Soviet Leaders Offer Global Arms Ban During UK Visit
Russia's rulers Bulganin and Khrushchev pressed for a worldwide arms embargo on the Middle East at a London news conference before leaving for Portsmouth. They urged closer Soviet American ties, sought end to Western trade embargoes, and signaled readiness to discuss disarmament, noting underwater snags in talks with British leaders.
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London
Russia
Britain
Middle East
Fremor
Wunolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Portsmouth
Orjonikidze
Anthony Eden
Soviet Union
Bulganin
Khrushchev
Victoria Station
Eden
Selwyn Lloyd
Manpower Shortage Faces Strategic Air Command
General Curtis LeMay testified before a Senate Armed Services subcommittee that the lack of trained professional manpower is SACs most critical deficiency. He warned that without skilled personnel the nation cannot carry out war plans and reiterated concerns about aircraft numbers, jet tanker to bomber ratios, and base adequacy. Symington noted preclearance by the Pentagon for security purposes but final testimony rests with LeMay.
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Washington
INS
Curtis E. LeMay
Strategic Air Command
LeMay
SAC
Senate Armed Services Subcommittee
Stuart Symington
Broker Named In Uranium Stock Swindle
New York A federal grand jury indicted Jersey City broker Walter F. Tellier 54 on charges he defrauded about 50,000 investors in a 15 million dollar uranium stock deal while already facing a Seattle telephones stock case. Prosecutors say Tellier used radio TV and newspaper ads to push Consolidated Uranium Mines shares of Salt Lake City while profits came from promotional hype and misrepresentation. Consolidated Uranium Mines had no ties to Tellier’s scheme.
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New York
Jersey City
Seattle
U. S
Walter F. Tellier
Tellier and Company
Tellier
Consolidated|t Uranium Mines, Inc
Salt Lakeje
Consolidated Uranium Mines
Unhappy Spy Career Retold
David Greenglass described his unhappy path as an atomic spy from early ties to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg to the collapse of his beliefs. Before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee, the 84 year old convicted agent recalled testimony that helped convict the Rosenbergs and explained his reluctance and disillusionment with communism. He is serving a 15 year sentence at Lewisburg federal penitentiary after pleading years ago.
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Washington
INS
David Steenglass
Lewisburg
Young Communist League
New York
Woman Charged In Chest Theft In San Francisco
Mrs. Elsie L. MacArthur, 82, a former bookkeeper for the San Francisco Community Chest, was arrested on a grand theft warrant claiming she stole $3841 from Chest funds in 1954 and 1955. A preliminary audit indicated a $30,000 shortage in the fund.
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San Francisco
Elsie L. MacArthur
Boy Kills Father In Family Car Dispute
In Minneapolis a 14 year-old boy shot and killed his father over use of the family car. Loren Abbott, 43, was killed by his son Michael as his mother and two younger brothers waited in the basement. Police described Michael as very remorseful after the incident.
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Minneapolis
Edwina
Loren Abbott
Michael
FBI Says Dynamite Wrecked Airliner
FBI chemist Dr. J William Magee testified at the Jack Graham minds trial that residues and more than 20 aircraft parts examined in the FBI lab indicate the UAL airliner crash on November 1 was caused by exploding dynamite. He said the foreign material found on parts originated from dynamite.
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Denver
Ims
FBI
Washington
Jack Graham
UAL
J. William Magee
Walda Winchell Divorces Hyatt Von Dehn
Walda Winchell, daughter of Walter Winchell, divorced Hyatt Von Dehn, a hotel man who was nine times wed to singer Ginny Sims. She testified he was rude and abusive and that she did not make a good wife.
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Los Angeles
Mns
Walda Winchell
Walter Winchell
Hyatt von Dehn
von Dehn
Ginny Sims
Daylight Time Begins Sunday Across Regions
Clocks move one hour ahead Sunday night with daylight time running until September 30. Railroads largely stay on standard time, except intra state runs on daylight time for Southern Pacific and Santa Fe. Airlines will use local times, daylight time in California, standard time elsewhere.
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Southern Pacific
Santa Fe
California
Thompson Girls Fund Set Up After San Leandro Accident
Rev Ray Boyd of Calvary church announces a trust fund for the three Thompson children Joy seven Marie nine and Gay three after Fred Thompson 29 died from injuries sustained while building a ramp for his polio wife Marie in iron lung. Donations to the fund may be made at the church 20970 Stanton Avenue with funeral services pending.
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Castro Valley
Ray Boyd
Calvary Church
Fred Thompson
Marie
Thompson
Hannah Street
San Leandro
Jung
Joy
Gay
Stanton Avenue
Police Hunt Son Of Atomic Expert
Police scoured Colby college campus for 18 year old Jobst M Wundt freshman from Winchester Massachusetts missing since midnight Tuesday. He is son of German nuclear physicist Rolf Wundt who came to the United States eight years ago. A roommate reported a possible sighting and officials disclosed the disappearance late last night.
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Waterville
Colby College
M. Wundt
Winchester
Mass
Colby
Rolf
Wundi
United States
Germany
Peggy Lee to Wed Actor Dewey Martin Soon
Hollywood gossip reports singer Peggy Lee plans to marry actor Dewey Martin soon. The couple allegedly arranged a dawn wedding and withheld specific date details.
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Peggy Lee
Hollywood
Money Les
Pete Kelly
She
Fastor
Dewey Martin
Dawn
Tax Savings on Annex To Hayward Are Seen At Hillview Crest
Hillview Crest voters face annexation to Hayward in Tuesday’s election. If approved, homeowners on a $10,000 value home would save about 32.50 yearly after tax and service adjustments, with veterans paying about 19.50. The 120 acre area includes 935 homes, a school and a shopping center, and is part of a 2400 acre Treeview annex history challenged in court. Local tax and service shifts would remove the Decoto Fire district levy and provide city services at in city rates.
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Hillview Crest
Hayward
Pia Masser S. Smith
Ea Ich
Niles Highway
Deccto
Treeview Annex
Union City
Alvarado
Decoto
Superior Court
District Court of Appeals
Smith
Rains Benefit Area Cattle and Crops in Alameda County
Weather advisory by Lee Benson, farm home advisor, notes April showers eased drought but harmed strawberries and Royal Ann cherries, with possible sugar beet replanting if warmth spikes. Hay quality may fall while beef cattle benefit from renewed pasture. improvements expected as clouds break later today and skies clear tomorrow.
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Alameda
Lee Benson
Alameda County
Benson
Man to Take Name Of Future Bride In Marriage Plan
Lloyd A. Peterson a 55 year old junior high school teacher in Los Angeles had his last name changed to Evans in superior court. He will marry Lt. Col. Sylvia M. Evans retired from the Army Nurses Corps. She is widely known by the Evans surname, so he chose to take it.
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Los Angeles
Ins
Liloyd A. Peterson
Evans
Superior Court
Sylvia M. Evans
Army Nurses ’Corps
Sears Kahn Shopping Center Hearing Date Set
The Hayward Planning Commission scheduled May 24 for a hearing on precise zoning of the Sears Kahn shopping center. A preliminary master plan report was heard and an estimate suggests work will finish before the May 24 hearing.
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Hayward
Sears-Kahn
Two Die in Crash On Wet Highway Near Bakersfield
A rain wreck on U.S. Highway 89 about 35 miles south of Bakersfield left Curtis M. Johnson 26 of Long Beach and Ronald R. Fisher 19 of Long Beach dead. Driver Michael Anson 21 of Compton escaped serious injury as his car skidded broadside into a truck and trailer after wipers failed to clear a slick windshield.
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Bakersfield
U.S
Here
Curtis M. Johnson
Long Beach
Ronald R Fisher
Michael Anson
Compton
Explosion Kills Nine in Virginia Apartment House
A gas explosion razed a Pulaski Virginia apartment house killing at least nine people who slept inside. Firefighters controlled the blaze within hours as rescue crews searched rubble for missing residents and identified several victims. Witnesses said screams ceased minutes after the blast caused by a match lit to start a hot water heater.
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Pulaski
Georgia
Morris
Clarkie Mahe
Bertie Woodward
D. Benton
Libbie Welch
Garland Welch
W. J. Mahaffey
Mahaffey
Registered Democrats Top GOP 2-1 in Alameda County
Final voter registration in Southern Alameda County shows Democrats leading Republicans by more than two to one. County Clerk Jack G. Blue reports 379,316 eligible voters for the June primary, with 219,874 Democrats and 150,262 Republicans, plus various minor parties. Distribution by township lists totals and party splits for Eden, Washington, Fremont, Hayward, Newark, and San Leandro areas.
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Alameda County
Jack G. Blue
Blue
Eden Township
Washington Township
Fremont
Hayward
Newark
San Leandro
Red Tourist Bans May Be Off Soon
Hemphill, a travel service operator who recently returned from a 5000 mile trek through Russia, predicts Americans will soon tour Russia without restrictions. He says past visa refusals were due to lack of accommodations meeting American high living standards.
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Los Angeles
Inssi
Hemphill
Russia
Girl 19 crushed by falling concrete slab in Springfield
A 100 pound concrete slab fell from a building in Springfield overnight, crushing Sandra Stivers who was in a car with her father. The incident injured another person and is under investigation by local authorities.
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Springfield
Sandra Stivers
Oakland Grand Jury indicts four in $16,000 fraud scheme
Alameda County Grand Jury indicts Fordyce Walker Grace Walker Tais Leonard Comstock on multiple counts of grand theft and forgery for swindling Hayward area businesses and residents. Victims included elderly and disabled as the jurors heard how alleged schemes used forged documents and false insurance claims to obtain cars, appliances, and loans. A related case charged assault with a deadly weapon in an attempted rape at Highland Hospital.
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Oakland
Alameda County
Eden Township
Hayward Area
Fordyce Walker
Marie Drive
San Tiyaiee
Spiritual Army of God
Grace
Tais
Leonard Comstock
Farnsworth Avenue
Washington Manor
Walker
Comstock
Edward Smith
Superior Court
San Leandro
Ang
William Petit
Walker's Rest
Winds Lash N Mexico Forest Fire
A fierce windstorm blasted the Lincoln National Forest in New Mexico driving a fire to burn over 7000 acres of timberland and push the blaze out of control. Winds 35 to 50 mph churned sand and smoke as crews of U S Forest Service, Mescalero Apache, and volunteers battled the flames with parachuted supplies and limited visibility. A smaller fire near Romeroville between Santa Fe and Las Vegas was reported, with some crew strands and uncertainty about numbers.
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U.S. Forest Service
New Mexico
Romeroville
Santa Fe
Las Vegas
Lincoln Forest
Forestey
Bay Area Weather Cites Warmer Trend Tomorrow
Forecast calls for fair skies and a rise in temperatures in the Bay Area. Tonight’s low expected between 44 and 50 degrees while yesterday’s high reached 80 with some rainfall noted the previous day.
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Bay Area
Siamese Twins May Be Parted
In Fargo North Dakota a petite wife gave birth to Siamese twin girls weighing nine pounds eight ounces. Doctors at St John’s hospital report the babies joined at the upper chest and abdomen, with good chances of separation. Father Lawrence Newhbauer calls it a surprise and expresses hope for future surgery.
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Fargo
N.D
North Dakota
St. John's Hospital
Lawrence Newhbauer
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