Army officers describe successful integration in Germany
In Darmstadt Germany six foot tall Nemi Harris a Black soldier from California and First Lt Benjamin Alexander a Black officer in a U S Army signal battalion discuss desegregation. Harris says assignments depend on qualifications and integration has improved efficiency and morale. White leaders praise harmonious living and equal treatment as about 12 percent of the battalion are Black.
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Maine
North Carolina
Still Hope For Postalmen After Veto Over Pay Hike
House Majority Leader McCormack said there is a good chance the House will override President Eisenhower’s veto of the postal pay hike if given the chance. Eisenhower rejected an 8.8 percent average boost for about half a million postal workers as too expensive and unfair to some groups. The veto faces a Senate test tomorrow with Eisenhower supporters saying they have enough votes to uphold it. if not, the bill goes to the House for final action. McCormack backs a 1 percent compromise including job reclassification features.
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Eisenhower
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Airliner Crash in Caribbean Kills 100 and Missing
A Venezuelan airliner crash in the Caribbean near Barcelona claims 100 lives with 13 passengers and 3 crew aboard. Nine passengers wererescued and bodies recovered. three crew members remain unaccounted for as the search continues.
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England
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Caribbean
Barcelona
Britain
Atom Powered Ships Hailed For Progress
A Federal Maritime Board member said atomic powered ships could make the United States the preeminent maritime nation in history. G Joseph Minetti spoke on National Maritime Day noting plans to replace the liner America with a new superliner and that propulsion decisions rest with United States Lines. He cited Eisenhower's April 25 push for atomic power in American merchant shipping and said firms have applied for the first robot operated agent of an arm powered freighter being planned.
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United States
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United
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United States Lines
America
Presiden Eisenhower
Princess Margret Arrives in Germany for Brief Troop Visit
Princess Margret arrived in West Germany by plane today for a short visit to British troops. She is colonel in chief of the Suffolk Regiment and presented new colors to the 1st Battalion at Wuppertal. visit to the 3rd Hussars canceled due to typhoid illness in the Ruhr area, where 420 cases and one death were reported.
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Ruhr
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Red Peace Petition To Be Passed
A Communist style peace petition campaign aims to halt atomic warfare and reach a climax at the United Nations tenth anniversary meeting in San Francisco June 20 26. Molotov may cite the petitions as support for a ban, while the World Peace Council delays its Helsinki assembly to coincide.
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Man Crushed to Death by Big Elephant
A four ton elephant, thrown from a trailer, crushed Norman E. Joseph of Newark New Jersey, 30, and the elephant Queenie 25, while truck driver W C Hendricks of Atlanta escaped with injuries. The truck overturned after brakes failed on an expressway near Dallas. The elephant belonged to the Tidwell Show and Carnival. Civil authorities reported Joseph, riding in the cab, tried to jump clear but was struck as the trailer tipped. The catastrophe occurred during a trip from Corsicana to McKinney to set up a Lions Club show.
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Big Spring
Bear Roughs Up Young Man In Tree Fight
Grand Marais Minnesota A newcomer Truman Engersol 22 faced a bear that chased him up a poplar tree. The animal climbed four times and damaged his boots with its teeth inflicting a foot cut requiring six stitches. After a final climb the bear left with her cubs and Engersol hobbled to his car for treatment and planned to return for his gear.
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Truman Engersol
North Woods
Flying Service
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Minneapolis
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Burmese premier to visit Belgrade for 10 days
Burmese Prime Minister U Nu will arrive in Belgrade, Yugoslavia, on June 6 for a 10 day official visit. The trip signals strengthened ties between Burma and Yugoslavia amid regional diplomacy.
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Yugoslavia
U Nu
Yugos
McClellan Eyes Study On Armed Forces Waste
Senator McClellan says Senate Investigations subcommittee will study reports of severe waste in the armed forces after a graft inquiry. He says the present probe has found a nest of small grafts and will wrap up by week’s end. Public hearings resume tomorrow as a new inquiry may follow without necessarily charging graft.
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McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Seven Killed In Sardinia Wedding Party Truck Crash
A truck carrying sixty from a wedding party plunged into a ravine near Cagliari Sardinia late last night. Seven people were killed and twenty injured, four gravely. Passengers, including a 14 year old girl and a 1 year old girl, had been singing before the accident.
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Sardinia
Flier Sets New Coastal Trip Record
Los Angeles reports that 1st Lt. John M. Conroy of the California Air National Guard completed a coast to coast flight in the Sabre jet, totaling 5,085 miles in 9 hours 27 minutes 37 seconds and 4:45 per mile average, shaving the 1947 mark. The west-east leg was 3:46:33, slower than the 1947 record. Conroy aims to prove National Guard capability and intends to return to his pool-building job on weekends.
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John M. Conroy
California Air National Guard
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Paris
Conroy
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California
H. Conroy
Paul Mantz
Air Force
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