Dawn of a New Cold War Era Shift in Peace Talk
Washington reports a wave of peace talks and maneuvers altering Cold War strategy. Dulles plans Europe trip, Eisenhower exchanges letters with Zhukov, and the West eyes Austria neutralization as Moscow seeks to pull back troops while maintaining leverage.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
Europe
Dulles
Red China
Far East
Eisenhower
Marshal Georgi Zhukov
Moscow
Kremlin
Austria
Korea
Germany
I Bao Dai Backer Is Chief
Saigon news reports Gen. Nguyen Van Vy seized control in a bloodless coup declaring loyalty to ex emperor Bao Dai while denouncing the revolutionary committee and Premier Ngo Dinh Diem. Vy reinforced the army around the capital as U S officials signaled support for Diem amid French hesitations. Fighting with Binh Xuyen intensifies in Cholon, producing hundreds dead and thousands displaced.
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Saigon
South Vietnam
Nguyen van Vy
Bao Dai
Revolutionary Committee
Ngo Dinh Diem
van Vy
Revolutionary Congress Committee
Bao ‘Dai
Diem
U. S. State Department
J. Lawton Collins
Eisenhower
Edgar Faure
National Army
Binh Xuyen
Chinese Creek
Cholon
India Plans China Mission To End Crisis
April 30 Washington dispatch reports Nehru offering Krishna Menon to help seek a Formosan settlement at the suggestion of Chinese Communists. The U S weighs sending Marines and Army forces to Formosa as Nationalists balk at Indian and American moves. State Department notes Indian move without U S approval. no intermediary authorized for cease-fire talks.
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Far East
Formosa
Washington
India
Nehru
Krishna Menon
U. N
United States
U. S
Peiping Radio
Red China
Formosan
State Department
U.S
Dozen GOP Back Eisenhower on China Cease Fire Efforts
In Washington on April 30 twelve Senate Republicans from the Eisenhower wing endorsed the president’s push for cease-fire negotiations with Communist China. The group urged collaboration with Nationalist China if possible, while Sen Knowland opposed any conference without Chiang Kai shek’s forces. Signers included Allott Beall Bush Carlson Case and Smith with two others noting conditional collaboration.
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Senate
Eisenhower
Republican Party
China
Sens
H. Alexander Smith
New Jersey
Saltonstall
Massachusetts
Sen. Knowland
California
Chiang Kaishek
Knowland
Senate Gop
Sens. Allott
Colorado
Beall
Maryland
Bush
Connecticut
Carlson
Kansas
Case
Smith
Viscose Raise Offer Rejected by Nitro Local
The CIO Textile Workers Local No. 7 at Nitro rejected a proposed two year contract calling for a five cent across the board hourly wage increase for American Viscose Corp employees. The 1,150 member local voted Friday night but no totals were released.
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American Viscose Corp
CIO Textile Workers
Nitro
Bill Hager
American Viscose Workers of
Parkersburg
A. O. Boyles
Experts Back Vaccine Test Approval Endorsed
A panel of experts including Dr. Jonas Salk approved withdrawing the Cutter vaccine for study while urging continued antipolio inoculations with vaccines from other makers. They stressed careful data on inoculations and overall health, to assess Cutter vaccine safety.
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Washington
Jonas E. Salk
Public Health Service
Two-car Turnpike Crash Leaves Twelve Injured
A head on collision on the West Virginia Turnpike two miles south of the Chelyan interchange left twelve people injured, four seriously. The southbound overloaded car carried ten, including two Raleigh County families and six children. the northbound car contained two soldiers from Fort Bragg.
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Chelyan
Raleigh County
Ft. Bragg
N. C
M. C. York
Turnpike
Kyle Edwin Spade
Bradley
Raleigh
C. Stewart
J. L. McSweeney
Spade
Bernie C. Enix
Huntington
W. Va
Investigature R
Crisis in Education Taxing Inequities Hurt Aid Program
Expert on state school aid distribution warned two years ago that the yardsticks for targeting responsibility are tricky and costly. Dr. R L Johns, a state aid expert, foresaw that county systems faced double burdens and the state survey confirms his view. Seventeen counties will lose heavily under the new distribution method, forcing severe economies and potential instruction cuts for thousands of children.
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West Virginia
Dr. Johns
School Boss Responds to Gazette On School Finances
State School Supt. W. W. Trent defends the finances in a statement reacting to The Charleston Gazette editorial Crisis in Education. He disputes the paper’s figures on state aid under the county unit system and cites appropriations for 1933 34 and earlier Enabling Acts.
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W. W. Trent
Gazette
East Thursday
Charleston Gazette
Leaders to discuss extra session and pay raise plans
State Senate and House leaders planned a meeting tonight with Gov Marland to set general objectives for the special session beginning May 9. The agenda centers on school finances and teacher salaries with funding methods to be worked out by the legislature. Leaders expected to invite majority leaders and finance chairmen from both chambers for this planning session.
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Senate
House
the & P.m
Ralph J. Bean
W. E. Flannery
Marland
Bean
West Virginians Back Merit Pay For Teachers
The Gazette reports in a late poll that a solid majority favors merit based teacher pay raises. The second tabulation shows support for increasing teacher salaries tied to performance rather than across the board hikes.
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West
Boy, 3, Killed Beneath Truck Driven by Dad
State Police report a three year old boy, Jack Franklin Snow of Maitland, was killed in Welch when he fell under a moving truck driven by his father Parlie Snow, 42. Snow had hauled dirt and parked the vehicle then attempted to move it to let an auto pass. the boy was believed to think his father was leaving and crawled under the rear wheel.
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Welch
Jack Franklin
Snow
Maitland
Ic. W. Andrick
Parlie Snow
Welch 1
Jack
Test of Weapon in Clarksburg Murder
State troopers flew to Charleston for ballistics tests on a .38 revolver linked to Clarksburg double slaying. Sgt Welty said the gun was found in the search but declined to reveal location or circumstances. Tests were expected to run overnight.
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Clarksburg
G. W. Reed
H. E. Parks
Charleston
State Police Laboratory
T. A. Welty
Welty
Playboy Bao Battles Fate in Vietnam Crisis
In Cannes Bao Dai fights to keep his Chief of State post as a Revolutionary Congress in Saigon ousts him. Bao Dai dispatches orders and appeals for conciliation while Diem’s forces and Vy, his army commander, reportedly align against him. Saigon declares deposition as details remain unclear.
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France
Bao Dai
Vietnam
Revolutionary Congress
Bao Dal
Saigon
Ngo-Dinh Diem
Hin
Nguyen van Vy
Diem
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Crisis In Education
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