Wilson's 127-Wing Air Force Plan Faces Criticism
Sen Kilgore labels the proposed 127 wing Air Force funding request a turnabout as Secretary Wilson says the Defense Department will seek funds to build toward 127 wings by mid-1956. Senators Potter and Welker praise planning and air power gains while Kilgore warns of a near reversal from Truman era goals. Talbot cites Japan rebuilding duties and U S air defense role in New Orleans speech.
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Washington
Sen
Kilgore
D-Wva
Wilson
Defense Department
Congress
Naval Aviation
Potter
R-Mich
Welker
R-Idaho
Eisenhower
Secretary of Defense
Indianaolis
Truman
Air Force
Harold Talbott
United States
Japan
New Orleans
Talbott
U. S
Atomic Plant Office Clerks Vote to Strike Action
In Portsmouth Ohio a meeting of atomic plant office workers could trigger a construction tie up at the Portsmouth plant where about 13000 employees work. The AFL Office Employes International Union group authorized a strike if no contract is reached with Peter Kiewit Sons Co prime contractor. If office staff strike construction workers may refuse to cross picket lines. They seek 2 dollars per day travel pay matching the crafts.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
Portsmouth Area
Peter Kiewit Sons’ Co
George P. Firth
Washington ,D. C
AFL
Missing Son Shot To Death In Lexington
George Renfro arrived in Lexington to find his son William Delmer Renfro missing for two weeks. He discovered the 26 year old Madison County farmer shot in the head and stuffed in his own car trunk. Police said they had no clues as investigators pursued leads.
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Lexington
George Renfro
William Delmer Renfro
Madison County
Renfro
Bombings tied to union faction in Columbus arrests
Police say eight CIO UAW Local 927 members were detained over North American Aviation bombings. Four confessed, none charged yet, but authorities say four blasts on Nov 30 and Dec 1 were solved and a fifth near. Investigators stress the union did not sanction the acts and the culprits acted to intimidate scabs. Each suspect faces possible prison terms on property destruction charges.
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Columbus
Ohio
North American Aviation, Inc
Cio-United Auto Workers Local 927
George W. Scholer
Scholer
Thomas A. Scully
Carpenter
Reynnldsburg
North American
Cio-Uaw
Fresno
Los Angeles
Volscan lands planes at 120 per hour at Boston
Air Force scientists unveiled Volscan a new electronic device that speeds aircraft arrivals at major airports. Developed in secrecy over five years it computes approach courses and spaces landings every 30 seconds within a 60 mile range eliminating the stacking delays.
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Boston
Air Force
Wage Pact Signed Between Unions and Lockheed
In Burbank California the AFL International Association of Machinists and LockheedAircraft Corp reached a wage agreement covering 27 000 employees.
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Burbank, Calif
AFL International Assn. of Machinists
Lockheed Aircraft Corp
Flames gut two story home killing mother and three children
In Tiffin Ohio a two story frame house fire killed Mrs Helen Craver Fitzpatrick 38 and three of her children Harry 4 Timmy 2 and Karen 1. Georgiana Craver 5 was seriously burned and James Cravers a foster child was rescued. The husband John Fitzpatrick 41 said he started the gas oven then slept.
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Tiffin
Ohio
Helen Craver Fitzpatrick
Harry Craver
Timmy
Karen
Georgiana Craver
Mercy Hospital
John Fitzpatrick
Fitzpatrick
James Cravers
Damage suit settled over stump blast injuring teens
Charleston West Virginia two contractors agreed to pay 174000 in damages after a heavy tree stump was blasted into an open convertible injuring Glenna Douglas 15 of Chelyan and James Russell Silman 17 of Dry Branch during clearing work for the West Virginia Turnpike near Ponda.
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Charleston
W. Va
West Virginia
Ponda
Morrison-Knudsen Co., Inc
Ralph E. Mills Co
Kentucky
Glenna Douglas
Chelyan
James Russell Silman
Dry Branch
Lausche Burke Announce Runs Prompt Republican Kal
In Columbus observers say Republicans may oppose Gov. Lausche and Sen. Burke with a Bender Rhodes ticket. Lausche seeks a fifth term as governor and Burke would seek the expired Taft Senate seat. Primary action may decide the slate with Rhodes and Bender as possible contenders against the Democratic pair.
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Frank J. Lausche
Sen
Thomas A. Burke
Lausche
Ohio
Burke
Robert A. Taft
U. S Senate
Record
Cleveland
Cleveland Plain Dealer
Ike And Western Leaders Pledge Unity On Global Peace Plans
In Bermuda the Big Three Eisenhower Churchill and Laniel issued a communique urging early talks with Russia toward a Berlin Big Four foreign ministers meeting, Korean settlement steps, and peaceful reforms in Indochina, while resisting a Big Five including Red China and outlining Korea settlement principles.
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Russia
Big Four
Berlin
Germany
Austria
Europe
Eisenhower
United Nations
Churchill
Laniel
China
North
South Korea
Korea
Woman Admits Spy Activity At Ft Monmouth
Senator McCarthy resumes hearings to reveal espionage claims at the Army Signal Corps labs in Ft Monmouth New Jersey. Secretary Stevens says Army inquiry found no recent successful spying at Ft Monmouth, though earlier incidents may have occurred. The senator alleged a woman questioned had committed espionage there.
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Washington
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Army Signal Corps
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Army
Robert T. Stevens
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Dancing Girl Texas Playboy Call It Quits
Houston report notes the divorce of Shep Abdullah King and Samia Gamal after about two years of marriage. The match followed his conversion to Islam for the union and aligns with Billy Graham’s forecast that the union would not last six months.
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Houston
Tex
Texas
Shepherd Abdullah King
Samia Gamal
Billy Graham
King
Nile
Graham
Ohio Soldier Tied To $10,000 Theft
CAMP PICKETT Va. More than $10,000 is missing from the hospital fund of the U S Army hospital here, the provost marshal office reported Monday. Federal Bureau of Investigation agents and police were asked to help locate Army sergeant in charge of funds identified as Arthur R Newport 45 of Crestline Ohio.
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Camp Pickett
U. S. Army Hospital
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Arthur R. Newport
Crestline
Ohio
Death of William Clooney at 86 in Cincinnati room
William Clooney aged 86 died Monday in a gas filled room in Cincinnati. He was a great uncle of singer Rosemary Clooney and his death is noted in the local section.
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Cincinnati
Rosemary Cloone
William Clooney
Reds blast last offer for parley at Panmunjom
The Allies offered a final of fer for a Korean peace conference but the Communists rejected it as garbage. South Korea refused to attend. Arthur H. Dean said there is a time limit but gave no duration. Diplomats meet again Wednesday. Thirty more South Korean POWs refused to return home, bringing the tally to 190 to 0 in favor of communism. more interviews were scheduled for Wednesday.
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Panmunjom
U. S
South Korea
Arthur H. Dean
Rescue Crews Hunt for More Tornado Dead
Rescue teams in Vicksburg Mississippi continued the search for victims of a tornado that killed at least 31. Crews worked in a Negro residential area near the National Military Park as the disaster area designation spread to 15 counties across four states. President Eisenhower declared the city a disaster area and federal loans may take time to become available.
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Twister
Vicksburg
Mississippi River
Miss
National Military Park
Eisenhower
Katherine Howard
The
Small Business Administration
Misssippi
Texas
Louisiana
Arkansas
Draft Dodger Hid 3 Years in Attic in New Jersey
John Krasno, 35, spent over three years in his attic to avoid the draft starting June 25 1960. He lived a hermit life, spoke to no one in his family, and ate only when the house was empty. He was in a mental hospital Monday after emerging from the attic shelter.
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South Plainfield
N. J
John Krasno
Krasno
William
John
Bus Drivers Postpone Walkout in Zanesville Talks
In Zanesville Ohio 45000 residents avoid a planned bus strike after 40 drivers and 3 mechanics of Local S37 AFL meet with transit officials and a federal mediator to discuss a new contractor. Carol Troutt four died after being hit by a car Friday night.
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Zanesville
Ohio
S37
AFL Teamsters Union
Zanesville Rapid Transit Co
Carol Troutt
Democratic Predicts 40 Seat House Victory
Stephen Mitchell, Democratic national chairman, forecast the party will win about 40 seats to 30 in the next House, citing national security, farmer fairness, and reducing living costs. He warned Senate races pose tougher odds, saying control depends on arithmetic and many seats at stake.
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Philadelphia
Stephen Mitchell
Mitchell
Senate
Democrats
Republic
House
Victims Shot To Death In Basement Apartment Fire
Chicago authorities planned to press charges Monday against Vincent Ciucci 28 a grocer whose wife Anne 28 and children Virginia 8 Angeline 4 and Vincent Jr 9 were found dead after a basement apartment fire Saturday Autopsy showed one gunshot in each victim Coroner McCarron would seek a murder verdict from a coroner's jury before sending the case to the grand jury
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Chicago
Cook County
Vincent Ciucci
Anne
Virginia
Angeline
Vincent Jr
Walter FE. McCarron
Five Day Forecast for Ohio Temperatures Stay Near Normal
Temperatures will average near normal with highs from 39 to 45 and lows 25 to 28. A colder trend arrives midweek, then turns colder over the weekend. Rain is expected Wednesday with a transition to snow Friday and Saturday totaling about half an inch.
World awaits dramatic plea to break atomic impasse
United Nations delegates await President Eisenhower in New York for a dramatic address aiming to break the seven year deadlock over atomic energy control. He returns from Bermuda to press talks with Dag Hammarskjold and prepare for high level power discussions on disarmament and global atom control.
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United Nations
N.Y
Eisenhower
General Assembly
Russia
Assembly
Bermuda
Britain
Churchill
France
Georges Bidault
U. S
la Guardia Field
Dag Hammarskjold
Hammarskjold
Bernard Baruch
Segregation Case Enters 2nd Round Before Supreme Court
Attorneys argue again on whether the 14th Amendment empowers the Supreme Court to order integrated public schooling. Debate centers on the separate but equal doctrine, court power to mandate integration, and whether 14th Amendment bans segregation.
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Washington
Supreme Court
School Girl Found Slain Near Pee Dee River
The 15-year-old high school sophomore’s body was found in a shallow grave near Pampleco South Carolina. Authorities extend the search for the head and remaining remains to a fish pond two miles away. A bloody undershirt found in a nearby tobacco barn suggests the head and possibly the body of 22-year-old Harvey Allen may be in the pond water.
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Pamplico
S. C
Betty Clair Cain
Pee Dee
Sgt
Roy Williams
South Carolina
Law Enforcement Division
Harvey Allen
Fact-Finding Board Hinted To Settle Newspaper Strike
Federal mediators proposed a formula to end the strike affecting six New York newspapers. The plan centers on creating a fact finding board, with Denise Burke and William Mapel present as the parties discussed the proposal. If the union ratifies, pickets could be withdrawn within an hour.
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New York
Walter A. Maggiolo
AFLC
Maggiolo
U. S
Denise Burke
William Mapel
Publishers Assn
New York City
Burke
Mapel
Woman Wounded by Ex-Lover at GM Plant Parking Lot
In Elyria Ohio Miss Alta Lee Pugh 27 was wounded in the shoulder and back when ex lover Kenneth Miner 31 fired a shotgun at her in the General Motors plant parking lot. Miner then killed himself after a third shot. Both were GM employees.
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Elyria
Ohio
Alta Lee Pugh
Kenneth Miner
Miner
General Motors
Miss Pugh
Chicago Girl Snaps Plane Travel Mark
Pamela Martin, a Chicago girl, completed a world round trip in 90 hours and 59 minutes aboard United Air Lines. She flew from Midway Airport starting Friday noon and had only 10 hours of sleep on the journey.
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Chicago
Pamela Martin
United Air
Midway Airport
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