French Airlift of Wounded Troops Begun
The first of about 450 seriously wounded French Union soldiers evacuated from Dien Bien Phu arrived in Hanoi Friday night. Eight wounded troopers were flown via Luang Prabang to Hanoi after a weather delay. The operation followed a Dien Bien Phu ceasefire agreement and raised questions about Vietminh demands and neutralization of the area.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Paris
Luang Prabang
Laos
Lanessan
Mammoth Money Bill Is Approved by Senate Panel
The Senate Appropriations Committee approved a mammoth fiscal year bill funding the Atomic Energy Commission and 20-plus agencies at 5.7 billion dollars. The VA received 3.805 billion for pensions and care, while AEC was set at 1.236 billion, both above House totals but below requested levels. If Senate approval follows, a conference will reconcile differences.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate Appropriations Committee
Senate
House
Veterans Administration
AEC
Commission
Montana Weather Summary for West and East Divide
Slow cloud buildup across western Montana with little temperature change Saturday highs 70 to 78, Sunday cooler with partly cloudy skies. East of the Divide fair and warmer Saturday with highs 72 to 82, increasing clouds and little change Sunday. Table lists regional max and min temps ending 5:30 p.m. Friday for Cut Bank, Drummond, Helena, Lewistown, Miles City, Missoula, West Yellowstone, and Whitehall.
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Montana
Divide
Cut Bank
Borman
Drummond
Great Falls
Helena
Merrion Os
Lewistown
Livingston
Miles City
Missoula
West Yellowstone
Whitehall
77-Year-Old Robber Shot After Davenport Hall Heist
Davenport Iona-A 77year-old man identified as John Healy alias John Ward robbed the Northwest Davenport Turner Hall of about 7900 then was shot and killed by LaVerne Ruefer 42 manager of the hall. Healy wearing a Halloween mask confronted Ruefer in the hall apartment and forced the safe open before Ruefer fired a shotgun through a window ending the crime.
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Davenport
Iona
John Healy
John Ward
LaVerne Ruefer
Ruefer
Armed Forces Day Open House At Local Installations
Open house events mark Armed Forces Day with tours at Army Air Force Main Recruiting Station 41 W Park St and at the Ground Observer Lookout atop Hotel Finlen. Hours are 10 00 to 15 00 with guides explaining missions, plus motion pictures, coffee and doughnuts. Naval Marine Corps Reserve Training Center Clark Park hosts displays of Navy and Marine Corps weapons and a mock antiaircraft trainer. Ham operators may win a merit certificate for perfect message copies. Visiting hours 10 to 3. Capt Donald R Jones leads the Marine Corps section.
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Armed Forces
Army Air Force
W. Park St
Hotel Finlen
Army Air Force Headquarters
H. G. Powers
Naval and
Marine Corps Reserve Training Center
Clark Park
Boyd L. Hall
USN
Navy
Marine Corps
Secretary of Defense
Donald R. Jones
Marine Corps Section
Teacher Shot Down in Front of Children at Venice School
Mrs. Virginia Strickler Newton a 49 year old kindergarten teacher was shot by her former husband Thomas Newton 64 in the school parking lot as hundreds of children arrived for classes He then shot himself twice in the stomach both men in critical to serious condition at area hospital
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Venice
Calif
U.P
Virginia Strickler Newton
Thomas Newton
Fishing With Stones Leads To Fine In Idaho Stream
Craigmont Idaho. Milo Chapman of Weippe was fined ten dollars after a game warden charged he used rocks to hit fish in Big Canyon Creek near here. The incident was ruled a fishing violation and Chapman paid the penalty.
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Craigmont
Idaho
U.P
Milo Chapman
Weippe
Big Canyon Creek
Here
Chapman
Justice Court
Public Hearing Urged on State Oil Leasing
Helena Montana land board was urged to hold a public hearing into the 18 month old freezing of oil development on state school lands. Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Association argued the policy has deprived the state of millions and reduced school funding. The group cited a $2 per acre non drilling levy and claimed lease revenues fell while non state leases rose. The association urged promoting oil and gas development to avoid higher taxes and protect school funds.
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Helena
Montana
Land Board
Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Asso
State Board of Land Commissioners
Montana Supreme Court
Rocky Mountain Oil and Gas Assam
Association
Rocky Mountain
Army Draft Call Raised by 5000 Inductions in July
Washington reports the Army increased its draft call by 5,000 to induce 23,000 men in July. Inductions since January have averaged 18,000 monthly, with Defense Department planners saying more troops are needed after July 1 as two-year service terms end. Officials noted the rise is not tied to Indochina. Since September 1950, about 1,720,430 young men have been drafted or earmarked for induction as Korea tensions rose.
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Washington
Army
Defense Department
Pentagon
Indochina
Defense
Korea
Secrecy lid on White House meeting linked to Army McCarthy clash
A January 21 meeting in Brownell's office attended by Sherman Adams and Atty. Gen. Brownell drew a secrecy order from the Eisenhower administration. Democrats pressed for details as the controversy over the Army's records about Pvt. G. David Schine intensifies. White House aides and Deputy Atty. Gen. Rogers named as participants, with McClellan urging inquiry into higher-level direction of actions.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Army
Sen. McCarthy
Rwis
McCarthy Army
Sherman Adams
Gen
Brownell
John G. Adams
McCarthy
Pvt. G. David Schine
Senate Investigation Subcommittee
Administration
Joseph N. Welch
Adams
Defense Department
Robert Anderson
Welch
Anderson
White House
Murray Snyder
Sen. McClellan
Ark
Mr. Adams
United States
McClellan
John Adams
Gerald Morgan
William P. Rogers
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
United Nations
Hall Seeks End to McCarthy Army Hearings
Republican National Chairman Leonard W. Hall said most executive committee members he spoke with see no benefit from the McCarthy Army hearings and favor bringing the matter to a conclusion to refocus on the Eisenhower program. He noted the issue did not arise in committee talks and urged a full national meeting be scheduled in the Midwest in late August or September.
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Washington
Leonard W. Hall
Hall
Eisenhower
National Committee
Midwest
German Doctors Sentenced for WWII Gas Experiments
Otto Bicken bach and Eugen Haagen, German doctors, were sentenced to 20 years at hard labor in Lyon France on Friday for using French concentration camp prisoners in poison gas experiments during World War II.
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Lyon
France
Otto Bickenbach
Eugen Haagen
US France Plan Talks on Intervention in War
Washington reports secret talks between the United States and France to outline conditions under which Allied forces might intervene in Indochina. The discussions aim to clarify whether the U S would join the conflict, with Eisenhower and Congress to decide only if France meets conditions laid out by Dulles. France seeks guidance for possible armistice talks in Geneva and battlefield strategy amid intensified Communist attacks on Hanoi.
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Washington
United States
France
Indochina
Paris
U. S
U.S
Eisenhower
Georges Bidault
Douglas Dillon
State Department
Dulles
Bonnet
Geneva
Hanoi
President Eis enhower defends heart of America at dinner
At an Armed Forces Day dinner in Washington the president urged that the heart of America remains sound despite unworthy scenes in the national capital. Deputy Defense Secretary Anderson pressed for collective action to halt Communism and support the free world in Southeast Asia.
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Washington
Eisenhower
America
Statler Hotel
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Army
Stevens
Robert B. Anderson
United States
Anderson
Indochina
Southeast Asia
Armed Forces
West Point
Genghis Khan
Hitler
Mussolini
Queen Elizabeth Returns From Historic World Tour
Queen Elizabeth II sails home aboard the royal yacht Britannia as crowds greet the monarch off England. Prime Minister Winston Churchill dines aboard and joins the escort of 17 warships while river and coast crowds, bonfires, and signal flags mourns her homecoming with international greetings including a note from France President Rene Coty.
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London
England
Winston Churchill
Southampton
Duke of Edinburgh
Churchill
English Channel
Thames Estuary
Prince Charles
Princess Anne
River Thames
Westminster Pier
English
Brittania
France
Rene Coty
Molotov proposes neutral monitoring in Indochina talks
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov shifted from rigid Communist demands by proposing an armistice supervised by a neutral commission. The move, welcomed by some French sources as a concession, comes as secret talks resume with Eden chairing a two day recess. US and French spokesmen avoided comment amid discussions on ceasefire and possible internationalization of the war.
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Geneva
V. M. Molotov
Indochina
Molotov
Armi
Stice
United States
Red
U. S
Georges Bidault
Walter Bedell Smith
Asia
Eden
Marshall Islands Ask US to End Bomb Tests
Marshallese residents appeal to the United Nations for an immediate halt to hydrogen bomb tests. They cite radiation effects on Ronge lab and Uterik atolls, ask for safety measures and compensation if tests continue. U S delegate Lodge says tests are finished for 1954 and promises safety steps, while noting no permanent health effects and addressing land dispossession fears.
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United Nations
N. Y
Marshall Islands
United States
Rongelab
Uterik
U. N
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U. S
Lodge
Bolivian Tin Heiress Dies at 18 in Paris
Isabel Patino Goldsmith, an 18-year-old Bolivian tin heiress, died in Paris after brain hemorrhage surgery. Her husband James Goldsmith, 21, was by her side at the American Hospital. The couple had attracted international attention earlier when her father Antenor Patino opposed their marriage with private detectives and court orders.
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Paris
U.P
Isabel Patino Goldsmith
James Goldsmith
Antenor Patino
Russia to Return 38 U. S. Small Naval Vessels
ISTANBUL Friday night the Turkish Armed Forces Public Relations Bureau said Russia would start returning to the United States a fleet of 38 small naval craft loaned to the Soviet Union during World War II. The shipments were to begin today with the first ships.
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Istanbul
Turkey
Turkish Armed, Forces Public Relations Bureau
Russia
U. S
Soviet Union
Railroad Service Case Is Argued
Havre District Judge C B Elwell continued a temporary order shielding the Great Northern from enforcing a Montana Railroad Commission restore order for trains 223 and 224 between Havre and Williston. He heard arguments Friday and said a decision would come next week.
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Havre
C. B. Elwell
Montana Railroad Commission
Great Northern Railway
Williston
N. D
Elwell
Great Northern
Glasgow
MRC
Newell Gough Jr
Edwin E. Booth
Helena
Max P. Kuh
James Patten
William Leaphart
Thomas A. Jerrow
Western
Great Northern Lines
AEC Refuses Comment on Top Advisor Challenge Report
The Atomic Energy Commission said its New York office will be reorganized with July 1 effects but gave no comment on reports that a second senior adviser has been challenged on security grounds. No word on possible resignations by commissioners or staff. Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer’s challenge and hearing were noted, with results pending. Reorganization moves some New York functions to Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
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Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
New York
AEC
J. Robert Oppenheimer
Commission
Oak Ridge, Tenn
Fails to Convict Ex ILA Leader in Longshore Case
A New York jury deadlocked after about 30 hours of deliberation in the looting trial of Joseph P. Ryan, former president of the International Longshoremen’s Association. The 70 year old faces 42 larceny counts alleging $17,000 misappropriation. The jurors reported hopeless deadlock 10-2 for guilty. Judge Valente discharged them. Ryan, out on $3,500 bond, claimed innocence and said he would welcome a retrial.
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New York
Joseph P. Ryan
General Sessions
Francis L. Valente
Ryan
International Longshoremen’s Assn
Ind
ILA
Guatemala
Tokyo Seabed Quake Jolts Tokyo With No Damage
A moderate quake struck Tokyo at 7 41 a m Saturday lasting about five minutes. The Central Meteorological Observatory reported the tremor with no damage noted.
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Tokyo
Central Meteorological Observatory
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