Pflimlin Plea Is Approved Amid Crisis In France
Paris AP report says Premier Pflimlin won emergency powers in a 461 to 114 vote as France faced a plot against the republic. The act grants broad powers to suppress subversion, suspend presses, arrest suspects, and close venues. Bombs targeted Pflimlin’s villa and ministry buildings. crowds stayed small with security troops ringed around the Assembly. In Algiers, Lt. Gen. Salan asserted civil and military control, signaling a shift in the Algerian crisis as Pflimlin sought swift action.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Charles de Gaulle
Pierre. Pflimlin
Pflimlin
Assembly
Pilimlin
Hendave
Interior and Economic Ministry
National Assembly
France
Algeria
Algiers
Raoul
Pierre: Pflimlin
Elysee Palace
Awith Sfigts
Charles_de Gaulle
House Group Cuts Fund For U.S. Agencies
The House Appropriations Committee cut 65.5 million from 982.7 million requested for the Commerce Department and related activities. The panel left 917.14 million for the fiscal year and boosted the Census Bureau, CAA, CAB, Public Roads Bureau, Standards, and Maritime Administration. It earmarked 22.25 million for the Census, including seven million to begin preparing for the 1960 Census. For CAA, 421.95 million was set, down 16.75 million from the request but up 74.08 million for operations and regulation to improve air traffic control after recent plane collisions. Maritime programs received 260.203 million, including 98 million for 17 merchant ships and 120 million for operating subsidies to ship lines, with limited subsidies planned for Great Lakes operators to draw trade via the St Lawrence Seaway opening next July.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Commerce Department
House
Census Bureau
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Civil Aeronautics Board
Public Roads Bureau
Bureau of Standards
The
Maritime Administration
Great Lakes
Lakes
St Lawrence Seaway
Hunt maid Milwaukee
Mrs N B Siegal seeks a new maid as police hunt the former servant who vanished with $50 in cash two watches a closet full of women's clothing and three bottles of whiskey leaving no trace in Milwaukee.
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Milwaukee
N. B. Siegal
Eisenhower Trade Extension Wins first congressional test
President Eisenhower’s five year extension of the reciprocal trade law cleared a major House Ways and Means Committee vote. The compromise preserves tariff lowering authority but adds a congressional review provision opposed by administration foes. The measure now faces House debate and a Senate path.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Senate
House Ways and Means Committee
U.S
Congress
Launch of Army Jupiter Missile Postponed at Cape Canaveral
At Cape Canaveral an Army Jupiter IRBM launch was scrubbed 12:30 a.m. after an 18 minute countdown delay due to technical problems. Power was cut off at zero and the test was postponed with DoD promising a reschedule at the earliest date. The Jupiter’s nose cone appeared larger than prior models.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Department of Defense
United States
Sputnik IIs sighted by moonwatch teams across the U S
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory moonwatch teams report sightings of Sputnik II in clear weather from Florida to California with tracks also noted in the Northeast and Midwest as cloud hindered confirmation. Defense officials Norton and Brucker discuss missiles and rockets. Jupiter MRBM launch postponed at Cape Canaveral due to technical issues.
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Cambridge
Mass
Smithsonian Astrophysical Observatory
United States
Midwest
Army
Wilber M. Brucker
Garrison Norton
the Navy
Ogden
Utah
Norton
Russia
America
Cate
Brucker
Portland
Maine
Cape Canaveral
Florida
California
Sighting Russ Sputnik Lights Up Major Cities
The Naval Research Laboratory says Sputnik passes will be visible tonight from New London Connecticut at 7 04 p m Bismarck North Dakota at 8 49 p m Pierre South Dakota at 8 50 p m Lincoln Nebraska at 3 51 p m Kansas City Missouri at 8 52 p m and New Orleans at 8 54 p m all times EST with passes northwest to southeast and twilight visibility with positions about 150 miles southwest for some tracks and 50 miles southwest for others.
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Washington
Naval Research Laboratory
New London
Conn
Bismarck
N. D
Lot
Pierre
S. D
Lincoln
Neb
Kansas City
New Orleans
21 Die In New Delhi Air Crash At Pakistan Airline Convair
In New Delhi a Pakistan International Airlines Convair crashed killing 21 people including three Americans. Two more Americans survived among 17 others. Officials announced the tragedy and noted the victims and survivors.
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New Delhi
U.P
Pakistan International Airlines
Powell Read Out By Tammany Hall In NY District
Rep Adam Powell Jr a Harlem Democrat is dropped by Tammany Hall as a candidate for re election amid claims of disloyalty to the party for his Eisenhower support in 1956. Powell vows to run independently as a rival to defend his Harlem seat amid a tax evasion indictment and strong church backing cheers.
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New York
Tammany Hall
Adam Clayton Powell Jr
D-Ny
Eisenhower
Powell
Harlem
U.S.’ District Court
Tammany
Democratic National Committee
Carmine G. DeSapio
Democratic Party
DeSapio
Adam Powell
Manhattan
Nasser Receives Soviet Pledge of Arab UnityBacked by Khrushchev
Cairo report says President Nasser, returning from an 18 day Soviet visit, won a pledge of all-out help to unite the Arab world. Khrushchev praised Nasser as the outstanding Arab leader and urged unity under his leadership, signaling a broad Soviet backing while avoiding specifics.
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Cairo
Egypt
Nasser
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
United Arab Republic
Kremlin
Russia
Iraq
Jordan
U.A.R
Fireman Fined for Speeding in Fire Truck
In Jacksonville, a volunteer firefighter named Robert Lat Townsend was fined $25 Thursday for speeding in a fire truck. Police noted there was no fire at the time.
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Jacksonville
Fla
Robert
T At Townsend
Approval Voted By Board of Education for New Oshkosh High School
The Board of Education approved a resolution to build a new Oshkosh high school west of Eagle Street at an estimated cost of 3.5 million dollars and to consider a municipal swimming pool plan at up to 300 thousand dollars. The approval followed a special meeting at the Vocational School with Building Committee backing and mixed votes among commissioners.
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Oshkosh High School
Eagle Street
Board of Education
Lue Pesuluwon
Wile Ltd
James T. Cain
Harold W. Pedersen
Wesley E. Schneider
Milton W. Seefeld
George F. Oaks
Building Committee
John E. FitzGerald
Virginia S.williams
Sil
Two Are Spared In Crash of Plane Near Neenah
Randolf A. Laux and Elmer Coon, Appleton residents, escaped injury when their two place Taylorcraft crashed beside U S Highway 41 two miles south of Neenah at about 7 45 p m Laux walked away unhurt and Coon suffered a forehead cut. Witnesses said the pilot tried to land at Neenah Valley Airways but overshot then chose to fly low under power lines to avoid vehicles. The plane owned by Twin Cities Flying Club was valued around 900 dollars and likely to be junked after the 1937 model craft hit poles and wrecked its wing and propeller.
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Neenah
U. S. Highway 41
Here
Randolf A. Laux
Appleton
Elmer Coon
Apple Iton
Neenah Valley Airways
Laux
Twin Cities Flying Club
Senate Group To Inquire Into Nixon Violence
The Senate Foreign Relations Committee decided to inquire into the background of Latin American violence toward Vice President Nixon and the anti American rioting in Lebanon. The full committee headed by Sen. Theodore Green agreed unanimously to take over the preliminary inquiry and broaden it to cover Lebanon. Morse urged hearings on U S policy in Latin America and planned a subcommittee review of Nixon's Latin American tour and the incidents in Lima Caracas and Lebanon. The panel aims to determine what happened where and who instigated the attacks, while noting that foreign policy is the president's domain.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Nixon
Lebanon
Theodore Green
United ‘States
Morse
Lima
Peru
Caracas
Venezuela
U.S. Information Agency
State Department
Central Intelligence Agency
Norant
South America
Joseph S. Clark Jr
Dpa
Subcommittee I
Senate
Rourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Congress
Hickenlooper
George D. Aiken
R-Vi
Homer E. Capehart
R-Ind
Johan J. Sparkman
D-Aia
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Capehari
Aiken
Latin America
United States
U. S
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