Israeli six man probe seeks border entry into Bulgaria
A six man Israeli commission again attempts to cross into Bulgaria from Greece to inspect the El Al Constellation crash site. Bulgaria denies entry, while a Bulgarian inquiry and protests from Israel and the United States frame the diplomatic clash.
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Jerusalem
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British Foreign Office
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Boy Burned About Head By Acid Bomb
In Washington Court House Ohio sheriff deputies hunted occupants of a car after a bag of acid was hurled at 15 year old Ernest E Estle Jr near Milledgeville Fayette County. The youth suffered second degree burns to eyes face and shoulders and was hospitalized at St Elizabeth Dayton. The attack came as the boy retrieved a mail from a family box after his cries drew his brother to help. The bag was thrown from a red and black late model car with no motive given.
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Washington Court House
Ohio
Orland Hays
Ernest E. Estle Jr
Milledgeville
Fayette County
St. Elizabeth Hospital
Dayton
Hays
Nice Boy Robert Riley Lies Between Consciousness and Hope
Mrs. Floyd Cornett and Robert Riley’s parents wait at Middletown Hospital as the 13 year old, badly injured in a bicycle collision, remains between consciousness and a precarious recovery after surgery to remove a blood clot. Doctors hope to move him soon to a Cincinnati hospital.
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Middletown Hospital
Robert Riley
Farmersville Rt
Cornett
Robert
James Riley
Moresfork
Cincinnati
Kentucky
Eden Sees New Era for Europe Security Pact Hinted
Prime Minister Eden praised US willingness to join a security pact that could guarantee Europe’s safety. He predicted a new East West era with Khrushchev’s visit looming and noted a split with the Soviet Union over German unity and a possible security pact.
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Eden Last T
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Russia
Germany
Britain
Bulgaria
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Nikita S. Khrushchev
Europe
Geneva
McCarthy Demands Nationalist China at Geneva Talks
Senator McCarthy charged that a Far Eastern sellout looms as Congress nears adjournment and urged that Nationalist China be represented at the upcoming U S China talks in Geneva. He introduced a Senate resolution backing the stand, though action appears unlikely before adjournment.
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Sen. McCarthy
Rwis
China
Geneva
Senate
Congress
Eisenhower approves plan for unmanned earth satellite
President Eisenhower endorses a scientific unmanned satellite project to study the upper atmosphere. Rockets may reach 250 miles with satellites about basketball size, circling every 90 minutes and potentially launched by 1957 or 1958 for global scientific access.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Russia
Earth
Dayton Girl To Get Help Of Congress
The House Judiciary Committee began action to retroactively apply the McCarran Walter Act so that Jane Edith Thomas a Dayton Ohio native born in Trieste Italy is declared a U.S. citizen. Her father Leslie F. Thomas said he was pleased calling the prior ruling a government mistake that deemed his daughter an alien.
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Congress
Dayton
Ohio
U.S
Jane Edith Thomas
Trieste
Italy
Leslie F. Thomas
United States
Thomas
Jane
House Judiciary Committee
Hungarians Break Border Fence to Seek Asylum in Austria
Vienna reports say three Hungarian nationals drove a tractor through the barbed wire border to reach Austria seeking sanctuary. The incident underscores border tensions and refugee movements amid postwar upheaval.
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Vienna
Austria
County Frees Mayfield For Annexation To City
Butler County Commission unanimously approves releasing for annexation to Middletown an 827 acre tract southeast of the city including Mayfield. Action followed a 40 minute session with petitioners and opponents and a survey by Jess C. Dennis showing 84 resident freeholders and 450 valid signatures. Opponents vow action. officials praise thorough hearings and proceed to next steps for annexation.
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Middletown
Mayfield
Jess C. Dennis
Dennis
Gordon Augspurger
Board of Commissioners
William Rothfuss
Burbank Ave
George M. Hancock
Jackson Lane
Congress In Haste To Adjourn
Washington leaders pressed to end the first session of the 84th Congress by tomorrow night. The House moved quickly after passing a disputed natural gas bill and agreed to take up minor items, as the Senate and House plan an early adjournment. The session aims to wrap with a minimum wage increase, the $2.7 billion foreign aid bill, and housing measures under conference. President Eisenhower had sought 35,000 housing units annually.
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House
Congress
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D-Ky
Senate
Eisenhower
White House
House Rules Committee
Dulles Opposes Atlantic Union Convention
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles rejected a Senate backed plan for President Eisenhower to convene a convention to study an Atlantic union. He sent a letter to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee opposing the Kefauver sponsored resolution. Supporters say the move merely asks for exploratory delegates from NATO sponsors.
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Dulles
Congress
Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. Kefauver
D-Tenn
Laziness Perils Actress as Poisoned Medicine Mistake
British actress Joan Greenwood nearly died after she delayed taking a prescribed tonic she carried in her travel case. A London pharmacist later said the medicine was deadly poisonous, but Greenwood’s procrastination kept her safe aboard a transatlantic flight.
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New York
Joan Greenwood
London
United States
Atlantic
Turncoat POWs face UCMJ charges in San Francisco
Three former corporals who defected to Red China at war end return to families before Army readies charges. They renounced communism in Hong Kong, face aiding the enemy and conspiring to desert under the Uniform Code, with possible death or life terms. Charges will be read after ship clearance, then they will be jailed at Ft. Baker.
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Red China
William C. Cowart
Dalton Ga
Otho Bell
Hillsboro
Miss
Olympia
Wash
Lewis W. Griggs
Jacksonville
Tex
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Cleveland
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Jewel Bell
Elbert
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Chester Green
Monticello
Ark
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Jimmy
Cecil Griggs
Talco
State Department
Ft.Baker
Yesterdy
John H. Derrick
6Th Army
Derrick
Armed Services
British Four-jet Bomber Crashes Near Wittering
A British four-jet bomber, carrying a hydrogen bomb, crashed and burned three minutes after takeoff from Wittering air port. All four crewmen were killed in the fatal accident.
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Wittering
England
Brittain
Mortar Explosion Kills Three Soldiers at Camp Hill Training
A 60 millimeter mortar shell exploded during a Camp A. P. Hill Va. training exercise killing three paratroopers and injuring two. Named victims were Pfc Manuel Furgerson of Ft. Worth Texas Pfc Prentiss Martin of Wesson Mississippi and Pvt Gary Spencer Jr of Silver Spring Maryland. All served in the 325th Airborne Infantry Regiment 82nd Division based at Ft. Bragg North Carolina. The shell is believed to have been a faulty round.
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Camp
A. P. Hill
Second Army
Manuel Furgerson
Ft. Worth
Tex
Prentiss L. Martin, Wesson
Miss
Gary P. Spencer Jr
Silver Spring
325Th Airborne Infantry
82Nd
Ft. Bragg
N. C
2Nd Army
Weekend Heat Forecast Promises Scorcher Saturday
The forecast shows warm air from the south bringing partly cloudy skies and hotter temperatures. Tonight will dip into the 70s with Saturday's high near the upper 90s and possible scattered showers Saturday afternoon.
Democrats Press For Firing Of Talbott
Washington AP reports renewed Democratic calls for Secretary of the Air Force Talbott's ouster as ethics questions loom over his outside business ties with Mulligan & Co. President Eisenhower will review Senate findings, while Talbott says he resigned the partnership. Senate investigations pause on final findings.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Air Force
Talbott
Senate
James C. Hagerty
Sen
Morse
D-Ore
Paul M. Butler
New York
Paul B. Mulligan & Co
Graduation Possibilities Highlight Sunday Journal Feature
Sunday's Journal previews graduation for a Girl Scout at Camp Stony Brook and offers counselor perspective on the camp’s first season. The issue also covers Middletown schools texts, Grand Avenue Church progress, and a new five part social security series by Mary Lloyd Lane.
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Stonybrook
Grand Avenue Church of God Tabernacle
Mary Lloyd Lane
Social Security Office
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