Summit Talks Called Off After Plane Attack Shadow
The UN anniversary session was derailed as a Soviet MIG attack on an American Navy plane over the Bering Sea left 7 injured. Dulles notified Molotov, who promised to investigate. Truman urged continued pursuit of peace with Bulganin Eden and Faure as the closing ceremony loomed.
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Max Harrelson
San Francisco
Bering Sea
U.N
John Foster Dulles
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Eisenhower
Dulles
Molotov
Tne
O Dmtes
Assembly
Eelco N. van Kleffens
Arkady A. Sobolev
Washington
New York
Geneva
Harry S. Truman
Nikolai Bulganin
Anthony Eden
Edgar Faure
Truman
Opera House
Dag Hammarskjold
India
S V. K. Krishna Menon
Nehru
Airmen Injured As Russian Jets Hit Neptune Near Alaska
A Russian attack on a U S Navy Neptune patrol plane forced a crash landing on St Lawrence Island in the Bering Sea injuring seven of eleven crew. Senators condemned the incident amid looming Big Four talks and urged cautious response.
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Washington
Alaska
Congress
Russia
St. Lawrence Island
Siberia
Sen. Mansfield
Dmont
Knowland Charges Nehru Broker for Red Policies
Sen. Knowland accuses Indian Prime Minister Nehru of adopting a Communist viewpoint in a joint Indian Soviet declaration after Moscow visit. He warns Nehru should not speak as a neutral in Asia talks and calls for preconditions on any talks with Red China, linking them to released American prisoners. Menon, Nehru's adviser, had met with Eisenhower and Dulles on Far Eastern tensions.
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Washington
Sen. Knowland
Moscow
Nehru
China
Formosa
Peiping
U.N
Knowland
United States
Asia
Geneva
California
Red China
Dulles
San Francisco
Mr. Menon
Vv. K. Krishna Menon
Eisenhower
Returncoats Set To Leave Hong Kong
Peiping radio reported that arrangements are complete for the departure of three American and two Belgian soldiers who had chosen to stay with the Communists in Red China. The five, led by Lewis W. Griggs of Jacksonville Texas and O G Bell of Olympia Washington, along with William A. Cowart of Dalton Georgia and the two Belgians Roger Devriendt and Louis Verdyk, can now leave immediately.
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Hong Kong
Peiping Radio
Red China
Lewis W. Griggs
Jacsonville
Tex
O. G. Bell
Olympia, Wash
William A. Cowart
Dalton, Ga
Roger Devriendt
Louis Verdyk
Convertible slides into fish hatchery at Dallas site
Mrs. Doris Eubank borrowed her nephew’s yellow convertible and parked near a house she is building in Dallas. When she stepped out the car rolled away and plunged into a fish hatchery, leaving her to describe the sinking feeling as the vehicle disappeared underwater.
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Dallas
Tex
Doris Eubank
Steel Men Meet With Union Chief
Pittsburgh report on U S Steel top negotiator meeting CIO United Steelworkers head David J McDonald with a strike deadline looming. U S Steel's initial wage proposal of about 10 cents an hour was rejected while a 6 percent to 22 cent rise was discussed. Hefty industry gains cited as reason to raise pay.
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Pittsburgh
U.S. Steel Corp
David J. McDonald
CIO
United Steelworkers
John A. Stephens
U.S. Steel
McDonald
US Steel
Big Steel
USW
19 Airmen Die In India Crash Near Agra
Indian air force reports two Dakota planes collided near Agra, killing 15 air force personnel and four army men. Spokesman says no senior officials or foreigners were involved in the tragedy.
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New Delhi
India
Indian Air Force
Air Force
Agra
Young dentist blocked from San Leandro home over race
In San Leandro California dentist Santoru Aikawa 32 an Army veteran faced a registered letter from 29 neighbors urging him to seek housing elsewhere. The June 15 letter cited racial understanding while noting appraisal issues and earlier a threatening call kept him from a sale.
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San Leandro
Calif
Alameda
Santoru Aikewa
US S. Army
Aikawa
Stockton
Ohio General Assembly ends session with school subsidy reform
The 101st Ohio General Assembly closed after approving a new school subsidy distribution based on teacher units of 30 pupils starting Oct 1 1956. The two-year cost is about 279.7 million dollars. The session also advanced unemployment and workmen’s compensation increases and a record-high two-year budget of 955.554 million dollars.
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Columbus
Ohio
101St
Ohio General Assembly
House
Senate
Senate House Committee
Frank J. Lausche
Legislative Service Bureau
Lausche
State Board of Education
State Highway Patrol
State Board of Building Standards Authority
Board of Building Appeals
Americans Held in Soviet Labor Camps Revealed
A group of 186 Austrians returning from Soviet imprisonment reported 16 Americans held in Russian labor camps. One identified captive was Sidney Ray Sparks of Tennille Georgia, claimed to be alive and working in forests at Camp Patma in eastern Europe. Sparks had been listed absent without leave since December 4 1951 in Berlin and reportedly escaped from a West Berlin guardhouse with two other privates.
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Sparks
Berlin
U.S. Army European
Heidelberg
Germany
6Th Infantry
U.S. Army
West Berlin
Ray B. Schultz
Batavia
N.Y
Charles J. Scott
Decatur
Ill
Schultz
East Germany
Scott
Bride-To-Be Dies After Eight Story Fall in Chicago
Dorothy May Wells twenty one year old from St. Petersburg Florida a June West Point graduate plunged eight floors from an open washroom window in a Michigan Avenue office building. Police found her red shoes and purse with papers on the sill and bruised stockings fingerprints indicate a desperate climb back inside. Lt Forrest T Gay III her fiancé and former Florida classmate said she suffered a nervous condition and had come to Chicago to stay with his parents.
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Chicago
West Point
Dorothy May Wells
St. Petersburg
Fila
Michigan Avenue
Miss Wells
Forrest T. Gay III
Ho Chi Minh arrives in Peipings with Vietminh party
Peiping radio reports Ho Chi Minh leader of the Vietminh and his party arrived in Peipings today.
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Tokyo
Ho Chi Minh
Vietminh
Peipins
Peiping
Eisenhower awaits Soviet reply in New England tour
President Eisenhower moved through northern New England as he awaited a Soviet response to a U S protest over an attack by Russian MIG jets on a U S patrol plane. The incident left seven of eleven crew injured and the president kept in close touch with Washington. He stayed at Weeks farm near Whitefield New Hampshire and planned visits to Berlin and Wentworth for a lunch.
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U.S
Eisenhower
State
Defense Department
Dulles
Sansco
U.N
V. M. Molotov
Molotov
U. N
James C. Hagerty
Whitefield
N. H
New England
Hagerty
Navy Department
Navy
Armed Forces
Alaska
Joseph H. Atkinson
Kodiak, Alaska
Richard H. Fischer
Pittenburgh
Fischer
Chittenden
Herbert Hoover Jr
Defense Wilson
Robert Anderson
Adm
Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
San Francisco
Congress
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed
Soviet Union
Washington
Secretary of Commerce
N.H
Berlin
Dartmouth College Forest
Wentworth
U.S. Navy
Siberia
White House
Lancaster
Secretary Weeks
Cat Bow
Peron Moves to Reconcile With Church After Revolt
Argentine officials seek to heal rift with the Roman Catholic Church after last week’s failed revolt. Foreign Minister Remorino and papal nuncio Zanin are involved in talks on a possible concordat as Congress weighs ending church status as state church. Police guard churches to prevent further incidents.
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Buenos Aires
Juan Peron
Jeronimo Remorino
Mario Zanin
Vatican
Foreign Ministry
Congress
Argentina
Peron
Molotov TV Debut Canceled Over On-The-Spot Q&A
San Francisco CBS canceled Prime Minister Molotov’s scheduled TV and radio appearance on Face the Nation after he refused on the spot questioning. CBS wanted a list of questions in advance, but Molotov would not face impromptu queries from the interview panel. Sig Mickelson, CBS VP, expressed regret that Molotov would not share his views with the American public on world issues.
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San Francisco
V. M. Molotov
Columbia Broadcasting System
CBS
Molotov
Sig Mickelson
Polio Immunization Slowed by Vaccine Delays
Washington reports a lull in polio shots as stricter vaccine testing standards slow production. Dr Hart Van Riper of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis says the program for first and second graders is at a standstill until more vaccine arrives. Officials warn no new supplies for a week or 10 days and distributors may not offer sizable stocks until mid July, delaying full distribution to August or later.
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Washington
Hart van Riper
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
New York
National Institutes of Health
Vorys Seeks Restore of Foreign Aid Cut in House Bill
Rep. Vorys says House Foreign Affairs Committee cut deeper into Eisenhower foreign aid than intended, plans to restore part of the 145 million dollar military funds reduction. He notes potential 400 million turnback of unobligated carryover funds and urges floor amendment without touching turnbacks.
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Vorys
Washington
Ohio
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Eisenhower
House
Ohioan
Senate
Rep
Fulton
R-Pa
Congress
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