Conservative Leaders Pressure Macmillan Resignation
At the Blackpool conference Conservative leaders reckon Harold Macmillan may have to yield as prime minister due to illness. Deputy PM Richard A Buller would run the government while Macmillan is sidelined, amid planning for a likely heir apparent and leadership turmoil ahead of the election.
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Blackpool
England
Harold Macmillan
Goon
Great Britain
Welfort
London
Po Jitieat
Thes Party
Reiis
Labor Party
Richard A. Buller
DML
Lord Hailsham
Conservative Party
Hailsham
AP Photofox
U S Marines miss as triple crash in Vietnam area
In Central Viet Nam near Da Nang two Marine helicopters and a Vietnamese fighter bomber crashes. Wreckage found with no survivors. Aerial and ground fire hindered search as planes and helicopters faced heavy ground fire from Communist guerrillas.
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Saigon
Viet Nam
Thlo
da Nang
U S
U.S
Air Force
Navy Hos
Pital
Showdown in Berber revolt near Algiers escalates
President Ahmed Ben Bella canceled plans to attend the United Nations General Assembly and sent troops into the Kabylia mountains near Algiers. He rejected negotiations with rebels, saying they respond only to machine gun fire. Meanwhile ten people died in a crash in the Colomb-Gechar region, with Morocco and Algeria trading blame over territory and responsibility.
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Algiers
Algeeria
Ahmed Ben Bella
Kabyn
Ben Bella
Ren Yous
Colomb- Gechar
Sahara
Morocco
Algeria
Mrs. Nhu Attacks USIA Aiding Plot in S Vietnam
South Vietnamese First Lady Ngo Dinh Nhu claimed at a New York speech that the United States Information Agency is helping feverishly in a plot to overthrow the South Vietnamese government. She announced the claim as she began a tour of the United States.
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New York
Ngo Dinh Nhu
United States Information Agency
Flora hurricane devastates Caribbean and Cuba
Flora, one of the deadliest tropical storms on record, lashed the Bahamas and Cuba with 100 mph winds before moving into the Atlantic. Officials report 3,300 dead in Haiti and Cuba areas, with 60,000 evacuated in Oriente and Camaguey, while relief efforts and damage assessments spread across Haiti and Venezuela.
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Miami
Fla
Flora
Mayagnana
Dain
Atlantic
Weather Bureau
Llora
Europe
England
North Atlantic
al Maili
Cuba
Bahamas
Lontain
Oriente San Camaguey
Huiti
Tobago
Venezuela
Iy Ernst Jer
Fidel Castro
Havana
Oriente
Camaguey
Elief
Haiti
Nine Botulism Cases Treated With Rare Serum
Medical authorities reported nine Tennessee patients hospitalized with botulism were treated with the last known Western world supply of type E botulinum toxin serum. Doctors at Vance-Devitt Hospital fought to save Eric Dalton as a Knoxville shipment of serum arrived from Toronto. A Danish Copenhagen source may supply the next doses, while a portion of the shipment landed in Knoxville to aid the Dalton child and others.
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Tenn
Persens
Tennessee
Vanedecbilt
Eric “Charles ‘Dalton
Huntsville
Ville
Michigan
Knoxville
Ilness
Young
Dalton
Toronto
Rabert “A. Lash
National
Washington
Dallon
Await Kennedy Views On Soviet Grain Deal
Washington reports signs that President Kennedy may be nearing a decision on a U.S. Soviet wheat agreement. White House timing shifts and Capitol Hill signals show careful political consideration of selling wheat to Communist nations at a subsidy price. Domestic wheat costs about $2 a bushel with a 60 cent subsidy gap, aimed at keeping exports competitive.
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Kennedy
Washington
Capitol Hill
U.S
Senate Panel to Review Policies on Communist Trade
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee agreed to a long range review of policies restricting agricultural and nonstrategic trade with the Communist bloc. Chairman J. W. Fulbright announced plans for examination of international trade restrictions as a presidential news conference later fueled speculation on a wheat sale to the Soviet Union and other bloc nations. Reports said Kennedy might announce a sale exceeding 200 million dollars with interest from Hungary, Czechoslovakia, and Bulgaria, potentially totaling 600 million more.
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Senate Foreign Relations Committee
W. Pulbright
Deark
ODT
Soviet Union
Kennedy
United States
Soviet ‘Union
Hungary
Czechoslovakia
Bulgaria
Large Defense Appropriation Up to Kennedy
Washington U. A 497.2 Billion military appropriation bill awaits President Kennedy's signature. The measure includes 73.1 million for a mobile missile defense system, aiming to be hard to hit. House approval came with three dissenters and Senate passage followed by voice vote. The total funds amount to 1.794 trillion less than requested, reflecting a compromise between House and Senate versions. The 73.1 million supports development of a medium range ballistic missile launched from moving rail cars trucks or ships.
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Washington
Kennedy
House
Howse
Senate
Defense Department
Valachi testifies on mob narcotics payments and Chicago rule
In a Senate Investigations subcommittee hearing Valachi described mob leaders in Chicago paying soldiers a weekly narcotics subsidy. He noted New York bosses did not pay, causing grumbling, and testified that the Genovese family ordered a ban on dealing after intensified prosecutions. Security for the session was tight with marshals, police, and a guarded room.
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Senate
Valachi
Chicago
Atlaita
Valaahi
New York
Cosa Nitra
Genovese
Washington
Valach
U.S
Mercy Slaying Tied to Gang War Testimony
Joseph Valachi testified before the Senate Investigations subcommittee that the Moretti murder was a mercy killing ordered by Cosa Nostra associates. He named Agha Kohitoite Johnny Roberts among the men who killed Moretti in a New Jersey restaurant in 1950s.
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Joseph Valachi
Tyr Moretti
Geime Brotherhood
Cosa Nos
Tia
Agha Kohitoite
Johnny Roberts
Wvas
Moretti
New Jersey
Sic
Valachi
Senate
Valachi details narcotics rule among Genovese mob leaders
Joe Valachi testifies on Cosa Nostra narcotics policy, naming Vito Genovese and Albert Anastasia as breaking the rule that trafficking would be punished. He cites Chicago and New York slayings, noting the narcotics ban was enforced later across families after Anastasia’s death.
Shock Fatal at Baxter Milling Co Elevator
John Mehl 2h was killed Tuesday after contacting a power line while working on a rocing project at Baxter Milling Co elevator. He was the son of Mr and Mrs Knuie Mehl of Pocahontas.
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Laxter
John Mehl
Baxter Milling Co
Knuie Mehl
Pocavhontas
U.N. Mission Sent to Probe Buddhist Treatment in Viet Nam
News says the United Nations plans a fact finding mission to South Vietnam to investigate alleged Buddhist rights violations by President Ngo Dinh Diem's regime. The assembly debated turning the probe over to the Geneva commission, with a 7 member team including members from Asia Africa and Latin America.
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Viet Nam
United Nations
ALU
Fot Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Sosa
Rodri
Asia
Africa
America
Budd
United States
Nikolai T. Sfederenko
Ike Backs 1954 Ruling By Jurists
Gettysturg Pennsylvania, Dwight D. Eisenhower endorsed the Supreme Court’s 1954 ruling banning public school segregation as morally and legally correct in a Gettysburg College interview. He avoided endorsing or condemning the decision at a 1956 press event, saying the Constitution as interpreted by the court must be followed. He called for curbing federal spending unless Congress declares an emergency and declined to back a Republican push for more foreign aid.
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Dwosht BD
Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Associated Press
Gettsburg College
Kennedy
Congress
Two Face Trial For Possession Of Explosives
Birmingham men Baber E. Chamiliss and John Wesley Hall faced trial for illegal dynamite possession tied to racial bombings. Charles G. Cagle, 29, of Birmingham, received the maximum six months in jail and a $100 fine after conviction on one count of possession and abetting. Judge Earl Langton imposed the sentence while Caple’s attorney, Mat Murphy, appealed.
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Ala
Charles G. Cagle
Amin
Caple
Mat
Murphy
Cagle
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