Lumumba Forces Roundup in Leopoldville Clash
In Leopoldville the Congolese police under Premier Lumumba raided homes and hotels detaining U.N. personnel and Belgians wearing U.N. banners. U.N. Undersecretary Ralph Bunche intervened to secure the release of two officers as U.N. troops cordoned the residence. About 206 Congolese soldiers expelled 33 Belgian paratroopers and 13 Belgian civilians aboard the return flight to Belgium. Dag Hammarskjold sought a UN Security Council session while awaiting Congo ministers' arrival from Leopoldville.
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Leofpoldville
Congo
Patrice Lumumba
Leopordville
United Nations
U.N
Ralph Binche
Lumumba
Dag Hammarskjnld
New York
Security Council
Turrbulent Congo
Hammartskjeld
1I Nation Council
Hammarskiold
U. Ns
U. N
Leopoldville
Kitona
Belgium
Gaston Diew
Sabena
Kidnaper of Two Children Hunted Across Counties
Police hunted a heavy set man believed to have abducted an 11 year old girl and her younger brother in multiple Orange County cities including Cypress Bellflower and La Habra. The man lured them into a car offered money and threatened them with a knife before the children escaped or were located. Investigators intensified the search across Los Angeles and Orange counties as officers pursued leads and questioned witnesses near Compton Blyds and Bellflower.
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Los Angeles
King
Orange
Cypress
Bellflower
Compton
la Habra Pilfield
Laurie Austin
Clark Ave
Coe
Missing Hawthorne air crash plane hunt continues
A private four person Cessna 172 passenger flight from Bellingham to Hawthorne California vanished Monday noon. Civil air patrol and state and federal search planes joined the dawn hunt between Medford Oregon and Modesto California. The four Hawthorne residents Mr and Mrs Hoesecker and Mr and Mrs Smith were aboard. The missing craft last refueled in Medford, with the pilot reportedly Kleefcker returning from a trip. Rescue coordinators said more searchers would join as daylight allowed.
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Hamilion Air Force Base
Bellingham
Wash
Hawthorne
Calif
Medford
Ore
Mordesto
Modesto Bank
California Civil Air Patrol
Siskiyou County
Sheriff's ‘Aero - Squadron
Oregon Director of Aeronautics
Parachute Leap Sets 102 800 Foot Altitude Record
A U S Air Force Captain Joseph Kittinger leaped from an open gondola at least 102 800 feet above the New Mexico desert, breaking multiple high altitude records including highest open gondola flight and longest parachute jump. Soviet press says Powers trial to begin, linking U2 spy case to U.S. leadership while local kidnap drama unfolds. The Los Angeles harbor dispute prompts mayor to seek federal mediation as ships idle and flows divert to other ports.
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Tularosa
N. M
Air Force
Joseph Kittinger
Lerteneres
New Mexico
Kittinger
Davie G
Jbesting Kittinger
Auguste Piccard
Los Angeles
Norris Poulson
Long Beach
San Francisco
Edwin Wade
Federal Maritime Board
National Labor Relations Board
Australian Kidnapping Victim Dead After 40 Days
Sydney police report Graeme Thorne, an 8 year old schoolboy kidnapped 40 days earlier, is found dead in Seaforth bound and gagged. The case, tied to his father Basil Thorne who recently won 223000 dollars in a lottery, marked Australia's first child ransom kidnapping. a demanded 25000 pounds was never paid. The suspect call threatened feeding him to sharks.
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Sydney
Australia
Graeme Thome
Seaforth
Graeme
Basil Thorne
Weather Outlook With Mild Tuesday Turn
Low clouds linger tonight and early Wednesday with a mostly sunny Wednesday. Little temperature change expected. maximum near 70 by noon today.
Judge Targets Fake Congregations in Vegas Marriage Scheme
LAS VEGAS Nev District Judge David Zenoit says a marriage racket exists in the city and will ask the County Grand Jury to probe. He notes some individuals pose as leaders of nonexisting congregations to obtain marriage licenses.
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Las Vegas
Nev.Pt
David Zenoit
Rock Hunter Found Dead in Desert Near Barstow
Frederick Vieke, 52, of Los Angeles, went missing after his car stranded in volcanic ash in the Mojave Desert. His wife Katherine, 49, was found semiconscious Monday. Vieke reportedly tried to hike in 120 degree heat with no food or water, and their bodies were located about 26 miles northeast of Barstow.
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Baker
Calif
Los Angeles
Frederick Vieke
Katherine
Sherif
Wieke
Barstow
Brown Takes Water Bond Campaign South With Golf
Governor Edmund G Brown heads to Southern California on a 10 day trip to press the 134 billion dollar water bond issue before November voters. He plans meetings with local officials on the bond and to discuss Kennedy for president strategy with Democratic leaders while also finding time to play golf with his wife.
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Brown
Sacramento
UPS
Edmund G. Brown
California
Recluse’s Death Unearths $157000 Asset Haul
Police tally assets from the littered sixth floor apartment of 73 year old George Richele after his death. The count found over $112000 in bank balances plus $45057 in cash, savings bonds, securities and checks among papers. Neighbors reported odors. Richele had barred visitors since a brother died in 1947. Unopened whisky cases, an icebox full of food, a birdcage and a zither were found amid decades of debris and newspapers.
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George Richele
Rrchele
Henry
Franklin Savings Bank
George
Richele
George Dickinson
Dickinson
Oil-Tanker Explosion Kills Two in Portland Harbor
An explosion and fire aboard the Texaco Delaware on Portland's waterfront killed two crewmen E. F. Knighton of Newton Texas and F. W. Bremer of Port Arthur Texas. Hours after the blast Bremer died at the pump room door while Knighton died earlier. Fireboats and trucks blocked streets as officials feared a larger disaster and flames were quelled after valves were shut and steam dousing began.
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Portland
Ore
Texaco Delaware
E. TF. Knighton
Newton
Tex
F.W. Bremer
Port Arthur
Knighton
Bremer
Bomb scare delays Pasadena train for two hours
A 4 - a train carrying 500 passengers was held in Pasadena for two hours Monday night after an unidentified caller claimed bombs in a baggage car. Ten minutes earlier, Santa Fe El Capitan on the Los Angeles to Chicago route was due to stop here. a search found no bomb and the train departed.
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Pasadena
Santa Fe
el Capitan
Los Angeles
Chicago
Dopot
Stovall Waives Hearing to Serve Sentence at Danbury Jail
Thomas Stovall, 81, waived a hearing Monday on cashing a phony $30 check and asked to serve his sentence at the Federal Correction Institution Danbury in Connecticut. He has been jailed since May 1 on the bad check charge, saying the Danbury jail offers a fine golf course and has helped sharpen his game.
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Chicago
UPI
Thomas Stovall
Federal Correction Institution
Danbury
Conn
Stovall
Two Grandchildren Keep President Till Last Man Out
Washington President Eisenhower stayed at a Boston game with grand children David and Barbara Ann as the Senators lost 11-3 to the Red Sox. He told GOP leaders his grandchildren wouldn t let him leave and noted the game wasn t much, hoping for better luck next time.
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UGPD
Eisenhower
Lteam
Washington Senators
Boston
David
Barbara Année
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Klefecker
Washington City
Gary Flem
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Robert D. Walt
Roxanne
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Poulson
U. S
Radio Moscow
Moscow
United States
Francis Gary Powers
Radin Moscow
U.S.A
Powers
Soviet Culture
Richard M. Nixon
U.S
Oliver W. Powers
Pound
Barbara
Pacific Maritime Assn
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Coast Labor Relations Committee
Matson
Harry ‘Bridges
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Paul St. Sure
PMA
Joint Labor Committee
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