Democrats Split Over Vietnam Peace Plank At Chicago Convention
Delegates and a minority of the platform committee clash over Vietnam policy with calls for a strong peace plank. Gov. Connally urges support for administration actions, while Sorensen leads a push for a forceful antiwar proposal to be debated at the convention.
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Chicago
Democratic Party
Platoor
Vietnam
O Ae
Platfe Committee
Thew
United States
Platform
John Connally
Texas
Connally
U.S
South Vietnam
North Vietnam
Youth charged in whale cruelty case near Hawas Mass
A teenager faced charges of using a boat to drive a 50 foot humpback whale ashore off the Massachusetts coast on July 23. The 20 ton whale died a few days later after going ashore.
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Hawas
Mass
Stock Market Holds Modest Gain Amid Slower Trading
New York stocks edged higher with the AP average up .6 at 332.3 and the Dow Jones up 3.23 at 891.53 at noon. Industrials rose while rails dipped, utilities gained, and auto shares advanced on booming car sales news.
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General Motors
Federal Reserve Banks
Dow Jones
Control Data
Swift
Raytheon
Livingston Oil
Eavy
American Stock Exchange
Mercantile Exchange Butter and Cars Prices Reported
Chicago AP bulletin lists Butter futures at 93 score AA 6615 and 92 A 661., 90 B 6534, 89 C 6049, with Cars at 90 B 6612 and 89 C 62. Eyes grade A whites 38, mediums 33, standards 30.
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Chicago
Mercantile Exchange
Chicago grain prices for wheat corn oats and soybeans
Chicago market report lists wheat No 2 yellow hard 1.25 No 2 soft red 1.21. Corn No 2 yellow 1.08 No 4 yellow 1.03. Oats No 2 extra heavy white 60 14. Soybeans No 1 yellow 2.73. Soybean oil 7.55.
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Chicago
Eisenhower in Critical Condition Amid Heart Irregularities
Doctors reported President Eisenhower remained critically ill with cardiac irritability and irregular heartbeats. A Thursday update said he was not under sedation and showed no tissue swelling, despite earlier notes of continued critical condition after his attack.
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Tors
Eisenhower
Prague Radio reports liquor ban spreads in Czechoslovakia
AP dispatch from Vienna notes Radio Prague announced a ban on liquor sales in bars and restaurants across Czechoslovakia. The report also cites occasional Soviet arrests of officials loyal to Alexander Dubcek and mentions anonymous threats by telephone.
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Radio
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Communist Party
Alexander Dubcek
Jury Begins Hearing on Hubert Plot
A federal grand jury opened an investigation into an alleged plot to assassinate Vice President Hubert H. Humphrey and two senators and disrupt the Democratic National Convention. Subpoenas were issued for South Side gang members and others connected with a Pentagon peace march. Illinois National Guardsmen arrived to bolster security alongside police and federal agents as Democratic officials prepared for the event.
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Chicago
Hubert H. Humphrey
U.S
D-Ark
Foran
McClellan
Senate
South Side
Cook County
Illinois National Guardsmen
Samuel H. Shapiro
Daley
International Amphitheatre
Britt Eklund Seeks Divorce From Peter Sellers
Swedish actress Britt Eklund filed for divorce from British actor Peter Sellers. Sellers’ lawyers said the suit would not be defended. The couple, married in 1964, have a 3-year-old daughter.
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London
Britt Eklund
Peter Sellers
Sellers
Miss Eklund
Hold Rose for Driving Charge
Billy Rose of Lisbon pleads innocent to driving with a revoked license. Cited at 2 45 a.m. July 16 at Washington and Liberty streets. A warrant issued Aug 7 after he failed to appear. Arrested at 8 p.m. Thursday and jailed on $1,000 bond ahead of a 10 a.m. hearing before Judge Malmquist.
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Billy Rose
Lisbon
Robert W. Malmquist
Rose
Washington and
Liberty Sts
Morris
James Gretencord
Malmquist
George Hendrickson
Grundy County
Accident in parking lot near Saratoga Inn reported
Morris policemen James Anderson and Robert Lynes reported a two car collision at 11:45 p m Thursday in the Saratoga Inn parking lot on Illinois 47. Gar Dickson 60 of Chicago backed his Volkswagen into the left rear of a car owned by Robert T Ashburn 24 of 1216 Lisbon St. Ashburn’s vehicle was parked in a no parking zone when struck.
Local servicemen return home from Vietnam duty
Service Sgt. W. D. Hanley of Coal City arrives home with an honorable Air Force discharge. A. M. N. John Red returns to George AFB after a 15 day leave with parents. Dennis R. Elberts, son of Coal City residents, comes home after three years in the Navy with stations in Vietnam Philippines and San Diego. New addresses listed for Ronald D. Wills and Leonard J. Fioritto at APO San Francisco and MacDill AFB.
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W. D. Hanley
Coal City
Vietnam
Air Force
A.M.N
John Red
George Afb
Calif
Clarence J. Red
John
Dennis R. Elberts
William Elberts
U. S. Navy
Cam Rahn Bay
Sangley Point
Philippines
San Diego
Ronald D. Wills
Apo San Francisco
Leonard J. Fioritto
CMR
MacDill Afb
Fla
Dismissal of Curfew Violations Against Four Youths
Charges of curfew violations against three South Wilmington youths and a 14 year old Kanka kee youth were dismissed Thursday in the magistrate division of the circuit court. The four youths were cited at 2 a.m. July 30 by South Wilmington Policeman Charles Christensen in South Wilmington. The South Wilmington youths are 13, 14 and 15 years of age.
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South Wilmington
Kankakee
Magistrate
Circuit Court
Charles Christensen
Denmark cancels visits from Bulgarian and Hungarian officials
Denmark on Thursday canceled the planned September visits by Bulgaria's Premier Todor Zhivkov and Hungary's Foreign Minister Janos Peter and a Soviet naval visit. The move came after an emergency session of Parliament's foreign policy committee following Foreign Minister Paul Hartling's summons of Soviet, Polish, Hungarian and Bulgarian diplomats over the invasion of Czechoslovakia.
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Todor Zhivkov
Bulgaria
Janos Peter
Hungary
Paul Hartling
Soviet Union
Poland
Czechoslovakia
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