Speed-Up In Cuba Expected
Havana AP reports Fidel Castro will become Premier on Monday and lead a faster social and economic program. Raul Castro would take over the army post, while Jose Miro Cardona resigns as premier with Castro keeping some ministers. Labor demands and seven years of Batista rule loom large.
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Havana
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Fulgencio Batista
Tro
Raul
Castro
Jose Miro Cardona
Excelsior
Miro Castro
Batista
Ashland Fire Kills 11 in Old Vaudeville Theater Converted Apartments
A rapid blaze in a stone building converted to apartments killed 11 and sent 8 to area hospitals in Ashland Kentucky. Patrolmen helped occupants escape from second floor windows as seven others remained trapped near the ceiling collapse. Witnesses describe flames tearing through the interior and a woman giving birth to a stillborn child before dying.
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Ashland
Sistory
Nine year old objects to longer school year in Wisconsin
MARKESAN Wis AP nine year old Susan Maderow a fourth grader objects to Gov Gaylord Nelson idea of a 10 month school year she says she likes school but asks not to lengthen it and tells her father not to vote for him Nelson replies acknowledging he was a boy and compliments her letter while joking he should go back to school she notes likely no one agrees with him
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Markesan
Wis
Susan Maderow
Susan
Nelson
Town Without Any Candidates in Leland Illinois
In Leland Illinois with about 700 residents no one filed to run for city office by the filing deadline. There will be no primary and ballots will be blank for the council seats requiring voters to write in candidates.
Dulles Cancer Keeps Secretary at State on Leave
President Eisenhower announced John Foster Dulles has cancer of undetermined extent. He will remain secretary of state on leave of absence while receiving radiation therapy after groin hernia surgery. A medical bulletin noted no immediate surgery and described Dulles in good spirits with stable vitals.
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Washington
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
Sat- Taweg
Dulles
Walter Reed Army Medical Center
Anne Wheaton
White House
Tiny Philadelphia girl pronounced dead then found alive
A premature baby girl born to Mrs. Guy Quarto in Philadelphia was first pronounced dead at hospital after being taken to a morgue. Officers found her moving and breathing, she was rushed to Hahnemann Hospital and placed in an incubator with a fair condition reported. The infant will be named Kathleen.
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Philadelphia
Guy Quarto
Philadelphia General Hospital
Hahnemann Hospital
Herter Says He Would Accept Secretary of State Job
Washington AP Christian A. Herter said he would accept the secretary of state post if President Eisenhower asked him He is currently undersecretary and spoke after a South Carolina vacation He noted Eisenhower might replace the ailing John Foster Dulles and that Dulles telephoned him about entering the hospital Herter said he would continue as acting secretary briefly if needed and hoped for a quick resolution.
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Washington
Christian A. Herter
Eisenhower
Herter
South Carolina
Dulles
Sandbag Dike Holds Water Back at West Terre Haute
Flood threat eased as the Wabash crest neared 24.6 feet at West Terre Haute then fell back to 24.3 amid light rain. Upstream stages declined, while 250 residents evacuated Old York community and 125 National Guardsmen with 50 penal farm prisoners reinforced dike workers to plug a break.
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Associated Press
West Terre ‘Haute
Ind
West Terre Haute
Indianapolis Weather Bureau
Wabash
Hutsonville
Ill
Terre Haute
Mount Carmel
Old York
Dulles Illness Clouds Western Diplomatic Plan
Washington AP report notes cancer sidelining John Foster Dulles as Western ministers plan Paris talks and a NATO Council meeting. Uncertainty over Dulles participation raises questions about a possible Four powers conference with the Soviet Union and a potential later summit. Moscow pressure on Berlin dominates the diplomatic outlook amid talks of East West accords.
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Washington
U. S
Soviet Union
Germany
Europe
John Foster Dulles
Dulles
NATO Council
Ormng
Rong
Geneva
Ie S
Weather Expert Links Antarctic Data to Global Warming Trend
Washington AP reports U S Weather Bureau scientists say Antarctic records support a slow global temperature rise of about two to three degrees per century. Dr H E Landsberg notes uncertainty but confirms a warming pattern since 1900 with Arctic thinning ice and earlier open harbors at Spitsbergen and northward tree movement in Lapland.
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U.S. Weather Bureau
Bureau
H. E. Landsberg
Office of Climatology
Landsberg
Alaska
Arctic Ocean
Spitsbergen
Finnish
Lapland
Pacific Coast
California
British Columbia
New Haven
Conn
United States
Anti-Racket Bills Ready For Congress
Senator John L. McClellan and Representative Graham Barden unveiled anti-racket legislation aimed at purging labor racketeers. They said the measures would set standards for unions to qualify as bargaining representatives and to file unfair labor practice complaints, while targeting misuse of union funds and properties. The proposals add to rival labor bills in Congress as Kennedy and Eisenhower administration drafts remain in play.
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Washington
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Graham A. Barden
D-Nc
McClellan
Senate Labor Management Committee
Barden
House Labor Committee
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
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Trixie
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St. Louis
Anthony
Peg Tee
Walter Reed
Truman
Christian Herter
Iness of Dulles
Paris
State Department
Weatherman
By Frank Carey
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Pole
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