No Place To Sleep Narrows In Nominal Jail Mix Up
An itinerant man, detained in Nelsonville for almost 24 hours, was unlocked from the city jail after a day of heady entreaties and a pounding echoing from a nearby garage. Fire Chief Clarence Hall, serving as custodian, noted no prisoners were fed that day and the entry was regulated. The man left around 5 p.m., after which he chatted with Mayor Earl Hilleary and declined further lodging, quipping about the place.
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Nelsonville
Pokey
Clarence Hall
Earl Hilleary
High Court Rules on Payroll Fraud in Bramblett Case
The Supreme Court ruled against former Rep. Ernest Bramblett in his appeal over false payroll reports tied to a salary kickback. Justice Reed held the false statements law covers executive legislative and judicial branches, upholding the conviction for putting Mrs. Margaret Swanson on the payroll and pocketing her pay.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Ernest K. Bramblett
Calif
Bramblett
Justice Department
Legislative Branch
Justice Reed
Congress
Reds Charge U S Curtain Blame Campaign
Washington testimony before a House Appropriations subcommittee reveals Russia claims the United States preserves an Iron Curtain. Assistant secretary Livingston T. Merchant testified February 8 that Moscow aims to improve opinion by allowing more visitors and departures, while denying real changes in Soviet aims.
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Washington
Congress
Russia
United States
Livingston T. Merchant
House Appropriations
Merchant
Moscow
Europe
Sia
Five thousand chickens die in city warehouse fire
Columbus fire crews battled a two story East Walnut Street produce house blaze that caused about $25,000 in damage. Five thousand chickens owned by Farmers Produce Co. were lost with an estimated value between $10,000 and $15,000. Fire officials traced the blaze to an overheated air compressor.
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Columbus
Walnut St
Phil Beckman
Farmers Produce Co
Cutback Critics Power Doubted in Army Slashes Debate
Senator Chavez said critics of Army manpower cuts cannot block the Eisenhower administration's plan to trim the force. He leads an appropriations subcommittee hearing on about 2.5 billion dollars for the next fiscal year as Defense Secretary Wilson and Adm. Radford promise no further major cuts beyond those already scheduled. Ellender backs the administration, while the planned reductions would drop personnel from 3,114,000 to 2,859,000 by mid-1956.
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Tor Chavez
D-Nm
Eisenhower
Chavez
Defense Wilson
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Senator Ellender
D-La
Ellender
Senate
Polio Authority Expects Vaccine for 30 Million
New York polio officials predict drug firms will produce enough Salk vaccine by June 30 to immunize about 30 million people. Dr. Hart Van Riper of the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis says production will meet demand and prevent shortages. An effectiveness report is due April 12. if positive, a brief rush may occur, then normalize. The foundation has ordered vaccine for nine million for first and second graders. rest will go to doctors and drugstores. The group most at risk is Americans under 21, especially ages 5 to 8.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Hart van Riper
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
TVA Proposes To Raise Own Money To Expand
TVA Board recommends laws to issue bonds secured by power revenues and to lease-purchase units with distributors. It would pay the Treasury a return on power investments and have reinvestment options. The plan seeks about 150 million dollars per year to meet rising demand across Tennessee Valley states.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
Bureau of the Budget
Eisenhower
TVA
Federal
Treasury
Budget Bureau
Tennessee Valley
Tennessee
Kentucky
Alabama
Mississippi
Georgia
North Carolina
Virginia
Federal Treasury
Objectionable Comic Books Still Found Objectionable
Cincinnati committee rates 323 comics from newsstands finding 161 objectionable 41 some objection and 121 no objection. Nearly half the titles show disapproval with 131 bearing the Comics Magazine Association seal. The group notes crime sex language morals and wholesomeness as rating factors and says harmful depictions persist though women are less risqué.
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Cincinnati
Comics Magazine Association of America
Committee On Evaluation
Charles F. Murphy
Code of the Comics Magazine Association
China Reds Purge Leaders and Enacts Tight Party Discipline
Peiping radio said Kao Kang and Jao Shu-shih were purged as part of a crackdown after the 1949 takeover. The Communist Party announced new party control committees to strengthen discipline, replace old structures, and demand reporting of suspected violations. Mao presided at the Peiping conference.
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Tokyo
China
Peiping Radio
Communist Party
Kao Kang
Stalin
Red
Jao Shu-shih
Shanghai
Kao
Peiping
Jao
East China
Red Army
Communist Party of China
Mao Tzetung
Refugee Plan Near End Faces Deadline Puzzle
Washington claims President Eisenhower can complete admission of 214000 refugees by end of next year. R W Scott McLeod told a House subcommittee the full quota could be filled by December 31 1956 at current pace, contingent on requested 16 million dollars for the new fiscal year. He said about two of every three visa applications are granted.
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Washington
R. W. Scott McLeod
Congress
Eisenhower
McLeod
House Trons
Wife of Bevo Francis teammate hurt in car crash
Mrs Wayne Wiseman wife of Clarence Bevo Francis teammate in the Boston Whirlwinds was admitted to Holzer Hospital with a fractured left ankle multiple contusions and a left knee laceration after a Lawrence County Kentucky crash. She had taken her husband to Ashland Kentucky for induction into the armed services.
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Gallipolis
Wayne Wiseman
Clarence
Bevo) Francis
Boston Whirlwinds
Holzer Hospital
Lawrence County
Ashland
Armed Services
Radio Activity Levels In Water Much Lower Than Safe
A U S Public Health Service doctor said in Cincinnati that radio activity in drinking water after the 1954 hydrogen tests in the Pacific was about 500 times less than permissible levels. He added the level is far below what is found in naturally radioactive springs and hot springs.
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Cincinnati
United States
Pacific
U. S. Public Health Service
Judges Uphold New Immunity Law Facing Supreme Court
The U S Court of Appeals unanimously upholds a immunity based law forcing witnesses to testify in national security probes. Judge Jerome N Frank writes the decision while Chief Judge Charles E Clark dissents in part, urging protection of the Fifth Amendment. William Ludwig Ullman is jailed for contempt after refusing grand jury testimony under the statute. The panel hints the case should reach the Supreme Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
U. S. Court of Appeals
Charles E. Clark
Supreme Court
Jerome N. Frank
U.S. Supreme Court
Clark
Clarence Galston
Court of Appeals
William Ludwig Ullman
Air Force
Ullman
Washington
U. S
Edward Weinfeld
Congress
Martinsdale Snowbound as Storm Rages Across Central Montana
Martinsdale is snowbound with no snow on ground within 10 miles while the surrounding region endures the state's worst snowstorm in years. Drifts reach 12 feet and more than two feet fell in 48 hours, with all roads to Martinsdale drifted.
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Martinsdale
Mont
Montana
Five Day Forecast Warm Start With Scattered Showers
Temperatures will average near normal with highs near 60 in the south and around 60 north. Lows around 39 in the south and near TM north. Mild and slightly above normal midweek, turning cooler Thursday night into Friday, then mild again at week end. Scattered showers tonight and early Wednesday and again Thursday and Saturday, totaling about one quarter to one half inch.
Merger Request Won By Four Local School Boards
Gallipolis Vinton and Bidwell Springfield boards passed resolutions Monday night urging the Gallia County Citizens Committee to approve a merger of the two districts.
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Gallipolis
Vinton
Bidwell-Springfield
Boards of Education
Galla County
Citizens Committee
Four Buildings Damaged In Piqua Fire
A last night blaze heavily damaged four 100 year old frame business buildings in the public square of Piqua Ohio before firefighters brought it under control.
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Piqua
Ohio
Public Square
Britain Changes Prime Ministers Cabinet Meeting Signals Resignation
Sir Winston Churchill held a final cabinet gathering at No 10 Downing Street with ministers amid reports he would soon resign. He was expected to present his resignation to Queen Elizabeth II and hand power to Foreign Secretary Anthony Eden.
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Britain
Winston Churchill
Downing St
London
Anthony Eden
Buckingham Palace
Queen Elizabeth II
Eden
St. James’ Park
Churchill
Conservative
House of Commons
Commons
Elizabeth
British Broadcasting Corp
BBC
Winston
Duke of Edinburgh
No. 10
Far East Shooting War Not Near Says Stevens
U S Army Secretary Robert T Stevens, after a Formosa visit, said a shooting war is not imminent though intelligence briefings show Red buildup near offshore islands. He noted no need for American ground forces and considered increasing the American Military Assistance Advisory Group by about one third. A Nationalist spokesman called China News reports false about Red gunboats near Matsu. Formosan troops appear to have strong morale and health.
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Taipei
Formosa
U.S. Army
Robert T. Stevens
Honk Kong
United States
Matus
Billy Graham Preaches to Glasgow Crowd After Illness
Billy Graham resumes his six week Scotland Crusade in Kelvin Hall Glasgow drawing 16 650 attendees with 439 at the invitation. Earlier in Edinburgh he addressed a rally of hundreds of British service members at Bedford Barracks as his crusade totals rise to 337 760 across Glasgow venues.
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Glasgow
Scotland
Billy Graham
Kelvin Hall
Graham
Edinburgh
Bedford Barracks
Judge rejects psychiatric test for jurors in robbery case
Indianapolis criminal court judge Saul I Rabb refused a defense bid to examine jurors by a psychiatrist. He noted several grounds to bar jurors but ruled no law requires jurors to be sane.
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Indianapolis
Saul I. Rabb
Woman reports break-in by boyfriend over dog and teeth
In Moline Illinois a woman called police saying her boyfriend forced entry to her apartment and stole her dog bed clothes and even her teeth.
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Moline
Ill
George Raps GOP Sheet On Yalta Papers
Senator George of Georgia blasted a Republican document denouncing FDRs Yalta decisions as rabble-rousing yet predicted it would fade as political fodder. Garland Goldwater warned the memo would signal a shift in 1956, while Bridges said GOP speakers would receive the material for campaigns.
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George
Yalta
Washington
D-Ga
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Goldwater
Rariz
GOP
Senator Bridges
R-Nh
Senate
Roosevelt
Russia
Churchill Puff and Eden Rise in British Government Change
Churchill planned to resign with Eden as head of government, with adjustments staged around a queenly audience. Eden appeared at Downing Street as public anticipation built, while the BBC awaited formal notice amid a London newspaper strike impacting mass dissemination.
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Churchill
Eden
House of Commons
Winston
London
X rays target brain switchboard to slow cancer growth
Chicago report notes that neurosurgeon Dr. Arthur Arnold and colleagues use X-rays to disrupt the hypothalamus the brain’s emotional switchboard. They aim to curb cancers such as breast and prostate by halting hormone signals via the pituitary gland, offering a potential treatment path despite pituitary resistance to radiation.
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Chicago
Arthur Arnold
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Dr. Arnold
Arnold
Merriam Challenges Daley In Chicago Mayoral Race
Republican alderman Robert E. Merriam 36 from the University of Chicago South Side district quits the Democratic Party to run for mayor against Richard J. Daley. Merriam warns an Daley victory would signal a wide-open crime era. If elected, this would be Chicago’s first Republican mayor since 1931.
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Chicago
Robert E
Bob) Merriam
University of Chicago
South Side
Merriam
Richard J. Daley
Cook County
William Hale Thompson
More Police Urges FBI on Police Strength Across Cities
FBI Director J Edgar Hoover told Washington that large cities have not boosted police strength to match rising crime. He noted average 15 officers per 1000 inhabitants in 10 000 to 25 000 populations rise to 1.7 in mid sized cities and 2.4 in cities over 250 000. He urged to increase forces to safeguard citizens.
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Washington
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Soapy Williams Strengthens Michigan Lead in Vote Totals
Detroit dispatch reports Governor G Mennen Williams leading Michigan's Democratic state ticket after 3608 of 4783 precincts reported. Williams, seeking a fourth two year term, appears to hold strong control with major offices leaning Democratic. A separate Washington note cites Walter Robertson urging continued morale of Nationalist forces on Formosa as in U. S. selfish interests.
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Detroit
G. Mennen
William
Wayne
Michigan
Williams
Washington
Walter S. Robertson
Formosa
Old McDonald Auction Sparks Farm Sale In Messenger Ads
The notice advertises a farm and equipment auction as owner Mr McDonald cites retirement. It urges readers to check daily farm auction listings in the Messenger want ads and to call 31242 for information about selling or buying.
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Mr. McDonald
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