Britain Admits Secret Apology Over Frogman Case
London reports Prime Minister Eden’s government secretly apologized to the Soviet Union for the behavior of Lt. Cmdr. Lionel Crabb, who vanished near Russian ships in Portsmouth harbor. Russia broadcast notes and Britain confirmed an exchange, saying the notes went further than Eden’s parliamentary statement.
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Portsmouth
England
Moscow
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Eden
London
Anthony Eden
Portsmouth Harbor
Foreign Office
Russia
Radio Moscow
Lionel Crabb
All Foreign Office
Leningrad
Davis Tours Red Sector of Berlin in Army Car
Assistant Secretary of the Army Chester Davis toured the Soviet sector of Berlin in a U.S. Army sedan with a two way radio telephone. There were no incidents on the tour, despite the Communist radio car and two U.S. officers having been held for three hours the previous Tuesday.
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Berlin
Chester Davis
U.S
Khrushchev says Russia can strike any major base
London AP reports Radio Moscow cites Pravda attack on U.S. Gen. Gruenther and warns no military base is out of reach of modern weapons. Khrushchev has said Russia hopes soon to have guided missiles capable of carrying hydrogen bombs anywhere in the world.
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Radio
Moscow
Nikita “Khrushchev
Russia
Pravda
U.S
Alfred M. Gruenther
NATO
America
United States
Khrushchev
Council Committee Rejects Education Board Proposals
The health and welfare committee on Friday favored rejecting three school board high school proposals and endorsed a dual system using the present site and South Park. Ald. Oaks won approval for a resolution encouraging the board to study a two-school plan, with $3.5 million as the top limit for new construction. The panel urged architectural studies while keeping the present high school intact and within tax limits.
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Psessava
LGW
Logia Overuur
Jacob Kaufmann
Chm
Edmund J. Plier
Ald. Kaufmann
Plier
Board of Education
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North Side
Ald
George F. Oaks
Oaks
Chm. Plier
Eisenhower's Checkup Called Excellent Before Golf
President Eisenhower's head to toe medical checkup was described as excellent by White House Press Secretary Hagerty. He left Walter Reed for a round of golf at Burning Tree Club after the extensive examination and lunch at the hospital. He occupies the plush presidential suite and spent time with aides, visiting the children's ward, and planning a Gridiron Club dinner that night. He will spend Mother's Day at Gettysburg with his wife and her mother, who turns 77.
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Eisenhower
White House
James C. Hagerty
Army
Walter Reed Medical Center
Haggerty
Army Hospital
Burning Tree Club
Maryland
Hagerty
Paul Dudley White
Army Medical Center
Frank Cochieu
Carter B. Magruder
Philippines
Carlos P. Romulo
Sir Winston Churchill
Gettysburg
John S. Doud
Lion Found In Detroit After Missing Since Wednesday
A 150 pound cast iron lion owned by Ben Levinson was located two blocks from his Detroit home on Friday, ending a search that started Wednesday night. The city report notes the animal went missing from the residence two days earlier.
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Detroit
Ben Levinson
Atomic Nautilus Visited by New York Armored Week
The atomic powered submarine Nautilus sails from Groton to New York to open Armed Forces Week by cruising the Hudson. Twelve reporters join the trip from Groton to view its underwater prowess and steam driven propulsion using a uranium core. The ship will pass the George Washington Bridge and return to Groton, not docking in New York.
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New York
Navy
Lower
Hattan
New York Police Department
Hudson
George Washington Bridge
Peace Hopes Brighten Says Stassen At Wisconsin Talk
Harold E. Stassen, representing President Eisenhower, told a University of Wisconsin audience that the London disarmament talks boost hopes for a long peace. He urged adoption of the Open Sky plan and said the U.S. economy would not suffer from disarmament. He warned a bomb materials box could either destroy a city or power it, and cited Pope Pius XII backing for peaceful atomic uses.
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Harold E. Stassen
London
Eisenhower
Stassen
University of Wisconsin
United States
Pope
Alom Stassen
Pius XII
Minnesota
U.S
Geneva
McKeon Trial Postponed on Navy Request
The Navy postponed until July 14 the court martial of SSgt Matthew C. McKeon facing charges of leading six Marine recruits to death at Parris Island. Defense attorney Emile Zola Burman cited prior commitments and said he needed time to prepare McKeon’s defense. The trial had been set to begin on Monday.
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Navy
Matthew C. McKeon
Parris Island
D.C
Charles
Thomas
Emile Zola Burman
New York
Burman
McKkeon
Orlier
Maine
McKeon
Order bars U S leasing of tidelands in Louisiana
A Louisiana state court issued a temporary injunction blocking federal leasing of tidelands along the coast. Judge Mark Pickrel set a May 16 hearing for a preliminary injunction as the Interior Department sought to proceed with a sale of 161 tracts totaling about 511,726 acres, with Louisiana disputing the offshore boundary under the Submerged Lands Act.
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Louisiana
State Dist
Mark Pickrel
New Orleans
Washington
Interior Department
Justice Department
Interior
Clarence Davis
Congress
Texas
Florida
Union
U.S
Jap Vets Move to Oust Reds in Unanimous Vote
The Japan Veterans Association unanimously decides to remove all Communist infiltration from its ranks, aiming to purge suspected ideologies and strengthen party discipline within the veteran group.
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Tokyo
Japan Veterans Assa
Walter seeks to strip diplomat immunity over alleged corruption
Rep. Francis E. Walter chairman of the House committee on un American activities calls for stripping diplomatic immunity from Vladimir P. Mikheev a translator for the Soviet military mission and a Russian embassy attaché alleging he sought to corrupt two U S government employees Mikheev his wife and small son are reported missing from their Washington home
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Francis E. Walter
D-Pa
House un-American Activities Committee
Vladimir P. Mikheev
U. S
Mikheev
Washington
Investigators Dig Deeper In Mikheevy Case
Washington investigators for the House Un-American Activities Committee probe whether Soviet Embassy officials besides Vladimir Mikheev sought military data from U.S. workers. The panel added Robert W. Davis, historian at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, to the list of those Mikheev contacted, while Cutter and Hatkin were also named in the inquiry. Mikheev allegedly sought highly classified information, though none supplied it.
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House
Vladimir Mikheev
U.S
House Committee On
Mikheev
Richard Arens
Robert W. Davis
Medical Museum
Armed’Forces Institute of Pathology
Sidney Hatkin
Air Force Statistician
Richard
Cutter
Armed Forces Medical Library
Davis
Hatkin
Hatan
Real Saver Elizabeth Executors File Estate Details
Executors for the estate of Frank M. Kettner report a personal estate of $115000. The 69 year old truck driver died recently. attorney William Parry described him as a real saver.
Navy Planes' Striking Power Is Limited Says Twining
Air Force Chief Gen Nathan Twining told a Senate panel that carrier based Navy planes offer only a small strategic contribution in a future war. He noted their shorter range and primary use in protecting naval forces rather than continental defense, and he favored intercontinental jet bombers like the B52 for any survival showdown.
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Washington
Air Force
Nathan F. Twining
Eisenhower
Secretary of Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Twining
Senate Military Appropriations
Navy
U.S
Four in Car Die After Tornado Warning Flight
Four persons were killed Friday night when an auto carrying a family fleeing a tornado that never occurred collided with another car near Auburn Indiana. Survivors described their father the Rev James Johnson trying to escape a warned area. Michigan faced flood damage and dust storms swept the Southwest as a storm system moved east with warm air from the Gulf reaching the upper Midwest.
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United Press
Auburn
Ind
Judith Anderson
Waterloo
James Johnson
Indiana
Michigan
Ann Artor
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