Eisenhower Veto Threat on Defense Bill Provision
President Eisenhower threatened to veto a defense money bill over a rider that would allow either House or Senate appropriations committees to veto Defense Department divestment moves. He argued the provision violates the constitutional independence of the executive branch and warned he would veto if not corrected. The confrontation drew mixed reactions from Congress as the bill, valued at about 31.88 billion dollars, moved forward.
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Eisenhower
Congress
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Rep
Sikes
D-Fla
Senate
House Appropriations Committees
Defense Department
Executive
Defense
House
Appropriations Committee
Ress
Approval Is Assured Resolution Expresses Self Determination Hope
Senate leaders from both parties backed a nonbinding resolution urging that subject states regain the right of self determination within a framework that sustains peace. The measure, approved unanimously by the Foreign Relations Committee, omits any direct reference to the Soviet Union or Geneva talks. President Eisenhower heads to Geneva with the First Lady after addressing the nation, while both he and Dulles push for eased Soviet control of Eastern Europe.
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Washington
Senate
Soviet Union
Geneva
Eisenhower
Dulles
Russia
Foreign Relations Committee
House
Red Farm Experts Must Decide On N. C. Visit
Russian farm experts arriving for a five week U.S. tour through six Western states must choose whether to include North Carolina in their itinerary. Officials from the State Department and Agriculture Department said departure is set for August 21. The Raleigh News and Observer invited the group to add North Carolina to their schedule.
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Washington
North Carolina
State Department
Agriculture Department
Raleigh
N.C
News and Observer
ICC Hears Segregation Cases Today
The Interstate Commerce Commission opens a full sitting to hear two segregation cases. The NAACP seeks to ban segregation on trains, waiting rooms, and depot restaurants, while Miss Sarah Keys asks for action after a 1952 North Carolina bus incident. Authorities debate constitutionality and the reach of ICC power.
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Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Howard Hosmer
Hosmer
Supreme Court
Sarah Keys
WAC
Ft. Dix
N.J
North Carolina
Isadore Freidson
South
Richmond, Va
Terminal Co
Union News Co
Richmond
Terminal Company
Atty
Gen
Brownell
Truman Addresses Shriners in Chicago Banquet
Former President Truman told the Shriners last night that the duties of American presidents are unequal in world history and that actions by a president affect up to a billion people. He expressed sympathy and support for any president and urged Shriners to be responsible for government acts. After the banquet, Truman headed to Kansas City and Independence while a 60 000 crowd watched Solider Field’s Shrinorama program with music fireworks vaudeville and circus acts.
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Chicago
Truman
United States
Mperial
Shriners
Kansas City
Independence
Soldier Field
GOP Seeks Compromise On Roads Financing Plan
Washington Republicans pressed to compromise rival road funding proposals in the Public Works Committee. The panel approved the road program at about 37 billion federal and 10 billion state funds over 12 years, rejecting a bond‑heavy Eisenhower plan. A Democratic substitute would tax gasoline trucks and buses diesel fuel and related items to raise about 850 million dollars yearly, with opposition as too steep for truckers.
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Washington
Public Works Committee
Eisenhower
Rep
Mack
R-Wash
Reseencene
Efort
Bier
Dulles Aims to Finalize Western Unity for Geneva
U S Secretary of State Dulles arrives in Paris to finish coordinating Western policy ahead of the Geneva talks. He plans meetings with Antoine Pinay and Harold Macmillan and will brief NATO ministers on the Western stance. Faure outlines disarmament and German reunification as key topics, proposing a four power fund and limits on armed forces to ease reunification.
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Paris
U.S
Douglas Dillon
Rene Massigli
John Foster Dulles
Orly Field
Britain
Anthony Eden
Antoine Pinay
Geneva
U. S
State Dulles
Harold Macmillan
North Atlantic Council
NATO
Washington
Eisenhower
Eden
Edgar Faure
Nikolai Bulganin
Soviet Union
Faure
Germany
Russia
West Germany
Delegation tells highway board no city truck route power
A Durham delegation led by George W. Carr told State Highway Chairman A. H. Graham that the State Highway Commission lacks authority to designate truck routes in a city. They asked for help routing heavy traffic away from University Drive in Forest Hills. Graham urged raising the issue with Durham City Council and said engineers would study truck traffic for a feasible solution.
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Raleigh
Durham
State Highway Commission
George W. Carr
A. H. Graham
University Drive
Forest Hills
Graham
Army Errors Cited in Peress Case by Senate Panel
The Senate Investigations subcommittee blamed 48 errors and red tape in Maj. Irving Peress’s promotion and honorable discharge, but found no subversion. It accused Army leadership of concealing facts and cited procedural delays and misapplied rules, urging further reforms.
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Washington
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Maj
Irving Peress
Army
Stevens
Pentagon
New York
Department of the Army
Congress
Sen
Bender
Ohio
Sen. McCarthy
Subcommittee
McCarthy
John G. Adams
Peress
Adams
Miller B. White
Army Personnel Board
Ruling Strikes Down Bus Segregation in South Carolina Suit
The 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously ruled that the separate but equal doctrine is repudiated in public transportation. The case, Flemming v. South Carolina Electric & Gas, sends the matter back for further proceedings, stating drivers enforcing state segregation statutes acted for the defendant.
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U.S. 4Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Sara Mae Flemming
South Carolina Electric & Gas Co
Columbia
Federal District Court of Eastern
4Th Circuit
Circuit Court
District Court
Virginia
Three Newsmen Called by Security Subcommittee
The Senate Internal Security subcommittee summoned three more newsmen for a public hearing in a hunt for past or present Communists from Brooklyn to Germany and Korea. Hans Bruno Meyer a German radio correspondent and Albert Einstein’s nephew was among those called, with Ira Henry Freeman of the New York Times and Ansel Talbert of the New York Herald Tribune also scheduled. No link to communism has appeared in Talbert’s past testimony. The inquiry began June 28 after CBS newsman Winston M. Burdett named over twenty associates he said were known as fellow Communists in the 1930s and 1940s. Burdett did not name today’s witnesses.
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Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Brooklyn
Germany
Korea
Hans Bruno Meyer
Albert Einstein
Ira Henry Freeman
New York Times
Ansel Talbert
New York Herald- Tribune
Talbert
Winston M. Burdett
CBS
Burdett
33 Missing After Small Boat Sinks in Gulf Rescue Efforts
Coast guard vessels and fishing boats hunted a stormy Gulf of Campeche for 33 missing after the 145 ton La Flecha sank near Veracruz. Three bodies were recovered and 37 rescued, with crews noting the ship carried at least 66 aboard though the list showed 16.
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Mexico
Gulf of Campeche
Caribbean
Trinidad
Gulf
Progreso
Yucatan Peninsula
Coast Guard
Sun Princess
Geneva Crisis Exposes Kremlin Dilemma Over Disarmament
William L. Ryan outlines Moscow’s aim to relax tensions at Geneva while keeping world communism intact. The piece notes aging Soviet leaders, fear of revolutionary pressure in the U.S., and hints at interest in Asia and China as potential distractions from disarmament talks. The analysis signals a cautious Kremlin waiting strategy and questions how far leadership will go to reassure the Soviet public.
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Kremlin
Geneva
Eisenhower
U.s.5.a
Lenin
Stalin
Moscow
Three Judge Court Opens Hearing On Summerton School Segregation
A three judge federal court in Columbia will hear the first post Supreme Court hearing on ending segregation in Summerton Clarendon County schools. Thurgood Marshall leads the NAACP side with new plaintiff additions while local officials warn of school closures to avoid mixing races amid a large Negro student body and small white enrollment.
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S.C
Federal District Court
Supreme Court
Summerton
Clarendon County
Epg Oy
Joes J. Parker
Charlotte
4Th Circuit Court of All
Armistead Ge
Charlottesville
Dan
George Bell Timmerman
Lumbia
Marshall
Confession To Killing Checked
JOPLIN Missouri officers reviewed a rambling confession by a farm laborer who admitted abducting 2 year old Donna Sue Davis from her crib and raping her while denying murder. The body of the Sioux City Iowa child was found near South Sioux City Nebraska. Audrey Brandt 42 of La Porte City Iowa confessed to taking the girl from her bed and raping her seven times. authorities say parts of the tale did not fit and FBI and Joplin police were reviewing inconsistencies.
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Donna Sue Davis
Sioux City
Iowa
Neb
Missouri River
John Showers
Audrey Brandt
la Porte City
Showers
F. FE. Bichel
FBI
Joplin Ce
Henry Kruse
Brandt
Donna Sue
James Davis
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