Eisenhower Advances Toward Office Duties After Surgery
President Eisenhower again walked with minimal help and relics of pain, doctors report his condition remains excellent. He conferred with Sherman Adams and named Vice President Nixon to represent him at two events, with decisions on the Annapolis youth conference and possible Adenauer visit in question.
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Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
Nixon
National Security Council
Blair House
Adenauer
Ness
Annapolis
White House
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Organization of American States
Panama City
Chapa Trial Is Resumed In Texas Court
Four witnesses testified they paid 200 to D C Chapa for hunting rights on his ranch near Laredo. Chapa faces embezzlement charges over a 6525 check from Benavides School District where he served as tax collector. Testimony included County Judge A M Edwards of George West. The trial entered its sixth day as defense hints at possible other suspects.
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Fort Stockton
D. C
Eisenhower Faces Question of a Second Term
The president could delay a final decision for six weeks after his illness as doctors foresee a full recovery. Republicans urge no change while Democrats hope he seeks a second term and battles within the party continue ahead of the San Francisco convention. Hagerty emphasizes returning the president to health.
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Washington
Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
United States
Hagerty
San Francisco
Paul Dudley White
Boston
U S Soldier Kills Ferry Operator in Germany
In Kreuz-Wertheim Germany a 21 year old American soldier attacked a ferry boat killing the operator and knifing a German housemaid Hildrun Wagner 22 who is in serious condition Pvt Ralph T McFarlane of Battery A 97th Field Artillery Battalion is held for questioning by German police and US Army officials released no home address.
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Kreuz-Wertheim
Germany
Hildrun Wagner
U. S. Army
Pvt
Ralph T. McFarlane
97Th Field Artillery Battalion
High Court Denies Parr Protests Over Trial Location
The Supreme Court rejected 54 protests by South Texas political boss George B. Parr seeking to avoid trial in Austin federal court on 1949 to 1951 income tax evasion charges. Justices split, with Harlan delivering the majority and Warren dissenting.
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Supreme Court Today
George B. Parr
Texas
Austin
Harlan
Justice Burton
Warren
Black
Douglas
Clark
Peed
Frankfurter
Minton
Parr
Corpus Christi
Laredo
Ben H. Rice
Supreme Court
Justice Department
High Tribunal
LeMay seeks $3.8 billion boost for B52 production
General Curtis LeMay asked a Senate Appropriations subcommittee for a 3.8 billion dollar increase in Strategic Air Command funds to accelerate B52 bomber production. Chairman Chavez disclosed the figure after LeMay testified on the Defense Department budget for the coming fiscal year. The request would push SAC needs above five billion dollars for the period, aiming to counter the Soviet long-range bomber expansion.
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Washington
Curtis E. LeMay
Senate Appropriations
Strategic Air Command
Chavez
D-Nm
LeMay
Defense Department
Two Cars Collide by Towle Park Entrance
Two cars collided yesterday afternoon near Towle Memorial Park on the Big Spring highway. Driver August Haas aged 55 of Abilene drove a 1952 Pontiac sedan while Robert Thurman Hensley aged 16 from Sunray Oil Camp rode as the other motorist. Sheriff Homer Whisnand said there were no injuries and only minor damage to the vehicles.
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Towle Memorial Park
Big Spring Highway
August Haas
Abilene
Robert Thurman Hensley
Sunray Oil Camp
Homer Whisnand
House OKs Trimmed Measure On Foreign Aid
The House passed a 3.8 billion dollar foreign aid bill slashed by more than a billion from Eisenhower's request. The measure sets terms for next year's program and awaits Senate action with further cuts debated. actual funds to be voted in a separate bill.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Congress
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Appropriations
George
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
H. Alexander Smith
RNJ
Europe
U.S
Yugoslavia
Eisenhower Rejects Joint Chiefs Russia Visit Bid
President Eisenhower refused a Russian proposal for all Joint Chiefs of Staff to visit the Soviet Union. He discussed the decision with Sherman Adams at Walter Reed Hospital where he recovers from last Saturday's operation. He left open the possibility for some chiefs to travel later with extended time outside Moscow to study activities of interest to their services.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Soviet Union
Sherman Adams
Walter Reed
Joint Chiefs
Russia
Moscow
Senterfitt presses to bar Daniel from Texas primary
Reuben Senterfitt urged the State Democratic Executive Committee to bar U S Senator Price Daniel as ineligible for the July 28 primary. The panel debated ballot questions and possible convention venue with Fort Worth as a leading candidate.
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Reuben Senterfitt
Democratic Executive Committee
U.S
Price Daniel
Senterfitt
Congress
Austin
San Saba
J. Evetts Haley
Adenauer Warns Of New Soviet Threat
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer told Yale's board of governors that Western vigilance must not waver despite friendly talk from Soviet Russia. He warned the Kremlin remains committed to old Bolshevik aims and seeks to undermine NATO and push the U S from Europe. He noted Stalin’s removal did not alter Soviet aims.
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Adenauer
New Haven
Conn
Konrad Adenauer
Soviet Russia
Kremlin
Board of Governors
Yale University
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
United States
Europe
Stalin
Reward Call For Hired Killer In McCollum Bomb Case
Frank Kittrell urged a $50 000 reward to track the “hired killer” behind the car bomb that critically injured Sam McCollum III in Brady Texas. McCollum, hospitalized, gave his first interview since the blast, testifying about the veterans land scandal case linked to Bascom Giles and others.
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Brady
Tex
Sam McCollum III
Vital Veterans
Frank Kittrell
McCollum
Texas Land
Bascom Giles
B.R. Sheffield
Brady Land
Veterans Land
Stalin Kept Harem, Kremlin Quiet Until Now
Paris based France-Soir reports Khrushchev told Soviet leaders Stalin maintained a harem of young girls in his later years. The dispatch claims Stalin was driven by sexual aberrations and sadness toward younger girls, with Beria alleged as organizer before his execution.
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Paris
Communist Party
Nikita Khrushchev
Joseph Stalin
France-Soir
Vienna
Khrushchev
Stalin
Lavrenty Beria
Beria
Warm Week Ahead with Scattered Thunder Showers
Snyder temperatures show highs near 96 and 95 with overnight lows in the mid 60s. A 7:30 a.m. reading was 74. West Texas remains partly cloudy and warm through Tuesday with widely scattered late afternoon and evening thunder showers.
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Snyder
West Texas
Man makes long swim to safety near Key West
In Key West a 36 year old man, Ray Wraymond, swam nine miles through rough seas to reach shore and alert Coast Guard crews after the fishing boat Golden K sank during a squall near Pelican Shoals. The three other survivors, Dorothy Snell, Winford Bennett, and Frank Young, were rescued and treated. Bennett was both owner and captain.
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Fla.p
Coast Guard
Ray Wraymond
Boca Chica
Golden K
Navy
Wraymond
Dorothy Snell
Winford Bennett
Frank Young
Marathon
Fla
Bennett
Pelican Shoals
Miss Snell
Heir Plans 10 Story Gallery at Columbus Circle
Huntington Hartford, 45 year old heir to the A and P fortune, announces plans to build a 10 story art gallery on Columbus Circle in Manhattan at a cost of 12 million dollars.
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New York
Huntington Hartford
Millions
Columbus Circle
Manhattan
Shippers Urged to Hire Fewer Blood Sellers
Yokohama stevedores are warned by the Federation of Port Workers Unions that selling blood raises accident risk. The union notes Yokohama has the nation's highest waterfront accident rate and asks shippers to refuse work to those who sell blood at about $20 a pint. Two blood banks buy a twentieth of a pint daily from 300 to 400 donors.
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Yokohama
Japan
Federation of Port Workers Unions
Informant In Brink's Case Shot To Death
William J. Cameron a 49 year old Dorchester hoodlum was found murdered in his car on the South Boston waterfront. Two men Thomas J. Ballou and Thomas A Callahan were jailed on suspicion in connection with the crime. Police tied Cameron to Brink's robbery and to Faherty Richardson and Perry. Cameron reportedly plotted with Faherty and Richardson while evading authorities. Cameron's widow Pauline said he left after a late phone call and a visitor claimed car trouble.
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Dorchester District
Navy Barracks
Boston
Thomas J. Ballou
Quincy
Thomas A. Callahan
Callahan
Cameron
Ballou
Thomas F. Richardson
James I. Faherty
Roxbury
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Faherty
FBI
Jordan Perry
Baltimore
Perry
Brink's
Prink
Pauline
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