Maine Elects First Dem Governor In 20 Years
Maine voters chose Edmund S. Muskie as governor elect, defeating Gov. Burton M. Cross in the states first Democratic governor win in two decades. Muskie led with about 55 percent of the vote from precincts reporting, as Maine joined other states in primary voting across the nation.
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Maine
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New York
Rhode Island
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New Hampshire
Colorado
Massachusetts
Wisconsin
Robert W. Upton
Styles Bridges
Leverett Saltonstall
Mass
Hubert Humphrey
D-Minn
Edwin C. Johnson
Minnesota
Vermont
House
Utah
Washington
Edmund S. Muskie
Burton M. Cross
GOP
Margaret Chase Smith
Pesident Nixon
Muskie
Louis J. Brann
Brann
U.S. Senate
Cross
Mrs. Smith
Paul A. Fullam
Colby College
Robert Hale
James C. Oliver
Charles P. Nelson
Thomas E. Delahanty
Clifford G. McIntire
Kenneth B. Colbath
Frederick G. Payne
Payne
Sen. Smith
Congress
Puerto Rico Nationalists Planned Attacks On Congress and President
Testimony in a federal trial shows Gonzales Lebron Sotomayor stating conspirators behind the March shooting in Congress also planned attacks on President Eisenhower. He identifies Julio Pinto Gandia as a party leader who discussed plans for attacks on Congress and on Fernos Isern. Lebron Sotomayor, a former Nationalist official, has pleaded guilty and testifies while held on bail as the case continues.
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Congress
Eisenhower
Gonzales Lebron Sotomayor
U.S
Lawrence E. Walsh
Julio Pinto Gandia
Lebron Sotomayor
Fernos Isern
Puerto Rico
Nationalist Party
United States
Chicago
Gandia
Substitute Offered For Scuttled EDC Report On McCarthy Conduct
A six member committee drafts a report on Sen. McCarthy's conduct and aims to avoid bias against the legal staff. The panel weighs whether to issue factual findings or recommendations while McCarthy and his counsel dispute the officers role as prosecutors. Zwicker testimony dominates the final hearings as Williams calls for independent counsel.
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Mc Carthy
Wisconsin
Senate
I OR
Watkins
Utah
E. Wallace Chadwick
Guy G. de Faria
McCarthy
Edward Bennett Williams
Chadwick
de Furia
Sen
Edwin C. Johnson
D-Cole
Johnson
Coloradoan
Ralph W. Zwicker
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
New York
Zwicker
Williams
Hinh Defiance Sparks Viet Nam Crisis With Diem
Viet Nam Premier Ngo Dinh Diem faces a power struggle as Gen Nguyen Van Hinh refuses a six month leave and clashes erupt over control of Saigon radio. Four cabinet members threaten resignation amid mounting tensions between Diem and the army chief of staff.
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Ngo Dinh Diem
Nguyen van Hinh
Hinh
Indochina
Diem
Saigon
Paul Ely
Ngo Dinh Elem
France
Court orders Communist Party registration under 1950 act
The Communist Party must register with the Justice Department under SAC provisions, listing officers and finances. The party challenges constitutionality and cites the 1954 Communist Control Act which denies party rights. Arguments reopen Oct 21 before the U.S. Court of Appeals, with briefs due prior.
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Communist Party
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Moscow
Subversive Activities Control Board
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SAC
Supreme Court
U.S. Court of Appeals
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Construction Strike Halts Work At Portsmouth Atomic Plant
WAVERLY Ohio 15000 workers expected idle as AFL construction men strike halts activity at the Portsmouth Area atomic energy plant.
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Waverly
Ohio
Portsmouth Area
AFL
White Sulphur Springs ends integration amid white student strike
In Greenbriar County five days of school integration ended after angry parents and striking white students forced a return to segregation. White Sulphur Springs High closed early as 25 Negro students, escorted by police, retrieved books to return to Bolling High and nearby Negro schools.
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Bolling High School
Imeeottabahn
Board of Education
Main
Virginia Line
Rupert
Here
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Supreme Court
W. W. Trent
Greenbrer
Marion
Barbour
John Jacob
Yoshida Urged to Testify Before Diet Committee
Prime Minister Yoshida faces an unprecedented summons to testify after government and Liberal party leaders met following an opposition led Diet committee vote. Yoshida, 76, had said he might ignore the summons despite possible fines or jail. A spokesman said he may appear but a decision rests with him.
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Tokyo
Saigeru Yoshida
Diet
Liberal Party
Yoshida
U.S. Patrol Fired On Near German Czech Border
A U.S. Army border patrol near Barnau in Germany was fired on by a Czech border patrol. No Americans were hit. one trooper injured his ankle leaping from a vehicle. The patrol was from the 1st Battalion 2nd Armored Cavalry Regiment. This marked a second border shooting incident in a week.
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Germany
Barnau
U. 8&8. Army
U. S
U.S
2Nd Armored Cavalry Regiment
Bayreuth
Weiden
Ex-Congressman invokes fifth in Dayton subversive hearing
Hugh Delacy a former Washington Democrat invoked the Fifth Amendment when asked if he is or was a Communist during the second day of House un American Activities Committee hearings in Dayton Ohio. The probe examined suspected subversive activity and included testimony about the Communist Party and union leaders with several witnesses avoiding or declining questions.
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Ohio
Hugh Delacy
Congress
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Delacy
House UN- American Activities Committee
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Progressive Party
Henry Wallace
Antioch College
Yellow Springs
Kermit M. Kirkendall
United Electrical Workers Local 168
CIO
Kirkendall
Arthur Strunk
Communist Party
FBI
Strunk
Univis Lens Co
William A. Nelson
Scherer
William C. Notz
Notz
John
Edmiston
Federal Board of
British plan to widen Brussels pact discussed in Rome
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and Italian Foreign Minister Attilio Piccioni reached full agreement on Europe’s defense issue in a three hour Rome conference. They discussed extending the Brussels pact to include West Germany and Italy as a substitute for the European Defense Community. Eden plans to visit Premier Mario Scelba and then Paris for two more days of talks.
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Attilio Piccioni
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Eden
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Brussels
Mario Scelba
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London
France
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Britain
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Nationalists Bomb China Twelfth Day
Formosa reports the air force and navy bombard the mainland opposite Formosa for the twelfth day. Communist water ghosts allegedly attempt a landing on Quemoy’s north coast but are repelled. The Quemoy conflict has drawn in U S naval logistic support per a Herald Tribune Washington dispatch.
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Maine
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Amoy
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New York Herald Tribune
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Herald Tribune
Walter Kerr
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chief of Naval Operations
A. Hagerty
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Eisenhower
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