Indochina Aid Plan Endorsed by Senators
U S senators backed the Defense Department plan to send 25 more B26 bombers plus parachutes ammunition and medical gear to French Union forces in Indochina. Senator Russell called the aid preferable to troops warning that U S troops could trigger Red China intervention. The bombers were to be loaned in the near future to aid Dien Bien Phu defenders ahead of the Geneva conference.
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Defense Department
Indochina
Richard B. Russell
D-Ga
Dien Bien Phu
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Paul Ely
U.S
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Armed Services Committee
United States
Red China
Indo-china
The
Southeast Asia
Mole Men Blasted as Reds Tunnel Toward Dien Bien Phu
French warplanes bombed and strafed Communist mole men tunneling toward the besieged Dien Bien Phu post. Heavy mortar fire from hills continued while ambulan ces and hospital planes tried to evacuate wounded. General Navarre urged respect for red crosses as Red tunnel networks sought to breach the fortress defenses.
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Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Redi
Bang On Pet
Henri Navarre
Wisconsin Minnesota Weather Outlook Parts Cloudy With Snow
Partly cloudy to night with snow in extreme east. Tomorrow partly cloudy with central and south snow. Colder in the south tomorrow. Wisconsin lows 14 to 28, highs 24 to 40. Minnesota mostly cloudy with light snow southwest tonight and south tomorrow, colder tonight. North lows 20, south 32. Observations show mixed cloud and snow with temperatures around the mid 30s to 40s.
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United Press
Wisconsin
Minnesota
City Hall
Rockstaff Observatory
China seeks Soviet help for atomic energy program
Peiping Radin reported that Communist China asked Russia for assistance in establishing an atomic energy program. The broadcast did not indicate the scope of possible Chinese nuclear work but said the China Academy of Science runs 36 research institutes with 133 scientists.
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China
Peiping Radin
China Academy of Science
Anti-McCarthy Recall Drive Planned For Sunday
Sauk City editor Leroy Gore of the Sauk-Prairie Star outlines a Sunday meeting to organize a recall petition campaign against U. S. Senator Joseph R. McCarthy. He estimates petition costs at least 12000 dollars and plans to place petitions in Wisconsin papers over the next six to seven weeks.
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Sauk City
Wisconsin
Gore
Caracas Delegates Plan to Quit Conference
Chief delegates to the 10th Inter American Conference meet in Caracas prepare for a plenary session to vote on resolutions already approved by committees. The conference includes 20 nations and committee work was completed Friday ahead of Sunday adjournment.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Finding Counsel For Inquiry Is Tough Job
Washington reports a special counsel for the Senate investigation into Sen. McCarthy and Army officials faces delays. Senate leaders Mundt and McCarthy clash over timing as three lawyers are considered, with William Jameson declining and others under negotiation. McCarthy says hearings may be postponed and insists on questioning witnesses.
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Senate
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R-Wis
Army
Sen. Mundt
R-Sd
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
McCarthy
Karl Mundt
South Dakota
Mundt
Mundt and Sons
McClellan
D- jArk
Jackson
D-Wash
Wiliam J. Jameson
American Bar Association
Jone
Schick Sentenced to Death for Slaying 9-Year-Old in Japan
In Tokyo a court martial sentenced Master Sat Maurice L. Schick, a Canonsburg Pennsylvania native and former Sunday school teacher, to death by hanging for the murder of 9-year-old Susan Roth. The trial framed the case as an urge to kill with Schick’s defense claiming insanity.
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Maurice L. Schick
Schick
Canonsburg
Susan Rothschild
Schick Lane
Harlow Huckabee
Mt. Royal
Huckabee
Crookston
Minn
Northwood
Timan Gillingsrud
Gary
Josephine Takle
Kasota
Alfred F. Lowl
Duluth
Lester B. Schmidt
Blackduck
St.Francis Hospital
Paul Gregory
Horris
Grand Forks
N. D
John Quam
Angelo Pacifico
Minneapolis
Empress of Scotland Stranded by Dock Strike
A 324 passenger Caribbean cruise ends stalled as tugboats refuse to dock amid a strike. The Empress of Scotland anchors off Staten Island while officials plan a further docking attempt at high tide as ILA picket lines disrupt New York Harbor. The NLRB calls for a new union election. White House says no action while court cases proceed.
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Staten Island
Hudson River
New York Bay
International Longshoremen's Association
National Labor Relations Board
NLRB
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White House
Eisenhower S
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Federal jobholders fall in February for nineteenth straight month
The Joint Committee on Reduction of Nonessential Federal Expenditures reports 2,340,167 federal employees in February, down from 2,346,892 in January, marking the 19th consecutive monthly decline. It notes 413,587 foreign nationals worked for U. S. military agencies abroad last month.
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Senate House Committee
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Reaction Of Japs Mounts Anew On Tests
Tokyo reports Japanese reaction to American hydrogen bomb tests grows anew after two fishing boats near Bikini show radiation effects. The Fukuryu Maru was 40 microroentgens outside the danger zone when ash fell. two other boats were quarantined but unharmed. Two crewmen from the Lucky Dragon improve while others are treated in Tokyo hospitals.
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Marshall Island
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Radahon
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John M. Allison
Yaizu
Ferguson To Push Study Of All Major Bills
Senator Ferguson urges the Senate Republican Policy Committee to map a five week schedule bringing to the calendar all major Eisenhower proposals. Democrats mock the effort as failure to advance key bills amid intra party disputes and public housing debates.
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Sen
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R-Mich
Eisenhower
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Senate
Michigan
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
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Egypt Cabinet Resigns as Students Protest in Cairo
Health Minister Nureddin Tarraf announced all 13 civilian cabinet members resigned to clear the path for parliamentary rule. Students gathered outside the Republican Palace shouting for Naguib and liberty as revolutionaries dissolve the council. Officials say martial law may be lifted April 1 with political prisoners released.
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Egypt
Nureddin Tarraf
Naguib
Mohammed Naguib
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Anwar el Sadat
al Goumhourta
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Navy pilot shepherds runaway jet to sea near San Diego
Lt. J.G. C W Vandenberg of Ripon Calif steered a runaway F 4 or Cougar away from the coast at 180 degrees by shading the wing tips of his own craft The jet spiraled out of control and crashed at sea The other pilot Lt 3.G J R Maccoun of Dutch Flat Calif bailed out and was rescued A third pilot Ens B G Huntley of La Jolla Calif reported the maneuver as a possible aviation first
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C. W. Vandenberg
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J. R. Maccoun
Dutch Flat
U.S. Coast Guard
W. E. Maccoun
Ejec
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Maccoun
Miramar
Naval Air Station
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Two U.S. Soldiers Killed in Training Accident in Korea
Eighth Army reported two American soldiers from the 65th Infantry Regiment killed Friday after being struck by live ammunition during a training exercise in Seoul Korea. Names withheld until next of kin notification.
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U.S
Seoul
Korea
Eighth Army
65Th Infantry Regiment
Capital welcomes Justice Douglas on canal hike to Washington
Justice William Douglas heads a party of hikers finishing an 180 mile trek along the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal from Cumberland to Washington. The group, aided by a muledrawn sightseeing barge for the last leg, faces a tired final stretch as they approach the capital, with weekend crowds expected to greet them at the final entry.
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William ©. Douglas
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Isaac Walton
Poolesville
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Camp Kanawha
Cumberland
Washington
Job Restored To Mrs Moss
Mrs. Annie Lee Moss, targeted in Sen. McCarthy's Army inquiry, has her Defense Department Signal Corps job restored for the time being. The Army said she will return Monday pending a final loyalty decision after a 30 day suspension. The case could still proceed under law requiring reinstatement within 20 days unless charges are filed.
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Annie Lee Moss
Joseph R. McCarthy
Army
Defense Department
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Signal Corps
McCarthy
Senate
FBI
Communist Party
Wisconsin Republican
Robert T. Stevens
Karl E. Mund
Defeat Predicted For Ike’s Housing Unit Request
Congress bars larger goal cutting the president’s plan for public housing. Republicans push to end the construction program in two years and vote to fund only 35 000 units with existing contracts rather than 140 000 units.
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St. Lawrence Seaway
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Senate. Com
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Mansfield
D-Mont
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Appropriations Committee
Tabler
R-Ny
Ike
Tesee McUwaleit Teday
Eramem
Patrol Fired On Farmers Claim Sparks Jordan Protest
Jordan's chair of the mixed armistice group accuses Israel of firing on Arab farmers near the Jordan border north of Jerusalem. He cites four complaints to Israel after Israel left the UN arms panel over a Hebron dispute and an ambush in March.
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Hebron
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