Adenauer Arrives in United States for Eisenhower Talks
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrives aboard the United States to begin a 13 day visit for talks with President Eisenhower and U S officials. He praises American generosity and discusses European unity and the Soviet peace drive's impact. James B. Conant accompanies him as U S high commissioner for Germany.
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New York
Konrad Adenauer
America
Germany
Adenauer
United States
Eisenhower
Resume Debate In Oil Dispute In Senate
The Senate planned to resume debate on a bill to grant state title to submerged lands off coastlines after a three day Easter weekend. The lands, rich in oil, were adjudicated by Supreme Court rulings favoring federal rights. California Texas and Louisiana are the main states involved. The House passed a similar measure and Eisenhower signaled support. a Senate vote was not expected before next week.
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Washington
Senate
Supreme Court
California
Texas
Louisiana
House
Eisenhower
Missing Plane Found Near Elkins West Virginia
Wreckage of an Air Force training plane missing with its pilot since March 27 from Wright Patterson AFB near Dayton was located late Saturday in rugged mountains about 35 miles from Elkins. Ground crew reached the site several hours later.
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Elkins
W. Va
Air Force
Wright- Patterson Air Force Base
Dayton
Munitions Blast Kills 45 Workers in Formosa
An ammunition dump five miles south of Tripeh Formosa exploded with a震quake like jolt killing 43 workers and injuring about 500 as a 12 man team attempted to remove TNT from World War I Japanese aerial bombs. Police arrested the dump foreman.
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Tripeh
Formosa
Here
Testers Trigger 4th Atomic Blast Near Las Vegas
LAS VEGAS NEVAD AEC reports the fourth in a series of nuclear tests conducted at the proving ground near Las Vegas. The daylight blast at 10 30 a m EST flashed northwest and formed a large white cloud despite a ground haze. Observers saw planes in the air and noted the plume rose high in the atmosphere.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Proving Ground
Here
Ohio Mishaps Toll Rises Over Easter Weekend
Thirteen people died in Ohio traffic accidents during Easter weekend with six pedestrians among the victims. A fire claimed one life. Notable fatalities include Clarence Sneed Jr. two, struck while his mother bought an Easter chick in Columbus. Frank Angerman fifty nine, struck after stepping from a safety zone in Lima. and David Lutkehaus five, crushed under a bus in Hamilton.
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Ohio
Clarence Sneed Jr
Frank Angerman
Lima
David Lutkehaus
Hamilton
Probers Gather 54 Educators Refusing to Name Communist Ties
Congressional investigators report 54 educators and former educators refused to answer questions about possible Communist links. Of those, 29 were fired or suspended. Harvard University students also declined to respond. Names span East Coast colleges and public and private schools including Harvard, Columbia, Rutgers, New York University, Temple, Ohio State, Howard, Oklahoma, and several city colleges. All invoked the Fifth Amendment.
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Harvard University
East
New York City
Harvard
Boston
Columbia
Rutgers
New York
Temple
Ohio State
Howard
Oklahoma
Brooklyn
Queens
City
Hunter Colleges
Red officials blamed for fake murder plot in Soviet doctors case
Pravda accuses deputy minister Ryumin of faking evidence to frame 15 doctors in a covert plot against Soviet leaders. Ex-minister Ignatiev and a medical commission are faulted for gullibility and errors as doctors are freed amid a suspected Kremlin purge.
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Pravda Today
Communist Party
Ryumin
Ignatiev
Internal Affairs Ministry
L. P. Beria
Pravda
Semyon Ignatiev
Central Committee
Kremlin
Andrei A. Zhdanov
Alexander Shcherbakov
Ministry of State Security
Levy Mikhoels
Mikhoels
UN Nine Point Plan Aims Rapid Prisoner Exchange War Korea
UN liaison officers report progress in first Panmunjom talks with North Korea Reds on a nine point plan for sick and wounded prisoner exchange. Key terms include starting within seven days, daily199 prisoners sent, safe convoys, and a defined termination date once agreement is reached.
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Wnil
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Panmunjom
J. C. Daniel
Willard B. Carlock
USA
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Threat letters traced to suspect in Eisenhower case
Harrisburg reports Secret Service and postal inspectors seek Albert J. Drevney, a 35 year old former hospital patient, in connection with threats against President Eisenhower and Harrisburg postmaster Leo A. Werner. Handwriting on a page and a half letter led officials to trace the writer to Lancaster where Drevney was seen. A Secret Service agent says Drevney has a long history of writing threatening letters that rarely amount to action.
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Harrisburg
Eisenhower
Leo A. Werner
Werner
Albert J. Drevney
Washington State Hospital
Lancaster
Drevney
Secret Service
Enid
Youth Confesses Sharp-Object Incident at Vets Club
In EAST LIVERPOOL a 19-year-old Beaver Falls resident, Alvin Brooks, admitted fatally injuring another man with a sharp object at the Veterans Club after a confrontation with his wife present. Police Chief John Russell quoted John Collins Jr. on finding his wife and Brooks in a booth. Brooks was believed to threaten a public safety item.
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East Liverpool
Beaver Falls
John Russell
John Collins Jr
Alvin Brooks
Negro Veterans Serial Club
Collins
Brooks
Russell
63 Year Spat Ends With Faster Wedding
An 89 year-old minister and his 90 year-old former sweetheart married on Easter Sunday at First Baptist Church to reconcile a quarrel that broke their engagement 63 years ago. The Rev. Osgood Colegrove and Isabel Jacobs exchanged vows at the altar marking a happy ending to a long dispute.
Ike Aides Testify On Pact Curb Controversy
Secretary of State Dulles testifies before a Senate judiciary subcommittee on a proposed constitutional amendment to curb treaty making. President Eisenhower argues the measure would limit foreign policy flexibility. Clarence Mannion, former Notre Dame Law School dean, is first witness as hearings proceed with Brower, a Defense Department official, and Harold Stassen to testify.
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Washington
Dulles
Senate Judiciary
Eisenhower
Clarence Mannion
Notre Dame University Law School
Gen
Brownerlig
Defense Department
Mutual Security
Harold E. Stassen
Sen
Bricker
Ohio
Union Denies Strike Break At Jet Plant
Hundreds of UAW CIO and IAM AFL workers at General Electric’s Evendale jet engine plant returned to work after three weeks of strike action. FE C Foster said workers are producing parts and jet engines including J-47 models for F-4 6 Sabrejets and B-47 bombers. Albert Busch of Local 647 CIO denied a break in the strike, while GE advertised that thousands remain at defense orders.
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Cincinnati
Uaw-Cio
International Association of Machinists
AFL
General Electric
Evendale
FE. C. Foster
Armed Services
Albert Busch
CIO
United Auto Workers
Busch
Mother Held In Drownings In Gastonia
Irene Hullett, 26, confesses to pushing her three daughters aged under four into a quarry near Gastonia North Carolina. The bodies were recovered after she led officers to the location following a quarrel with her husband Eugene, 27, a textile worker.
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Here
Irene Hullett
Ake
Gallia County Fatal Crash Kills Chauncey Johnson Jr
Chauncey Johnson Jr of Gallipolis was killed early Sunday when a car left Route 7 near the Silver Bridge, struck a sign post, and ran over him. Driver John Robert Gordon suffered a fractured arm and bruises. Johnson’s death marked Gallia County’s first fatal highway accident of 1953.
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Chauncey Johnson, Jr
Silver Bridge
Gallia County
John Robert Gordon
Holzer Hospital
State Highway Patrol
Johnson
Gordon
Point Pleasant
Chauncey Johnson Sr
Ike nominates Flemming to lead defense mobilization
President Eisenhower named Arthur S. Flemming to be director of defense mobilization and to head the Office of Defense Mobilization. Flemming, president of Ohio Wesleyan University, is currently acting director and denial of ties to a broader ODM reorganization plan was noted. The president also sent Senate nominations for James P. Mitchell and John Stezak as assistant secretaries of the Army.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Arthur S. Flemming
Flemming
Senate
James P. Mitchell
West Field
John Stezak
Sycamore
Army
Ohio Wesleyan University
White House
Congress
Mother and Four Children Die in Oil Stove Blast
Uniontown Pa. five year old mother and four of her nine children died when an oil stove exploded in a duplex in Edinborn. Father Carter Johnson and a neighbor rescued five other children who sustained burns. He passed the five survivors out a window to a neighbor.
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Uniontown
Edinborn
Carter Johnson
Turnpike Financing Faces Legislative Hearings in Ohio
In Columbus the Ohio Turnpike Commission battles legal and bidding questions as lawmakers prepare hearings. Chief Justice Weygand orders justification for highway bids while the Senate Finance Committee plans a Tuesday session on Sen. Fred W. Danner’s push to probe turnpike financing. The 326 million dollar project spans 441 miles and has weathered Supreme Court challenges. A court order forced alternate bids on asphalt and cement. bids for cement-only paving were canceled with potential extra costs if asphalt bids proceed. House Public Affairs Committee opens hearings on a Republican weight tax on heavy trucks.
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C.—P
Ohio Turnpike Commission
Carl V. Weygand
Ohio Supreme Court
Senate Finance Committee
Fred W. Danner
R-Summit
Senate
House
Turnpike Commission
Ohio
Supreme Court
Commission
Turnpike
House Public Affairs Comee
Officer Draws Hidden Pistol as Slavs Gunmen Die
In hot snow near Hot Sulphur Springs Colorado Sheriff Chauncey Van Pelt confronted two gunmen who kidnapped him and tried to flee in his commandeered car. He drew a hidden pistol during a fatal exchange after their vehicle slid into a ditch five miles east of town. The men, sought for murder in Oklahoma, were slain in the gun battle.
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Colo
Oklahoma
Texas
Chauncey van Pelt
Denver
van Pelt
Medicine Bow
Wyo
Police Hunt 6 fugitives in Miami jail escape
A state wide manhunt is under way for six fugitives from Dade County's skyscraper jail in Miami. Among the escapees are Joseph Albert and William Chapman, both life sentence killers who shot Dr Clifton Springmyer during an attempted clinic robbery. Seven prisoners took control of an elevator and beat a jailer during the breakout. One fugitive was recaptured shortly after.
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Miami
Fla
Dade County
Joseph Albert
William Chapman
Clifton Springmyer
Auto Bus Collision Near Mansfield Claims Two Lives
An auto and a Greyhound bus collided head-on just north of Mansfield on U S 42. Two men in the car died, the auto driver is critically injured, and 13 bus passengers were treated for minor injuries. John M. Konkel, 49, of Cleveland, is in critical condition at Mansfield General Hospital.
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Mansfield
U. S
Cleveland
Mansfield General Hospital
John M. Konkel
Eden cancels trip for medical reasons in London
Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden has canceled his planned departure to Southern Europe and the Balkans due to a gas bladder condition and is expected to undergo an operation within the next three or four days.
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London
Anthony Eden
Europe
Balkans
Yanks Rout Reds Near Truce Site
U S Marines battled 175 Chinese near Panmunjom as UN and Allied officers opened talks on prisoner exchanges. Marines called in tanks and artillery after a Red company faced heavy fire, leaving about 19 dead and many wounded. Other fronts saw mixed combat and air strikes as weather limited air operations.
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Seoul
Fifth Air Force
T-Bone Hill
FBI seizes suspects in nine paintings theft
FBI said further arrests are probable in the Chicago case where nine religious paintings valued highly were stolen from St Joseph’s Cathedral in Bardstown Kentucky on November 12. Sixteen suspects linked to the plunder include seven already nabbed and nine arrests in Chicago Ohio and Pennsylvania. The works include pieces attributed to masters such as Murillo Rubens and van Eyck.
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Chicago
FBI
Ohio
8. Joseph's Precathedral
Bardstown
Ay Muril
Vin Xin
Rubens
St. Bawstholomew
Ven Eyck
Taft Backers Rally for Hall as RNC Chair
Two more Republican lawmakers aligned with Sen. Robert Taft voiced support for Leonard W. Hall in the race to lead the Republican National Committee. Sen. Ferguson of Michigan and Rep. Reece of Tennessee joined the public backing amid preparations for Friday’s meeting to select a successor to C. Wesley Roberts.
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Washington
Congress
Robert Taft
Leonard W.W. Hall
Republian
Ferguenon
R- Mich
Rep
Reece
R-Tenn
C. Wesley Roberts
House
Nasway
Eisenhower
Before Soldier Among Six Victims of Crash
Princeton West Virginia state troopers reported six dying in a Sunday automobile collision on a curve near Princeton. Four were service members on Easter furlough. three others were seriously injured. One car struck another on the curve five miles east of town. Victims include F. Tulle.
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W. Va
Tro
P. Multine
Here
I F. Tulle
Group Claims Part of Press Unfair to Senator McCarthy
A 28-member group including writers actors and others accuse newspapers and TV stations of bias against Senator Joseph McCarthy in a letter to editors of 700 papers. They say reviews of his book McCarthyism the Fight for America were scant and defend its candor while criticizing Owen Lattimore's Ordeal by Sjander as biased. The note lists notable signees such as Edward Bond Wil liam Buckley Oliver Carlson Joan Chamberlin John Chapple Frank Chodorev Charlies Coburn Adolph Menjou Kenneth Colegrove Frank Conniff George Hanighen Rupert Murdoch and Fulton Lewis Jr.
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Joseph McCarthy
America
Owen Lattimore
Siander
McCarthy
Jonn Hipkins Guiven
Wward Bond
Wilam F. Buckley
Oliver Carlson
Joan Chamberiina
John B Chapple
Ashland
Wis
Frank Chodorev
Charlies Coburn
Adolph Menjou
Kenneth Colegrove
Northwestern University
Frank Conniff
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