Southern Democrats hail Russell for long filibuster credit
In Washington, Southern Democrats praise Senator Russell of Georgia as the main figure in opposing a stronger civil rights bill. Thurmond’s 24 hour 19 minute one man filibuster failed to block passage as the Senate approved the bill 60 to 15.
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Washington
South Carolina
Sen. Thurmond
Sen
Russell
Georgia
Long
D-La
Senate
House
Thurmond
Cotton Market Hurt by Own Policy Says Saltonstall
Senator Saltonstall warned that national cotton policy damages markets for cotton products. He urged the administration to re-examine the situation, noting New England mills face high raw material costs and greater competition from abroad due to world price gaps.
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Washington
Sen
Saltonstall
Missile Training Set Fort Hood
U S Rep Bob Poage said two units will move to Fort Hood making it a main missile training center. The 86th Field Artillery Honest John Rocket battery moves from Fort Sill Oklahoma and the 523rd Field Artillery Corporal Missile battery moves from Fort Bliss. Each unit has about 250 men.
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Tex
U.S
Bob Poage
Fort Hood
Army
Waco Times- Herald
Washington
86Th Field Artillery
Honest John
Fort Sill
Okla
523Rd Field Artillery
Fort Bliss
Army push to produce Jupiter missile after Russian launches
The U S Army escalates plans to put the Jupiter intermediate range missile into production within 30 days, citing Russian tests of long range ballistic missiles. Intelligence notes Russia has tested ICBMs since June, but concerns over accuracy and reliability persist while Atlas and Titan programs advance in the Air Force.
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Washington
U.S. Army
U. S
European
Russia
Siberia
Patrick Air
Defense Department
Army
Jupiter. Com
Nixon Brownell Hit South Warned Against Civil Bill
Sen. Richard Russell warned the South of difficult times under the new civil rights bill as Vice President Nixon pressed a politically minded attorney general for action.
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Sen. Hill
Dala
Russell
Dixie Bloc
Nixon
National Assn. For
Advancement of
Colored People
Washington
Richard RB. Russell
Eisenhower
Brownell
Dixie
Malaya Gains Sovereign Status. Singapore Remains British
Malaya emerges from British rule as a single sovereign nation with an elected king Tuanku Abdul Rahman. Singapore remains a British possession amid a delicate regional balance. The piece also notes U.N. admission prospects for Malaya and political cautions on Chinese-leaning demographics.
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Malaya
Makiya
U.N
Singapore
Asia
Red
China
Labor Day travel surges as motorists seek early restart
United Press reports 45 million autos hit highways for a three day Labor Day weekend with safety officials predicting 420 traffic deaths, hoping drivers show patience and caution. Some states add extra policing while Florida uses helicopters and 1000 volunteers to curb congestion. Schools reopen next week signaling end of summer.
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United Press
Ned J H. Dearborn
National Safety Council
Dearborn
Pennsylvania
Florida
Byrd Credits Congress In Trimming Ike
Senator Harry F. Byrd credits Congress with shaving about 6.5 billion dollars from President Eisenhower's budget requests for the year. He urges further cuts in unspent funds and a leaner budget to reduce taxes and the national debt. The figures come from Byrd's staff and reflect complex budget battles across Congress.
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Byrd
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Washington
Harry F. Byrd
D-Va
Eisenhower
Joint Committee
Six Mile Swim Man Believes In Promptness In His Work
New Orleans reports 32 year old Robert L. Bordes father of five swam six miles to shore from a stranded boat in Lake Pontchartrain to reach work on time. The feat highlights Bordes persistence and determination amid maritime trouble and daily labor duties.
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New Orleans
Robert L. Bordes
Pontchartrain swimmer braves rough water to aid friends
Bordes of Kenner swam two hours to reach three friends stranded when their boat ran out of gas near Pontchartrain. Wearing a life jacket he said he would do it again. Coast Guard rescued the fishing party. he returned to work at Moisant International Airport on time.
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Coast Guard
Thundershowers May Visit Area
Forecast calls for scattered afternoon thunderstorms in the Monroe area with a high near 90 to 96 degrees. A brief downtown shower Tuesday caused minor disruption for motorists, while Selman Field recorded no rain and the low dipped to 73.
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Monroe Area
Selman Field
Arkansas
Negroes Push School Transfer Demand in Lake Charles
About 150 Negro parents marched to Melrose Elementary demanding it be turned over to Black students. Officials said enrollment had already been assigned to another school, and the white school could not be reassigned. Parish schools opened with no violence as leaders planned another meeting at Union Mission Baptist Church.
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Calcasieu Parish
Melrose
Fisherville
W. &. Washington
New Sunlight Baptist Church
Negrdes
Swiss Pilots Rescue Men With Dual Dent Blanche Landing
In Sion Switzerland on August 30 two Swiss mountain rescue pilots completed an unprecedented double landing in the Dent Blanche region to rescue two injured British climbers. Hermann Geiger piloted a helicopter while Pierre Martignoni flew a small sports plane to effect the rescues.
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Sion
Switzerland
Dent Blanche
Hermann Geiger
Pierre Martignoni
Mussolini's Body Handed To Widow For Burial
Italian government moved Benito Mussolini's decomposed body from a secret grave and delivered it to his widow Donna Rachel for burial in the family plot at San Cassiano. A wooden coffin with New York plates was taken to the cemetery chapel to avoid Neo-Fascist demonstrations. The exhumation ends a long custody battle by Rachel, once married to Mussolini who left her for Claretta Petacci. The bodies were originally buried in Milan’s Musocco cemetery after being executed and displayed in 1945.
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Carabinieri
Benito Mussolini
Predappio
Italy
Donna Rachele
St. Cassiano
Isle of Ischia
Bruno
San Cassiano
New York
Claretta Petacci
Congo
Lake Como
Milan
Switzerland
Nlan
Musocco
Stassen Sees U S Russia Closer On Arms Plan
Presidential adviser Harold E. Stassen said he believes the United States and Russia are closer to an arms agreement than since 1945. He arrived in Washington from London and said Moscow’s initial hostile reaction may not reflect its final stance. He noted Russians often take hard positions.
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Washington
Harold E. Stassen
Russia
United States
Stassen
London
Kremlin
Morros Names More Suspected Soviet Spies in Atomic Espionage
Boris Morros provided congressional investigators with two more alleged Soviet spies linked to atomic espionage. Dr. Henry Spitz and his wife Beatrice Rabinowitch Spitz, naturalized Americans who later became Austrian citizens, lived in New York City and Albuquerque New Mexico. Spitz, a physician, was said to have close proximity to Los Alamos via Albuquerque.
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Washington
Boris Morros
Francis IE. Walter
D-Pa
House Committee On UN
U. S. Grand Jury
New York
United States
Justice Department
FBI
Walter
Morros
Grand Jury
Spitz
Graz
Austria
Beatrice Rabinowitch
Lithuania
U.S
New York City
Veterans Administration Hospital
Albuquerque
Morris
Foreign Aid, FBI Records In Spotlight
Congress closed an eight month session passing a trimmed foreign aid bill totaling 3.4359 billion and a law to protect FBI file secrecy in trials. The session saw civil rights passage, economy measures, and Eisenhower setbacks on other programs amid a charged political backdrop.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Federal Bureau of Investigaton
Middle East
United States
International Atomic Energy Agency
Eisenhower
Molotov Named Ambassador To Red Satellite
Soviet news agency Tass reports V M Molotov, ousted from top posts last month, named ambassador extraordinary and plenipotentiary to Mongolia. V I Pisarev moves from Mongolia to a ministerial post in the Ulan Bator embassy as Molotov heads east to the Mongolian capital.
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Red
Moscow
V. M. Molotov
Kremlin
Mongolia
Tass
Ussr Supreme Soviet Presidium
Ussr
Republc
V.I Pisarev
Ulan Bator
Communist Party
Georgi Malenkov
Lazar Kaganovich
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