Lumumba Arrested and Transported for Trial in Leopoldville
Col. Mobutu announced Lumumba was captured in Kasai with six companions and flown to Leopoldville to face trial for inciting rebellion and other crimes. Ani ket Kashamura, Lumumba's information minister, was among those arrested. Lumumba’s arrest followed a four day flight from his guarded residence and drew jeers from Port Francqui crowds.
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Leopoldville
Joseph Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
Lumumba
Kasai Province
Port Francqui
Stanleyville
Mobutu
Luluabourg
Anicet Kashamura
Port Franecqui
Judas
Port Franequi
Kasai River
Kashamura
CCF Bid to Block Reading Defeated
Ottawa report notes the Commons passed the government's bill to end the national railway strike by a decisive vote. The move followed debates on railway labor action and aimed to avert work stoppages nationwide.
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CCF
Reading
Ottawa
Commons
Senate Hears Stop the Strike Bill for Railway Stoppage
The bill to end the railway wage dispute strike set for 8 a.m. Saturday faces passage in the Senate as Liberals and CCF members oppose the government measure. The government aims for a single sitting three readings with royal assent possible tonight, despite opposition votes and late timetable.
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Senate
CCF
New Party
Commons
Diefenbaker
UN reports 1000 whites arrested in Stanleyville crackdown
United Nations says Congolese police in Stanleyville jailed more than 1,000 whites, many UN staff, and beatings were carried out. A guardroom held seven Europeans for seven hours without basics. seven remained jailed as negotiations led to some releases and potential flight to Ruanda Urindi.
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Leopoldville
Reuters
United Nations
Stanleyville
Patrice Lumumba
Otu
Ruanda Urindi
Woman Rescued From Ship On Lake Michigan
On South Manitou Island the freighter Francisco Moraz grounded after hitting a rock ledge. Coast guard boarding party rescued Anastisia Trivizas 29 from Athens Greece who was seven months pregnant. Captain Eduardo Trivizas 26 stayed aboard with the 12 crew as efforts continued to free the ship without damage.
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Traverse City
Mich
Lake Michigan
Anastisia Trivizas
Athens
Greece
Francisco Moraz
U.S. Coast Guard
Mackinaw
South Manitou Island
Upper Lake Michigan
Eduardo Trivizas
London Police Seek 3 Bandits
London police hunt three bandits who ambushed a mail truck near Waterloo Station and escaped with 40 bags of Christmas letters and parcels. It marks the fourth mail raid in three months with about £20,000 stolen.
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London
England
Waterloo
Priests Killed In Congo Missionaries Stabbed By Tribesmen
ELISABETHVILLE AP Two evangelical missionaries Elton George Behrent Knaus 50 from New Plymouth New Zealand and Edmund Hodgson 62 of Blackpool England were hacked to death by Baluba tribesmen in north Katanga last week. UN troops have not found the bodies and cannibalism is suspected. Both men worked for the Congo Evangelistic Mission and had long service in Katanga. Hodgson was a widower Knaus left a wife Claudia and three children who are with friends in Kitwe Northern Rhodesia.
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Elisabethville
Baluba
Katanga
Congo
Elton George Behrent Knaus
New Plymouth
N.Z
Edmund Hodgson
Blackpool
England
Knaus
Claudia
Kitwe
Northern Rhodesia
Hodgson
Congo Evangelistic Mission
Vivien Leigh Granted Divorce From Laurence Olivier
London AP reports actress Vivien Leigh won a divorce from Sir Laurence Olivier on grounds of adultery with Joan Plowright. Plowright's husband Roger Gage also granted a divorce on the same grounds. Neither Olivier nor Plowright attended court. Olivier to pay costs.
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London
Vivien Leigh
Sir Laurence Olivier
Olivier
Joan Plowright
Miss Plowright
Roger Leonard Gage
Sir Laurence
Gage
Miss Leigh
Rat Reference Sparks City Council Controversy
City aldermen and Mayor Harry Weiner dismissed a letter calling officials rats as petty provocation from The NEWS editorial page. The council debated action options while plans for a legal response were considered and the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals slated a Monday meeting.
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Finance Committee
Harry Weiner
H. Gibson
Sixth St. NE
Ald
Helen Gibson
The
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty of Animals
Bomb Attacks Strikes Havana
A bomb exploded in the washroom at Havana's Palace of Justice injuring one man, Lazaro Ramirez, a judge’s chauffeur, who was detained on suspicion. Several homemade bombs exploded in Havana as anti Castro groups increased activity. arrests reported in Santiago after a failed gasoline stock plot. The UN and US-Cuba tensions feature in ongoing discourse.
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Havana
Palace of Justice
Lazaro Ramirez
Santiago
U.S
United Nations
Fidel Castro
United States
World Organization
Property Cleanup Assured on Crescent Heights Hill
City engineer Allan Gunter told the finance committee that an agreement to clear the old garage site and other buildings on Crescent Heights hill has been reached. After years of wrangling and a fire that destroyed a Smith garage, the city finally obtained permission to proceed and settled the matter out of court.
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Crescent Heights
Allan Gunter
Finance Committee
R.C. Smith
Smith
Dogs To Suffer Fiery Death On Soviet Space Flight
Moscow reports indicate two dogs aboard the Soviet third space ship face a fiery demise as the satellite reenters dense atmosphere. Astronomer Sternfeld says the five ton craft operates in a lower orbit and may burn up without rocket braking.
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Moscow
Reuters
Russia
Ari
Sternfeld
Laika
Viktor Bazykin
Moscow Planetarium
Earth
Pchelka
Ship Search Intensified for Missing Liberian Freighter
An air and sea search was intensified for the 3100 ton Liberian freighter Irn nine days overdue on an Atlantic crossing from Cornwall England to Sydney Nova Scotia. The ship carried 23 crew members and fears grew she was lost in two fierce Atlantic storms last week.
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Halifax
Irn
Cornwall
England
Sydney
N.S
Arm of Indian man killed by train found in CPR yard
The coroner identified the preserved left arm as that of Dave August, 44, who died when he was run over by a train near Salmon Arm. The limb, torn from the body, traveled to eastern Canada and back before being found beneath a refrigerator car in Vancouver CPR yards. The arm's preservation is attributed to the car's low temperature.
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Vancouver
Canada
CPR
Glenn MacDonald
Dave August
Salmon Arm
Kamloops
B.C
United States labels Cuba as Communist controlled
The United States announced Cuba under Fidel Castro is Communist controlled by releasing 1 million dollars for Cuban refugee aid under the Mutual Security Act. President Eisenhower authorized the aid for refugees in Florida as White House press secretary Hagerty stated the move signifies U.S. view of Cuban governance.
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Washington
United States
Fidel Castro
Eisenhower
Florida
White House
James Hagerty
Cuba
Bandit Robs Bank of Montreal in Verona Ontario
An armed squad arrested two men after a bandaged robber held up a Bank of Montreal in Verona and abducted a 20 year old teller Shirley Aiey who was found unharmed in Mountain View with another woman also located in the car. Police say the amount stolen was not believed large.
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Verona
Ont
Bank of Montreal
Shirley Aiey
Mountain View
Kingston
W. M. Pyette
St Laurent backs rail bill but hasn’t seen it
Former prime minister Louis St Laurent told a Young Liberal Club at Osgoode Hall in Toronto that he supports legislation to avert the Saturday rail strike though he has not seen Prime Minister Diefenbaker’s bill and has no view on its terms. He also said he would not want the job of prime minister at present.
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Toronto
Louis St. Laurent
Osgoode Hall
Diefenbaker
UN Congo Troops Repel Baluba Dawn Attack in Luena
UN Moroccan troops repelled a dawn assault by thousands of Baluba tribesmen in Luena, a coal town in Katanga. Officials report hundreds of Baluba prisoners with no UN casualties, while six workers were killed in the clash.
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Elisabethville
Reuters
United Nations
Luena
Katanga Province
United’ Nations
Seven Die on First Day of Safe Driving Week
Seven persons died in four provinces on the first 24 hours of Canadian Safe Driving Week. British Columbia reported three deaths, Quebec two, Newfoundland and Nova Scotia one each. The campaign runs under the slogan Coast to Coast for Safety.
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British Columbia
Quebec
Newfoundland
Nova Scotia
Shoplifters Trained To Test Retail Defences In Toronto
John Crane runs a year round shoplifting training program in Toronto to reduce retailer losses. Staff volunteers test store watchfulness and defenses, aiming to cut loss percentages from 3 percent of sales. The operation highlights training, mispricing, and cashier errors as major loss sources.
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Toronto
John Crane
Craneig
Systems Limited
North America
Stores Limited
Vancouver Mace Bearer Suspended
Vancouver police announce the suspension without pay of Peter Heath the city sergeant at arms after secret council meetings. Mayor Tom Alsbury did not disclose the reason Heath who carried the mace for a salary of 4208 per year has not commented. The mace was removed from Heath amid overtime disputes and authority concerns.
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Vancouver
RCMF
Tom Alsbury
Peter Heath
Heath
Counel
Alsbury
Pol Heath
City Hall
Cit Association
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