Peace talks begin as Guatemalan faction seeks ceasefire
Guatemala reports a new anti-Communist military regime led by Col Elfego Monzon aims for peace with Col Carlos Castillo Armas faction. Secrecy surrounds negotiations with possible meetings in San Salvador or Guatemala City. A prior regime was ousted after a 12 day battle and political prisoners were freed.
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Guatemala
Carlos Castillo Armas
Castillo Armas
Elfego Monzon
Guatemala City
Castillo Armas and
Monzon
Washington
San Salvador
el Salvador
Chiquimula
Interior Ministry
Arbenz
Legendary Marine Head Clifton Cates to Retire After 37 Years
Lt Gen Clifton B Cates longtime Marine leader with 10 battle stars from two world wars and 27 ribbons will retire after 37 years in uniform. He notably helped troops in Paris in 1918 when funds ran low, lending each man 100-50 francs for liberty and meals.
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Quantico
Gunes
Clifton Bledsoe Cates
Lesser Ran
Cates
Paris
Young Sailor Rescued From Death by Own Action Attempt
In Oakland California on June 29 a Colorado Springs sailor Dery J. Reed 20 assigned to the USS Oriskany dangled 20 feet above a highway from an overpass railing. Tribune reporter Paul McCormick and photographer Roy Williams aided by two passersby pulled Reed to safety after he said he had been drinking going through a divorce and wanted to die.
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Oakland
Calif
Colorado Springs
Oak Knoll Naval Pevesi
Dery J. Reed
Oriskany
Robert Thrasher
Earl Lowrery
Reed
Paul McCormick
Oakland Tribune
Roy Williams
McCormick
Steel Strike Off As Contract Made United Steel Workers Reach Deal
U S Steel and CIO United Steel Workers sign a historic contract ending a potential strike. Bethlehem Steel and Seventy Seven Steel follow with similar terms. Wage hikes take effect July 1, pensions rise to 140 a month after 30 years, insurance frozen two years, and talks reopen in a year.
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Pittsburgh
US. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steelworkers
Ous
Seuleven Steel
Presi
David J
MeDo
Steele
Joseph M. Larkin
Bethlehem
New York
U. S. Steel
France Faces Choice on German Armament Policy
In Paris on June 29, U. S. Ambassador C Douglas Dillon urged France to decide soon between backing a controlled German rearmament within the European Defense Community or pursuing an independent German army.
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Paris
U. S
C. Douglas Dillon
France
Germany
Jury convicts top tax man for evasion
Joseph D. Nunan Jr., former internal revenue commissioner from 1944 to 1947, is found guilty in Brooklyn Federal Court of evading about 91,086 in income tax for 1946 to 1950. The verdict came after a three hour jury deliberation. bail set at 1,500.
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Joseph D. Nunan Jr
New York
Joseph D. Nunn Jr
Nunan
Brooklyn
Federal Court
Walter Bruchee
Anesse Nunan
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Internal Revenue
Richard J. Burke
Frank Erickom
Harry St. Tru Vee
Farm Support Debate Slated On House Floor
The House Rules Committee sent a farm bill to the floor for debate to continue high farm price supports for another year. Administration aides say enough votes exist to kill major features and back a sliding scale plan to curb overproduction. Leader Hope claims Benson misstates effects. King opposes supports and backs free market.
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Washington
House Rules Committee
House
Rules
Hope
R-Kan
Agriculture Committee
Benson
Department of Agriculture
Rep. King
R-Pa
King
Weston Escapee Talks Surrender With News Reporter
Police reporter Jack Hardin details talks with Raymond McComas a dangerous escapee from Weston State Hospital who agreed to surrender after a car keys offer and a barber shop sighting. McComas confessed to the Tartt killing after capture in Knoxville Tennessee.
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Weston
Huntington
Jack Hardin
Daneie Chet
Sur Cat Pens
Raymond McComas
Weston State Pital
Hardin
Papermoce
McComas
AEC Denies J Robert Oppenheimer Access to Secrets
The Atomic Energy Commission voted 4-1 denying J Robert Oppenheimer access to government atom secrets. The majority criticized his associations with Communists and security lapses. only Dr Henry D Smyth defended him as loyal. The decision ends his push to regain restricted data access.
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AEC
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission Today
Thomas E. Murray
Oppenheimer
Henry D. Smyth
Princeton
Sheimer
Asaid Smyth
New York
Atomic Energy Commission
BS Nichols
Ae Ae
K. Nichols
Gena
Oppen- SS
Ashington
Partial View Of Total Sun Eclipse Across Midwest
Minor total solar eclipse visible in parts of Nebraska South Dakota Iowa Minnesota and Wisconsin with a 70 mile wide shadow path and totality lasting about 76 seconds. The event begins near O Neill Nebraska and reaches Minneapolis around 5 07 a m central time with observers from Nebraska to Michigan watching.
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Minneapolis
Nebraska
Michigan
South Dakota
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
O'Neill
Neb
Jodphur
India
Chinese youths held as commie killers
Singapore police said they arrested 16 Chinese youths believed to be members of a Communist killer squad operating in the colony.
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Singapore
Fired FHA Head Refuses Testimony On Loan Handling
Senate hearing probes Clyde L. Powell former FHA Rental Housing Division chief over 64 percent of a billion in government insured loans. Powell cites constitutional protection while the committee cites access to his arrest record and past conduct. The session also touches on allied figures such as former Truman aide Wilson Wyatt and alleged windfall schemes involving builders and down payments.
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Washington
Clyde L. Powell
Senate
Powell
Federal Housing Administration
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Senate Committee
FHA
Daniel B. Maher
Chicago
Brough
Wilson W. Wyatt
Truman Administration
Adlai Stevenson
McKenna
Wyatt
Louisville
Franklin Manor, Inc
Sarasota
Fla
New York
Income Tax Senate Fight Looms Today
Washington June 29 high stakes vote looms as Sen George proposes raising the personal exemption from 600 to 700. Democrats rally 47 voting yes while Republicans total 48 with Morse wavering. Debate centers on dividend tax cuts and impact on debt limits and revenue timing.
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Washington
Senate
Sen
George
D-Ga
Eisenhower
Truman declares health improving after surgery
Kansas City June 29 former President Harry S Truman told his physician he is over the hump after appendix and gallbladder removal on June 20. Dr. Wallace Graham said the condition is no longer critical and fair but guarded with a post operative bacteria challenge but no sign of malignancy. Telegraphic messages arrive from Washington including one signed Winston and Anthony.
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Kansas City
Harry S. Truman
Wallace Graham
Truman
Graham
Anglo Americans Urge General Nuclear Armament Cut
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill call for a drastic global reduction of weapons and offer friendship to the Communist World. In a White House declaration after a unity conference they outline six guiding principles for free world partnership and pledge aid to non Communist regional groupings while stressing safeguards and continued strength.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Churchill
White House
Voice of America
Russia
London
Congress
Anthony Eden
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Shower
House trims Eisenhower aid program in foreign policy bill
The House cut 102 million dollars from the presidents essential foreign aid plan and tentatively approved core parts of a 3.477 billion dollar measure. Aimed to withhold funds from nations joining an Asian nonaggression pact, the move was supported by Republicans. Final vote on the bill was delayed to tomorrow.
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George
Democratic Policy Committee
Washington
House
Eisenhower
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
Asia
India
Vg Vorys
Ohio
Southeast Asia
Red China
Vorys
Foreign Affairs Committee
Congress
Clintwood Man Found Guilty in Taxi Driver Killing
Corbett Farmer was convicted of voluntary manslaughter in the August slaying of Charlie Mullins a 35 year old Clintwood taxi driver. He was sentenced to three years in the penitentiary last December and received an additional five year term upon a new trial in Dickenson County Circuit Court.
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Clintwood
Corbett Farmer
Charlie Mullins
Farmer
Dickenson County
Norfolk Jury Fines spectators for courtroom disruption during verdict
In Corporation Court Norfolk, Dennis Linwood Collins is convicted of second degree murder in the fatal clubbing of Pierre Lefer, 40, at a rendezvous point May 21. Two spectators are fined for contempt as the all white jury delivers a seven year penitentiary sentence.
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Norfolk
Corporation Court
Dennis Linwood Collins
Pierre Lefer
Norfolk and Country Club
Collins
Lefer
Addie Louise Edwards
J. Sydney Smith Jr
Max Broudy
June Haver Chooses Love Over Church
Ojai California June 29 Actress June Haver a Roman Catholic and Fred MacMurray a Presbyterian wed civilly at Ojai Valley Inn after a quiet ceremony choosing romance over church sacraments. MacMurray's wife Lillian died last year and Haver had faced a religious conflict over the civil union.
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Ojai
Calif
June Haver
Fred MacMurray
West
MacMurray
Ojal Valley Inn
Miss Haver
Jimmy Zito
Lillian
John Duzik
Hollywood
U S Steel plans $300 million debenture sale
U S Steel announces sale of 300 million in serial debentures maturing in one to ten years. 225 million publicly offered through a nationwide underwriting group led by Noreen Stanley & Co. 75 million reserved for trustees for a pension fund. Proceeds to restore working capital used in a large expansion program.
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New York
Steel Corp
Noreen Stanley & Co
Benjamin F. Fairless
U. S. Steel
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