West Berlin, Geneva talks color Herter speech outline
Secretary Herter to address nation on West Berlin rights and German question. He will stress the West remains willing to negotiate with Russia but rejects blackmail about access to West Berlin. A hopeful yet realistic view of the Geneva foreign ministers conference and a plan for a July 13 resumption after a cooling off period.
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Washington
UPI
Christian A. Herter
West
Russia
West Berlin
State Department
Herter
Geneva
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Berlin
U.S
More Atom Tests Called Necessity
Washington experts urged additional atomic tests to fill gaps in knowledge of nuclear war effects. A congressional subcommittee hearings on biological and environmental impacts heard that a major attack could destroy half the nation’s dwellings and that data on radiation dose and medical effects remain incomplete.
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Washington
API
Congressional Atomic] Energy Subcommittee
United States
Subcommittee
Europe
U.S
Hiroshima
Nagasaki
G. S. Hurst
Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge (Tenn
National Laboratory
Japan
Atomic Authority
Nevada
Hurst
Guards Hold 100 Rioters Hostage at Federal Mental Center
In Springfield Missouri riotous inmates at a federal mental hospital overpowered five guards with home made knives amid a mass standstill. Warden Settle vowed to wait them out as police and state authorities surround the North 10 Wing. The five guards, named Apple, Rosendahl, Fitch, Jen and Jung, remained unharmed.
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Springfield
UPI
US Prison Medical Center
Russell O. Settle
Ang
Seidle
Settle
Billie Fitch
Levelep
Leonard Appleby
Robert Rosendahl
William L. Fitch
Charles Al+ Jen
Melvin Jung
Federal Corrections Service
Federal
Leavenworth
Kan
Sheriff's Deputies
Springfield Law
New York City Ends Emblems for 126 Honorary Fire Chiefs
The city will strip 126 honorary fire chiefs of their office emblems, the white Maltese cross insignia marked F.D.N.Y. being recalled by Fire Commissioner Edward F. Cavanaugh Jr. following orders from Mayor Robert F. Wagner.
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New York
New York City
F.d.nly
Edward F. Cavanagh Jr
Robert F. Wagner
Tax Bill Clash Slated In House
In Austin the House Tax Committee considers rival package tax bills backed by Gov. Price Daniel. Rep. George Hinson touts prompt floor action, while Rep. Frates Seeligson promotes a separate plan. both seek new revenue from severance taxes, cigarette and liquor increases, tobacco taxes, and corporate franchise reforms.
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Subcommittee
George Hinson
Mineola
Price Daniel
Hinson
Frates Seeligson
San Antonio
House
Austin
House Tax Committee
Tay
Revenue and Taxation Committee
Seeligson
Thunderstorms Predicted Across Permian Basin
Weather forecast calls for widely scattered afternoon and evening thunderstorms across the Permian Basin with moisture around 0.25 to 0.31 inches reported in cities like Odessa Midland Big Spring and Andrews. A lightning strike sparked a tank fire northwest of Andrews as rainfall totals varied by locality from about 0.09 to 1.26 inches.
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Permian
U.S. Weather Bureau
Big Spring
Weather Bureau
Odes
Midland Air Terminal
Odessa
Odessa American
Texas Electric Service Company
South Dixie
Crane
Rankin
Wink
Andrews
Peeper Spotted Through Window In San Antonio
AP report from San Antonio describes a peeping incident where a man observed Lt. Jack Larned bathing through a window. Mrs. Warned, outside tending a water sprinkler, yelled after spotting the intruder. Fauna
Lightning strikes a 500-barrel tank and fire engulfs it
A 500 barrel tank was struck by lightning causing a fierce blaze. Andrews Volunteer Fire Department extinguished the fire after a chase reported by witnesses. A youth, aged 20, jumped into the San Antonio River to aid, with firemen saving three others nearby.
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Andrews
Union Oi Company
San Antonio
Larned
Vanguard Fails To Reach Orbit At Cape Canaveral
Vanguard satellite mission ends in failure after a second stage regulator shorts out, causing the upper rocket to disintegrate. The ten previous attempts marked a $100 million project doomed by a single component. If successful, the craft would have orbited Earth 12 times daily, gathering atmospheric heat data.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
UPI
Vanguard
West Missile
Baylor trustees elect Abner V. McCall executive vice president
Waco Texas officials say Baylor University's board of trustees today elected Judge Abner V. McCall age 44 as executive vice president with full power to run all academic and professional branches of the three decade old Baptist university.
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Waco, Tex
Steel Strike Looms in Brief as Plants Shut Down
NEW YORK UPI Steel contract talks resume with a compromised wage proposal reportedly dropped as two Jones & Laughlin Steel plants in Pittsburgh halted operations in a wage dispute. About 12,000 workers shut down those mills, while 25,000 more remained open. Federal mediator Joseph F. Finnegan declined to intervene unless asked. Union leader David J. McDonald denied any fringe benefits plan was offered.
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New York
UPI
United Steelworkers of America
Y Company
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Pittsburgh
Jones & Laughlin Mills
Joseph F. Finnegan
Federal Mediation Service
Washington
R. Conrad Cooper
United States Steel Corp
Fourman
Cooper
David J. McaDonald
McDonald
Stask
Sen
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Pat McNamara
D-Mich
Nuclear Spy Klaus Fuchs Heads For East Berlin
Atomic spy Klaus Fuchs left Wakefield Prison in a police escort for East Berlin aboard a Polish airline plane. He is expected to live with his father, Prof Emil Fuchs, in Leipzig after serving nine years of a 15 year sentence for passing atomic secrets to the Soviet Union.
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London
Klaus Fuchs
East Berlin
Fuchs
Emil Fuchs
Leipzig
Wakefield
Soviet Union
Tourist Hotel Burns Kill Toll Seen In Norway Fire
A major fire at the Stalheim tourist hotel near Vossestrand Norway killed many of the 130 American tourists aboard. Police feared the death toll would exceed 32 with 25 missing. Seven bodies were recovered as guests and staff escaped through windows or fled into the woods.
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Vossestrand
Norway
UPI
Stalheim
Horace Caldwell
Atlanta
Cald
Well
Caldwell
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