Presidential Electors to Vote Today
Washington the nation’s 531 electors cast their votes for president today amid debate over the Electoral College. Polls suggested Eisenhower 442 Stevenson 89, with many electors free to vote their conscience though few have done otherwise. Some back abolishing or reforming the system to award votes by statewide popular totals.
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United States
Adlai Stevenson
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Tennessee
Truman
J. Strom Thurmond
Congress
Senate
Associated Press
Albert Lea financier A F Hall dies at 60
Albert Lea. A F Hall longtime president of Albert Lea Savings and Loan Association dies at 60. He led several Minnesota banks, headed Empire Mutual Insurance in Albert Lea, and served on the city council. Survived by wife, daughter Mrs David Darrell, brother Al Hall and sisters in Minneapolis and Miles City. Services set for Tuesday afternoon.
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A. F. Hall
Albert Lea Savings and Loan Association
Minnesota Savings and Loan League
Minnesota
Loan Association
Empire Mutual Insurance Company
Minnesota State Department of Banking
Hall
Austin Kiwanis Club
The
Elks Lodge
St. Hilaire
Minn
David Darrell
al Hall
St. Paul
Alice Hall
Minneapolis
Grace Hall
Miles City
Mont
Ireland Grand Forks Lumberman Dies After Prolonged Illness
Guy L. Ireland, 75, a noted Northwest lumber businessman, died Sunday in a Rochester Minnesota hospital following years of operations and surgeries. He led Ireland Lumber Co. in Grand Forks since 1915 and previously ran yards at Rockford Iowa and Hankinson North Dakota, with earlier work in Crookston Minnesota.
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Grand Forks
N. D
Guy L. Ireland
Rochester
January Draft Call Increased to 25 Men
Mower County selective service officials issued a pre-induction call for 25 men to report January 7, stepping up from a prior 20 for January 8. The change reflects increased draft activity and local preparedness.
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Mower County
Selective Service
Ike Needs Patience in Peace Hunt for Korea
President-elect Dwight D. Eisenhower returns to New York to map positive programs for peace in Korea. He cautions that no simple solution exists and that patience foresight and common sense are required as he pursues a constructive approach with possible talks with General MacArthur.
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New York
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
Eisenhower
Douglas MacArthur
MacArthur
LaGuardia Field
Gale Pushes U. S. Ship onto Italian Shore
The 3800 ton U S Navy Grommet Reefer grounded on Leghorn harbor rocks in a gale with 40 aboard. First engineer Carl F Treudler of Belle Aire New York reached safety after about 12 hours, the rest uninjured. The stern remained stuck while the bow drifted ashore. seven tons of turkeys bound for soldiers in Austria and Italy were aboard.
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Italy
Leghorn Harbor
Carl F. Treudler
Belleaire
N. Y
Treudler
Trendler
Austria
Butler Shipyards
Duluth
Minn
McCarthy Plans Continued Red Hunt in New Congress
Senator Joseph McCarthy said his drive against subversives and security risks will continue in the new GOP Congress. He will chair the Senate Committee on Government Operations and will weigh steps with Senator McCarran’s subcommittee before taking action on the Communist question.
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Washington
Sen. MccCarthy
R-Wis
Congress
McCarthy
Truman
Senate
Sen. McCarran
Dnev
Lie tests fail to link father son to slaying
Fresno officers said lie detectors did not connect Wendell Hall and his son Travis to the $7,128 bludgeon massacre of Gard Young and three children. Both men, held separately, denied involvement and were to be released unless new clues emerged. An informant had spoken with them about a planned robbery of Young.
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Calif
Wendell Hall
Travis
Gard Young
San Francisco
Young
NATO Ministers Open Meet Passes Budget For 1953 Defense
NATO ministers opened a four day meeting in Paris to discuss a 428 million dollar 1953 defense budget including 31 to 35 new airbases and Mediterranean naval commands. British plans to appoint Adm Earl Mountbatten to NATO duties were noted along with concerns over rising expenditures and readiness of reserve divisions.
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Europe
NATO
United States
Lord Ismay
Robert Barnes
Council
SHAPE
London Opens Winter With First Snowfall
London reports the season's initial snowfall with 1 to 3 inches blanketing streets and parks. City crews prepared for further accumulations as commuters adjusted travel plans.
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London
Levittown Parents Drain Drowning Death Pond After Tragedy
In Hicksville New York Levittown residents and onlookers mobilized with shovels bulldozers and petrol lamps to fill a rainwater catch pit where a 4 year old boy drowned and a 7 year old boy was killed earlier. Members of the community worked through the night to reclaim the dangerous pit and protect nearby homes from further danger.
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N. Y
Long Island
Hicksville
Meat output seen rising amid slower per capita pork gains
Corey says 1953 meat production could reach 23% billion pounds, up 4% from 1952 and 7% from 1951, with per capita meat availability at about 145 pounds, led by beef. Pork and lamb supplies falter as cattle herd grows to an all time high near 93-94 million, and feeder cattle shipments rise in the Corn Belt.
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H. H. Corey
The
American Meat Institute
Corey
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Jones, Retired Ada Banker, Dies at 86
D. C. Jones 86, a retired banker from Ada Minnesota, died Sunday after a short illness. He lived with his son Larry, a Princeton merchant, for seven years and is survived by a daughter Mrs. David Berge of Roseau Minnesota. He retired in 1942 after serving as president of the Farmers and Merchants Bank of Ada the First State Bank of Gary and the First State Bank of Lockhart.
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D. C. Jones
Ada
Minn
Larry
Jones
David Berge
Roseau
Farmers and Merchants Bank of
First State Bank of
Gary
Swarthmore Student Wins Rhodes Scholarship District Five
Princeton New Jersey reports Swarthmore College student Donald W. Sutherland of Sioux Falls South Dakota won a Rhodes scholarship in a district five competition for 32 awards. He was among five winners in the Midwest district.
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Donald W. Sutherland
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Swarthmore College
Middle West
Derailment Blocks Highway 19 at Stanton Minn Grade Crossing
Stanton Minnesota suffered a lengthy delay when 18 cars of a Chicago Great Western freight train derailed at a grade crossing on Saturday night. No injuries were reported.
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Minn
Chicago Great Western Railroad
Highway 19
Freeman Leirfallom Exchange Charges At Stillwater Prisons
The Minnesota prison probe continues with finger pointing over contraband parties at Stillwater and St. Cloud reform school. Freeman calls for removal of prison heads and a new legislative inquiry while Leirfallom defends the current officials as impartial. Rep. McCarthy contemplates a federal look at the prison system.
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Stillwater Penitentiary
Orville Freeman
Democratic Farmer Labor
Stillwater Prison
St. Cloud Reformatory
C. Elmer Anderson
Jarle Leirfallom
Freeman
Carl Jackson
Leo Utecht
Eugene McCarthy
Federal Bureau of Prisons
Leifallom
Leirfallom
George Young
Joseph Schaefer
Murder, Inc
Hing
Stillwater
British Philosopher Russell Marries American Author
Lord Bertrand Russell an 80 year old British philosopher wed Edith Finch 50 a Bryn Mawr Pa teacher and author. The civil ceremony at Chelsea Registry Office lasted eight minutes behind closed doors with Russell claiming writer as occupation and himself as a peer of the realm. Finch described as spinner and American.
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London
Bertrand Russell
Chelsea Registry
Edith Finch
Bryn Mawr
Russell
Rock Tossing Mutiny Wounds U S and ROK Soldiers in Korea
On Pongam Island Allied guards killed 82 mutinous Communist prisoners and wounded 120 as they quashed a mass riot by about 3,600 civilian internees. Two American and two South Korean soldiers were injured by rock-throwing Reds amid a planned breakout.
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Sam Summerlin
Pusan
Korea
Pongam Island
Co. C. V. Cadwell
Pongam
Kose Island
George P. Miller
U. N
Eight Killed in Minnesota Weekend Accidents
Eight people died in Minnesota over the weekend with five auto accidents and two grade crossing fatalities. Victims include Werner Hoytya 46 of New York Mills and Chester Bleisch 8 of Bluffton, both in Wesley Hospital. A truck train crash near Pine City killed Edward Kozlowski 38 and injured Clifford Torell 36. Patricia Harbinson 17 of rural Litchfield died in a two car collision in Litchfield.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Wesley Hospital
Wadena
Werner Ernest Hoyhtya
New York Mills
Chester W. Bleisch
Bluffton
Hoytya
Ed Schultz
Frazee
Bleisch Boy
Joseph W. Bleisch
Wayne R. Rudolph
Detroit Lakes
Edward Kozlowski
Graf
Clifford Torell
Bruno
Pine City
Duquette
Patricia Harbinson
Matt Harbinson
Litchfield
Gary Jones
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