Powers Faces Leniency Plea In Moscow Trial
The Soviet defense attorney urged leniency for U2 pilot Francis Gary Powers as the Moscow court, in its second day, heard Soviet experts attack his claim of acting under orders. Powers testified he regretted the May Day flight and did not foresee undermining the Paris summit, while the judge led questioning on plane markings and the mission's premeditated nature.
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London
Francis Gary Powers
Moscow
West Europe
U.S
Powers
Britain
Daily Telegraph
London Daily Mail
Daily Express
Europe
Copenhagen
Mikhail I. Grimov
Grimov
Union
Moscow Radio
Paris
United States
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Eisenhower
Victor Borisoglebsky
Yuri Tyufilin
Underwood Attacks Crime Commission Hearing
West Virginia Governor Underwood angrily interrupted a Crime Commission hearing in Charleston to denounce the panel as a tool of a Democratic campaign. With police officials at his side he claimed the commission relies on discredited officers and rumors to malign him and his administration. He labeled Basil Wright a liar after Wright testified that the governor boasted about taking $1500.
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Charleston
Underwood
West Virginia Crime Commission
Hazen H. Fair
Adj
William E. Blake
Greenbrier
J. P. May
Commission
del. J. C. Cruikshank
D-Clay
Commission Cochairman
Blake
Cruikshank
Department
Bomb blasts hit realtor home in third attack week
In Chattanooga Tennessee a white real estate salesman N Ross Walker and his wife and 11 month old daughter escaped injury when two explosions ripped the rear of their home and a carport. The blasts target a firm advertising houses for Negroes in mixed neighborhoods.
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Chattanooga, Tenn
N. Ross Walker
Walker
Murray Hills
Lake Chickamauga
Walker Works
Chattanooga
West Virginia Weather: Mild Change with Sunshine
The forecast calls for fair conditions with little temperature change today and tonight. Partly cloudy skies Friday with minimal shift. highs today range from 82 to 92 degrees.
Senate Wages Bill Faces Final Debate in Senate
The Senate wrestles with a Kennedy backed wage bill to raise the minimum wage from 1 to 1.25 per hour in three steps and extend coverage to about five million workers in retail, hotels, and restaurants. Debates focus on amendments trimming coverage and striking retail exemptions as votes and negotiations continue.
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John F. Kennedy
Massachusetts
Senate
Spessard L. Holland
D-Fla
Everett M. Dirksen
Illinois
Kennedy
Sen
A. S
Mike) Monroney
D-Okla
Monroney
Three Vehicle Turnpike Crash Injures Two
Early today a three vehicle collision on West Virginia Turnpike near Milepost 60 injured two men from out of state. Ernest Hicks Howard of Rhod hiss North Carolina drove a tractor trailer for Carolina Mirror Corp and was treated for rib injuries and facial cuts. Charles W. Gooding of Lewis Center Ohio sustained a left shoulder injury and cuts. The second tractor trailer from Rowe Trucking Co of Ohio followed behind. Damages were estimated at 5000 dollars. Howard and Gooding were treated at Beckley and Raleigh General Hospitals respectively. The accident remains under investigation.
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West Virginia
Ernest Hicks Howard
Charles W. Gooding
Lewis Center
Ohio
Rowe Trucking Co
Howard
Carolina Mirror Corp
Rhodhiss
N. C
Beckley Hospital
Gooding
Raleigh General Hospital
Turnpike
Highway Safety Warning By Sherwood Glutz
Sherwood Glutz warns that reckless driving on the highways is dangerous and could lead to injury or death. He urges safe driving to prevent harm, noting the risk of harm to others and the community if crashes continue.
Congo Crisis Tensions Escalate With UN Detachment Attack
Congolese soldiers assaulted members of a Canadian United Nations signal detachment at Leopoldville airport mistaking them for Belgians. The incident comes as Premier Patrice Lumumba renews threats to invade Katanga if the UN does not end the secession, and as Lumumba demands Hammarskjold bring Asian African observers to Congo. A Congo delegation heads to New York to plead the case at the Security Council. The US ambassador was blocked from meeting Lumumba, who later ignored him at an outdoor ceremony.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
United Nations
United States
Patrice Lumumba
Clare H. Timberlake
New York
United Nations Security Council
Luluabourg
Lumumba
Katanga
U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Security Council
New African Republic
Ghana
Soviet Union
Hammarskjold
Moise Tshombe
Seces
Boonville Rapist Held After Dismembered Girl Found
Emmett Hashfield, 53, a convicted rapist, is held without bail on first degree murder charges after the dismembered body of 11 year old Avril Terry was found. A crowd gathered outside the Warrick County Jail as police say Hashfield admitted dumping the body in a river and on a riverbank near Boonville Indiana. Hashfield reportedly met the girl when she helped pick up pennies and offered a ride before taking her to an abandoned strip mine and his home. The murder allegedly occurred in Hashfield's living room, with bloodstains found at the scene. He has prior convictions for rape, assault with intent to rape, and sodomy.
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Boonville
Ind
Avril
Honey) Terry
Emmett
Hashfield
Robert E. Shelton
Wendelin Opel
Shelton
Warrick County
Opel
Beckley Leads State Growth In 1960 Housing Units
Beckley's housing units rose 14 percent from 1950 to 1960, reaching 6 585 on April 1 1960. Dunbar posted the largest gain 57 percent from 2458 to 3852. Parkersburg 51 percent St Albans 49 percent and Weirton 27 percent also saw sizable increases.
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Beckley
Dunbar
Parkersburg
St. Albans
Weirton
Charleston
Beckley's
South Charleston
Moundsville
Fairmont
Huntington
Martinsburg
Morgantown
Wheeling
Bluefield
Clarksburg
Compromise Aid Measure Eyed in Congress
Washington Senate banking subcommittee invited Secretary of Commerce Frederick H. Mueller to assess chances for a compromise bill aiding chronically depressed areas. President Eisenhower vetoed past area redevelopment bills and a new counter proposal is pending in Congress. West Virginia would be among potential beneficiaries.
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Washington (C
Senate Banking
Commerce
Frederick H. Mueller
Eisenhower
Congress
West Virginia
Nixon Wins In Mock Election At Marshall College
In Huntington, Marshall College’s summer students voted 470 for Nixon and 386 for Kennedy in a mock presidential election conducted by the Parthenon. The 856 votes represented 58 percent of enrolled summer students.
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Huntington
Richard M. Nixon
Marshall College
John Kennedy
D-Mass
Parthenon, Marshall
Navy rebellion reported as Castro brothers tighten hold
Reports from Havana say Fidel and Raul Castro led a crackdown after interceptions of a dissident naval plot near Havana. About 300 officers were reportedly arrested amid rumors of a mutiny involving two of Cuba’s three modern frigates. Official silence and scattered denials followed, with authorities confirming arrests but denying major upheaval.
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Havana
Castro Brothers
Castro
Casa Blanca
Cuba
Armed Forces
Navy
Juan Castineira
Fidel Castro
Las Villas
Cienfuegos
Raul
Barron Visits Black Knight Country Club for Luncheon
Former Governor Okey Patterson and Democratic gubernatorial hopeful W. W. Barron joined Beckley leader N. Joe Rahall at a country club luncheon hosted by the Rahalls. Barron said the trip aimed to spark Democratic momentum and expressed cautious optimism about ousting the incumbents this fall.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Okey Patteson
W. W
Wally” Barron
Black Knight Country Club
N. Joe Rahall
Beckley
Governor cancels Baptist Convention appearance due to crime hearing
Governor Cecil Underwood canceled his planned address to the West Virginia State Baptist Convention at Hilltop today at 11 a.m. He sent a telegram to Rev. S. A. Abram Beckley explaining an emergency in Charleston requires his presence there and that he cannot appear at 11 a.m. or 1 p.m. as scheduled.
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Crime Commission
Cecil Underwood
Hilltop
S. A. Abram Beckley
Charleston
Unnamed Hancock County man talks to governor on misconduct claims
Wright testified after being summoned to the governor's office following remarks about officers being discharged. Underwood named four by name—Wright and three former captains W. W. Murphy C. L. Hawkins and C. L. Walker—as witnesses. Murphy remains an investigator for the Crime Commission. all four exited the department during Fair's tenure. Underwood cited despicable and immoral conduct.
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Hancock County
Wright
Underwood
W. W. Murphy
C. L. Hawkins
C. L. Walker
Hawkins
Walker
Murphy
Crime Commission
Department
Fair
World events and labor strikes fill the wire
Secretary of State Herter backs a Venezuelan push to condemn the Dominican Republic at the OAS in San Jose Costa Rica. Pennsylvania Railroad nonoperating employees from two unions prepare for a Sept. 1 strike over a rules dispute and wages. Air Force Captain Kittinger set a speed record during a parachute jump from 102 800 feet. Former VP John M. Chang named premier of South Korea's second republic. House to vote Friday. Soviet trade union claims U.S. Vatican help defectors amid Rome Olympics. Jacques Duclos warns U.S. reaction to Castro nationalization could invite Cuba clash. Oscar Hammerstein II described as very ill in Doylestown. Sergei Kudryavtsev returns to the Western Hemisphere as Soviet ambassador to Cuba. Milwaukee U S Attorney ordered to probe a private's wartime copper mine work. Laura Boone Cooke, descendant of Daniel Boone, dies in St. Louis at 86. Queen Elizabeth sails from Southampton as 1,150 nonoperating employees strike shuttle railroad amid wildcat activity.
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Christian A. Herter
United States
Dominican Republic
Organization of American States Foreign Ministers
San Jose
Costa Rica
Pennsylvania Railroad
Air Force
Joe Kittinger
John M. Chang
South Korea
House of Representatives
Pa Truct
Vatican
Rome
Jacques Duclos
France
Havana
Fidel Castro
U. S
Cuba
Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers
Doylestown
Sergei M. Kudryavtsev
Canada
Milwaukee
Wis
Michigan
Laura Boone Cooke
Daniel Boone
St. Louis
England
Southampton
New York
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Marshall
Castro Bros
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