UN Wavers On Inviting Neutral Nations To Peace Talks
U S envoy Arthur Dean indicated the United States could invite neutral nations to the Korean peace conference under conditions. He rejected a Russian backed Panmunjom plan with neutrals as observers and said neutrals may join if Korea is settled or progress stalls. Dean warned no guarantees and noted alliance support needed.
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Panmunjom
U. S
Arthur Dean
United States
Dean
Russia
India
Burma
Indonesia
Pakistan
Neutral Nations
Red
South Korea
Korea
CIO Conclave Approves Pact Against Raids
The CIO plans a no raid pact with the AFL, aiming to bar unions from luring members away. Delegates predict strong support, but merger prospects remain unlikely as tensions surface between CIO President Reuther and AFL President Meany during the Cleveland convention.
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Cleveland
CIO
AFL
Afl-Cio
Walter Reuther
George Meany
Reuther
Meany
Torch-Murder Suspect Held Near Erie
Dist Atty D J McLaughlin said 31 year old hitch hiker Keith L Magee of Conneaut Ohio has been arrested in the death of George Harrington 70 of Lakeville Ohio whose partially burned body was found in the trunk of his auto after a Saturday night drinking bout along Route 20 Firemen extinguished the auto fire and Magee faces a murder charge.
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Erie
D. J. McLaughlin
George Harrington
Lakeville
Ohio
McLaughlin
Keith L. Magee
Conneaut
Harrington
Magee
Met Opera Celebrates 70th Anniversary with Faust Revival
New York The Metropolitan Opera marked its 70th anniversary with a rebuilt auditorium and a modernized Faust. The performance drew a larger, dignified audience and was deemed a musical and production success.
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New York
Metropolitan Opera
Met
Five Day Extended Forecast for Ohio Temperatures
The forecast shows temperatures in Ohio from Wednesday to Sunday averaging 46 degrees above normal. Cooler conditions are expected Thursday and again toward the weekend. Normal highs range from 46 to 51, with lows around 33. Showers are likely on Thursday and again Saturday and Sunday, totaling one quarter to one half inch.
Death Penalty Demanded for Bobby Greenlease Kidnappers
In Kansas City the government pressed for the death penalty for Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady on the second day of their trial. The 26 page confession by Mrs Heady was read to jurors detailing Hall's shooting of 6 year old Bobby Greenlease after the abduction and the failed attempt to abduct his sister Virginia Sue. The defense stood on guilty pleas and reserved insanity defenses if needed.
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Kansas City
Bobby Greenlease
Bonnie Heady
Carl Austin Hall
Bobby
Robert C. Greenlease
U. S
Edward Scheufler
Heady
Roy Dietrich
Kansas City Bar Assn
Hall
Dietrich
Harold Hall
Maryville
Virginia Sue
UN Vote on Arms Plan at United Nations
The 60 nation UN Political Committee prepared to vote on U S backed disarmament proposals including talks between big powers. Russia requested a 24 hour delay to study the Western resolution amid defeat on its own plans. The West favors talks first then a ban on atomic and hydrogen weapons. the Soviets seek an immediate ban followed by controls.
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United Nations
N. Y
Russia
UN Disarmament Commission
Rhodes Urges State Hire Race Stewards
Ohio Governor James A. Rhodes asks the state racing commission to assume responsibility for hiring stewards who run race meets. Currently track operators hire and pay stewards with commission approval. Rhodos referenced an audit of Fort Miami near Toledo and sent the suggestion in a letter to Racing Commissioner Zolton Gombos.
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Columbus
James A. Rhodes
State Racing Commission
Ohio
Racing Commission
Rhodes
Fort Miami
Toledo
Zolton Gombos
Cleveland
West Virginia counties named major drought disaster area
President Eisenhower designated the drought affected portion of West Virginia a major disaster area opening federal emergency relief funds. The White House did not name the counties. Sen. Kilgore said the designation would cover a majority of the state’s 55 counties.
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Point Pleasant
Eisenhower
West Virginia
White House
Sen. Kilgore
D-W.va
Five Die in Wilkinsburg Crash of Truck and Autos
Four men and a woman were killed in a flaming collision between a big trailer truck and three autos at a Wilkinsburg intersection. Three others were injured as responders worked over three hours to recover victims, with the coroner calling it the worst crash he had seen. Names include William Rivers Orlando Fla., William Smith 30 Pittsburgh, Frank Theis 35 Pittsburgh, Everett L. Jones Sidney Ill., and James Kusick Wilkinsburg.
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Pittsburgh
Wilkinsburg
William D. McClelland
Allegheny County
William Rivers
Orlando
Fla
William Smith
Frank Theis
Everett L. Jones
Sidney
Ill
James Kusick
Kusick
Eisenhower to convene party chiefs for State of the Union preview
Sen Knowland announces White House sessions December 17 to 19 with chairmen of regular congressional committees invited to participate. The talks aim to broaden GOP participation in drafting the program Eisenhower will propose next year. discussions center on topics to be included in the President's State of the Union message.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Sen
Knowland
New Boston Driver Charged in Fatality
Ashland police say Jarvey Hayes of New Boston Ohio will be served with a warrant charging involuntary manslaughter in the traffic death of Joyce Thompson 24 of Huntington West Virginia. Hayes drove the car that struck the one carrying Thompson who died shortly after the Saturday crash in Ashland. Thompson was among five passengers in a car driven by Ben W Hunt of Chesapeake Ohio.
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Ashland
Charles Griffith
Jarvey Hayes
New Boston
Ohio
Joyce Thompson
Huntington
W. Va
Hayes
Miss Thompson
Ben W. Hunt
Chesapeake
Burns Prove Fatal In Columbus Home Kitchen Blaze
Mrs. Hannah Butler aged 72 died in a Columbus hospital after flames and hot grease ignited her clothing in a kitchen fire at her residence. Yellowstone Fire Department responded to the blaze discovered the victim suffering severe burns. Investigators assess the cause as accidental with no sign of foul play.
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Columbus
Hannah Butler
Truman Defends White Case Amid Demagoguery Charge
Former President Truman says he kept Harry Dexter White in government service to preserve FBI investigations into disloyalty claims. He accuses the current administration of shameful demagoguery and criticizes Attorney General Brownell for political use of the matter.
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FBI
Kansas City
Harry 8S
Truman
Harry Dexter White
Nine hurt in violent labor tiff at Columbus plant
At the North American Aviation plant in Columbus, nine people sustained minor injuries as CIO United Auto Workers Local 927 strikers clashed with police. Eight squads responded as cars were stoned near main and side entrances. A back-to-work movement and a pending contempt citation for the picket limit added tension. Helen W. Martin, 46, was injured when her car struck logs left on a street near the plant.
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Columbus
Ohio
North American Aviation, Inc
Columbus Dispatch
CIO
United Auto Workers
Franklin County Common Pleas
James IL. Krupp
Krupp
Helen W. Martin
Hilliards
Attorney General BROWNELL to defend spy charges before Senate
Atty. Gen. Brownell testifies before the Senate internal security subcommittee offering a comprehensive statement backing charges that Harry Dexter White was kept in a sensitive post despite FBI reports describing espionage activities. Truman defends his 1946 IMF appointment stance amid partisan reaction.
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Oguery
Herbert Brownell
Chicago
White
Truman
Brownell
Harry Dexter White
Treasury Department
The
Treasuy
FBI
Fred Vinson
International Monetary Fund
Senate
Byrnes
Vinson
Tom Clark
Supreme Court
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
White House
Adlai F. Stevenson
Leonard W. Hall
Republican National Committee
GOP
Hall
Sen. Ferguson
Michigan
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Ferguson
Treasury
International Fund
Sen. McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
Chirman Jenner
R-Ind
Marshall College Ace To Miss Bobcat Game
Marshall College ace passer and quarterback John Chmara will miss the season finale against Ohio University after tearing a ligament in his leg. The injury reduces the Marshall roster to 19 players plus a kicking specialist with a broken arm. Chmara, a senior from Oak Hill, suffered the injury in Friday’s game with Wolfford College.
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Huntington
W. Va
John Chmara
Marshall College
Marshall
Oak Hill
Wolfford College
Ohio University
Five Million Sought In Contract Action
The publisher of the Los Angeles Daily News sues Robert L. Smith for 5,604,000 damages alleging a broken contract for the sale of the newspaper's controlling interest. Sheldon F. Sackett, a California Oregon publisher and radio operator, charged Smith repudiated an agreement made Oct. 24. Sackett valued the assets at five million dollars.
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Los Angeles
Los Angeles Daily News
Sheldon F. Sackett
California
Oregon
Robert L. Smith
Smith
Sackett
Athens Man Dies After Sunday Car Crash
Joseph H. Shane 24 of Carbondale Illinois Route 1 died at Sheltering Arms Hospital from a skull fracture and leg fractures two days after his Madison Avenue hill crash. He worked for Athens Home Telephone Co. and was trapped in his wrecked car before rescue by police fire and volunteers. His parents arrived from Carbondale after his death.
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Joseph H. Shane
Carbondale
Ill
Sheltering Arms Hospital
Madison Ave
Shane
Athens
Athens Home Telephone Co
Home St
Guy Shane
Fire Department
Columbia Ave
E. State St
Jagers Funeral Home
Welfare workers seek more funds and staff in Ohio
Welfare workers meeting in Columbus urged the need for tonics to brace handicapped welfare work. The Study Course Committee of the Ohio Welfare Conference listed more money and personnel and public understanding of social work as remedies, proposing scholarships for students in social work and higher salaries for workers.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Welfare Conference
Freight Derailed Near Thurston in Fairfield County
New York Central Railroad officials report 17 cars of a Ti car NYC freight train derailed about a mile north of Thurston in Fairfield County. Assistant Superintendent Donald Ingold said no one was injured and about 500 feet of track was damaged.
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Columbus
Ohio
New York Central Railroad
NYC
Thurston
Fairfield County
Donald Ingold
Guard Units Join Forest Fire Battle Near Portsmouth
Hundreds of volunteer firefighters fought a 285 acre blaze threatening West Portsmouth as two new brush fires broke out 15 miles west in tinder dry timberland. Shawnee Forest area and private land fueled the flames as backfires worked to halt spread while Guardsmen joined the effort and no buildings had yet burned.
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Portsmouth
Ohio
West
National Guard
Ironton
GOP Losing Dixie Says South Weakens for Republicans
Hod ding Carter publisher of the Delta Democrat Times Greenville Mississippi says the Republican strength in the South is fading and the 1946 Pulitzer winner for editorial writing believes the trend has been stopped. He spoke in Columbus to address the Ohio Select List of Daily Newspaper Publishers. Hamilton McPeek was elected president as the group closed its two day annual convention with Gordon K. Bush Robert C. Dix and J. O. Ames filling senior posts. Advertising executives elected T. B. Artz president Jack B. Lake vice president and Lawrence Finch secretary treasurer.
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Columbus
Ohio
Hodding Carter
Delta Democrat Times
Greenville
Miss
South
Carter
Hamilton McPeek
Bellefontaine Examiner
Gordon K. Bush
Athens Messenger
Robert C. Dix
The
Ravenna Record
J. O. Ames
Sydney News
T. B. Artz
Wooster Record
Jack B. Lake
Lancaster Eagle Gazette
Lawrence Finch
Troy News
Hearing Set In Radio Suss Case In Ohio
Ironton Ohio hearing set for November 25 as Rosene general manager of WNXT pleads innocent to charges tied to broadcasting a Portsmouth Ironton football game from outside Ironton Stadium. Police say a truck station broadcast there without authority. Rosene claims no law forbids such airing and says WPAY WIRO obtained last minute permission.
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Ironton
Ohio
Marshall Rosene
Portsmouth
WNXT
WIRO
Rosene
Seven Await Sentences For Whiskey Thefts
Seven men await federal sentencing for taking $34,000 worth of whisky from an Indiana distillery. The latest defendant to be sentenced is Robert J. Hamilton, 32, convicted by a jury in Cleveland. Hamilton was assistant manager for a Cleveland freight line set to move the liquor from Seagram Distillers in Lawrenceburg, Indiana, last July.
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Cleveland
Indiana
Charles J. McNamee
Robert J. Hamilton
Hamilton
Seagram Distillers, Inc
Lawrenceburg
Ind
Pomeroy Bingo Case Postponed and Church Games
The hearing for Rev. Father George Adams charged with permitting bingo has been postponed to December 10. Sacred Heart Church will run its annual bazaar November 19 with no bingo, and the New Year’s Firemen Ball may proceed as in past years. The mayor announced these actions after a meeting with Adams and three attorneys. Several witnesses said they had not been notified of the changes.
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Sacred Heart Church
Father Adams
Canaday
Father George Adams
Fred Crow, Jr
Fred Crow
John C. Bacon
City Hall
Per Center Is Indicted For Influence Peddling
Warren L. Stephenson former Republican leader indicted on perjury charges over testimony about efforts to obtain commissions from Century Industries Inc. for aiding extra Navy contracts. He had previously denied contacts with the California company supplying rocket launchers and later admitted seeking a 4 percent commission or $2000 a month salary. Stephenson chaired the local committee that organized Eisenhower's January inaugural.
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Washington
Warren L. Stephenson
Stephenson
California
Navy
House Armed Services Committee
Century Industries Inc
Burbank
Calif
Century
Eisenhower
Rt. 13 Repair Gets Priority
Ohio highway director outlines a 90 million dollar program for next year. The new state highway construction council designated 6,200 miles as major thoroughfares, adding Rt. 13 from New Lexington to Chauncey, Rt. 224 to the Indiana line, Rt. 7 to Bellaire, and Rt. 164 from Rt. 62 to Rt. 224.
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Columbus
Samuel O. Linzell
State
Ottawa
Indiana State Line
Rt. 7
Alt
Bellaire
Rt. 164
Rt. 62
Top Steel Union Brass Tour Plants in Ohio
U.S. Steel and CIO United Steelworkers leaders begin an experimental tour of six Ohio steel plants. The purpose is to find common ground on smaller issues to prevent future strikes in the steel industry.
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Top Steel
Union Brass
Cleveland
U. S. Steel
CIO United Steelworkers
Ohio
President to Seek Taft-Hartley Act Revisions
President Eisenhower told the CIO in Cleveland that he will ask Congress next January to amend the Taft-Hartley Act to make it absolutely fair to labor, management, and the public. The message was delivered to the CIO convention.
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Washington
Eisenhower
CIO
Congress
Cleveland
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