Trains Run As Canada Delays Largest Rail Strike
Parliament imposed an emergency law to postpone a national railway strike by 111000 non operating workers until after May 15. Prime Minister Diefenbaker urged urgent passage as opposition critics warned it undermines strike rights and delays resolution. Union leaders suspended the order and will attend meetings to push for a 14 cent hourly wage increase.
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Ottawa
Canada
Diefenbaker
Parlia
Newfoundland
Frank H. Hall
CPR
CNR
Commons
Conciliation Board
Hall
Dominions
Louisiana Defies Court With Private School Plan in New Orleans
New Orleans ends 10 days of token integration as Louisiana moves toward public and private schools. The Louisiana Legislature approves grant funds to aid parents sending children to private schools and leases two buildings to convert into private schools for Frantz and McDonogh pupils. A three-judge federal court had ordered integration, while the House withholds pay for teachers at the integrated schools and investigates those involved.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
McDonogh No. 19
Williams ‘Frantz
Frantz School
House ‘of Representatives
Senate
Frantz and McDonogh
Jimmie Davis
Thomas Jewell
Ontario minister urges city unemployed to return to farm work
Public Works Minister Connell told the Ontario legislature that city unemployed people should go back to farm work. He said farm jobs are often advertised but many workers have not valued them. The remarks imply a push to shift urban unemployment toward agricultural employment.
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Toronto
Connell
Ontario
Onnell
A Woman Of Courage A Woman Of Courage
Daisey Josephine Gabrielle a brown eyed mother of six led her six year old daughter Yolanda from the segregated William Frantz school amid threats and mob pressure. She said fear and faith tested her conscience as police and ministers supported her stand in New Orleans.
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New Orleans
Daisey Josephine Gabrielle
William Frantz
Yolanda
Louisiana
Pha
Lumumba moved to Thysville under guard after capture
Lumumba, former Congo premier, is transported under heavy guard from Leopoldville to Thysville, convoy escorted by Mobutu loyalists. He was captured at Port Francqui, flown to Congo capital, and faces trial for inciting rebellion and other crimes. UN sought protection assurances as Soviet delegation called for immediate reporting.
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Michael Goldsmith
Leopoldville
Patrice Lumumba
F of
Joseph Mobutu
Lumumba
Thysville
Binza
Congo
Port Francqui
Kasai
Stanleyville
Mobutu
Gumumba
United Nations
New York
Dag Hammarskjold
Un‘command
Hammarskjold
Joseph Kasavubu
Mass Prayer and Vigil for Bus Train Crash Victims
Alta Chipman reports a joint prayer service and all night vigil in the village for 14 teenage victims of a school bus and train collision. About 10,000 mourners paid respects at the school auditorium and National Hall Ukrainian Catholic Church. open caskets and long processions highlighted the somber observance.
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Chipman
Alta
Alex Lis
National Hall
Myron Daci Mundare
Oman
41 Die In Rash Of Fires Across U S In 24 Hours
Fire outbreaks across the United States killed 41 people in a 24 hour period ending Friday. The toll included 28 children and spanned South Carolina Maryland Tennessee Louisiana Florida Pennsylvania and Ohio. A La Plata Maryland farmhouse fire killed seven people and a Santa Fe Springs California tank farm blaze forced evacuations. A New Orleans landmark Gluck's Restaurant suffered a 24 hour blaze in the French Quarter.
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Associated
United States
New Orleans
Los Angeles
South Carolina
Maryland
Tennessee
Louisiana
Florida
Pennsylvania
Ohio
la Plata
Monroe
Santa Fe Springs
Oil Company
Rothschild Oil Company
BE. C. Gates
Gates
Gluck's
Canal Street
Medicine Hat Brick and Tile to Take Over Alberta Clay Plant
The Medicine Hat Brick and Tile Company will operate the Alberta Clay Products plant, a division of Evans Coleman Evans Limited, as a clay pipe manufacturer. Negotiations finished this week and takeover set for December 4, with no immediate changes in staff or product type, according to Gordon Sissons of Medicine Hat Brick and Tile.
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Medicine Hat Brick and ‘Tile Company
Alberta Clay Products
Evans Coleman,Evans Limited
Gordon Sissons
Medicine Hat Brick and Tile
Alberta
Kennedy Chooses Hodges for Commerce Post
Palm Beach Florida AP reports President elect Kennedy selects North Carolina Governor Hodges a 62 year old industrialist to lead commerce in the new administration.
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Palm” Beach
Fla
Kennedy
North Carolina
Hodges
Two Killed In Shooting Near Gordon Indian Reserve
In Punnichy Saskatchewan RCMP report a man and a 17 year old girl were killed and a second man, Alec Yeblonski of Saskatoon, critically injured after a day long drinking dispute near Gordon Indian Reserve six miles southeast of the farming village. The three others were in Yeblonski's car when the argument escalated into a murder suicide attempt.
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Punnichy
Sask
RCMP
Gordon Indian Reserve
Verna
McNabb
Sydney Blind
Regina
Alec” Yeblonski
Saskatoon
Yeblonski
Miss McNabb
Mary Daniels
Two Space Dogs Die in Russian Space Flight Mishap
Moscow Reuters reports two canine astronauts Pchelka and Mushka were lost when Russia’s third spaceship burned upon atmospheric reentry. The dogs perished during an attempted retrieval from orbit as scientists watched the craft catch fire and crash.
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Moscow
Reuters
Russia
Pchelka
Little Bee
Mushka
Earth
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Lloyd Foreman
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