Bus Firm In Middle In Alabama Bus Desegregation Divide Shocks City
Montgomery grapples with desegregation after National City Lines ends race based seating. Negro riders mostly sit as they have, officials warn segregation laws still in effect. City Commission threatens action while officials in Richmond Norfolk adopt mixed seating. The boycott remains unsettled and police promise enforcement.
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AL Lanier
Montgomery
Ala
South
Virginia
Richmond
Norfolk
Portsmouth
Duke Power Co
North Carolina
Supremee Court
Durham
Greensboro
City Commission
The
Bug Company
Alabama
U.S. Supreme Court
National City Lines
Mobile Ala
Jackson
Miss
Tampa
Tulsa
Oxia
Beaumont
Vhile Falig
el Paso
Tex
Supreme Court
South Carolina
Clyde Sellers
C. C. Owen
Alabama Public Service Commission
Chicago
Rare Operation Planned On Twins
A set of 20-year-old twin women, Edith Helm of Sand Springs Oklahoma and Wanda Foster of Chandler Oklahoma, are to arrive tonight at Peter Bent Brigham Hospital for a rare kidney operation if tests show they are identical twins. If so, one of Mrs Foster’s kidneys will be transplanted to her sister, as the hospital notes organs cannot survive in alien flesh.
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Boston
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Edith Helm
Sand Springs
Okla
Wanda Foster
Chandler
Eisenhower Wins Pennsylvania Primary As Stevenson Trails
The Associated Press reports President Eisenhower won Pennsylvania by a comfortable margin while Stevenson trailed in Massachusetts and Alaska. Turnout was light in all three, with 25 percent in Pennsylvania and 10 percent in Massachusetts. Stevenson and Kefauver planned a joint Miami appearance May 21 amid party tensions, and Johnson clashed with Hall over farm promises.
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Eisenhower
Pennsylvania
Adlai Stevenson
Massachusetts
Stevenson
Rep
McCormack
Alaska
Estes Kefauver
Kefauver
Sen
Knowland
Miles Horst
James A. Finnegan
Miami
Leonard Hall
Senate
Lyndon Johnson
Johnson
Hall
Walter Reuther
Democratic Party
Fire Wrecks Old Hotel in Warren Pa Three Guest Missing
A century old Carver Hotel in Warren Pennsylvania burned in a four story blaze early today leaving three guests officially missing from a list originally seven. Police Chief Mike Evan said investigators could not locate M L Pinney R H Jefferson B J Stotts and M W Dwight and broadcast appeals urged them to contact Warren police. One guest and a rescuer were hospitalized and five others treated for shock or minor injuries as hotel staff and rescuers braved the flames. Night Clerk Edgar McClen saved guests by staying at the switchboard until lines burned and then grabbed the guest register to aid escape while Bellman Raymond Rogers and bartender Harold Healy braved smoke to rouse others.
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Carver
Mike Evan
Evan
M. L. Pinney
R. R
Jefferson
Ohio
J. Stotts
Carlisle Ave
Dayton
M. W. Dwight
Storer Ave
Akron
B. F Goodrich Rubber Co
Ewan
Edgar McClen
Raymond Rogers
Harold Healy
GM Policy Is Questioned In Senate Report
A Senate staff report questions General Motors free expansion into new fields and urges price cuts amid high profits. It cites GM dominance in trucks, diesel locomotives, and earth moving equipment, calling for further study on monopoly trends by Congress and the Justice Department. A GM spokesman in Detroit said the company has not reviewed the report.
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Washington
Senate
Big Business
General Motors
O'Mahoney
Dwyo
Congress
Justice Department
Detroit
Nixon campaigner linked in $5,000 Kravitz fee case
Senate investigators question Murray Chotiner, once a Nixon 1952 strategist, over a $5,000 1953 legal fee for Herman Kravitz, an Atlantic City clothing maker tied to military contract probes. Witnesses include Kravitz and his brother-in-law George Klass as probes examine alleged Army contract corruption. Kimmel, auditing A C Clothing Co., confirms the July 31 1953 payment to Chotiner.
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Washington
Murray Chotiner
Nixon
McClellan
D-Ark
Chotiner
Senate
Los Angeles
Herman Kravitz
Atlantic City
N.J
Samuel
Samuel Kravitz
Herman
Subcommittee
Kravitzes
George Klass
Murray M. Kimmel
New York City
Kravitz
A. C
Atlantic
11th Hour Talks Offer Slim Hope for UK Soviet Talks
London officials report an 11th hour pause in Soviet British discussions on Middle East, disarmament, trade, and European security. Khrushchev and Bulganin appeared thoughtful as Eden’s government pushes for a possible late session offering a modest package deal.
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London
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
No. 10
Cowing St
Eden
Middle East
Bulganin
Khrushchev
Selwyn Lloyd
Foreign Office
Peter Thorneycroft
Board of Trade
Harold Stassen
Eisenhower
Stassen
Charlie Chaplin
Hewlett Johnson
Red Dean
Canterbury
Kremlin
Labor Party
Hugh Gaitskell
Russia
Nine Die In City Home Fire Tragedy
A fast spreading blaze gutted a three story brick home in Philadelphia trapping nine people on the second and third floors where they slept. Six children and three women died. four injured, three leaping from windows. Seventeen were in the building at discovery time. two unaccounted for. All victims were reportedly members of the same African American family.
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Philadelphia
Uncertain Weather Outlook For Middletown As Showers Move In
Forecasters expect a slight warming today followed by a northern cold air mass over the Miami Valley. The official forecast calls for increasing clouds and drizzle with a high near 60. Tonight remains cloudy with showers and a low around 40. Thursday brings more clouds and showers, turning much colder by noon with a high of 52. Yesterday Middletown unofficially reached 54 at 4 55 p.m. and a 32 degree low at 5 a.m.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Adlai Attacks Slow Guided Missiles Program
Adlai E Stevenson criticized the Eisenhower administration as dangerously dilatory in advancing the guided missiles program. At a New York news conference on Tuesday he urged renewed effort after Khrushchev announced Russia would soon have missiles with hydrogen warheads capable of striking anywhere.
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New York
Adlai E. Stevenson
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Fire Devastates Downtown Dayton Storefront
A two alarm fire in downtown Dayton destroyed the upper two floors of Thal's women’s store on S Main Street. Fire Chief Forest B. Lucas put damage at 100000 dollars and two firefighters were slightly injured after about three hours of raged flames. An estimated 2000 onlookers watched as the blaze started on the third floor in a shoe department.
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Dayton
Ohio
Forest B. Lucas
Thal’s Women's
S. Main Street
Virginia
E. 3Rd St
Woolworth
Surviving Quads Reported In Fair Condition In New York
Two surviving quadruplets born to a tiny mother were reported in fair condition today. One boy died yesterday weighing 2 pounds 15 ounces. A second boy died last night weighing 3 pounds 3 ounces. The surviving infants are two boys. The 25 year old mother, Mrs. Carmen Medina, gave birth Monday. She is 5 feet 2 and weighs 96 pounds.
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New York
Carmen Medina
Takes No Chance Of Shorter Life
Dallas resident P. T. Un cle Thompson, 106, a former slave, visited the Dallas Tuberculosis Association mobile unit for a free chest X-ray to guard against tuberculosis.
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Dallas
P. T
Thompson
Dallas Tuberculosis Association
NATO Faces Reforms as Cold War Policy Is Reassessed
President administration weighs expanding NATO duties beyond military aims to include economic and political tasks. Dulles plans a Paris NATO meeting to discuss broader responsibility with foreign ministers. A commission of prominent citizens may probe foreign aid. Growing domestic and international pressure questions aid size and NATO scope.
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Rusia
Russia
Bulgarin-Khrushchev
Canada
France
Italy
NATO
Dulles
Sweden
Switzerland
Asia
Africa
Carillon Silent At Donor's Funeral In Ralls Texas
Mrs. John R. Ralls widow of the town founder died Monday. Her funeral will be held today without the carillon which had been donated for use at her funeral. The bells were removed last week during a church rebuilding funded by her gift.
Near Reds On Missiles Ike Claims Near Reds On Missiles
President Eisenhower said the United States is about where the Soviet Union stands in guided missile development in reply to Khrushchev's claim Russia will soon have a hydrogen bomb armed missile. He rejected halting hydrogen bomb tests, arguing continued testing is needed for progress and is not aimed at a bigger explosion.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Adlai Stevenson
Pacific
Stevenson
Khrushchev
NAACP Banned by Louisiana Judge in Surprising Ruling
Baton Rouge La A state judge in a surprise hearing permanently banned the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People in Louisiana under a 1924 law aimed at the Ku Klux Klan. State attorneys sought the injunction after the NAACP failed to act following a temporary restraining order issued March 29 and a default filed April 10.
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Baton Rouge
National Assn. For
Louisiana
NAACP
Four Cincinnatians Die in Ohio Plane Crash
The bodies of four prominent Cincinnati residents were found in wreckage near Columbus after a Sunday night crash. Victims: Richard Bethell, Ward Mathis, Miss Joanne Heekin, and Miss Joan Arston. The Beechcraft Bonanza disappeared after radio contact at 7:14 p.m. and was spotted by a Civil Air Patrol plane. The party was returning from New York. Bethell and Mathis held local posts and positions in Monsanto, Kettering Laboratories, and the University of Cincinnati. Bodies were taken to Pataskala and Cincinnati for funeral arrangements.
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Columbus
Ohio
Cincinnati
Here
Civil Air Patrol
Richard Bethell
Ward Mathis
Joanne Heekin
Joan Arston
New York
Smith College
Pataskala
Highway Patrol
Marion Curry
Bethell
Youngstown
Monsanto Chemical Co
Mathis
Kettering Laboratories
University of Cincinnati
Miss Heekin
D. J. Heekin
Heekin Can Co
Miss Thurston
General Electric Co
Evandale
A. C. Thurs
Top Brewing Co
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