Russell warns U S has more atom bombs than planes to deliver them
Senator Russell says the United States holds more A bombs than available planes and pilots to deliver them amid defense cuts. He argues long range bombers must remain the core of deterrence while calling for more interceptor aircraft and an enhanced radar network. Senator Bridges notes Russia's H bomb progress warrants defense reassessment but aims for future tax cuts.
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John Chadwick
Washington
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
United States
Senate Armed Services Committee
Senate
House Atomic Energy Committee
Eisenhower
U. S
Russia
America
Russel
Air Force
Defense Department
Congress
Sen. Bridges
R-Nh
Air Force to Cancel Up to 6000 Jet Engine Contracts
The Air Force plans to cancel as many as 6000 spare jet engine contracts worth about a half billion dollars. Secretaries Wilson and Talbott said the move will not affect aircraft production as engines proved far more durable than expected.
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Washington
Air Force
Defense
Wilson
Talbott
Aeronca Officials See Slight Temporary Effect From Jet Engine Cutback
Aeronca Manufacturing Corp officials said the jet engine order cutback will likely cause only a slight temporary effect. They noted the Middletown firm is not in the fighter program and is shifting workers to B 52 production after a newly concluded contract with Boeing.
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Aeronca Manufacturing Corp
Middletown
Boeing
Korean truce cited but not sole cause of improved efficiency
Attested gains include accumulated know how in operation, maintenance and design. Attrition and combat losses fell after the Korea truce, though Talbott said the truce was not a direct factor. Production of affected engines will taper off now and stop by next spring, with up to 6000 engines cancelled and potential savings of 400 to 500 million dollars.
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Korea
Talbott
Seventh Freedom Ship Arrives With 428 Prisoners of War
SAN FRANCISCO The seventh shipload of returning prisoners of war arrived as the transport Gen William M Black docked with 428 former captures from Korea. The Army processed them in near record time, about one every 30 seconds, and released them to go home. Of 3597 Americans freed at Panmunjom, nearly 2800 have been sent home by plane or ship. Two more transports are due, one Sunday and one Tuesday.
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San Francisco
William M. Black
Korea
Panmunjom
VA Stepping to End Segregation in Hospitals
Veterans Administrator Harvey Higley said the agency acts to remove racial segregation in VA hospitals. He cited efforts to minimize segregation, noting some areas require careful medical consideration, and pledged beds be allotted to veterans in need if available. He spoke after NAACP inquiries about the practice in Southern states.
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Washington
Veterans
Harvey Higley
Higley
Clarence Mitchell
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
NAACP
Mitchell
Eisenhower
Car found in Lausanne linked to missing diplomat's wife
A black sedan tied to Melinda Maclean and her three children, missing since Friday in Geneva, was found in a Lausanne garage. The car's arrival was described by a garageman who saw a woman with three children rush to the station and say she would return in about a week. Police await further details as investigators seek to confirm whether the mother and her children left Switzerland deliberately or encountered foul play.
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Lausanne
Switzerland
Donald Maclean
Geneva
Chicago
Melinda Maclean
Foreign Office
Guy Burgess
West
England
France
Melinda
Maclean
Melinda Dunbar
Bern
Olten
Zurich
Prague
Czechoslovakia
Swiss Air Line
Montreux
Berlin Riot Police Ready for Reds Firefight
Berlin's 3,000 strong riot police force prepared to handle Red violence in West Berlin. Headquarters reported full strength, armed with automatic weapons and stationed in barracks on around the clock alert.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Barkley Emerges As Strong Senate Candidate In 1954
Republicans arriving in Chicago for regional conferences faced the prospect of Alben W. Barkley entering the 1954 Kentucky Senate race. Barkley, a 30 year veteran of Congress and former vice president, would challenge Sen. John Sherman Cooper as Republicans fear losing control of the Senate. The race could decide control with Democrats potentially gaining a seat if Ohio Gov. Lausche appoints a Democrat to Taft’s vacancy.
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Chicago
Alben W. Barkley
Senate
Barkley
Congress
Kentucky
John Sherman Cooper
White House
Eisenhower
Cooper
House
Veep
GOP
Sen
Ferguson
R-Mich
Republicans
Socrats
Frank Lausche
Ohio
Taft
Victor A. Johnston
G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Leonard W. Hall
Promised Fair Shake for Prisoners By General Clark
General Mark Clark pledged a fair shake for thousands of war prisoners including Allied and Communist-held who refuse repatriation. He offered legal rights and protection under U.S. law and sympathy for their hardships. The five-nation repatriation commission will review refusals while U N officials say being a progressive is not a crime.
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Mansan
Mark Clark
U. N
Far East
Clark
U.S
United States
Reds
Panmunjom
A. L. Hamblen
Munson
Hamblen
Wiley Urges Far East Mutual Defense Pact
U S senator Wiley says our Far East role has begun and calls for a three way or third great pact with Far East nations once they are ready. He urges collective security, warns against stirring Western split, cites UN Korea talks, and backs openness on atomic data.
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New York
Sen. Wiley
R-Wis
Far East
Southeast Asia
Wiley
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Europe
Latin America
Western Europe
National Foundry Assn
Soviet Union
Kremlin
United States
United Nations
China
U. S
Red China
Pacific
Weather Outlook for Mi ami Valley and Ohio Regions
Cloudy and warm conditions are forecast for the Mi ami Valley tonight and tomorrow with scattered showers likely tomorrow. Vandalia forecasts a cloudy and warmer Saturday with more showers. Ohio wide, conditions mirror the same pattern with mild nights and warm afternoons. Middletown reached 83 degrees yesterday at 2 p.m. and low temperatures were 54 both yesterday morning and today.
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Miami Valley
Vandalia
Ohio
Kentucky
Middletown
Bonn Chief Pushes Plans For EDC Pact
Bonn chief Konrad Adenauer moves fast after election win to push through a constitutional path for rearmament and the European Defense Community pact. The key hurdle is a possible constitutional ruling by West Germanys supreme court on arming 500000 troops amid a debate involving the Socialists and parliament.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Europe
Federal
Supreme Court
Theodor Heuss
Western Alliance
Adenauer
Christian Democrat Party
Bundestag
Bundesrat
Christian Democrats
Dulles Seeks Soviet Intentions at United Nations
Secretary of State Dulles urged the Soviet leaders to reveal their true aims before the U N General Assembly. He outlined five points for easing tension including unity of Germany and a peaceful Indo Chinese solution, and condemned the USSR for delaying in Korea and aiding rebels in Indochina. He warned that without a credible response from Moscow no new world climate can emerge.
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United Nations, N. Y.ap
State Dulles
United States
Dulles
Soviet Union
Korea
Indochina
Germany
Austria
Russia
Soviet Communist Party
Mills Named Interim Manager For Redlegs Remainder Of Season
Cincinnati AP Roger Hornsby was removed as Cincinnati Redlegs manager. Gabe Paul said first base coach Buster Mills will run the team the rest of the season. Hornsby had asked about 1954 status and was told a decision would come soon.
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Cincinnati
Rogers Hornsby
Cincinnati Redlegs
Gabe Paul
Buster Mills
Paul
Hornsby
Redlegs
Tme
Luke Sewell
Redleg
St. Louis Browns
Hornsby Apparen
Gus Bell
Jim Greengrass
Chicago
Bomb Rocks Kansas City For 7th Time
Kansas City's seventh mysterious bomb exploded in a downtown Bryant Building suite, injuring two women from falling glass. Police have no clues to the bomber or the device, with no casing fragments found and only black powder scent noted. Earlier blasts hit rural Jackson County damaging a school and bus.
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Kansas City
Bryant
Jackson County
Independence
Surgeons Separate Spines Of Siamese Twin Girls
Louisiana twins Carolyn Anne and Catherine Anne Mouton, eight weeks old, were separated at New Orleans Foundation Hospital after a 90 minute operation to divide fused vertebrae and shared lower intestine. Doctors said both may survive as plastic surgery will finish the intestinal separation and the girls show normal mental development and growth. The babies are daughters of Lafayette mayor Ashton J. Mouton. they weighed 11 pounds eight ounces at birth and have since gained about three pounds.
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New Orleans
Louisiana
New Orleans Foundation Hospital
Ashton J. Mouton
Lafayette
Carolyn Anne
Catherine Anne
Lafayette Sanitarium
Ba Moutons
Coe
Stella Rose
Ashton Rt
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Mills
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