Emergency Proclaimed For Batista Crisis Powers Declared
Havana reports Congress has granted President Fulgencio Batista a 45 day emergency with extraordinary powers to counter rebel threats. The measure passed 32 to 7 in the Senate and 95 to unclear in the House, enabling him to regulate labor, draft workers, expand the armed forces, seize transport and communications, and reallocate funds, with oversight by a joint 24 member committee and possible ending earlier. The government claimed 13 rebels were killed in Oriente Province during the night, with no reported casualties for the state.
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Havana
Congress
Fulgencio Batista
Senate
House
Batista
Joint
Congressional Committee
Oriente
FCC Report Action Starts on Probe Hearings
Investigators begin threshing out a report on hearings into the Federal Communications Commission. Rep. Orent Harris leads the Il-man panel toward an interim report this week urging Congress to enact corrective legislation. The subcommittee nears its FCC probe end with a call for more time on duties and less on broadcast industry meetings. Five current and former FCC members testified Monday as the panel prepares to hear from George M. McConnaughey and Frieda Hennock on Wednesday.
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Washington
Federal Commnications Commission
Orent Harris
D-Ark
Il-man
Congress
FCC
George “M. McConnaughey
Frieda Hennock
Sierra copter crew to try again for crash victim
Two Army fliers who rescued four stranded skiers prepare to retrieve the body of Peter Gring, 39, Santa Barbara socialite, killed when his helicopter crashed near McClure Meadow in Kings Canyon National Park. Wreckage located Friday, authorities hopeful weather clears for Monday recovery flight.
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Fresno
High Sierra
Sierra
Peter Gring
Santa Barbara
John Cooney
Marlley
Mass
William J. Williams
Cooney McCluce Meadow
Goland
Williams
Gring
Canney
Harber Lazarus
Norman Lassen
Stanford University
Mt. Lyell
Yosemite National Park
William Pope
Cuban Rebels Hunger Strike Reaches Day Six
Cuban rebels held in a Texas jail enter the sixth day of a hunger strike. Thirty five captured militants, many United States citizens, are in hospitals after being moved from jail. In New York, 23 sympathizers who began a separate hunger strike were forced to resume eating due to illness. Doctors say no force feeding will occur and report rebels remain conscious but increasingly quiet, still singing a Cuban freedom song at meals.
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Brownsville
Tex
New York
Fidel Castro
Fulgercio Batista
United States
Mercy Hospital O
Waitress Faces Murder Charge in Sunnyvale Tavern
Mattie M. Smart, a 28-year-old Watsonville waitress, is charged with murder in the shooting death of Billy Boyd Hagen, a 33-year-old card dealer, at a Sunnyvale tavern after a dispute over jukebox music. The fatal shooting occurred as Smart produced a .22 revolver and fired four shots into Hagen's chest.
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San Jose
Watsonville
Santa Clara County
Mattie M. Smart
Billy Boyd Hagen
Sunnyvale
Miss Smart
Hagen
Birmingham Bus Strike Paralyzes City Transit
Birmingham faces a major transit strike as Amalgamated Street Car Union members vote 365 to 14 to walk out unless wages rise 23 cents an hour. The company offered six cents now and four more next year, while Mayor Morgan failed to broker a compromise. Donald S. James warned a larger raise could ruin the line, claiming drivers are among the best paid in the South when fringe benefits are included.
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Birmingham
Ala
Amalgamated Street Car Union
The
Bus Company
iMayor
James W. “Morgan
Donald
James
Bus Line
South
Air Race Timers Head for Tokyo from Riverside Base
Two officials from the Naval Aeronautics Association depart from March Air Force Base Riverside to supervise a nonstop 7000 mile air race test from Tokyo to Washington D C. Los Angeles attorney Bert Rhine and Charles L Logi Gon of Washington DC serve as executive secretary and observer respectively. The KC 135 jet tankers of the Strategic Air Command will conduct the speed flight.
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INS
Navnal Aeronautics Association
Air Force
Tokyo
Washington, D. C
Japan
March Air Force Base
Los Angeles
Bert Rhine
Charles 5
Logi« Gon
NAA
Strategic Air Command
Indonesian Army Near Rebels Strongholds Entering Sumatra
Indonesian Loyalists advance on two fronts into West Sumatra driving toward rebel strongholds Padang and Bukittinggi. They report movements from Fakfak and Rengat with Sungai Langsat contested. arms from Czechoslovakia alleged. Caltex sites hit as U.S. field reports note looting and evacuations of Americans.
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Singapore
Sumatra
Padang
Bukittingi
Jakarta
Fakanbaru
Uop
Bangkinang
Rengat
Sungailangsat
Fa Neo
Pater
United Press
Lubuk
Sukarno
Czechoslovakia
Caltex Company
Writer Sought For Film Job in Niles Chamber
Fremont Niles Chamber opens a contest to draft a one minute western plot for Essanay Days set June 6 to 3. Entries must depict western scenes with Broncho Billy Chaplin Dressler and Ben Turpin feel. Deadline April 35 to E C Parks, mail to Parks P O Box 86 Niles.
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Fremont
Niles
E. C. Parks
Parks
Niles Canyon
P. O
Crook Frustrated to Go Straight at Shreveport Safe
In Shreveport Louisiana an unidentified safecracker, thwarted after a failed church burglary, writes on a typewriter that he will never steal again. He claims the safe combination, learned by lighting a match to inspect the door, is printed plainly near the entry.
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Shreveport
First Methodist
Solon Demands Resignation of Governor Knight
SACRAMENTO UP A Democratic Assemblyman William A Munnell demanded Republican Governor Knight resign citing complete ignorance of legislative developments The release notes the budget stalemate after the session ended and a split vote along party lines 21 20 for Republicans and 19 18 for Democrats The statement accuses partisan politics for the failure to pass a budget bill
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Sacramento
Goodwin J. Knight
William A. Munnell
Assembly
Munnell
Knight
Linda Christian memoir plans amid romance rumors
Miami AP reports actress Linda Christian shifts from film industry to writing a life memoir. She arrived in Rio de Janeiro where ongoing political campaigns and Diamonds rumor swirl around Brazilian playboy Francisco Knight. Christian comments on relationships, denying certainty about a dramatic romance while press details surface of a string of millionaires and gifts.
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Linda Christian
Miami
Knight
Immedia Irom
Rio de Janeiro
Anjately
Francisco Knight
Californ
Pignatar
Munnell
Christian
Talks Continue In Pilot Strike At Western Air Lines
Talks between Western Air Lines and the Air Line Pilots Association continued in Los Angeles with no immediate progress expected. The strike entered its second month, halting Western's operations across 12 western states, Canada, and Mexico.
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INS
Western Air Lines
Striking Air Line Pilots Association
Western
Canada
Mexico
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