OKs Visit In GI Case Focuses on Girard Trial
Washington aides meet Ottawa Illinois delegation on Monday to push U S move to bar Japanese court trial for Army Specialist 3 William S Girard. Rep Haley and local supporters urge reversal and protest the jurisdiction while Girard dismisses his Japanese lawyer over plans to brief Prime Minister Kishi.
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Civil rights votes shift amid jury trial debate
A U S House aide says civil rights supporters have enough votes to defeat a southern backed jury trial amendment, while Rep Bolling notes the split with Democrats outside the South after Rep Powell's letter. Rep Wayne Hays denounces Powell as scurrilous and accuses him of dividing Negro citizens.
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Eisenhower Foreign Aid Bill Cleared Senate Panel With Cuts
Senate Foreign Relations Committee approved the foreign aid bill cutting over 200 million from the request. The measure authorizes 3.64 billion for next year with 500 million reappropriated and a 2 billion three-year loan program for economic development abroad. A floor fight over authorization vs appropriations looms.
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U S Students Released By Hungary After Arrest
The U S Consulate in Vienna took their passports and freed two South Carolina students Mike A Gilbert of Walterboro and Warren William Hair of North Augusta after jail in Hungary since May 26. They returned to Austria and stay in a Vienna lodging while the State Department decides if they may continue their hitchhiking tour or must return home. Consular officials were angered by their statement we might do it again.
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Dulles plane loses engine lands safely at Anacostia
Secretary of State Dulles was aboard a military plane that lost power on approach to Washington. The pilot diverted to Anacostia Naval Air Station to avoid crossing the Potomac, landing safely after the engine emitted smoke. Dulles laughed off the incident, saying he did not know there was a problem until landing.
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Singing Sensation Roberta Sherwood Tops Night Club Fame
Feature notes Roberta Sherwood, once a housewife, rising to nightclub and television stardom in a breakthrough celebrity profile. Also references broadcasting and entertainment context with promotional tone.
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Galiuro Fire Halted in Arizona Mountains
Fire fighters halted a 2000 acre brush fire in the Galiuro mountains near San Manuel after four days of effort. About 250 forest rangers Indians and prisoners fought the flames with containment on the south west and eastern edges and a target stop by 6 p.m. No injuries reported and officials warned visitors to Mt Lemmon to avoid fires amid dry woods and winds.
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Norman P. Weeden
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Suit Urged On Indian State Tax
Phoenix Attorney General Robert Morrison urges a test case to decide if Arizona Indians must pay state income taxes. He states individuals on or off reservations are subject to tax, while lands and timber on federal trusts remain exempt per the U.S. Supreme Court ruling.
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Boy in Critical Condition After Accidental Shooting
Richard Simons, 13, of 416 N Desert Straverue, Tucson, was hospitalized in critical condition at Tucson Medical Center after an accidental shooting. A .32 caliber bullet entered his right eye and lodged behind his left eye.
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Eisenhower Attacks Democrats as Republicans Rally
President Eisenhower delivered a sharp rebuke of Democrats labeling them as easy spending and inflationary and warned GOP leaders to back his 71.8 billion dollar budget. He aired the clash at a two day Republican conference after returning from the Saratoga cruise. wallet
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Sheet Metal Workers Win Pay Raise in Arizona Contract
A two year contract for 700 Arizona sheet metal workers raises wages to 3.28 dollars per hour starting June 16, with 7 cents banked as vacation savings, plus scheduled raises every six months and covering Locals 359 Phoenix and 426 Tucson with 72 contracting firms.
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Warden Searches for Prisoner’s Buried Victim in Arizona
Florence report details Warden Frank Eyman leading a search for a buried corpse linked to convict Donald E. Fuller who claimed stabbing a fellow escapee, John Terry May 26. Investigator Charles Coates cites a lie detector test while Fuller and accomplice remain at large. Terry’s fate unresolved.
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John Higgins
Donald E. Fuller
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Red) Terry
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Charles Coates
Pima County
Coates
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Higgins
Rockets Urged To Check On Fallout From H-Bombs
A U S Weather Bureau scientist proposed high altitude solid propellant rockets to drop meteorological instruments to 200000 feet and track radioactive debris. Dr. Harry Wexler testified before a Senate House atomic energy subcommittee on the need for better data on fallout behavior and stratospheric winds and temperatures.
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U. S. Weather Bureau
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Senate
House Atomic Energy Subcommittee
Dozen Nations Seek U S Farm Aid in Surplus Sale Plan
Nearly a dozen nations await Congress approval for the Eisenhower administration to sell another one billion dollars in surplus farm products for foreign currencies. Poland Spain Israel Italy Pakistan Japan India Yugoslavia and others press for aid as food shortages loom. The House sidelines a bill to authorize another sale while the Senate has passed it.
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Heat to linger with 100 degree day forecast
The forecast calls for near 100 degrees tomorrow with a low around 70. No wind or showers expected and temperatures to hold steady. Yuma led yesterday at 105 degrees as heat stays in the region.
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Senate probes Cross to testify on Bakers union links
Senate rackets investigators said Bakers Union President James G. Cross will testify under oath about ties to a convicted prostitute identified as Mrs. Kay Lower of Los Angeles. Witnesses cited fund transfers to Lower via Cross's Los Angeles aides and allegations of goon hires and a beating of a boy during bakery picketing.
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