Eisenhower and Churchill Face Indochina Challenge
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Churchill tackle Indochina and stopping communism in Southeast Asia in White House talks. Eden and Dulles diverge on unity vs anti-Communist bulwark. State Dept meeting set with Eden, Dulles. A midday White House lunch with lawmakers precedes further discussions and a dinner.
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Merriman Smith
United Press
White
Great Britain
Eisenhower
Winston
Anthony Eden
John Foster Dulles
Eden
Dulles
Geneva
Far East
State Department
White House
House
Senate
Congress
Imore
Winston Churchill
Washington, D. C
Joly Foster Dulles
Weather notes bring moisture and mild rain in Southland
Mostly cloudy today in Southern California coastal and valley areas with local drizzle and sprinkles. Decreasing clouds Sunday bring little temperature change. Reading for June 26, 1954 shows high 65 low 53 with 0.03 inch of rain and season total 13.27 inches. A stray shower in the mountains expected. a contractor spots a hidden carpenter in a housing project and quips about a good wall.
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California
Jimmy Cubs
Jimmy
James
Congress Moves Ahead on Early Fiscal Year Start
Washington reports Congress pressing to begin the new fiscal year next Thursday with most regular appropriation bills, including a defense money bill totaling 28 billion dollars sent to the White House. Senate action covers health and welfare, labor, and DC government funding, while Interior and legislative branch provisions reach conference and committee consideration.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
White House
House
Health, Education and Welfare Department
Labor Department
District of Columbia
House-Senate
Interior Department
Senate Appropriations Committee
Firms Accused Of Illegal Aid To Joe Must Go
Dist Atty Harlan Kelley charged three Milwaukee corporations with violating state law by contributing money to the Joe Must Go club that backed recall efforts against Senator Joseph McCarthy. The club returned about $30 after realizing prohibited political contributions. The firms named were Electric Welding and Engineering, Standard Paper Company, and Charles Meissner and Associates Inc.
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Gore
Carl Lachmund
Joe
Kelley
Electric Welding and Engineering Corporation
The
Standard Paper Company
Charles Meissner and Associates, Inc
Milwaukee
Britons Favor Eden as Churchill's Successor
The Daily Express public poll published today shows 4 of every 100 Britons naming Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden as their number one choice to succeed Prime Minister Winston Churchill. The result highlights Eden as the leading candidate among the small share of respondents.
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London
Press Today
Anthony Eden
Winston Churchill
British Plane Crashes In Soviet Zone
A British cargo Avro York flying from Hamburg to Berlin crashed in the Soviet zone near Kyritz, 0 miles northwest of Berlin. All three crewmen were killed. An American safety official said the pilot reported trouble before the crash. there were no immediate indications of enemy action. Skyways owned the plane. Foreign Office and Air Ministry had no details.
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Hamburg
Germany
Berlin
East Germany
Kyritz
Communist “Peoples
Skyways
Foreign Office
Air Ministry
London
Farm Bloc Promises Rebuff for Eisenhower Farm Plan
Washington sources say bipartisan farm bloc leaders expect the House to rebuff President Eisenhower next week and back a one year extension of rigid price supports for key crops. Administration officials plan radio and TV pleas Sunday through Tuesday to win support for the plan led by Nixon Benson Morse with the Senate. The House Agriculture Committee sent a full farm bill to the floor backing another year of mandatory price supports at 4 percent of parity for wheat corn cotton peanuts and rice.
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Washington
House
Eisenhower
Richard M. Nixon
Ezra T. Benson
True D
Eden Progress Report At London Hospital
Mrs Anthony Eden, 34, is reported progressing satisfactorily at University College Hospital after entering for observation yesterday. She is a niece of Prime Minister Winston Churchill. her husband left with Churchill for Washington.
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London
Anthony Eden
University College Hospital
Good He Was Late
In New York a bank messenger arrives twenty minutes late with the payroll after three bandits fled Daniel Donato’s office with two hundred dollars from petty cash. The incident follows a theft and the delayed delivery of one thousand one hundred six dollars.
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New York
Daniel Donato
U S Invokes Monroe Doctrine In U N Meet
At the United Nations Security Council the United States pressed Guatemala under Western Hemisphere limits to allow an OAS backed probe into the anti Communist revolt. Ambassador Lodge warned that UN action could threaten the world body and the OAS. The council refused to consider intervention and defeated Guatemala's request to urge action against Honduras and Nicaragua for backing insurgents.
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United Nations
United States
Guatemala
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U.N. Security Council
Lodge
World Organization
Organization of American States
Securiy Council
Britain
France
U.N
Honduras
Nicaragua
Brazil
Colombia
China
Turkey
Russia
Lebanon
Denmark
New Zealand
U.N. Agend
OAS
Inter-American Peace Committee
San Francisco
Mistake Pays Off at Woodbine Race Track
A mutual clerk at Woodbine Race Track accidentally cashed a $20 win ticket for a customer. The error stood as Mollie Moe won the second race at over 18 to 1, earning the clerk 3.96 dollars after the payout.
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Toronto
Woodbine Race Track
Mollie Moe
Soviet Representative Declares He Is Not A Gentleman
At the United Nations, Semyon Tsarapkin sharply rebuked a request for the floor, declaring I am not a gentleman I am representative of the Soviet Union here as Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. presided.
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United Nations
N.Y
United Nations Security Council
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Semyon EK. Tsarapkin
Tuapse tanker to be returned to Russians amid Formosa seizure
Nationalists in Formosa announced the Soviet tanker Tuapse seized off Formosa will be returned to the USSR pending determination of its true nationality. Moscow said the seizure may prompt a push to reveal Asiatic submarine forces, with Pravda blaming the U.S. Navy and suggesting Soviet subs could patrol from Hainan to protect ships bound for Shanghai and other Communist ports.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Chang Kai-shek
Red China
Tuapse
Shanghai
China Petroleum Company
Tokyo
Russia
China
Soviet Union
United States
Pravda
U.S
Communist Party
U.S. Navy
Yulin
Hainan Island
Hainan
Canton
South China Sea
Straits of
East China Sea
Brazil to finalize World War II lend-lease debt payment
Breal will pay 35 million dollars on its lend-lease debt Monday in Rio de Janeiro. The move places Brazil among the few nations to liquidate its wartime obligations to the United States.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
United States
Derailed Rocky Mountain Rocket injures 75 near Hallam Neb
The Rock Island Rocky Mountain Rocket derailed east of Hallam at 65 mph. About 75 passengers were injured with eight in serious condition. Injuries were mainly minor but several were taken to Lincoln Beatrice and Crete hospitals. Some travelers rode buses to Lincoln and Omaha to continue travel. Sheriff Karnopp noted possible car damage and observed dragging and a fire-like sight on one car.
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Hallam
Lincoln
Beatrice
Crete
Neb
Omaha
Merle Karnopp
Halam
Freak Storm Drowns Three At Chicago Lakeshore Beaches
A seiche on Lake Michigan produced five to six foot waves sweeping piers and walls from Loyola to Jackson Park. At least three drowned including Theodore Slempinski 42 and John Jaworski 52 as sixteen to twenty fishermen were swept from Montrose Avenue Beach area. Coast Guardsmen searched for missing persons.
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Chicago
Lake Michigan
Montrose Avenue
Loyola
Jackson Park
Montrose Beach
North Avenue Beach
Montrose
Theodore Slempinski
John Jaworski
Nate Goldsand
Rebels Claim Hundreds Join Liberation Army
In Honduras, anti-Communist rebels reported hundreds of men joined the liberation forces as they captured Chiquimula after heavy aerial and artillery bombardment. Gen. Carlos Castillo Armas announced Chiquimula’s fall and denied claims it was an open city while preparing to form a provisional cabinet.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Guatemala
Chiquimula
Carlos Castillo Armas
Castillo Armas
Esquipulas
Guatemala City
Nicaragua
U.N
Ft. Matamoros
Zacapa
Jacobo Arbenzo Suzan
First Hurricane Of Year Fades
The first hurricane of the year named Alice faded out in Mexico and the Rio Grande Valley. It caused two deaths and many injuries with heavy property and crop damage. The storm formed near Mexico’s gulf coast and moved inland about 70 miles south of Brownsville. After effects were expected to bring rains as far west as El Paso and along the Rio Grande. Up to five inches of rain fell yielding cotton damage in the lower valley.
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Brownsville
Tex
Alice
Mexico
Rio Grande Valley
Gulf Coast
el Paso
Rio Grande
Child Lost In Mountains In Sierra Nevada Search Underway
A five year old Cu pertine girl named Kathy Paxton vanished near her parents camp in Car son Pass at 4 30 p m. A 30 strong team including Alpine County Sheriff Orrin Brown deputies campers forestry workers and highway patrol searched the 9800 foot pass aided by hounds from San Jose. Cold windy conditions hindered the rescue as authorities theorize she may have taken a wrong turn while returning to camp.
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Markleeville
Calif
Cupertine
Carson Pass
Sierra Nevada
Kathy Paxton
Alpine County
Orrin Brown
Hinnad Hounds Hown
San Jose
Brown
Sheriff’s Office
Grip Man Laughs At Speeding Ticket In San Francisco
Cable tar grip man Raymond Isaac, 22, laughed when a police officer attempted to issue him a speeding ticket. He argued that cable cars are not vehicles under state code and gripmen are not motormen under city traffic code. He noted the cables could not move faster than nine miles per hour.
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San Francisco
Raymond Isaac
Isaac
Mendes France to Deliver Radio Report on Indochina War
Premier Pierre Mendes France plans an interim radio address in Paris detailing progress toward a cease-fire in Indochina within 25 days and the conditions tied to his pledge. He will review talks with Chou En Lai in Bern and efforts to bolster French expeditionary forces, with advisers noting possible contingency if the cease-fire moves fail.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
Indochina
National Assembly
Mendes-France
Chou En-Lai
Bern
Switzerland
France
Mendes- France
Rene Coty
Elysee Palace
Truman Suffers Complications After Gallbladder Surgery
Kansas City reports Dr. Wallace Graham tentatively plans X rays for Harry S. Truman's chest after he complained of congestion. Truman has developed a little atelectasis a partial collapse of the lung. Doctors say any collapse could be relative and not necessarily serious, with treatment similar to pneumonia. The hospital lists his condition as satisfactory.
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Kansas City
Wallace Graham
Harry S. Truman
Truman
Graham
Research Hospital
Jet Pilots May Drink Meals Through Tube Oxygen Masks
A group of research scientists proposes liquid rations allowing jet pilots to drink meals through tubes in their oxygen masks during combat missions. Maj. William B. Levin, Fau and Containers' Institute official, noted the concept as part of revised military rations.
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Los Angeles
William B. Levin
Fau and Containers’ Institute
Arson Probed After Million Dollar Oil Tank Fire
Federal and city arson inspectors joined Navy intelligence and FBI in probing sabotage in a Tide Water Associated Oil blaze at San Pedro Harbor. A 55 000 barrel tank exploded at 6 36 p m causing two tanks damaged and ten destroyed while 22 ships were moved to safety. Missing is Jerry A Alders a 45 year old company employee inside the area.
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San Pedro
Calif
City
Los Angeles
Tide Water Associated Oil Co
F. E. Coyle
Navy
FBI
Jerry A. Alders
Red Commandos Attack Second U S Base Near Haiphong
Communist commandos raided Cathi Air Field near Haiphong in the Red River Delta last night, following a raid on Doson Field a day earlier. Five rebels were captured, two killed. Americans uninjured. Cathi, manned by U S Air Force technicians, remains well defended with barbed wire, machine gun nests, and floodlighting.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Red River
Haiphong
Cathi
Gulf of Tonkin
Doson Field
U. S. Air Force
Catbi
Delta
River Road Use Urged by Los Angeles City Council
The Los Angeles City Council unanimously adopted a resolution urging trucks to use two concrete river channels instead of the congested Hollywood Freeway linking downtown to Routes 101 and 99. Councilman Earle D. Baker noted the Los Angeles River and Tujunga Wash should be considered as traffic arteries, though no action was taken yet. the traffic commission is asked to study the proposal.
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Cheos Angeles
Ity Council
Hollywood
Los Angeles
Earle D. Baker
Los Angeles River
Tujunga Washins
City Traffic Commission
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