Urge Russ U S Swap Tourists Aimed at Exchange Talks
The Senate debate on a proposed cultural exchange with the Soviet Union continues as Sparkman and Dewey discuss inviting Soviet leaders and American visitors. State Department officials plan an expanded exchange while noting McCarran-Walter fingerprinting barriers for nonofficial travelers. Moscow has previously objected to fingerprinting and canceled a U S student editor visit.
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Sparkman
George
D-Ga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Soviet Union
United States
State Department
McCarran-Waller
Russia
Moscow
U. S
Iowa
Polio cases trend shown for week and year in 1954
The Public Health Service reports polio cases down year to date versus 1954 while noting a weekly rise last week. Through July 23 there were 4,532 polio cases since April 1, with 1,495 cases from Jan 1 onward. Paralytic cases totaled 1,670 since April 1, down from 2,347 in 1954.
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Washington
Public Health Service Today
Health Service
Cool Breezes Bring Relief to Baked U S
Unseasonably cool Canadian air eased the heat across the northern plains and Great Lakes, with a dramatic drop in Detroit from 100 to 73 in an hour. Storms caused two deaths and heavy property damage while scattered showers and thundershowers spread across the Rocky Mountain region and into the Southeast.
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Canada
Toda
Midwest
Gulf Offet
Panhandle
Gulf of
Channing
Texas
Plains
Great Lakes
North Atlantic States
Detroit
Southwest Desert
Rocky Mountain Region
Hearing Set on Bass 16 in Slaying Case
Los Angeles reports a detention hearing will decide if Eric Newton Bass aged 16 adopted son of a millionaire real estate developer will be tried as an adult in the robbery murder of a Pacific Palisades youth. The case ties to a pipeline controversy with UPI reporting the four suspects and a House committee seeking military merit for a West Texas to Los Angeles crude oil project.
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Los Angeles
Eric Newton Bass
Pacific Palisades
Washington
UPI
Bass Ebert
D-La
Sa Ceder Poliey Paes
Tredric W. Heinz
Heinz
Hebert
Armed Services
Suscommitter
West Coast
Fipe- Wine Co
West Texas
Joint Chiefs
Kaiser Steel Purchases Coal Lands in New Mexico
UW Kaiser Steel Corp announces the acquisition of 529,800 acres of coal lands in northeastern New Mexico from St. Louis Rocky Mountain and Pacific Coal Co for 31 million dollars. This marks the largest single coal acreage ownership in the United States.
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Seid Raton
N. M
Kaiser Steel Corp
St. Louis
Old Case Probed Over Snowball Incident in Kalamazoo
Kalamazoo Michigan report notes Detective Riley Stewart to investigate a complaint by Mrs Helen Cooper filed December 1 alleging a snowball strike. The temperature nears 100 degrees as Stewart files a colorful assessment expressing sympathy with the heated reaction.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Riley Stewart
Helen Cooper
Stewart
Suspect Held in Georgia Quarters Murder Robbery Case
Bass is detained in Georgia juvenile quarters with three others Harvey Bimstein 23 confessed to killing Heinz during a robbery attempt when Heinz resisted two other suspects John M Harney 18 and Neal Cook 23 are in county jail all held without bail pending arraignment Monday Bimstein is the adopted son of Newton Bass developer of Apple Valley a Mojave Desert playground.
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Georgia St
Harvey Bimstein
John M. Harney
Neal Cook
Bimstein
Heinz
Newton Bass
Apple Valley
Mojave
No Sign of Break in Copper Walkout
The fourth week of the nationwide copper strike ends with no progress toward a wage settlement with Kennecott Copper Corp. Talks in Salt Lake City and with American Smelting & Refining and Phelps-Dedge yielded no results. The union has asked Eisenhower to end the walkout with a Taft-Hartley injunction, while the White House weighs any potential national emergency.
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Independent Union
Kennecott Copper Corp
Salt Lake City
American Smelting & Refining
Phelps-Dodge
Eisenhower
Taft-Hartley
White House
Washington
Check of U.S. Employes Is Almost Over
Senate civil service subcommittee heard Civil Service Commission chair H Philip Young say a loyalty and security check of federal employees is nearly complete. About 2,200,000 current jobholders have "met the test," with few cases needing re investigation. Data covers May 28, 1953 to March 31, 1955. Additional discharges total 34,257, 3,432 (10 percent) for security reasons under the executive order.
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Washington
Philip Young
Civil Service Commission
Senate Civil Service
Young
Eisenhower
Tangerom
Veterans Farm Home Flaws to Be Changed
California's Veterans Farm Home program will oversee a reorganization of farm and home loan operations at a Salva Serbera meeting Friday. State director J Marvin Hussert said rising veteran numbers demand changes to Cal Vet loan handling. Legislation due in September raises property value ceilings and expands loan eligibility for ex-GIs.
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Daliamgemvil
California Veterans Boatrd
Salva Serbera
J. Marvin Hussert
Veterans Affairs
California
Swiss Amazed by Ike Guard Precision in Geneva
Geneva paper La Suisse reports U S Secret Service agents surrounded President Eisenhower during his Geneva visit. A Swiss on leave in the crowd was asked to surrender his bayonet by an agent who noted it dangling from the belt. The soldier argued Swiss troops usually carry arms.
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Gnakva Wrr
U. S
Secret Service
Eisenhower
Geneva
la Suisse
Red Airliner Shot Down Over Bulgarian Border
Witnesses say gunfire preceded a crash as an airliner exploded in flames near the Greek village of Patricia in Bulgarian territory. Bulgarian ministers form a commission to probe the disaster while an American Dakota and airline officials head to Sofia to investigate. Passengers include Mrs Hahn and Mrs Sheinbaum of New York, three Canadians, five Russian Jewish immigrants, and Capt. Stanley Hinks, the Israeli pilot to be wed in Tel Aviv.
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Oolicermen
Patricia
Sofia
Council of Ministers of the People's Republic of Bulgaria
Miner of Foreign Affairs
Mincho Neichev
Interior
Georgi Tsanov
Petar Kolarov
Yorean Chobanov
An ‘Neraeli Alr
Greece
Athens
Hella
Avram
Cohen
Hameiry
A. Hahn
Hann
A. Mann
Shhaeffer
Schaeffer
R. Sacks
A. Sacks
D. Sacks
M. Katz
Zahana Sheinbaum
United States
Hahn
Sheinbaum
New York
Russia
Israel
Stanley Hinks
Tel Aviv
Marcit Lettstrom-Morgan
Nixon May Make Midwest Speaking Trip
Vice President Nixon indicated he may undertake a midwestern speaking trip later this year with details to be announced. He considers addressing the International Fire Chiefs in Omaha in September 1922 among other possible stops.
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Washington
Nixon
International Fire Chiefs
Omaha
Colorado governor’s penthouse plan scrapped as costly
Colorado officials reject a governor’s penthouse atop a new state office building. Superintendent James Mierrick told planners to proceed without the penthouse after architects warned it would add at least 750000 dollars to the project, now valued at 344 million dollars.
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Colorado
Denver
James Mierriik
W. M. Williams
G. Meredith Musick
Temple H. Buell
Deserter faked death on Golden Gate bridge arrested in Brooklyn
James Clarence Baker, 33, a former U S Air Force deserter who allegedly staged his death on the Golden Gate bridge in March 1953 was arrested in Brooklyn. FBI said he had been working as a waiter in a New York restaurant and was counted legally dead by the Defense Department last March before his wife reported social security fraud attempts. He was turned over to military police.
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Air Force
San Francisco
Golden Gate Bridge
FBI
Brooklyn
James Clarence Baker
Dallas
Tex
Defense Department
Virginia
Chidren
Tryig
Baker
Pope Endorses Coexistence of Western and Orient Lands
Pope Pius XII endorses a form of coexistence guiding private and public life to God’s will. In a June 27 letter to Bishop Joseph Freundorfer of Augsburg, he marks the 1000th anniversary of the Battle of Lechfeld where Otto the Great’s victory led to Hungary’s conversion to Catholicism. The pontiff frames the message as a symbol for today’s Christian nations, urging peace and love for the Orient under materialistic ideologies in Communist lands.
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Pius XII
Lechfield
Otto the Great
Germany
Joseph Freundorfer
Augburg
Vatican
Ootephan
Orient
Knight to Note Local Wishes on Elections
Knight declares he will respect local wishes on whether to hold a special election. He says he will not force a costly election if the people do not want it and argues that home rule principles govern the decision. He cites Attorney General Brown's advisory on timing as not binding if local officials oppose a special vote.
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Sacramento
Knight
Atty
Edof
G. Brown
Santa Monica
Major Ike's Baby Slated in Hospital
FT BELVOIR Va. President Eisenhower said his son Army Maj John Eisenhower and Barbara expect their fourth child around Christmas. Asked if the baby might be born in the White House he replied with a smile that the White House has no obstetric facilities and he would prefer not to have a child born there.
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FT_ BELVOIR
White House
President to Decide Alone on Sec Talbott
The Subcommittee hearings reveal Talbott discussed his Mulligan Company ties with government contracts. McClellan and Mundt plan to review the evidence and determine findings next week, as officials from Douglas Aircraft testified about Talbott's income and partnership.
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Sec. Talbott
Doral W. Douglas Sr
Donald Jr
Talbott
Mulligan Company
Douglas
McClellan
Dante Pierce Iowa Farm Publisher Dies in Des Moines
Dante Pierce 74 longtime publisher of Wallaces Farmer and Iowa Homestead died Wednesday night in Des Moines. A friend of several U.S. Presidents, he visited the White House during Coolidge Hoover and Roosevelt administrations. Pierce mentored Henry A Wallace and helped guide early drafts of the first agricultural adjustment act with farm editors in transit to Washington.
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Des Moines
Daniel Pierce
Washington
Temple Judge Fined Self In Traffic Violation
A Temple justice of the peace, A. E. Warren, paid himself a 11.50 fine after pleading guilty to driving on the wrong side of U. S. 81. He said his mind was on a fishing trip and he waved at motorists who honked and waved as they passed.
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Temple
Tex
Justice of the Peace Court
A. E
Pete) Warren
Warren
Temple-Belton U. S. 81
Pilot escapes crash at Lowry Air Force Base
A 24 year old pilot Lt Adams of Jena Louisiana staff at the new Air Force academy escaped serious injury after his F86 Sabrejet flipped over on a landing at Lowry AFB Wednesday. He was pinned under wreckage but walked away after Jaderrick lifted the plane.
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Denver
Pia
New Air Force Academy
Lowry Air Force Base
Adams
Jena
Jaderrick
U S and Soviet Union back UN fund for development
In Geneva the United States and the Soviet Union promised support for a proposed UN development fund once disarmament agreement is reached. US delegate John C. Baker told the Economic and Social Council that disarmament would allow more capital flow to underdeveloped nations, with an international development fund playing a role.
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Russia
U. N. Fund
Geneva
United States
Soviet Union
Fund For Economic Development
John C. Baker
U.N. Economic and Social Council
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