Bell Sobs At News Conference
In San Francisco Pfc. Otho G. Bell collapsed at a news conference after explaining his switch from Communists to return to the United States. Bell and two fellow turncoats were backed by attorneys answering charges of aiding their captors.
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San Francisco
Red China
Pfc
Otho G. Bell
Lewis W. Griggs
William A. Cowart
Hillsboro
Miss
Ft. Becker Stockade
United States
U.S
Red
China
George T. Davis
Harold C. Brown
Bell
Communist Party
Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
Cowart
Dalton
Nixon vows unceasing effort for full farm parity
Vice President Richard M. Nixon told farmers at the National Plowing Contest in Wabash Indiana that he would wage unceasing effort to secure full parity for farmers who he said were not getting their fair share of America's prosperity. He blamed wartime surpluses and the rigid parity law for price declines and accused administration officials of political maneuvering while urging practical farm policy.
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Wabash
Ind
Richard M. Nixon
America
Nixon
Big Farm
Eisenhower urges leaders to boost youth fitness at Denver conference
President Eisenhower calls on sports education and other leaders to help American youth become physically fit for modern life. He invites 139 leaders to a Sept 27 28 conference at his Denver vacation HQ to guide efforts toward greater youth athletic participation and reduced delinquency. The plan includes reports of $27 964 784 in disaster rehab contracts and 282 SBA disaster loans, plus a Denver golf and fishing trip as the presidential schedule unfolds.
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Denver
Eisenhower
Denver White House
Eisenhow
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
Army Corps of Engineers
Washington
Small Business Administration
Lowry Air Force Base
John McCone
Los Angeles
Air Force
Cherry Hills Country Club
Rocky Mountain
Fraser
Colo
Nixon
Jones
Gene Tunney
Kenneth L. Wilson
United States Olympic Committee
West and Reds Set Moderate Courses in U N Assembly
Western powers and Russia will pursue moderate but firm courses in the 10th U N Assembly to win support for key projects without major concessions. The United States seeks unanimous approval of Eisenhower’s arms inspection plan as Dulles and Molotov prepare eagerly awaited addresses at U N headquarters in New York.
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United Nations
N. Y
Russia
U.N
Geneva
Eisenhower
U. N
Dulles
Molotov
New Evidence Of Life Is Seen On Mars
The National Geographic Society reports a 200000 square mile blue green region on Mars likely vegetation. Dr E M Slipher led the 1954 expedition photographing Mars from South Africa, with over 1000 pictures. The Great Thoth Canal area near a dark splotch indicates dynamic Martian geography and possible life growth.
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Washington
Mars
National Geographical Society
Texas
Cong
Slipher
National Geographic-Lowell Observatory
South Africa
Desace
Great Thoth Canal
Loyalists Voice Confidence Amid Buenos Aires Crisis
Rebels threaten naval bombardment of Buenos Aires and demand President Peron resign by dawn. Radio broadcasts from Cordoba and Puerto Belgrano push a loaded ultimatum as Cordoba city battles continue and Cordovan loyalists claim inland victory.
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Buenos Aires
Juan D. Peron
Puerto Belgrano
Peron
Radio
Mar del Plata
Los Aires
Plaza de Mayo
Argentina
Cordoba
Big Four Diplomats Weigh German Unification Tactics
Washington officials from the United States Britain France and West Germany meet to draft pressure and inducement strategies for coaxing Russia into accepting a Western backed unification of Germany. They anticipate a tough stance from Moscow despite reports from Soviet German talks. The four power meeting in Geneva begins October 27 and aims to press for unified Germany.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
Russia
Moscow
Germany
Geneva
Veteran elephant hunt stalls as Vicki evades search
Louie Reed head elephant trainer from Ringling Bros arrives in Charlotte to locate elephant Vicki missing since the previous day. Reed meets Jack Partlow at the airport then searches a wooded area near the airport but the 2300 pound animal remains unfound despite food left in the vicinity. Reed declines releasing additional elephants near Gastonia and notes a single elephant is already loose.
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Vicki
Louie Reed
John
Smoky) Strickland
Charlotte
N.C
Ringling Bros
Barnum and Bailey Circus
California
Ringling
Sarasota
Fla
Jack Partlow
Reed
Gastonia
Hunter
Hodges Criticizes Tariff Cuts on Cotton Textiles
Gov. Luther Hodges of North Carolina warned at the Combed Yarn Spinners Association that drastic U.S. tariff reductions benefiting Japan threaten the South. He noted North Carolina has 1,100 textile plants with $2.43 billion in output and contrasted wage levels with Japan, which he said are about one tenth, citing pillow case sales as a recent example.
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Hot Springs
U.S
Japan
Luther Hodges
North Carolina
Hodges
South
Assa
United States
French Moroccan Nationalists Fail In Settlement Talks
Paris reports top level negotiations over Moroccan crisis fail to decide the third member of a proposed three person advisory council. French ministers and Moroccan nationalists resume talks after overnight impasse on who would balance power on the panel to succeed the Sultan Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa.
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Paris
Ency Council
Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Pierre July
Edgar Faure
Refu
Ione Threatens Georgia and Carolina Coasts
Hurricane Ione, the year’s largest tropical storm, advances toward the Georgia and Carolinas coasts. Forecasters warned of landfall likely near dark Sunday with hurricane force winds by midnight. Alerts stretched along the Florida, Georgia, and Carolinas coastlines as the storm’s path remained uncertain.
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Miami
Fla
Ione
Georgia
Carolinas
Tane
Gordon Dunn
South Carolina
Dunn
Charleston
Florida
Melbourne
Weather Bureau
Beached plan to build sea wall near Atlantic Beach
Atlantic Beach residents vote to authorize a protective sea wall along the western beach with 17 to 0 support, funded pro rata by owners after 90 percent consent. Eastern half already signed, while mayor says walls may run 2,400 feet, plans aided by the Federal Civil Defense Administration. Hurricane Ione offshore prompts storm preparations along nearby Wilmington beaches.
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Atlantic Beach
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Alfred Cooper
Conchles
Ocean Ridge
Here
T. A. Loving Co
Goldsboro
Ocean Ridge Beach
Ione
Florida
Hazel
Connie
Diane
Wilmington
Kure Beach
Wrightsville Beach
Carolina Beach
Khrushchev Hosts East German Hit With Banquet At Kremlin
In a Kremlin banquet honoring East German officials, Khrushchev led a lively toast filled party with Urho Kekkonen and East German leaders. He extolled socialist coexistence and friendship with all nations while Bulganin kept pace and Grotewohl defended German policy amid political tension.
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Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party
Kremlin
Turkey
East Germany
Urho Kekkonen
Khrushchev
Otto Grotewohl
Walter Ulbricht
Bulganin
Geneticist objects to AEC stance on Geneva conference
Nobel laureate Hermann J. Muller of Indiana University accused the Atomic Energy Commission of blocking his participation in the UN atoms for peace conference in Geneva. He argued for a full airing of radiation genetic damage and nonpeaceful use concerns. The AEC said his paper included material on Hiroshima, violating conference rules on peaceful uses.
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Bloomington
Ind
Hermann J. Muller
Indian University
Atomic Energy Commission
United Nations
Geneva
Muller
Mueller
Radiaon
Washington
AEC
U. S
Hiroshima
Russia to Return Porkkala Naval Base to Finland
The Soviet Union declares it will cede the Porkkala base to Finland as relations warm. Premier Bulganin meets Finnish PM Kekkonen in Moscow and aims to extend the 1948 friendship treaty while withdrawing Soviet forces from the base.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Porkkala
Nikolai Bulganin
Urho Kekkonen
Kremlin
Bulganin
Kekkonen
Russia
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Adenauer
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Grotewohappereng
Ulbricht
Unist
Pakistan
Tha Land
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