Soviet proposal seeks European security first in German question
The Soviet Union called for a step by step solution to German reunification tied to an all European system of collective security. It rejected West German linkups with Western or Warsaw pact alliances and urged inclusion of all European states in a peaceful process, six days before a Geneva summit.
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Soviet Union
Daza
Europe
West Germany
Germany
Tass
Geneva
East Germany
Statentent
Flint Bar Shooting Leaves Three Dead Two Injured
Kenneth Kuzner of Detroit shot four patrons in Edns Bar and Restaurant in Grand Blanc after ranting about laughing patrons. Farah and his wife Jeannine died, Margaret Cross died later, James Dollars was critically injured. Kuzner was captured near Pontiac and confessed the motive was irritation at the victims.
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Flint
Mich
Kenneth Kuzner
Detroit
Pontiac
Kuzner
Edn
Grand Blanc
Farah
Jeannine
Margaret
Cross
James Dollars
Russell Proposes Revision of Military Reserve Plan
Senator Russell proposes a revised reserve system favored by President Eisenhower and the Pentagon. The plan favors a volunteer teenage reservist program, exempts former service members from compulsory drills, and adds a bonus for active reserve duty. It aims to build a 2,900,000 strong combat reserve by 1960 while balancing draft exemptions and National Guard assignments.
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Russell
D-G
Eisenhower
Pentagon
Senate Armed Services Committee
House
Senate
Ruth Ellis Hanged For Lover's Murder In London Street
Ruth Ellis a 28 year old former model and mother of two was hanged outside Holloway Prison for the Easter Sunday murder of her lover David Blakely. The case sparked debate over capital punishment in Britain as a crowd watched the sentence carried out.
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Violet van der Elst
Britain
London
Holloway
Ruth Ellis
Albert Pierrepoint
Ellis
Goodby
Gwilym Lloyd-George
David Blakely
Government Releases More Salk Polio Vaccine
The Public Health Service cleared 1,000,000 cubic centimeters of Salk polio vaccine in under a week, adding 720,000 c.c. more for 720,000 shots. The total still falls short of the six million shots the National Foundation said needed to complete free inoculations for first and second graders.
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Washington
Public Health Service
C.c
Eling & Co
Indianapolis
National Foundation For
Hobby resigns as Welfare Secretary in Ike era shuffle
Mrs Oveta Culp Hobby resigns as secretary of health education and welfare effective August 1. President Eisenhower names Marion B. Folsom undersecretary of the treasury to succeed her, praising Hobby's WAC leadership and noting Folsom's role in social security and tax code reforms.
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Oveta Culp Hobby
Eisenhower
Marion B. Folsom
the Treasury
Mrs. Hobby
Folsom
McRae
Eastman Kodak Co
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Treasury
83Rd Congress
Hobby
No Asian Decisions Planned
Senator Humphrey praised President Eisenhower for not committing Asia policy at Geneva. He warned against Soviet mediation of Asian affairs and urged including Asian voices in decisions. Secretary Dulles heads to Paris for Western strategy talks with Britain and France ahead of the Big Four summit. Eisenhower travels to Geneva after a NATO meeting and radio broadcast.
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Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Eisenhower
Asia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Korea
Viet Nam
Big Four
Dulles
Paris
North Atlantic Treaty Council
Geneva
Eleven Die In Tanker Plane Crash Near Merced California
Eleven men died when a four engine KC91G tanker plane crashed after leaving Castle Air Force Base near Merced California. The aircraft exploded on impact at about 1500 feet and debris ignited a grain field. The crash occurred northwest of Merced near Cressey during a routine refueling mission.
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Calif
Castle Air Force Base
Here
Castle Afb
Cressey
Sheriff's Office
Newsmen invoke Fifth Amendment in Senate probe of Communists
Two New York City newspaper men refuse to confirm past Communist ties as they invoke the Fifth Amendment during a Senate Internal Security subcommittee hearing. David Gordon and Melvin Barnett, formerly with the Brooklyn Eagle, faced questions about 1937 to 1943 affiliations amid testimony from Winston Burdett tying former Eagle staff to Communist activity.
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Washington
New York City
Senate
David A. Gordon
New York Daily News
Melvin L. Barnett
New York Times
Brooklyn Eagle
Gordon
Barnett
Winston M. Burdett
CBS
Burdett
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Eastland
D-Miss
the Eagle
Geneva at a crossroads for world communism analysis
AP analyst William L. Ryan argues the Geneva Big Four summit tests world communism. He notes Soviet internal tension between old Bolshevik doctrine and new economic realities, Khrushchev’s leadership, and Russian fears of war while signaling hopeful openness to outsiders.
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William L. Ryan
Soviet Union
Eisenhower
Charles E. Bohlen
Geneva
Fate of World at Stake Says Bernard Baruch
Bernard Baruch warned at the White House that the Big Four face a Geneva decision to determine if civilization will go forward or back. He spoke after meeting with President Eisenhower and Secretary of State Dulles, noting he speaks as a private citizen and will not tell the leaders what to do at the Geneva talks opening Monday.
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Washington
Bernard M. Baruch
White House
Geneva
New York
Eisenhower
State Dulles
Baruch
Big Four
Johnson Watches Happenings in Senate While Hospitalized
Sen. Lyndon B. Johnson remains in bed at Naval Medical Center Bethesda after a heart attack labeled moderately severe. He follows Senate developments via family aides and a small group of visitors while wife Lady Bird supervises access and a television in his room. Doctors monitor him hourly and assess when he may be strong enough to leave hospital in roughly three weeks, with further recovery at home.
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Washington
Lyndon B. Johnson
Senate
Johnson
Naval Medical Center
Bethesda
Texas
Lady Bird
Eigen
Sam Houston Johnson
Lyndon Johnson
Tal
Xas
Adams Requests Suspension Delays Dixon-Yates Hearing
Chairman Adair Armstrong of the SEC testified that suspension of a Dixon Yates financing hearing was requested by Sherman Adams to let government lawyers decide on intervention. The delay aims to shield questions on First Boston officials and possible White House involvement as Kefauver’s Senate subcommittee probes the Dixon Yates contract and TVA transmission line.
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Washington
Adair Armstrong
Secure and Exchange Commission
Dixon-Yates
Csted
Sherman Adams
Armstrong
Adams
Duncan R. Linsley
First Boston Corp
Adolphe Wenzell
First Boston
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Senate
Atty
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Sen. Gore
Congress
Atomic Energy Commission
Presford Eisenhower
Brownell
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