Alternate Routes Proposed To Ease Suez Canal Traffic
Western officials debate reducing Suez reliance with three schemes. A Turkey Mediterranean pipeline for Iraqi Iranian and Gulf oil. Pipelines from Aqaba to the Mediterranean via southern Israel. Larger tankers sailing around Africa. Even with routes, canal traffic expected to grow to 250 million tons by the late 1960s.
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Suez Canal
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Turkey
Mediterranean
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Iran
Persian Gulf
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Gulf of Aqaba
Africa
Suez
Middle East
Senate to Vote on Blame Bill in Ohio
The Ohio Senate considers a measure shifting fault to parents for a delinquent child. A first act leads to probation and a $500 bond forfeiture for later vandalism. Foster parents are exempt. passage sends the bill to the House along with other measures.
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Ohio Senate
House
Juvenile Court Judges Association of Ohio
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Ohio Association of Chiefs of Police
Mutual Protective Insurance Associations
Green Township
Hocking County
G. R. Robinson
Logan
Ohio Senate committee backs needy district classroom fund plan
The Senate Education Committee approved a bill to allocate part of Ohio's 150 million bond funded classroom construction program to aid needy districts. The proposal requires districts to issue bonds up to 9 percent of their tax base, secure 55 percent voter approval to tax at least 4 mills for 30 years, and approve a quarterly 0.25 mill levy to repay state aid.
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Columbus
Senate Education Committee
Ohio
Ohio Education Association
Doctor Warns Labs Produce Poor Test Results
Dr. Lewis Smith a Dallas pathologist told the American Academy of General Practice that many lab tests are erroneous or inaccurate due to underpaid medical technologists. He warned that faulty reports can prolong illness and cause deaths.
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ST. Louis
Lewis Smith
Dallas
Tex
Smith
American Academy of General Practice
Loew's Inc Charged With Anti-Trust Action
The U S Attorney General filed a civil anti trust suit against Loew's Inc a theater chain and producer of MGM pictures alleging the company forced TV stations to take groups of pictures including unwanted titles to obtain preferred films.
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Loew’s Inc
Washington
Loew’s, Inc
Atty
Gen. Brownell
Loew’s
Newsmen Upheld in Defense Department Leak Policy Debate
Secretary of Defense Wilson rejected a proposal to haul reporters before grand juries to uncover leak sources. He also dismissed as censorship a plan to limit interviews to approved times with monitors present.
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Washington
Wilson
Pentagon
Chip Boy Drowned at Home Cistern
Ravenna report says ten year old Norman C Hackney drowned in a cistern beside his Atwater home. A 50 person search party spanning the afternoon found the body after the cistern was drained from 12 feet of water. Deputies think the fall occurred while climbing into the cistern shed.
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Norman C. Hackney
Atwater
Charles Hackney
Sheriff's
Tokyo Deputy Governor Arrested for Misappropriation
The Tokyo district prosecutor announced the arrest of Dep. Gov. Kanichiro Yamamoto of Fukuoka prefecture on suspicion of misappropriating 100 million yen. Investigators allege the official diverted funds for personal use.
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Tokyo
Kanichiro Yamamoto
Fukuoka Prefecture
Hammarskjold Returns to New York After Cairo Talks
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold returns to New York from Cairo for more consultations with diplomats as Egypt and the United States discuss the Suez crisis. Egypt’s Ali Sabry backs Nasser’s position, while Hammarskjold plans meetings with Lodge Pearson and Engen and a Middle East advisory group. A Cairo aide cites a gentlemen’s agreement to keep UN troops along the Gaza armistice line for now.
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Dag Hammarskjold
New York
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Cairo
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Ali Sabry
Egypt
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Sabry
U. S
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Lester B. Pearson
Hans Engen
U. N
Gaza
Two Explosions Hit Mexican Fireworks Plant
Rescue workers hunted the factory owner Antonio Joyas Chavez after two blasts at a fireworks plant in a poor Mexico City district. Eleven bodies were recovered, including four firemen, and about a hundred people were hospitalized with many not expected to live. The second explosion occurred as onlookers watched firefighters, and a crater formed where the complex stood with damage around $320000.
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Mexico City
Antonio Joyas Chavez
Dems Plan Party Dinner For Harmony After Civil Rights Debate
Senators discuss a $100-a-plate harmony dinner to bond the Democratic group after their civil rights battle. Lyndon B. Johnson is named as a possible guest, with new Democrats Sen. Clark and Sen. Lausche also eyed as potential 1960 nominees.
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Senate
Smathers
Florida
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Sens. Clark
Pennsylvania
Lausche
Ohio
New Twist Emerges in Dr Adams Trial
London prosecutors faced a medical expert who said the wealthy widow Dr John Bodkin Adams allegedly drugged lived longer than expected after a stroke. Dr Arthur Douthwaite testified the patient exceeded the typical prognosis by at least two years.
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London
John Bodkin Adams
Adams
Arthur Henry Douthwaite
Oklahoma Boys Secret Cave Life Revealed in City
Ora Lee Linville 14 and Jerry 13 spent 642 months living near Southeast High School in a creek bank cave. Parents believed they were in school every day. police found them by a camp fire as the boys faced enrollment after months of deception.
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Oklahoma City
Ora Lee Linville
Jerry
Ora
Ora Lee
Chickasha
Okla
Earl Linville
Twining Tops Chiefs of Staff
President Eisenhower orders a major reshuffle of top military leaders. Air Force Gen Nathan F Twining will head the joint chiefs of staff replacing Adm Arthur W Radford. Gen Thomas D White to succeed Twining as Air Force chief moves to deputy post. Arleigh Burke earns second term as CNO and Gen Maxwell Taylor remains Army chief.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Air Force
Nathan F. Twining
Twining
Joint Chiefs
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Donald A. Quarles
Thomas D. White
Son charged in beating of 84 year old mother
NEW YORK A 51 year old man is charged with felonious assault in the beating of his 84 year old mother Mae Amory. She was taken to Bellevue Hospital with a fractured skull and multiple injuries in critical condition after an argument. She later told police the son did it.
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New York
Mae Amory
Bellevue Hospital
Communists Support Budapest Regime Despite Differences
Yugoslav and French Communists announced support for the Budapest regime in the Hungarian revolution dispute, stating they will back the current government in the interests of the Hungarian people.
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Budapest
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Trail Found Relating to Kidnapped American Woman
Iranian officials report troops and police locating fragments of a paper trail left by bandits who kidnapped Anita Huo var Carroll of Issaquah Washington and killed her husband and another U S official. About 12 nomads are said to have taken her to sell on Arab coasts near the Persian Gulf and Gulf of Oman as pursuit closes across the Tangeorkheh Desert.
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Tehran
Iran
U.S
Anita Huovar Carroll
Issaquah, Wash
Persian Gulf
Gulf of Oman
Tangeorkheh
Strike Crisis Pushes Cabinet Talks Amid UK Labor War
Prime Minister Macmillan called a Cabinet meeting as two major strikes imperil Britain's economic rebound. Employers and unions clash while negotiations loom, with the Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions planning another 500,000 engineering workers to strike Saturday from London area plants. About a million workers are already out, with a threat to reach 12 million by April 6, potentially shutting 4300 plants representing a large share of production.
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Macmillan
Britain
Confederation of Shipbuilding and Engineering Unions
Kaiser Plans Belpre Plant
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp will build a two million dollar aluminum foil processing plant at Belpre Ohio on a 30 acre site. Construction starts this spring with completion aimed in 1958 and initial operation in September. The plant will employ 175 people and serve Eastern and Midwest markets.
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Oakland
Calif
Kaiser Aluminum and Chemical Corp
Belpre
Ohio
Kaiser
Midwest
Legalized layoff pay proposal eyed by Ohio House
The Ohio House Industry and Labor Committee may send the issue to a subcommittee next week. After a final SUB hearing Republicans lead the panel, while Democratic members caucused and unanimously backed the SUB principle.
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Columbus
Ohio
House Industry and Labor Committee
Ohio House
Accidents Peak at Georgesville Road Intersection
The Department of Highway Safety reports that the Georgesville Road and U S 40 crossroads near Columbus had more accidents last year than any other rural intersection in the state.
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Columbus
Georgesville Road
U. S. 40
Department of Highway Safety
Missionary Released After Six Years in Shanghai
Tokyo radio announced that Rev. Fulgence Gross a Roman Catholic missionary from Omaha Nebraska has been released in Shanghai after six years in prison and house arrest on spy charges.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio
Fulgence Gross
Omaha
Neb
Shanghai
Brother of Athens woman linked to Near East tragedy
C David Anderson, Emory University former political science teacher, is stationed at Kerman with the Near East Foundation. His sister Mrs Gilbert Bergquist of 74 Stewart St has heard nothing since the murder of two other Americans. Iranian officials report that Kevin Carroll and Brewster Wilson were killed after bandits ambushed the party near Khash.
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Athens
Gilbert T. Bergquist
Stewart St
Kerman
Near East Foundation
C. David Anderson
Emory University
Georgia
Bergquist
Tehran
Carroll
Wilson
Dadshah
Iran
Beck Hanged in Effigy in Seattle Protest
A stuffed dummy bearing a placard reading Dave Beck was suspended from a wire between two utility poles along a Seattle street late Wednesday night. The scene appeared near the Teamsters Union headquarters at Seattle and Western.
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Seattle Street
Seattle
Dave Beck
Seattle—and Western
The
Teamsters Union
Search for missing U S military transport to pause Saturday
FUCHU Japan the search for a missing U S military transport carrying 67 Americans will be suspended at dark Saturday if no clue to its fate surfaces by then.
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Fuchu
Japan
U. S
Beck Tells of Contempt as Senate Probes Beck
Senate investigators shifted to private inquiry into Teamster President Dave Beck amid charges he diverted about 320000 in union funds. Beck left the stand after invoking the Fifth Amendment. McClellan warned the matter would continue and may yield further testimony. Beck cites tax troubles as his reason to testify in court. He will skip an AFL-CIO Executive Council meeting assessing his use of the Fifth Amendment under a new ethics rule.
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Senate
Teamster
Dave Beck
Beck
Seattle
McClellan
D-Ark
Teamsters Union
Internal Revenue Service
Afl-Cio Executive Council
More Cuts By House Scheduled
A House drive to cut about 200 million dollars for Labor and Welfare departments moved toward final passage. Republicans and Southern Democrats pressed to trim roughly 900 million from five appropriation bills this year, with Senate likely to restore some cuts.
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Washington
House
Appropriations
Eisenhower
House Coalition
Senate
House to Accept Senate Amendment on Business Tax Extension
The House planned to approve a Senate amendment extending three billion dollars of annual business taxes to July 1, 1958. The administration backs the 15 month extension, and Eisenhower must sign by Sunday to prevent automatic tax rate cuts Monday. Senate passage came by voice vote after seven hours of debate with efforts to add relief provisions defeated.
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Washington
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Circus Travels Again With Trains Left Behind Florida
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey shifts to a streamlined road show with the big top and circus trains staying in Florida. The troupe plans a New York spring tour, with performers traveling by regular passenger train and only the animals moving on circus cars. John Ringling North, president, conceived the new format after a mid season Pittsburgh tent fold last July.
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Sarasota
Fla
Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey
New York
John Ringling North
Pittsburgh
American Airlines to start Cleveland Los Angeles service
American Airlines will launch nonstop daily flights between Cleveland and Los Angeles beginning April 28, expanding cross country air travel from Cleveland.
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Cleveland
Los Angeles
American Airlines
Senate Works On Water Bill Faces Presidential Criticism
The Senate debates a 1.5 billion water projects authorization to fund 105 flood control navigation hydroelectric and beach erosion projects including Ohio River Gallipolis Mahoning Rivers West Branch Toledo Harbor. President Eisenhower questions why Congress authorizes such works remarking on political motives. Chairman Chavez defends the measure saying it will aid the economy as other federal projects do.
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Senate
Eisenhower
Congress
Public Works Committee
Ohio
Ohio River
Gallipolis
Mahoning River
West Branch
Toledo Harbor
Chavez
Senate Committee
White House
Costs of College Now About Double Prewar
An Office of Education survey released Wednesday shows undergraduate costs in private colleges averaging about $2000 a year, roughly twice the 1939-40 average of $1023. The report highlights the growing burden on families as higher education expenses rise.
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Washington
Office of Education
Japanese Leader Sees China Plans Heavy Industry Push
A Japanese business leader returning from Peiping said Red China intends to double its heavy industry investment within five years, signaling a major expansion drive.
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Hong Kong
Peiping
Red China
Ingrid Bergman Wins Oscar for Anastasia Role
Ingrid Bergman received the Academy Award at the 29th annual ceremony, saying she is delighted and very happy to win the top honor after eight years away from Hollywood. The Swedish star, 42, earned the best actress Oscar for her performance as the bewildered pretender princess in Anastasia. Yul Brynner won the top actor prize.
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Hollywood
Ingrid Bergman
Anastasia
Yul Brynner
King and I Dominates 1956 Oscar Wins
Yul Brynner won Best Actor for The King and I and Around the World in 80 Days earned five Oscars. Dorothy Malone and Anthony Quinn received Supporting Actor honors. George Stevens swept Best Director for Giant, with A Place in the Sun noted for his earlier win. The song Que Sera Sera tied for notable recognition.
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Anthony Quinn
Artist Gauguin
George Stevens
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Siberia
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