Chou En Lai arrives in Burma en route to Bandung
Communist Chinese Premier Chou En Lai arrives at Rangoon with a 21 member party aboard an Air India Skymaster guided by Burmese air force jets. He meets U Nu and Ba U and discusses Bandung while delays and sabotage claims swirl around the earlier crash.
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U Nu
Sao Hkun
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Chen Yi
Ye Chee
Chu Han-fu
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Ba U
Bandung
Kunming
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China
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Washington
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India
Nehru
Egypt
Gamal Abdel Nasser
New Delhi
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Supreme Court weighs timing of ending school segregation
The Eisenhower administration asks the Supreme Court to set clear standards to end segregation in public schools "as soon as feasible." Solicitor General Sobeloff argues decrees should guide lower courts with timelines and integration plans, while states push for no fixed deadlines. The justices question whether decrees apply only to the five cases or nationwide.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Simon E. Sobeloff
Sobeloff
High Court
North Carolina
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Maryland
Twins Born Weighing Over 18 Pounds In Peoria
Mrs. Anne Renfro gave birth to twins, a girl and a boy, with a combined weight exceeding 18 pounds. The girl weighed 8 pounds 2% ounces and the boy 10 pounds 1 ounce.
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Peoria
Anne Renfro
Flood and Storm Damages Across Southern States
Storms and floods from rains and tornadoes hit Louisiana Mississippi and Alabama. A bridge collapsed 17 miles south of Natchez Mississippi and a new bridge nearby was wrecked. Mobile Alabama faced 13.36 inches of rain with 40 000 residents in three towns short of water. River floods threatened the Coosa Cahaba Pearl and other rivers with record crests.
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Two Czech teens steal plane and seek asylum in West
Two Czech students Karel Kucera and Zdanek Nachmilner stole a small German made sports plane and crash landed in a Regensburg field. They asked for political asylum as U S authorities held them for interrogation. Police identified their hometowns and origin remains unclear.
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Germany
Bavaria
Karel Kucera
Zdanek Nachmilner
Czechoslovakia
U.S
Valery Lysikov
West Berlin
Iron Curtain
Kucera
Prague
West
Mitchell backs 90 cent minimum wage stance
Secretary of Labor Mitchell told a Senate subcommittee that raising the statutory minimum wage to 1.25 dollars is unsound and that increasing it to 1 dollar would cause serious adjustments in some industries. He reiterated the 90 cent figure urged by President Eisenhower.
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Washington
Mitchell
Senate
Eisenhower
Sen. Ives
Orders Survey On Polio Serum
President Eisenhower ordered a federal survey to ensure fair distribution of the Salk polio vaccine across all regions. He tasked Mrs. Oveta Culp Hobby to lead the effort focusing on voluntary methods, with consultations planned with private doctors and vaccine manufacturers through the American Medical Association.
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Eisenhower
Oveta Culp Hobby
Jonas Salk
Hagerty
Hobby
Salk
American Medical Assn
Chicago Doctor Offers Free Polio Vaccinations
Dr. Joseph R. Guttman, 52, called on fellow doctors to administer the Salk polio vaccine without charge. He offered to inoculate several hundred pupils at a school as a matter of civic pride, not charity.
US officials push cease-fire in Formosa Strait amid political bets
Sen Mansfield doubts Britain will back a Formosa declaration before its elections. Dulles pitches a cease-fire without forcing renunciation of claims by Peiping or Chiang Kai-shek’s Nationalists, while urging nonuse of force. Stevenson calls for allied declaration to defend Formosa pending settlement.
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Sen
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D-Mont
Great Britain
Formosa
Formosa Strait
Dulles
Peiping
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Red China
Adlai E. Stevenson
United States
Ike Seeks OK for 34 Nation Trade Body
President Eisenhower presses Congress for approval of the 34 nation Organization for Trade Cooperation. He plans to send a special message from Augusta Georgia during a golf vacation and meets Sen George Dulles committee chair later at Augusta National Golf Club. The Geneva agreement signed March 21 would police trade and safeguard over 50 000 tariff concessions since World War II.
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Eisenhower
Washington
George D-6
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Augusta National Golf Club
Congress
Organization For Trade Cooperation
Geneva
Switzerland
Inmate Turns Down Parole To Preserve Montgom ery Choir
Orville F. Gray, a 27 year old Kilby prison inmate serving 10 years for robbery, has declined parole because it would break up the prison quarter group at Montgomery Alabama. He is due to finish his term early next year.
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Orville F. Gray
Kilby
Montgomery
Ala
Convicts Stand Firm in Texas Prison Yard Standoff
In Huntsville Texas a band of 52 convicts refused to return to maximum security cells for a second day. Guards surrounded with machine guns while the inmates demanded improved rations of three meals daily. The strikers, many in solitary confinement, spent another chilly night outside as officials waited them out.
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Weather forecast hints at cooling Miami Valley
After three days of showers and mild skies, forecasters expect a cool breeze. The forecast calls for remaining clouds with temperatures falling about ten degrees from yesterday’s high of 80 and this morning’s 63.
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Miami Valley
Salk Named Recipient of 1955 Mutual Omaha Award
Rochester Minnesota report states Dr Jonas E Salk has been named winner of the Mutual of Omaha ten thousand dollar award and gold medal for 1955.
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Rochester, Minn
Jonas E. Salk
Kentucky Mystery Solved Parolee Admits Triple Slayings
Henderson Kentucky AP reports Leslie Irvin a 30 year old parole burglar confessed to killing Wesley Kerr and two Duncan family members during burglaries in Kentucky and linked Indiana killings. He described binding kneeling and shooting victims and said he acted for a dollar. Eight youths identified his license plate helping solve the case.
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Wesley W. Kerr
Evansville
Ohio River
Henderson
Indiana
Lee Williams
Henderson County
Leslie Irvin
Young
Goebel Duncan
Duncan
Raymond
Raymond Duncan
Doris Ray Duncan
Wilhelmina Sailer
Mount Vernon
Mary Holland
Kentucky
Dykes Signs With Reds as First Base Coach
Jimmy Dykes, former Orioles manager and AL veteran, signed by the Cincinnati Redlegs as first base coach. General Manager Gabe Paul announced the move to replace Tom Ferrick who will focus on improving Cincinnati pitching. Dykes played for the Athletics and White Sox and has 37 years in the American League.
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Cincinnati
Jimmy Dykes
Baltimore Orioles
Cincinnati Redlegs
Gabe Paul
Philadelphia Athletics
Chicago White Sox
Redleg
Birdie Tebbetts
Tom Ferrick
Ferrick
Raab Promises Austrian Freedom From Moscow Message
Chancellor Julius Raab spoke from Moscow promising an Austrian return to freedom and native soil. The statement, relayed to the Conservative People’s party, emphasized homecoming for prisoners and internees and praised Austrians for their steadfast attitude amid difficult negotiations. No specific Moscow agreements were disclosed. A joint Austro-Russian communique was awaited with cautious optimism in Vienna.
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Austria
Julius Raab
Moscow
Raab
Bny
Kremlin
Ambassar
Norbert Bischoff
Sta
France
Britain
Court OKs Petitioning By Firemen In Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court rules firemen circulating petitions for a three platoon system are not engaged in political activity under civil service statutes. Alvin R. Heidtman and others from the Cleveland suburb sought a declaratory judgment to determine if their petition could be rejected due to the political activity ban.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Supreme Court
Shake Or Heights
Alvin R. Heidtman
Cleveland
Cuyahhoga County Appellate Court
Common Pleas Court
Heidtman
Rde
Quake Felt Across Outer Mongolia Says Meteorological Service
Tokyo reports experts claim a high intensity earthquake may have struck Outer Mongolia today. The Central Meteorological Observatory noted seismographs indicated a strong shock, continuing for about ninety minutes, with aftershocks following the main event.
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Tokyo
Philippines
Outer Mongolia
Central Meteorological Servatory
World receives polio vaccine data as aid effort
The U S plans to distribute the Salk vaccine report to 75 American missions abroad while denying an export of the vaccine itself Commerce Department imposed an export embargo and officials doubt supplies will meet domestic demand before 1957 Dulles urged sharing the report to aid nations including Poland and Russia with humanitarian data while U S officials weigh allocations and pricing changes follow mass inoculations and new vaccine research developments abroad
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Dulles
Commerce Department
Poland
Russia
Congress
Mutual Life Insurance Co
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Chicago
Illinois Pr‘estant
Michael Reese Research Foun
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