Soviet Bloc signs NATO type pact with unified command
The Soviet Union and seven eastern nations formed a treaty of alliance with Ivan Koniev named supreme commander of the united armed forces. Peng Teh Huai praised the pact and pledged China’s support if war comes to Europe. Koniev will base HQ in Moscow and a deputy will be defense ministers of the participating countries.
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Warsaw
Poland
Soviet Union
Marshall
Ivan Koniey
Russia
Peng Teh Huai
Europe
Koniev
G. K. Zubkov
Moscow
Konievy
Wheat Referendum Set for June 25 on Marketing Quotas
Farmers with 15 or more acres must vote on June 25 whether marketing quotas will govern the 1956 wheat crop. The vote, set by Secretary Ezra T. Benson, aims to limit acres to 55,000,000 and secure price supports for compliant growers. If two thirds approve quotas, compliant farmers get full price support. noncompliers face penalties and reduced parity.
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Washington
Congress
Ezra T. Benson
Benson
Death of Woman On Train Probed
Authorities probed the death of Ruth Papazian 24 who plunged from a speeding train near Peekskill New York. Celia Freeman 56 was arraigned on vagrancy and anti-weapons charges after being found wandering hours after the death. State police questioned Papazian’s husband George 29, a discharged Army corporal who had been in Philadelphia for psychology studies.
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Peekskill
N. Y
Cortlandville
Justice of the Peace
Celia Freeman
Ruth Papazian
George Papazian
New York
Philadelphia
Molotov Seeks Summer Parley With Western Leaders
Vienna sources say Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov secured in principle Bulganin’s acceptance of a summer parley with Western heads of state. He discussed time and place for a meeting with Eisenhower Eden Faure, with Austria to be restored as a sovereign state and a prelude to a wider conference.
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Austria
V. M. Molotov
Nikolai Bulganin
Molotov
Warsaw
United States
Britain
France
Europe
Bulganin
Eisenhower
Anthony Eden
Edgar Faure
Russia
Kremlin
Expert's Son Charged in Hotel Sniper Killing
Richard Kluckhohn 21 confessed to shooting from the Sir Walter hotel window in Raleigh North Carolina killing Bernice Seawell a 43 year old government worker from Arlington Virginia. The accused told investigators little about his weapon while his Harvard anthropologist parents are cited in the case as experts in human behavior.
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Raleigh, N. C
Richard Kluckhohn
Sir Walter Hotel
Kluckhohn
Evanston
Ill
Bernice Seawell
Arlington
Seawell
Veterans Administration
Washington
Sir Walter
Red Leaders Plan Talks With Tito in Belgrade
Soviet Premier Nikolai Bulganin and party boss Nikita Khrushchev will meet Yugoslav President Tito in Belgrade late this month, signaling closer ties as East West talks loom. The Izvestia report notes aims to improve relations and peace, with U S officials aware but not commenting.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Nikolai Bulganin
Tito
Belgrade
Izvestia
Yugoslavia
Kremlin
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Washington
London
Yugo Slavia
Britain
United States
Limited Arms Cut Hinted Amid UN Disarmament Talks
U S officials see potential for a limited disarmament deal with Russia though global controls remain distant. Western and Soviet proposals clash over a control organ with access powers, while hints of stabilizing European forces surface to ease East West tensions.
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Washington
U. S
Russia
Soviet Union
London
Outbreak Expected as French Fortify Saigon Sector
French troops sealed off Saigon's European sector and told white residents to stay indoors amid anti-colonial demonstrations. Gen Paul Ely ordered 40,000 troops with 400 tanks to suppress any violence as the eight-man South Viet Nam revolutionary junta calls for a republic and claims the protest targets no French.
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Saigon
Indochina
French Expeditionary Corps
Paul Ely
Radiation sickness reported by United Nations
The UN says two cases of acute radiation sickness in humans were reported from Soviet atomic experiments. The Soviet Union submitted a paper on the topic to the World Atomic Energy Conference in Geneva scheduled for August 8 to 20.
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United Nations
N. Y
Soviet Union
Geneva
Polio Shots Get Green Light For Wisconsin Schools
Wisconsin's supply of Salk polio vaccine from Parke Davis and Co. has been released for inoculation programs after a week long safety recheck. Dr. E. E. Bertolaet, Kenosha health director, says clinics for first through fourth graders may start next week with a schedule to be announced soon.
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Public Health Service
Parke, Davis and Co
Detroit
Parke, Davis
Wisconsin
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Kenosha
Parke Davis and Co
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Kenosha Pilot Killed in Nouasseur Jet Crash
2nd Lt. Frederick L. Kreger 22 of Kenosha died Tuesday in an 86 Sabre jet crash with the 357th Fighter Interceptor Squadron near Nouasseur Morocco. No crash details were released. survivors of the victim will receive further information later. Kreger enlisted January 2 1951 for four years and trained at Lackland Air Force Base.
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U. S. Air Force
Wiesbaden
Germany
Frederick L. Kreger
Kenosha
Nouasseur
French Morocco
Emil Kreger
63Rd St
Kreger
357Th
Air Force
Lackland Air Force Base
Pleasant Wisconsin Weekend Forecast With Mild Temperatures
The weatherman promises a pleasant weekend in Wisconsin with Sunday highs around 70 to 75 degrees and clear nights with lows near 45 to 52. Kenosha reported a 47 degree low last night while Superior posted a state low of 38. Friday’s high reached 58, and 11 am readings in Kenosha showed 55 at the sewage plant, 59 at American Motors, and 57 downtown.
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Wisconsin
Kenosha
Superior
American Motors
Polio Vaccine Oversight and Wisconsin Hearings
Wisconsin reports 173 160 of 1 000 000 Parke Davis doses available and a new polio reporting system to track Salk vaccine effectiveness. Doctors will telegram polio diagnoses to the State Board of Health for day by day analysis. Legislative hearings in Wisconsin taper off next week with Senate and Assembly committees scheduling sessions and a six bill joint finance meeting.
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U. S. Public Health Service
Wisconsin
State Board of Health
Madison
Senate
Labor
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Banking
Assembly
Joint
Welfare Department
Special Plates for Family Impounded Vehicles
Minnesota drivers whose licenses are suspended or revoked can obtain special plates with the X W prefix and four numbers. A 3 dollar fee is charged, but court permission is required. The 1955 law is said to be first of its kind, allowing courts to impound plates on certain violators.
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St. Paul
Minn
Minnesota
Tugs Strive to Reach Disabled Freighter Off California
Rescue tugs battled rough seas eight miles off the central California coast to reach the Liberty freighter Flora C of New York which lost its propeller while en route from San Francisco to Long Beach with a military cargo. Captain Loring Jensen said the vessel carried about 38 crew.
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California
Flora C
New York
Long Beach
Loring Jensen
General Steamship Corp
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