Trade And Travel Restrictions On Czechs May End
State Department signaled lifting trade and travel curbs on Communist Czechoslovakia after AP reporter William Oatis was freed. Restrictions included a ban on Czech exports to the United States and U S exports to Czechoslovakia, a travel ban for nonessential Americans, and bans on Czech flights over Germany. Washington noted there was no deal behind the release, while Bonn reported the return of a commandeered anti Communist airliner and 29 people involved.
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Gardner L. Bridge
Washington
State Department
Czechoslovakia
William Oatis
Oatis
Minh
Department
United States
U. S
Germany
West Germany
White
Zapotocky
Bonn
Eisenhower Works On National Security Speech Aboard Williamsburg
President Eisenhower spent May 16 aboard the yacht Williamsburg drafting a major address on national security federal spending and taxes. He played golf at Sewell's Point with Admiral McCormick Rear Adm Hoffman and Gordon Moore. Aides Hauge and Jackson joined for the Williamsburg voyage to Annapolis and to plan the Tuesday night broadcast from 9 30 to 10 p m EST.
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Chesapeake Bay
Eisenhower
Williamsburg
Naval Operations Base
Norfolk
Sewell's Point Commissioned Officers Club
Lynde D. McCormick
Leon J. Hoffman
McCormick
Gordon Moore
Chesapeake
Gabriel Hauge
C. D. Jackson
Hauge
Jackson
Wiliamsburg
U. S. Naval Academy
Annapolis
Academy Chapel
Washington
Capital
Eisenhower presses cuts in Air Force program
President Eisenhower aims to cut about five billion dollars in Air Force funds and insists on expediting current wing readiness. He plans to use Tuesday night radio remarks to defend the plan, signaling a crackdown on officials resistant to funding reductions and future contract limits.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Eisenhower
Air Force
Truman
Tornadoes Hit Texas Death Toll and Injuries
Tornadic winds struck East Central Texas on Saturday causing one death at Wesley Chapel near Crockett and injuring three others in Porter Springs. The storm brought widespread rain from the East Coast to the Rockies with cooler to warmer temperatures and light frost reported in Minnesota.
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Texas
Wesley Chapel
Crockett
Porter Springs
U. S
Rockies
Rocky Mountain
Minnesota
Duluth
International Falls
Mother Asks Ike's Aid In Finding Son's Body
Coral Gables, May 16 A heart broken mother appeals to President Eisenhower to help locate the body of her son among 46 victims of the National Airlines DC6 crash into the Gulf of Mexico February 14. She cites Navy diver refusals and a towed cable near the crash site.
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Coral Gables
Fla
Eisenhower
Gulf of Mexico
Richard H. Shaddick Sr
Navy
Shaddick
Military Aid Study Team Is Announced
Washington reports Sen Bridges signals a sharp attack on foreign aid by sending a two member subcommittee to the Far East to survey military aid needs. Dirksen and Magnusen will study Japan Korea Formosa Indochina and the Philippines May 27 with a Europe team to follow. Mundt predicts cuts target foreign aid funds as Stassen plans halve Britain defense aid next fiscal year and seek early termination.
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Washington
Sen
Bridges
R.N.H
Far East
Senate Appropriations Committee
Dirksen
R-Ill
Magnusen
Europe
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Congress
Britain
United Kingdom
NATO Arms Inadequate Says House Probers
House subcommittee investigators reported NATO forces in Europe lack sufficient fuel and ammunition. They quoted Gen Ridgway and Gen Norstad stressing the need to build up stocks of petroleum, oil, lubricants, and ammo to sustain operations. European nations were criticized for underfunding logistics while US leadership was seen as preventing total failure.
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Washington
House
Europe
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Special
United States
NATO
France
Italy
Matthew B. Ridgway
Lauris Norstad
Noted Builder Is Dead At 79
Tucson May 16 James Baird civil engineer who supervised construction of the Lincoln Memorial and Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington died today at 79 after months of ill health. His wife Cornelia and two sons John C. Baird Scarsdale NY and Charles Baird Ann Arbor Mich were at his bedside. Born May 18 1873 in Vanceburg Kentucky he directed the Folger Shakespeare Library Freer Gallery of Art Building and Arlington Memorial Amphitheater in Washington and the Flatiron Building in Lower Manhattan the first steel skyscraper in New York.
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Ariz
James Baird
Washington
Cornelia
John C. Baird
Scarsdale
N. Y
Charles Baird
Ann Arbor
Mich
Baird
Vanceburg
Folger Shakespeare Library
Freer Gallery of Art
Arlington Memorial Amphitheater
Washington, D. C
Flatiron
Lower Manhattan
New York
Oatis Silent Before Prison Imprisonment Questions
MUERNBERG Germany May 16 AP Reporter William Nathan Oatis returned to the free world from Pankrac Prison where for two years he was cut off from outside news and said he did not know Stalin had died. Pardoned by President Zapotocky, he praised treatment as good, denied terror, and thanked supporters as his wife in St Paul prepared for his return. He declined to discuss espionage charges and said the trial record speaks for itself.
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Muernberg
Germany
William Nathan Oatis
Free World Today
Czechoslovakia
Pankrac
Stalin
U. S
Prague
Oatis
Zapotocky
Laurabelle
St. Paul
Minn
United States
U. S. State Department
Voice of America Radio Network
Dulles Plea Ignored as Senate Panel Cuts State Funds
Washington May 16 Senate appropriations subcommittee tentatively cut two million dollars from State Department operating funds. The panel delayed decisions on granting broad firing powers to Dulles Weeks and Brownell. Full committee meeting set for Monday after three hours of closed session. The bill shows 1,143,146,712 dollars for three departments for the July 1 to June 30 year. State funding was reduced to about 103 million, far below the budget request and last year’s level.
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Washington
Senate
Dulles
State Department
Commerce Weeks
Brownell
Bridges
R-Nh
Appropriations
Senate Committee
House
Truman
Congress
Gambling And Vice To Be Investigated In Campbell County
Newport officials will impanel a special county grand jury May 25 to probe alleged deplorable gambling and vice activities in Campbell County after a federal grand jury report. Commonwealth Attorney Wise presented the motion and Campbell Circuit Judge Murphy upheld it.
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Newport
Campbell County
Commonwealth
William J. Wise
Campbell Circuit
Ray L. Murphy
Middletown Armory Dedication Promises End to Guard Homelessness
Today's Journal highlights the new Middletown National Guard Armory to be dedicated in ceremonies on Page 37. The facility ends the unit's roaming training and addresses prior improvised spaces. Details and related items, including a king-size mushroom story, appear in the Miami Valley section starting Page 28. Plans note a forthcoming dedication of Germantown's civic building. The issue also lists Ohio basketball stars for a Kentucky All-Stars showdown and provides complete major league baseball results in the sports section.
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Middletown
Germantown
Miami Valley
Ohio
Paul Walker
Kentucky
14 Year Old Girl Rescued From Bridge Leap Over Ohio
A 14 year old girl perched on a rain slick bridge girder 80 feet above the Ohio River resisted police for two hours. Principal Helen McGregor and Rev Frederick Gillette persuaded her to surrender and police pulled her to safety. The crowd gathered along both river banks as traffic on Route 30 snarled. The girl Phyllis Davis of East Liverpool gave no reason for the climb and was turned over to welfare official Rigby Mast.
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East Liverpool
Ohio River
Ohio
Chester
W. Va
Phyllis Davis
Ohio Entrance
Ira Cunningham
Helen McGregor
William Dunn
Rigby Mast
Columbiana County
Bricker Seeks U S Courts for Service Members Trials
Senator Bricker demands Senate inquiry into claims that American service members are being tried in foreign courts under secret agreements. He seeks NATO treaty reservations to retain exclusive U S jurisdiction and cites records of servicemen being surrendered for trial in France Italy and Turkey under Truman era accords.
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Washington
Sen
Bricker
Ohio
Senate
Saltonstall
R-Mass
Senate Armed Services Committee
Committee
U. S
NATO
Sen. Ferguson
R-Mich
Congressional
France
Italy
Turkey
Harrison Flies to Tokyo for talks with Clark
United Nations top truce negotiator Lt General William K Harrison Jr travels to Tokyo for a three day recess in Panmunjom armistice talks. He will confer with General Mark W Clark on prisoner exchanges amid divergent views among Britain India and the U S State Department. The pace aims to decide on the handling of war prisoners and sets the stage for possible positions after the recess.
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George A. McArthur Munsan
United Nations
Tokyo
Mark W. Clark
Rean
William K. Harrison Jr
Delegant Panmunjom
U Command
Sucd
Clark Indica
Damental
Britain
India
U. S
Sta Department
United States
Fernandez Wings 14th Red Plane Victory in Koreas Sky
U S Sabre pilots claim 11 Communist MIGs and damage six more in a single day over MiG Alley Northwest Korea. Capt. Manuel Fernandez of Miami bags his 14th Red jet as Maj. James Jabara and Capt. Joseph McConnell also down MIGs. Ground conflicts near the Central Front leave 1,300 killed or wounded of 4,000 Chinese. Panmunjom recesses truce talks for three days.
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Seoul
Mig Alley
Korea
U. N
Joseph McConnell
Apple Valley
Calif
Fernandez
U. S
James Jabara
Wichita
Kan
John F. Bolt
Sanford
Fla
MI6
Redcraft
Bolt
Egypt vows restraint in Suez dispute until Dulles return
CAIRO Egypt May 16 Egypt will take no drastic moves in the Anglo Egyptian Suez dispute until Secretary of State John Foster Dulles returns to the United States an Egyptian official source said Dulles obtained this promise during his Cairo visit and asked for it to guide actions during his trip through Middle East capitals.
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Cairo
Egypt
John Foster Dulles
U. S
Middle East
Dulles
Canada seeks clarification on Korean peace plan differences
Ottawa said it asked Washington for clarity on contrasts between the current Korean peace plan from U S negotiators and the United Nations plan adopted last December. The statement followed reports that Canada favored the Communist Panmunjom armistice plan more than the United States did.
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Ottawa
Canada
Foreign Department
Washington
U. S
United Nations
Panmuntom
United States
Allied counter plan faces Korean objections in armistice talks
The Soviet U N and Allied negotiators met amid strong Korean objections to an armistice proposal that would release 34 000 North Korean prisoners and place 14 500 Chinese captives under a five nation neutral commission for 60 days while awaiting repatriation. General Il leading the Communist team rejected the plan calling it absurd and unacceptable.
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Republic of and
U. N
Sa’ Nam
Foreign Aid Plan Outlined for Far East Fiscal Years
State Department official outlined technical assistance and specific economic aid totaling 139.6 million dollars for India Pakistan Afghanistan Nepal in the upcoming fiscal years starting July 1. The figure forms part of a 5.8 billion foreign aid appropriation presented to the Senate Foreign Relations Committee by Donald Kennedy director of the South Asia affairs office.
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Washington
State Department
India
Pakistan
Afghanistan
Nepal
Eisenhower
Senate
Donald Kennedy
Statepartment
South Asi Affairs
Youthful Bandit Robs Kenton Bank of 4600 in Noon Heist
Kenton Ohio May 16 a young man with a shotgun robbed the Dunkirk branch of the Kenton Savings Bank at noon. He forced cashier Frank Curran to fill a bag with cash and silver then tried to flee with his hostage. Curran and his wife opposed the escape and the robber left with the bag.
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Kenton, O
Dunkirk
Kenton Savings Bank
Frank Curran
Curran
Helen
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