Mass Pro-Diem Crackdown After Massive Student Revolt
In Saigon U S Ambassador Lodge met with President Ngo Dinh Diem amid a brutal crackdown on protests. Police and troops detained thousands of students, some injured, as curfews and censorship tightened. Buddhist supporters joined the protests, while U S aid to South Viet Nam neared 1.5 million dollars daily.
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South Viet Nam
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Ngo Dinh Diem
Diem
Viet Nam
Lodge
University of Saigon
Tteir
Dad Hurt But Attends Daughters Wedding
George Kopp, seriously injured in an August crash, attended his daughters Susan and Janet's double wedding in a wheelchair with a leg cast. His wife Ruth supported him, her dislocated elbow in a sling, as the brides paused to kiss him before entering the altar.
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Miami
Fla
George Kopp
Ruth
Susan
Janet
Mother and twin daughters die in North Dakota crash
A Glasston woman Kathleen Dietrich 59 and her twin daughters Jeanette and Janet 19 were killed when their car left the highway and crashed into an approach. Jeanette is believed to have been the driver. Two Seattle children Leighton 5 and Shawn 4, visiting the Dietrichs, were hospitalized with injuries. Glasston lies in extreme northeastern North Dakota.
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Cavalier
N.D
Glasston
Kathleen Dietrich
Jeanette
Janet
Seattle
Wash
Dietrichs
Leighton Kovalinko
Shawn
North Dakota
Cool Weather Grips Wide U S Northeast and Midwest
Unseasonably cool air spread across the northeast and Midwest with morning temperatures in the 30s in Pennsylvania and New England for the second consecutive day. Pellston Michigan recorded 36, Bradford and Philipsburg Pennsylvania 39, while many areas saw 40s and 50s, with possible freezes in New England. The South stayed hot and humid with nightly readings in the 70s and 80s.
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New England
Pellston
Mich
Midwest
Bradford
Philipsburg
Southland
Anxiety Grips Wife Of Captured Captain In Korea
Suzanne Voltz, wife of Capt. Carleton W. Voltz, U.S. Army, says she endures days of fear and nightmares while her husband and Capt. Ben W. Stutts are held by North Korea after a May 17 helicopter crash. She recalls happier times and follows Joint Commission meetings in Panmunjom, hoping for news and letters from him.
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Voltz
Oak Park
Ill
Ben W. Stutts
Florence
Ala
Korea
Joint Military Armistice Commission
Panmunjom
United Nations
Escape Hole Drilled For Rescue Of Trapped Miners
In Hazleton Pennsylvania the first section of the plug at the bottom of the rescue hole has been drilled through. Miners Henry Throne David Fellin and Louis Bova trapped 13 days 300 feet underground await surface retrieval in a steel capsule. The drill advances two thirds of the way with a plan for dry runs and surface ascent tonight.
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Hazleton
Henry Throne
David Fellin
Fellin
Gordon Smith
Throne
Louis Bova
Bova
res _cue
Washington
Mohandas Gandhi
Gandhi
India
Negroes press for civil rights as Washington march grows
The piece surveys the civil rights movement’s history from 1896 to 1963, noting key milestones like the 1954 school desegregation ruling and Rosa Parks’s bus boycott. It highlights the upcoming Washington march signaling broad white and Black participation to urge Congress to pass a stronger civil rights bill.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Washington Monument
Lincoln Memorial
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Gandhi
Rescued Miners Fellin Throne Keep Up High Spirits
Fellin and Throne stayed upbeat while trapped in a deep chamber 308 to 331 feet underground. They talked with surface rescuers through a six inch life line and joked about poker as drill work continued and a third man potential space was discussed. Their wives waited above on a slope nearby.
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Fellin
Throne
Davey
Hank
Trapped Men Scoot To Elbow Room In Mine Escape
Hazleton, Pa. two men David Fellin 58 and Henry Throne 28 and a third man were trapped Aug. 13 331 feet underground in a nine by fourteen foot chamber. They have scraped their way to 308 feet and carved out more space by removing debris and placing it beneath crude plank flooring.
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Hazleton
David Fellin
Henry Throne
Fellin
Throne
Pennsylvania Mines Department
Rail Arbitration Bill Approved By House Groups
The House Interstate Commerce Committee approved a bill to require binding arbitration of rail work rules disputes to avert a nationwide strike. The measure limits arbiter decisions to 150 days, with Senate plans at 180 days, and follows earlier Senate committee action.
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House Interstate Commerce Committee
Senate
House
Senate Commerce Committee
Warren G. Magnuson
D-Wash
House Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Labor Department
Kennedy
Congress
Interstate Commerce Commission
Dirksen
Senate Republicans
Jacob K. Javits
R-N.y
Demonstrations Barred Judge Refuses To Lift Ruling
In Plaquemine Louisiana federal judge Herbert Christenberry refused to dissolve Judge E Gordon West's temporary injunction against racial demonstrations. CORE plans an appeal to the Fifth Circuit as church kneel ins occur and 230 demonstrators are arrested in three days of protests. In Danville Virginia seven Negro children begin attending previously segregated public schools amid a shift away from earlier mass demonstrations.
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Plaquemine
Herbert W. Christenberry
Congress of Racial Equality
Appeals
Christenberry
Robert F. Collins
Collins
U.S. Dist
E. Gordon West
Baton Rouge
U.S. 5Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Mississippi River
Louisiana
Danville
Danville Technical Institute
Construction Worker Killed On Road Job
Four workers died on a Wisconsin road paving project raising the state toll. Michael J. Greene 18 of Monice died after being struck by a gravel truck on Highway 8 near Rhinelander. Myron Schulz 26 of Colby was found dead in a wrecked car off Marathon County Highway 67 near Unity. Two girls aged 5 and 7 were killed crossing Highway 35 near Osceola.
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Oneida
Wisconsin
Michael J. Greene
Monice
Rhinelander
Myron Schulz
Colby
Osceola
Polk County
Christie Steffen
Katherine Olson
Hopkins
Minn
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