House Okays Debt Ceiling Extension For 1956
The House voted 226 to 56 to extend the temporary six billion dollar rise in the national debt limit to 281 billion dollars through July 1 1956. The Senate expected to act before the Thursday deadline. Democrats criticized the administration while Republicans framed the vote as a financing issue.
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Washington
House Today
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Senate
Treasury
Cooper
D-Tenn
Ways and Means Committee
Airman Sought in Slayings Around Dickinson Texas
Texas and California police hunt a tall 25 to 26 year old airman involved in the murders of Mrs. Ruby McPherson 44 and her son George 12 and Mrs Zola Norman 65 mother of Mrs McPherson. The 1953 Ford used by the suspect was found in Inglewood California still hot. Investigators say motive unknown and no sex crime evidence.
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Dickinson
Tex
California
Ruby C. McPherson
George Richard McPherson
Zola Norman
McPherson
Houston-Galveston Gulf Freeway
Los Angeles
R. E. Plummer
Inglewood
Sulphur
John M. McPherson Sr
John Jr
Rush to Rescue Flier Survivors After Sea Crash
Three U S destroyers rushed to salvage two marine airmen who survived three days on a raft after an F 30 Skyknight crash off Yokosuka Japan. A Navy spokesman said Air Force planes picked up a faint radio signal reporting flares and engine roar. The men were alive but no health details were given.
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Yokosuka
Japan
U. S
U. S. Navy
U. S. Air Force
Great Britain Forms Canine Foreign Legion for Mau Mau War
London reports Britain dispatches 18 unwanted dogs to Kenya to serve as sentries and trackers in the campaign against Mau Mau terrorists. The first contingent sailed yesterday aboard a freighter for combat duty.
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London
Foreign Legion
Kenya
Argentina Releases 19 Peron Foes
Argentina freed 19 Radical party leaders detained since the June revolt against President Juan D. Peron's regime. Four other members remained jailed. Police in Buenos Aires province arrested two Communists and two Radicals for spreading rumors, not detailing the rumors.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Radical Party
Juan D. Peron
Eva Peron
Chamber of Deputies
Congress
Peronistas
Milwaukee Police Chief Injured in Wisconsin Car Crash
Milwaukee Police Chief John Poyn, 64, suffered fractures of a leg arm and ribs when his car hit the rear of another vehicle pulling onto Highway 42 four miles south of Baileys Harbor near Kangaroo Lake. The other driver, Miguel Carmona from Cuero Texas, was shaken but unhurt.
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Kewaunee
Wis
Milwaukee
John Poleyn
Kangaroo Lake
Baileys Harbor
John Schleis
Polcyn
Here
Miguel Carmona
Cuero
Tex
Kangaroo on Loose Disrupts City During TV Show
A mother kangaroo escaped from handlers during a WAAM television appearance and roamed Baltimore for about an hour. The chase drew police, zoo staff, and station workers through Malden Avenue traffic, ending with the animal cornered near Druid Park Drive. Arthur Moore was kicked and Ben Geary bitten during capture.
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Baltimore
Malden Avenue
Arthur Moore
Ben Geary
WAAM
Your
Steel Union Rejects Wage Offers in Ongoing Talks
United Steelworkers officials spurn offers of 10 and 10 1/2 cent hourly increases from Inland Steel and U S Steel. The union plans a midnight strike deadline if no settlement is reached, with 600000 workers affected and 2-year pact wage reopeners in place. Negotiations resume after a Saturday meeting without movement on terms.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Inland Steel Co
U. S. Steel Corp
David J. McDonald
William G. Caples
Inland Steel
U. S. Steel
John A. Stephens
McDonald
Caples
Chicago
Inland
Wheat farmers approve tight quotas for 1956 crop
In a nationwide referendum, 328,000 plus farmers backed marketing quotas to hold wheat output about 30 percent below postwar peaks. The plan sets 1956 price support at 76 percent of parity, about $1.81 a bushel, with 55 million acres allotted and penalties lifted for on-farm sales.
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Washington
Benson
Agriculture Department
Eisenhower
Russians Piloted MIGs in Formosa Strait Incidents
Nationalist air force headquarters said evidence shows Russians piloted MIG jets that shot down a nationalist trainer and attacked an unarmed commercial airliner over the Formosa Strait. In Minneapolis a gunman held up a suburban bank and fled with at least 1500 dollars as the bank president fired four rifle rounds.
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Taipei
Formosa
Formosa Strait
Minneapolis
Minn
Trabert Trips Drobny to Reach Wimbledon Semis
Tony Trabert of Cincinnati defeated Jaroslav Drobny of Egypt 8-6 6-1 6-2 to advance to the Wimbledon semifinal rounds in England.
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Wimbledon
England
Tony Trabert
Cincinnati
Ohio
Jaroslav Drobny
Egypt
GM denounces Willow Run strike as flagrant union violation
General Motors told the CIO United Auto Workers the Willow Run suburban transmission plant wildcat strike was a flagrant violation of the contract and said it would seek a court injunction against picketing.
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Detroit
General Motors Corp
CIO
United Auto Workers
Willow Run
Agganis Dies at 25. Red Sox First Baseman
Harry Agganis a 25 year old Red Sox first baseman died unexpectedly in Cambridge Mass after a pneumonia relapse. The Lynn native had returned to duty recently before falling ill again and was hospitalized at Sancta Maria. Agganis began pro ball with Louisville in 1953 after a standout Boston University career. No cause of death was announced.
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Cambridge
Mass
Harry Agganis
Boston Red Sox
Agganis
Lynn
Red Sox
Sox
Sancta Maria Hospital
Louisville
Boston University
Dulles Heads to Maine for Talks With Eisenhower
Secretary of State Dulles plans a secret flight to Bangor Maine to brief President Eisenhower on foreign policy issues including the shooting down of a U S Navy plane by Soviet fighters. He will also report on the United Nations anniversary meeting in San Francisco and may return with the President tonight.
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Washington
Dulles
Bangor
Maine
Eisenhower
United Nations
San Francisco
New England
State Department
Lincoln White
V. M. Molotov
U. S. Navy
Tito Going To Moscow
Belgrade radio reported President Tito accepted an invitation to visit Moscow after three days of ambassadorial talks among the Big Three Western powers and Yugoslavia. The communique praised broad agreement on international issues and pledged continued cooperation among the four nations.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Tito
Moscow
United States
Britain
France
Armored Car Planned for Mao in East German Gift
West Berlin's Der Abend reports East Germany will build a luxurious armored railroad car for Mao Tze-tung. The car, a gift from President Wilhelm Pieck, will include bullet-proof glass two bedrooms a bath air conditioning a telephone and a radio.
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Berlin
West Berlin
East Germany
Mao Tze-tung
Red China
der Abend
Wilhelm Pieck
Athens Radio Broadcasts Spark British Protest
Britain protests to Greece over Athens radio broadcasts accused of inciting revolt on the British-held island of Cyprus. London charges the transmissions fuel unrest and tensions rise between the two nations over Cyprus.
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London
Britain
Greece
Athens
Cyprus
Desert jeep trip leaves two dead after brutal trek
Chester Bunker, 67, survivor of a desert jeep excursion near Cadiz Dry Lake, recalls watching Calvert Wilson, 49, die of exposure while the others, James Thompson, 75, and Lyle Robertson, 49, struggled as heat reached 120 degrees. Thompson died during the march. Bunker and Robertson were rescued and hospitalized in Twentynine Palms.
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Twentynine Palms
Calif
Chester Bunker
Calvert Wilson
California
Bunker
Robertson
Thompson
Needles
Los Angeles
State approves 20 percent surtax to raise 29 million
Gov. Kohler signs a 20 per cent personal income surtax into law. The measure, backed by Republicans, would generate 29 million dollars in new state revenues for 1955 57 despite Democratic opposition. The Assembly also approved a plan to remove the state deposit guarantee fund and divert six million dollars to the general fund, with Democrats arguing the money belongs to local governments.
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Madison
Kohler
Senate
Federal Deposit Insurance Corp
Wisconsin to add 180 state traffic patrolmen by next year
Madison officials plan to recruit 180 new state traffic patrolmen in addition to 70 existing officers. Training will be accelerated, with a civil service exam set for this summer and the first 45 recruits to begin duty after five to six weeks of training.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Melvin Larson
State Motor Vehicle Department
Enforcement Division
The
Motor Vehicle Department
L. E. Beier
Walter Kohler
Larson
State Personnel Bureau
Beier
Fire damages McCormick-Craig plant in Muscatine
A major blaze at the McCormick-Craig aluminum processing plant in Muscatine Iowa caused extensive damage estimated over 200000. Firefighters prevented spread to nearby industries despite several small explosions from paint thinner and acid.
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Muscatine, Iowa
McCormick-Craig
Wisconsin Weather Summary
Sunny and pleasant weather prevailed in Wisconsin today with temperatures around 72 at the treatment plant 75 at American Motors and 73 downtown. Sunday's high was 74 and the low 48. Tonight will be fair and cool with a low 50 to 56 and Tuesday’s outlook calls for partly cloudy skies with a high of 78 to 84.
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Wisconsin
American Motors
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