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Dtopapjer Repstf G? Killed In Congo Battle Leopadvllle, The Congo - (UPD - Scrlpps-Howara report er Henry N. Taylor, 32, was killed Instantly Sunday by a burst of machinegun fire while covering a battle be tween Congolese troops and Baluba tribesmen, th U. b embassy announced today Word of his death was held up by the embassy until his family could be informed. His father Is Henry J. Taylor, U. S. ambassador to Switzer land. Taylor was the first Ameri can reporter to be killed while covering tits turbulent Congo Ho was shot near the village of Tchelenge, 17 miles south- cast of Bakwanga, capital of the self-proclaimed independ ent "mining state. Taylor, who arrived here Aug. 31, left Saturday for Bakwanga to cover the fren zied jungle fighting between Premier Patrice Lumumba's Congolese army and the Ba- , luba tribesmen, most of them armed only with bows and ar rows. The shots presumably were fired by Lumumba's men since the tribesmen have no automatic weapons. A U.N. spokesman said death was Instantaneous, Filed Sieewtck Before hfs departure he left a dispatch with the United Press International to be filed today in case he did not have time to make the Monday editions. Neither the United Nations nor the embassy had full de tails of the death but officials said he was killed about noon on a road between Bakwanga and Tchelenge. Other corre spondents were reported with him at the tfme, including Henry Tanner of the New York Times and two French men. The death was announced by the State department in Washington. Department Press Officer Lincoln White said the depart ment was informed of Tay lor's death by the American embassy In Leopoldville, He said the young reporter's body has been removed to a United Nations hospital at Lulua bourg and that reports from there said burial would be heldoin Luluabourg Sept. 5 with American Protestant mis sionaries officiating. White said "news of Mr. Taylor's death has come as a shock to his host of friends in the department. He has long covered the Department of State for Scripps-Howard and was a member of the State Department Correspond ents' association." Walker Stone, editor in chief of Scripps-Howard news papers, commented that Tay lor "was one of the greatest reporters I ever worked with. His loss is seriously felt by all of his colleagues on Scripps-Howard newspapers." He was the only son of Ambassador and Mrs. Taylor, who reside In Bern, Switzer land. His father also was a noted journalist, economist, and author. Only last January, Taylnj had received one of the two 1959 Ernie Pyle Memorial Awards, established in honor of the Scripps-Howard colum nist and war correspondent who was killed by a Japanese sniper during World War II. Former Naval Officer A graduate of the Univer sity of Virginia, Taylor was a naval Intelligence officer from 1951 tu 1954. He Joined the Cincinnati Post, a Scripps- Howard newspaper, as a re porter In 1954. For the past three and a half years he was a member of the Scripps-Howard Wash ington and international staff. Among tile stories lie covered were the landing of American Marines in Lebanon in 1958, Fidel Castro's Cuban revolu tion, Soviet Premier Nlkita Khrushchev's tour of the United States last year and President Elsenhower's recent tour of the Far East. He went from the Orient to Russia, where he covered the Moscow espionage trial of American U2 pilot Francis Powers. He left there for the strife-torn Congo, his first as signment In central Africa. Scuff Militant n on 'fruit nylon velvet Bluebird tad dlt oxford with leather ud dlt, cushion crepe tola and white trim. No pollihini naadad brush 'am claan. In black, red, nylon velvet, or black, or gray sieve taath. Infants' alias 4 to Si 3.99. 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(UPI Telepholo) Kennedy Charges Nation's Economic Growth Stunted Detroit - (UPD - Democratic presidential contender John F. Kennedy charged today that the Eisenhower adminis tration has stunted the na tion's economic growth to the extent it has cost each four member family an average to tal of $7,000 since 1953. The Massachusetts senator said in a speech prepared for the traditional union-sponsored Labor Day rally in Cadil lac square that America's eco nomic "health is obviously down - and we had better call for a new doctor in Washing ton." Wayne county AFL-CIO leaders set a goal of 100,000 persons to pack the square for the rally, starting point for Democratic presidential cam palgns since Harry S. Truman started the custom in 1948. Kennedy jumped the gun this year, launching an 18-day 17 stale tour Friday in New Eng land and appearing this week end in California and Alaska. An admiringly riotous crovd estimated by state po lice at 5,000 persons greeted Kennedy at Metropolitan Air port when his chartered jet liner landed Sunday night af ter a flight of almost six hours from Anchorage, Alas ka. Tonight Kennedy will fly to Pocatello, Idaho, and Tues day he will head on to Spo kane and Seattle, Wash. In his speech prepared for delivery at today's rally, Ken nedy emphasized problems of economic growth. He insisted that "under Republican lead ership we have not been growing." "With a really healthy rate of growth," he said, "each family of four would have received, on the average, an additional $1,800 every year between 1953 and 1959 - a total of more than $7,000." Kennedy described this sum as "$7,000 you could have had for a rainy day, or to finance a college education, or to take a trip, or help buy a house -$7,000 that these restrictive policies have kept out of your pocket." The Democrmlc standard bearer said, "Economic growth is not simply a cold, remote statistic. It is not enough to merely talk about." Medford Tribune Noon Edition Page 7 Kennedy Selects Farm Group Head Washington-UIPD-Alfred (Al) Johnson, South Dakota farm er, has been named by Demo cratic presidential candidate John F. Kennedy to head a seven-state "Farmers for Kennedy-Johnson" campaign com mittee. Johnson will work as a re gional director in setting up farm campaign groups in Min nesota, North Dakota, South Dakota, Montana, Wyoming, Wisconsin and Nebraska. In a statement issued by his campaign headquarters here, Kennedy said he was "very pleased that a farm leader with Mr. Johnson's experi ence in midwestern farm pro grams and his close familiar ity with the problems of work ing farmers has agreed to ac cept this campaign assignment in this group of vitally im portant agricultural states." Johnson, a native South Da kotan who farms 640 acres near Groton, resigned his post The Palais de la Defense in Paris is the world's larg est exhibition hall. It would cover about 14 blocks of a metropolitan American city. with the Farmers Union Grain Terminal association of St. Paul, Minn., to join the Ken nedy campaign forces. Marilyn Monroe Returns to Work Hollywood - IUPII - Actress Marilyn Monroe returns to work today following a week's rest from exhaustion. The blonde actress was re leased from Westside hospital Sunday night by Dr. Hyman Engleberg so she could spend an evening with her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, be fore returning to Reno. She was filming "The Mis fits" on the desert near the Nevada city when she became ill. She was admitted to the hospital Aug. 29. Earlier Sunday attendants said the actress probably would be released today, but Engleberg permitted her to go home early. 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