Benson Outlines GOP Farm Policy Plan For Congress
Secretary of Agriculture Benson briefs Senate and House agriculture leaders on a new farm program. The plan centers on the soil bank idea to take land out of production and use existing surpluses, with President Eisenhower to urge Congress in a Monday message. Benson plans further talks with Ellender and Aiken before heading to Key West to present recommendations.
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Washington
Senate Agriculture Committee
Benson
House
Eisenhower
Congress
Ellender
Dla
Aiken
R-Vi
Key West
Fla
Cooley
D-Nc
House Committee
Jensen
Browa
House Republican Committee
Soi Bank
Song Writer Slugs Wife With Pistol
Merle Travis, 37, slugged his wife with a pistol and barricaded himself at home after a long drinking spree in NORTH HOLLYWOOD California. He said he did not remember the incident. police found him drunk and unarmed. His wife declined to sign a beating complaint and he was released after a brief jail stay. She was treated for a gash behind her ear.
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North Hollywood
Calif
Merle Travis
Travis
Court orders action to end Hillsboro school segregation
The Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals in Cincinnati directs Judge John H. Druffel to issue a permanent injunction stopping districting that produces segregated attendance at Hillsboro Ohio high schools. Negro students have been denied admission at Webster and Washington high schools, with some sent to Lincoln High School.
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Cincinnati
U. S. Court of Appeals
Sixth Circuit
Hillsboro
Ohio
U. S
John H. Druffel
Webster
Washington
Hillsboro School Board
Lincoln High School
Restaurant Fire in Zanesville Causes Massive Damage
Fire destroyed a downtown Zanesville restaurant early today, forcing 30 people from the building and causing about $100,000 in damage. The Casino restaurant burned before in 1947 and was rebuilt.
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Zanesville
Miss Monroe Strikes Seven Year Deal With 20th Century Fox
Hollywood reports Marilyn Monroe will sign a seven year contract with 20th Century Fox and Marilyn Monroe Productions for four pictures on a profit sharing basis worth over eight million dollars. The deal ends a year of publicized walkouts and grants her flexibility to work with other studios and set prices for television specials.
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Hollywood
Marilyn Monroe
20Th Century-Fox Studio
Marilyn Monroe Productions, Inc
Marilyn
Fun Shooter Sentenced For New Year’s Eve Pellet Attack
In Painesville a 20 year old, Charles Bismark, admitted firing a high powered pellet gun from his car window on New Year’s Eve. He wounded Harold Osborne, 55, and Ada Terrill, 20, with flesh wounds. He received four months in jail and was ordered to pay for damaged windows, signs and lights. The act was charged as assault and battery since a pellet gun is not a firearm under Ohio law.
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Painesville
Charles Bismark
Ohio
Bismark
Harold Osborne
Ada Terrill
Judge to Rule Today on Letting Reds Off
Federal Judge Charles J. McNamee was expected to rule today on motions to acquit 11 alleged Ohio Communist party leaders on trial for conspiracy to teach and advocate violent overthrow of the U S government in Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Charles J. McNamee
Ohio
Communist Party
U. S
Ohio Director To Inventory State Land
Finance Director John Wilcoxen told the State Capital Planning and Improvements Board he will prepare the first inventory of state lands and buildings. The board adopted regulations for departments to submit programs with site drawings use costs financing and operation estimates. Alumni oppose razing old buildings. standardization expected but limited at six state universities.
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Columbus
John Wilcoxen
State Capital Planning and Improvements Board
N. B. Griffin
Portsmouth
Wilcoxen
Adenauer Celebrates 80th Birthday in Bonn
Chancellor Konrad Adenauer marked his 80th birthday as the Western world’s oldest major nation leader. The five day celebration gathered tributes from global figures while he, recovering from bronchial pneumonia, urged restraint. He stressed patience in Germany’s reunification and West German sovereignty’s restoration as key goals.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Adenauer
Charity Solicitation Law Sees 21 Groups Registered
Columbus report states 21 registrations under a new law governing charity solicitations to curb rackets. registrants must file with the attorney general or county clerks. religious bodies are exempt from the registration requirement.
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Columbus
William O'Neill
General Motors Debuts Lightweight Aero Train on Two Railroads
GM unveiled its Aero train on two demonstrations, one on the New York Central route from Chicago to Detroit and the Pennsylvania Railroad run from Washington D C to Newark. The 10 coach aluminum steel train features air ride suspension and weighs half as much as conventional trains, aims to cut costs and attract riders, and could carry 400 passengers between New York and Chicago in 10 hours at about 100 mph on $125 worth of diesel.
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New York
General Motors Corp
Harlow H. Curtice
New York Central Railroad
Chicago
Detroit
Pennsylvania Railroad
Gm D
Mayors Seek Talks to End Westinghouse Strike Nationwide
Mayors from 20 cities including Columbus urge a Pittsburgh meeting with top management and union officials to end the 12 week Westinghouse walkout. Violence and vandalism flare near plants in Mansfield Newark and Madison County as a Columbus worker reports two arson attempts on his home. In Columbus 88 were arrested at picket lines and one man died of a heart attack amid tense protests.
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Columbus
Westinghouse
Pittsburgh
M. E. Sensenbrenner
Central Ohio
Mansfield
Newark
Madison County
Paul Bond
Diners Get Animal Quiz in Columbus Restaurants
In Columbus restaurants the Ohio Veterinary Medical Association handed out 2500 animal quiz cards to promote its 72nd annual meeting. Questions cover bats, ostriches, eagles, swans and more to test public knowledge.
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Columbus
Ohio State Veterinary Medical Association
Monaco Prince Announces Engagement to Grace Kelly
Prince Rainier III of Monaco confirms engagement to American film star Grace Kelly in a palace statement from Monte Carlo. The announcement marks a historic union between European royalty and Hollywood glamour, with celebrations anticipated after the nuptials.
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Monte Carlo
Monaco
Prince Rainier III
Grace Kelly
Automotive Classifieds Promote Low-Cost Selling in SE Ohio
Readers are urged to sell cars via a low cost Want Ad in Southeastern Ohio's Automotive Classified Section. The notice highlights the classifieds as a quick market tool for sellers seeking affordable exposure.
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Ohio
Eisenhower pledges budget balance and broad program agenda
President Eisenhower told Congress the budget would balance this year and next. He called for a stepped up foreign aid program and a long list of federal initiatives including highways, farm policy, school construction, slum clearance, civil rights expansion, Hawaiian statehood, Alaska statehood prospects, immigration reform, medical care for dependents, and expanded old age and survivors insurance with enhanced health coverage and pension plan disclosures.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Russia
Asia
Europe
North Atlantic Alliance
Near East
Israel
Latin America
Object Found Is Not Bomb on TWA Flight
Army bomb disposal officers ruled out a bomb after 24 hours identifying the object as a soldering iron heat element used by airplane mechanics. Lewis Rinebold said a mechanic dropped it after repairs in Chicago before the flight to Washington. A heat element with magnesium powder was found in the aisle. investigation included FBI and local authorities.
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Pittsburgh
TWA
Lewis Rinebold
Civil Aeronautics Authority
Chicago
Washington
Wheeling
W. Va
FBI
Rinebold
Girl Found Slain Near Rocky Ravine
In Great Falls Montana a 16 year old girl Patricia Kalitzke was found shot dead near a rocky ravine eight miles from a lovers lane where her air force escort Lloyd Duane Bogle was slain. Both victims were shot. Bogle had his hands bound and no robbery motive evident. Sheriff Leeper warned of a mad killer on the loose and suggested the assailant may have been known to the pair.
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Great Falls
Mont
Air Force
Patricia Kalitzke
Montana
Lloyd Duane Bogle
Waco
Tex
D. J. Leeper
Patricia
Bogle
Leeper
Duel Not Necessary For Uruguay's Chief
In Montevideo a court of honor ruled Chief of State Luis Batlle Berres need not duel publisher Washington Guadalupe after El Nacional accused him of protecting private interests and handling as a financial editor for the editor of Batlle Berres' paper Accion. Accion called critics low minded with dirty souls. Guadalupe issued his challenge.
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Montevideo
Uruguay
Court of Honor
Luis Batlle Berres
Washington Guadalupe
Guadalupe
el Nacional
Batlle Berres
Accion
State board approves 2.38 million for 12 schools
The Ohio state board of education approves tentative emergency fund allocations totaling 2,375,900 to aid construction of 12 schools in 10 counties. Top priorities include Southwestern 292,000 Green 165,000 North Gallia 245,000 Salem Liberty 165,000 and Junction City 114,000. Allocations depend on bids and controlling-board approval.
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Columbus
New State Board of Education
Southwestern
Green
North Gallia
Gallia County
Salem Liberty
Washington County
Junction City
Perry County
Big Iceberg Sighted By Antarctic Expedition Flagship
Aboard USS Glacier in the Ross Sea the icebreaker passed a vast iceberg over 100 square miles in area. It rose about 150 feet above water with an estimated 900 feet beneath. Admiral Richard E. Byrd called it among the largest he has seen in five expeditions as the Glacier sails toward McMurdo Sound to start air operations.
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USS Glacier
Ross Sea
Washington
Richard E. Byrd
Little America No. 5
McMurdo Sound
Newport woman pleads innocent in two manslaughter charges
A plea of innocent was entered yesterday by Ethel Stacy, 26, of Newport Kentucky, to two charges of manslaughter in the Christmas Eve traffic deaths of two men.
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Portsmouth
Ethel Stacy
Newport
Solon Charges Unfair Cutting Of GI Benefits
Rep Ashley accuses the War Claims Settlement Commission of denying POW benefit claims to former prisoners based on unverified accusations. He cites Joseph Hammond, Bronze Star recipient, and a 90 percent disabled Toledo man, both linked to alleged collaboration claims, with Hammond denied access to accusers.
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Washington
Ashley
Ohio
Toledo
Korea
War Claims Settlement Commission
Joseph Hammond
Hammond
Toledean
Adams Target Of Probing Of CAA Firing
A Senate Commerce subcommittee opens an inquiry into the ouster of Civil Aeronautics Administrator Frederick B. Lee. Chairman Monroney says he will probe Lee’s conversations with Adams and the resignation letter after Weeks and Rothschild demanded Lee’s removal. Lee testified he sought White House help, citing no reasons beyond incompatibility with Rothschild and Weeks.
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Washington
Senate Commerce
Civil Aeronautics
Frederick B. Lee
Sherman Adams
Monroney
D-Okla
Lee
Adams
Secretary of Commerce
Weeks
Louis Rothschild
CAA
Commerce Department
White House
Rothschild
Ohio CIO Meet Calls For Speedy Merger
The Ohio CIO Council opened its 17th constitutional convention in Cleveland with labor unity as a focus. A resolution for a speedy AFL CIO state merger will be discussed by about 1400 delegates. Other proposals seek tax law overhaul and liberalizing Ohio’s employment compensation law.
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Cleveland
Ohio Cio Council
AFL
CIO
Ohio
Times Denies Singled Out in Hunt for Subversives
Senate Internal Security subcommittee pressed its probe but the New York Times rejected claims it was a target. The Times argued Eastland’s inquiry aims to uncover communism regardless of publication, noting subpoenas on its staff and past party membership among few employees. John T. McManus, former Times worker and now National Guardian head, testified about his 1921 start at the Times.
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James Glaser
Communist Daily Worker
Senate
Internal Security
Communist Party
Washington
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
New York Times Today
the Times
Eastland
New York Times
D-Miss
The
J. G. Sourwine
Times
National Guardian
John T. McManus
Marietta Times
China Nats and Reds Battle in Quemoy and Matsu Shelling
In Formosa the Nationalist and Communist forces traded heavy artillery duels near Quemoy and Matsu. The Nationalist Defense Ministry reported continued shelling by the Reds and retaliatory fire from Nationalist batteries on Quemoy and Little Quemoy, following an 858 round bombardment the day prior.
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Formosa
Quemoy Island
Nationalist Defense Ministry
Quemoy
Matsu Islands
Little Quemoy
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