Seven Sailboats Capsized By Lake Squall
Squalls with winds up to 60 mph struck Wisconsin causing seven sailboats to capsize on Lake Michigan off Milwaukee. Coast Guard and private boats rescued all crew. two minutes warning. Hail, tornado-like funnel clouds, and widespread rain darkened the state.
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Wisconsin
Milwaukee
Montello
Marquette County
Lake Michigan
Coast Guard
South Shore
U. S. Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
Wausau
Racine
Mercury
Eau Claire
Superior
Madison
Lone Rock
la Crosse
Park Falls
Morals Cases Are Continued For One Week
Two teenagers Ardis L. Nelson and Ronald W. Schroeder appeared in La Crosse Circuit Court on a morals offense involving a 14-year-old girl. The case was continued for a week to assess whether they can hire their own attorneys. Bond remained at $5,000 each as they stay in County Jail while a third youth faces Juvenile Court proceedings and potential transfer to County Court for adult charges.
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la Crosse Circuit
Ardis L. Nelson
Pine St
Ronald W. Schroeder
Caledonia
Minn
la Crosse
Dist. Atty
John Flynn
Flynn
Leonard F. Roraff
Lincoln Neprud
Four Wisconsin Drownings Claimed Weekend Victims
Four people, including an 8 year old boy, a 19 year old man, a 6 year old girl and a 40 year old man, died in water incidents across Wisconsin Saturday and Sunday. Ronald Smith slipped from a sand bank into the Wolf River near Racine Shipton. David Reed sank off Milwaukee harbor while swimming. Bonnie Lou Schermer drowned at Devil’s Lake Sauk County during a picnic. Walter Smith perished when his motor boat capsized in the Fox River near Omro.
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Wisconsin
Ronald Smith
John Smith
Racine
Wolf
Shipcton
David Reed
Milwaukee
Lake Michigan
Reed
Marcia
Bonnie Lou Schermer
Ernest Schermer
Elroy
Devil’s Lake
Sauk County
Walter Smith
Fox River
Omro
Woman's husband five sons slain shakes Sicilian Mafia code
In Sicily a grieving woman whose husband and five sons were killed by Mafia vengeance speaks out, sparking new prosecutions. Ninety-nine mafiosi face charges in nine murders blamed on the Mafia since 1945.Authorities push a bold anti Mafia drive as fear loosens its hold on Palermo’s hill country.
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Rome
Basta
Rosa Messina
Governors End Resolutions Fight At 55th Conference
The 55th Governors Conference voted 33 to 16 largely along party lines to abolish the resolutions committee and avoid a civil rights gag rule. Democratic Gov. Grant Sawyer proposed eliminating the committee to allow only reports from regular committees, while Republicans and Gov. Egan opposed, and Rockefeller and Hatfield sought action on civil rights. A two hour panel on civil rights followed the vote.
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Miami Beach
Fla
Resolutions Committee
Grant Sawyer
Nevada
Sawyer
William A. Egan
Alaska
Nelson A. Rockefeller
New York
Mark O. Hatfield
Oregon
Executive Committee
John Dempsey
Connecticut
Rockefeller
Hatfield
Albert Rosellini
Washington
Rosellini
Kennedy
Kennedy to Seek Nonaggression Pact Link for Test Ban
U S officials anticipate President Kennedy will push Congress for strike ban legislation tied to a broader nonaggression pledge. Soviet and Western diplomats report progress toward a U S Britain and Soviet accord banning atmospheric outer space and underwater tests, with lingering debate over tying it to a nonaggression treaty.
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U.S
W. Averell Harriman
Washington
Harriman
Khrushchev
Europe
Andrei A. Gromyko
West
Germany
East Germany
Kennedy
Western Alliance
AFL-CIO Launches National Drive Against Race Discrimination
Washington report says AFL-CIO President George Meany will lead a new national campaign to eliminate racial discrimination in unions employment housing voting public services and schools. Lane Kirkland coordinates the effort with a biracial community committee. Walter Reuther A Philip Randolph C J Haggarty and William Schnitzler also named to the leadership group.
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Afl-Cio
Washington
George Meany
Meany
Kennedy
Lane Kirkland
Walter P. Reuther
United Automobile Workers of America
Aflcio
A. Philip Randolph
The
Brotherhood of Sleeping Car Porters
C. J. Haggarty
Afl-Cio Building and Construction Trade Department
William F. Schnitzler
Kennedy plan bars railroad strike by ICC ruling
President Kennedy proposed sending railroad work rules disputes to the Interstate Commerce Commission for prompt hearing and disposition to avert a strike. The plan would preserve collective bargaining while ICC order would govern worker security, delaying any strike until ICC action is completed.
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Kennedy
Interstate Commerce Commission
White House
Pierre Salinger
Congress
ICC
Salinger
George Meany
Afl-Cio
Wolfe
14 Year Old Girl To Enter College At Shimer
Tamara Moat of Tinicum Township near Easton Pa will enter Shimer College as a freshman at age 14 this September under the early entrance program. She has already completed two years of Palisades High School and passed college entrance exams showing readiness for college work.
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Mount Carroll, Ill
Tamara Moat
Shimer College
Donald G. Reuter
Shimer
Miss Moat
Tinicum Township
Easton
Bucks County
Reuter
Grenville T. Moat
Palisades High School
Solar flares studied during eclipse hike in jet plane
Canadian observers riding a DC8 jet alongside the moon's shadow recorded a total solar eclipse for 42.4 seconds longer than ground observers. Astronaut Malcolm Scott Carpenter and scientists from the United States filmed and photographed solar flares and faint distant lights, signaling a new era in eclipse watching as faster planes promise longer shadow rides.
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Edmonton
Canada
Astron
Omers
Malcolm Scott Carpenter
United States
Alaska
Pacific Northwest
Japan
Maine
United
Cardinal Joins Protestants in Historic Public Prayer
In Montreal a Roman Catholic cardinal joined Protestant and Orthodox leaders at a World Council of Churches service for Christian unity. Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger attended the Fourth World Conference on Faith and Order, a first for a ranking Catholic clergyman at the council. About 2,000 people heard Leger concede unity may take time but urged fellowship beyond divisions. the event drew skeptical observers as the council pursues doctrinal reconciliation.
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Montreal
Paul-Emile Cardinal Leger
World Council of Churches
University of Montreal
Cardinal Leger
World Council
Mass arrests at Brooklyn protest over job discrimination
About 500 pickets demonstrated against discrimination at a Brooklyn construction site and at Rutgers housing in Manhattan. New York police moved in with about 200 officers, detaining and carrying several demonstrators to patrol wagons. Similar actions occurred in Charleston and Ocala, with arrests and calls for desegregation from NAACP leaders and clergy.
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Associated Press
Brooklyn
New York
Downstate Medical Center
Rutgers
Manhattan
Project
Gardner C. Taylor
Charleston
Hunt For Victims Of Ship Collision
Rescue crews searched for 15 missing after the collision of the ore carrier Tritonica and the freighter Roonagh Head in fog northeast of Quebec. The Tritonica sank eight minutes after impact, with 33 crew members including 31 Chinese, a Canadian and a Briton perishing. Seventeen sailors from Tritonica were rescued while the Roonagh Head’s 35 crew and 12 passengers all escaped injury.
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Quebec
St. Lawrence River
Tritonica
Elephant chase ends after eight hours near Waukegan
END OF SAFARI Elsie, a 3-ton circus elephant, broke loose from her keepers and led 100 pursuers on a merry chase for eight hours. She is shown being led through a wheat field near Waukegan, Illinois, Sunday after capture as 10 elephants were loaded from the Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers circus.
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Elsie
Waukegan
Ill
Clyde Beatty-Cole Brothers
UPI
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