Monkey Sent On Space Flight From Wallops Island
A Navy plane sighted the space capsule carrying the monkey Sam in the Atlantic about 200 miles offshore. NASA said a rescue vessel would join the capsule about 1 pm. The Wallops Island, Virginia launch at 11 15 am EST tested an emergency escape device.
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Atlantic
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Sam
School of Aviation Medicine
Wallops Island
The
Space Administration
Green Defends Canada Abstention on UN Vote
External Affairs Minister Green defended Canada’s abstention from a United Nations vote on apartheid in South Africa. He argued abstaining did not equal approval and criticized attacks on Commonwealth members while noting UK support for South Africa. He spoke during a Ottawa to Victoria stop amid Columbia River power talks.
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Green
Canada
United Nations
South Africa
Commonwealth
Ottawa
Columbia River
United Kingdom
Prairie provinces push to broaden rail rate inquiry
In Ottawa the prairie provinces push the royal commission to broaden the Crow's Nest inquiry. Alberta Manitoba and three wheat pools seek full figures on passenger and other railway services arguing subsidies shield grain rate distortions and demand complete reporting from CPR and CNR.
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Prairie Provinces
Crows Nest Pass
Alberta
Manitoba
Royal Commission of Transportation
CPR
CNR
Prairie Wheat Pools
United Grain Growers
N. R. Crump
Donald Gordon
J. J. Frawley
Arthur Mauro
R. A. MacKimmie
Calgary
UGG
Commission
Canada
MacKimmie
Frawley
Tan Sinclair
Crow's Nest
Board of Transport Commissioners
Mr. Frawley
Murder trial in Red Deer passes halfway mark
The Robert Cook murder trial in Red Deer Alberta nears mid point with twenty three witnesses called as of Thursday. The 23 year old is charged with killing his 53 year old father Raymond and bludgeoning his wife and five children whose bodies were found in a grease pit behind the Cook home in Stettler.
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Alta
Robert Raymond Cook
Cook
Raymond
Stettler
Supreme Court
Peter Greschuk
RCMP
Sgt. Roach
Robert Cook
Raymond Cook
U S Underworld Strongman Held as Suspect in Murder
Mickey Cohen, present at a restaurant killing in Sherman Oaks, is booked on suspicion of murder as police pursue 48 hour questioning of Cohen and associates. Authorities recount alternate versions while missing weapon and Cohen’s car complicate the case.
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U.S
Sherman Oaks
Calif
Mickey Cohen
Jack Whalen
Los Angeles
Cohen
California
Whalen
George Bart
Piscitelle
George Perry
Beverly Hills Calif
Mickey
Joe de Carlo
Candy Barr
Sam Frank
le’, Cigno
Mirror-News
William Parker
Thad Brown
Parker
Union Trial in Vancouver Casts Doubt on Local 97 Future
A four day trial of Vancouver Ironworkers Local 97 officers Fernand Whitmore Norm Eddison and Tom McGrath ended with no immediate verdicts amid controversy over international control of the Canadian union The 1 000 member local faced a June strike tied to 90 million in province wide construction and a contempt of court case over the Second Narrows Bridge stoppage.
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Vancouver Ironworkers
Fernand Whitmore
Norm Eddison
Tom McGrath
B. C. Supreme Court
St. Louis, Mo
Union
The
International Association of Bridge, Structural and Ornamental Ironworkers
CSC
Eddison
International
A. M Manson
Gyani Named UN Leader in Emergency Force Nomination
Maj Gen P S Gyani of the Indian Army was nominated by Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to command the United Nations Emergency Force, succeeding Lt Gen R. Burns of Canada. The appointment requires General Assembly endorsement.
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N.Y
S. Gyani
Dag Hammarskjold
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LM. Burns
Canada
General Assembly
Seaway Closes After First Year of Commercial Traffic
The St Lawrence Seaway ended commercial traffic at dusk as 13 vessels cleared the 112 mile system. The Rockcliffe Hall, 2200 tons, was last out at 4 40 pm downbound to Montreal with wheat. Locks may stay open days to lift buoys. The Seaway Authority denied accusations by Canadian lake ship owners that the November 30 deadline favored foreign vessels.
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St. Lawrence Seaway
The
Seaway Authority
Rockcliffe Hall
St. Lambert
Montreal
Transport Department
John L. Mahoney
Dominion Marine Association
Collapse Kills Two at Firestone Tire Plant
In Calgary two workers died and one man is missing after a wall collapse at the new Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. plant during mid morning construction. Police fire department and ambulances were on site by noon. two bodies were recovered from the rubble.
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Calgary
Firestone Tire and Rubber Co. Ltd
Man Describes His Own Death In Cyanide Act
Navyman Charles Douglas Bishop 21 of Grants Pass Oregon died by taking cyanide and recorded his final moments. Found in a Long Beach motel by a maid after a note directing to play the tape recorder. The tape includes his statements about personal problems and the sequence of his death.
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Calif
Charles Douglas Bishop
Grants Pass
Ore
Pacific Coast Highway
Bishop
Complete Count Is Improbable
FREJUS FRANCE. After the Malpasset dam collapse, rescue teams faced uncertain tolls with estimates ranging to 500 while officials warned the number may be unrecoverable. A mass funeral was planned as 100 plus identified victims lay in Frejus cemetery and makeshift morgues.
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Regran Valley
Frejus Cemetery
Frejus Hospital
Georges Galichon
Pierre Chatenet
Eisenhower Arrives in Rome on Peace Tour Amid Rain
President Eisenhower lands in Rome for a 11 country peace mission amid rainy welcome. He travels the Appian Way with hosts to the Colosseum and Forum, stressing disarmament as a path to global freedom, while warning strong U.S. military readiness remains. He plans a papal audience before a multi nation itinerary ending in Washington.
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U.S
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Turkey
Pakistan
Afghanistan
India
Iran
Greece
Tunisia
France
Paris
Spain
Morocco
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Benedict XV
Woodrow Wilson
21 Passengers Escape Unhurt From Bermuda DC-7 Incident
Twenty one passengers aboard a BOAC airliner from New York escaped unhurt when the starboard landing gear on the DC-7 collapsed, causing the plane to skid to a halt on one wing at the end of the Bermuda runway.
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Hamilton
Bermuda
Reuters
New York
24 Killed In Cameroons Skirmish At Bamendow
Government forces killed 24 members of a large armed band that attacked a police post at Bamendow in the western Cameroons Wednesday morning. No government casualties were reported. It is the largest single incident since violence began in June.
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Cameroons
Reters
Bamendow
Western Cameroons
Youth Held in Murder Case in London
Michael Dowdall, 18, a Welsh guardsman and Buckingham Palace sentry, faces murder charges over Veronica Murray, 31, found battered and naked in her London flat last December. Magistrate Clyde Wilson ordered Dowdall held until December 21 as prosecutors weigh in camera testimony.
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Dowdall
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Veronica’ Murray
Desmond Trenner
Clyde Wilson
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