Red Chinese Flood West With Narcotics, U.S. Top-Priority Market
UPI report outlines China’s narcotics push from Yunnan across Southeast Asia to the United States, detailing heroin smuggling networks, enforcement limits, and the high profits drawing underworld figures. It recounts the 1960 Guatemala ambassador case, where 160 pounds of heroin via Idlewild led to a 15 year prison term.
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U.S
Washington
UPI
China
White House
Kennedy
America
Narcotics Bureau
Customs Men
Underworld
United States
Charles Siragusa
Central Intelligence
Federal Investigative Bureaus
George H. Gaffney
Narcotics
New York
Marseilles
France
Gaffney
Rosal
Washington Window attacks defense eggheads and policy flaws
The piece rebuts Gen. Thomas D. White's critique of Kennedy era defense policy, labeling academic theorists as defense intellectuals who bypass experienced military leaders. It notes Pentagon discord over a nuclear test ban and urges a public review committee to restore confidence amid national security stakes.
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Thomas D. White
National Defense
Saturday Evening Post
White
Soviet Union
Washington
Gen. White
Air Force
Basic
United States
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Pentagon
Joint Chiefs
U. S
Kennedy
Lucius D. Clay
Old Rag Mountain Wins Place-Dropping Contest
Washington humor column recounts a place-dropping contest won by Myron Glaser of the Washington Daily News for Old Rag Mountain. The piece notes remote and fashionable scoring, a tainted win, and plans for an expedition to Old Rag Mountain with a playful forecast of a future dispatch from Old Bag.
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Washington
UPD
Monaco
Samarkand
Myron Glaser
Washington Daily News
Glaser
Chukker
Virgil
Mt. Everest
Venue Change Requested in Buffalo Bank Robbery Case
Albert F. Nussbaum 29 seeks a federal court change of venue to avoid unfavorable publicity in a case tied to master bank robber Bobby Randell Wilcoxson. Nussbaum and Jacqueline Rose 19 face charges for two Buffalo heists totaling about 106,267. Wilcoxson has pleaded guilty to a Brooklyn robbery.
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Treasury Department
Federal Narcotics Bureau
Buffalo, N. Y
UPI
Albert F. Nussbaum
Bobby Randell Wilcoxson
Buffalo
Richard N. Blewett
Nussbaum
John O. Henderson
U. S. Atty
John T. Curtin
Jacqueline Rose
Wilcoxson
Schiller Park
First Federal Savings & Loan Association
Abbott-Stevenson
Manufacturers & Traders Trust Co
Brooklyn
N. Y
Lafayette National Bank
Duke
Okla
Milo Rho Germ Prairie Hay or Alfalfa
Fragmented OCR notes mention Milo Rho Germ with references to Prairie Hay and Alfalfa. No clear event or full context provided.
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Milo
Nixon to buy Fifth Avenue apartment in New York
Report says former Vice President Richard Nixon plans to purchase a modest unit in a Fifth Avenue cooperative building. He and his family may move in before June 1 after Nixon joins the New York law firm Mudge Stern Baldwin Todd. The price per room cited is twenty five thousand dollars with a total around two hundred thousand plus maintenance.
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NEW York
Richard M. Nixon
Fifth Avenue
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Los Angeles
Mudge, Stern, Baldwin & Todd
Rockefeller
Mary Todhunter Clark
New York Daily News
62Nd St
Jobless Picture Seems Muddled as Unemployment Rates Hold Steady
New York AP report notes official unemployment around 4.1 million with 5.7 percent rate as of April and 68 million employed. Labor force rose to over 72 million, teens entering workforce push joblessness higher, while increased production uses same crews and limits opportunities for the untrained.
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New York
Seven Inch Rain Floods Abilene Highways
Thunderstorms and rain hit the western half of the nation with damaging winds in Texas Oklahoma Kansas Missouri and Arkansas. Abilene highways flooded after seven inches of rain while strong winds swept San Angelo. Heavy rain fell in Oregon and Washington with showers in the Pacific Northwest. Cooler weather persisted in northern sections and temperatures ranged from 32 in Houston Maine to 82 in Thermal and Blythe California.
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Plateau
Plains
Great Lakes Area
Mississippi Valley
Atlantic Coast
Gulf States
Pacific Coast
Associated Press
Texas
Oklahoma
Kansas
Missouri
Arkansas
Abilene
Tex
San Angelo
Oregon
Washington
Pacific Northwest
New England
Northern Plains
Upper
Great Lakes
Houston
Maine
Thermal
Blythe
Calif
Tax Chief Says Rules Becoming More Understood
Commissioner Mortimer M. Caplin said expense account regulations are becoming better understood by business leaders and should not hinder legitimate business activity. Thomas Power of the National Restaurant Association argued the rules are too complex and could cause unemployment in the restaurant and food service sectors.
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Washington
UPI
Mortimer M. Caplin
Internal Revenue
Caplin
Thomas Power
National Restaurant Association
Small Fire Hits Chicago Building
A small fire in the observation pavilion on the 45th floor of the Chicago Board of Trade Building caused about 300 damage. Fire Marshal Gerald Millin said the blaze began from a short circuit in electrical wiring. No injuries reported.
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Chicago
Chicago Board of Trade
Gerald Millin
Wife Lands On Tiny Isle Canton Island Flight Record
Betty Miller, 37, Santa Monica flying instructor, reached Canton Island on the second leg of her solo Pacific crossing toward Australia. She left Honolulu Sunday, arrived after 13 hours 6 minutes, delivering a plane to its Brisbane owner, 1,700 miles from Oakland. Next leg to Fiji Island will follow.
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Canton Island
Betty Miller
Santa Monica
Calif
Wide Pacific
Australia
Honolulu
Brisbane
Oakland
Broadcasters to receive special NAB career awards
The National Association of Broadcasters will honor four veteran radio personalities this month for long and outstanding careers. Special plaques will be awarded to Arthur Godfrey of CBS Don McNeill of ABC Morgan Beatty and Cedric Foster of Mutual.
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Washington
UPI
National Association of Broadcasters
Arthur Godfrey
CBS
Don McNeill
ABC
Morgan Beatty Aby
Cedric Foster
Mutual
Duvalier vows revolution under pressure and rifle
In Port au Prince President Francois Duvalier says he will not leave office under pressure describing himself as a revolutionary and noting his rifle as a companion. In Moscow Marshal Vasily Socolovsky confirms Hitler’s death is officially recognized. In Atlanta Martin Luther King predicts Birmingham integration success, while Independence sees former President Truman asking to forget his 79th birthday.
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U.S
United Press International
Port AU Prince
Haiti
Francois Duvalier
Moscow
Vasily Socolovsky
Cornelius Ryan
Adolf Hitler
Soviet Union
Hitler
Atlanta
Martin Luther King
Birmingham
Ala
Independence
Harry S. Truman
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Mauricio Rosal
Belgium
Idlewild Airport
Guatemala
Diplo
By Lyle C. Wilson
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Hiram Leer
Are
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Laird
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