Ike Declares Luce Still Useful Brazil Envoy
President Eisenhower said Mrs. Clare Boothe Luce’s value as ambassador to Brazil remains intact after her clash with Senator Morse. He reported a survey showed she would be welcome in Rio and noted there has been no major impairment to her usefulness or resignation offer.
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Clare Boothe Luce
Brazil
U.S. Senate
Henry R. Luce
Time-Life Fortune
Washington
Eisenhower
Wayne Morse
D-Ore
Senate
Oregon
Morse
Luce
Lawmakers Eye January Session Start and $10,000 Death Benefits
Rep Oral L Yates proposes restoring January convenings for biennial sessions. He notes income tax totals influence fiscal decisions and cites April filing timing. Rep Marcellus Buchanan would grant 10000 death benefits to survivors of patrolmen slain in line of duty, referencing W L Reese of Hamlet and J T Brown of Sanford killed March Navy 5 1957. Frank E Wetzel convicted in the slayings.
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Raleigh
Oral L. Yates
Haywood
Yates
Marcellus Buchanan
Jackson
Navy
W. L. Reese
Hamlet
J. T. Brown
Sanford
Frank Edward Wetzel
New York
Reese
Brown
Sailors urged to learn foreign tongues in Pacific tour
Honolulu AP report says naval forces in the U S Pacific Fleet are advised to brush up on languages. Admiral Herbert G. Hopwood, fleet commander, urged sailors to use at least a few words of the native language in foreign ports.
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Honolulu
U.S. Pacific
Adm
Herbert G. Hopwood
Wage Bill Nearing Senate Action For 79 Cent Minimum
The 79 cent per hour minimum wage bill, approved by the Senate Committee on Manufacturing, Labor and Commerce with one dissent, heads to the Senate for action after House passage. If enacted it would take effect January 1 and raise about 55,000 retail and service workers’ wages by roughly 15 cents an hour.
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Senate Committee On Manufacturing, Labor and Commerce
House
Frank Crane
Ministers in Paris back plan to package Berlin talks in Geneva
Western foreign ministers from the United States Britain France and West Germany agreed to treat Berlin and a German peace treaty as a package for Geneva talks with the Soviet Union. The group met to align positions ahead of the May 11 East West Geneva meeting.
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Paris
Berlin
Geneva
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
France
West Germany
Germany
U.S
Christian A. Herter
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Heinrich von Brentano
Herter
Couve de Murville
von Brentano
West Berlin
Andrei Gromyko
Red China
Warsaw
Nuclear blast in space could endanger travelers
Washington AP reports Prof. Nicholas C. Christofilos and Air Force scientists warned at a symposium that megaton nuclear detonations in outer space could expose a satellite traveler to lethal radiation. Three partial tests last August and September formed a transient radiation shell around Earth, with a single megaton burst capable of delivering 400 roentgens within three hours.
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National Academy of Jonal
American Physical Society
Christofilos
Outer Space
British Press Blasts Montgomery For TV Attack on U S Leaders
London papers blasted Field Marshal Montgomery for a TV interview criticizing American wartime leaders and Western unity on the eve of East West talks. The comments targeted Eisenhower, Dulles, and Herter as "not very well" and prompted editorials questioning Britain’s position and Khru schev’s reply.
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London
Britain
Montgomery
Ae U
U. S
Moscow
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Christian A. Herter
Daily Sketch
Monty
Liberal News Chronical
Khruschev
The
Herter
Dulles
Former bank official Streater sentenced for embezzlement
Ex bank official John Wesley Streater of Cheraw was sentenced to six years in prison for embezzling more than half a million dollars from the South Carolina National Bank. The case involved a dispute over pay levels and a bank statement protest to the judge.
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Columbia
John Wesley Streater
Cheraw
Streater
South Carolina National Bank
Federal District
Ashton Williams
Williams
House Democrats seek first postwar veto override
In Washington, House Democrats race to override Eisenhower's veto of a bill stripping Ezra Taft Benson of power to veto rural electric cooperative loan programs. The Senate already overridden 64 to 29. House leaders hedge, with Rayburn confident and Halleck predicting a close, sustained veto.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Ezra Taft Benson
Senate
Frank J. Lausche
Ohio
Ross
Rural Electrification Administration
Benson
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Melvin Price
D-Ill
Charles A. Halleck
Indiana
House Republican Policy Committee
Cuban Surrender Conditions Set
A Cuban invasion group in Panama says they will surrender only if they are returned to Cuba and not punished. Panama's government, led by President de la Guardia, rejects broader guarantees and awaits Latin American ambassadors from the OAS for mediation.
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Panama
Cuba
Washington
Organization of American States
Miguel Moreno Jr
Fidel Castro
Nombre de Dios
Caribbean
Castro
Armando Torres
Torres
Fernando Ruiz
de la Guardia
Jose Bazan
Eisenhower urges tighter controls on Senate labor bill
President Eisenhower told reporters Congress must tighten the Senate labor control bill at three points. He cited definite weaknesses and dissatisfaction with the measure, urging amendments to curb secondary boycott, outlaw blackmail picketing, and clarify the no man’s land provision. He noted the substitute bill was not a real remedy.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
Coon-Chasing Hound Inches From Freedom
Little Richard the coon chasing hound remained trapped in a limestone cliff crevice on day six in Owasso Oklahoma. Rescue teams used sedative food from student Don Dillard and jackhammer work to widen a tunnel while the dog barked and showed signs of relief as humans neared.
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Owasso
Okla
Little Richard
Bob Parkhurst
Tulsa Radio
KRMG
Richard
Don Dillard
Dillard
Michigan Faces Paydays Delay Amid Fiscal Standstill
Michigan lawmakers and state workers face delayed pay as a partisan budget stalemate shuts off a five million dollar payroll for 28 000 state employees including prison guards and teachers. Governor Williams blames Republicans for blocking a plan to liquidate the 50 million dollar veterans trust fund without a tax hike, signaling broader financial trouble and possible delays in May payrolls.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
G. Mennen Willams
Supreme Court
Williams
State Senate
Veterans Trust Fund
Edward Hutchinson
Veter
Republica
Malicions
Dellete
Veterans Fund
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Thomas Kuchel
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