Eisenhower proposes Geneva talks on nuclear test ban
President Eisenhower urged Premier Khrushchev to name scientific experts to meet in Geneva within three weeks to discuss policing a suspension of nuclear tests. Britain France and possibly other nations may contribute experts. Three U S scientists were announced to meet Soviet chosen experts, and Japan may also participate.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
United States
Russia
Geneva
Britain
France
Poland
Czechoslovakia
White House
U. S
Soviet Union
Ernest O. Lawrence
University of California Radiation Laboratory
James Brown Fisk
Bell ‘Telephone Laboratories
Robert F. Bacher
California Institute of Technology
Pilimlin Tests Rebel Ties in Algeria Mission
Premier Pflimlin sent Jean-Louis Vigier to Algiers to press for normalizing contact with the insurgent Junta, a move seen as shaping prospects for constitutional reforms and possible government change. Dr. Robert Pierce quoted Pflimlin saying he would resign if parliament rejects reforms.
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Paris
Pierre Pilimlin
Algeria
Jean-Louis Vigier
Charles de Gaulle
Gaullist
Algiers
Pflimlin
Robert Pierce
Pierce
Payments to Jobless in Big Dip
The Labor Department reported a sharp weekly drop in insured unemployment for the week ending May 10, the largest since August 1956, with 93,300 fewer people drawing benefits as about half of the decline reflects exhausted benefits. Total insured unemployment stood at 3,101,500, more than double last year. Initial claims fell by 49,400 to 339,200 for the week ending May 17, the lowest since early December.
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Washington
Labor Department
Jowest
Fire Kills Woman in $100,000 Estate
Mrs. Marion A. Tallmadge, 49, a member of the Schlitz brewing family, died in a blaze that engulfed her 25 room Lake Oconomowoc home on a 40 acre estate. Firefighters found her severely burned in a second floor master bedroom near a telephone after she apparently collapsed while seeking help.
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Oconomowoc
Wis
UPI
Marion A. Tallmadge
Jos. Schlitz Brewing Co
Oconomowoc Lake
Red Bloc Signs Pact in Kremlin Rumors of Warsaw Pact unity
Moscow reports a Kremlin meeting of Russia and seven Eastern European allies produced a document described as a joint Warsaw Pact declaration. Leaders from Europe and Asia discussed a possible summit, mutual defense planning, and disarmament with an eye to economic coordination with the non-Communist world after East Bloc reforms and a revised five year plan.
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Moscow
Russia
Thhe Kremlin
Kremlin
Nikita $. Khreshchev
Europe
Asia
Hancock Oil Blaze Nears Extinction Under Control
Firefighters reported the Hancock Oil blaze under control by midmorning as four large storage tanks burned. Long Beach Fire Chief Frank Sanderman said crews hoped to extinguish the fire later today. The tetraethyl lead tank posed the main threat to residents but is now out of the danger zone. The gasoline additive tank was also moved away from the burning area to reduce risk.
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Hancock
Long Beach
Frank Sanderman
Athey
Hammond
Y Hammond
Emergency curbs on military jets speed air safety
Long Beach fire crews battled a 10 acre blaze at Junipero Ave and Willow St, with Lt Gen Elwood Quesada announcing temporary curbs on military jet flights below 20,000 feet to reduce collision risk, while insurers meet to speed Hancock Oil Co damage claims and residents cope with oil spill fallout.
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Hancock Oil Co
Washington
White House
Elwood R. Quesada
Air Coordinating Committee
Tacey
Long Beach
Bill Patterson
Hugh Henshaw
Quesada
Jburns
Junipero Ave
Willow St
Hancock Oil Co. Zire
British Sub Strafed Off Indo Islands
An unidentified plane fired on the British submarine Aurochs in international waters between Celebes and Halmahera in the Moluccas Sea on May 17. Lt Cmdr C A French reported it was machine gunned, the sub submerged, and there were no casualties.
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London
Admiralty
Aurochs
Moluccas Sea
Celebes
Halmahera Islands
Cmdr
C. A. French
Cornell Uproar as Mob Attacks President's Home
About 2,000 Cornell students rallied on campus then marched to President Deane W. Malott's Cayuga Heights home. They hurled eggs and rocks, set off a smoke bomb, and demanded his resignation over proposed bar girl party restrictions.
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Ithaca. N
Cornell University
Cayuga Heights
Deane W. Malott
Sage
Malott
12 Women Accused in Fatal Baby Beating
In Gadsden Alabama a mother Laura Jo Lehman 23 and Pauline Argo 31 are jailed without bond on first degree murder charges for beating a 3-year-old girl to death. Police Capt Ned Simmons quoted that the child was beaten in anger and died after hospitalization.
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Gadsen
Ala
UPI
Ned Simmons
Laura Starr Lehman
Laura Jo Lehman
Pauline Argo
Etowah
Weather Outlook Mostly Clear Through Sunday
Mostly clear skies through Sunday with coastal cloudiness lingering. Temperatures show little change, and inland conditions remain tranquil. Coastal areas may see brief low clouds offshore and light sea breezes typical for the period.
Cardinal Stritch Fails. Prayers Said as He Weakens
Rome reports Samuel Cardinal Stritch, 10 year veteran archbishop of Chicago, worsened with heart damage. He has been placed in an oxygen tent after a stroke and amputation recovery, with prayers recited for the dying as doctors report a further weakening of his heart muscle while he serves as pro prefect in the Vatican.
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Rome
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Chicago
Vatican
Congregation For Propagation of the Faith
Port Driver Dies in High Speed Crash at Harbor General
David D. Perry 22 of Porter Alameda Boulevard and B'St. Wil vile was killed when his car rammed a power pole around 2 15 today in a Port crash. Police said the vehicle was traveling about 100 miles per hour as it tried to negotiate a curve and Perry was dead on arrival at Harbor General Hospital.
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David D. Perry
Porter- Alameda Blvd
B'St. Wilvile
Perry
Harbor General Hospital
Ferry
Local Newspaper Page References
A brief listing shows where to locate content sections such as Churches Comics Crossword Death Notices Shipping and Sports across pages A-4 A-8 A-2 B-2 A-10 and 11 with tides temperatures and TV radio on B-2 B-10. It guides readers to thematic pages including theaters and page ranges.
Dynamiting Threat Termed Extortion Plot Against SP Train
FBI arrested Ira Crump 35 of Compton after a half million dollar extortion plot to dynamite the Southern Pacific Sunset Limited No. 2. A ransom letter postmarked Arcadia demanded $500000 in $20 bills and a mail bag drop. A second suspect Loux was nabbed approaching tracks as money was delivered.
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Los Angeles
FBI
D. K. Brown
Southern Pacific Co
Ira Paul Crm 35
Compton
Brown
J. H. Pruitt Jr
Southern Pacific
Arcadia
Calif
Suneset Limited
Loux
U. S
Laughlin E. Waters
Knight OK on Record Big Budget
Governor Goodwin J. Knight signs a near two billion dollar state budget for the next fiscal year without new taxes. The plan, totaling 1,999,572,983 dollars, funds government operations and services and relies on transferring 102 million from the rainy day and investment funds, leaving the general fund effectively near empty with 7,335 dollars.
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Sacramento
Goodwin J. Knight
California
Knight
Tam
A. Alan Post
Truck Rams Into Bus. One Dead. 27 Injured in Salem
Salem New Jersey early today a truck slammed into the rear of a bus carrying migratory workers near the town. One passenger Ralph Noe 22 died and Victor Critz a farm worker sustained multiple lacerations on his face. Thirty survivors were reported at a local hospital with various injuries. condition of others not yet known.
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Salem
N. J
Ralph Noe
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Jack P. Hammond
Long Beach Insurance Assn
Beverly Riley
General Adjustment Bureau
Indo Islands
Cornell
Knight OK
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