Eisenhower Ends Formosa Visit Amid Quemoy Bombardment
President Eisenhower pledged steadfast solidarity with Nationalist China as Communist China pounded Quemoy. The bombardment left at least seven dead and 41 wounded, with Eisenhower arriving in Taipei for a 24 hour goodwill visit and meeting Chiang Kai-shek aboard the St Paul.
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Taipei
Eisenhower
America
China
Quemoy
Quemoy Complex
Adm
Hohtu
St. Paul
Chiang Kai-shek
Nationalist China
Pine Hill
Republic of China
United States of America
Red China
Chiang
Formosa
Peiping
House approves foreign aid bill with reduced total
The House passed a foreign aid measure totaling 3.5945 billion dollars, 590 million less than the President requested but 200 million above the House Appropriations Committee. Military assistance was partially restored while defense support funds stayed largely cut, amid party disagreement and a 258 to 124 final vote.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Gerald R. Ford
R-Mich
Japan
A Maleck
Tallang
Barry Goldwater
Frank Church
Idaho
Release sought for Fairfax suspect in Jackson family slayings
In Fairfax County Virginia a legal bid to release a 7-year-old trash collector from South western State Hospital follows a lunacy commission finding for mental observation The suspect is linked by a telepathist to the Jackson killings and an appeal seeks a Fairfax County Circuit Court trial to determine mental condition The wife brother and employer contend the man is sane and innocent and the wife expresses regret over signing the petition leading to the lunacy hearing
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Fafirfax
Fairfax County
Carroll V. Jackson
Virginia
Southwestern State Hospital
Marion
Wayne Comer
Falls Church
Comer
Warmer Weather Forecast for West Virginia Through Mid Week
The weather bureau reports warmer conditions across West Virginia through next Wednesday with temperatures 2 to 6 degrees above normal. North regions will average around 72, southern areas around 73, signaling a mild spell ahead.
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Huntington
West Virginia
Weather Bureau
Japanese Leftists Rally Against US Japan Treaty
In Tokyo mass marches near the Diet and US Embassy aim to halt ratification. A Socialist lawmaker Jotaro Kawakami was stabbed, and clashes left one dead and over 1,000 injured amid fears of invoking Japan’s riot law. Police mobilized as the government pushes ahead.
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Tokyo
CAP
Diet
U. S
Tve
Jotaro Kawakami
Camee Shinzaburo Toma
Japan
Kishi
Liberal-Democratic Party
Kosaku Shinoa
Eisenhower
Senate approves civil service and postal pay raise plan
The Senate passed a bill to raise pay for 1.2 million civil service and postal workers by about 746 million dollars annually on a 62 to 17 vote. The measure faced veto talk, with Dirksen opposing, and included rejected attempts to limit or alter rate increases and to separate civil service from postal pay.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Everett M. Dirksen
Dirksen
Post Office Department
Church
General Civil Service
Castro to visit Moscow for July revolution anniversary
Cuba’s Fidel Castro plans a visit to Moscow to reciprocate a Khrushchev trip to Havana. The date is not set and Havana has not confirmed, though trading official Antonio Nunez Jimenez cited July 2 as a potential anniversary occasion.
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Moscow
Fidel Castro
Nikita Khrushchev
Havana
Castro
Khrushchev
Antonio Nunez Jimenez
Chou En-lai
Red China
Cuba
Royal Yacht Britannia Returns From Caribbean Honeymoon
The royal yacht Britannia was sighted off Land's End returning Princess Margaret and Antony Armstrong Jones from their Caribbean honeymoon. It will dock at Portsmouth on Saturday and the couple will proceed to London then Windsor to visit Queen Mother Elizabeth.
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London
Royal Yacht
Britannia
Margaret
Antony Armstrong Jones
Land's End
England
Nattily Dressed Cook Confesses to Killing Wife
A Cleveland short-order cook Leonard Eade confessed to choking his wife Marjorie Scott to death in Toronto last month and shipping her body in a trunk to Argentia Newfoundland. He described the quarrel, the murder, a trunk shipment, and the subsequent detection by Cleveland police aided by Toronto investigators.
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Cook
Cleveland
Toronto
Canada
Argentia
Newfoundland
Leonard Eade
Ede
Marjorie E. Scott
Eade
Scott
Mrs. Scott
C.O.D
Neilly
Norman Hobson
David Kerr
West Side
Keating Claims Japanese Rioters Paid to Fuel Revolt
Sen. Kenneth Keating told the Senate that Communist demonstrators in Japan were paid $1.65 a day to light fires and sustain unrest. He cited a highly reliable source for his information and blamed Communists for financing the protests and instigating the clashes.
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Washington
Kenneth B. Keating
R-Ny
Senate
Japan
Giles Sheriff Charged With Wounding Cabbie
Giles Sheriff is charged with wounding a taxi driver after a crash near Clintwood Virginia. The incident occurred en route from Lookout Kentucky to Skeetrock Virginia where he planned to visit his wife and children. Funeral details for Billy Ray Miller are listed with the France family of Skeetrock.
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Geedbee Jones Charen
Lookout
Skeetrock
Billy Ray Miller
Clintwood
Clintwoat
Gereva France Miller
Rita Pay
Brenda Lyne
Garry Dean Miller
Skeet
Rock
Pistie Miiler
Florida
Hobby Miller
Columine
Otvie
Chester Miller
Cincinnati
Ohio
Edward Miller
Lookout, Leon
Clyde Miller Jr
Miami
Lima Je Agg Aang Gh
Mga Pegay France
Seotiad
Narrows Sheriff Hopkins Faces Hearing on Wounding Taxi Driver
Giles County Sheriff John E. Hopkins is scheduled for a preliminary hearing at 10 30 am on June 27 in Pearisburg before Judge A L Farrier on charges of malicious wounding a Narrows taxi dispatcher Peter Lambert. Hopkins, 49, is free on 10000 bond. Lambert was shot at Harman's Cab Stand around 2 am Friday and remains in fair condition at Carilion Memorial Hospital. Hopkins surrendered after a warrant was sworn by Commonwealth Attorney J Safford.
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Giles County
John BE. Hopkins
A. L. Farrier
Pearisburg
Hopkins
Peter Lambert
Harman
Narrows
Lambert
Onites Memorial Hospital
Cinaeter J. Safford
Hoge Hopkins
Philly Lad's Wish Will Come True
A 1 year old Philadelphia shoe shine boy, Ricky Westcott, will fish in West Virginia as a guest of Marmet lumber dealer Ber a Pack. Governor Underwood sent a welcome letter and the State Industrial and Publicity Commission plans a tour of state parks and attractions for him.
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Philadelphia
West Virginia
Charles
Ricky) Westcott
Bera Pack
West Vic
Underwood
Ricky
State Industrial and Publicity Commission
Eastern Air Lines Will Not Penalize Promptly Returning Strikers
Eastern Air Lines stated it would not penalize pilots who return to work promptly during the wildcat walkout, while reserving rights against those who led, incited, or participated in the strike or ignored a federal court order. Two Eastern jets departed for New York signaling a first crack in the labor action.
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EAL
Miami
Fla
Eastern Air Lines
Federal District Court
New York
SW Area Gals Win Divisions in Miss Virginia Pageant
Forty nine entrants competed Friday night with Catherine Birch winning the talent division by performing a ballet to Strauss Voices of Spring. Barbara Byington of Jonesville and Kay Isley of Martineville were among top contestants as the Miss Virginia selection builds toward September Miss America appearance in Atlantic City.
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Virginia
Mukc
Catherine Birch
Strausa
Voices of Spring
Southwest Virginia
Barbara Byington
Jonesville
Martineville
Kay Isley
Miss Byington
Waller EB. Byington
Janesville
Atlantic Cay
Wytheville Band Heads to St Louis for National Congress
Wytheville High School band leaves Monday for St Louis to represent Virginia at the National Convention of the Junior Chambers of Commerce. They will return for next Friday's season opener against the Allock Appalachian League and plan a concert in Cincinnati on the way home.
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Wytheville
St. Lala
Virginia
Junior Chambers of Commerce
Wytheville Club
Allock
Cincinnati
Million-Dollar Fire Devastates Las Vegas Fi Rancho Hotel
Predawn blaze at the Fi Rancho Hotel on the Las Vegas Strip destroys the main building including casino theater and dining venues. Betty Grable and husband Marty James flee with about two dozen others as flames swallow interiors. arson suspected after talk of fire with casino executives. Owner Reldon Katleman estimates damages around five million dollars. $427,000 found preserved in a wall safe.
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Las Vegas
Betty Grable
Marty James
Reldon
el Rancho Vegas
Nev
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Jackson
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Dickenson County
Jim David France
Riders
Smallwood, Crocket
Baker Ted Swindall
France
Colley
Sheriff Hopkins
Commonwealth
Miorney Slattord
Nohen Ver
Philly
Charleston
Wythe
St. Louis
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