Ike Deplores Division In Red Fight At Columbia Dinner
President Eisenhower denounces domestic division in the communist battle urging knowledge over prejudice during a Columbia University 200th anniversary dinner. He warned against censors and demagogues while stressing two global policies building a cooperative peace and strengthening liberty and prosperity.
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New York
Eisenhower
America
Columbia University
Temple of Freedom
White House
James C. Hagerty
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Hagerty
Waldorf-Astoria
Columbia
Weather outlook for Southern Illinois with showers likely
Cooler for Southern Illinois with clearing tonight. Wednesday will be partly cloudy and warm with a few showers likely by afternoon or night. Temperatures: low tonight upper 50s, high Wednesday near 80, low Wednesday night 52. Precipitation 0.13 inches in the period. Crab Orchard Lake 3 inches below spillway. Little Grassy Lake 2 inches below spillway.
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Illinois
FBI Seizes 200 Slot Machines in Herrin Fraud Case
FBI agents seized 200 slot machines and 92 cabinets in the Moroni Building Herrin as part of a fraudulent check investigation. Glenn Edward Meyers, 44, Dallas, was arrested in Mattoon on charges tied to cashing a $425 fraudulent check and admitted transporting slot machine parts from Texas to Herrin in March. The raid occurred with a warrant from U S District Attorney Clifford Raemer, and the machines were moved to Booth's Transfer warehouse for custody. The probe continues with cooperation from Mattoon and Williamson County authorities. Meyers, a former building contractor, was released on bond.
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Federal Bureau of Investigation
Moroni
W. Monroe St
Herrin
R. N. Hosteng
FBI
Springfield
Hosteng
Glenn Edward Meyers
Dallas
Tex
Matto
Illinois
el Paso
Meyers
Mattoon
Hosteny
Texas
United States District Attorne
Clifford Raemer
Nine Guardsmen Die In Minnesota Plane Crash
A Minnesota National Guard transport failed in heavy fog near Duluth Airport crashing into a gravel pit. Nine troopers were killed, four injured, three critically. The aircraft was returning from Indianapolis after duty with the 179th Fighter-Interceptor Squadron. most victims lived in the Duluth area.
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Duluth
Minn
Minnesota National Guard
Russell Westberg
Ralph M. Jerome
Indianapolis
Scelba Party Wins Local Elections in Italy
The Christian Democrat party of Premier Mario Scelba won elections in 12 of 16 Italian communities voting Sunday. Communists and their socialist allies took the remaining four communities.
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Rome
Christian Democrat Party
Mario Scelba
Hawaii’s Kilauea Erupts in Century’s Biggest Volcano Show
Hawaiis Kilauea crater unleashed an estimated 10 million cubic yards of lava in a spectacular eruption that drew about 10 000 sightseers. Traffic clogged slopes as cars filled a Halemaumau crater edge parking lot, while observers watched lava fountains from a half mile fissure and souvenir hunters gathered hot rocks.
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Hawaii
Honlulu
Kilauea
Halaemaumau
Halemaumau
Broadway blackout protests 5 percent amusement tax
Lights along the Great White Way dimmed for about twenty minutes Monday night in a Broadway blackout to protest a 5 percent city amusement tax. Theaters and movie houses joined the action with signage darkening at 9 p.m. before signs came back on around 9:20.
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New York
Great White Way
Broadway
New Storms Over Midwest
The Associated Press reports fresh Midwest storms with several tornadoes in eastern Kansas and western Missouri causing heavy farm damage but no injuries. Fort Scott trees and chimneys were knocked down. a small tornado touched Coldwater Lake, Michigan with no injuries. Tornadoes killed four children and injured many near Norfolk, Nebraska last Saturday night as rain spread across the region.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Kansas
Missouri
ITV
Fort Scott
Kan
Coldwater Lake
Coldwater
Mich
Norfolk
Neb
Illinois Family Killed in Kentucky Collision
Three members of the Wagner family were killed and three others injured in a Monday crash on U S 60 near Shelbyville Kentucky. The dead are George Wagner 63 his wife Clara 50 and George Wagner sister Mary Wagner 60 all residents of Hecker Illinois and Fairview Illinois.
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Shelbyville
U. S. 60
George Wagner
Clara
Hecker, Ill
Wagner
Miss Mary Wagner
Fairview
Rail Outcome Still In Doubt
Albany June 1 AP The struggle for control of the New York Central Railroad system remained unsettled with the stockholders meeting recessed until noon Tuesday. Inspectors said counting is incomplete due to the large vote and many proxy papers, following a tumultuous gathering of about 2,000 stockholders.
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Albany
N. Y
New York Central
Central
William White
McCarthy Blocks Access to Schine Informant Names
Senator McCarthy blocked senators on the Army Schine hearings from obtaining files with informant names. He insisted informant identities be deleted before release. Senator McClellan accused McCarthy of unfairness and pressed for government position on the matter. The committee recessed without resolving the issue.
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Sen. McCarthy
Army
G. David Schine
Sen
McClellan
D-Ark
McCarthy
Eisenhower Administration
Hearings
Cohn
Ray H. Jenkins
Air Force academy site panel deadlocked, five options named
Washington reports Rep Shafer says the five member commission cannot reach a unanimous recommendation on locating the new Air Force academy. The sites listed include St Marys California Colorado Springs Colorado Madison Battle Creek and Alton. Rep Springer adds the panel has not agreed on the top three from the five choices.
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Washington
Shafer
R-Mich
Air Force Academy
Commission
Air Force
Talbott
House Armed Services Committee
St. Mary’s Calif
Colorado Springs
Colo. Alton
Ill
Madison
Ind
Battle Creek
Mich
Springer
R-Ill
Memorial Day Toll Sets New Record at 523 Dead
Violent deaths over the three day Memorial Day holiday reached a new high with at least 523 fatalities from traffic accidents drownings and miscellaneous mishaps. The toll surpassed the prior record of 510 set in 1952 and included 355 traffic deaths 92 drownings and 76 other fatalities.
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National Safety Council
Associated Press
Mount Vernon
Springfield
Cook County
Chicago
Ralph Oliver Long
Seymour
Ex POW Batchelor Signs Non-Red Affidavit
Ex prisoner of war Corporal Claude Batchelor of Kermit Texas signed a non-Communist affidavit at Fort Sam Houston. The document clears the way to about 4000 dollars in back pay. Part of the money funds his defense and the rest will help bring his Japanese wife Kyoto to the United States. He faces possible court martial on charges of collaborating with the enemy while a POW.
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Cpl
Claude Batchelor
Kermit, Tex
Fort Sam Houston
Post Prison
Batchelor
Joel Westbrook
Kyoto
Tokyo
Army
McCarthy Aide Denies Threats in Army Hearing
Roy M. Cohn denied he threatened to wreck the Army or remove Secretary Stevens if Schine were sent overseas. He called Adams and Stevens statements ridiculous and untrue while testifying in the Army McCarthy hearings.
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Roy M. Cohn
Robert T. Stevens
Pvt. G. David Schine
Cohn
McCarthy
Schine
New York Area
Adams
Stevens
Ray H. Jenkins
Ft. Dix
Earl L. Ringler
Dix
Ringler
McCarthy Subcommittee
Army
Joseph Miller
John Bruce Blount
Jenkins
New York
My Subcommittee
McCarthy Camp
Subcommittee
UMW Keeps Mines Closed in Defiance and Stoker
HazardKy June 1 AP United Mine Workers voted to bar operations at two Marlowe Coal mines Defiance and Stoker after contract terminations. About 100 of 200 workers attended a meeting as UMW officials warned of pressure from operators while Marlowe cited unprofitability under the $18.25 daily wage.
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Hazard
United Mine Workers
UMW
Defiance
Stoker
Raney
Marlowe
Junior Now Eligible to Collect on Policy
Fritz J. Hartman known as “Junior” becomes eligible to collect 1189 dollars as beneficiary of his life insurance policy bought in 1901. He stopped premiums in 1921 and the Mutual Life Insurance Co of New York will cash in the policy on the anniversary nearest his 96th birthday, October 13. Only about three in a thousand live to reach 96.
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Spring House
Fritz J. Hartman
Mutual Life Insurance Co
New York
Hartman
Memo on 1973 world revolution cited by Knowland
A document allegedly shown to Congress claims Mao Tse tung outlines a plan for global Communist victory by 1973. It foresees US isolation, Chinese Soviet cooperation, and revolutionary gains across Asia Africa and beyond with a warned crash of capitalist Europe. Twenty years hence, the memo says, world revolution will be an accomplished fact.
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Congress
Moscow
Senate
Knowland
R-Calit
Mao Tse Tung
Chou En-Lai
United States
Viscene
Indonesia
Burma
Thailand
Japan
Soviet Union
China
India
Philippines
Africa
Asia
Europe
Canada
South America
French Speed Valley Defense Near Hanoi in Indochina
The French broaden defense plans in the Chochen Valley as Viet Minh divisions threaten the Red River delta from Dien Bien Phu. US air support, including B26s and Corsairs, is bombing routes while a Globemaster airlift may relay 2,100 troops from North Africa to reinforce.
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Chochen
Red River
Dien Bien Phu
Hanoi
Black River
Saigon
United States
Delta
North Africa
U. S
France
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Little Grassy Lake
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Scelba
Kentucky
Air Academy Commission
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John G. Adams
Reds
Indochina
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