Small Wars Cited As Danger By Army Chief
Secretary of the Army Stevens warns against the problem of small wars and subversion as the Army faces manpower cuts and reduced funds. He notes large scale wars risk personal crisis for the aggressor while creeping expansion could undermine stalemates. Ridgway’s stance on Formosa troop needs remains unclear, with executive session expected.
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Stevens
House Armed Services Committee
Matthew B. Ridgway
United States
Formosa
Ridgway
Army
Eisenhower
Department of Defense
Defense Department
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Einhower
Dimes Girl Honors Roosevelt Birthday in Hyde Park
Mary Kosloski five of Collierville Tenn a March of Dimes Poster Girl laid a wreath on Roosevelt’s grave in Hyde Park on the 73rd anniversary of his birth. Floral tributes came from Warm Springs Foundation and a tribute in behalf of President Eisenhower.
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Hyde Park
N. Y
Mary Kosloski
Collierville
Tenn
Franklin D.velt
Roosevelt
National Foundation For Infantile Paralysis
Warm Springs
Eisenhower
Four Face Charge Of Robbing Bank In New Waterford
Four Youngstown men Everett H. Smith John R. Malone Fred Cooper and Arthur Untch face arraignment before Commissioner William G. Dorman on federal charges of robbing the New Waterford bank of 16610 on November 24. Each suspect held on 35000 bond after FBI charges were filed.
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Youngstown
New Waterford
William G. Dorman
Everett H. Smith
John R. Malone
Fred Cooper
Arthur Untch
FBI
Put Faith in the Congress Asked
Senator Mansfield urges trust in President Eisenhower to secure a peaceful settlement of world conflicts. He backs UN efforts on Formosa while avoiding immediate recognition of two Chinas and supports discussions from a position of strength.
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Mansfield
L-Mont
Eisenhower
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
United Nations
Formosa
China
Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Douglas
New York University School of Law
George
Mystery Girl Seen Near Rubinstein Home Before Murder
Police report a brown dressed mystery girl seen by Stella Rubinstein in the stairway hours before Serge Rubinstein was killed. Investigators focus on her as a potential lead while questioning dealer Lee Brooks and reviewing Rubinstein's social and business ties.
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New York
Serge Rubinstein
Rubinstein
Lee Brooks
Brooks
Albert E. Langford
Manhattan
Stella Rubinstein
5Th Avenue
Eisenhower Tackles Health Gaps in State of the Union
President Eisenhower urges Congress to address serious gaps and shortages in health services. He proposes measures to help more Americans meet the costs of health care and references a private insurance reinsurance plan previously rejected. He notes advancing medical care is not yet accessible to many citizens.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Formosa
Four Die in Ohio Weekend Traffic and Fire Tragedies
An Associated Press survey reports four traffic fatalities in Ohio from Friday 6 p.m. to Sunday midnight while fires and other incidents caused 12 deaths. One man died leaping from a burning home.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Dulles Visit to Burma Planned After Seato Talks
Rangoon reports Prime Minister U Nu says U S Secretary of State Dulles will visit Burma for talks after the Seato conference in Bangkok. Dulles is expected around February 26 depending on Seato’s length while British Foreign Secretary Eden also heads to Bangkok arriving March 1. Nu asked Chou En-lai to free 11 American airmen imprisoned in Red China on humanitarian grounds and said Chou would review the case sympathetically.
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Burma
U Nu
U_ S
Dulles
Seato
Bangkok
Anthony Eden
Ngkok
Goon
M Nu
Chou En-lai
Red China
Chou
Chute Fails Paratrooper Survives 1000-Foot Fall
Pvt. Stan ley Melezak of Pittsburgh, Pa. leaped with 11th Airborne Division paratroopers over Talkeetna during Operation Snowbird. His main parachute failed to open, he fell about 1000 feet, landed on deep snow, and survived with injuries while recovering at Fort Richardson hospital. He deployed a reserve chute at the last moment but it opened only a breath before impact.
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Alaska
Stanley Melezak
11Th Airborne Division
Fort Richardson
Melezak
Pittsburgh
Talkeetna
Man Pleads Innocent To Liquor Charge
Virgil Lonberger of Glouster Route 3 pleaded innocent in magistrate court to illegal whisky possession and liquor selling without a permit. He was bound to the grand jury on $1000 bond but remained imprisoned after failing to post the bond.
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Virgil Lonberger
Glouster Route 3
Lonberger
Department of Liquor Control
Hocking County
E. E. Bright
EARLY WARNING RADAR STATION IN ALASKA ALARMS VIEWERS
A western Alaska radar station sits atop a snowbound peak with a glass bubble dome housing a rotating radar antenna. Airlock access leads to a dim control room where a blue line on a rope indicates antenna rotation and radar readings flow to a central army command for interpretation.
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UN Security Council discusses Formosa halt to hostilities
The United States opposed a Soviet cease fire resolution urging U S withdrawal from Formosa and allied territories. New Zealand called a morning meeting to seek UN action on a cease fire in the Formosa Strait amid tensions with China and Soviet demands. The Chinese Communist media condemned New Zealand and accused the U S of aggression and interference in China’s internal affairs.
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Formosa
UN Security Council
Formosa Strait
Chiang Kai-shek
U. S
U. S. Congress
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Britain
Eisenhower
China
Security Council
Taiwan
People’s Republic of
Peiping
Fires Kill Nine Persons in Lower East Side Blaze
New York reports nine dead in three Manhattan fires, including six in a single family. A lower East Side tenement fire caused the worst death toll. a kerosene heater and an explosion are blamed. Victims include Frank Cordero 25 Gloria 24 and children Lucky 6 Vivian 3 and a 1 year old, plus Gloria Cordero’s brother Angel Rivera 16.
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New York
Esterday
Lower East Side
Manhattan
Frank Cordero
Gloria
Lucky
Vivian
Cordero
Jury To Reconvene In Murder Trial In Ironton
The jury in the second degree murder trial of Roy Miller and his wife Annabelle, 22, is set to reconvene today after weekend deliberations. They began the case Saturday afternoon and deliberated all day yesterday on the Nov 21, 1953 killing in a vacant lot near the Miller home in Ironton.
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Ironton
Roy Miller
Annabelle
Miller
Fall Kills Cincinnati Businessman
70 year old Cincinnati businessman Lee F. Ratterman died last night after falling or leaping from a top floor of a downtown hotel. Police and investigators questioned whether his illness with cancer contributed to the tragedy.
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Cincinnati
Lee F. Ratterman
Charred Home Murders Hint Robbery Motive
In Mount Pleasant Tennessee a triple homicide occurred at the Dudley Moore residence as a man, his wife, and a guest were shot and burned in the living room. Police indicated robbery as likely motive and noted the victims wore used clothing with no pistol or blood evidence found. The coroner’s jury labeled the deaths murder.
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Tenn
Dudley Moore
Moores
Clare McAfee
James Cooper
Cores Hardware Store
Moore
J. BE Hardison
Ex-Solon C F Hilt Dies at 80 Meigs County Veteran
C F Hilt a lifelong Meigs County resident and former Ohio General Assembly member died Monday in Meigs General Hospital after a stroke at his Laurel Cliff home. Born March 3 1874 in Scipio Township he served in the Sixth Infantry in the Spanish American War and was among Meigs County's last veterans. He belonged to the Veterans of Foreign Wars and Spanish American War Veterans and served on the Meigs County Board of Education and in the legislature from 1923 to 1927.
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Pomeroy
C. F. Hilt
Meigs County
Ohio General Assembly
Meigs General Hospital
Hilt
Laurel Cliff
Scipio Township
Mr. Hill
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Tragic double incident ends in suicide and homicide
In Bridgeport a caller whispered ambulance then police found Esther Engstrand wounded and Harold Engstrand dead with a 22 caliber revolver nearby. Police ruled the death a suicide with attempted slaying, but offered no motive.
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Bridgeport
Conn
James Partington
Esther Engstrand
Harold
Remington Army Co
Princess Heads to Transatlantic Flight for Tour
British royalty gather at Clarence House before departing from London to begin Princess 24's first transatlantic flight and a one month goodwill tour of distant territories. Queen Mother Elizabeth joins the family at the airport royal enclosure for the departure.
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London A
Prinessaret
Elizabeth
Windsor Castle
Clarence House
Royal
Arrested Man Admits Role in Ohio Holdup
New Orleans police say an Ohio man, Frank McDonald Graves, 29, of Zanesville, admitted taking part in a $6000 bank robbery in Roseville, Ohio last October. He told investigators he and his brother plus a friend used Halloween masks and a shotgun.
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Ohio
Alvin Eckels
Thomas Daily
Frank McDonald Graves
Zanesville
Roseville
Ohio Desperado Added to FBI 10 Most Wanted List
Kenneth Darrel Carpenter, an Ohio desperado sought for the $9300 Kansas bank robbery, was placed on the FBI's Ten Most Wanted list today. The case highlights the nationwide manhunt and authorities urging tips from the public.
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Ohio
FBI
Washington
Kenneth Darrel Carpenter
Kansas
Commonwealth Ministers Weet Seared of War
London hosts eight prime ministers and a deputy premier for a 10 day meeting as war fears rise over Formosa. Churchill seeks UN Security Council action for a China cease fire while Nehru and other leaders discuss mediation and potential Chinese participation.
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Formosa
China Coast
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China
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India
Louis St. Laurent
Canada
Hubert G. Menzies
Australia
Sydney Holland
Mohammed Aili
Pakistan
John Kotelawala
Ceylon
Godfrey Huggins
Central African Federation of Rhodesia
Nyasaland
Charlies Ed. Swart
South Africa
Churchills
Anthony Eden
Eden
Mehry
Uence
Chou “Wai
U. N
Red China
Peiping
Security Council
Border Clash Is Subduing Between Costa Rica and Nicaragua
Border tensions ease as Costa Rican troops clash with rebel remnants near the frontier. The army reports 10 rebels killed, seven government troops missing, and one defender held in Nicaragua after crossing the border. Col Rodolfo Quiros says the situation is calming.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Rodolfo Quiros
Army
Quiros
Fire causes $150000 loss at Rite Rug Co warehouse
Columbus firemen battled sub zero temperatures for hours to stop a blaze at the Rite Rug Co warehouse at 272 High Street. Estimated damage was $150,000. Cause under investigation though believed to have started on the first floor of the three story building.
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Columbus
Rite Rug Co
272
High St
Morse Fears Chiang Risks World War
Senator Wayne Morse quotes privately dissenting senators who fear a China policy could provoke a preventive war. He labels a policy backed by Adm. Arthur Radford as a surrender to war theory and argues Chiang Kai-shek risks American lives and global conflict.
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Arthur Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Chiang Kai-shek
Chiang
Fire destroys four story Martin Motor Corp building
A two alarm fire gutting the Martin Motor Corp auto agency on Cathedral Street near downtown Baltimore burned for about two hours and control was reported at 5:00 a.m. Firefighters used more than 70 pieces of equipment and wet down embers three hours later. Owner Thomas Martin estimated damages exceeding one million dollars as new cars and repair work vehicles were destroyed.
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Martin Motor Corp
Cathedral Street
Thomas Martin
Atom Plant Workers Injured at Motel Blast
Two Pike County atomic plant construction workers Marvin Bock and John Papineau and manager Enoch Henderson were injured in an explosion blamed on a gas leak at the Cric Motel on U S 23 near the Pike County line in Ross County Chillicothe.
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Chillicothe
Pike County Atomic Plant
Cric
U. S. 23
Ross County
Pike County
Marvin Bock
John Papineau
Enoch Henderson
Jury Selection Begins in Wife Slaying Trial
In Washington Court House, jury selection started for the first degree murder trial of Jack Walter Southward 23 accused of shooting his wife Ruth Southward last September. Ruth died two days later in a Columbus hospital. Paul Herbert a former lieutenant governor was retained to defend Southward.
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Jack Walter Southward
Ruth
Southward
Columbus
Paul Herbert
Has
Evacuation Sought as Tachens Threat Varies
Formosa report says Communist guns fired on the Tachens after capturing Yikiangshan. Nationalist Defense Ministry states shells landed in the sea. U S troops and ships stand ready for possible evacuation orders with no directive issued yet. Tachens were firebombed in the clashes near Formosa.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Yikiangshan
Defense Ministry
U. & Tth
Tachen Is
Yikian
U. & Navy
Pacific
Russia Demands Nationalists Barred From Talks
In a United Nations session the Soviet delegation led by Arkady A Sebolev urged excluding the Nationalists from dialogue on Poros. The call came as the Security Council discussed possible ceasefire steps to halt fighting between Chinese forces.
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N.V hMenesia
Nationaliethina
Poros
Del
Arkady A. Sebolev
Ilantien Security Council
Truck Crashes Killing Six At Toowoomba Picnic
A truck carrying children to a Salvation Army picnic fell off a cliff near Toowoomba Australia killing six people including the driver and injuring fifteen others. The incident occurred today as the vehicle carried a group to the outdoor event.
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Toowoomba
Australia
Salvation Army
Blizzard of Bills Prompts Busy Ohio Assembly Night
Ohio lawmakers return with nine legislative days left as a wave of new bills starts. Proposals include a pension plan for judges and penalties for line hoarding during emergencies. A hearing on radio TV station license plates and hunting related revocation also looms.
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Ohio
General
Ublic Utilities Committee
House Conservation Committee
Senate
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