Dulles Sees Reds Dragging Feet in Geneva Peace Talks
Secretary of State Dulles said the Communists were delaying peace negotiations at Geneva while intensifying their Indochina war effort. He forecast possible near term developments at Geneva and planned a western speaking trip, with discussions on congressional authority to act in Southeast Asia.
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Dulles
Geneva
Indochina
Ace
Korea
Washington
Congress
Southeast Asia
Eisenhower
United States
Europe
Mass meeting called to end United Mine Workers dispute
A Lansford mass meeting is scheduled today to settle a bitter UMW split that kept Lehigh Navigation Coal Co mines closed since May 3. Local 1571 at Tamaqua No 14 supports reopening while pickets bar 3,500 miners and other operators from returning to work. No violence reported as lines remain closed.
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Panther Valley
United Mine Workers
Lehigh Navigation Coal Co
Tamaqua No. 14
Stevens Faces Rough Time as Army Secretary at West Point
Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens told cadets at the U S Military Academy he has endured a rough tenure without regretting it. He cited personal service in two world wars and alluded to controversy with Senator McCarthy while praising President Eisenhower and urging duty, honor, and country as guiding principles.
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Robert T. Stevens
Sen. McCarthy
Rwis
U. S. Military Academy
Army
West Point
Horace Porter
Pennsylvania
France
Stevens
Porter
Eisenhower
Weather forecast for Southern Illinois shows highs around 91
Partly cloudy conditions persist in Southern Illinois with a high of 91 on Wednesday and a low of 72 tonight. Temperatures measured earlier include 65 at 7 am today and 79 at 6 pm yesterday, while precipitation totals reach 0.42 inches from yesterday morning to today. Crab Orchard Lake sits 3 inches below spillway today and Little Grassy Lake 2 inches below spillway today.
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Southern
Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Nurseryman Owen Trial Opens on Mail Fraud Charge
James W. Owen of Bloomington faces a U S District Court trial without a jury in Springfield on a 20 count indictment for using the mails to defraud customers. A U S Attorney said Owen advertised false claims about nursery stock and followed a plan to avoid refunds. Defense contended many buyers were served and most trees grow, with hundreds of thousands sold. The indictment cites more than 200 alleged victims.
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Springfield
James W. Owen
Bloomington
U. S
Marks Alexander
Owen
Alexander
Owen Company
U. S. Dist
Charles G. Briggle
Arthur M. Fitzgerald
Fitzgerald
West Point Graduation Highlights 20,000th Cadet Included
West Point N Y June AP The infantry takes the largest class today with 634 graduates. Twelve not commissioned nine due to disability four as foreign cadets. Remaining graduates become second lieutenants assigned to services. Cadet Sgt James L Chapman III of Terrace Park Ohio is the 20 000th graduate in the 152 year history.
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West Point
N. Y
Infantry
U. S. Military Academy
James L. Chapman III
Terrace Park
Ohio
Blast in Garage Not Bomb Injures Manufacturer Wife
Bertha Krumholz, 58, wife of Chicago Boiler Co. president, was badly burned when a spark from a car starter ignited fumes in a garage. She was taken to Swedish Covenant hospital. Police and fire officials found no bomb signs and investigated gas or gasoline fumes ignited by the car’s electrical system.
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Bertha Krumholz
Chicago Boiler Co
Swedish Covenant Hospital
Sonny Tufts Denies Thigh Biting on Yacht
Actor Sonny Tufts denied a dancer Marjorie Von of Long Beach claims he bit her thigh aboard a yacht on February 20 in a suit seeking 26500 dollars. A second dancer Barbara Gray Atkins had similar charges in a separate suit but withdrew it earlier.
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Sonny Tufts
Marjorie von
Long Beach
Tufts
Barbara Gray Atkins
Florida Pair Held In Plot To Kill For Profit
Two men Emmett Donnelly a Lake Wales lawyer and Willard Durden of Orlando were held on a misdemeanor charge of conspiring to kill for profit two wealthy Lake Wales residents. Victims include widowed Byrd T. Roach reported missing and 81 year old K H Gerlach. Bond set at 15000 each. Roach later disappeared under sheriff Gordon’s direction with another principal to arrest. Durden and Donnelly jailed in Bartow County. Gerlach had been guarded for five months after switching lawyers.
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Lake Wales
Pat Gordon
Poil County
Emmett Donnelly
Willard Durden
Orlando
Gordon
K H. Gerlach
Gerlach
Joliet
Ill
Roach
Donnelly
Donnelly and Durden
Roosevelt Bid In California Chief Interest
California voters weighed James Roosevelt in the 26th District race as a test of his charisma versus marital scandal. In Iowa Hoegh led GOP governor contenders, while South Carolina faced Byrnes’s successor. turnout was expected heavy in all three states.
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California
South Carolina
Iowa
Leo A. Hoegh
GOP
Hoegh
James F. Byrnes
Burnet R. Maybank
Roosevelt
Ned Redding
Democratic National Committee
Robert L. Condon
Stephen Mitchell
Atomic Commission
Condon
Nevada
Goodwin J. Knight
Richard P. Graves
Knight
Earl Warren
Rhee Attacks U S Waste in Korean Aid Programs
President Syngman Rhee accused the United States of wasting aid funds in Korea and proposed taking over the rebuilding program. He cited factory ruins and said every dollar must be spent honestly while urging dollar credits and a small advisory staff. A U S official said expenditures require joint approval and that Koreans have approved major projects.
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Syngman Rhee
United States
U.S
Rhee
China
Korea
ROK
Republic of Korea
France
Great Britain
U. S
Toe Must Go to Recall McCarthy Gains New Drive
The Joe Must Go Club plans a recall campaign after the November election. LeRoy Gore from Sauk City led a Chicago rally with petitions aimed at McCarthy, saying they will be used as a reference list for new signatures. He estimates a million voters, needing about 250 000 signatures, while McCarthy backers cite 335 000 collected signatures. McCarthy has not publicly responded.
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Chicago
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
LeRoy Gore
Sauk City
Wis
Gore
Wisconsin
Mas Fairchild
McCarthy Pushes Clifford Witness For Truman Counsel
Senator Jackson moves to call Clark Clifford former Truman counsel as a witness in the McCarthy Army hearings. Dirksen GOP substitute allows any principal to name a witness with Jenkins deciding whether to call him. Roy Cohn testifies Adams threatened to derail subpenas. Mundt signals possible end to hearings next week.
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Clark Clifford
Ray M. Jenkins
Sen. Jackson
D-Wash
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Clifford
Truman
Sen
McCarthy
Symington
D-Mo
Stevens
Jackson
Sen. Dirksen
R-Ill
Jenkins
Dirksen
Mundt
R-Sd
Sen. Potter
R-Mich
Roy M. Cohn
Army
John G. Adams
McGarthy
Cohn
Adams
Potter
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
Subcommittee
Camp Kilmer
N. J
National Guard
the Army
Pvt
David Schine
Schine
Anm
Sted
Wisconsin
Hydrogen bomb demonstration seen as peace move
Atomic Energy Commissioner Thomas E. Murray proposed a special 1954 model hydrogen bomb demonstration for representatives of all nations, including Russia, to avert war. He spoke at Catholic University of America during commencement exercises, suggesting unveiling war's new look in the atomic age.
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Washington
Atomic Energy
Thomas E. Murray
United States
Russia
Murray
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Catholic University of America
U S Probing McCarthy Tax Investigation Into Senator McCarthy
U S Commissioner of Internal Revenue T Coleman Andrews said the agency is examining Sen Joseph McCarthy finances and will conclude within 60 days. The probe follows prior inquiries into tax matters and a 1953 Senate subcommittee report.
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T. Coleman Andrews
U. S. Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Andrews
Denver
McCarthy
Senate Elections Subcommittee
Youths Seek Asylum in West Berlin from East Germany
City officials said 238 young Blue Shirts from East Germany crossed the East West border over the weekend and asked for asylum in West Berlin.
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Berlin
East Germany
West Berlin
Unemployment Plan Criticized as Inadequate by Larson
Undersecretary Arthur Larson told the House Ways and Means Committee the current system risks creating first and second class workers based on unemployment insurance. He urged expanding coverage to all employers, including those with one worker, while noting a modest drop in unemployment to 3.305 million and a total employment rise to 61.119 million as hearings begin.
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Arthur Larson
Larson
House
Ways and Means
Eisenhower
Commerce-Labor Department
Ways and Means Committee
Wally Cox Real Nuptials Tie Real Knots at Waterfront
Wally Cox known as Mr Peepers on TV wed Broadway dancer Marilyn Gennaro in an open air ceremony at the waterfront home of New York attorney Donald Seawell in Borman Maryland Cox age 29 and the 20 year old bride stood with about a dozen close friends denying earlier rumors of a fake ceremony.
Air Force engineers inspect Lake Geneva site for academy
A 10-member mix of Air Force and civilian engineers arrived near Lake Geneva Wisconsin to survey a proposed site for the new Air Force academy. Led by John P. Huebsch the group will survey Lake Geneva for two days then visit Alt on Illinois and Colorado Springs Colorado. They will not make recommendations but will provide engineering data to Secretary Talbott's site selection committee for final decision.
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Washington
Air Force
Lake Geneva
Wis
Air Force Academy
John P. Huebsch
Billy Mitchell Airport
Harold Talbott
Alton
Ill
Colorado Springs
Colo
Talbott
Most Wanted Captured in Nevada Mine Standoff
The FBI announced that John Alfred Hopkins, an Arizona policeman killer and one of the ten most wanted, was seized Monday night at Gold Acre Mine 30 miles north of Beowawe Nevada.
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Washington
FBI
John Alfred Hopkins
Arizona
Gold Acre Mine
Nouth
Beowawe
Nev
French Wreck Two Rebel Bases Near Hanoi
The French claimed total destruction of two Vietminh bases near Senho seven miles east of Hanoi in a combined air and ground assault. B26s Corsairs and Privateers bombed straw-thatched villages, then tanks and infantry cleared centers, killing 110 and threatening more Vietminh camps near Hanoi. In a delta action, Vietnamese Catholic militiamen killed 30 Vietminh as rebels menaced rail and road links to the supply port.
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Senho
Hanoi
Haiphong
High Command
Red River
Galesburg votes 93 for fifth district justice race
In Galesburg on June 8, fewer than 100 of 18 185 registered voters turned out for the State Supreme Court justice election. Incumbent Joseph E Daily of Peoria, backed by both parties, won all 93 votes cast. Polls operated at seven sites for 12 hours. Election cost was about 500 dollars.
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Galesburg
State Supreme Court
Joseph E. Daily
Peoria
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