Explosion at Navy test station near Newport deaths four
An underwater ordnance station blast at Newport Rhode Island killed four civilians, left one missing and five injured. The blast, blamed on compressed air and fluid in torpedo propulsion tests, shattered the building and blew out windows as the dynamometer room housed tests for propulsion parts.
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Newport
R. I
Navy
Toda
Joseph H. Wellings
Naval
Jamestown Island
Dulles Says U S May Talk With Red China if Reform
Secretary of State Dulles said the United States would seek to determine if the Chinese Communists are sincere about a peaceful Formosa settlement and might hold direct talks on a cease-fire with Peiping possibly under UN sponsorship. He echoed calls for talks on an Austrian treaty and noted Bandung developments as potentially decisive for world peace.
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Washington
Dulles
Formosa
United States
China
Peiping
United Nations
Europe
Far East
Soviet Union
Bandung
Russia
Sen
George
D-Ga
U. S
Red China
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
State Department
Department
Rey China
Chou En-lai
Chiang Kai-shek
Submarine Nautilus Submersion Time Teased by Secretary
Secretary of the Navy Charles Thomas comments on how long the atom powered submarine Nautilus can stay submerged. He wittily notes it only has to die to let the crew reemerge, signaling a facetious side to the discussion of endurance under water.
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Washington
Charles Thomas
Jealous husband kills neighbor at east side drug store
A crowd at an east side Cleveland drug store sheltered as a fight turned fatal when Joseph Sypniewski shot Henry Zielinski five times. Sypniewski, 39, said he would not apologize and claimed Zielinski ruined his life after Zielinski was seen with his wife Madeline, who had filed for divorce and moved out with their two sons. Zielinski died at St. Alexis Hospital. police linked him to the Sypniewski case and Zielinski denied taking the wife.
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Cleveland
East Side
Joseph Sypniewski
Henry Zielinski
St. Alexis
Zielinski
Thompson Products Co
Sypniewski
Madeline Sypniewski
Joseph
William
Draft Board Sets Special College Qualification Test
The Ohio selective service headquarters announced a special college qualification test will be held Thursday May 19 for registrants unable to attend the previous tests. Applications submitted after May 9 will not be accepted.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Selective Service
Short Reprieve Delays Doom Of Survival City Test
In Survival City Nevada the 500 foot atomic test tower, postponed four times, faces a 24 hour delay due to high winds and clouds. Army and defense personnel, NATO observers, reporters, and civil defense teams gather at Camp Desert Rock and Yucca Flat awaiting blast conditions for the 13th 1955 test in the series.
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Atomic Energy Commission
Federal Civil Defense Administration
Yucca Flat
Camp Irwin
Calif
Fort Hood
Tex
Camp Desert Rock
NATO
ABC
E. B. Doll
Stanford Research Institute
Pickets Form At Sandia Base As Atomic Workers Strike
About 50 pickets gathered at Sandia base in Albuquerque with limited contact rules as 2,400 workers in the AFL Metal Trades Council and AFL Office Workers Union strike after rejecting a 29 point pay and vacation package. The move affects Sandia and Salton Sea sites, and Albuquerque workers join Anaheim in showing broad labor action near key atomic facilities.
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Sandia Base
West Gate
Atomic Workers Division
AFL Metal Trades Council
AFL Office Workers Union
Atomic Energy Labor-Management Relations Panel
Sandia Cor
Western Electric
Metal Trades Union
Salton Sea
Corporation
California
Sandia
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Nevada
Peiping claims downing of Nationalist plane near Formosa
Peiping radio reported ground gunners shot down a Nationalist aircraft Sunday near the island of Namoa, about 190 miles across the strait from Formosa, in a clash across the Taiwan Strait.
Peiping Seeks Direct Talks With United States On Taiwan
Peiping radio says direct U S China negotiations are needed to ease Formosa tensions. It quotes Chou En Lai and argues Washington set unreasonable prerequisites, while China insists Taiwan is an internal affair and calls for talks to reduce tensions in the Far East.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio Today
Formosa
4Dn
Breatiit
United States
Chou Enlai
Bandung
Indonesia
People’s Daily
Communist Party
Peiping
Far East
Taiwan
China
U.S
Chou En-lai
U.S. State Department
Kefauver criticizes White House delay on Bricker treaty hearing
Senator Kefauver charged the White House with delaying Secretary Dulles testimony on the Bricker amendment to appease a GOP faction. He said the postponement was ordered at the White House and not by the State Department, and vowed to press hearings with Bricker and an administration representative.
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Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
White House
State Dulles
State Department
Judiciary
Sen. Bicker
Ohio
Thruston B. Morton
Bricker
Senate
Dulles
Epee
Republican Party
GOP
Germans To Get Polio Vaccine In Frankfurt
City officials announced a German made polio vaccine similar to the Salk vaccine would be offered to 150 000 Frankfurt children beginning Monday. It will be the first major West German city to launch the immunization program.
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Frankfurt
Germany
Ridgway Calls Soviet Army The Strongest In World
Gen. Matthew Ridgway, U S Army chief of staff, testified that the Soviet land forces are the most powerful fighting force today and ready for major war with little warning. He noted improvements in mobility and firepower as Communists modernize Asia and Europe forces with Russian help.
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Washington
Matthew B. Ridgway
Ridgway
U.S. Army
House
Asia
Europe
Wilson
Army
Robertson In Surprise Flying Visit To Quemoy
U S Assistant Secretary of State Walter Robertson made a secret flying visit to Quemoy with Chinese Nationalist officials including Yu Ta-wei and George Yeh. The mission, kept hidden until return to Formosa, aimed to inform a possible policy report to President Eisenhower on morale and security conditions.
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Formosa
U.S
Walter Robertson
Quemoy
Yu Ta-wei
George Yeh
William C. Chase
Official Taipei
Robertson
Adm
Arthur Radford
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Radford
Chiang Kai-shek
Red China
United States
Liu Lu-chang
Here
Red
Amoy
Chiang
U. S
Washington
Matsus
Eisenhower
Meeting In Vienna Gets Soviet Okays Ambassadors Conference
Moscow agreed to a Vienna ambassadorial meeting with Austria to settle Austrian treaty details. Western powers proposed talks in Vienna June 1 with Britain France and the United States plus the Soviet Union, which said a conference is not strictly necessary but will join. Russia also agreed to begin peace talks with Japan in London June 1, after preferring London over New York, Moscow or Tokyo. The Soviet side believes Austrian terms can be resolved when the Big Four foreign ministers meet later.
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Russia
Vienna
Austria
Britain
France
United States
Soviet Union
Japan
London
New York
Tokyo
Senate panel to probe scrap iron shipments abroad
The Senate Armed Services Committee plans an inquiry into reports that U S scrap iron shipped overseas is reaching Communist countries. The probe aims to determine the extent and routes of these transfers and assess any national security implications.
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Washington
Senate Armed Services Committee
U. S
Weather Outlook Sees Clear Skies and Warm Up
The forecast calls for clear skies tonight and tomorrow if the forecaster is correct. Rain in April totals rose by another tenth of an inch yesterday with some today. Temperatures rose to 56 yesterday then fell to 50 this morning. Highs should reach the mid 60s today and the 70s tomorrow.
Actress Found In Coma At Home
Actress Susan Hayward 35 was found unconscious in her North Hollywood home by police after a reported overdose of sleeping tablets. She was rushed to hospital for stomach pumping and transferred to Cedars of Lebanon.
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Hollywood
Susan Hayward
G. W. Wilkerson
North Hollywood
Cedars of Lebanon
Stolen RAF Plane Crashes in France Killing Four
A Royal Air Force trainer stolen from Thorney Island in Hampshire crashed near Vicq France, killing four people including a 10 year old, a 9 year old, and a 55 year old, with two others seriously injured. The pilot, 20 year old Nanik Agnani, vanished. he had flown low over London for hours without a parachute.
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Valenciennes
France
Royal Air Force
Britain
Vicq
London
Thorney Island Navigation School
Hampshire
England
Nanik Agnani
Agnani
Pakistan
Air Ministry
Soviet Move To Cancel British WWII Pact
The Soviet Foreign Ministry spokesman said the Foreign Affairs Committees in both houses recommended the Presidium of the Supreme Soviet cancel the 1942 friendship and alliance treaty with Britain. The action follows Britain approving Paris rearmament accords and is seen as retaliation. similar steps are expected on the Soviet French treaty of 1944.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Britain
Foreign Ministry
Presidium
Supreme Soviet
Nikolai Bulganin
Council of Ministers
West Germany
Not Guilty Claim Shapes New Trial Appeal
California criminologist says Dr. Kirk Sheppard is innocent while police allegedly ignored evidence in Marilyn Sheppard’s July 4 murder in Bay Village Forge. He testifies at a hearing on a new-trial motion. Sheppard, convicted of second degree murder, faces possible parole in 10 years.
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Cleveland
Sa Sheppard
California
Paul Kirk
Marilyn
Bay Village Forge
Kirk
Sheppard
Fo Snes
Bytorneys
Gun Fires Kill Boy in Accident in Cincinnati
A shotgun Kennedy Speaks 11 died after the gun he was examining discharged by accident in Cincinnati. Kenneth Lee Speaks was a fifth grade pupil at Anderson Two School and the son of Mr. and Mrs. John W. Speaks.
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Cincinnati
Kennth Lee Speaks
Kenneth
Anderson Two
John W. Speaks
Boxer dragged by dog in Haddon Heights accident
Leonard Allen, 45, walking a friend's boxer in Haddon Heights New Jersey, was dragged after a dog owner rammed a curb and struck him. He sustained five broken ribs and is recovering, police said.
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Haddon Heights
N. J
Leonard Allen
Allen
Queenie
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