Wiley Raps Lawmakers' Loose Talk
Sen. Wiley of Wisconsin criticizes fellow lawmakers for grandiose talk on foreign policy and urges restrained speech. He praises Sen. Taft as loyal to the Eisenhower team, denies personal quarrels, and warns against going alone in Korea while urging careful consideration of global reactions beyond back home applause.
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Washington
Sen
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Korea
Taft
Ohio
Senate
U.S
United Nations
Far East
Eisenhower
Capitol
Congress
Pocono
Reds Repulse Allied Counterattacks on Hill Positions
Seoul reports fierce hand to hand fighting as four ROK divisions clash with Chinese and North Korean troops on Finger Ridge Bloody Ridge Luke the Gook Castle and Anchor Hill. Allied counterattacks were repulsed leaving Reds holding key outposts and UN forces on the defensive.
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Seoul
Luke the Gook’s Castle
Anchor Hill
Luke's Castle
Anchor Ridge
Finger Ridge
Defense Dept Rosters Cut Amid Broad Federal Job Drops
Senator Byrd reported April reductions in civilian staffing across the government. The Defense Department cut 22,418 employees while overall federal payroll fell by 24,029, the largest month drop since the Korean War began. Net government workers stood at 2,502,790.
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Washington
Defense Department
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Joint Committee
Comare State
Treasury
Welare
Nevada sees record atomic blast in pre-dawn test
In Nevada at Yucca Flat the biggest U S atomic detonation to date lit the sky for over two minutes and produced a 50 kiloton to 70 kiloton fireball. The blast at 6 15 a m EST was seen as far as San Francisco and Los Angeles though shock was not felt in Las Vegas. Observers note flames and fires in Yucca Flat area with no structures harmed.
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Las Vegas
Nev
United States
Nevada Proving Ground
Atomic Energy Commission
Yucca Flat
Pacific Proving Grounds
Eniwetok
AEC
Mt. Charleston
Nevada
Ike To Shift News Confabs
The White House announced schedule changes for President Eisenhower. Weekly news conferences move from Thursday to Wednesday, with the National Security Council session to be held on Thursday. A Friday council meeting and Friday cabinet session lead to no conference this week.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
National Security Council
Youth Gets Free Trip To Visit Ailing Father
John Martin Jr., 17, of Zanesville, heads to Frankfurt Germany to visit his ailing soldier father. The Muskingum County American Red Cross chapter provided travel funds and the Air Force offered free transportation after the father suffered a brain hemorrhage last week.
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Zanesville, D
John Martin, Jr
Zanesville
Frankfort
Germany
Muskingum County
American Red Cross
Air Force
Martin
Knife Victim Found in Midland Cellar After Knife Wounds
The body of Adolph Dobrak, 71, was found Wednesday in the cellar of his Midland home with seven knife wounds to the head and a collapsed left chest. A bloody butcher knife lay nearby. Police questioned three men about the death.
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East Liverpool
Adolph Dobrak
Midland
Logan Phone Company Seeks Rate Increases
The Logan Home Telephone Co. applied to the state utilities commission for rate hikes across its Logan Bre men Zaleski McArthur and Wilkesville exchanges. The proposed increases would yield $57,709 annually, about 5.92 percent return on investment. A hearing is set for June 18.
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Columbus
Logan Home Telephone Co
State Utilities Commission
Logan
Bremen
Zaleski
McArthur
Wilkesville
Senate vows fight to restore Air Force funds
Sen. Maybank pledges a major Senate battle to restore up to five billion dollars cut from Air Force funds. He says efforts will aim to return the 143 wing program promptly. Gen. Vandenberg warns the cutback heightens national security risk and says the Air Force did not approve it.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
Maybank
D-Nc
Eisenhower
Hoyt S. Vandenberg
Vandenberg
Air Force
Two Wounded By Policeman In Cincinnati Shootout
In Cincinnati a police shooting wounded two people as a fleeing man was hit by a bullet. Charles Collins 31 was struck in the abdomen and Clara Belle Glenn 32 was hit in the left arm, she had only a skin abrasion. Harold Hughes 24 was arrested on robbery charges after confessing he grabbed a purse from Nancy Goins 20 who ran to a nearby station for help.
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Cincinnati
Charles Collins
Clara Belle Glenn
Harold Hughes
Carl Wittmeyer
Hughes
Nancy Goins
Eisenhower to TV audience: no appeasement of communism
President Eisenhower opened a groundbreaking family circle telecast promising no appeasement of communism and no risk of general war while defending air power and national strength. He showcased a TV presidential panel with aides, aiming for a candid, instructional stance before about 50 million viewers.
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Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
National House
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry S. Truman
Adolf Hitler
Munich
George M. Humphrey
the Treasury
Oveta Culp Hobby
Health, Education and Welfare
Benson
Brownell
Cochran Sets New Records In Air Speed Feats
Jacqueline Cochran, 47, holds nearly all international air speed records for both sexes. She flew a Canadair F 86 Sabre at 670 mph over a 15 km course near Rogers Dry Lake, offset by wind. She previously set a 590.273 mph average for 500 km around a 12 lap course on May 23.
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Cochran
Three Miners Indicted in West Virginia Slaying
Clay County grand jury indicted Jennings R. Bail Dennis A. Graham and Clifford L. Pritchard on murder charges in the May 7 fatal shooting of 29 year old Charles Frame at a mine near Widen. 45 others were freed in the mass arrest.
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Clay
W. Va
Charles Frame
Widen
Clay County
Jennings R. Bail
Dennis A. Graham
Rockefeller grants Bobo Rockefeler trust fund amid family split
Winthrop Rockefeller provides Barbara Bobo Rockefeller a one million dollar trust to fund her and their son’s future, offering twenty thousand dollars yearly tax free and seeking rights to share companionship of their child. Barbara notes visitation rights exist though not used and hopes to establish a home near him. The couple married in 1948 and separated after their son’s birth in 1948.
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New York
Winthrop Rockefeller
Cinderella
Barbara
Bobo) Rockefeler
Rockefeller
Bobo
Lowell
Ind
Winthrop Paul
Rockefeller Oil
Grunewald Fined for Contempt of Congress
Henry W. Grunewald, 61, Washington mystery man, is fined 1000 dollars and given a suspended 90 day jail term for contempt of Congress by U.S. District Judge Alexander Holtzoff. He is placed on probation for one year. The judge cited a bad ad from his former attorney as a mitigating factor and noted counsel advised him not to answer.
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Washington
Henry W. Grunewald
Congress
U.S
Alexander Holtzoff
Grunewald
House
Ways and Means
William Power Maloney
Holtzoff
Meigs County theft suspect seized before West Virginia ferry
A 19 year old Meigs County youth Harold Long of Long Bottom was arrested as he tried to flee to West Virginia on a Ravenswood ferry. He was identified as the armed robber who threatened a Kel Ray Night Club worker with a .22 rifle at 5 am and stole $11 plus club cash and liquor. Police blocked at the Pomeroy Mason Bridge after a car theft report and Long was captured as he boarded the ferry. The stolen car hailed from Spencer West Virginia, with another vehicle reportedly driven in Tuscarawas County. He is being questioned about additional thefts, including the Bentz pit auto.
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Route 7
Pomeroy
Long
Laudermilt
Meigs County
Jed Webster
Sheriff's Office
Spencer
W. Va
Tuscarawas
Buck
Columbia President condemns totalitarian group teachers
Columbia University President Grayson Kirk told 6000 graduates at commencement that any teacher who joins a totalitarian group has no right to remain on a college faculty. He stressed that no individual or group outside the university can dictate who shall teach or what shall be taught.
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New York
Grayson Kirk
Columbia University
Kirk
Columbia
Pirates Trade Kiner to Cubs in 10-Player Deal
The Pittsburgh Pirates sent slugger Ralph Kiner catcher Joe Garagiola pitcher Howe Pollet and players George Metkovitch and others to the Chicago Cubs for six players and cash. Pittsburgh acquired Bob Schultz Toby Atwell Gene Hermanski Preston Ward and Bob Addis with an option to buy George Freese later. The agreement, the NL’s largest this season, was announced by Wid Matthews and Branch Rickey.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Pirates
Ralph Kiner
Joe Garagiola
Howe Pollet
George Metkovitch
Chicago Cubs
Pirates
Bob Schultz
Toby Atwell
Gene Hermanski
Preston Ward
Bob Addis
George Freese
Springfield
Wid Mathews
Cubs
Branch Rickey
Liquor Dept Targets Bingo Pinball Machines in Bars
The state liquor department announced a campaign to remove bingo type pinball machines from licensed premises. Director Anthony Rutkowski said orders were issued to all licensees to remove the devices unless locally licensed. Gov Lausche had pressed for investigation of such machines on liquor licensed sites. Officials estimate up to five thousand machines statewide. They are not new but have been increasing recently.
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Columbus
State Liquor Department
Anthony Rutkowski
Frank J. Lausche
Liquor Department
Weygandt To Address Marietta's Graduates
Ohio Supreme Court Chief Justice Carl V. Weygandt will give the main address at Marietta College's 116th commencement on June 8. He will receive one of five honorary degrees, joining honorees C William O'Neill Ohio attorney general Alsaph H Corwin Johns Hopkins University Baltimore Vincent H Daniels Greenwich Conn and Thomas E Millsop Weirton Steel Co president.
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Marietta
Ohio Supreme Court
Carl V. Weygandt
Marietta College
Judge Weygandt
C. William O'Neill
Ohio
Alsaph H. Corwin
Johns Hopkins University
Baltimore
Vincent H. Daniels
Greenwich, Conn
Thomas E. Millsop
Weirton Steel Co
Communists Submit Counterproposal in Korea Truce Talks
In Panmunjom the Reds reportedly offered a lengthy counterproposal to Allied truce terms after a 73 minute secret session. The UN spokesman would not confirm details as Allies won a recess until Saturday, fueling speculation of a formal reply to U S and allied powers.
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U. S
Pickup Denied Legislator IIl Accused
A Columbus policewoman alleges state legislator James J. Barton tried to pick her up in the Statehouse yard and arrange a hotel meeting. Barton, a Cuyahoga County Republican, denies molestation charges and says they have the wrong man.
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Columbus
James J. Barton
Statehouse
Cuyahoga County
Margaret Stiver
Barton
Donald D. Cook
Ohio Solons Turn Loose Must Bills
Committees of the Ohio Legislature under Republican pressure began releasing must measures as the 100th session nears adjournment around July 1. The principal bill, an additions and betterments measure for state buildings, authorizes 38.63 million dollars, near Gov Lausche’s recommended total, with key revisions including cuts to a Sandusky Soldiers and Sailors Home hospital project and a Southeastern Ohio tuberculosis hospital funding.
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Columbus
Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
Ohio Soldiers and Sailors Home
Sandusky
Rocky Glen Sanitarium
Mexico Uncovers Russian Plot To Seize Powers
Mexico City report says police unearthed a detailed Russian plan to seize power in Latin America. The scheme allegedly aims to turn Mexico and neighboring countries into another Poland and Czechoslovakia with help from Mexican Communists and exiles.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Excelsior
Latin-America
Central
South America
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Latin America
Atomic fuel breeding announced at Arco reactor
The United States announced a breakthrough in atomic fuel breeding, claiming the reactor at Arco Idaho produced at least as much new fissionable material as was burned. Chairman Gordon Dean cited it as a milestone toward a civilian atomic power industry, while stressing economic practicality remains uncertain.
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Atlantic City
United States
Gordon Dean
Atomic Energy Commission
Edison Electric Institute
Dean
AEC
Arco
Ida
Armistice Near Between Communists and UN in Korea
Washington reports indicate the Communist and United Nations Commands are very close to reaching a Korean War armistice agreement. Talks are described as near finalization with potential concessions on key issues. Presence of U N representatives and communist negotiators remains active in ongoing discussions.
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Bulletin Washington
United Nations
North Korean prisoner exchange talks continue secrecy
Nam and allied delegates held a prolonged secret session as a South Korean boycott persisted. The Reds reportedly reject a UN final verdict while proposing a postarmistice conference to decide prisoners if the plan fails.
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Nam I
Red Sevine
U. N. General Assembly
US Korea war casualties rise to 135566 with Marine correction
Washington reported U S battle casualties in Korea reached 135562 on Wednesday, up 141 from last week. The gain was kept modest by a correction reducing Marine Corps totals by 36 records.
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Washington
U U. S
Korea
Marine Corps
Wild Streams Flood Villages in Northwest Montana
Heavy rains and raging streams forced residents from Tracy Niehart and Monarch near Great Falls Montana. Forecasters warned more downpours could inundate wider areas east of the Continental Divide as water levels surged after three days of intense precipitation.
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Mont
West Great Falls
Continental Divide
Montana
Tracy
Niehart
Monarch
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