Laos Coup Reported by Neutralist Military Committee
AP dispatch from Saigon says a neutralist revolutionary committee overthrew Laos's pro Western government in Vientiane. The committee ordered commanders to avoid bloodshed and urged expulsion of foreigners, signaling partial rebel control and possible isolation of Premier Somsanith. US aid and advisers remain, with 165 million dollars since 1955.
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Saigon
South Viet Nam
Laos
Vientiane
Revolutionary Committee
U. S
United States
Kingdom
Tiao Somsanith
Thailand
Somsanith
Pathet Laos
Viet Nam
United Nations
Landlady Murdered Over Car in New Jersey
Robert Lee Carter 18 of Monroe West Virginia charged with murder of Bertha McCormick 63 widow real estate broker and former Women's Army Corps member found in basement bound with wire and a broken bottle nearby. He reportedly drove her car after she refused to lend it. Carter signed a statement admitting the slaying.
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North Bergen
Robert Lee Carter
Monroe
W. Va
Bertha McCormick
Women's Army Corps
Palooza the porpoise sails to meet bride in Italy
In Naples Palooza a Miami bachelor porpoise journeys by liner Augusta to Genoa then by helicopter to Cesenatico zoo where his bride to be Lalla awaits. Five other porpoises were captured nearby and added to the pool, their sexes unknown. Palooza endured seasickness but remains upbeat about potential rivals and new companions.
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Naples
Italy
Palooza
Miami
Fla
United States
Augusta
Genoa
Cesenatico
Lalla
William Gray
Miami Seaquarium
New York
United Nations to Order Belgian troops out of Katanga
The Security Council urged immediate Belgian troop withdrawal from Katanga and authorized Dag Hammarskjold to arrange the handover to U.N. forces. France and Italy abstained as Hammarskjold warned of possible world war and prepared to report back in three days. The move followed Belgium's earlier decisions to leave Congo and aimed to reassure Katangan leaders.
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United Nations N.Y
Security Council
U.N
Katanga
Ceylon
Tunisia
Council
Dag Hammarskjold
France
Italy
Hammarskjold
Congo
Moise Tshombe
Tshombe
Patrice Lumumba
Belgium
Soviet Union
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Rain Hurts Pigeons in St Mark's Square
A hail and rain storm in Venice with 530 mile per hour winds battered St. Mark's Square. Hundreds of pigeons were blown into the lagoon and drowned.
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Venice
Italy
St. Mark’s Square
Venice Lagoon
Strike continues as inmates stay in cells across Maryland prisons
Striking inmates at three Maryland facilities remained locked in cells for meals to avert a riot after a ruling ending outside work time off. About 1,450 prisoners at the House of Correction, Maryland Penitentiary, and Hagerstown Reformatory faced curfews and armed police alerts as state officials pledged to manage the tense situation without violence.
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Baltimore
Maryland
State Board of Correction
House of Correction
Here
Washington
Maryland Penitentiary
Reformatory
Hagerstown
Curran
J. Millard Tawes
Carey Jarman
Milton A. Reckord
Gov. Tawes
Lumumba Declares Congo Emergency Orders Belgium Closure
Premier Lumumba’s government declares a Congo wide state of emergency and orders immediate closure of Belgium’s seven consulates in Leopoldville. Baron van Den Bosch ordered to leave as Belgians face expulsion amid rising separatist and anti Lumumba sentiment. Belgian officials report tensions and Force Publique presence outside the consulate with no staff harmed.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Belgium
Jean van den Bosch
Anicet ‘Kashamura
Lumumba
North America
Africa
Katanga
Western
Kasai
Equator Province
Kashamura
Force Publique
Mat van den Bosch
Congress Keeps Focus On Campaign As Senate Debates
Republicans and Democrats jockey for party edge in a Senate staged for presidential impact. Eisenhower convenes GOP leaders at the White House with Nixon in an active role as the GOP nominee. Democrats push bills Eisenhower may veto on housing school construction elderly care depressed areas aid and a minimum wage increase.
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Congress
Eisenhower
Senate
White House
Richard M. Nixon
Typhoon Trix Strikes Near Foochow Causes Four Deaths
A Typhoon named Trix raked Red China near Foochow last night leaving four dead in Formosa as emergency crews assess wreckage AP wirephoto shows the dramatic impact in the region with crews rushing to aid survivors and assess damage.
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Arrow
Red China
Foochow
Formosa
Herter vows swift US action against Red threats
Secretary of State James Herter warned Soviet leaders that the United States will act with speed and unity to counter any new Red threat or world crisis. He said the warning counters the belief the US is paralyzed during the presidential election period and cited the risk of a dangerous miscalculation by the Soviet government. The President and the United States can act as quickly during this election period as at any time.
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Tion A
Herter
United States
Democratic leaders frame campaign issue on a party program
The President may attack the issue and Democrats plan to carry it into the campaign. Senator John F. Kennedy of Massachusetts, the Democratic presidential nominee, said if Eisenhower ensures half the Republicans in Congress vote for a responsible program, he and Senator Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, will strive to pass it.
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John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Eisenhower
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Inmates Set Prison Fire
SIOUX FALLS AP Guards and firemen rescued scores of prisoners trapped by flames in a barricaded penitentiary work building. Disgruntled inmates set off the fire. Four guards were overcome by smoke and two convicts were injured leaping from a second story window. Eight other prisoners who jumped were unhurt.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
Fat People Hope From Rats Show Prolonged Life
San Francisco AP report on two rat studies presented at the International Congress of Gerontology. One study by Dr Henry S Simms of Columbia Univ shows that severe dietary restriction can extend life by up to twenty percent and delay disease onset. A second study indicates the young possess factors that can slow aging when transfused to older rats.
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San Francisco
Gerontology
Henry S. Simms
Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons
Simms
Siamese-twin rat experiments described by Cornell nutritionist
Miss Wanda R. Lunsford reports on rat experiments in which pairs were joined along sides and skin and muscle fused. The linked animals shared blood and fluids, with a young rat paired to an older one. Aging was measured by tail elasticity and bone density changes.
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Wanda R. Lunsford
Cornell University
Senate Republicans Press Eisenhower Output Strategy
Bulletin from Washington reports Senate Republicans adopting a strategy to push President Eisenhower’s legislative program by every means, including offering his proposals as riders to Democratic bills. The move signals intensified partisan pressure in Congress.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Boats Limp Into Port After Typhoon Hits China
NAHA Okinawa reports a missing Okinawan fishing boat with 16 men and the 190 foot U S Coast Guard Cutter Ironwood returning to Okinawa after two days at sea. The cutter sustained extensive electrical damage and lost a 26 foot motorboat during the storm. The typhoon Trix struck near Foochow and moved inland toward Red China. Communist reports of damage were not released.
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Naha Okinawa
U. S. Coast Guard
Ironwood
Okinawa
U. S
Red China
Foochow
Man kills four relatives then shoots self in North Carolina
Wayne R. Franks, 30, shot his estranged wife’s family on a Weaverville porch. Diane Franks, 5, and Franks’ two sons 4 and 3 were killed, Diane stabbed. Franks died at Asheville hospital after shooting himself in the temple. Holcombe wounded, sought help in Weaverville. Mrs Franks visiting Virginia.
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Wayne R. Franks
Jerome Holcombe
Holcombe
Holcombes
Franks
Frank
Weaverville
Ted Gibson
Diane Franks
Fights For Life Mrs Klumpp Appeals To U S Supreme Court
Mrs Edythe Margaret Klumpp convicted in Cincinnati for the 1958 slaying of Louise Bergen seeks to spare the electric chair by appealing to the U S Supreme Court claiming trial rights were violated and that a confession was improperly obtained The Ohio Supreme Court has upheld the death sentence pending the high court’s action with the court in recess until October 10.
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Florence Radland
Marvin Mitchelson
Los Angeles
Beverly
Aadland
Washington (Ap
Edythe Margaret Klumpp
Cincinnati
United States Supreme Court
Hamilton County Common Pleas Court
Louise Bergen
Court of Appeals
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
William F. Hopkins
Monday
U.S. Supreme Court
South Has Whip Hand In Senate
SOUTHERN opponents of civil rights measures hold the whip hand in Congress and will use every parliamentary weapon. Sen. Richard B. Russell declares no civil rights bills will pass without Southern support, while Republicans plan a test vote on two proposals urged by President Eisenhower to curb racial discrimination in government contracts and aid districts integrating schools. Dirksen aims to move the measures to action without Judiciary Committee reference, risking a Southern filibuster and possible adjournment timing before Labor Day.
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Washington
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Dixie Forces
Russell
Senate
Eisenhower
Everett M. Dirksen
Ilinois
Dirksen
Judiciary Committee
Postcard Sent in 1941 Arrives After 20 Years
Harriet Severns of Clinton sent a Mount Eagle Tennessee postcard to Jeanie Wilson in Clinton on March 7 1941. Delivered Monday nearly two decades later, Miss Wilson had died 11 years earlier. Mrs Severns inherited Wilson’s house.
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Clinton, Ir
Harriet Severns
Clinton
Mount Eagle
Tenn
Jeanie Wilson
Miss Wilson
Mrs. Severns
Cooler weather moves in with showers this week
A Canadian air mass arrives bringing thundershowers to the Miami Valley. Tonight and Wednesday will be cloudy with scattered showers and some wind. A low near 70 degrees is forecast before cooler, drier air moves in after Wednesday's showers. Middletown reported a high of 89 and a low around 60.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
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Indochina
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Mrs. Klumpp
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