Border Bars in Holyland Open for Christmas Eve Note
The Jordan Israel border opens for one night on Christmas Eve to allow pilgrims to reach St. Catherine's Church in Bethlehem for the midnight mass. Arab Legion and Israeli guards relinquish crossings at a point as Msgr. Alberto Gori leads the Latin Patriarch in Jerusalem. Mass runs from 11 p.m. Dec 24 until about 2 a.m. Dec 25 with processions to the Nativity cave. Churches across the region hold separate services on January 6 or 7 depending on tradition.
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Bethlehem
Jordan
Israel
Prince of Peace
Arab Legion
Msgr
Alberto Gori
Jerusalem
St. Catherine’s Church
Iff
Amman
Lydda
Holy Land
Bet Jala
St. Catherine’s
Holy City
Jesus
St. Catherine's Church
Cave of the Nativity
Remarkable recovery amid split twins in Chicago
The 15 month old brothers Roger Lee and Rodney Dee Brodie, born joined at the heads, remained in critical condition after a 12 hour 40 minute operation that separated them. Rodney Dee showed slight improvement while Roger Lee remained unconscious. doctors warned the critical period would last days.
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Chicago
Roger Lee
University of Illinois
Rodney Dee
Marjorie Brodie
Money Major Problem of State Legislators
The 1953 Minnesota Legislature faces money as its top issue with no surplus and rising costs. Debates likely include un-dedicating the income tax school fund, school aid increases, farm to market roads aid, higher gasoline taxes for rural roads, liquor enforcement powers, agency consolidation per the Hoover Commission, mental health funding, and an Employment on Merit bill to curb discrimination.
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Adolph Johnson
ST. Paul
Minnesota
University of Minnesota
Teachers Colleges
Anderson
Little Hoover Commission
Legislative Research Committee
Fair Employment Practices Commission
Boys Win Tools in Mechanics Course
Thomas Comstock, 18, a 4-H’er from West Concord, earns a $25 savings bond for applying mechanics knowledge to save labor on the home farm. State 4-H leader Leonard Harkness announced it. Seven peers receive tools for their farm mechanics work: Leon Gothmann, Charles Roessler, Robert Atne, Larr Costello, Roger Brathen, Robert Weber, and William Nie ters Cook from various towns including St Bonifacius
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Thomas Comstock
West Concord
Leonard Harkness
University of Minnesota
Leon Gothmann
St. Bonifacius
Charles Roessler
Elysian
Robert Atne
Madison
Larr Costello
Rochester
Roger Brathen
Elizabeth
Robert Weber
St. Paul
William Nieters Cook
Czech Leader Is Doomed Says Voice of America
The Voice of America on state radio predicted imminent trial and execution for Czechoslovakia’s President Klement Gottwald, saying Moscow authorities will use evidence similar to that used against Rudolf Slansky. It cited Gottwald’s past pro Tito leanings and noted an imagined trial date of tomorrow or the day after.
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Washington
State Department
Moscow
Klement Gottwald
Czechoslovakia
Voice of
Amer
Ica
Gottwald
The
Voice
Rudolf Slansky
Communist Party
Slansky Trial Testimony Cited in Communist Debate
The Voice notes Maria Svermova former party secretariat member testified that the Soviet path to socialism is not the only possible route and warned against a supposed Czechoslovak way to socialism during coverage of the Slansky trial proceedings.
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Soviet Union
Maria Svermova
Slansky
Voice
Gottwald linked to Tito regime via daughter Marta
The Voice ties Gottwald to the Tito regime through his daughter Marta, once an embassy assistant in Belgrade who married Dragutin Dzhurdzhev, a Yugoslav Foreign Ministry official. It also accuses him of pushing Czechoslovakia into the Marshall Plan and seeking an International Bank loan.
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Gottwald
Voice
Tito
Marta
Belgrade
Dragutin Dzhurdzhev
Forghhia
Foreign Ministry
Gott
Czechoslovakia
International Bank
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