Mobutu clamped down on Lumumba supporters in Leopoldville
In Leopoldville the Congo strongman Col Joseph Mobutu ringed Lumumba’s residence with about 200 soldiers after Lumumba’s prodding crowds gathered. A scuffle occurred as soldiers forced back supporters, one shot fired in the air, ten detained, and Lumumba declared he remained master from his balcony.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Joseph Mobutu
Patrice Lumumba
Mobutu
Lumumba
Mobutu Ordered the Troop Strength Rn Oy Lumumba
Veneaters
Odds favor Nixon in presidential race unchanged
Wire dispatches note Nixon remains a 7-5 favorite over Kennedy after the second TV debate. Other items report Loehring’s drowning in Congo, Typhoon Kit hitting the Philippines and China Sea, Florida Governor Collins elected NAB president, flying car design by Soviet engineer Dmitriy Petko, Pope John XXIII memorial for Pius XII, Southern Rhodesian mobs riots, and Queen Elizabeth II seen with bruises in Perth.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Kennedy
Nixon
West Germany
Congo
Hans Juergen Loehring
Congo River
Kit
South China Sea
Hainan
Philippines
Leroy Collins
Florida
National Association of Broadcasters
London
Dmitriy Petko
Pope John XXIII
Vatican
Pope Pius XII
Southern
Rhodesia
Six Die In State Traffic Mishaps
A West Virginia weekend toll from highway crashes reports six fatalities. Names and ages include Willard Threadman 26 of South Point Ohio in a car bus collision nine miles north of Charleston on West Virginia 4 Eugene Thomas 18 of Henderson thrown from his car on U S 35 near Point Pleasant Mary Ruth Wright 34 of Charleston riding in a car that hit a parked vehicle in Charleston Edward Lee Western 24 of Wardensville thrown from a car that failed to negotiate a turn on West Virginia 55 near Wardensville James R Franklin 29 of Big Sandy crushed beneath his car after it went down a mountainside near Davy in McDowell County Alban L McClung 35 of Leslie Greenbrier County in a car that plunged off U S 60 on Sewell Mountain and hit a tree.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Willard Threadman
South Point
Ohio
Charleston
W. Va
Eugene Thomas
Henderson
U.S
Point Pleasant
Mary Ruth Wright
Edward Lee Western
Wardensville
James R. Franklin
Big Sandy
Davy
McDowell County
Alban L. McClung
Leslie
Greenbrier County
U. S. 60
Sewell Mountain
West Virginia Weather: mild extended outlook
West Virginia forecasts call for a fair night with lows 45 to 50 in mountains and 50 to 55 elsewhere. Tuesday brings mostly sunny, warm conditions, with a broad midweek warm trend and little to no rain. River gauges show Greenbrier and Lake conditions normal and clear. New gauge at 1.7 ft.
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W. Va
Beckley
Greenbrier
Nonstrikers Allow Plant Access at GE in Schenectady
In Schenectady on November 4, the International Union of Electrical Workers allowed nonstrikers to enter the General Electric Co plant for the first time since last Thursday. John Shambo, president of Local 301, said the executive board voted to ease entry to salaried workers to avoid unfairness, noting salaried staff were entering struck GE plants elsewhere. The local asserted it could close the plant, GE headquarters, if needed.
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Schenectady
International Union of Electrical Workers
General Electrical Co
Pickels
John Shambo
Shambo
Pickets Target GE River Works as Nails Threaten Access
In Lynn Massachusetts General Electric workers crossing picket lines faced sabotage with roofing nails scattered across streets near River Works plant. Over 2000 tires were punctured last week while a magnetic sweeper was used to clear nails. Plant entrances were slicked with tar and aluminum nails blocked entry, prompting closure of two gates and sand spread at a third.
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Lynn
Mass
General Electric Co
Struck River Works
Pickets Deployed as GE Strike Enters Second Week
About 3,500 pickets on duty nationwide as New York and Syracuse report no violence this morning. In Syracuse several strikers blocked GE Electronics Park gates by driving cars inside the facility, locking vehicles and leaving.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Electronics Park
Kanawha Jail Escapees Caught After Sleepy Capture
Charleston police nabbed two ex-convicts Millard Bonnette 26 of Nitro and Gilbert Bailey 23 of Charleston who fled City Jail last Friday before a court hearing. They were found asleep in an abandoned Putnam County house. Earlier, a girl and two men claimed they would deliver clothes to Bonnette and Bailey. Bonnette and Bailey were later arrested at Stonewall Jackson High School for allegedly trying to break open a safe. Detectives said they admitted a pattern of burglaries including supermarkets, businesses, and schools.
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Charleston
Millard Bonnette
Nitro
Gilbert ‘Bailey
Putnam County
W. Va
Bonnette
Bailey
Stonewall Jackson High School
Adrian McGinnis
Khrushchev portrays peaceful grandfather in TV Q A
John Scali reports Khrushchev presented a folksy image during a two hour televised radio Q and A. He denied threats and suggested the U2 spats would fade ahead of a summit with the next U S president.
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John Scali
Khrushchev
U.S
New York
Nikita Khrushchev
U. S
Khrushchev Seeks Peace But Presses Berlin Demands
Khrushchev, visiting the United Nations delegation, framed the West as obstructing friendship and peace while pressing Berlin withdrawal and a revamped U N accord. He warned of shooting down spy planes and noted hopes for improved relations despite sharp U2 tensions. He spoke on Open End with Susskind after a Glen Cove weekend stay, planning to return to Moscow by jet.
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United Nations
Berlin
U.N
Moscow
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
David Susskind
Wnta-Tv
Australian Broadcasting Commission
Canadian Broadcasting Co
British Broadcasting Corp
Victor Sukhadrev
Susskind
Glen Cove
Long Island
Kennedy Praises FDR Opens Doors To The Negro In Georgia
In Warm Springs Georgia at the Little White House JFK lauds Franklin D Roosevelt for opening new doors to the Negro and unites the audience behind a banner of equal opportunity while avoiding detailed civil rights policy. Nixon seeks hard South gains as Kennedy defends his stance.
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Warm Springs
John F. Kennedy
Deep South
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Little White House
Roosevelt
Vice Presi
Nixon
Kennedy
South
North
Nixon Plans Western Swing in Final Campaign Sprint
Vice President Richard M. Nixon launches a four week push in Billings and Denver aiming to close the presidential race against Senator John F. Kennedy. Nixon will speak at 7 40 a m Billings time then in Salt Lake City, with Mrs Nixon joining in Denver. A Reuters report notes Nixon's aides say the race remains undecided and he expects to win in the final stretch.
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Billings
Mont
Richard M. Nixon
John F. Ken Nixon
Denver
Salt Lake City
Mormon Tabernacle
Nixon
Washington, D. C
Kennedy
Herbert G. Klein
Klein
California
Electronic walker for paraplegics seen by surgeon
Dr. Adrian Kantrowitz and Dr. Rene Khafif report a portable electronic system can stimulate leg muscles to produce walking motion in sacrificed muscles of anesthetized dogs. The device, using magnetic tape controlled signals, could take about three years and $600000 more to test on patients.
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Rennie Taylor
Associated Press
SAN Francisco
Adrian Kantrowitz
Brooklyn
N. Y
American College of Surgeons
United States
Kantrowitz
Rene Khafif
Montgomery forced to retreat from Isington Mill estate
Field Marshal Montgomery admits being outflanked after floods inundated his Isington Mill home in Alton England. Torrential rain swamped the garden and river Wey rose, prompting a strategic withdrawal as water flooded the hall and shelves. Fire brigade pumps aided the battle against the floodwaters.
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Alton
England
Viscount Montgomery
Isington Mill
Montgomery
Wey
Monty
Alamein
Witty remark on American women age charm in ridicule
Sherwood Glutz quips that American women are superior to Eskimo women, claiming a quoted explorer called an Eskimo woman old at forty. He asserts no American woman is old at forty, joking that she isn’t even forty.
Randolph Accuses Governor of Hoax
Senator Jen nings Randolph accuses opponent for U S Senate of perpetrating a hoax in a Charleston speech. He says the governor misstates Congress and the veto, praising President Eisenhower for signing measures that would aid West Virginia and criticizing veto power as undermining the will of the majority and harming the state and nation.
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Charleston
Jennings Randolph
U. S. Senate
Per Underwood
Randolph
West Virginia
Congress
Eisenhower
America
Autonomy Debate Flares at UMW Convention
Cincinnati AP reports the United Mine Workers faces a potential split over autonomy for six locals as 2,500 delegates resume a four year convention. Locals seek self government while officers are appointed. Labor Secretary Mitchell to speak. John L Lewis presence noted as emeritus. Kennedy and other officers renominated.
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Cincinnati
United Mine Workers Union
James P. Mitchell
UMW
John L. Lewis
Lewis
Union Welfare and Retirement Fund
Toure backs Soviet critique of UN and calls reform
United Nations report says President Sekou Toure of Guinea supported Soviet attacks on the UN peacekeeping system and urged restructuring for Asia and Africa. Premier Khrushchev and a full Soviet delegation attended and applauded Toure at the General Assembly.
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United Nations, N. Y
Sekou Toure
Guinea
U. N
World Organization
Asia
Africa
Khrushchev
U. N. General Assembly
Castro cites U S arms in Cuba as militiamen crush revolt
Fidel Castro is expected to denounce Washington in a session closing address after the Armed Forces Ministry reported that volunteer militiamen and army regulars crushed an anti-Castro force in the Escambray Mountains. A military tribunal will try 127 captured insurgents. three rebels were killed and four wounded, with government losses of one officer and two militiamen dead.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
United States
Washington
Castro
Armed Forces Ministry
Escambray
Cuba
Fulgencio Batista
Girl 5 Critical Delinquent Boy Admits Assault
In Philadelphia a 14 year old said he felt a shock as he stabbed a 5 year old girl with a knife while she screamed and fought his molestation attempt. Sally Ann Hayard remained in critical condition after a five hour operation, with chest and abdomen wounds and facial slashes. Leo Reilly Jr was charged with assault with intent to rape kill and ravish and aggravated assault by knife. Detected led to him after the girl vanished from a housing project playground.
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Philadelphia
Sally Ann Hayard
Leo Reilly Jr
Sally Ann
Reilly
Sally
Doris Hayward
Francis Knoll
Kidnap Slay Suspect Arrested Seized On Warrant
Colombo police arrested Hungarian-born Stephen Leslie Bradley on a warrant charging him with the kidnap murder of Graeme Thorne eight year old Sydney boy. Bradley was detained on the British liner Himalaya and will face extradition to Australia. Thorne vanished July 7 on his way to school after his father won 100000 pounds in a lottery. A ransom demand for 56000 was issued the same day but not paid. The boy’s battered body was found August 26.
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Colombo
Ceylon
Stephen Leslie Bradley
Graeme Thorne
Sydney
Australia
Bradley
Himalaya
Pig Operator Faded Charged With Gambling Resort
New Jersey state police raided a pig farm in Williamstown and charged proprietor Floyd Merline with maintaining a gambling resort. Eight participants in a dice game faced disorderly conduct charges, and Merline’s brother Gabriel Merline of Egg Harbor was booked on a gaming charge.
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Williamstown
N. J
New Jersey
Floyd Merline
Merline
Gabriel
Egg Harbor
Rehearing Denied On Submerged Gulf Lands Claim
Washington AP reports the Supreme Court denied Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama a rehearing on their claim to 10 percent of submerged oil lands in the Gulf of Mexico. Chief Justice Warren and Justice Clark did not participate in today’s action. They have not taken part in any submerged lands litigation.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Gulf of Mexico
Warren
Clark
Jobs and jobless fall in September with classroom return
In September both employment and unemployment declined as seasonal factors and school reopenings reduced total jobs. Employment fell from 68,282,000 to 67,767,000, a 515,000 drop, while unemployment declined but remained high at 5.7 percent of the labor force.
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Washington
Seymour Wolfbein
Labor Department
York sees new war ahead and UN praised
Pall Mall Tennessee AP. Alvin C York, 72 and partly paralyzed, accepted homage for World War I exploits and warned of World War III. He praised the United Nations as Khrushchev was “snowed under.” York received an electric bed device as Martin B. McKneally presented it, noting York’s heroism at Argonne where he killed 25 and captured 132.
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Pall Mall
Tenn
Alvin C. York
United Nations
Khrushchev
York
Argonne Forest
Martin B. McKneally
American Legion
America
Cumberland Plateau
Fair Posts False Swearing Bond
Charleston AP State Police Supt Hazen Fair posted 500 bond for later appearance to answer an indictment for false swearing. He appeared with attorney D Boone Dawson before Judge William J Thompson and was ordered to plead Oct 21. The misdemeanor charge stems from his denial to a grand jury about a restitution arrangement involving a woman employed by the Motor Vehicles Department to avoid publicity.
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Charleston
Hazen Fair
Fair
D. Boone Dawson
William J. Thompson
Kanawha County
Grand Jury
Motor Vehicles Department
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