Bomber Missing Over Barents Sea After Mapping Flight
An American reconnaissance bomber with six crewmen disappeared on a mapping mission north of Norway. The last fix placed the plane at 73 30 N and 35 E, over the Barents Sea near the Kola Peninsula, prompting Norwegian and British searches from Bodoe. The crew, based in Topeka, Kansas, were all married and hailed from California, Tennessee, New York, Kansas, and Oklahoma.
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Oslo
Norway
Soviet
Kola Peninsula
Barents Sea
Finmark
West Germany
Bodoe Air
Democrats Rap Wiley Over U2 Criticism in Senate
Senate Democrats attacked Senator Wiley for defending the U2 spy flight incident, trading barbs with Senator Fulbright. Wiley called Fulbright's remarks unjustified while Fulbright defended his judgment and warned against portraying every setback as a U.S. failure. Mansfield criticized Wiley for implying Fulbright sided with Khrushchev.
Mansfield Defends Foreign Policy Speech Against Republicans
Mansfield says Democratic foreign policy remarks are labeled partisan by Republicans. He frames it as a national survival issue. Fulbright, chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, led an inquiry into the spy plane incident in which a plane was downed deep inside the Soviet Union. Symington and Morse joined in defense of Wiley. Krushchev used the incident to scuttle the Paris summit.
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Fulbright
Wiley
Sen
Mike] Mansfield
D-Mont
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
Mansfield
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sens
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Soviet Union
Krushchev
Paris
United States accuses Soviets of torpedoing disarmament talks
Washington formally accuses Russia of torpedoing the Geneva Disarmament Conference and asks the Soviet government to reconsider its decision and resume negotiations. The message was delivered by the U.S. embassy in Moscow to the Soviet Foreign Ministry.
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Washington
United States
Russia
U.S
Moscow
Marriage Off To Good Start
In Columbus Georgia a young couple obtained a wedding license from H H Hunter. The groom-to-be handed Hunter a $5 check which bounced, signaling an awkward beginning to the marriage proceedings.
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Columbus, GA
H. H. Hunter
Hunter
Cincinnati Girl Hit By Car Dies
Columbus Ohio AP report notes eight work stoppages in Ohio in the first quarter of 1960 affecting 23,000 workers and causing 180,000 lost man-days. Metro areas listed include Dayton Canton Youngstown Cleveland Akron Cincinnati Columbus and Toledo with varied idle days.
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Columbus
Ohio
Margaret Mahoney
Department For Industrial Relations
Dayton
Canton
Youngstown
Cleveland
Akron
Cincinnati
Toledo
Eagles adopt resolution for Ohio safety center
Columbus Ohio AP reports the 57th annual Fraternal Order of Eagles convention approved a resolution backing the creation of an Ohio safety center. The action signals support for coordinated safety efforts within the state.
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Columbus, Ohio
Fraternal
Order of Eagles
Ohio
Death slide act dropped from British Military Tournament
The death slide act at Madison Square Garden was cancelled after Capt Antony Easterbrook 31 and 30 Royal Marines were involved in a fatal 85 foot fall. British officials opened a board of inquiry into the accident as the tournament continues through Sunday.
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New York
Antony Laurence Easterbrook
Madison Square Garden
Easterbrook
Congress Overrides President and Adjourns for Convention
Congress, rebuffing President Eisenhower, adjourns at session end for the conventions with plans to return mid August. A major action raises pay for 12 million federal workers at a cost of 746 million dollars annually, while Eisenhower vetoes earlier bills on depleted areas and waste treatment grants.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
House
Pretty Widow Murder Puzzle Stirs Wichita Police
Investigators seek how Lora Guinn and her killer entered an empty farmhouse northeast of Wichita. The 38 year old widow and mother of four was found beaten and stabbed in the kitchen, her shorts and blouse hung from a wall pipe, a sandal dangling from one foot.
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Wichita
Kan
Lora Guinn
Couple Seeks Tenant as Murder Seen at Wichita Cottage
Victor Lygrisse unlocked a white two story cottage to show a prospective tenant after his wife checked the premises. Mrs Guinn later entered with a key and was found dead from a stab wounds and head injury, raped, with no sign of forced entry. Investigators linked a related bloodstained clothes report from a highway stop near Cherryvale. A suspect driving a NC tagged car headed toward Tulsa is being sought.
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Victor Lygrisse
Lygrisse
Wichita
U. S. 169
Cherryvale
Act Looked A Mite Too Convincing
In Los Angeles two college actors reenacted a crime in a restaurant as part of acting class. Harry Parks and Clifton Potts staged a mock kidnapping to evoke genuine emotion from a police arrest. Deputies questioned them for eight hours before releasing them without charges. Parks said he gained real emotional recall from the arrest. Parks lives in Los Angeles and Potts in Long Beach.
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Harry Parks
Clifton Potts
Parks
el Camino College
Los Angeles
Potts
Long Beach
That's For Sure Connie That's For Sure Connie
ANNAPOLIS Maryland AP a pert teenager Connie Boyer has just been named senior senator at Girls State an annual exercise in government for high school girls. She says she wants a scientific research career and to help find a cancer cure, noting if you can get along with people you can get along with bugs.
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Annapolis, Md
Connie Boyer
Baltimore Lass
Father hints at Bill’s fund raising future
A humorous quip reports a father praising his son Bill for getting a bigger allowance. The father riffs that Bill should consider becoming a professional fundraiser, suggesting the boy’s wheedling skills could translate into a career.
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Bill
Ohio's Leading Nation Again
Americans hit the road on the first full day of the long Fourth of July weekend with 73 million vehicles expected on the roads. The National Safety Council estimates travelers will cover more than seven billion miles as the holiday period begins.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Estimate Warns of 370 Traffic Deaths During Holiday Weekend
The council warned up to 370 people could die in traffic mishaps over the 78 hour period from 6 p.m. Friday to midnight Monday. The Associated Press counted 348 deaths in a nonholiday weekend of similar length, between 6 p.m. Friday June 17 and midnight Monday June 20. This marks the second of three Saturday Sunday Monday holidays.
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Associated Press
Ohio star of Independence Day weekend deadly start
By 10 a.m. today four deaths were reported across the nation, with thirteen in Ohio alone. The state, leader in Memorial Day weekend traffic fatalities, began the Independence Day weekend with an alarming rate and Friday night alone saw at least ten deaths, marking one of the worst openings for any weekend.
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Buckeye
Memorial Day Weekends Death Toll Reported
During the warm weather season Memorial Day was the first and Labor Day the last. Over the Memorial Day weekend 367 people died in traffic crashes and 579 died in all mishaps, including 77 drownings 48 boating accidents and 87 deaths from miscellaneous accidents.
Six sit-in limit imposed in Knoxville protest
Negroes protesting lunch counter segregation in Knoxville are restricted to six demonstrators at a time as authorities oversee a tense racial situation. In a separate incident 11 Negro youths were arrested outside a drug store while attempting service. a white man was held for cursing the protesters. Safety Director Ray Oglesby and Rev. W. T. Crutcher reached an agreement restricting future sit-ins to six per counter.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Oglesby
W. T. Crutcher
Cuba seeks to avert an oil famine through tanker talks
Cuba presses U S and European shipping circles for tankers to lift a 60,000 barrel daily shortfall after seizing Esso Standard and Texaco assets. Castro says Cuba has 66 days gasoline and 34 days fuel oil in reserve but needs ships to import Western oil and avert a potential power crisis. Soviet aid exists but tanker shortages hinder delivery.
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Robert Berrellez
Havana
Fidel Castro
United States
Europe
Cuba
Castro
Esso Standard
Soviet Union
Niarchos Signs Soviet Oil Transport Pact At Piraeus
Greek shipping magnate Stavros Niarchos signed a contract with Soviet maritime agency to move two million tons of crude oil from the Black Sea to European and Japanese ports. Signed June 21 at Piraeus, the deal covers 80 to 120 tankers and takes effect in August, ending in 1963. The spokesman denied any transport to Cuba or South American ports.
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Greece
Stavros Niarchos
Black Sea
Europe
Japan
Piraeus
Cuba
South American
Cuba vows refinery gains if foreign firms refuse Soviet crude
Ernesto Guevara, Cuba’s National Bank chief, warned that if foreign companies continue to refuse to handle Soviet crude, refineries valued over a hundred million dollars would be confiscated. He described the action as intervention ranging from supervision to takeover. CBS investigated a wreck near the bay opposite the old Japanese base and a generator shown in San Francisco. Mantz plans to verify aircraft records. Inouye, ex-admiral, denied knowledge of the execution reports.
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Ping
United States
Europe
Ernesto Geuvara
Cuba
National Bank
Soviet Union
Guevara
Govpoet
Castro
San Francisco
Paul Mantz
Miss Earhart
Tokyo
Imperial Naval General Staff
Shigeyoshi Inouye
Naval Affairs Bureau
Sit-in convictions prompt NC Supreme Court appeal
Seven college students, five Negro and two white, appeal to the North Carolina Supreme Court after convictions on trespass charges tied to sit-in demonstrations in Durham. A Kansas City judge struck down a city ordinance banning racial discrimination in restaurant service. An Atlanta cafeteria involved in a racial sit‑in last March closed after a private operator ended a 17‑year contract.
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North Carolina Supreme Court
Durham
Kansas City
Atlanta
Earhart Fate Debated as Earhart Rumors Surge
AP reports claim new evidence suggesting Amelia Earhart was executed by Japanese forces after crash landing near Saipan in 1937. CBS cites natives recalling a water crash and witnessing her capture and disappearance, with ongoing speculation about Noonan and wartime sealing of the truth.
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Saipan
Southwest Pacific
Amelia Earhart
Aviatrix Earhart
Frederick J. Noonan
Lae
New Guinea
Howland Island
New York
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Don Mozeley
Pacific
Miss Earhart
Fred Noonan
San Mateo
Calif
James
Dying Grandmother Forged Checks to Fund Spending
George Winston Bowden, 37, confessed to forging his dying grandmother Mary Brantly Smiley's name on 14 checks. Smiley, 84, died June 16 after Bowden drained her account from $780 to $1 the day before. He admitted using the money for liquor, clothes for his ex-girlfriend, and paying debts, and was charged with forgery.
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Houston
Tex
George Winston Bowden
Bowden
Civil defense plan called rudimentary and decentralized
A House subcommittee report blasts national civil defense planning as rudimentary and uneven and says citizens must prepare to safeguard themselves if attacked. It faults the Eisenhower era approach for failing to fund a communal shelter program and questions whether the federal government will act to build a nationwide shelter system. The panel criticizes civilian defense efforts as insufficient to shield against radiation and notes no defense influence on missile site locations.
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Washington
House
Military Operations Subcommittee
Leo Hoegh
Office of Civil Defense Mobilization
Hoegh
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