Memorial Day Toll Hits New Record 523
Violent deaths over the three day Memorial Day weekend rose to a new high with at least 3523 traffic drownings and mishaps. The figure far surpasses the 1992 three day record of 510 and tops pre holiday estimates. Officials noted highway fatalities were near the 363 mark in 1952. President Sisenhower commented from Washington and congratulated industry driver of the year Gomer W. Sauces of Denver while Ned H. Dearborn urged safety measures following the Washington safety conference.
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Rebels Capture Post Nine Miles From Hanoi On Lifeline
Communist forces seized a defense post nine miles east of Hanoi threatening the Haiphong supply route. French command reported traffic along the highway not cut, but the Reds now hold a position bordering the road. A sabotage raid west of the post blew up a supply train with no casualties. French high command warned of heavy losses defending the position as Giap seeks to sever the vital Indo China lifeline.
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Haiphong
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U S Gives Up Hope of Quick Indo Chinese Armistice
In Geneva the U S delegation signals it has abandoned hope for a swift Indo Chinese truce. Chinese informants say the Red bloc will demand U S abandonment of plans for a Southeast Asia defense pact, arguing an Asiatic NATO clashes with armistice proposals. Soviet Foreign Minister Bioglotov returned from Moscow after talks with Kremlin leaders.
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Britain
America
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Moscow
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New Coast Guard Chief Takes Oath
Adm. Alfred C. Richmond takes the oath as vice admiral and Coast Guard chief, succeeding Vice Adm. Merlin O'Neil who retires after nearly 44 years in command. Rear Adm. James A. Hirsnitstad becomes assistant commandant, filling Richmond's previous post. Both receive four year terms.
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Alfred C. Richmond
Tadar
Sapiakeane
Coast Guard
Secretary of the Treasury
Richmond
Merlin O'Neil
Comandant
James A. Hirsnitstad
Office of Personnel
Ambiguous World News Drift Highlighted In Editorial
Today’s editorial page quotes Marquis Childson noting an ominous drift in events shaping world affairs. Other sections listed include Amusements Financial Bridge Classified and more with pages referenced for each feature and page 11 for Today's Pictures.
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New Recess Taken In Railroad Battle
Albany reports another recess in the fight to control the New York Central Railroad system as stockholders meet amid a tense turnout. Election inspectors seek extra time due to incomplete vote counting and alleged paper irregularities, with about a dozen stockholders present in a side room of the 10th Regiment Armory. Robert R. Young leads the opposition but was not present.
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New York Central
William ‘White
Spectatoc
10Th Regiment Armory
Robert R. Young
Cenwal
Broadway Lights Go Out In Amusement Tax Protest
New York reports a 20 minute blackout on Broadway as signs and theaters joined in a protest against a proposed five percent amusement tax. The plan, part of a effort to cover a budget over two billion dollars, followed by a public hearing scheduled for soon.
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Sodar
Slippery escape ends in jail cell capture
Police removed soap from a jail cell in FAIRVIEW before locking up Slippery Bob Kuyendall, 20, a burglary suspect. Kuyendall had escaped Cassville jail by covering himself with liquid soap and squeezing through the bars.
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UPI
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Kuyendall
Cassville
McCarthy Attacks Secrecy Rule During Army Probe
Sen Joseph R McCarthy rejected any Eisenhower secrecy directive as the Senate inquiry into the Army dispute grew heated. He protested that Congress should ignore executive orders and warned of future presidents. Senators McClellan and Symington accused him of Blackout tactics over tipsters and secret documents. McCarthy defended his ban on sharing secret information with Congress and questioned FBI involvement in secrets.
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D-Ark
Stuart Symington
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3. Edgar Hoover
Tito on Visit To Greece
Tito arrives in Greek waters for a state visit amid reports of a future military pact among Greece Turkey and Yugoslavia. A 21 gun salute greeted the Galeb and four Yugoslav destroyers as Corfu passed at dawn. He will visit Athens for five days to meet the anti Soviet regime and discuss expansion of the Balkan alliance as deterrence to Soviet influence.
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Eight year old grandmother fends off thieves in store
In Minneapolis an 8 year old grandmother chased two burglars from a grocery with old shoes and a milk bottle. The pair dropped a cash register and fled after the improvised defense.
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Minneapolis
Minn
Broad Social Security Bill Heads for House Debate
The House prepares to debate a sweeping social security bill drafted by the Ways and Means Committee. It would add about 10 million people to coverage, raise benefits, raise employer and employee contributions, and liberalize the income test. The plan increases the maximum wage base from 3500 to 4200, boosting annual tax contributions and monthly benefits for existing recipients. The Senate has not acted.
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Eisenhower
Senate
Democrats
Eisenhower Proposes One Billion Boost to Arms Budget
President Eisenhower asks Congress to add about one billion dollars for fiscal 1955, bringing total requested war funding to roughly 31 billion for the armed forces. The House has approved about 28.7 billion so far.
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CINS
Eisenhower
Congress
House
Dad Jokes On Bigamy In Quick Quip
A light weekly quip plays on the word bigamy with a pun about one wife too many. The joke riffs on legal phrasing and marital counts in a humorous exchange.
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Dad
Eisenhower urges truth crusade against Reds split
President Eisenhower deplored division over combating Communism and urged a crusade of truth through knowledge and understanding at a Columbia University event. He warned against agents of a foreign state and demagogues seeking power, calling for unity in opposing Communism.
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Missing Empress Gardens duck egg costs owner thousands
Seaford New York reports Empress Gardens home project halted after a wild duck egg nest disappears. Louis Hirsch estimates more than 1200 dollars loss from idle labor and equipment as crews pause to protect the nine eggs and calm worried residents. A youngster seen near the nest is suspected.
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Empress Gardens
Louis Hirsch
Hirsch
Vietminh to Get Russian Planes This Year
A Formosa Chinese Nationalist agency reported Vietminh forces in Indo China will have a Russian equipped air force by year end. Ta Tao said 1 200 cadets completed two years at a Chinese air force academy near Nanning and Russia promised planes late this year. An additional 3 000 cadets began training at Nanning.
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Formosa
Indo-China
Interior Ministry
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Nanning
Russia
Curtain for Fish Proposed Dam Splits Neusiedler See
Austrian officials consider a six mile dam costing 100000 dollars to bisect Lake Neusiedler, aiming to stop fish migration between the Austrian and Hungarian sections during hot spells. The plan seeks to curb cross border movement on the lake’s shallow Austrian shore.
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Hungary
Heat Snap Ends Record Heat Wave Hits 8S Degrees At Noon
Heat and humidity collapse after a record 8S degree noon high beating a 1935 June 1 mark. A sharp temperature drop follows showers or thunderstorms, dipping to 55 tonight and 70 tomorrow for at least five days. Andrew Keller notes average temperatures 36.2 degrees below normal. May 29 high 85, low 35. Precipitation 3.347 inches, 0.27 above normal.
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Hancock Field
Andrew J. Keller
Untouched Tomb Found at Pyramid in Egypt
CATRO Egypt AP Archeologist Kamal El Maulakh, known for the two ships of death in the great pyramid, announced discovery of an untouched tomb that may hold a 3500 year old Egyptian nobleman and his mummy along with pottery containers. He found the tomb in walls of the underground chamber that held the solar boats of a pharaoh.
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Kamal el Maulakh
Great Pyramid
el Mautakh
Zi Maliakh
Nine Killed as Guard Plane Crashes Near Duluth
A National Guard plane returning from Indianapolis with 14 aboard plunged into a gravel pit near Duluth airport in heavy fog. Nine troopers died, four were injured, and only one non squadron member survived. Pilot Maj Frederick A Kemp Jr and Co pilot Capt Victor Graboski perished.
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Air National Guard
Duluth
Ralph Mr. Jerome
Indianapolis
Stout Field
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Jerome
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Frederick A. Kemp, Jr
Victor Graboski
Col
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125Th Field Artillery
New Voice Calls To East Germans Berlin Radio Free Berlin Debuts
A new Berlin based radio station Radio Free Berlin began at dawn broadcasting a pro west message to East Germans. The all German venture relies on a two mark monthly tariff from West Berlin's 800000 radio owners to fund daily hourly coverage.
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Voice of Freedom
Germany
Radio Free Berlin
Isiow
Fairmount Dealers Lead Gas Price War in May Rush
More than twenty service stations along West Genesee Street cut gasoline to 22.5 cents a gallon led by John McCullough of Fairmount Corners. Operators say the cut aimed to end the price war and prevent bankruptcies as they anticipate a readjustment to around 28 cents once demand weighs in.
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Fairmount Corners
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Weenesee St
City Line
Fairmount
New Jersey
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MecCullough
Coast Guard conducts routine search of Panamanian ship Franco Lisi
Coast Guard boat crew boarded the Panamanian freighter Franco Lisi at Charlestown South Carolina for a routine search for anything inimical to the United States. The search examined persons and things under the 1951 Port Security Act authorities and is part of widespread port checks.
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Coast 74 Guard
Franco Lisi
Charlestown
S.C
United States
Coast Guard
Nine year old Linda Sue asks Martians to visit
Linda Sue Russell, a imaginative youngster, writes to Martians asking them to land at a local playground Sunday night. She plans to open her window and says she will reveal nothing about them. She hopes Martians will scare Earth to end wars and foster peace.
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Linda Sue Russell
Linda Sue
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