Crowds Pack London for Queen's Coronation Day Parade
Queen Elizabeth II hosted 11 Commonwealth premiers at a state lunch as thousands camp along the parade route. Prince Charles waved from a window while forecasts warned of showers and winds, and millions prepared to view the procession through a city already in festive but crowded mood.
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London
Elizabeth II
Commonwealth
Prince Charles
Buckingham Palace
Palace
Trafalgar Square
Winston Churchill
Britain
Louis St. Laurent
Canada
Australia
New Zeland
South Africa
India
Parkistan
Ceylon
Southern Rhodesia
Northern Ireland
Malta
Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Duke of Edinburgh
George III
Churchill
VA Head Resigns Due To Illness
President Eisenhower accepts the resignation of Carl R. Gray Jr. as head of the Veterans Administration due to illness. Effective June 30, Gray, a Truman holdover, led VA and previously directed railroad transport in Europe during World War II. Richard B. McEntire also resigns from the SEC effective immediately.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Carl R. Gray Jr
Veterans Administration
White House
Gray
Truman
Richard B. McEntire
Securities and Exchange Commission
McEntire
Profit Tax Extension Urged by Humphrey in Washington
Secretary of the Treasury Humphrey urged a six month extension of the excess profits tax before the House Ways and Means Committee. He argued the extension guards national economic security amid deferrals and a large deficit, noting the tax falls mainly on big profitable firms and that relief would be unfairly delayed for others. Opponents pressed cases affecting small and growing businesses.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
House
Eisenhower
Ways and Means
Barber Probes Theft of Law
State Senator William P. Barber examines statutes to see if theft of a law is illegal after a missing bill vanished from the legislature. He may refer the case to Hartford County states attorney as three other senators report similar disappearance of a 42 page bill on uniform administrative procedures.
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Hartford, Conn
LLP
William P. Barber
Connecticut
Barber
Hartford County
House i
Visitor to crown queen at Westminster Abbey by Duke of Norfolk
The duke of Norfolk will take possession of Westminster Abbey by receiving the keys from the dean as a royal processional “visitor” will crown the queen. Security rests with the earl marshal and Scotland Yard, with the coronation planned in the abbey under royal warrant.
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Randolph Churchill
United Press London
Westminster Abbey
Duke of Norfolk
Earl Marshal
A. C. Don
Westminster
Ministry of Works
Scotland Yard
Tower of London
Groucho Marx
Marx
Sees Them In Pairs Bishop Refuses Audience To Mob
About 30 white men tried to force an audience with Bishop Vincent Waters in Newton Grove North Carolina after consolidation of white and Negro parishes. The bishop allowed the men to meet him in pairs and unsegregated masses were held at Holy Redeemer. He defended the consolidation and urged an end to segregation. An incident outside the rectory caused no injuries as priests intervened.
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Newton Grove
N. C
Church of the Holy Redeemer
Vincent 5. Waters
Raleigh
Bis
St. Benedict's
Holy Redeemer
George Lynch
Catholic Orphanage
North Carolina
Lewallen
Enterprise
Whitt
Doc
Lee
Heat and Cool In America From Memorial Day Weekend
Cooler, drier air moved over the upper Mississippi Valley while the South remained hot and humid. Overnight lows dipped to 33 at Grand Marais and 47 at Houghton as Eastern Great Lakes rain dampened Pennsylvania and Virginia.
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Associated Press
Mississippi Valley
Ohio
Pennsylvania
South
Upper Michigan
Grand Marais
Houghton
Great Lakes
Virginia
Washington, D. C
Japan May Print Money On Film
Tokyo officials say Japan may print currency on plastic film instead of paper and are attempting to sell the idea to the government. They report the government seems impressed by the proposal.
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Japan
Tokyo
Tokyo Rubber Company
Supreme Court Recesses Without Segregation Decision
The Supreme Court recessed today until next Monday and did not issue any ruling on the segregation cases pending before it.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Holifield Attacks Private Interests in Atomic Power Push
Rep. Chet Holifield accuses self serving industrialists of steering the atomic energy program toward profit. He condemns Eisenhower’s cutback on atomic aircraft carrier and plane funding as dangerous and warns it could delay U S supremacy by three to five years. He cites plans to revise the AEC law and private control of plutonium as a bid to commercialize the A bomb program.
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Washington
Chet Holifield
D-Calif
House
Holifield
Eisenhower
Joint Congressional Committee On Atomic Energy
U. S
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Eighteen N. C. Holiday Deaths Are Reported
A United Press survey shows at least 18 people killed in North Carolina during the Memorial Day weekend by accidents and violence. Among the victims are 18-year-old Jesse Gurley near Pikeville, 17-year-old Joe Creech near Zebulon, and many others including a child riding a bicycle in Laurinburg and a man beaten to death in High Point. Authorities report various wrecks, drownings, and a fatal shooting as the holiday toll rises.
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North Carolina
United Press
Jesse William Gurley
Pikeville
Joe Daniel Creech
Zebulon
Wake Forest
Elton Bridgeman
Lamberton
Candor
Hubert M. Carver
Canton
Jerry Wayne Bennett
Smithfield
Greensboro
J. R. Britt
Piney Grove
Clinton
Woodrow Scott
Kenly
Scott
Lonnie Parks
Goldsboro
Euclid Groves Adams Jr
Laurinburg
Turner Lewallen
High Point
Robert B. Witt
Witt
Gardner Early Shearing
Littleton
Edward Petar
Edward Butler
Kinston
Roland Kornegay
Rhee Pushes Truce Plan Offer To US Pressed
Seoul sources report President Rhee handed a plan to Dwight Eisenhower proposing a truce in exchange for military and economic aid. The proposal requires US signed commitment before any armistice and assistance guarantees in case of a Communist invasion. Pyun Tong Tae cautions Communists may accept or reject the latest UN proposal.
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Seoul
Korea
Syngman Rhee
United States
South Korea
Eisenhower
U. S
Ellis O. Briggs
Rhee
National Security Council
Washington
South
Cnt
Sis
Southorea
Pyun Tong Tae
William Harrison
US N. For
Pyun
U.N
Armay
Whitt Bound Over On Murder Charge In Whitt Home Slaying
Robert Burton Whitt 44, a housepainter and former patient of state mental institutions, was bound over to the Superior Court on a murder charge after the beating death of Turner Lewallen 49 at Whitt’s 420 Fisher Street home between midnight and 4 25 yesterday. Lewallen died from head injuries and other wounds. Whitt scheduled for grand jury June 8 and held without bond.
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Leon Burnett
City Hall
Archie Myatt
Robert Burton Whitt
Turner
Doc” Lewallen
Whitt
Fisher Street
Winston-Salem Journal
Winston- Salem
Lewallen
D. S. Lee
Dewey M. Scott
Frank L. Smith
Smith
Leonard
Scott
Oea
Sabre Jets Down MIGs In North Korea Skirmish
American Sabre jets shot down one MiG and damaged two others in a North Korea engagement as rain limited ground action and the fighting reduced to patrol-scale operations. Capt Lonnie R. Moore led the destruction with Maj James Jabara and Lt William Schrim sher providing damage claims.
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North Korea
MI6
Lonnie R. Moore
Ft. Walton
Fla
James Jabara
Wichita
Kan
William F. Schrimsher
Curley
Ala
Eighth Army
Reds
Carson
Elko
Vegas
Berlin
East Berlin
The
Hook
Air Force
Far East Air Forces Headquarters
Marine AU
Weather forecast notes digits in temperatures and sun times
A brief weather update reports low temperature tonight at 2 and high tomorrow at 8. It lists today’s high as 0 and last night’s low as 59. Sunset is 7 51 p m and sunrise tomorrow at 5 05 a m.
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Weather Bureau
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Atlanta
Laneese
Boston
Chicago
Columbia
Denver
Detroit
Little Rock
Los Angeles
Memphis
Miami
Mobile
New Orleans
New York
Raleigh
San Antonio
San Francisco
Washington
Wilmington
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