U S Rejects Red Cease Fire Plan in Indochina Talks
In Geneva, U S Undersecretary Walter Bedell Smith warns Britain and France that accepting the communist cease fire terms would yield a dishonorable peace and risk partition of Laos, Cambodia, and Vietnam. Eden proposes joint emissaries to Geneva to draw cease fire lines amid France’s bidault flight to Paris.
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Geneva
United States
Britain
France
Indochina
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
Anthony Fden
Switzerland
Jean Chauvel
Chauvel
Smith
Georges Bidault
Paris
Bidautt
Laos
Cambodia
Viet Nam
Eden
Pham V ¥An Dong
Viet Minh
Bidault
Fden
Senate To Act On Fallbrook Dispute
Washington United press report says the Senate will act tomorrow on a bill authorizing construction of Deluz dam on the Santa Margarita River California to settle water rights dispute leading to a government suit against Fallbrook Public Utility District and water users It would allocate 12500 acre feet yearly to Camp Pendleton Marine Base and 11500 to the utility district
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Washington
Senate
Deluz
Santa Margarita River
California
Fallbrook
Swimmer Edward Swim Drowns After Fall From Pier
In Portland Maine Edward Swim, 8, fell from a pier while attempting to board a boat and drowned after slipping into the harbor. Local authorities recovered the body. the incident highlights water safety hazards for visitors at the harbor.
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Portland. Me
Edward
Weather in Southern California Cloudy to Sunny Thursday
Cloudy nights and mornings give way to afternoon sun across coastal and intermediate valleys. Temperature shifts noted with highs near 68 and lows around 32 for readings on May 26 1954 at 1 PM. Local color includes fog dissipation and a Redlands building boom reference amid scattered humor.
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California
McCarthy Walkout as Army Case Nears End
United Press: The Army hearings closed with Roy Cohn poised to testify. McCarthy briefly walked out protesting what he called drivel and irrelevant testimony as Capt. Joseph J. M. Miller testified about Schine’s Fort Dix conduct. McCarthy planned a Government Operations Committee meeting to push pending legislation.
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M'Carthy
Cohn
Washington
Roy M. Cohn
McCarthy
Capt
Joseph J. M. Miller
Francis P. Carr
Carthy
Henry C. Dworshak
R- Ida
Karl E. Mundt
Dworshak
Mundt
Miller
Sching
Schine
McCarthy Subcommittee
Fort Dix
Florida
Cal. Bradley
Pvt. Schine
Col. Bradley
Col
Jack Bradley
McGuire Air Force Base
Fort Diz
Red Plot Aims to Stir Anti U S Feeling in Guatemala
Washington reports say Communist sources suggest arms marked American may be planted in Guatemala to frame the United States, aiming to inflame anti U S sentiment amid Latin American sensitivities. Most arms said to be Czech made. a small portion allegedly U S marked. McCormack urges urgent House Foreign Affairs review of the arms program as a Central American crisis looms.
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Washington
United States
Yhey
Poland
Guatemala
U.S
Russia
Guatemland
Czechoslovakia
Skoda
House Democratic
John W. McCorimack
Mass
House Foreign Affairs Committee
New York
McCormack
Congressional
Central America
Ethiopian Ruler To Visit White House Today
Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia leaves New York for Washington to meet President Eisenhower at the White House. He will dine with the President, stay three days in the capital, then tour the United States on a 30 day trip. He emphasized private American investment in Ethiopia and noted uranium discovery may be studied later.
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Hea Talephota
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
New York
United States
America
Prince Sable Haile Selassie
Princess Selba Desta
Richard Patterson
Emperor Haile Selassi
Eisenhower
White Ho
Ja Guardia
Washington
Columbine
White House
9 723 Pound Elephant Missing
California highway police search for a misplaced 9 722 pound elephant from a Boeing wild animal show. Owner Gene Holter and the elephant’s trainer left Chico en route to Salinas for an evening show, with no word from either since Tuesday morning.
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San Jose
Calif
California
Gene Holter
Boeing Wild Animal Show
Chico
Salinas
New Nevada Atomic Tests Planned At Nevada Site
WASHINGTON AEC plans new atomic bomb tests at its Nevada proving ground with timing undisclosed though sources cite next spring. AEC asks Public Health Service to recruit radiological health monitors for off-site monitoring 300 miles from the area, continuing a pattern from prior Nevada test series.
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Washington
WJP
Atomic Energy Commission
Nevada Proving Ground
AEC
Public Health Service
W Sterting Cole
R-Ny
United States
Cole
Commission
Nevada
Kidnaped Girl Reunited as Abductor Seized in California
Four year old Kathie Langdon was reunited with her mother and grandmother in Burlingame after police captured Erwin Lester Arnold, 46, a family friend, last night in Madera. CHP officers spotted Arnold on Highway 99 ending a search that began Sunday. Police said no molestation occurred. A kidnapping complaint will be sought against Arnold.
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Burlingame
Kathie Dahleen Langdon
Maureen Dahl
Marilyn Campbell
Sacramento
Kathie
Burkingame City
Madera
Erwin Lester Arnold
Arnold
Redwood City
California
Woman, 79, Blocks Passage Of Road Through Cemetery
In Chesterton Indiana a 79 year old woman blocks rerouting a toll road through a dune cemetery to protect her deceased sister in a grave. Officials estimate state costs up to 160000 while legal counsel notes a single descendant can block relocation.
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Chesterton
Ind
Worman
Dave Magnuson
Indiana
Dunes
Ger
Indiana Toll Road Commission
Chicago
Reds Hurl Full Scale Attack At Yen Phu Garrison
Vietnamese Viet Minh forces launched a full scale assault on Yen Phu, a key southern defense position near Hanoi. French defenders, reinforced by paratroopers, faced heavy, mud filled fighting as airstrikes hit Red concentrations in limestone hills.
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Hanot
Indochina
Viet Minh
Yen Phu
Hanoi
Dien Bien Phu
Yen Fh
Red River Delta
Tfen Phe
Pha Ly
Nam Dinh
Bunche Questioned For 12 Hours By Loyalty Board
UN diplomat Ralph J. Bunche was grilled for nearly 12 hours by a six member U.S. government loyalty board in New York. He refused to discuss the interrogation contents or offer a comment, leaving questions about the session and its implications unresolved. Ernest A. Gross acted as his adviser during the hearing.
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United Nations
N.Y
UPI
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations Trusteeship Department
U.S
Bunche
Washington
Eisenhower
Haile Selassie
Ethiopia
Pierce J. Gerely
Gerely
Ernest A. Gross
United States
U.N
Thief Fails but Claims He Tried at Lumber Co Safe
A thief attempted to crack the Hammond Lumber Co strong box in Hollywood. He failed and left a note on the damaged safe reading I didn't try, asserting he gave it his best effort.
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Hollywood
Hammond Lumber Co
Bennington Disaster Prompts Sabotage Comment and Navy Inquiry
Washington congresswoman Edith Nourie Rogers urged the House to consider sabotage in the Bennington fire. About 100 sailors were killed and 125 injured when a steam turbine explosion sparked a four hour blaze aboard the carrier 75 miles off Newport Rhode Island as Captain William F. Raborn ordered a port call and Navy investigators prepared to start.
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Washington
Edith Nourie Rogers
Rmass
The
House
Bennington
Quonset Point
R. L
William F. Raborn
Raborn
Navy
Aviation Electricians
Francis Toth
Phoenixville
Newport
R. I
Eisenhower
Bruno Costantini
Detroit
Costantini
Secretary of Navy
Charles &. Thomas
Wasp
Norfolk
R.L
Quonset
Brooklyn Naval Shipyard
Vermont
Two Parachutes to Safety as Plane Crashes in Yard
Two East Coast Air Force officers bailed out of a C45 training plane at 1560 feet before it slammed into the Newark Lumber Co yard in downtown Newark Delaware. The crash sparked a blaze visible from 14 miles away as 17 fire companies fought for more than two hours to control the fire. Damage was concentrated in the lumber yard with minor damage to adjacent gasoline stations.
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Newark
Del
East Coast Air Force
Alamos
Newark Lumber Co
Maryland
Eleven Puerto Rican Nationalist Leaders Arrested in US
FBI agents arrested 11 Puerto Rican Nationalist leaders in New York Chicago and Puerto Rico on charges of conspiring to overthrow the US government. Six were seized in Chicago four in New York and one in Puerto Rico. The group linked to the March 1 House shooting and the November 1951 attempt on Truman. Remaining six defendants already in custody and in Danbury Connecticut federal penitentiary.
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Washington
FBI
New York City
Chicago
Puerto Rico
United States
Atty
Herbert Brownell Jr
J. Edgar Hoover
New York
Chamber of the
House of Representatives
Truman
Hoover
Brownell
Danbury
Conn
Two Arrested in Million Dollar Government Bond Swindle
Two Los Angeles men Ben Reinschrieber and David Stein were arrested by FBI on charges they used interstate communications to defraud Las Vegas resident O. H. Nelson in a $1,000,000 government bond scam. Police said the case spanned months and involved a telegram claiming funds to buy bonds.
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Los Angeles
Las Vegas
Nev
FBI
Ben Robert Reinschrieber
Ben Reiner
David E. Stein
Mae Sorgen
Samuel Harry Cholak
John Malone
O. H. Nelson
Malone
Nelson
Governor Knight Proclaims May 30 Memorial Day
Sacramento California Governor Goodwin J. Knight proclaims Sunday May 30 as Memorial Day in the state. The official declaration sets the day for remembrance across California.
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Knight
Sacramento
Goodwin J. Knight
California
Spreckels Loses Appeal In Simple Assault Case
Fresno report says Adolph B Spreckels Jr 41 year old sugar heir reinforced jail term and denial of new trial after a Orange County jury found him guilty of simple assault for beating ex wife Kay Williams at their Balboa Island home last August 20.
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Fresno
LLP
Fourth District Court of Appeal
Adolph B. Spreckels Jr
Kay Williams
Spreckels
Robert Gardner
Orange County
Pittsburgh Falls Short as Mets Rally Big
National League game with Pittsburgh scoring once in the first seven innings while New York exploded for 24 runs after a 6 2 1 showing. Law and Atwell contributed, with Gomes and Kat also getting involved for the Mets in a dominating offensive display.
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National League
Pittsburgh
New York
Law
Atwell
Gomes
Kat
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