Arrests Threatened in Buses Integration Fight
A South Carolina official warned of arrests as the city enforces segregation on buses despite a Supreme Court ruling. The decision is not yet applied to the state, and a similar Montgomery suit proceeds with a May 11 hearing. Few Negroes rode the buses amid a boycott lasting about five months.
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Stalin's Son Ignored in Red Tirades
New York dispatch notes the omission of Wassily Stalin in posthumous attacks on Joseph Stalin. The aviator son, a prominent military figure and politician, disappeared after his father’s funeral, with rumors of concentration camp death or imprisonment. He once led Moscow air parades, opposed by a dwindling public presence. The piece mentions his last public sighting at the funeral and a Soviet caption labeling him pallbearer.
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Supreme Soviet
Russian Republic
Presidium
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Heart expert en route to capital amid fog collision
Dr Paul Dudley White, Eisenhower heart consultant, travels to Washington not for the president but amid reports he is well. A Swedish coastal freighter rammed an anchored ship near Antwerp, sinking quickly. 11,900 ton Holland America Line vessel Dongedyk survived by fog-bound rescue efforts. eight more crewmen saved by a Danish reefer and other vessels aided in the search.
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Honolulu
Paul Dudley White
Eisenhower
Washington
Rotterdam
White
Kare
Japan
Holland-American Line
Dongedyk
Scheldt
Antwerp
Bravilian Reefer
Weatherball in St Louis flashes cold forecast signals
A neon Weatherball atop a 50 foot tower in downtown St Louis marked forecasts with blue for colder weather and red for warmer, green for no change. It signals precipitation by flashing. The device sits above the General American Life Insurance Co building and beams to a ten mile radius.
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St. Louis
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Dry Weather Aids Canada Flood Fight
Cool nights and dry, cool weather helped flood fighters along the Assiniboine and Red Rivers in Manitoba. Upstream, Brandon saw the river rise while Portage la Prairie and Oakville faced rising floodwaters and submerged farms. City crews strengthened dikes in Winnipeg as experts warned a crest could top major dikes by early May.
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Assiniboine River
Manitoba
Portage la Prairie
Bruce Hogarth
Assiniboine
Red River
EL S. Paul
States
Elm Park
Gise
Senate group opens Social Security study
The Senate Finance Committee tentatively approved extending coverage to about 250,000 self employed professionals including lawyers and dentists. The panel behind closed doors also debated other House provisions such as lower retirement age for women and disability benefits for those 50 or older. Osteopaths would be excluded. other groups like chiropractors veterinarians naturalists and optometrists would be covered. Self employed workers pay 4 percent tax on up to 4200. About 20000 turpentine gum workers and 13200 TVA and Federal Home Loan Bank employees would gain coverage. Chair Byrd said sessions resume Wednesday and Thursday then continue next week.
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Washington
Tooi
Tennessee Valley Authority
Federal
Byrd
D-We
Pirates Kill Two Burn Homes in Mindanao Raid
Police report two villagers killed and several homes sacked and burned in a Moro pirate raid on Mindanao's Salud area in the southern Philippines. The government has long battled Moslem Moro bands, yet terrorism continues.
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Manilapi
Philippine
Salud
Philippines
Egypt gives Sudan arms worth 112 million dollars
Cairo based Middle East News Agency reported Egypt provided Sudan with 1 million dollars’ worth of modern arms including tanks guns and armored cars. This gift follows an earlier pledge to arm the Sudan army after British and Egyptian troops withdrew from the Upper Nile region following Sudan’s declaration of independence last January.
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Egypt
UPI
Middle East
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Upper Nile
Jan
Berlin tunnel tale shocks East West tensions
The Soviet Union claimed a long signal and intelligence tunnel ran from the American sector into the Soviet sector in Berlin. They said listening devices switchboards lights and three tapped cables were found and Americans fled in a hurry. The United States denied knowledge of the tunnel and called the accusation ridiculous while a spokesman said the claim was under investigation.
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East Germany
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East Berlin
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Europe
Zarenko J
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Heidelberg
East Berln
Boy Displays 1st Remorse for 3 Killings
In Norwich State Hospital ward 11 year old Robert Curgenven cried, the first sign of remorse noted by Dr. John Morrison after he confessed to killing his parents Beatrice and Richard and his brother Richard Jr. He was ordered to a 30 day mental examination, with legality of prosecution under a 1921 juvenile law debated amid a Norfolk case.
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Conn
State Mental Hospital
Robert Curgenven
John E. Morrison
Norwich State Hospital
Robert
Morrison
Richard Curgenven Sr
Beatrice
Richard Jr
Connecticut
Norwich
Vet Child Education Bill Passes by House
The House approved a bill to grant GI educational benefits to children of service members who died in World War II or the Korean War. About 100,000 orphans ages 20 to 14 would receive 36 months of post high school education in approved schools, at an estimated cost of $250 million.
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Senate
Olin E. Teague
D-Tex
House Veterans Committee
Teague
Wisconsin Kefauver Club reports 41 dollar campaign spend
Mrs Marie Bogandes secretary of the Wisconsin Kefauver Club said the organization spent 41 on the senator's primary campaign fund in the state Kefauver won all 28 Wisconsin votes for the Democratic convention.
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Wis
Marie
Bogandes
Wisconsin Kefauver Club
Kefauver
Wisconsin
Soil Bank Bill Moves Toward Quick House Vote
Republican leaders met at the White House to push swift passage of a soil bank authorization. The plan would extend funding through 1959, allow longer contracts, remove annual and state limits, and permit prepaid payments to farmers. Speaker optimistic that Democrats will back the measure to enable up to 500 million in advance payments this crop year.
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Soil Bank
Cooley
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Bensey
GOP
Eisenhower
House
Martin Mass
Senate
Knowland
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Iead
Copter Taxis Fly In Zero Visibility
Cleveland reports that zero visibility helicopter taxi flights are possible today. Henry Eagle of Cleveland Air Taxi says takeoffs in such weather have been accomplished without harrowing conditions and that navigational services will advance to make helicopters a practical all weather transportation means.
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Henry Eagle
Cleveland Air Taxi, Inc
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Holcopter
Cellar Grave Finding Tells of Casper Murder Case
CREYENNE WYOMING January 1953 details testified by Casper detective Gene Clark as James V Alexander 48 faces first degree murder charges in the death of Barbara Alexander 24 whose body was found in a cellar grave at the Casper home nearly two and a half years after her disappearance.
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James V. Alexander
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Gene Clark
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Barbara Alexander
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