Communists Seize Yikiangshan Threatening Tachen Islands
Formosan defense reports claim 720 Nationalist guerrillas on Yikiangshan were wiped out and resistance ended after a 61 hour assault. Peiping broadcasts say 500 Nationalists killed, 550 captured, with stores of arms seized as Communists claim liberation of Yikiangshan and a strategic gain toward Taiwan.
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Taipeh
Formosa
China
Yikiangshan
Tachen Islands
Nationalist Defense Ministry
Tokyo
Peiping
Naion
Taiwan
Guatemala Crushes Uprising Ends in Martial Roundup
Government forces crushed an uprising against President Carlos Castillo Armas arresting at least 100 people. Troops held Guatemala City and key centers in an armed grip. The president said 10 rebels died and many were wounded in a clash near Atrora Air Force Base, blaming Communists and Arbenz supporters.
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Guatemala
Jacobo Arbenz Guzman
Carlos Castillo Armas
Guatemala City
Castillo Armas
Atrora
Arbenz
Ohio Statesmen Named To Administer Will
The Oliver Wendell Holmes Devise Committee has three new members Senator Bricker Ohio Senator Douglas Ill and Representative Oliver P Bolton Ohio. The committee will use the late Justice Holmess bequest to memorialize him. Chief Justice Warren presided at the meeting where Bricker Douglas and Bolton were inducted.
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Washington
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Bricker
Ohio
Douglas
Iil
Oliver P. Bolton
Holmes
Wil
Warren
Bricker, Douglas and On
Narcotics Law Tightened After Tax Revision Holes
President Eisenhower signed a bill to tighten narcotics enforcement restoring mandatory penalties for tax section violations. The change closes a loophole created by the 1954 tax revision, which had reduced penalties used to deter illegal drug traffic.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Iraqi Premier Urges Pro West Pact Amid Arab League Strife
Premier Nuri Said presses Arab states toward a Western defense treaty as Baghdad linked with Turkey prompts Arab League tensions. Said skips emergency talks citing illness, while Cairo papers mock his withdrawal and Egypt urges unity under Arab mutual security.
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Cairo
Egypt
Iraq
Nuri Said
Baghdad
Turkey
Nuri
Arab League
Atomic Sub Nautilus Makes First Atomic Dive
GROTON Conn The nuclear submarine Nautilus slipped down into the Atlantic Ocean yesterday in the first atomic powered submarine dive in history. It went down at 1 39 p m and remained submerged for an hour under Lt William H Layman of San Diego California the ship's diving officer. The Navy gave no further details and said the dive was in rough seas south of Montauk Point after surface tests. Further dives were planned today.
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Groton
Conn
Atlantic Ocean
William H. Layman
San Diego Calif
Navy
Montauk Point
Long Island
Five Die in Four-Story West Side Fire
An extra alarm blaze ripped through a four story tenement on Chicago's West Side killing at least five people. Several occupants leaped from windows, three were hospitalized, and others remained missing. Fire chief estimated $25,000 in damages and officials did not determine a cause.
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Chicago
West Side
John Haberkorn
Agriculture Dept Reopens Dry Milk Stocks Sale
The Agriculture Department reopens surplus nonfat dry milk stocks for sale as livestock and poultry feed at 115 to 125 cents per pound.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Knowland cites 800 additional American prisoners in Red China
Senator Knowland said in a Cicero Manufacturers Association speech that Red China holds more than the 15 acknowledged American airmen. He alleged about 800 more GIs are imprisoned, learned from propaganda broadcasts, released POWs and Pentagon reports. He noted these men did not appear in the 1953 prisoner exchanges that followed the Korean truce.
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Chicago
Knowland
Calif
Cicero Manufacturers’ Association
Senate
Pentagon
Driver Leaps From 100 MPH Truck in Ohio Valley
Dale Fickes a 27 year old truck driver from Warren Ohio escaped a runaway tractor trailer near Franklin Pennsylvania after brakes failed on a dead end hill. The truck plunged 50 feet into a creek as the speedometer climbed to 100 mph. Fickes leaped onto the snowy road sliding 50 feet and escaping with only a minor cut and a sprained wrist.
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Franklin
Dale Fickes
Warren
Ohio
Gickes
Fickes
Rehabilitation Group Seeks Budget for Vocational Rehab
The Ohio Rehabilitation Association executive committee asks Gov Lausche to include over 500000 for vocational rehabilitation 134000 for the blind rehabilitation 226000 for Ohio to participate in federal programs in the two year budget starting July 1.
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Columbus
Ohio Rehabilitation Association
Frank Lausche
Ohio
United States to Send 50 Member Delegation to Manila Pact Conference
The United States will dispatch a 50 member delegation and staff to the Manila Pact conference opening in Bangkok on February 23.
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Bangkok
United States
Solon Charges Political Coloring In President's Economic Report
Senator Douglas says the economic message to Congress shows political coloring and ignores agriculture. Fulbright notes farm income at a 14 year low with little reference to agriculture. Byrd supports no tax cuts until the budget is balanced as Republicans praise the report.
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Solon
Washington
Douglas
R-Ill
Eisenhower
Senate House Economic Committee
Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate Banking Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Finance Committee
Congress
Judges Give Downs Life In Ohio Pen
Robert L. Downa was sentenced Thursday to life imprisonment in the Ohio Penitentiary for the shotgun slaying of 71 year old Perry yon farmer David Canfield last May 22. Sentence pronounced at 4 55 p m by Judge H Meyers of Saar Geen.
Robert Lamian Downs Sentenced for Arson and Murder
Robert Downs was sentenced to an Ohio Penitentiary for an indeterminate term after pleading guilty to arson in the September 1955 burning of George Pichler’s summer cabin. The arson investigation also linked him to the murder of David Canfield. He was arraigned in Common Pleas Court today and will serve concurrent sentences.
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Lamian
Robert Downs
Ohie
George Pichler
Downs
David Canfield
Common Pleas
Court Fixes Punishment in Insanity Plea Case
A three judge court with W Smith of Vinton County and W Vernon Archer of Noble County assessed Downs after he changed his plea to insane. Evidence centered on mental capacity and subnormality while defense aimed to show credulity and impulsive influence. Dr Bushong described Downs as childlike with limited reading writing and speech.
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Meyer
Downs
Bushong
Lima State Hospital
Marshall Downs
Frances McClelland
Albert L. Sisco
Lancaster
Lima Hospital
Woman Overcharges Frightened Burglar in NJ Store
In Farmingdale New Jersey Mrs Louis Poline operator of a small general store filled a routine order for two packs of cigarettes and began to make change when a customer pulled a gun and demanded all. After the incident Mrs Poline concluded she had received a full dollar for the two packs.
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Farmingdale
N. J
Louis Poline
Woman Representative Champions Male Rights Measure
Washington report notes Rep acts to grant reserve commissions to registered male nurses in the armed forces. Mrs Bolton has long pushed for legislation recognizing men as equals across multiple fields.
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Washington
P — Rep
Bolton Long
Fie
Neighbors Clash Over Cat and Dog Rivalry
Pueblo city manager Russell Rink is noted for a genial leadership style while a neighbor’s dog shows no devotion. A complainant says two animals in nearby homes fight like cats and dogs, highlighting local tensions.
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Pueblo
Colo
Russell Rink
Five Die When Train Plunges Into Japanese River
Five persons killed and 28 injured as a two coach passenger train plunges into the Tenryu River from a bridge near Nagano after striking a rock left on the tracks by a landslide. Police reported the accident occurred on the bridge over the river.
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Nagano
Japan
Tenryu
Peace Effort Opened Along Costa Rica Nicaragua Border
The inter-American peace commission deployed observers along an 18 mile frontier to keep rebels from triggering a new war. Costa Rica launches a flank to strike behind rebels in the northwest while government troops press from the south. The Organization of American States sent 23 officers to patrol the neutral buffer zone as planes cover the area.
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American States
Latin Border
San Jose
Costa Rica
inter-American Peace Commission
Five-Nation Commission
the Organization of American States
UN agrees to let relatives visit imprisoned Americans in China
At Peiping talks between UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold and Premier Chou En Lai the United Nations announced that relatives may visit 17 U S personnel imprisoned in China. The plan involves Red Cross coordination and depends on U S government action.
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United Nations
N.Y
Chou En-Lai
Peiping
Dag Hammarskjold
Red China
Das Hammarsk
United States
Red Cross Society of
China
U. S
U. S&s
Hammarskjold
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
State Dulles
Washington
Two Dixon Boys Sentenced For Damaging Cars
In Dixon Illinois two high school juniors Norman Thayer 16 and Dennis Gorman 15 were ordered by Judge Grover Gehant to devote half a day each week during summer vacation to community service after damaging two cars following a basketball game. They broke radio antennas and mirrors and pushed one car into a lagoon.
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Dixon, Ill
Grover Gehant
Norman Thayer
Dennis Gorman
Ruby C Brown Dies Mother of the Year in Ohio Funeral Tomorrow
Sidney Ohio reports the death of Mrs Ruby Clark Brown noted as Ohio’s Mother of the Year the first Black woman to hold the title Funeral services are set for tomorrow in Sidney Ohio and the obituary mentions the Golden Rule Foundation and American Sisters Committee.
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Ruby C. Brown
Sidney
Ohio
Ruby Clark Brown
GS Cac Oe
American Siethers Committee
Golden Rule Foundation
Explosion at Tokyo chemical plant kills two workers
A chemical plant on Tokyo's outskirts exploded last night, burning intensely. Two workers were killed and two others seriously injured, authorities said.
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Tokyo
Whole family infected when polio hits
A Tulane study presented at a polio conference shows that when one family member contracts polio, nearly all other household members become infected as well but without sickness, granting immunity to that virus type. Babies may remain susceptible after infant antibodies wane around six months.
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New York
New York Academy of Sciences
Tu- Orleans
Tulane
Ex-Secretary Charged in Union Funds Theft Case
Cleveland police report Nelson M. Fritch 4 year old former secretary of CIO United Auto Workers Local 217 confessed to stealing about 15000 dollars of union funds. He faces forgery charges for the 400 dollar check as he awaits a preliminary hearing at Central Police Station.
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Cleveland
Nelson M. Fritch
CIO
United Auto Workers
Fritch
Central
Mildred Charvat
UAW
Cleveland Industrial Union Council
Towns Protest Sewage Act Across Ohio Villages
Ohio villagers protested a state demand to build sewage plants. officials warned of fines for continued pollution as temporary permits allow dumping into streams. Spokesmen from Kear Lake Forest Milford Oak Harbor Garrettsville Waverly Plymouth Baltic Cardington Malta Medina Mt Victory Leipsic Elmore Metamora Lyons Roscoe and Rocky River spoke at the meeting.
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Columbus
Ohio
Kear- Lake
Forest
Milford
Oak Harbor
Garretaville
Waverly
Plymouth
Baltic
Cardington
Malta
Medina
Mt. Victory
Leipsic
Elmorever
Metamora
Lyons
Roscoe
Rocky River
Marriage rate hits 20 year low in 1949 report
The Metropolitan Life Insurance Co reports the 1949 marriage rate was the lowest in 20 years at 9.1 per 100 population, down from a 1946 peak of 16.2.
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New York
The
Metropolitan Life Insurance Co
Five Day Weather Summary With Temperature Outlook
A brief forecast notes average highs near 35 north to 24 south for the period with normal lows from 209 north to 2 south. Expect cold Saturday night and Sunday, warmer Tuesday, with rain or snow tonight and Saturday and again around Tuesday. Total precipitation ranges from a half to one inch.
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Camel Gee
Confesses Slaying Of Mother-in-Law
Mount Vernon Ohio Knox County authorities reported Glenn Hofer of Crestline confessed to shooting his mother in law Mrs Hammon in her home then drove to where his father in law worked and wounded him.
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Mount Vernon
Ohio
Knox County
Glenn Hoeffer
Crestline
Charlies W. Ayres
Hoffer
Ingram Given Four Indeterminate Burglary Larceny Terms
David Ingram, 26, of Middletown, pleaded guilty to 12 counts of burglary or larceny. Judge Fred B. Cramer sentenced him to four consecutive indeterminate terms of one to 15 years in the Ohio Reformatory, with possible additional charges still facing him.
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Hamilton
David Ingram
Middletown
Common Pleas Court
Ngram
Fred B. Cramer
Ingrem
Ohio Reformatory
Boston committee seeks end to rebel convicts stalemate
A seven man group including two editors and prison officials met with four rebel convicts at Massachusetts State Prison to resolve the four day impasse. The committee planned another talks session as hostage guards remain safe and fed under captors in the cell block.
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Boston
Boston Bar Association
Massachusetts State Prisen
Fee Belllows
Ite
Sumner H W. Babcock
The
Beaton Bar Association
Jona J. Grant
Pilot
Erwin D. Canham
Christian Science Monitor
Howard Hartigan
Patrick J. McDonough
Governor's Council
O'Brien
Heart Death Rate Declines in Major Age Groups
The American Heart Association president reports heart disease mortality has fallen sharply for people under 42 and between 2 and 4, with a 30 percent drop overall in the past 30 years. For ages 45 to 54 deaths rose 24 percent and for 55 to 64 by 13 percent. rates for women over 44 remain stationary. Dr E E Cowles Andrus, of Boston, spoke at a luncheon noting medical advances lowering risk in younger groups.
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Chicago
American Heart Asociation
I T
EE. Cowles Andrus
Boston
Trustees and Clerks Discussion Scheduled
Columbus Ohio delegates at the Ohio Association of Township Trustees and Clerks discuss annexation and incorporation during the three day annual meeting. In opening, delegates back a bill to mandate teaching of basic subjects in Ohio schools.
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Columbus
Ohio
Columnist Robert Van derpoel Dies at 61
Robert P. Van derpoel a 61 year old financial columnist for the Chicago Sun Times died yesterday of a heart ailment at Toledo Hospital. He was a long time journalist whose work covered market trends and investment analysis. He is survived by colleagues and family.
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Toledo
Robert P. Vanderpoel
Chicago Sun-Times
Toledo Hospital
U.S. Officials Say About a Score of Americans May Be Red-Held
U S officials speculated that about twenty Americans, including Navy aircrew and soldiers, may be held in Soviet labor camps. Twelve missing Berlin soldiers, eight Baltic airmen, and Pvt Verdine face court-martial talks after six years in captivity. Pvt Peterson, missing since 1949, remains listed.
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Kremlin
Arctic
Baltic
John H. Nobile
Detroit
Pvt
William A. Verdine
Starks
Moscow
Chuir
Norristown
Noble
Verding
Silane
West Germany
William J. Peterson
Beaufort
N. C
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