shot the six month old dog that had shown no prior aggression and dragged the boy about 60 feet near the barn. Betty Exlein, a family friend, found the body with the dog standing over it.
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Erie
Michael Kaminski
Harborcreek
Michael
Betty Exlein
Army Hopes to Fire First Moon Shot December Six
The U S Army plans a Dec six launch from Cape Canaveral using the Juno rocket with a 15 pound instrument nose probe. The mission aims to pass the moon and head toward the sun, potentially becoming a satellite or striking the moon.
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U.S. Army
Air Force
Army
Moon
Wernher von Braun
Army Space
Pacifist Pastor Sent To Jail In Tax Case
In Cincinnati, 52-year-old Rev Maurice F McCrackin refused to answer a tax summons and appeared in court in silence. Judge John Druffel ordered him jailed indefinitely for contempt of court after he declined to sign bond papers or plead. The pastor promoted pacifism and opposed taxes citing war as evil.
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Maurice McCrackin
U.S. District Court
Cincinnati
U.S
Ernie Damico
Internal Revenue
Vincent Brennan
Ohio
Maurice F. McCrackin
John H. Druffel
McCrackin
Druffel
Court Upholds Flood Project Against Seneca Nation
The U S Court of Appeals affirmed federal power to flood Seneca lands for a 111 million dollar flood control project. A dam at Kinzua Pennsylvania will create a reservoir extending into New York state inundating much of the Seneca reservation despite a 1794 treaty claim.
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Washington
U.S. Court of Appeals
Seneca Nation of Indians
Kinzua
New York State
George Washington
Congress
Court of Appeals
GOP Liberals Seek Share in Senate Leadership
Washington AP Sen John J Williams a Delaware Republican conservative says liberals deserve leadership roles in the markedly shrunk GOP Senate. He notes likely representation for all wings as Sen John Sherman Cooper signals stronger progressive input and possible leadership slots for Cooper or Prescott Bush amid a liberal split among Republicans.
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Washington
John J. Williams
Delaware
GOP
Senate
Williams
John Sherman Cooper
R-Ky
Sen
Thomas H. Kuchel
California
Alaskan Election Staged in First State Vote
North of the Arctic spread roads were snowbound as about 40,000 voters faced near zero conditions to cast ballots in Alaska’s first state election. Up to 60,000 eligible residents were aged 19 and older from a 210,000 population. Voters chose two U S senators a congressman governor and 60 members of the first Alaska Legislature as the territory prepares to become the 49th state. Prominent visitors including Vice President Nixon and Senator Kennedy campaigned. Democrats held a solid lead in both chambers and could expand the margin in statehood. The race featured longtime participants like E L Bartlett and Mike Stepovich with Ernest Gruening as a key challenger.
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Juneau
Alaska
United States
Territory
Senate
House
Richard M. Nixon
Fred M. Seaton
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Mike Stepovich
Ernest Gruening
Rampage ends in tavern death and taxi driver robbery
In St Louis a senseless rampage by two men left a tavern patron dead and a bartender wounded. Norman Lunsford, 25, was arrested. the other man remained at large as homicide charges were prepared. The spree included kidnapping and robbery of taxi driver William Patch.
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ST. Louis
Norman Eugene Lunsford
Philip Dwyer
Lunsford
Dwyer
Pat and
Rose
William Patch
Patch
East St. Louis
Mississippi
John Bradley
Bradley
Wesley Huson
Husan
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