Kefauver Wins Third Term In Tennessee Primary
Senator Estes Kefauver captured a decisive third term in the Tennessee Democratic primary, defeating Judge Andrew Taylor as civil rights emerged as the overriding issue. Kefauver led from the start, winning about 65 percent of the vote with 413,739 to 238,620 in returns from 2,448 of 2,635 precincts, the strongest Senate primary showing in state history. He carried all but two eastern counties, while Taylor conceded late, noting two strikes on him as Kefauver surged across East Tennessee.
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Estes
Andrew Taylor
Nashville
Tenn
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Andrew T. Taylor
Kefauvér
Nefeier
Taylor
Senate
Pat Sution
South
Ketauver
Cerest
Jackson
East Tennessee
Tennessee River
Defecting North Korean Pilot To Get 15 000 Award
Seoul government approved a 10 million hwan award to 2nd Lt Chung Nak Hyun, a MIG pilot who defected, with possible decoration and a scholarship. Cabinet ordered further study while U S and South Korean intelligence question him.
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Seoul
South Korea
Huh Chung
Chung Nak- Hyun
U. S
Man Plans Lawsuit Over Town Signs Near Home
Dr. Eric S. John Lyburn says he will sue Tunbridge Wells council over municipal signs facing his house reading Cemetery Kent and Sussex Crematorium. He claims the signs caused $14,000 in lost business and cites distress from the advertising.
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Tunbridge Wells
England
IUPI
Eric
John Lyburn
Kent and Sussex Crematorium
Lyburn
Kennedy Flies To New York for Politicking
Sen John F Kennedy flies to New York City for speeches politicking and friendship. He plans to address ethnic newspaper editors and lunch with Time and Life editors. He invited West Germany secretary of state Felix Von Eckhart to discuss Free World issues. Kennedy seeks immigrant group support and has criticized Eisenhower era foreign policy.
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Hyannis Port
Mass
John F. Kennedy
New York City
Moming
Time
Life
Kennedy
Felix von Eckhart
West Germany
Park Avenue
von Eckhart
Free World
Wes Germany
West Berlin
United States
Konrad Adenauer
Eisenhower
Europe
Kenneth
New York
Abe Fein‘bers
Wife Watches Pilot Set Mark
At Edwards Air Force Base a teacher watches her husband test pilot Joe Walker break the unofficial world speed record in the X-15 at 2,150 mph, surpassing 1956 marks. He survived a volatile 78,000 foot dive after the X-15 and Apis X2 malfunctions and is reported safe after landing.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Alif
Joe Walker
Air Force
Milburn
Walker
Apt
Here
Grace Walker
Nixon pledges U S support for free nations in Hawaii
Richard M. Nixon, addressing 7,500 Hawaiians at Waikiki Shell, vowed the United States will always lend strength to free countries. He urged building military power and pursuing programs to ease tensions from a position of strength and to strengthen the United Nations and regional groups. He outlined foreign aid as an ideological tool and planned to depart for Seattle at 6 30 a m after a Hawaii stopover for three electoral votes.
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U.S
Waikiki
Seattle
Honolulu
Hawaii
United Nations
Beace
Prison Charged For Arms Bought by Man
An Atlanta hardware store sold revolvers six shotguns and over 1000 rounds of ammunition to a man posing as a Stone Mountain Prison branch representative. The man called July 22 claimed to be Warden Hoke Smith and later sent a purchaser to collect the goods under the alias S. L. Keen. The warden notified authorities and a manhunt began as the suspect’s prisoner status was noted.
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Atlanta. Ga
Stone Mountain
Atlanta
KB. A. Keller
De‘uectives
Hoke Smith
Keller
S. L. Keen
Smith
Anniversary of Hiroshima Bombing Remembered Worldwide
Washington AP marks the fifteenth anniversary with silent prayers in Hiroshima at 7 15 am EST to honor about 70000 killed and many injured. The Enola Gay crew remain among the few still living or connected to the war era, while Nagasaki followed three days later and global nuclear arms tests continued.
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Washington
Tounght
Hiroshima
Japan
United States
Boy Rescues Girl From Drain Arm Amputated
In Miami a young girl Trudy iKessler, nine, had her left arm caught in a pool drain pipe. Another swimmer Jim Pader kept her head above water while a pool attendant and firemen worked. The water level lowered then the pipe rim was sawed off at a hospital to free her arm.
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Miami
Fin
Trudy
iKessler
Jim Pader
Vacation pay dispute keeps Racine plant in limbo
Striking workers of J I Case Co face a Monday deadline to return to work or lose 1950 vacation pay. Letters sent to about 1906 Local 180 members demand active employment by Aug to qualify. Pickets disrupted entry on July 25 26 27 as talks faltered. Gov Nelson brokered talks then a new agreement allowing nonstrikers entry while negotiations resumed. Garnishment seeks $500 000 to recover vacation pay. Union argues vacations were earned before the strike.
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Racine AP
J. I. Case Co
United Auto. ‘Workers Local 180
Ices
Stnkers
GTR
James A. Neilson
Clausen
Gov. Gavierd Nelson
Case
Sam Rizzo
CAW International
Racine
Mississippi lawmakers reject monthly expense payments
UPI reports in Jackson that Mississippi state representatives Clarence Pierce and James Walker declined the $160 monthly expense payments approved by the 1960 Legislature. Pierce said he had not earned it, Walker opposed the program on principle.
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Jackson
Miss
UPI
Clarence Pierce
James Walker
Mississippi
Pierce
Walker
Technicians Not Soldiers Barred From Katanga Arrival
U N Undersecretary Ralph Bunche and a 20-man advance guard were denied entry to Elisabethville by Katanga authorities who insisted the troops were soldiers. Bunche insisted they were technicians to begin work. Katanga’s Munongo warned UN intervention would be seen as aggression. Tshombe announced he had gathered tribal chiefs to oppose UN troops.
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Elisabethville, the Congo
U.N
Katanga
Leopoldville
Ralph J. Bunche
Bunche
Dramine Unica 'Pehambha
Congo
Dag Hammarskjold
Tshombe
Leopardville
Hammarskiold
Ka‘tanga
Godefroid Munongo
Munongo
U. N
Elisabethville
Brother Poisons Three Children in Florida Luncheon
DANIA Florida AP three Ne gro children died after eating a lethal luncheon of guava fruit pancake flour onion spice and roach powder prepared by a 12 year old brother Ernest Nuby Jr could not explain why he added the poison parathion to the concoction Deputy Sheriff Jim Spears said Ernest apparently didn't realize what he was doing The deaths were termed accidental by coroner's officers The victims were Dorothy Marie 4 Marilyn Juanita 9 and Charles Sh ? Two others Alan G and Sharon 11 survived after medical treatment
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Dania
Fla
Ernest Nuby Jr
Jim Spears
Ernest
Dorothy Mar
Marilyn Juanita
Charles
Alan G
Sharon
United States Leads in Aid to Underdeveloped Nations
A Senate Foreign Relations and House Foreign Affairs report shows the United States supplied $12.63 billion of the $18.53 billion in aid from 15 industrialized nations over 1939 to 1960. Britain France Canada Australia Japan and West Germany provided about $5.9 billion in loans and grants. The State Department urged greater effort by all allies, citing Soviet credits and grants totaling $3.8 billion to 20 less developed countries by last April and noting rising Communist influence through aid.
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IAP
United States
State Department
Asia
Africa
Senate Foreign Relations
House
Angeirs
Department
Free World
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France
Canada
Australia
Japan
West Germany
Congress
iState Department
Churchill Arrive Home After Med Cruise
Sir Winston Churchill and Lady Churchill returned to London after a Mediterranean cruise aboard Aristotle Onassis’s yacht. The couple, aged 85 and his wife, were said to be in fine health by Churchill's private secretary.
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London
UPI
Sir Winston Churchill
Lady Churchill
Aristotle Onassis
Churchill
Churchills
Winston
Ike Expects Much Politics During Session
NEWPORT RI AP President Eisenhower expects a highly political congressional session after his summer return to Washington. The White House keeps details secret but may announce a nationwide radio and television appeal. Nixon will preside in the Senate with Kennedy and Johnson leading the Democratic side. The session, likely lasting to Labor Day, is set amid ongoing campaign signaling and party platforms.
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R.I
Eisenhower
Congress
White House
Washington
New England
Senate
House
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Lyndon B Johnson
Texas
Nixon
Ebenhower
James C. Hagerty
Boy Rescued In Helicopter, Dies
In Brownfield Texas a 1-year-old boy rescued from a burning elevator window by a Reese Air Force Base helicopter died from burns. The child, Philip Reeves of Cotton Valley Louisiana, clung to a 230 foot window for over two hours as bystanders watched. Five other men perished in the disaster or later from injuries, as twin explosions sparked a massive blaze. Donalé ethington, 28, aided the rescue before Reeves succumbed.
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Brownfield. Tex
Philip Reeves
Cotton Valley
West Texas
Reeves
Reese Air Force Base
Lubbock Tex
Donaléethington
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