Hall Says Democrats Soften Ike Attacks
National Chairman Leonard Hall told Republicans the left wing in America shows a subdued tone as predictions of a GOP defeat in 1954 fade. He blamed gloom on figures like Walter Reuther and Adlai Stevenson, while noting Ike's legislative program. The GOP outlined a $3.8 million budget for 1954 and aims to double 1952 donor totals as Lincoln Day events loom.
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Leonard W. Hall
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America
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Eisenhower
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Walter Reuther
Adlai Stevenson
Paul Douglas
Wayne Morse
CIO
Ilinois
Oregon
Republican National Committee
GOP
National Finance Committee
Ailing Pontiff Weakens. Vatican Reports
Vatican announces Pope Pius X is too weak to eat, with his private physician Galeazzi-Lisi planning further X ray tests to check the gastric area and related organs. He has been ill for over ten days as officials note fluctuating prospects and rising concern.
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Pius
Ricccardo Galeazzi-Lisi
Riccardo Galeazzi-Lisi
Explosions Hit San Francisco From Power Line Failure
A 11 000 volt line fault at a substation sparked blasts across San Francisco. Sewer gas ignited, manholes vented flames and covers were blown off. Two policemen, Jack Meehan and John Martinovich, were hospitalized with concussion. Pacific Gas and Electric initiated an emergency crew deployment of 100 workers. Power outages lasted up to an hour as investigators pursued the cause.
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Jack Meehan
John Martinovich
Pacfic Gas & Electric Co
Bingo Type Pinball Machines Are Taboo in Ohio
Columbus report says bingo type pinball machines are forbidden on liquor permit premises as gambling devices. Board ruling in a Stick's Place test case at Wauseon Fulton County holds these machines are not games of skill. Officials estimate about 4000 such machines operate in Ohio.
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Ohio
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Wauseon
Fulton County
Liquor Department
Truman to Address Real Issues in American Politics
New York reports Truman will deliver the Real Issues in American Politics address at the annual Roosevelt Day dinner. The program airs on CBS Tonight at 10 35 P M.
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Harcy
Truman
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Twenty Years of Treason Debates McCarthy Speech Truth Kits
The Democratic National Committee said it will distribute truth kits to editors and workers as Sen. McCarthy tours the campaign trail. They accuse McCarthy of being careless with the truth away from Washington while claiming Democratic administrations were twenty years of treason. DNC Chairman Stephen Mitchell also denounces Republican slander and calls out belief that big business policy aids the country.
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Democratic National Committee
Sen. McCarthy
R-Wis
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Charleston
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Wisconsin
Cheyenne
Wyo
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Democratic Party
Postal Dept to Test Cart in City Mail Routes
The Postoffice Department tests a two wheeled pushcart to ease routes, costing 28 dollars and carrying two loaded mail bags. Maurice Feimster testified before the House Appropriations Committee detailing innovations like curbside snorkel mail boxes and throwaway sacks. You still have to lick your own stamps.
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House Appropriations Committee
NYC Cut Fares Between Major Ohio Cities
The New York Central Railroad announced a fare cut for round-trip coach travel among Cleveland Cincinnati Dayton Springfield Columbus Galion and other points. Fares drop about one third to roughly 2 cents per mile from 3.45 cents, in a trial through July 31 beginning February 15.
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Brando Faces Suit Over Missing Work Report
Hollywood studio 20th Century Fox says it will sue Marion Brando for failure to report for work on a film. Damages sought will reflect losses from delayed production as stated in a Fox statement.
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Marion Brando
20Th Century-Fox
AFL Considers Welfare and Pension Rules Draft
Miami Beach report says AFL leaders may propose a code for union welfare and pension fund management to counter Eisenhower’s call for broader Congressional safeguards. The plan faces hurdles as AFL member unions remain autonomous in operating their own trust funds.
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Eisenhower
AFL Executive Council
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Atom Cannons Brace Allies
The United States plans to send an additional six gun unit of 280 millimeter atomic cannons to Germany within three months as part of beefing up Western Europe’s defense line. The first atomic gun battalion was sent last fall and more units, trained at Fort Sill Oklahoma, are arriving. The 264th Field Artillery Battalion will be the next unit deployed, joining earlier atomic fire support forces in Europe.
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Okla
Two Polio Victim Brothers Die in Fire
In Providence Rhode Island two young polio victims perished Thursday night in a bedroom fire. Eugene Blais five with a brace on his arms and Delbert four were sons of Mr and Mrs Eugene Blais. Fire officials blamed the blaze on a defective oil heater.
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Eugene Blais
Delbert
Milton Berle Declared Persona Non Grata at Stork Club
New York report says comedian Milton Berle has been banned from the Stork Club by owner Sherman Billingsley. Berle allegedly offstage behavior mirrors his onstage act, prompting the club action.
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Milton
Miltie Berle
Sherman Billingsley
Dancer Irene Castle Enzinger Offers to Be Bitten by Rabid Dog
Irene Castle Enzinger, famed dancer and founder of Orphans of The Storm shelter, says she will take a rabies bite to prove vaccination folly and would stake 5000 dollars. Dr. Bundesen warns such a bite would likely be fatal. the shelter notes 26 years with no human rabies from a dog bite.
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Irene Castle Enzinger
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Herman N. Bundesen
Chicago Board of Health
Illinois Department of Agriculture
Deerfield
166 Postal Employes Dismissed for Security Reasons
Postmaster General Summerfield told Congress that 166 postal employees were discharged as security risks with hundreds more under investigation. The service employs about 500,000. Rep. Sieminski urged scrutiny of broad security label use, noting it as watered down phrasing for terminations.
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Summerfield
Congress
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Summerfields
House Appropriations
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Dnd
David H. Stephens
Post Office
Eisenhower
Postal Rate Hike Charged by Eisenhower Era Push
Republicans split over pressure from the Eisenhower administration as the House Post Office Committee votes 13 to 9 to raise out of town letter postage from 3 to 4 cents. The measure aims to boost postal revenues by 255.76 million dollars yearly and would raise first class mail by one cent, affecting Christmas cards, while local and drop letter charges remain unchanged.
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House
GOP
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Union Dispute Forces A&P To Close Stores
The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co. will close indefinitely about 153 stores in northeastern Pennsylvania and lower New York due to a strike by 200 members of Scranton local 229, AFL warehouse men, affecting deliveries to the stores.
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Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
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New York
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Night Club Owner Sentenced in Newark Robbery Case
Newark Ohio A three judge panel sentenced night club owner James L Rizzo 38 to one to seven years in the Ohio Penitentiary for taking 400 dollars from Don Burt a patron at his Broadway Night Club December.
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James L. Rizzo
Don Burt
Broadway
Put Yourself in His Place About Newspaper Carrier
A plea urges readers to imagine the newspaper carrier’s situation on collection day. It argues the carrier often pays out of pocket to deliver copies in all weather and foregoes profit until payment is received, asking readers to pay promptly.
Bricker Amendment Debate Delayed With Senate Plans
Senate Republican Leader Knowland says key votes on the Bricker amendment won’t occur until February 16 or later as lawmakers pause to let the issue breathe. Senator Bricker urges supporters to back his revised plan, which concedes many points yet remains sweeping beyond administration wants. George of Georgia predicts the debate will sharpen scrutiny of treaties and influence presidential submissions.
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Eisenhower
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American Wins Freedom After Five-Year Red Prison Battle
John Hvasta, a 26-year-old Navy veteran, returns to the United States after a five-year struggle with Czechoslovakia’s communist regime. Once a prisoner, then a fugitive and refugee, he spent 21 months on the run and four months in the Prague embassy before American diplomats secured his release and safe return via Munich and New York.
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John Hvasta
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William N. Oats
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asHivasta
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Nuernberg
Zurich
London
New York
Idlewild
United States
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University of Bratislava
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Hivasta
Drop in Ohio River Stage Strands Boats
Ohio River levels plunged to 9.99 feet in Cincinnati causing boats to run aground and exposing new shoreline mud. Brig. Gen. Paschal N. Strong of the U S Engineers cites low tributary inflows and dam operations downstream as the cause of the unusual drop before water levels return to normal expected today.
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Trains Collision Near Wilmington Delishes Passengers Hospitalized
The Baltimore and Ohio National Limited from St Louis was derailed after a freight train side swiped it east of Elsmere Delaware. Ten of 13 cars derailed with five injuries taken to Wilmington General Hospital within an hour. Scene near the General Motors assembly plant five miles south of Wilmington.
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Monroe Tours Army Hospital in Tokyo
Film star Marilyn Monroe visited Tokyo Army Hospital and spoke with a patient while autographing a cast. She bent to talk with Pvt. Albert Evans of Canton Ohio who had a broken back from a Korea jeep accident on January 11 and was immobilized face down.
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Tokyo Army Hospital
Marilyn Monroe
G. I
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Canton
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Evans
Korea
Deaths Cause Sought in Beech Bottom Decomposition Case
Tests under way in Charleston aim to determine the cause of death for four people whose decomposed bodies were found at Beech Bottom, with initial assumption pointing to an axe as the possible cause until results are complete.
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W. Va
Charleston
Beech Bottom
Arrest disclosed in Campfield case in Buffalo
Lloyd Russell Campfield of Kanauga Ohio has been returned to the United States from Canada after arrest on December 9. FBI officer in charge at Buffalo says a warrant charged him with Interstate Transportation of Motor Vehicle a crime involving a stolen auto from Atlanta to Buffalo. He was to be arraigned before the U S commissioner in Buffalo. Canadian authorities dropped a money under false pretenses charge to clear his return.
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Lloyd Russell Campfield
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United States
Canada
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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FBI
Atlanta
Soviet Says Space Boys Seen As American Imperialist Vanguards
Soviet critic G Avarin in Art of the Cinema claims U S space heroes Captain Video Buck Rogers and Flash Gordon promote American imperialism. He argues Hollywood uses space films to justify rearmament while the public funds it.
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Captain Video
Buck Rogers
Flash Gordon
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G. Avarin
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Avarin
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New York
Five Day Extended Forecast for Ohio Temperatures Dip
The forecast for Ohio shows temperatures 2 to 4 degrees below normal with normal highs from 35 to 42 and lows 20 to 25. Little change through the weekend, a warmer spell Monday, then colder by Wednesday with night snow likely Tuesday or Wednesday and several flurries in the Lake Erie region.
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Reds Propose German Troop Withdrawals
In Berlin during a Four Power meeting the Western ministers debated strategy after Molotov’s speech. Molotov urged all foreign troops withdrawn from Germany and proposed a weighted vote for the Soviet controlled zone amid a divided Western stance.
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Germany
U.S
State Dulles
Molotov
Bulldozer Overturns In Jackson. Man Killed
A bulldozer overturned on a county road one mile west of Ohio 75 near Jackson, pinning Cearley to the vehicle and causing his death. State Highway Patrol noted the incident as they investigated the stuck machine in the mud.
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Ohio 75
Jackson
State Highway Patrol
Park Observer Editor Improves After Hospital Stay
Everett Gieske editor of the Park Harbor News was reported to be somewhat improved at Memorial Hospital. His condition remains critical and no exact details about his condition were disclosed.
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Huntington Everett Gieske
Park‘ereputy News
Memorial Hospital
Fugitive Favored by Neighbors in Mt Washington Cottage
Alex R. Hervant once listed among the FBI ten most wanted fugitives is now the focus of petitions by nearly 100 neighbors and business associates. They urge Gov Goodwin Knight to deny extradition and allow him to stay with his wife Glads Lawson Bryant and their baby in the Mt Washington home following a dramatic escape from a Michigan State Prison in 1952 after a 22 year life sentence.
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Los Angeles
Alex R. Hervant
FBI
Mt. Washington
Bryant
Glads Lawson
Ave
Goodwin
Knight
Jenny
Lawson
Edward Lawson
First-Grade Pupils Drown in Mill Pond Tragedy
Bridgeton reports three first grade pupils drowned Thursday after wandering onto thin ice at a mill pond on their way home from school. News of the tragedy reached the victims' families via Linds Frenette.
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Bridgeton
Schol
Linds Frenette
Gun Mishap Fatal in Cleveland Youths Involved
Police report Harold R. Brown age 14 accidentally shot Lawrence Smith age 14 while showing him a 38 caliber revolver Thursday night in Cleveland. Investigators described the incident as accidental and ongoing.
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Harold R. Brown
Lawrence Smith
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