Defense Plant Suspects List Surrounded By Indecision
Washington AP The Defense Department refused McCarthy terms for a list of 133 suspected security risks in defense plants. The 27 day Senate investigations hearings continue as McCarthy weighs turning over names. Seaton says Defense can act without consultation. Mundt envisions cooperation and new FBI data evaluation division.
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Fred Seaton
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Executive Branch
White House
Congressional
Mundt
Justice Department
FBI
AFL Dock Unit Drops Protest After Waterfront Vote
New AFL dock union reportedly drops protest plans over the May 26 waterfront representation election. Rival ILA claims nearly 2,000 Jersey City and Hoboken dockers want to return to the ILA as the National Labor Relations Board reviews 1,797 challenged ballots. AFL-ILA to meet with Meany in Washington to discuss the dock situation.
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New York
AFL
International Longshoremen’s Assn
Jersey City
Hoboken
N.J
ILA
Teamsters Employees Vote Against Union Representation
Washington AFL Office Employees Union wins 281 to 0 in an NLRB election as Teamsters withdraw after charges of the employer trying to represent its own workers. Union head Howard Coughlin calls the result surprising and an indictment of the Teamsters. Vice President Einar Mohn says they will recognize any union chosen by employees.
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AFL Teamsters
National Labor Relations Board
AFL Office
Teamsters
Presiden
Howard Coughlin
Office Employes Union
Einar Mohn
Teamsters Union
Congressmen and Doorkeeper Testify in Puerto Rican Terror Trial
In Washington a doorkeeper and a congressman testified as witnesses in the trial of four Puerto Ricans who fired on the House. Ringleader Lolita Lebron and three others face multiple counts of assault with intent to kill and with a deadly weapon.
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Warren Rogers, JR
Washington
House of Representatives
U. S. Dist
Alexander Holtzoff
Kenneth A. Roberts
D-Ala
Lolita Lebron
Rafael Cancel Miranda
Andres Figueroa Cordero
Irving Flores Rodriguez
Co Oe
Baseball Series To Start Sunday
How You Can Play Knot hole baseball features Whitney Martin and John McCallum two leading baseball authorities. The series covers playing every position batting running bases keeping fit and sportsmanship. Watch for the first article in the Mispire Journal starting Sunday.
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Whitney Martin
John McCallum
Midspire
Sunay
Marine Planes Crash In Air Over Everglades
Two Marine Air Corps Skyraiders collided over Everglades National Park near Miami. Bodies of two fliers recovered, a third missing, a fourth parachuted to safety and rescued. Searchers located one body in wreckage, the other outside debris.
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Miami
Fla
Marine Air Corp
Everglades National Park
Ohio Senators Back President on Public Housing Plan
Washington reports both Senator Bricker and Senator Burke voting yes to adopt an amendment approving the President's public housing program. The tally stood 66 to 16 with thirteen Democrats opposing the measure.
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Sen
Bricker
Ohio
Burke
Senate
UN Official's Wife Leaps to Death on George Washington Bridge
New York report says Baroness Gertrude Ranshofen Wertheimer aged 54, wife of UN social affairs chief Baron Egon Rashofen-Wertheimer, jumped from the George Washington Bridge after a period of illness. Police noted no immediate motive.
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New York
Gertrude Ranshofen-Wertheimer
United Nations
George Washington Bridge
Baron Egon Rashofen- Wertheimer
U. N. Social Affairs Department
Eisenhower housing bill gains Senate backing in conference plan
The Senate backed broad housing reform with liberal credit, slum clearance funds, and a proposal to build 35,000 public housing units annually, despite House opposition. The measure includes FHA loan down payments stepping down to 400 dollars on eight thousand dollar homes and 30 year terms, plus new anti windfall rules and a GI Bill loan expansion.
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Eisenhower
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Capehart R Ind
Senate Banking Committee
Sen
Maybank
South Carolina
Banking Committee
Supreme Court
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Knowland
California
Federal Housing Administration
Money Bequest to Metropolitan Opera Rejected Over Artistic Standards
The Metropolitan Opera refused a $100,000 bequest from Philadelphia real estate heir McNair Ilgenfritz after evaluating two operas he authored. The staff deemed the scores not up to Met standards, and directors stated the gift would not be accepted despite a persistent annual deficit.
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Metropolitan Opera
Met
McNair Ilgenfritz
Philadelphia
Phedre
Ilgenfritz
Nun Burns Self Over Guilty Past at English Convent
In Baddesley Clinton England Sister Antony a Poor Clare nun burned herself to death as penance after confessing she had lied about her birth year on an insurance form. The coroner investigated as Brown-clad sisters wept in the convent chapel.
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Baddesley Clinton
England
Antony
Barefoot Order of Poor Clare
Sister Antony
John Dale
Witch Way's Pipe Trick at Hospital Site
Sunday’s Journal explains a workman using two welding rods to locate underground water pipes with no trick involved. The piece appears amid features on Middletown schools ending for summer and a travel tale from Norwich to Middletown. May weathered recession fears with a brighter business page outlook.
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May
France names Ely to combined military and political Indochina post
Gen Paul Ely is appointed both military commander in chief and commissioner general of Indochina replacing Gen Henri Navarre and Maurice Dejean. The move aims to bolster defenses amid Vietminh threats around Hanoi and echoes a wartime structure used by Marshal de Lattre. Ely, 56, is a wounded World War II veteran and St. Cyr alumnus who assumed staff chief duties last August.
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France
Paul Ely
Armed Forces
Indochina
Joseph Laniel
Ely
Henri Navarre
Maurice Dejean
Navarre
Dien Bien Phu
Red River
Hanoi
Laniel
Edouard Frederic-Dupont
Frederic-Dupont
Marc Jacquet
Jean de Lattre de Tassigny
Delta
de Lattre
Viet Nam
Dejean
St. Cyr Military Academy
West Point
Thai Plan Faces Slow U N Debate On Peace Patrol
At the United Nations the Security Council signaled a cautious approach to Thailand’s request for UN observers on its border with Indochina. Most delegations favored delaying action to pursue a possible Geneva cease-fire, with only the Soviet representative urging immediate debate. Council president Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. traveled to France for D-Day ceremonies, entrusting James J. Wadsworth with duties in his absence.
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U. N
Thailand
Indochina
Hugh Thailand
Washington
Pete Sarasin
Semyon K. Tsarapkin
Geneva
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
United States
France
James J. Wadsworth
Lodge
Dien Bien Phu Escapee Reaches Hanoi
Lt Raymond Makowiak the first French officer to escape Dien Bien Phu arrived in Hanoi after a trek through rugged mountains and jungles aided by corn and rice secretly provided by friendly natives.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Raymond Makowiak
Nam Bac
Death Toll Climbs in Navy Carrier Explosions
At Quonset Point Rhode Island the death toll from May 26 explosions aboard the heavy aircraft carrier rises as another Bennet crew member dies bringing total fatalities to 102.
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Quonset Point
Wdeath
Semi Public Session Set For Tuesday At Geneva
Geneva reports a deadlocked Indochina conference preparing for a semi public session Tuesday after long secret talks. Western delegates accuse Communist speeches of propaganda while red forces keep to hard lines on policing a cease fire.
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Pham van Dong
Lq Vietminh
van Dong
France
Georges Bidault
Redg
Partly cloudy cool night in Mi ami Valley with 46 degree low
Forecasters at the Vandalia Weather Station predict a cool night in the Mi ami Valley with a low around 46 degrees. Tomorrow should bring fair skies and a warm high near 70 degrees.
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Miami Valley
Vandalia
Air Force solar generator advances solar power potential
Baltimore reports the Air Force announces a solar generator using cadmium sulfide crystals to store energy from the sun. Developed by Donald C. Reynolds and Lt. Col. Gerard M. Leies at Wright Air Development Center, the pilot model delivers a quarter volt and could power a house if deployed as a roof slab.
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Air Force
Air Research and Development Command
Donald C. Reynolds
Gerard M. Leies
Wright Air Development Center
Dayton
Ohio
Bell Telephone Co
Bell
Leies
Reynolds
Bill Drafted To Force Action On Security Risks
Senator Mundt announces a draft bill to create a Justice Department division to handle security risk reports from the FBI. The plan would transfer adverse findings to the suspected employee’s superiors and push for decisive action based on expert evaluations.
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Mundt
R-Sd
FBI
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Justice Department
Verena Security
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