Nixon Stoning Incident Sparks Calls for Inquiry
Sen Rourke B Hickenlooper urged the State Department to investigate why Peruvian police failed to protect Vice President Richard M Nixon during a Lima stone throwing incident. Sen Smathers echoed caution against retaliation and urged focus on Latin American relations while noting public resentment over U.S. indifference. Aid figures noted include current year technical assistance around 2.85 million and proposed total military and aid near 2.9 million dollars.
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LLP
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Richard M. Nixon
Lima
Iowa Republican
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Hickenlooper
George A. Smathers
D-Fla
United States
Smathers
Latin America
Florida Democrat
United Press
Lincoln Data Lost in Million Galesburg Fire
Galesburg Illinois fire destroys the 57 year old library damaging a vault with Lincoln papers. One million dollars in losses include 122000 volumes and two water wells failed hampering firefighting. City Manager Barbaugh overseen smoldering ruins near Knox College site.
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Galesburg
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Illinois
Abraham Lincoln
Raymond Barbaugh
Knox College
Tokyo child finds bundle with 600000 xen on street
Akiko Taka hashi, a 10 year old girl in Tokyo, found a bundle containing 600000 xen on Friday. She was frightened by the discovery and has been confined to bed since, suffering from shock.
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Tokyo
Akiko Takahashi
Nixon Pressed by Red Threats in Peru Visit
Vice President Richard M. Nixon faced Communist threats and a student attack in Peru. He canceled a Quito University visit after Lima mobbing, saying the action was not his fault. In Lima crowds hissed and threw objects while leaflets accused U.S. dominance. President Eisenhower praised Nixon’s courage amid the protests.
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Raul Porras Barrenechea
United States
Pilimlin to form postwar French government
Paris sources report Pierre Pflimlin will accept President Rene Coty’s request to form the 25th postwar government. He plans a formal reply tonight or Sunday before Parliament approval. His Catholic Popular Republican Movement backed him 45 to 2, seeking Assembly support for an Algerian policy similar to the previous cabinet’s stance.
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Pierre Pilimlin
Rene Coits
Pilimlin
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Pflimlin
National Assembly
Algeria
Lucky Says Mayor of Town Surrounded by Flood Waters
Catlettsburg and surrounding eastern Kentucky towns faced record rises as the Big Sandy and the Ohio Rivers flooded, with Catlettsburg of 4,000 people avoiding disaster as waters receded after crest. Maysville prepared flood walls for a crest over flood stage, while Springdale and nearby communities evacuated and faced isolation and shortages.
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Catlettsburg
Charles Gibbs
Ohio
Kentucky
Maysville
Madison Man Appointed Corrections Post
DES MOINES IOWA Delmar Max or Gibbs said water was four feet deep in half the business. Huebner of Madison Wisconsin was named secretary of the Cen district and a low lying residential area States Corrections Assn. He expected to meet here for an annual convention start a clean up today. Hon.
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Iowa
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Gibbs
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Fireman confesses after lie test in locker theft
In Indianapolis, fireman Hermann S. Brown, 28, admitted to falsely signaling an alarm on his day off to raid the locker of a fellow fireman. He spoke after a lie detector test on Friday, revealing the planned theft.
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Indianapolis
Ind
Hermann S. Brown
Soviet Leader May Call Off Tito Visit Over Yugoslav Rift
London reports say Soviet President Kliment Voroshilov likely will cancel his plan to visit Belgrade with Marshal Tito next week as Soviet Yugoslav tensions deepen. Observers cite recent Kremlin and Czechoslovak criticisms aimed at Tito for pursuing independent policies, signaling a potential break between Belgrade and Moscow.
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Belgrade
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Czechoslovakia
Plans Set To Lengthen Truax Runway
Madison mayor reports no plans to extend the Truax Air Force Base runway as jets will be replaced by guided missile bases in about three years. A letter from John M. Ferry to Mayor Nestingen cites cost-estimate errors and notes missiles will keep Truax active.
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Ivan Nestingen
John M. Ferry
Secretary of the
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Air Defense Command
Truax
Hoover marks 34th anniversary as FBI director
Washington observes J Edgar Hoover’s 34th year at the helm of the FBI. The 63 year old bachelor has led the bureau since May 10, 1925, under five presidents and many attorneys general, beginning as a 29 year old lawyer in the Justice Department.
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J. Edgar Hoover
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Becme
FBI
Harlan Fiske Stone
Justice Department
Dulles to Return Home Then Attend Minnesota Centennial
Paris reports Secretary of State John Foster Dulles sails home today after secret talks with US diplomats on East West tensions and North Africa, then will fly to Minneapolis to take part in the Minnesota centennial celebration before returning to Washington.
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John Foster Dulles
Tance
North Africa
Dulles
Minneapolis
Minnesota
Washington
Khrushchev Urges Reds to Buy from Capitalist Nations
Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev suggested Russia might place orders for industrial plants with capitalist countries including Britain, West Germany and the United States to aid Soviet industry. Tass reported his Central Committee remarks as Moscow called for summit talks but warned Western conditions remained unacceptable. Khrushchev also stated the USSR could live in tension if Western powers choose it.
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Nikita S. Khrushnev
Russia
United States
Communist Party
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Britain
West Germany
Continental Safety Seen in North American Air Defense Pact
Washington and Ottawa plan to announce joint arrangements to repel a Soviet air attack on North America. The accord covers procedures for NORAD at Colorado Springs and Canadian air force squadrons to operate with advance Canadian approval during emergencies. Defense Minister Rees says Canada and the United States act as a single air defense team.
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Canada
United States
North American
North American Air Defense Command
Colorado Springs
Colo
Arctic
Advance OK
Air Defense Command
G. R. Rees
NORAD commanders warn lack of unity endangers defense
Colorado Springs officers leading NORAD say rivalries and no unified command weaken continental air defense. They note cuts were made without NORAD consultation, leaving a fighting force with eyes taken away. NORAD includes US Air Force Navy Army and Royal Canadian Air Force elements and informs SAC of threats.
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Stolen Secrets Helped Put Up Sputniks Claim
Washington based senators say interservice rivalry and stolen secrets jeopardized NORAD's function as they link Soviet Sputniks to espionage. Officers warn lack of single authority within NORAD permits unilateral unit reductions. Eastland cites theft of military secrets fueling Soviet scientific advances and warns espionage remains active in the United States.
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NORAD
Altee
United States
Earle Russia
E. Partridge
Subcommittee
James O. Eastland
Leaders Split On Tax Cutting
A split among America's top industrialists and business executives in the Business Advisory Council on whether to cut taxes to spur recovery. Secretary Weeks aims to gauge positions for President Eisenhower and top officials as a two week decision looms. The council also weighed recession responses and international economic issues including Russia and space program challenges. An AFL CIO spokesman urged more purchasing power for consumers, opposing wage-price freezes. Sen Monroney doubted the freeze would help.
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Business Advisory Council
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Eisenhower
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Robert B. Anderson
Tne Council
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Washington
Afl-Cio
Missile Test Center Opens On California Coast
The Pacific missile test range at Point Arguello near mid between Los Angeles and San Francisco was opened for public firing of Regulus I Bullpup and Sparrow missiles. Navy officials called it the Cape Canaveral of the West and said the new range would complement the Florida center. Rear Adm Jack P Monroe led the test center and Pacific range operations.
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Pacific
Navy
Cape Canaveral
Pt. Mugu
Camp Cooke
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Defense Department
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Naval Test Center
Pacific Test Range
State Traffic Toll Reaches 224 in Wisconsin Toll
The 1958 Wisconsin traffic toll climbs to 224 after the death of Trempealeau County man Milan E. Strande, 78, of Taylor. He died in a head on crash Friday on a Trempealeau County road near his home, the Associated Press reports.
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Associated Press
Trempealeau County
Wisconsin
Milan E. Strande
Taylor
Flood relief supplies distributed to Polish flood victims
Authorities began daytime distribution of an American Red Cross relief shipment to Polish flood victims. The convoy included medical kits, comfort and school kits, and vaccines as part of a broader aid effort coordinated from Frankfurt.
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Warsaw
Poland
Red Cross
Frankfurt
U.S
Space Flight Test Nearing Halfway Point
Norfolk Va Lt Cmdr Jack Neiman Jr neared halfway of a 48 hour space flight test in a sealed low pressure chamber at the Norfolk Naval Air Station. Pressure simulated 80 000 feet for the first 12 hours as officials aim to extend the duration to 48 hours to study survival in space ships and satellites. Neiman 34 from Jeffersonville Indiana is sworn in a lightweight space suit as Navy researchers track progress and note a prior earth bound record of 1 20 for such flights may be surpassed.
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Neisman
Norfolk Naval Air Station
Neiman
Jeffersonville
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Navy
Satellies
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Newman
G. Arthur F. Vohden
Saniego
Calif
Drop Revealed In Unemployment Decline
Washington reports a major weekly drop in insured unemployment for workers with benefits. The Labor Department said the count fell by 66 900 in the week ending April 26, reaching 3 265 700, the second consecutive decline though still above last year’s 1 456 900 level.
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Labor Department
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