Peace talks set to begin with rotating chairmanship
Western powers agreed to open Indochina talks with a rotating chair between Anthony Eden and Vyacheslav Molotov. W. D. Allen will notify Andrei Gromyko that the West is ready to meet, as Korea talks linger.
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Geneva
Anthony Eden
Vacheslav M. Molotov
W. D. Allen
Andrei Gromyko
Eden
Georges Bidault
Walter Bedell Smith
Bidault
Dien Bien Phu
Red China
Ay Rag
Atien
Laos
Iodia
India
Indonesia
Burma
Cambodia
Indochina
Russia
Indonchina
Employment Rises In April As Unemployment Drops
Washington reports April shows unemployment fell by 260000 to 3465000 while employment rose by 498000 from 60100000 to 60598000. Officials Mitchell and Weks credit seasonal outdoor activity and note April remains the second highest April jobless total since World War II.
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Washington
Labor
Mitchell
Commerce
Weks
Plane Controls Quit Working Over Nice
Bao Dai chief of state of Viet Nam flew from Nice on a plane whose controls failed ten minutes after takeoff. The pilot safely landed the aircraft.
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Nice
France
Bao Dai
Viet Nam
McCarthy Rebuked for Calling Army Charge a Lie at Hearings
Senator McCarthy was ordered to withdraw the word lie after denouncing an Army charge as false. Special counsel Ray Jenkins warned his language was improper while questioning Secretary Stevens. The luncheon incident involving Roy Cohn and Pvt. Schine’s dispute was discussed, and Stevens said the charge was not false.
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McCarthy
Washington
Sen
Army
McCarthy Camp
Ray H. Jenkins
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Stevens
Mundt
R-Sd
Roy M. Cohn
Pvt
G. David Schine
Cohn
New York
Carroll Arms Hotel
Francis P. Carr
McCarthy Committee
Carr
Schine
Joseph Alsop
New York Herald Tribune
Alssop
McCarthy Saevns
McCary Gs
Wisconsin
Sen. McCarthy
FBI
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
J. Edgar Hoover
Brownell
USW Seeks Guaranteed Wages in 1954 Steel Talks
Pittsburgh report outlines United Steelworkers demands for a guaranteed annual wage and pay increases as key goals of 1954 contract talks with the basic steel industry. David J. McDonald notes plans include improved insurance and pensions and reforms on seniority holidays vacations overtime and severance. He cites a wage target for about 600 000 members and mentions a supplemental benefit for unemployed workers under a trust fund.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
USW
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Democrats Demand Action to End TV Spectacles
In Washington a Jefferson-Jackson dinner drew 1500 guests at $100 each as Democrats blasted Republican missteps. Speakers urged decisive action to avoid a cold war heat up while recounting McCarthy era tensions and Indochina setbacks. Truman Johnson and Stevenson featured in a night of sharp political rhetoric.
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Washington
McCarthy-Pentagon
Indochina
Truman
Free World
Lyndon B., Johnson
Texas
Senate
Democratic
Eisenhower
Sam Rayburn
House
McCarthy
Adlai E. Stevenson
Forbes Magazine Publisher Dies
New York obituary notes 74 year old B C Forbes founder editor and publisher of Forbes Magazine died last night in his Fifth Avenue office. He rose from printer's devil in Scotland to become a leading American financial writer and entrepreneur behind the semimonthly publication founded in 1917.
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New York 2
B. C. Forbes
Forbes Magazine
Scotland
America
Forbes
Fifth Ave
Russian Arms Found In Nicaragua By Submarine Cache
President Anastasio Somoza announced a large cache of Russian made arms found on Nicaragua's Pacific coast between Montelimar and El Tamarindo. He said a mysterious submarine visited the beach and buoy marked the hiding place, containing rifles machine guns grenades pistols and ammunition in weatherproof packaging. Somoza called the discovery very serious and questioned international groups or rebels behind the supply, referencing a failed coup last month.
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Managua
Nicaragua
Anastasio Somoza
Nicarane
Pacific
Montelimar
el Tamarindo
Somoza
Korea
Dulles Outlines Two-Stage Asian Alliance Plan
Secretary of State Dulles sketches a two stage plan to organize a Southeast Asia security coalition. The first stage center on a multination military staff conference with five to a dozen nations and British cooperation. He aims for a provisional security arrangement pending later talks and a formal treaty. Broadcast tonight will cover Indochina and the Korean stalemate.
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Washington
Dulles
Southeast Asia
Passey
Churchill
United Action
Indochina
Geneva
ABC TV
NBC
CBS
Mutual Radio Networks
CBS TV
ABC Radio
Eisenhower
Little Fortress Isabelle Holds On As Dien Bien Phu Falls
Paris report on Dien Bien Phu collapse with Brig Gen Christian de Castries’s surrendering garrison. Isabelle fortress still held three miles south of the submerged core after 20 hours of battle. France vows firm Geneva stance and note of collective Allied defense.
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Associated Press
Paris
Dien Bien Phu
Joseph Laniel
Indochina
Isabelle
Christian de Castries
de Castries
Genevieve de Galard Terraube
Laniel
National Assembly
France
Geneva
Asia
Assembly
Ho Nguyen Giap
Five Killed In Collision At New Bern
Five people died in a head on crash near New Bern North Carolina early today after one car attempted a left turn into a side road and struck an oncoming car. The victims include Juanita Dixon 26 and four Marines from Cherry Point Pfc Alfred H Southard Pfc Harold Burrows Pfc Frederick K Wellert. The crash occurred on Highway 70 about 15 miles east of New Bern around 5 am.
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New Bern
N. C
Frank Ballard
Rt. 5
Lexington
N.C
Juanita Dixon
Alfred H. Southard
Cherry Point Marine Air Base
Harold Burrows
Marine Air Corp
Cherry Point
Frederick K. Wellert
Marine Air Corps Base
Ashby
Miss Dixon
Southard
Croner
Burrows
Wellert
Top Senatorial Candidates Take Aim and Barrages Begin
In Raleigh the U S Senate race heats up as challenger Alvin Wingfield Jr. attacks Sen Alton A Lennon over draft records and income taxes while Lennon defends his record and travels from Catawba County to Washington. Incumbent W Kerr Scott insists on discussing real issues and rejects personal smears.
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Raleigh
U. S. Senate
Alvin Wingfield Jr
Alton A. Lennon
Lennon
W. Kerr Scott
Scott
Catawba County
Washington
North Carolina
United States
United States Senate
Wingfield
Senate
FCC
Sen. Senfree
AP Survey Finds First Quarter Profits Mixed Among 1954 Firms
AP compilation shows 616 large U S corporations earned a total 1.884 billion dollars in Q1 1954, barely up from 1.879 billion in 1953. Gains credited to tax elimination amid uneven results across industries. some majors like General Motors and Du Pont posted large tax-driven increases while railroads, textiles, steel and airlines faltered.
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General Motors Corp
E. I. du Pont de Nemours & Co
Pulp and Paper Conpaaree
General Motors and
du Pont
General Electric Co
Bell Telephone System
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Standard Oil Co
New Jersey
Standard of California
Westinghouse Electric Corp
The
Texas Co
General Motors
Giant Motor Co
Chrysler Corp
Nash, Studebaker and
Packard
Sharp
Skies Clear Over Southern U S With Regional Showers
Weather report notes scattered showers across northern Texas Oklahoma and Arkansas delivering up to an inch in Tulsa and .24 inches in Childress Texas. Cold air spreads across Ohio Valley eastern Great Lakes and New England with rain drizzle and snow flurries in the northern Lakes region. Temperatures vary from near 28 at Huron South Dakota to 31 at Green Bay Wisconsin and 7 at Blythe California.
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Associated Press
Great Plains
Great Lakes
Texas
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Tulsa
Childress
Tex
Ohio Valley
New England
Northern Lakes
Huron
S. D
Green Bay
Wis
Blythe
Calif
Yuma
Ariz
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