Tornado Outbreak Rakes Central States Killing Four
A widespread tornado outbreak across Oklahoma Texas Colorado Wyoming and Missouri causes at least four deaths and many injuries with extensive property damage. Radar tracking credited with saving lives while storms shred towns including Lawton Wanette Tohoka Yoder and Joplin.
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Weather Bureau
Oklahoma
Lawton
Wanette
Texas
Panhandle
South Plains
Alton
Tom C. Smith
Tohoka
Colorado-Wyoming
Wyoming
Colorado
Yoder
Wyo
Pierce
Colo
Missouri
Joplin
Hussein Wins Again as Syria Leaves Jordan
Beirut Lebanon Jordan King Hussein gains another victory in ridding his kingdom of leftist elements. Syria begins withdrawing about 5000 troops and an armored regiment from northern Jordan after Hussein demanded their pullback. Syria and Egypt backed the deposed premier Nabulsi, with tensions revealing Arab splits.
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Tom Masterson
Beirut
Lebanon
Jordan
Hussein
Hhis Figh
Syria
Mafrak
Nasser
Egypt
Suleiman Nabulsi
Senate Now Ike's Hope On Budget
Washington expects the Senate to restore cuts in the defense budget after the House backs the committee's $33.541 billion military package for the next fiscal year. Ike urges at least $1.2 billion more, while Republicans and Democrats split on whether the cuts go too far. House debate begins with votes likely Monday.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
House
Eissenhower
House Appropriations Committee
Defense Department
Rep
Wigglesworth
R-Mass
Appropriations Committee
Scrivner
R-Kan
Presley Denies Planned Marriage to Actress Lime
Elvis Presley will not marry actress Yvonne Lime, a spokesman says. The claim in Ultimas Noticias said he would fly to Mexico City then to Acapulco for a ceremony. Lime had visited Presley's Memphis home earlier this month.
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Hollywood
Elvis Presley
Yvonne Lime
Tom Diskin
Tom Parker
Presley
Mexico City
Ultimas Noticias
Acapulco
Miss Lime
Memphis
Tenn
Plan for selective fund bill cuts irks GOP leaders
President Eisenhower urges authority for item veto in budget bills, but Senate GOP leaders Sen Knowland of California and Sen Bridges oppose granting any president power to strike individual items. They argue only a constitutional amendment could authorize such veto power and call for budget cuts to Eisenhower’s $71.8 billion plan. Eisenhower claims item veto would enable reductions in costly projects, but critics warn of weakened Congress and extraconstitutional power.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Senate
Sen
Knowland
California
GOP
Congress
Bridges
Republican Policy Committee
Trenton
N.J
Army
Cuban Troops Seek Small Rebel Band After Yacht Landing
Cuban government forces hunt a 127 man rebel group that landed from the yacht Corinthia near Mayari in Oriente province. Five insurgents reportedly captured- the refugees deny Fidel Castro ties and accuse him of Communist links as troops concentrate in the Sierra Cristal area.
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Havana
Cuba
Sierra Cristal
Fulgencio Batista
Corinthia
Miami
Carlos Pin
Oriente Province
Castro
Youth shooter surrenders after gun battle in Ramsey County
In St Paul Minnesota 17 year old Dennis Weiss shot and wounded Deputy Roger Johnson during a gun duel and later surrendered after police arrived He admitted strangling his great grandmother Mrs Anne Pedersen saying she found his pistol and ammunition He planned to kill his father Donald Weiss as well and was living with divorced parents since 1954
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ST. Paul
Minn
T. R. Egan
Ramsey County
Dennis
Filling Station Attendant Shot During Holdup Killed
A La Crosse Wisconsin filling station attendant David Buchner 20 was fatally wounded in a $70 holdup. He died at a LaCrosse hospital after being shot in the back and forced into the restroom by the bandit who gave no provocation.
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Lacrosse, Wis
LaCrosse
David Buchner
Buchner
Countess Stabbed Fatally In Subway
Countess Teresa Lubienska a white haired Polish widow famed for refugee welfare work was stabbed to death in a crowded London subway station Friday night. She belonged to a prominent Poland family and lived alone in Kensington.
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London
Teresa Lubienska
Poland
Kensington
Lonm
Mother and boy crushed by bus on Staten Island outing
Mrs Pauline Ellison and her three year old son Eric boarded a Staten Island ferry trip from Manhattan to a beach outing. As they exited a bus Eric's foot was caught in the rear door and the vehicle pulled away. Mrs Ellison chased the bus, tripping as she ran, and Eric was run over beneath the wheels. The driver John Madigan said he could not see or hear the child.
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New York
Pauline Ellison
Eric
Staten Island
Manhattan
The Trouble With Inferiority Complexes
A lighthearted quip notes that the real issue is not personal lack but the misdirected holders of the complexes. The joke hinges on irony about who feels inferior.
Congress to Probe Formosa Rioting By Chinese Mobs
Congressmen will question State and Defense officials Monday about anti American rioting in Formosa. Sub committee chair Zablocki will probe troop supervision and preventive steps after the Taipei embassy and USIA building were sacked. Walters Robertson and Stephen Jackson to testify in closed session.
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Washington
State and
Defense Departments
Formosa
Zablocki
D-Wis
House Foreign Affairs
U. S
Taipei
U. S. Information Agency
USIA
Congressional
Senate
Knowland
Calif
Walter S. Robertson
The
Far East
Stephen S. Jackson
Come Home Reds Urging Formosans To Return
Hong Kong dispatch reports Peiping using Formosa riots to urge native Formosans and mainland Chinese on the island to abandon Chiang Kai shek and align with communist China. The reaction came just eight hours after Taipei rioting, unusually fast for Peiping.
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Hong Kong
Red
Graduation Exercises at Ruskin High School
Graduation exercises were held for 174 seniors from Ruskin High School with one program change. The chorus had planned to sing Winds Across the Sky but the song was omitted.
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Kansas City
Ruskin High School
Final U.S. disarmament plans reach decision before London talks
President and top advisors finalize new U.S. disarmament ideas to present in five power talks resuming in London. Harold Stassen plans to depart for London with a plan including zones for mutual aerial inspection and a first step treaty cutting arms by 10 to 15 percent.
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Ihe
John M. Hightower
Washington
Eisenhower
Russia
London
Harold E. Stassen
U. S
Stassen
Dulles
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Donald Quarles
Defense
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Robert Cutler
State Department
United States
Britain
Beck Junior to Face Questioning by Senate Rackets Panel
Dave Beck Jr. and two other men long sought by the Senate Rackets Investigating Committee were formally ordered to contact the panel forthwith. Beck Jr. was served at a truck welding shop after a tip led U.S. marshals to locate him. he resisted but was tracked down. Joseph E. McEvoy, related by marriage to Beck Sr., also appeared to accept service, as did Fred Verschhueren Sr., an auditor for the Western Conference of Teamsters who was recovering in Providence Hospital.
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Seattle
Dave Beck Jr
Senate
Beck Jr
U. S. Marshal’s Office
Beck
Teamsters Union
Joseph E.mcevoy
Dave Beck Sr
Fred Versschueren Sr
Western Conference of Teamsters
Providence Hospital
Stroudsburg Honors Dr Nina Price for 50 Years Practice
In Stroudsburg Pennsylvania the town and Monroe County medical groups honor Dr Nina Price who marks five decades as a family physician. Residents recall her dedication to patients with little payment while colleagues praise her as a community blessing and gathering commends her long service.
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Stroudsburg
Pensylvania
Nina Price
Nina
Monroe County
Doctor Nina
Nehru Rejects Meeting Rossellini in India
Prime Minister Nehru said he did not expect to meet Roberto Rossellini during the Italian film maker’s India visit. He noted he had not heard of newspaper reports linking Rossellini romantically with Sonali Das Gupta, a Bengali script writer, and dismissed divorce-and-marriage rumors as fantasy.
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New Delhi
India
Nehru
Robert Rosssellini
Sonali Das Gupta
Rossellini
Ingrid Bergman
Sonali
Ingrid
Paris
Test Delayed Again At Atomic Test Site
The first atomic test in the summer series was postponed for the tenth consecutive day due to adverse wind conditions at the Atomic Test Site in Nevada.
Riots in Taipei After U S Embassy Sacking
Chiang Kai shek's forces seal Taipei as 33 000 troops control streets after anti American rioting that wrecked the U S embassy and wounded 13 Americans. Mob seeks leaders over a court martial acquittal. U S aid and compensation debates emerge amid broader Communist propaganda.
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U. S
United States
China
Taipei
Formosa
Chiang Kaishek
U.S
Chiang
British
Hong Kong
Peiping Radio
Robert R. Reynolds
Cobora
Reginolds
Philippines
Policeman Shot During West Side Robbery Attempt
An off-duty Chicago officer and a bar patron were critically wounded in a suspected robbery at the Glad Inn on the West Side. Officer William Derrig 40 fired at three youths with a .22 rifle, was struck in the abdomen and thumb, while Patrick Callinan 51 was shot in the chest. Both were in critical condition at Loretto Hospital.
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Chicago
West Side
William Derrig
Glad Inn
Derrig
Patrick Callinan
Loretto Hospital
Assassination attempt on Peron foiled in Caracas
An explosion hit Juan Domingo Peron's car in Caracas as he prepared to enter it. An aide said the bomb caused the vehicle to burn, with Peron's chauffeur injured lightly. Maj. Pablo Vincente said the attack was planned at the Argentine embassy amid Peronist comeback claims.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Juan D. Peron
Pablo Vincente
Peron
Maj. Vincente
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