Anti Reds Strike Guatemala City Port Seized
Reported invasion by Guatemalan exiles of 5,000 men crossed from Honduras and seized Porto Barrios. Rebels strafed Guatemala City presidential palace and attacked Zacapa rail hub. San Jose Pacific port city reportedly under siege and may have fallen. Official accounts were scarce and unofficial.
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Tegucigalpa
Honduras
Caribbean
Porto Barrios
Guatemala City
Zacapa
Pacific
San Jose
Guatemala
Guatemalan Revolt Escalates Across Country
Reports say censorship tightened as rebel forces moved toward the capital and seized border towns. Exiles claim air raids on Guatemala City while Col. Carlos Castillo Armas leads anti-Communist factions with thousands in arms funding from Poland and Honduran actions drawing U.S. concern.
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el Salvador
Guatemala City
Quiet Cananea Surges With Talks Ahead of Copper Fiesta
Cananea Mexico reports calm while civil and military forces stay alert for the Fiesta del Cobre as 300 to 400 locals gather at the plaza and 3,000 listen to agitators. Officials refuse to discuss June 8 affair. some Americans stay off streets as 200 soldiers aid forest-fire fight nearby.
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Cananea
Tucson
Plaza Municipal
Juan Camparan
Cananea Cattle Co
Mexico
Senator Lester Hunt Dies By Own Action In Senate Office
Senator Lester Hunt of Wyoming died from a self inflicted gunshot wound in his Senate office. Police said he acted due to ill health and earlier health concerns after a Bethesda naval hospital checkup. Governor Rogers indicated a Republican appointment to fill the vacancy could shift Senate control.
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Washington
Lester C. Hunt
D-Wyo
Hunt
Bethesda
Naval Hospital
Senate
Richard Felber
Metropolitan Police
Benjamin Pecson
Casualty Hospital
Guernsey
Wyo
C. J. Rogers
Wyoming
Sen. Hunt
GOP
Senator Hunt Dies After Kidney Cancer Battle
Reporters said Senator Hunt died at 12 32 this afternoon after a fight with a malignant growth in the kidney. Colleagues described him as friendly and amiable though he kept illness private while planning today’s senate action. Senator Butler of Nebraska said Hunt was under treatment for cancer in the kidney.
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Hunt
Senate
Sen
Hugh Butler
Rneb
Senate Library
Arizona High Temps Hit National Hot Seat
In Tucson the temperature reached 106 degrees, a new record for the date, as Gila Bend posted 108. Morning low was 73 with statewide readings including Phoenix 106 and Flagstaff 84. Other spots showed Douglas 102 Prescott 84 Winslow 101.
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Arizona
Tucson
Mercury
Gila Bend
Phoenix
Flagstaff
Douglas
Prescott
Winslow
Eden and Smith to depart Geneva talks
British Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden and U S Undersecretary Walter Bedell Smith will leave Geneva tomorrow to report to President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles. Smith flies to Washington to brief on Indo China peace talks while Eden returns via Paris to meet Prime Minister Churchill and Mendes France before a House debate.
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Anthony Eden
U.S
Walter Bedell Smith
U. S
Smith
Washington
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Indochina
Czechoslovakia
U. Alexis Johnson
Eden
London
Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
Mendes- France
House of Commons
Winston Churchill
State Dulles
United States
Promoter Tom Bailey to Surrender in Fraud Case
Tucson promoter Tom Bailey 60 plans to surrender early next week to face bogus check charges and 12 to 15 anticipated fraud complaints. County officials say more allegations may follow after a month-long probe into his TV movie investment scheme that left investors owed up to about 500000.
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Seth Tom Bailey
Tucson
Bailey
Mt. Lemmon
Atto
Morris K. Udall
Udall
Norman R. Horwitz
Tucson Better Business Bureau
Charles Coates
Phoenix
Los Angeles
Chicago
Wisconsin
Texas
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Horwitz
Hollywood
Harry Mann
Raymond L. Kuns
N. Cresta Loma
J. D. Hickey
Cov L. Purcell
Lawrence D’antonio
Mendes France forms broad cabinet as indochina talks loom
Paris premier Pierre Mendes France names Edgar Faure as finance minister and Francois Mitte rand as interior minister while keeping the foreign ministry for himself. Gen Pierre Koenig takes defense as the new cabinet seeks to end Indochina fighting within a month. The move draws U.S. concern over possible armistice terms and EDC renegotiation prospects. President Rene Coty is briefed at the Elysee.
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Pierre Mendes-France
Foreign Ministry
Edgar Faure
Francois Mitterand
Democratic and Socialist Union of Resistance
UDSR
Pierre Koening
Rene Coty
Elysee Palace
Mendes-France
Geneva
France
Georges Bidault
Robert Schuman
United States
U. S
Indochina
Free World
Germany
Eisenhower
Italy
Mule Mountains Fires Break Out West of Bisbee
Three wildfires raged in the Mule Mountains west of Bisbee with one blaze exceeding 200 acres as volunteers and county jail prisoners fought the largest fire. Sheriff Howard blamed drifting sparks from U S Highway 80 as nearby ranch homes remained at risk. Farther south near Cananea the Los Ajos fire, now three weeks old, was still out of control after burning more than 70 000 acres.
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Bisbee
Mule Mountains
Here
Jack Howard
Cananea
Los Ajos
Guatemalan Protest Reports Invasion At UN Council
A Guatemalan embassy spokesman said Guatemala protested to the United Nations Security Council over an invasion of Guatemalan territory. He reported mercenary troops reached El Florido near the Honduran border and that planes bombed Guatemala City and four other cities.
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Washington
United Nations Security Council
Carlos Castillo Armas
Tegucigapa
Guatemala City
Guillermo Toriello
Guatemala
Pacific
Caribbean
Puerto Barrios
Carib
el Florido
Furgol Maintains Narrow Open Lead in National Open Final
Ed Furgol held a one stroke edge over Dick Mayer in the late stages of the National Open at Baltusrol as Hogan and Snead faltered. Furgol posted a 71 in the opening round of today’s twin final rounds to reach 212 after 54 holes with Mayer at 202 and Littler Middlecoff Mangrum at 213.
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Associated Press
Springfield
N.J
Ed Furgol
Dick Mayer
St. Petersburg
Fla
Furgol
Mayer
Baltusrol
Ben Hogan
Sam Snead
Hogan
Snead
Gene Littler
Cary Middlecoff
Lioyd Mangrum
Marsin Held For Trial In Kidnapping Case
Daniel J. Marsin an unemployed welder was ordered held for superior court trial on a kidnapping for ransom charge after the abduction and release of Evelyn Ann Smith wife of Phoenix industrialist Her husband Herbert paid 75000 as directed by notes. The money was found near the payoff scene in the Superstition mountains. Marsin bond set at 10000 despite defense requests to lower it. County attorney William P. Mahoney Jr. said the evidence at the preliminary hearing was serious and weighty.
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Phoenix
Daniel J. Marsin
Marsin
Evelyn Ann Smith
Herbert
Superstition
al J. Flood
Willian P. Mahoney Jr
Maricopa County
State's Plumbers Get Pay Increases
The Associated Plumbing Contractors of Arizona announced that about 1,100 AFL plumbers in the state will receive 20 cent per hour pay raises. The new rate reaches 2.95 dollars per hour.
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Phoenix
Associated Plumbing Contractors of
Arizona
AFL
Moscow Radio Blames U S Hates Indians
A Moscow radio broadcast in Spanish claimed the United States harbors a long history of hostility to Indians. It charged U S monopolists with plotting a new crime against Guatemala and accused the U S State Department of hating Guatemala, a country with a 75 percent Indian population.
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London
Moscow Radio Today
United States
Guatemala
Latin America
U. S
U. S. State Department
Eisenhower Reviews Guatemala Anti-Communist Uprising Report
President Eisenhower today received a State Department report on the anti-Communist uprising in Guatemala. White House press secretary James C. Hagerty said the president is very interested and kept abreast of developments by the State Department.
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Washington
Eisenhower
State Department
Guatemala
James C. Hagerty
White House
United Fruit Lands Redistribution Sparks Guatemala Tension
The United Fruit Co has lost large land holdings now held by Indian peasants. The United States faces accusations of preparing a provocation against Guatemala to recover the lands and re impose control over Guatemalan workers.
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United Fruit Co
Guatemala
Arizona to Take $50 Million in Taxes
The state tax commission estimated Arizona will collect about 50 million dollars in the fiscal year ending June 30 from sales, luxuries, income, and property taxes. The tally would exceed last year by about 3 million dollars.
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Phoenix
Arizona
Tax Commission
Falsie Mustaches Are Wow At Ascot
London reports a quirky Ascot raceday trend with men donning false facial hair. Capricious fashion spurred whisker orders at one guinea each, prompting witty comments from Gerald Rex of the theatrical trade. Some shoppers sought dyed or eyebrow additions to complete the look.
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Ascot
London
Gerald Rex
Tucson Tonight and Tomorrow Event Lineup
Muscular junior Mr America finals at Tucson High School auditorium at 7 30 p m plus open voter registration at Fair Trade and Swanway Shopping Center. Baseball game Hi Corbett field 8 p m Tucson Cow Boys vs Mexicali. Corral theater Front Page at Santa Rita Rendezvous 8 30 p m and square dancing with Butch Nelson Catalina Junior High patio midday registration at St Josephs Craycroft Road.
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Fair Trade Drug Store
S. Sixth Ave
Swanway
Broadway
Swan Road
Tucson High School
Tucson Cowboys
Mexicali
Hi Corbett Field
Corral Theater
Santa Rita Hotel
Evening dances and theater at Tucson venues
7 30 P M square dance at Old Tucson within Tucson Mountain Park. 8 30 P M corral theater at the Rendezvous room in Rita hotel.
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Old Tucson
Tucson Mountain Park
Corral Theater
Santa Rita Hotel
Index Suspect in gold case demands hearing
A suspect in the gold case seeks a court hearing as part of the ongoing investigation. Details on dates or participants are limited in the readable text.
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Pyle
Ray McNally
Sacred Heart Church
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