De Gaulle Wins Narrow Victory as Premier in France
Gen. Charles De Gaulle won a 329 to 224 approval in the National Assembly to lead France for the next six months. He sought decree power for six months and rapid bills, and planned a possible trip to Algiers to restore order amid the Algerian conflict. He also abolished censorship and met with his cabinet at the Elysee Palace to outline a military style briefing.
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Paris
Charles de Gaulle
France
National Assembly
Assembly
de Gaulle
Algiers
Algeria
North Africa
Pierre Pflimlin
Rene Coty
Elysee Palace
Town Evacuation After Illinois Tank Car Explosion
A railroad tank car filled with solvent exploded in Mt Pulaski Illinois forcing the evacuation of the town of about 1500. Two train crewmen were killed and more than twenty residents injured as guardsmen moved in and Civil Defense set up a 200 bed hospital unit. The blast damaged many homes, a grain elevator, and power lines as cars were being switched on the Illinois Central line. Identified victims were Mattoon men Jack Griffin and Robert Glover.
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MT. Pulaski, Ill
Illinois
William G. Stratton
Illinois Central Railroad
Jack Griffin
Robert Glover
Mattoon
Ill
Glover
Griffin
Quaker Plans Defiance of Court Over Nuclear Tests
Albert Bigelow, a 52 year old Quaker from Cos Cob Connecticut, says he will sail his ketch Golden Rule toward Eniwetok to protest the U S nuclear tests there. He is on probation for a similar prior action and would challenge a federal court injunction with the voyage.
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Honolulu
Eisenhower
Eniwetok
U.S
Albert Smith Bigelow
Cos Cob, Conn
Holidays Bring High Toll On Nation’s Highways
The Associated Press reports Memorial Day traffic deaths near 504 and warns drivers to use caution. NSC president Ned H Dearborn notes impatience and indifference kill on holidays as crashes in Texas New York Alabama Illinois and West Virginia add to the toll. Drownings and wrecks claim multiple lives across the weekend including a drowning in Moundsville West Virginia and a boy missing in Alabama.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Chicago
Ned H. Dearborn
NSC
Seventeen Die In Va Memorial Day Mishaps
Virginia marked the Memorial Day weekend with 17 deaths from accidents 10 in highway crashes five drownings and two other incidents. State police logged victims including Jessie Mae Bailey Thornton Loftis Lowell Sheppard and Tommy Smith among others with tolls rising as highway fatalities reached 28 for the year.
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Virginia
Jessie Mae Bailey
Richmond
Billy Hensley
Elkton
Rockingham County
Harrisonburg
Thornton F. Loftis
Boston
Ft. Holabird
Halifax County
Hico River Bridge
Lowell Harrison Sheppard
U.S. 52
Fort Chiswell
Wythe County
Beatrice McGee
Detroit
West Virginia Storm Tops Weather Warnings
Severe thunderstorms lashed western West Virginia with winds up to 52 miles per hour and heavy rain. Trees were toppled in Milton and Culloden, a town hall roof was partly torn, and U S Weather Bureau tracked a cool front and squall lines in the Ohio Valley. Electric and phone lines suffered damage while roadways were blocked and later cleared. service was expected to be restored by nightfall.
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Associated Press
West Virginia
Milton
Culloden
Point Pleasant
Kanawha
Charleston
U. S. Weather Bureau
Ohio Valley
U. S. 60
W. Va
Charleston Weather Bureau
Belle
Elkview
South Charleston
Dunbar
South Hills
Ferry Branch
Campbells Creek
Appalachian Power Co
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co
Belle and Elkview
Kanawha City
Kansas
Illinois
Wisconsin
Michigan
Ottawa
Meridian
Parsons
Monroe
Benton Harbor
Mich
Freeport
Ill
Ohio
Lake Erie
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Plains
Hudson River
New York
Buffalo
Georgia
Carolinas
Soviet Fishing Vessels Alert Off North American Coasts
Russia maintains a flotilla about 100 miles off Canada's Maritime Provinces in international waters near the Great Banks. US officials note constant ship turnover and study buoy markers while denying any law violation.
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Washington
Canada
Moscow
U. S
Great Banks
Reds Propose Poles Czechs in A Ban Talk
Washington AP report: Soviet Premier Khrushchev urged including Poland and Czechoslovakia scientists and possibly neutral experts such as India in forthcoming talks on enforcing a ban on nuclear tests. Eisenhower and Dulles weigh Khrushchev’s three page letter ahead of a White House meeting Monday.
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Reds
Washington
Russia
Eisenhower
Poland
Czechoslovakia
India
Dulles
Khrushchev
White House
Britain
France
Moscow
New Superskyway Planned For U S
The government plans a fourth transcontinental superskyway and at least three north south safety corridors for planes directed from the ground. Civil Aeronautics Administrator James T. Pyle discussed steps to avert air collisions in a radio TV interview on WTOP City Side. He did not specify routing for the new transcontinental skyway. He proposed corridors possibly from New York to Miami, Detroit to Miami, and Chicago to Miami.
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Washington
James T. Pyle
Civil Aeronautics Administrator
WTOP
City Side
Pyle
New York
Miami
Detroit
Chicago
Speeding driver backs both sides in Arkansas race
In Hot Springs Arkansas a state trooper flagged down a speeding car and found two campaign stickers on the vehicle. One urged re election of Municipal Judge M C Lewis Jr the other urged the election of his opponent Sam Anderson. The driver said he could not afford to be wrong with his traffic record.
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Hot Springs
Ark
Glen Minton
M. C. Lewis Jr
Lewis
Sam Ander
Dyer
Peace Walkers Demand End to Nuclear Tests at White House
About 700 Peace Walkers for Peace marched 90 minutes past the White House, from the East Coast to the Mississippi, urging an end to nuclear tests. A rally followed at Sylvan Theater near the Washington Monument. Eisenhower was away at Gettysburg. 25 special policemen watched the cortege. Quakers from Philadelphia joined with placards declaring Peace in the world or a world in pieces.
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Washington
W AP
White House
Mississippi
Sylvan Theater
Washington Monument
Eisenhower
Gettysburg
Philadelphia
Tunisia Asks U.S. For Arms. U.N. Security Council Eyeing Clash Aid
Tunisia asked the United States for machine guns for police but was told not now. The nation seeks U.S. support in the U N Security Council to halt clashes with French forces in Tunisia and Algeria. France seeks backing in the Council as both sides press the cross-complaint over the Sakiet Sidi Youssef air raid and troop standstill.
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United Nations, N.Y
Tunisia
United States
Noe
U. S
U. N. Security Council
NATO
France
Algeria
Sakiet Sidi Youssef
Lavines Club Scene Of Early Sunday Shooting
A 22-year-old Athens Marine with a gunshot wound to the abdomen was in critical condition Sunday at Bluefield Sanitarium. James S. Wiley on a 72 hour pass from Maryland was described as an innocent bystander in a shooting melee at Club 52 on Highway 52 Bluewell during the early hours Sunday.
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Athens
Bluefield Sanitarium
James S. Wiley
Maryland
Club 52
Highway 52
Bluewell
Safe thieves strike Princeton business and club shooting
Safe crackers smashed into the New Smokehouse on Mercer Street Princeton stealing a safe with about $5,000 in cash and valuables. The safe was abandoned later in Kegley Mercer County as police pursue clues. Prisoner Sam Lavine faced bond over a shooting at Club 52 injuring Donald Turner, Wiley wounded. Turner sought for knife charge.
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Princeton
Kegley
Mercer County
Mercer Street
Sam Lavine
Club 52
Lewis Perdue
Lavine
Justice of the Peace
William Foster
Bramwell
Wiley
Bluefield Sanitarium
Foster
Turner
One Dies In Humble Oil Copter Crash
An oil firm helicopter carrying six men en route to an offshore rig crashed in the Gulf of Mexico about ten miles off the Louisiana coast. Coast Guard recovered one body as six vessels and planes searched for survivors. The Sikorsky S-58 took off from Grand Isle base. Humble Oil Co owned the craft with pilot and five workers aboard.
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New Orleans
Oil Company
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
Coast Guard
Grand Isle
Humble Oil Co
Humble
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