Navy Says Chinese Battery Fired On American Plane Near Formosa
The U S Navy described the incident as isolated with a Chinese shore battery firing on an American training plane near the Formosa Strait. The plane, from the carrier Hornet, was reportedly eight miles off the coast and slightly damaged. The Nationalist air force called Peiping claims groundless and noted only light ground fire as planes returned safely to base.
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Washington
Navy
Hornet
Formosa Strait
Swatow
U.S. Navy
Formosa
Peiping
7Th Fleet
Fisticuffs Flare Between White Sox and Yanks
Chicago and New York players were involved in a benches clearing brawl ending with ejections. Larry Doby knocked Al Ditmar down after a disputed pitch as Enos Slaughter Walt Dropo Bill Martin and Whitey Ford were drawn into fights.
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White Sox
Chicago
INS
Chicago White Sox
New York Yankees
Larry Doby
Yankee
al Ditmar
Enos Slaughter
Walt Dropo
Bill Martin
Yankees
Doby
Ditmar
Larry Napp
Napp
Slaughter
Dropo
Whitey Ford
New York
Casey Stengel
Martin
Bill Skowron
Khrushchev Signals Tougher Stance on Disarmament
In Helsinki Nikita Khrushchev rejects Western disarmament plans as a screen for an arms race but backs international inspection posts if they aid banning nuclear tests. He argues no control system can stop planned aggression and calls for peaceful coexistence amid mistrust.
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Helsinki
Nikita Khrushchev
Communist Party
Soviet Union
U.S
Britain
Khrushchev
London
U.N. Disarmament
Woman Will Give $1200 a Month to Ex Husband
Julianna Kemper Beckett says she will provide $1200 monthly for 10 years to aid her ex husband William Sutherland Beckett’s career. The divorce, granted after she testified to his ungovernable temper and past striking, was finalized in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Julianna Kemper Beckett
William Sutherland Beckett
Beckett
Logan and Drysdale Involved in Bench Clearing Donny
New York report states Milwaukee shortstop Johnny Logan and Brooklyn pitcher Don Drysdale fought in the second inning. Drysdale hit Logan with a pitch in the back, sparking a confrontation and ejections as benches cleared. Logan was ejected and Drysdale was removed for Ken Lehman.
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NEW York
INS
Milwaukee
Johnny Logan
Brooklyn
Don Drysdale
Dodger
Logan
Drysdale
Ken Lehman
Mayflower II completes 53 day voyage to Plymouth Rock
The Mayflower II tied up near Plymouth Rock marking a 53 day voyage from Plymouth England. A coast guard collision marred the landing but no injuries were reported as thousands cheered the replica vessel. A 12 day celebration and pageants followed with open boat reenactments and a large procession of ships.
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Plymouth
Mass
Plymouth Rock
England
America
Rock
Coast Guard
Oklahoma
UW student injures shoulder during study session
Daniel McKinsey aged 20 suffered a dislocated shoulder while studying in bed for a University of Wisconsin examination.
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Madison, Wis
Daniel McKinsey
University of Wisconsin
Council Refuses Sublet On Cedar Rapids Resurfacing Plan
The Cedar Rapids City Council rejected a $149,805 sublet of a blacktop resurfacing contract to Kutchera Sod Den Fuel Co. for 70 blocks at 19 locations. An oral approval by Public Improvements Commissioner Swede Halvorson preceded the deal signed May 2, amid bidding by Hargrave Construction. The council faulted improper contract assignment procedures and warned of higher future bids as a result.
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Swede Halvorson
Hargrave Construction Company
Kutchera Sodding and Fuel Company
Cedar Rapids
Kutchera Equipment
Halvorson
Fred Hargrave
Kutchera
Hargrave
Public Improvements Commissioner
Council
Russians Clear Scores of Czech Villages
Baltimore Sun reporter Edward C. Burks sends from Bratislava that hundreds of villages across four large district areas in Czechoslovakia have been emptied of inhabitants. The dispatch notes these areas appear as military training zones and questions if rocket bases exist.
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Baltimore
Baltimore Sun
Czechoslovakia
Edward C. Burks
Bratislava
The
Sun
Burks
Stassen Denies Rebuke by Dulles
Harold Stassen denied he was reprimanded by Secretary of State Dulles for private dealings with the Russians on disarmament. He said he is returning to London with new procedural instructions.
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Washington (Ap
Harold Stassen
Dulles
London
Girl, 6, Is Found Slain In Michigan
The body of Mary de Caussin, six, was found near two roads in suburban Ecorse after an all night search by about 2,000 police and volunteers. She had been beaten, with hands tied behind her back, and disappeared after a photographer briefly drew her toward a pony on Wednesday. The father, a Ford technical writer, attributed the crime in part to a “society” he blamed for moral decay.
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Cape Cod Bay
Provincetown
Alan Villiers
Australia
Detroit
Mary de Caussin
Ecorse
Mary
Paul Panter
Dix
Trenton
Peggy Joyce dies at 64 famed 1920s glamor girl
Peggy Hopkins Joyce, famed for Broadway beauty and multiple high profile marriages, died of throat cancer at Memorial hospital after entering June 1. The 64 year old widow of six husbands including Stanley Joyce left a career as a writer and columnist and a life filled with marriages to merchants, nobles, and socialites.
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Peggy Joyce
New York
Peggy Hopkins
Joyce
Miss Joyce
Memorial Hospital For Cancer and Allied Diseases
Andrew C. Meyer
Woodbury
Earl Carroll
House panel trims Iowa flood control projects
The House appropriations committee rejected budget requests for two Iowa dams Red Rock near Knoxville and Rathbun near Centerville and cut funding for Muscatine flood control as part of the public works bill. It urged watershed and soil conservation as alternative flood measures and recommended 13.2 million for Missouri river work affecting Iowa.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Iowa
Red Rock
Rathbun
House
Des Moines
Knoxville
Chariton River
Centerville
Muscatine
Coralville
Upper
Iowa River
Muscatine Island Levee
Flint Creek
Missouri River
Braves Take National League Lead After Win Over Brooklyn
Milwaukee moved atop the NL standings on Thursday with an 8-5 win over Brooklyn. In Pittsburgh, Gene Baker delivered an RBI in the ninth to beat Cincinnati 3-2 as Don Hoak homered twice for Cincinnati.
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Brooklyn
Milwaukee
Pittsburgh
Gene Baker
Cincinnati
Don Hoak
Rail conductors and brakemen win pay increases across railroads
The Order of Railway Conductors and Brakemen and U S railroads reach a three year contract raising wages by 26 14 cents an hour with an immediate 12 0 cent gain retroactive to November 1 1956. The deal covers about 20 000 workers on roughly 70 railroads and includes an escalator clause tied to the Bureau of Labor Statistics index.
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Chicago
Levertt Edwards
National Railway Mediation Board
Bureau of Labor Statistics
Caution Urges Distance From TV Booster Rays
Buffalo AP reports that boosters for aging television tubes emit mild X rays when energized. Dr. James B. Kelley notes standard black and white sets use 15 000 volt transformers while boosters reach 30 000 to 40 000 volts. Viewers should sit at least six feet away to reduce risk of eye cataracts from increased gamma ray penetration.
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Buffalo
James B. Kelley
State Commerce Department
Kelley
Ex Senate Aide Walter George in Serious Condition
Former Georgia senator and Eisenhower ambassador to NATO Walter F. George, aged 79, is in a serious condition with coronary arteriosclerosis. An attending physician said he is suffering from arteriosclerosis of the heart’s arteries, a serious heart condition.
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Atlanta
Walter F. George
Eisenhower
NATO
Georgia
George
House committee trims power and reclamation budget
The appropriations committee cut 7 percent from the administration request for 876 million dollars in power and reclamation projects. It approved 814.8 million for Army engineers, quartermaster, reclamation, and power administrations, with total cuts to the president's budget near 4.04 billion dollars.
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Washington
INS
House Appropriations Committee
Army Engineers and Quartermaster Corps
Bureau of Reclamation
Bonneville
Southeastern
Southwestern
House
Bourges Maunoury Government Approved by French Assembly
Paris The national assembly voted 240 to 194 to approve Maurice Bourges Maunoury as France's 22nd postwar government. The Radical Socialist premier, 42, pledges a tougher Algerian policy and tax measures to fund the war, aiming for unity with France and a new Algeria.
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Paris
INS
National Assembly
France
Maurice Bourges-Maunoury
Bourges- Maunoury
Algeria
Bourges-Maunoury
President Eisenhower Declared Fully Recovered
WashingtonDispatch reports President Eisenhower was pronounced completely recovered from his stomach upset. White House physician Major General Howard Snyder waited to confirm no lingering effects before declaring full recovery.
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Washington
Ins
Eisenhower
Howard Snyder
White House
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Oxford
China
C. Yates McDaniel
Peiping_ radio
Hlong Kong
South China Sea
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Peiping Radio
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Peiping People’s Daily
Bob Glass
Stengel
Act
Eddie Rommel
Ford
Spencer
Ben Brewster
Elder Brewster
Art Heusinkveld
Iowa County
Stassen
Michigan
Iowan
Stanley Joyce
Clinton, Ia
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French Riviera
Ruth Snyder
Henry Judd i Gray
Everett A. Archibald
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Anthony Easton
Palm Springs
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