Riot Ends After Five Hour Insane Prisoners Uprising
Rusk State Mental Hospital in Texas was besieged by a gang of criminally insane inmates led by a 212 pound man calling himself the son of God. Nine were wounded, hostages held, before the riot ended when Texas Ranger Capt. Bob Crowder and Dr. Charles Castner secured surrender and spared the hospital staff.
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Rusk State Mental Hospital
Ben Riley
Frio
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Texas Ranger
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Crowder
L. D. Hancock
Pharoh Tilly
Rusk
Charles Castner
Hancock
Castner
James A. Bethea
Texas State Hospital System
Dr. Castner
Conference to discuss Formosa defense begins Monday
United States and Nationalist Chinese military authorities will open a conference in Taipei on Monday to address mutual problems in defending Formosa. The meeting, announced Saturday, aims to coordinate defense plans and resolve outstanding issues between the two allies.
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United States
Formosa
Stevenson
Knowland
Congress
China
Soviet Union
Delivery of Polio Vaccine To Be Speeded
The National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis promised rapid delivery of polio vaccine for the school inoculation program. Distribution to 137 public health points is under way by six licensed pharmaceutical firms, with injections starting in Linn County by April 29 and a May 20 booster for eligible grades. A foundation spokesman indicated booster shots may be prioritized as supplies arrive.
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National Foundation For
Raymond Barrows
New York
Foundation
Barrow
Linn County
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
U. S. Output Up Seven Billion In Q1 1955
Washington AP report says total national production rose to an annual rate of 369 billion dollars in the first quarter of 1955, up from 362 billion in late 1954. The gain signals potential new peak output unless a major downturn appears.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Council of Economic Advisers
Council
U. S
Youth, 17, Enters Mathematical Brain at Show
James Myers, 17, Yankton high school senior, built an electronic binary computer for a science fair. It cost about 25 dollars for batteries and relay pins. The device adds and subtracts, can handle two decimal digits input and three decimal digits output, and will in time multiply and divide. It is designed to aid in designing other computing circuits after two years of study and seven months of design work.
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Vermillion
S. D
James Myers
Yankton
Sharp Quake in Western China
The second strong earthquake in two days rocked a western area of Red China between Sinkiang and Afghanistan. Shocks lasted 1 hour and 10 minutes. Officials warned the quake could cause more destruction than Thursday's tremor on the Sichuan Kansu border.
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Taipei
Red China
Sinkiang
Afghanistan
China
Szechuan
Kansu
Today's Chuckle on Psychotic and Neurotic Math
The joke contrasts a psychotic who thinks 2 plus 2 equals 5 with a neurotic who knows it equals 4 but feels nervous about the math. It uses a pun on certainty and anxiety to deliver a quick humorous take.
Engineers Strike Threatens British Railways May
London AP reports British rail engineers and firemen threaten a nationwide strike starting May 1, seeking an eight shillings weekly raise. The Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen has 79,642 members, with rail management offering smaller raises. A newspaper strike compounds Eden government pressure as May 26 parliamentary elections approach.
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London
British Railway Engineers and Firemen
Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen
Eden
National Union For Railwaymen
Eisenhower Orders Creation of ICA to Run Foreign Aid
President Eisenhower directed the creation of the International Cooperation Administration a semi independent agency within the State Department to manage the nations aid programs. It will replace the Foreign Operations Administration which ends June 30 and seeks a top official to head the new agency. He also plans to seek 3.7 billion dollars in new aid funds for Asia for the coming fiscal year beginning July 1.
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Washington
Eisenhower
State Department
John Foster Dulles
International Cooperation Administration
ICA
Foreign Operations Administration
Dulles
Congress
Asia
Dulles To Confer with Ike in Georgia Today
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles will fly to Augusta Georgia on Sunday for a first hand review of the foreign situation in a conference with President Eisenhower, the White House announced Saturday.
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Ike
Georgia
Augusta
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
White House
State Department
Soviet Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Camp Good Health Memorials and Donations Totaling 671.64
A list of memorial gifts and donations totaling 671.64 cents from neighbors and groups including Emma A. Thompson Lewis G. Kimes Louis Burkhalter F E Ormsby and the Van Vechten Guild of the Peoples Church Central City Friendly ArG CPEB cores. The entries reflect community tributes in memory of the deceased.
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Emma A. Thompson
Louis D. Burkhalter, Sr
Beryl R. Averill
F. E. Orms
F. E. Ormsby
British Reds To Support Laborites In May Elections
Britain's Communist party backs the Laborites in the general election set for May 26 called by Prime Minister Anthony Eden. Eden's nationwide broadcast framed the vote as a mandate after a long newspaper strike. only the Communist Daily Worker published in London. The Communists lack seats from the 1951 election.
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Britain
Communist Party
Anthony Eden
Eden
Winston Churchill
Communist Daily Worker
Worker
House of Commons
Churchill to Return to England for May Election Campaign
Sir Winston Churchill plans to travel to England in early May to campaign for re election in his constituency, an aide said Saturday. The retired prime minister is expected to participate in the British election campaign next month according to the aide.
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Siracusa
Sicily
Winston Churchill
England
Loretta Young Out of Danger
Actress Loretta Young, struck by peritonitis last Sunday, is described as out of danger by doctors. She will stay at St John's hospital in Oxnard for about a week to 10 days while husband Tom Lewis accompanies her during recovery.
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Loretta Young
St. John’s ‘Hospital
Miss Young
Tom Lewis
Ojai
U.S. Rejects Russia Request on Editors Visas and Fingerprints
The United States refused Russia's demand to exempt 11 Soviet editors from fingerprinting under U.S. law. Moscow had urged parity for American editors visiting the Soviet Union, seeking identical visa procedures for both nations.
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INS
U.S
Russia
Ministry of Foreign Affairs
Moscow
U S Airmen To Be Topic At Bandung
Bandung talks focus on Formosa and Red China held airmen prisoners. Nehru and Nasser join in high level diplomacy as Chou En-lai arrives under tight security for Afro Asian conference. Diplomatic maneuvers hint at possible release talks amid pressure over Peiping’s stance.
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Indonesia
Formosa
Red China
Chou En-lai
Air India
Peiping
U. S
United States
Formosan Strait
India
Jawaharlal Nehru
Nehru
Chou
U Nuland
Gamal ‘Abdel Nasser
Rangoon
Democrats Drop Loyalty Oath Policy After Split
Washington United Press report says Democratic leaders voted to drop the loyalty oath that split the party at the 1952 convention. It awaits ratification by the national committee and 1956 convention before becoming effective. The advisory rules committee adopted a three point framework assigning state organizations delegate designation duties and waiving loyalty oaths unless challenged.
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National Committee
Advisory Committee On
Knowland presses Truman to explain Formosa orders in 1950s
Senator Knowland accuses former President Truman of neutralizing the Formosa strait during the Korean War, saying the move enabled Chinese forces to advance toward Korea and Manchuria. He also criticizes Adlai Stevenson for remarks he cited about Formosa and allied commitments.
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Knowland
Calif
Truman
Formosa Strait
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Korea
Senate
Adlai Stevenson
Quemoy
Matsu
Dean Acheson
Pacific
Formosa
MacArthur
van Fleet
Stratemeyer
Clark
Truman Attacks Republicans At Rayburn Dinner
Former President Harry S Truman condemned the Eisenhower administration for partisan politics endangering national security and foreign policy. He accused GOP leaders of surrendering basic principles and urged bipartisan unity as 3,000 Democrats heard him at a $100-a-plate Rayburn dinner in Washington.
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Harry S. Trueman
Eisenhower
Truman
Republican Party
Mr. Truman
Sam Rayburn
Texas
White House
Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Rayburn
Cealt
Boy Freed After 18 Foot Well Rescue
Two year old David Counterman was trapped four hours in an 18 foot deep, 10 inch wide well in Aurora. Fire Chief George Moorehead carried him from the shaft as spectators cheered. He was rushed to Children's Hospital in serious condition with shock.
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Colo
David Mark Counterman
Charles Counterman
George Moorehead
David
Lowry Air Force Base
Aurora Street
Children’s Hospital
Counterman
Cedar Rapids Gazette Declares Auto Plate Slogan Winner
The Cedar Rapids Gazette announces the winner of its auto license plate slogan contest on page one section two with a photo of the victor and a drawing of the winning entry.
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