Defense Fund Battle Starts in Congress and White House
Congress opens debate on a 33.54 billion defense bill cutting 2 percent from Eisenhower’s request as Army leaders prepare testimony. Secretary Wilson argues for restoring over a billion in cuts, warning impact on missiles and ships. President plans and pay reform talk follow.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Chavez
Army
Brucker
Maxwell D. Taylor
Sen
Ellender
D-La
House Appropriations Committee
Seven live hand grenades still missing in Baltimore theft
Baltimore police hunt seven live hand grenades from a 20 item theft last Tuesday. Lt. Thomas L. McKennan says two grenades were buried in Patterson Park while others surfaced in lockers, a home, a glove compartment and near tracks. Four youths, ages 15 and 16, admitted the theft but were released to their parents.
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Baltimore
Thomas L. McKennan
Patterson Park
McKenna
Mergenthaler Vocational High School
Weekend Weather Outlook for Miami Valley
The forecast calls for fair and mild conditions with a gradual warming trend over the weekend. Highs near 70 today, 75 Saturday with possible showers late Saturday night, and cooler conditions ahead with a low around 55 tonight.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Florida grants sanctuary to foster parents of Hildy McCoy
Gov. LeRoy Collins awards sanctuary in Florida to Melvin and Esther Ellis Jewish foster parents of 6 year old Hildy McCoy born to an unwed Catholic mother Massachusetts had sought four years to remove the child under a law favoring religious faiths The governor called the charge synthetic and said the core issue is whether custody should stay with the Ellises or go to institutional care He stressed the child's right to be wanted and loved and praised the Ellises for providing those rights The public hearing room was crowded with tears and support
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Melvin B. Ellis
Florida
LeRoy Collins
Hildy
Massachusetts
F. T. Macfeely
Ellises
Collins
Hildy McCoy
Ellis
Ben Cohen
Adenauer Arrives for Talks with Eisenhower in U.S.
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer arrived from Bonn in a chartered plane and will spend Sunday with President Eisenhower or at the President's Gettysburg farm. The 81 year old leader is in the United States for high level discussions with American officials.
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New York
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Eisenhowler
Gettysburg
iPa
United States Seeks Global Atomic Weapons Ban Pact
Washington reports that the United States aims for a disarmament treaty banning atomic weapons for all but the three existing possessors the United States Russia and Britain. Harold Stassen leads cabinet talks and briefs Dulles on a first step limited disarmament plan with progress toward Senate approval.
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Dy John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Russia
Britain
Harold E. Stassen
Eisenhower
London
Stassen
State Department
Dulles
Defense Department
Atomic Energy Commission
U. S
France
Canada
United Nations
Haiti Army Faces New Clash As Cantave Breaks Strike
In Port au Prince troops and police patrol streets after a fourth general strike in six months halts business. Cantave vows to use force to end the shutdown while Dejoie and Fignole back the protests seeking to oust the army chief who took control after dismantling the Executive Council. One dead, another wounded in sporadic gunfire. Countercountryside support favors Cantave amid turmoil.
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Port AU Prince
Haiti
Port Lau Prince
Leon Cantave
Cantave
Sen
Louis Dejoie
Daniel Fignole
Dejoie
Fignole
Executive Council
Riots Hit Formosa As U S Embassy Is Sacked
Chinese mobs on Formosa attack the U S Embassy and Information Agency building as martial law is declared. Near 20 000 protestors besiege police HQ demanding agitators released after a U S court martial acquitted Sgt Robert Reynolds. Nine Americans injured and troops deployed to restore order.
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Formosa
Taipei
U.S
U.S. Information Agency
Chiang Kai-shek
U. S
Information Service
Vegan Municipal Police
Amercans
Press Jattache
Alexander Boase
Carl Ackerman
William Sutton
Paul Meyer
Helen Vosletka
Howard Chaille
Frank Nesci
Robert R. Reynolds
Cobora
Coatesville
Manila
Reynolds
Lairport
Police seek writer of anti smoking slogans in libraries
Oklahoma City police appealed yesterday for help in finding a person who has been inscribing anti cigarette and anti alcohol slogans inside public library books. Slogans include Pray for the smoke aid dictator and 20th century world needs not smoke. USA atomic age mankind needs a cigaret less America. Let's lose fear from alcohol and tobacco.
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Oklahoma City
USA
America
For sale my wife's poodle at a bargain price
Classified gag item lists a poodle for sale at five dollars with a humorous note asking buyers to call 1 2110 and to hang up if a woman answers the phone, reflecting a dated joke in a light classifieds tone.
Bowling Green aP Students Protest Liquor Rules
Warrants were issued for three Bowling Green State University students after an early morning campus demonstration against liquor regulations. Twelve students were expelled as flames and a sit down strike blocked U.S. 6. An effigy of Dr. Ralph McDonald was burned outside his home.
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Bowling Green, Ohio
Bowling Green State University
Bowling Green
William Carmany
Bedford
Bruce Buckholz
Cleveland
Paul Walsh
University
Perrysburg
Joseph Brainard
Ralph McDonald
U.S. 6
Dr. McDonald
Woman Loses Five Playing the Horses in Electric Chair
Mrs Minnie Schwartz a 40 year old in Los Angeles got her leg caught between a bike seat and handle while using an electric reducing chair. For 20 minutes she struggled as the chair moved and the fire department and police rescued her by dismantling the seat.
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Los Angeles
Minnie Schwartz
Schwartz
Storm Lashes Texas and Arkansas With Tornadoes and Hail
Severe weather swept from Texas across the southern plains into the Gulf states and Great Lakes region. Tornadic winds damaged a church, orphan dormitory, and a downtown business in Arkansas while Texas endured multiple tornadoes near Winters, Marshall, and Mt. Pleasant with 73 mph winds in the Dallas area and heavy rainfall across the Southeast.
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Southern Plains
Texas
Aalansan Amnnaanead
Atkaidad Bpytalcu Hauryiby
Gulf States
Ohio River
Great Lakes
New England
Atlantic Seaboard
Arkansas
Monticello
Winters
Marshall
Mt. Pleasant
Dallas-Fort Worth
Mississippi Valley
Mobile
Ala
Texans Still Love Texas Despite Brutal Weather
Texans express pride in their state amid 70 plus tornadoes since April and widespread flooding. Ed Jolesch and others describe property damage, injuries and displacements while noting a strong attachment to Texas and weather beliefs vary from scientific doubt to faith in divine will.
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Irwin Frank
Dallas
Texas
Ed Jolesch
Midlothian
Tor
Jolesch
Glenne Berry
Nina
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