Castro Battles Cuba Conspiracy Across Countryside
Fidel Castro's forces clamped down on a major conspiracy threatening the revolution. New arrests and armed clashes were reported in several areas as officials claimed the plot was crushed. Sources noted street gunfire with no fatalities and a radio address planned for Cubans.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Revolucion
Batista
Rafael L. Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Castro
Inter-American Foreign Minnisters
Santiago
Chile
Ths
Cuba
Camp Libertad
Las Villas
Tipsy Passenger Stabs Trainmen On Albany Line
A gray haired passenger stabbed conductor Burton Cleveland and brake man Alexander Mullen aboard the westbound New England States Limited at a vestibule between coaches. Edwin Cleo Hadaway of Washington DC is charged with second degree assault after drinking and a failed ticket dispute.
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Tribes Hill
New York Central
Burton A. Cleveland
Albany
Alexander J Mullen
Syracuse
Amsterdam
Edwin Cleo Hadaway
Washington
DC. C
Montgomery County Sheriffs Department
Hadaway
Schenectady
Mullen
Cleveland
Doctor Dies at 74 in Wake of Sleeping Sickness Work
Dr. Louis Pearce, 74, a physician who helped discover a drug for African sleeping sickness and led a Belgian Congo expedition to test it, died Sunday.
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Louise Pearce
Belgian Congo
Long vows to carry fight to the people after session adjourns
Baton Rouge reports Gov Earl Long plans a downtown New Orleans rally tonight at Morrison's home ground after a rebellious Legislature adjourned a two day special session early. Lt Gov Lether Frazar and Rep Ben Holt defend the move as political. The adjournment ends a costly session seen as vindictive by Long supporters.
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Louisiana
Earl Long
Des Allemands
Long
deLesseps Morrison
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
Lawres
Earl K. Long
Hts
Lether Frazar
Frazar
Senate
House
Ben Holt
Rapides Parish
Holt
Air Force cancels Value fuel engine project
The Air Force canceled a 100 million dollar program for an advanced aircraft engine using high energy chemical fuel. The move affects GE’s 1935 J93-5 engine and a $45 million chemical plant near Buffalo built by Olin Mathieson. Prototypes of the B70 bomber and F108 Rapier will switch to the older 1933 engine and still reach speeds up to 2000 mph.
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Washington UP
Air Force
Defense Department
General Electric Co
Oli Mathieson Chemical Corp
Buffalo
N. Y
Fund Set Up To Help Resisters In Public Schools
A Little Rock fund backed by segregationists pledges legal aid for white students facing expulsions amid planned school desegregation. Rev Wesses Pruden promotes the Freedom Fund for court challenges as public high schools prepare to open with token integration. Segregationists plan a rally at the state capitol to urge Gov Faubus to act, while the School Board vows peaceful operation and firm handling of disorder. The community recalls past disciplinary clashes at Central High during 1957-58 under federal guard.
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Little Rock
Ark
Wesses Pruden
Freedom Fund
Site Rocks
Central
Hall
Orvald Faubus
State Capitol
Margaret Jackson
League of Central High Mothers
McDonald Walks Out As Steel Talks Resume
In New York and Pittsburgh, Steelworkers President David J. McDonald refused to attend the steel industry bargaining session, saying he was sick of the show. A second-string negotiating team pressed the talks with R. Conrad Cooper and federal mediator Joseph Finnegan amid industry rebuke and ongoing strikes.
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David J. McDonald
Poutiess
R. Conrad Cooper
Joseph F Finnegan
McDonalds
McDonald
Pittsburgh
New York
Conrad Cooper
United States Steel Cor
Hagful
United Steelworkers
Joseph F. Finnegan
Federal Mediation and Concilation Service
Ithaca Mayor Refuses to Fire Police Chief
Ithaca Mayor Joan Rian defied a State Investigation Commission demand to dismiss Police Chief Herbert Van Ostrand over alleged gambling law enforcement failures. Rian said she would keep Van Ostrand despite commission calls and noted prior private hearings and raids involving the State Police.
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Ithaca
Ithaca UR
State Investigation Commission
Poliice
Herbert van Ostrand
Joan Rian
Ryan
van Ostrand
Robert Denham
Sons of Italy
U.S. July employment hits record as unemployment drops
Labor Department reports July employment at a record 67,594,000, up 232,000 from June and 2,415,000 from July last year, while unemployment falls 238,000 to 3,744,000. Teenagers find work, farm jobs fall due to weather, steel strike effects minimal in overall figures.
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Washington
Labor Department
Seymour Wolfbein
Reuther Asks Open Hearings In UAW Probe
Washington up senate probers begin closed door hearings on Walter Reuther and the United Auto Workers. Reuther demands public access as the inquiry, driven by Republican members, centers on alleged improper practices by some UAW subordinates. The eight member committee includes Kennedy and other party figures.
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Washington
Senate
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Reuther
Committee
UAW
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
GOP Confident Labor Bill Will Pass House
Republicans predicted President Eisenhower backed labor reform will clear the House amid three competing plans. House leaders cited Hoffa threats and said the Shelley bill is less far reaching than the Landrum-Griffin measure, with GOP support split among factions as floor fights loom.
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GOP
House
Washington
Uni
Eisenhower
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
Cal Shelley
Landrum- Griffin
Shelley
Landrum-Griffin
Halleck
Sen
Everett M. Dirksen
Ilinois
Senate Gop
White House
Landrum-Griffin BN
James P. Mitchell
Mitchell
Senate
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Mail rounds storm Thor-Able cone mission fails to deliver
Cap Canaveral reports a Thor-Able rocket tested off Ascension Island carried two letters 5000 miles in half an hour last May but delivery lagged. The cone returned to Philadelphia for study after reentry and two weeks later technicians found undamaged letters among telemetry gear. They were ultimately delivered to Maj. Gen. Donald N. Yates and Col. Henry F. Warden nearly two months late.
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Cape Canaveral
Fila
Air Fore Missile Test Center
Atlantic
Ascension Island
Donald N. Yates
Henry F. Warden
Philadelphia
Thomas W. Morgan
Thor Project
Morgan
Yates
Warden
Fires On Northern California Mountains Blamed On Youths And Hunters
Smoke hung over Northern California as firefighters battled new flames near Ukiah and Willits. A ranger said fires near Ukiah were set by children and hunters, while deputies reported 17 fires near Yuba City likely started by juveniles. In southern California, 500 men ringed the Decker Canyon blaze near Lake Elsinore, which killed two and burned 1,600 acres as five weeks of dry conditions continue.
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San Francisco
California
Ukiah
Willits
Lake Elsinore
Yuba City
Frank Weatherford
Ukitah
Cow Mountain
Spanish Mountain
Charles E Stutz dies at 76 famed Bearcat creator
Charles E. Stutz, 76, pioneer sports car producer and builder of the famed Stutz Bearcat, died Monday of cancer in Miami Pla. His designs and racing entered the popular sports car scene.
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Miami
Pla
Charles E. Stutz
Medical man dies in Montreal at 81
Dr. William W. Francis an 81 year old medical historian and editor died Sunday in Montreal. He was renowned for his work on medical history and contributed to several journals and publications. His death was noted by colleagues as a significant loss to the field.
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Montreal
William W. Francis
Follies Girl Muriel Miles Found Dead in New York
Muriel Miles, 59, a former Ziegfeld Follies girl, was found dead in Manhattan. Police say she apparently died from an overdose of barbiturates, indicating a likely suicide.
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New York
Muriel Miles
Monthay
Herter in Chile for Inter-American Foreign Ministers Conference
Secretary of State Christian Herter arrives in Santiago for the Inter-American Conference of Foreign Ministers. He may issue a general stance against dictatorships, signaling Washington does not coddle such regimes while addressing Caribbean region troubles. Fidel Castro will not attend, as Cuba cites domestic counterrevolutionary activity.
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Stanford Bradshaw Santiago
Chile
Christan A. Herter
Inter-American Conference of Foreign Ministers
U. S
Herter
Puerto Rico
Washington
Caribbean
Luis Munoz Marin
United States
Fulgencio Batista
Cuba
Marcos Perez Jimenez
Venezuela
Florida
Dominican Republic
Rafael Trujilo
Nicaragua
Luis Somoza
Trujillo
Somoza
Domminican
Fidel Castro
Castro
Trunito
Somozan
U S
Group Votes To Override Housing Veto
The Senate Banking Committee voted 8 to 7 to recommend overriding President Eisenhower's veto of the 1.375 billion housing bill. Two Democratic senators Sparkman and Fulbright switched from compromise to support the override, citing no admin acceptance of the trimmed 1.05 billion measure.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Senate
Eisenhower
John Sparkman
Alabama
J. William Fulbright
Arkansas
White House
James C. Hagerty
Fulbright
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