President Yun Po sun resigns as South Korea crisis deepens
President Yun Po sun resigns amid a 62 hour military revolt that ousted Premier John M Chang. The coup installs Lt Gen Chang Do young guiding a junta while U S officials promise cautious recognition. 930 suspected leftists jailed and censorship tightens as government shifts to military rule.
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Seoul
South Korea
Yun Po-sun
Syngman
Rhee
Yun
John M. Chang
Chang
Chang Do-young
U. S
Communist Party
Millin
Washington
Chester Bowles
United States
Police Turn Resort Into Armed Camp in Evian
Police fortified the Evian les Bains resort on Lake Geneva to guard peace talks between French and Algerian rebel negotiators. The rebel villa on the Swiss side was closely watched after a theft in Geneva. Talks head by Louis Joxe aim to end the seven year Algeria conflict amid grenade attacks in Algiers injuring at least 11 people including four European children.
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Evian Les Bains
France
Lake Geneva
Louis Joxe
Evian
Geneva
TNT
Villaas
Algeria
Algiers
Reds Plan Riots To Upset Mexico
The National Anti Communist party told the attorney general that Communists intend to stir riots and disorder across Mexico to destabilize the government. Mario Guerra Leal, party president, linked the move to a Cuban official’s visit amid broader political tensions.
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Mexico City
National
Anti-Communist Party
Mexico
Mario Guerra Leal
Carlos Olivarez Sanchez
Delivery Boy Slain During Store Holdup
A drug store delivery worker is killed during a Thursday night holdup at a North St. Louis drug store. Paul Speckart art, 35, testifies that a Negro man demanded drugs and money before two more robbers, also armed, forced him and 16-year-old Thomas Grupe into the basement. Speckart was struck as the criminals fired two shots and fled.
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ST. Louis
Paul Speckart
North St. Louis
Speckart
Thomas Grupe
One Death Raises State Toll to 277
A car and train collision in Aanitowoc County early today killed 16 year old Delton Sense of Whitelaw and injured two others. The Wisconsin traffic fatality toll rose to 277 for the year, up from 261 a year ago. Edgar Radue and Daniel Feis, both 17 and from Maribel, were hospitalized.
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Associated Press
Aanitowoc County
Wisconsin
Delton A. Sense
Route 1
Whitelaw
Chicago and North Western
Maribel
Edgar Radue
Daniel Feis
X15 Record Flight Delayed by Helmet Face Plate
Edwards Air Force Base California report that the X15 rocket plane mission to reach 3400 mph was postponed due to a faulty face plate on pilot Joe Walker's space helmet. The test was rescheduled for today.
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Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Joe Walker
Congo Leaders Outline Middle Road Federation Plan
Congo UPL A proposes an 18 state federation replacing six provinces with Leopoldville as federal capital modeled after Washington D C. The plan seeks to end 10 months of turmoil but needs two thirds in Parliament or a referendum amid opposition from Gizenga and Tshombe who were absent or jailed.
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Coquilhatville
Congo
Congo Republic
Joseph Kasavubu
Leopoldville
Washington, D. C
Kasavubu
Kamina
Moise Tshombe
Katanga
Centre
Knife Blade Lethal Mystery Ends A 30 Year Injury
Joseph Fields died at age 52 with a knife blade embedded in his chest for 30 years. Detroit physicians deemed the blade harmless and could not remove it. The death was ruled a homicide but no prosecution will occur due to Michigan law separating long-delayed deaths from assaults.
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Detroit
Mich
Joseph Fields
Michigan
Fields
Rail strike called by Yardmasters risks railroad disruption
A strike against U S railroads was called for Monday by the Railroad Yardmasters of America, potentially tying up major lines. Carriers’ spokesman said no walkout for at least two months as talks proceed under the National Labor Act with an emergency board likely named to review wage and work rule disputes.
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Chicago
America
Milton G. Schock
Schock
Theodore M. Short
Western Carriers Conference
Washington
National Mediation Board
Short
English hotel offers pay by inch to bar waitresses
Hotel keeper John Bentley in Worcester England advertised paying girls 50 cents a week for each inch of height claiming the rule would reward proper conduct and appearance. The unusual job offer sparked local chatter among residents.
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Orcester
England
UPI
John Bentley
Johnson Visits Moslem Shrine in Agra During India Trip
U S Vice President Lyndon B Johnson flew to Agra to view the Taj Mahal mosque and nearby villages. He met with Prime Minister Nehru after breakfast and discussed India's five year development plan with a need for foreign aid. no commitments were announced.
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Agra
India
U. S
Lyndon B. Johnson
Taj Mahal
Eisenhower
Nehru
New Delhi
Dehli
Frontier
Red
China
Johnson
Gandhi Shrine
Sid
Jawaharlal Nehrumo Gandhi
London
Asia
Fire forces evacuation at Friendship Elementary School
In Cumming Georgia an attic fire at Friendship Elementary prompted 200 students to evacuate calmly after teacher Miriam Sosebee, noticing the blaze, alerted two pupils to spread the alarm when automatic systems failed. Firefighters battled the blaze for over an hour, with damage estimated at $5000.
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Cumming
Friendship
Miriam Sosebee
Eichmann's Commandos Accelerated Yugoslavian Jewish Roundup
Witnesses describe rapid Nazi actions in Yugoslavia after Zagreb fell on April 9 1941. Arnon and Salz recount SS and Gestapo moves seizing funds arresting Jews within two days linking Eichmann to speeding deportations with German embassy cooperation.
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Jerusalem
Israel
Adolf Eichmann
Yugoslavia
Eichmann
Alexander Arnon
Croatia
Zagreb
Gestapo
Hinko Salz
Europe
Dep. Atty
Ya’akov Bar'or
Berlin
Americans Flying Home From Havana
A Pan American special flight from Havana is due in Miami with many Americans who faced confiscation of property and jailing under Castro. The Swiss Embassy is expediting repatriation for U.S. citizens, while others await permits and credentials to depart Cuba amid tightened U.S.-Cuba relations and a morning embassy sheltering Americans.
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Miami
Fla
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Havana
United States
U.S
Castro
Eaiier
Pan American World Airways
Pentagon probes Cuban invasion role of Joint Chiefs
Senate subcommittee questions Gen. Lyman Lemnitzer on the military’s extent in the abortive Cuban invasion. Sen. Morse demands the full picture of orders origin and any changes before the exiles sailed. Sen. Church suggests the Joint Chiefs may have played a larger part than the CIA, challenging the press-accepted narrative.
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Washington
Senate
Lyman L. Lemnitzer
Pentagon
Lemnitzer
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Foreign Relations
Morse
Frank Church
D-Idaho
Subcommittee
Joint ‘Chiefs of Staff
Central Intelligence Agency
Church
CIA
Cuba
Kennedy Khrushchev to Meet in Vienna June 3 4
President Kennedy and Premier Khrushchev will hold a general exchange of views in Vienna on June 3 and 4, aiming for personal contact and discussion of major world issues, not a new agreement. The talks follow Kennedy’s Paris visit and focus on preserving Western commitments amid tensions in Cuba and Laos.
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Washington
Kennedy
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Vienna
White House
Khrushchev
Moscow
London
Charles de Gaulle
Paris
Pierre Salinger
Geneva
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
U. S
Cuba
Laos
Dean Acheson
NATO
Fay Kohler
Charles E. Bohlen
State Department
McGeorge Bundy
National Security Council
Oklahoma Lawmakers Receive Frugal Telegram
Oklahoma City UPI reports Speaker J. D. McCarty of the Legislature, after cutting lawmakers salaries from $15 to $3.33 daily, received a telegram from Rep Stona Fitchs wife urging residents to return home as finances are extremely tight and chores need attention around the house.
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Oklahoma City
UPI
J. D. McCarty
Oklahoma Legislature
Stona Fitch
Wisconsin Tax Crackdown Boosts State Revenue
Wisconsin's tax department expects about 1 million dollars yearly more revenue from non-filers and fraudulent returns as a crackdown targets 40 court cases soon and possibly 150 more by year end. Extradition and enforcement against delinquents who left the state are also pursued.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Department
Wilbert C
Maass
Gronouski
Gronowski
Fire Routs 200 Co Eds From Rooms
Nearly 200 University of Wisconsin co-eds were evacuated from Langden Hall after a fire in a waste paper chute from the basement to the sixth floor. The blaze caused smoke damage and doors to the chute burned away as firemen responded at 1 01 am. No loss estimate was immediately available.
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Edward Disken
Minuteman Missile Off Course Destroyed During Test Flight
A Minuteman missile veered off course seconds after liftoff and was destroyed by a range safety officer. The second stage burned out of alignment and the 58 foot rocket exploded in the Atlantic after streaking across the sky from Cape Canaveral.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Atlantic
South Atlantic Ocean
Here
Air Force
Montana
North Pole
Boeing Co
U.S
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Res Iene
Voice of America
Korea
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Minuteman
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