Public US closes Russia on downed transport evidence
The United States released a State Department summary and a transcript of Soviet fighter radio conversations alleging Soviet jets shot down a U .S. transport on September 2 near the Turkey Armenia border. Sixteen or seventeen Americans were killed. bodies of six were returned.
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United States
Russia
State Department
U.S
Turkey-Armenia
Armenia
Nixon
Dulles
Premice Anastasi
Mikoyan
Robert Murphy
Mikhail Menshikov
Menshikov
Murphy
Soviet
Eisenhower Urges Stronger Civil Rights Laws
President Eisenhower urged Congress to strengthen civil rights by making obstructing court orders in school desegregation a federal crime. The seven point package includes enhanced FBI powers for related crimes and authority for the attorney general to inspect federal election records, with the aim to deter violence and threats.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Plan Quiz of Crew in New York Crash
New York investigators seek the cause of a big airliner crash near LaGuardia that killed 65 of 73 aboard. Questions focus on the radio beam altitude guidance system used on the runway and whether it affected the approach. The crew members were injured or killed. the investigation continues with recovery of cockpit personnel and carrier questioning.
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New York
Tresti- Balors
LaGuardia
Theo
American Airlines
Chicago
ROK Vessel Seizes Japanese Fishing Boat Near Nagasaki
A South Korean gunboat fired on nine Japanese fishing boats off Tsushima Island and captured one vessel and its six crew four miles east of the northern Nagasaki coast. Police identified the seized boat as the Ston Hama hisa Maru.
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Japan
Nagasaki
Hamahisa
Maru
Tsushima
Rebels Execute 3 More in Cuba
In Havana at La Cabana Fortress, three men were executed for war crimes. Among the dead is Walter Sentiesteban Ping, a former rebel soldier condemned for killing two children. The other two were bodyguards for Col. Esteban Ventura, police chief of Batista’s regime, convicted of killings and torture. The death toll stands at 274 according to unofficial counts.
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Havana
Savas
la Cabana
Walter Sentiesteban
Ping
Oriente
Col
Esteban Ventura
Fulgencio Battista
Torfra
Couple Charged After Attempting to Sell Twin Boys
A former Michigan airman Clark Stillion and his wife Rosemarie were charged with selling their five year old twin boys for 500 dollars after undercover juvenile officers posed as buyers. The couple said they hoped the boys would have a better life with a new home while awaiting their jail term.
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George Stillion
Houston
Michigan
Clark Dean Stillion
Brighton
Mich
Rosemarie
Stillion
Mrs. Stllion
Thomas James
Grorge Frederick Lewins
Petentive AG
Brumley
Lanny Dixon
Ove
East German release frees five Americans in 1961 incident
U S Army lieutenant Richard Mackin and four other soldiers held in East Germany for weeks were released after Red Cross negotiations. The men parachuted into East Germany December 3 when their plane ran out of gas. They crossed into West Germany near the frontier post Lerder.
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Germany
East Germany
Richard Mackin
Mackin
Washington, D. C
Win Bell
Hill City
Kan
Kenneth G. Carlson
San Leandro
Calif
James W. Hayes
Baltimore
Melvyn Hampton
Berlin
American Red Cross
E. German Red Cross
U. S. State Department
West Germany
Marienhorn
Robert Storey Wilson
East Berlin
Wilson
Thell
Cross
7Th Army
Stillion
Frankfurt
Denmark to Pay All Losses in Sinking
Danish government will cover the losses of the jet liner and passenger freighter disaster last week, with Chancellor Brandt’s plans to explain America’s role. Brandt and his wife will briefly stop in New York on the way to Ottawa then Washington to spend about a week in the United States. The Royal Trading Co. said the two million dollar ship was not insured by outside cover.
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Greenland
Royal Trading Co
United States
Brandt
America
Widow’s threat sparks California marriage ban
In Pasadena a court forbade 68 year old Tessie Purmort from attending the son Louis Purmort’s wedding to Barbara Thorndike after she allegedly vowed to kill him rather than see the marriage. Judge Ellsworth Meyer ordered avoidance of the ceremony reception and honeymoon sendoff. Louis Purmort, 34, and Barbara Thorndike plan a Hawaii honeymoon following the nuptials.
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Pasadena
San Marino
Louis E. Furmort
Tessie Purmort
Barbara Stanley ‘Thorndike
Sirs. Thorndike
Barbara
Purmort
Ellsworth Meyer
Hawaii
Louis E. Purmort
Barbara Jean Thorndike
Khrushchev Offers West Berlin Access Deal At Nuclear Era Talks
Khrushchev proposed United Nations supervision of West Berlin with Western access guarantees as part of a plan to end the Cold War. He invited Eisenhower to visit the Soviet Union and urged a quick settlement, while Macmillan accepted an invitation to visit Russia with Lloyd and would stay seven to ten days. Dulles met Macmillan in London after talks on Berlin and German unification, with aims to reduce forces and set up a four‑power conference before May 27.
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Nikita Khrushchev
West Berlin
United Nations
Dulles
Khrushchev
Mgr. Dulles
Communist Party Congress
United States
Eisenhower
Soviet ‘Union
Eissenhower
Soviet Union
London
Harald Macmillan
Russia
Macmillan
Selwyn Lloyd
Paris
Lloyd
Washington
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Nikita
Germany
Dalles
Weather forecast: low clouds fog tonight then clear Friday
The outlook calls for low clouds and local fog tonight and early Friday with clearing and sunshine thereafter. Temperatures show little change, with a maximum around 65 degrees by noon today.
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