Chiang and U. S. Talk About Pact
The state department said talks have continued for almost a year on a mutual security pact to defend Formosa with Chiang Kai-shek's government. No decision has been reached, as Washington and Taipei seek a formal treaty beyond current presidential protection by the Seventh Fleet. Separately, Communist artillery shelled two Nationalist held islets near the mainland.
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Howard Handleman
Washington
INS
State Department
Chiang Kai-shek
Formosa
Suydam
John Foster Dulles
Chiang
Walter S. Robertson
Taip¢h
George Yeh
U. S. Seventh Fleet
Taipeh
Kanghai
Yushan
Yikiangshan
Tachen
Brief Senate Session Sought On McCarthy Issue
Washington AP reports Senate leaders plan a brief opening Monday for a special session to consider censure of Senator McCarthy. Debate on the measure may start late Tuesday or Wednesday. Leader Knowland and Leader Johnson stressed a focused session, with Monday kept short for memorial observances. Senator Watkins plans to review the draft resolution to implement committee findings.
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Washington
Senate
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
William G. Knowland
California
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
McCarthy
Knowland
Johnson
Sen
Watkins
Utah
Five-year-old Harold Pint Dies From Family Fire Burns
Harold Pint Jr. age five died at 2 35 PM in University hospital after a Floyd Iowa house fire that injured his mother and four siblings. His sister Janice seven was critical, brother William ten also in danger, and Michael six remained seriously ill. Emmet Ballangen Jr five, half brother of Mrs Pint, improved to critical from serious.
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Gazette
Iowa City
Harold Pint, Jr
Family H
Floyd
University Hospital
Janice
William
Michael
Emmet Ballangen, Jr
Pint
Writer Garet Garrett Dies at 76 in Atlantic City
Garet Garrett, noted financial writer and former editor in chief of the Saturday Evening Post, died in an Atlantic City hospital at age 76. Born Edward Peter Garrett in Pana Illinois, he began his journalism career in Burlington Iowa and studied in Iowa public schools.
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Garet Garrett
Atlantic City
N. J
Saturday Evening Post
Edward Peter Garrett
Pana
Ill
Iowa Public
Burlington
Iowa
Father of Ten Sets Off on Ocean Trip to Paris
Max Conrad 50, father of 10, departed Idlewild airport in a twin engined Piper Apache on a planned nonstop flight to Paris. He carried crackers grapefruit and two sodas, aiming to reach Paris in 18 to 22 hours, via a great circle route over Gander Newfoundland and Shannon Ireland at 15000 feet. Conrad hoped the stunt would spark youth interest in aviation and equipped the plane with three extra fuel tanks for a 26 hour endurance.
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New York
Max Conrad
Paris
Idlewild
Conrad
Gander
Nild
Shannon
Ireland
France Refuses to Send Delegate to Reopen Saar Talks
Paris reports France will not send a diplomat to Bonn this week to restart negotiations on the Saar pact. A Foreign Ministry spokesman denied West German claims and said no French officials would travel to Germany, though he confirmed certain points in the Saar accord remain to be settled.
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Paris
France
Germany
Bonn
Konrad Adenauer
Pierre Mendes-France
Jean-Marie Soutou
Adenauer
Iowa Airman Shot In Foiling Holdup
Iowa airman Howard Claypool of North English was critically wounded in a tavern holdup in Marysville California. He and bartender Danny Gatsos were shot as two men attempted robbery. Vincent Edmond Tero 21 from Oakland was captured after the incident and held for armed robbery investigation.
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Marysville
Calif
Iowa
Howard Claypool
North English
Rideou Memorial Hospital
Danny Gatsos
Vincent Edmond Tero
Oakland
Claypool
Tero
Gatsos
Europe sees broad business boom across nations
United Press surveys show rising factory and farm output and rare unemployment on the continent except in West Germany and Italy. Swedenautos Belgium highways Italy plastics France reform optimism West Germany leads with 8 to 9 percent income gain. Exports in the European Payments Union stay near 19 billion dollars.
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London
Europe
West Germany
Italy
United Press
Sweden
Belgium
France
Pierre Mendes-France
Payments Union
U. P
Alaskan Bases In Range of Russ Missiles
Washington reports major Alaskan air bases such as Ladd Field and Elmendorf could be within range of Soviet V 2 type missiles now in use or in development. The rockets with ranges 800 miles or more threaten U S cities and bases, complicating interception by fighters due to high speed and altitude. First knowledge of an attack would come from the explosion.
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Washington
Alaskan
United States
Russia
Siberian
Europe
London
Laddfield
Fairbanks
Elmendorf
Anchorage
Siberia
United States Air Force
Guayagua
Quevedo
Ike To Dedicate Abilene Museum
President Eisenhower will fly to his boyhood home in Abilene Kansas next Wednesday to dedicate a wing of the Eisenhower museum now under construction. White House says he will arrive at Smoky Hill Air Force Base in Salina at about 6 p.m. CST and reach Abilene about an hour later.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Abilene
Kan
White House
Smoky Hill Air Force Base
Salina
Kaw
Atomic Energy Commissioner says Dixon-Yates contract harms U S arms race
Thomas E Murray of the Atomic Energy Commission testified to congressional hearings that the Dixon Yates power deal diverted the commission from keeping ahead of Soviet atomic weapons. He charged lack of public interest and said he was kept in the dark about negotiations before disclosure.
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Washington
INS
Thomas E. Murray
Atomic Energy Commission
Dixon - Yates
Commission
Murray
Joint Congressional Atomic Committee
Dixon-Yates
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
TVA
Chet Holifield
D-Calif
W. Sterling Cole
R-N.y
Solo-Voyager Willis Crosses Pacific On Balsa Raft
William Willis, then 61, chronicles beginning his 6,400 mile solo Pacific crossing from Ecuador to Samoa aboard a primitive balsa raft. He narrates preparation, endurance philosophy, and support from Werner Woehlk as he heads south on January 6, 1954 seeking seven large balsa logs.
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Voyager Willis
William Willis
Pacific
Peru
Pago Pago
Eclub
Mr. Willis
Charles A. Lindbergh
Crafting a raft for Pacific crossing with seven balsa logs
The narrator details a race against typhoon season to build a raft from seven giant balsa logs in Ecuador. He describes locating the logs near Quevedo, assembling a 33 foot long craft with mangrove beams, bamboo decking, and three construction innovations including a bowsprit for storm safety.
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Guayaquil
Pacific
Here is something to solve your church’s financial prob
A preacher asks about a solution to church funding. The answer is a contribution box where coins of various denominations fall through differently sized slots, dollars and bigger coins land on velvet while nickels and pennies drop on a bell. This humorous vignette plays on church fundraising as a puzzle.
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