Nationwide A-Bomb Drill Signals Civil Defense Push
A continent wide civil defense drill named Operation Alert is set to begin tomorrow at 11 a.m. Eastern. The simulated attack envisions 425 hostile planes striking 49 major cities in the United States and Canada plus one each in Puerto Rico Hawaii and the Virgin Islands with extra cities called into action. Federal Civil Defense Administration runs the exercise from two centers to test communications and train civil defense workers while President Eisenhower stays at the White House bomb shelter.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
United States
Canada
Alaska
Puerto Rico
Hawaii
Virgin Islands
Honolulu
San Juan
Anchorage
Juneau
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Olney
McCarthy Voices Stop the Blood Trade in Sioux Falls
Senator McCarthy told 1,700 American Legion members in Sioux Falls that U S dollars fund a "blood trade" with the enemy. He targeted foreign aid and urged voters to ask candidates this fall to halt such support.
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Sioux Falls
8. D
McCarthy
Foreign Operations Administration
Stassen
Wisconsin
U. S
Washington
Bar Owner Held On Ambush Murder Charge
James M. Fletcher a 36 year old Bobtown dairy bar operator is held on an open murder charge in the ambush slaying of Harold Tanner a 30 year old construction worker. Tanner was killed by a shotgun blast on the Mapletown doorstep. District Attorney Waychoff said the slayer lurked in shrubbery and that Tanner and Fletcher had fought the day before the shooting. Fletcher denied knowledge of the slaying.
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Waynesburg
James M. Fletcher
Bobtown
Harold Tanner
Tanner
Mapletown
Dist
Bertram Waychoff
Waychoff
Fletcher
McDowell Child Drowns While Wading Near Home
Lucedia Evans seven year old daughter of Mr and Mrs John P Evans of Lex McDowell County drowned in Dry Fork River near her home about 3 30 p m yesterday while wading. Neighbors recovered the body. funeral home attendants said she was missed by her parents and found in the water. Survivors include five brothers and sisters. Body to remain at Fanning Funeral Home pending funeral arrangements.
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Lucedia Evans
John P. Evans
Lex
McDowell County
Dry Fork
Fanning Funeral Home
French Crisis Threatens Break-Up Of Geneva Conference
Western leaders face a paralyzed Indochina talks due to France’s cabinet crisis after Premier Laniel’s defeat. Eden and Chauvel weighed continuing the stalemate or admitting failure as Eden and Molotov planned a plenary session amid East West rifts on cease-fire terms and Laos Cambodia status.
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West Eyes
Geneva
Indochina
Paris
Joseph Laniel
France
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
Anthony Eden
Jean Chauvel
Switzerland
Laos
Cambodia
Eden
Korea
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
Hanot
Hanoi
Haiphong
Pontifical Mass for Five Canonized Saints
In St. Peter's Basilica a pontifical Mass honored five saints canonized yesterday. Eugene Cardinal Tisserant led the ceremony with Pope Pius XII and 20 cardinals in attendance as 30,000 to 40,000 pilgrims, Romans, and visitors witnessed the rite. The new saints are Domenico Salvio Piero Maria Chanel Maria Crocifissa di Rosa Giuseppe Pignatelli and Gaspare del Bufalo, all 19th century figures.
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Vatican City
St. Peter's Basilica
Eugene Cardinal Tisserant
College of Cardinals
Pope Pius XII
Domenico Salvio
Piero Maria Chanel
Maria Crocifissa di Rosa
Giuseppe Pignatelli
Gaspare del Bufalo
Trudy the Empress Lays Seven Eggs at Seaford Nest
Seaford New York residents report that Trudy the Empress a mallard hen delaying a housing project by hatching nine eggs has now seven eggs left. Homer Louis Hirsch said another egg was stolen last night and one more two weeks ago.
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Seaford
N.Y
Trudy the Empress
Homer Louis Hirsch
Jailing Parents Criticized In Delinquency Report
A federal study titled Parents and Delinquency calls jail or fines for parents unfair and ineffective. It urges disciplined but fair parenting, accountability for children, and warns against shifting blame amid social and service delays. The report accompanies a Hobby conference on June 28 30.
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Washington
Federal
Children’s Bureau
the Health, Education and Welfare Department
Oveta Culp Hobby
Bureau
Salk Declines Einstein Award Until Vaccine Tests Conclude
Dr Jonas E Salk, creator of the polio vaccine, declines a forthcoming Albert Einstein College of Medicine award awaiting test results. He notes acceptance now would precede confirmation of the vaccine's effectiveness in preventing infantile paralysis. Salk remains a research professor at the University of Pittsburgh of Medicine.
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New York
Jonas E. Salk
Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Salk
$75 000 Ransom Still Unfound in Desert Search
In Phoenix Arizona June 13 officers scoured the Superstition Mountains for a $75 000 ransom paid to abductors of Mrs Evelyn Ann Smith. A valise with the payoff money had been found burned and empty. Herbert Smith the victim’s husband traveled to the rendezvous with the kidnapper. Police also tied Daniel J Martin to the case after a typewriter found at Martins home showed typing similarities to those used in composing ransom notes.
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Phoenix
Ariz
Evelyn Ann Smith
Herbert Smith
Daniel J. Marsin
Charles P. Thomas
Marsin
West Phoenix
Smith
Four Men Rescued In Fog Bound Atlantic From Sinking Cruiser
Four Pennsylvanians aboard the 34 foot Carel Kay were rescued in fog east of Atlantic City after colliding with the Yugoslav freighter Slovenija. The four men Edward L. Koch Peter Peterson J Ernest Spencer and Leon A. Smith Jr. were in the water about two hours before the Slovenija picked them up and brought them to Coast Guard Beach Haven in good condition.
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Atlantic City
N.J
Atlantic Ocean
Here
Coast Guard
Beach Haven
Edward L. Koch
Doylestown
Peter Peterson
Philadelphia
J. Ernest Spencer
Leon A. Smith Jr
The
Koch
Carol Kay
Missouri
U N Publishes Five Year Plan For South Korea
The United Nations outlines a five year program to make South Korea self supporting by 1958 at a cost of 1.93 billion dollars with 1.24 billion in U N and U S aid. The 488 page report criticizes President Rhee’s administration and projects a 1958 59 gross national output 42 percent above 1949 50 levels.
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N. Y
U. N
South Korea
United States
U.N
Lyngham Rhee
Robert R. Nathan Associates
Washington
New Deal
U.N. Korean Reconstruction Agency
UNRRA
UNKRA
Geneva
Ent
John B. Coulter
Busses Roll After Strike in Pittsburgh Transit
Pittsburgh transit resumed after a 35 day strike as 2,700 operators approved a one year pact raising basic pay to 2.01 per hour. The deal ends a costly tie up with Pittsburgh Railways Co. and AFL Union Division 85 backing a three cent hourly increase plus a 30 cent boost for the company. About 300 salaried staff get a 15 dollar monthly rise.
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Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Railways Co
AFL Amalgamated Assn
Electric Railway
Access
Ptance
Boston
Brownell Denounces Doomed Government If Any Breaks Law
Attorney General Brownell warned in a commencement address that the U S system cannot survive if someone places themselves above the law or if one branch usurps powers. He urged vigilance to preserve liberties and freedoms without reviving frontier vigilantism, signaling criticism of McCarthy era excesses.
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Washington
Atty
Brownell
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
American University
Wnell
Crowd Derides Arabia's King in Amman Arrival
In Amman the arrival of Saudi King Saud for military talks triggers street protests against Zionist America Britain and Jordan's government. Demonstrators denounce Premier Abdul Huda and his cabinet calling for a Moslem led Arab Legion while British advisers serve the Arab Legion.
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Jordan
Britain
Saudi Arabia
Saud
Hussein
Tewfik Pasha Abdul Huda
Arab Legion
Sane
iKing Saud
Mendes-France Asked To Form New French Cabinet
Paris reports President Rene Coty accepted Premier Laniel's resignation and asked Pierre Mendes-France, a 41 year old Radical Socialist, to form a new government. Mendes-France favors sharp military spending cuts to revive the economy and address Indochina issues as France seeks a quick end to the crisis.
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Paris
Une
Rene Coty
Foo Laniel
Pinance
Pierre Nea
Dme
Joseph Laniel
France
Germany
National Assembly
Indochina
Georges Bidault
Ho Chi Minh
Bidault
Coty
Laniel
TV Adds To Fame Sen Mundt Finds TV Adds To Fame
Sen Mundt of South Dakota says a cafe owner recognized him and gave a pipe and tobacco after television kept on the McCarthy Army hearings Mundt presides. The owner said the hearings attracted many customers and inspired the gift.
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Sen. Mundt
Washington
R-Sd
Mundt
Group Calls For United Asian Aid
Washington June 13 The Americans for Democratic Action urged a large scale U S loans and grants program to aid Asian nations The ADA said the aim was to help Asians help themselves and to give people a stake in freedom peace and well being worth defending The group offered no cost or scope estimates for the plan.
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Washington
Americans For Democratic Action
United States
ADA
Dunglinsons Seriously Hurt In Roanoke Wreck
Mr and Mrs George Dunglinson of Roanoke previouslyBluefield residents were seriously injured in a head on collision on U S 11 two miles east of Christiansburg on Saturday. Mrs Dunglinson suffered multiple fractures and head injuries while her husband had a broken knee and broken ribs. Also injured were Henry Dillon Hodges and James Mitchell of Hopewell. Hodges faces drunken and reckless driving charges.
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George Dunglinson Jr
Roanoke
Christiansburg
Depgenen
Dunglinson
Dunglinsons
New Altamont Hospital
Lewis Gale Hospital
The
Norfolk Way
U.S. 11
Henry Dillon Hodges
Hopewell
James Mitchell
Hodges
Virginia
Grady A. McConnell
Mitchell
McConnell
Potter To Head Probe Committee
Washington June 13 Sen McCarthy may hand the investigations to Sen Potter after the McCarthy Army hearings end and rest briefly. Potter ready to pursue a public inquiry into Americans held behind the Iron Curtain including POWs civilians not freed in Korea and Russia. Mundt leads current subcommittee. McCarthy may regain chair after hearings. Democratic roadblocks may appear but GOP backing could propel new probes.
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Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Potter
R-Mich
Army
Wisconsin
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Korea
Red China
Russia
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Sen. Flanders
R-Vi
Senate
Sen. Knowland
California
Mundt
Soaring Mercury Tops 91 in Bluefield Lemonade Day
Rain cooled a 90 plus spell as Bluefield reported a 91 degree high at 12 35 p.m. first 90+ day this year while a cold belt brought cooler temps west to east. Southern West Virginia saw rain and hail in the Clarksburg Elkins zone with widespread showers.
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Parkersburg
Martinsburg
Clarksburg-Elkins
West Virginia
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