Quake Toll In Skopje Rises As Burial Teams Work Fast
In Skopje Yugoslavia burial teams move quickly for interment of more than 600 recovered dead after a devastating quake. Relief workers search for more victims as field hospitals treat over 2,000 injured. U S aid arrives with medicine and blankets. Tito visits the shattered city.
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Skopje
Yugoslavia
United States
Red Cross
Tito
Greece
Austria
Switzerland
Sweden
Kennedy
U.S
Europe
Earthquake in Skopje Leaves Families Desperate
Belgrade report details survivors recounting ruined homes and loss. Nikola Basjanev mourns wife and children as he escaped the falling ceiling and collapsing floors. Grocer Ka Jovanovic recalls a heroic evacuation of a child. Pilot Vesekoslav Andric describes cries, chaos, and widespread destruction. Pensioner Trajko Kukovalja credits waking before the quake for saving his family.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Nikola Basjanev
Skopje
Macedonia
Ka Jovanovic
Vesekoslav Andric
Trajko Kukovalja
Coin Shortage Seen as Possible Economic Signal
Washington AP report outlines a coin shortage seen as potentially positive. Eva B. Adams of the U S Mint notes rising coin demand tracks the economy while mint output remains high. She cites vending machines taxes and collectors and mentions a new Philadelphia Mint replacement bill in Congress.
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Washington
Eva B. Adams
U.S. Mint
Miss Adams
Philadelphia
Senate
Founder of New NAAWP Group Quits
Clarence Brandenburg, founder of the National Association for the Advancement of White People, resigns from the group claiming totalitarian tactics. He says an outside group took over the Valley Chapter meeting and installed a new slate of officers, though the chapter's Charles Prater defends the election as democratic.
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Cincinnati
National ‘Association for the Advancement _of White People
Clarence Brandenburg
Reading
NAACP
Valley
Brandenburg
William F. Miller
NAAWP
Charles Prater
Miller
Lima Couple Sought After Skopje Earthquake Visit
The U S Embassy in Yugoslavia asks to locate Lima Ohio couple Mr and Mrs Andrew Nanchoff who were visiting Skopje when the city was struck by a disastrous earthquake. They left in July to stay at a Macedonia Hotel that may be demolished and were visiting sons in Skopje and Dupeny Yugoslavia.
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Belgrade
Skopje
Samuel Nocella
Willow Grove
John Bobinec
Julianne
Warren, Mich
Bernard Phillips
Boston University
David Rheabottom
Shirley
Lansing
Mich
Phillips
Macedonia
Yugslavs
Jadran
Lima
Ohio
U.S
Yugoslavia
Andrew Nanchoff
Dupeny
Lost Train Survives Earthquake Run to Belgrade
Passengers from the Athens to Belgrade Hellas Express reached Belgrade safe after a near death scare in Skopje when a quake struck the city. The Athens Cologne service was undamaged and no aboard passengers were injured. Officials rerouted the train to a siding and later a relief Hellas Express carried them on to Belgrade.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Athens
Cologne
Skopje
Hellas
Driver Must Buy Insurance to Lift Suspension
George E. Moore, 35, of 3008 Omaha St., Middletown, faced a six month driving suspension lifted only upon purchase of auto insurance. Before Butler County Judge William Hendrickson on an assured clear distance charge after a minor Ohio 4 crash, Moore admitted no insurance. The judge warned about highway responsibility and suspended a $1 fine plus costs.
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Fairfield
Middletown
George E. Moore
Omaha St
Butler County
William Hendrickson
Ohio 4
NAACP founder starts chapters in Ohio and Indiana cities
A new NAACP initiative began two weeks ago with the founder establishing chapters across several Ohio and Indiana cities. The development signals rapid expansion of the civil rights organization within the region.
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NAACP
Ohio
Indiana
Protesters Arrested at Dayton Rike's Department Store
Fourteen racial demonstrators led by Sumpter McIntosh were arrested for trespassing at Rike's Department Store in Dayton. They protested alleged discriminatory hiring, some youths released after disturbances on the 10th floor. CORE chair John Maddox claimed fewer than 20 of 900 clerks are Negro and accused discrimination since last October.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton
Sumpter McIntosh
Congress of Racial Equal
McIntosh
Rike’s
John E. Maddox
CORE
Associated Press
Representative at large defined for statewide election
The term representative at large refers to a member of Congress chosen by the voters of the entire state rather than by voters in a single district within the state.
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Congress
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