Smoke screen test near Dugway shielded site from blast
Soldiers set 120 generators for an A-bomb smoke test at Dugway Proving Ground Utah only about 40 used. Smoke formed by oil vapor with droplets 30 millionths of an inch. Observers 45 miles away said smoke hugged the desert floor and did not rise over intervening hills. AEC noted cloud rose to 36,900 feet with intense ground shock felt in Las Vegas seven minutes later.
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Dugway
Proving Grounds
Utah
Angel's Peak
Army
William M. Creasy
Camp Desert Rock
AEC
Yucca_Flat
Las Vegas
India Leader Survives assassination attempt amid security fears
Nehru faced an earlier gun attack as a bullet shattered his car window and security officials tightened protection. He minimized risk worries, noting the efficiency of guard measures while recalling a separate state demand and past threats from crowds in Punjab and near Patiala.
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Nehru
Ierior
Esman
Pali
Jeta
Japan Fishing Ship Seeks Aid After Passenger Line Trouble
A tangled wartime dispatch reports a Japanese fishing vessel off IWABE seeking urgent assistance after a prior rejection of a US offer. The text mentions political figures and a dramatic killing, referencing Gandhi and Nehru. It notes the Daifuku Maru as a 49 ton vessel involved in the incident near Iwo Jima. The exact facts are unclear due to OCR errors.
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Iwabe
Japan
Nehru
India
Gandhi
Iwo Jima
Maritime Safety Board
Gardhi
Eisenhower Hosts Dinner For Old Friend Robert Cutler
President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower host a small White House dinner for Robert Cutler, their longtime national security adviser who departs April 11 for Boston banking work. Cutler’s successor will be Cilla Andersen of Houston. The president, recovered from a cold, later practiced golf on the south lawn as a photographer dispute briefly arose at the fence.
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Washington III
Eisenhower
White House
Robert Cutler
Boston
Cutler
Cilla Andersen
Houston
Tex
Jermney
John Oney
Trowbie
Howard
AL Snyder
Jonsman
Mr. Eisenhower
Clockwork heart aid gives new life to Cooley in Detroit
Detroit 53 year old Cooley underwent a five hour operation to fit a transparent plastic valve in his chest to correct a leaking aortic valve. The device uses a plastic ball to allow normal blood flow and seal against backflow. Surgeons led by Dr Pres coth Jordan Jr reported Cooley is doing well and hospital doctors watched the procedure via closed circuit television. John Jeakins, 45, who had the same operation last year, participated and noted the ticking sound is audible but manageable.
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Detroit
Ean Cooley
Cooley
Nois
Bartencer
Michigan Medical Society
Clinical Institute
Prescoth Jordan Jr
Wayne University
John Jeakins
Cheap Back Yard Shelters Planned by Civil Defense
California State Office of Civil Defense announced plans for simple cheap backyard fallout shelters after thousands of requests. Dr Heslep said preliminary drafts are reasonable though cost is unknown, with aims to shelter residents for two to four days and include a radio and water.
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Civil Defense
Sacramento Jr
State Office of Civil Defense
John
Heslep
Townsend Refuses Wedding Date Amid Royal Exile Talk
Townsend, a Royal Air Force ace and divorced father of two, fends off questions about an imminent wedding. He says he cannot clear up the situation and dismisses reports of a June 1 wedding as rubbish. Journalists watch every move as he balances public duties with private tensions in Brussels Park.
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Maregaret
Townsend
Royal Air Force
Desire
Brussels Park
Yolet
Friendly
Margaret
Brussels
Peter
Vote Fraud Defendant Wins in Alabama Murder Case
In Birmingham, Alabama, Pi Patterson slaying and related charges were heard as Arch Ferrell, former chief official, faced life imprisonment on murder charges. Jurors acquitted him of vote fraud charges but he remains indicted in Patterson’s slaying with the murder trial likely later. Ferrell claimed innocence amid the verdicts.
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Albert Fuller
Fuller
Patterson
Birmingham
Arch Ferrell
Center
Phenix City
Ala
Ferrells
Drew Redden
Birminghar
Behix
Ama Satty
Gab
Alabama
Veston
Tex
Jorney General
Cote
A. L. Patterson
Ferrell
Ex-Felon admits kidnapping four girls in quiet crime spree
John Metchitt on Chicago's Northwest Side admitted abducting four young girls after luring them into his car on Thursday. The victims, aged 6 to 9, were kept overnight in a shared apartment with an elderly couple before being released Friday morning near their Northwest Side home. Police said all four identified their kidnapper in a showup, and Merchut, previously released in 1945 after a rape case, gave no motive. The case overlaps with unrelated vote fraud trials against Lamar Reid, who testified about altering ballots in the Democratic primary.
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Chicago
Fident
Martin Joyce
John Metchitt
Northwest Side
Joyce
Shakespeare Ave
IBM ED
Merehui
Menard Till
John F. Nalley
Merchut
Kathleen Neumann
Carol Tillotson
Giroid Speies
Christine Harsla
Darlene
Iarsia
Kathleen
Carol
Lamar Reid
Birmingham
Ferrell
Reid
Garrett
Lee Porter
Patterson
Famine Threatens Haiphong Region in Indochina
Indochina reports famine threatening up to one million people in southern Haiphong area. Peasants receive one meal daily as officials cut rations. beriberi spreading among refugees from communist zones. Red China urged to send relief while Viet Minh reportedly enforces rebel eat-last policy.
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Haiphong
Indochina
Viet Nam
Red
Phat Diem
Sali
China
Theey
Peiping
Viet Minh
South
Vietnamese Seize Rebel Stronghold
Saigon report says the free Viet Nam national army stormed and captured Ba Long's rebel headquarters near the Communist border, signaling a blow to the northern uprising against American-backed Premier Bee Dinh Diem. Simultaneously, regional troops engaged Hoa Hao forces led by the dissident general Da Cut.
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Saigon
Indochina
Ba Long's
Bee Dinh Diem
Dai Viet
Hoa Hao
da Cut
Fan Hn Es
Reader complaint about repeated accident reports on South St
Brice L. Patrick of 6435 Johnson Ave complains that most pawel entries show accidents at South St and Paramount Bla in succession and urges action to address the issue. The note urges measures to curb the recurring crash reports and improve safety.
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Pawel
South St
Paramount Bla
Brice L. Patrici
Johnson Ave
City to widen streets and straighten crossing at south St Paramount
Berard E. McCune of the city engineer's office says spring work will widen both streets to four lanes at the crossing. County Road Department will handle construction. Plans remove creeping curves at the northwest corner to form a standard intersection with curb returns. South St currently two lanes and Paramount Blvd three at crossing. In 1954 three major injury accidents and six non injury accidents were recorded.
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Berard E. McCune
City Engineer's Office
County
South St
Paramount Blvd
Taxes, Oil and Water Pend in Legislature
Sacramento IKPI reports a two day recess after a frenetic week where committees disposed of bills on pensions, comic books, draft beer, cross filing and liquor licenses yet left major issues taxes tidelands drilling and water problems largely untouched. The session considered Feather River review funds, Ways and Means support for Colorado River litigation, highway funding and bridge studies, cross filing abolition, liquor license restrictions, and tidelands drilling with neutral stance by the Lands Commission on industry plans.
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Sacramento
IKPI
Tidelands
Lloyd Lowrey
California
Colorado
U.S. Supreme Court
Randolph Collier
Yreka
Washington
Assembly
Carfquinez Straits
John F. McCarthy
San Rafael
Assembly Social Welfare Committee
Despar W. Weinberger
San Francisco
Frank G. Lantersman
R-La Canada
Long Beach
Bruce Aten
Rsan Jose
State Lands Commission
Beating Father Accused After Bracelet Theft Incident
In Los Angeles an adult man Albert Alvarez faces child beating charges after his 14 year old daughter Clara Alvarez said she borrowed 50 cents for notebook paper and was beaten with a belt for taking a bracelet. She was treated for cuts and bruises and placed in Juvenile Hall.
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Blowfield
Los Angeles
Albert Alvarez
Clara Alvarez
Italy Votes Approval of German Arms
Premier Mario Scelba secured a major political win as the Senate approved the Paris rearmament accords by a 57 vote margin. Italy thus becomes the second Western European Union nation to ratify the pact, with only the heads of state signature awaiting. Only the Communists and some fellow travelers opposed the accord.
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Rome
Mario Scelba
United States
Senate
Paris
MSY
Scelba
Depuy. Hes
Olaf Hytten Dies on Movie Lot in Hollywood
Actor Olaf Hytten aged 67 died after a heart attack on the way to the studio following a scene with Bette Davis. Born in Glasgow, he appeared in many films and TV projects after touring England in 1914. An injured boy, Steven Smith, was hospitalized. a 12-year-old witness said a green pickup truck, driven by a man in tank trousers, fled the scene.
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Hollywood
Bette Davis
Olst Hytten
Culver City
Skc
Walter Raleigh
Glasgow
Scot
Hisj
United States
England
Steven
Iy Smith
Culver
City Hospital
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