Calgary gunfire leaves two dead and a injured officer
A 31 year old transient was remanded without plea after a downtown Calgary shooting killed Stewart McGregor 33 and Wallace Hall 82. Police constable Stanley Christensen was wounded, as the gunman who broke into a gun shop surrendered after the incident.
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Calgary (Cp
Wallace Hall
Charles Martin
R. V
Calgary
Martin
Stewart McGregor
Stanley Christensen
Christensen
McGregor
City Relief
Hall
Explosion Hammers Negro District In Chattanooga
A pre-dawn blast beneath a porch in a five room duplex injures two children in a largely Negro neighborhood of Chattanooga Tennessee. Police say the explosion likely dynamite and part of a string of racially tinged blasts this month. Suspected motive tied to influx of Negro residents.
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Thomas Reid
David
Reid
Sandra Lennise
Thomas Jr
Sharon Lynn
Ten Month Old Drowns in Alberta Ditch
In Taber Alberta Joseph Wesley Mike a 10 month old boy from Duck Lake Saskatchewan drowned Sunday afternoon after crawling from a shack and falling into a water-filled ditch near Taber RCMP confirmed the child’s parents are Treaty Indians who had recently arrived to work in sugar beet fields.
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Taber
Alta
Joseph Wesley Mike
Duck Lake
Sask
Alberta
RCMP
One Dead Five Hurt In Montreal Shootings
In downtown Montreal a woman named Rose Tremblay, 25, was killed in a lane on Lagauchetiere Street as a police officer arrived. James Godin, 50, sustained a neck wound and was in serious condition, while Constable Andre Michaud fired back after being shot at. Florence Jean Louis, 28, and Lucien Barron, 38, suffered minor injuries. two police officers were among the wounded.
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Montreal
Rose Tremblay
Lagauchetiere St
James Godin
Andre Michaud
Florence Jean Louis
Lucien Barron
Soviet Space Dogs Frisky After Pioneer Journey
In Pravda dispatches from Moscow two Soviet space dogs Belka and Strelka reportedly remained frisky with normal hearts and breathing after a 24 hour Earth orbit of 434700 miles. The capsule landed safely in a collective farm meadow with mice flies and plants aboard. scientists hailed the mission as a step toward human spaceflight.
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Preston Grover Moscow
Earth
Belka Squirrel
Strelka
Pravada
Soviet Communist Party
Soviet Union
Dogs
Pravda
RCOM
D. V. Martynov
Belka
Mikolai Barbashov
New Left Reform Party Prepares for Canadian Launch
Ottawa hosts the founding convention of a new left of centre reform party planned for July 31 to August 4 with 1500 to 2000 delegates from CCF, unions, and party clubs. Leaders include Hazen Argue, while Stanley Knowles outlines a crash campaign if a snap election occurs before the formal launch.
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Ottawa
Canada
Reform Party
CCF
Canadian Labor Congress
Stanley Knowles
CLC
National Committee For the New Party
Mr. Knowles
Hazen Argue
Regina
Argue
Assiniboia
Lansdowne Park
Knowles
National Committee
Congo Ends Demands on UN Troops
The Congo government reverses course withdrawing requests it had pressed on the UN Congo operation. Lumumba apologizes for Ndjili airport incidents as Mobutu and Hammarskjold face tensions. Canadian signal corps move to interior postings with troops from Canada and allied nations.
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Congo
Leopoldville
United Nations Congo
Security Council
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Lumumba
United Nations
Ndjili
Col
Mobutu
Capt
Bunche
Nadjili
Security Council backs Hammarskjold Congo policy
The Security Council endorsed Dag Hammarskjold's leadership of UN military and civilian aid in the Congo after lengthy debate. The body rejected Lumumba's attacks and Soviet criticism. Hammarskjold returned to New York after seeking support for his neutrality and his stance against deploying UN forces to force Lumumba's control of Katanga.
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Security Council
Dag Hammarskjold
United Nations
Congo
Hammarskjold
New York
Council
Lumumba
Katanga
Moise Tshombe
Lumumba Pushes Commission Replace Hammarskjold at UN
Lumumba urged Hammarskjold replacement by a 14 nation African Asian commission. An to Antoine Gizenga repeated the demand in council while a Soviet backed Asian African panel failed to gain seven votes. The debate included calls to withdraw Canadian troops and Belgium as an aggressor, but the council ended without a vote. The secretary general defended Canadian troop conduct with support from several delegates.
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Lumumba
Hammarskjold
Antoine Gizenga
Council
Kuznetsov
Soviet Union
Canada
Belgium
Congo
NATO
United States
Security Council
U S Agent Sloboda Seeks Asylum in Russia
Tass reports Vladimir Sloboda a U S intelligence officer in West Germany sought political asylum in the Soviet Union Izvestia quotes his admission of breaking with the United States He alleged espionage deception and coercion in U S intelligence and claimed CIA control of detachments in Europe He crossed the border August 2 and filed asylum August 5 at the Soviet embassy in East Germany.
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London
Reuters
Vladimir Sloboda
U.S
West Germany
Russia
Tass
Izvestia
Sloboda
United States
Slobda
East Germany
U.S. Central Intelligence Agency
West Ger
West Berlin
Poland
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Europe
Rhine
Priest Wounded Near Havana as Youth Congress Opens
In Havana suburb police wounded a Roman Catholic priest and detained six Catholic youths in Las Villas province as the first national Catholic Youth Congress opened without incident. Father Marcil Bedoya, a 50 year old Spanish national, was shot in the leg while protecting youths sought by authorities. He was held at Havana police hospital.
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Havana
Las Villas
Catholic Youth Congress
Marcil Bedoya
Father Bedoya
Seven Chums Die in Crash in Vermont
Seven youths who grew up together died in a car crash near South Hero Vermont. Their car skidded 500 feet then slammed into a roadside maple tree at about 3 a.m. The seven ranged in age from 18 to 20 and were longtime friends from Winooski attended the same schools and clubs. Victims listed include Maurice P Soussiere 19 owner of the car ward J Foley and Ronal Rogers 20 Jam Daigle 18 Earl Jeau Norman a William Landing and others.
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South Hero
Winooski
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Ralph Bunche
Bernard Dufresne
Lbnumba
Patrice Lumumba
Moscow Radio
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Frankfurt
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Echo
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