France to deploy 60000 more troops in Algeria violence
France announced a pledge to deploy 60 000 additional soldiers to Algeria amid escalating violence as nationalists seek independence. In the past 24 hours about 40 deaths were reported with total toll over 200 in two weeks. French troops, including Alpine Chasseurs, reinforced by Premier Faure’s government, scramble to contain the insurgency.
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Algiers
Algeria
France
Indochina
Djurdura
Edgar Faure
Jacques Soustelle
Ailing Quints Leave Hospital for Ontario Home
Two Dionne sisters Annette and Marie left Hospital de l Esperance Ville St Laurent after rest and checkup and were deemed perfectly all right by doctors Their sisters Yvonne and Cecile are training as nurses at the same hospital The quintuplet family will be apart for the New Year instead of Christmas Emilie died at a Sainte Agathe nursing home in August 1954
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Montreal
Callander
Ont
Hospital de l’Esperance
Ville St. Laurent
Annette
Marie
Yvonne
Cecile
Dionne
Emilie
Ste. Agathe, Que
Paratrooper Walks Home After Snowbound Ordeal
Sergeant John Horan of Maynard Mass. walked four days through Snoqualmie Pass foothills after jumping from an Air Force C46 his feet blistered swollen and frozen. He improvised snowshoes from chute parts and shelved boards to keep moving toward a roadside inn where he began his rescue. Teruko his Japanese wife and three children awaited news in Seattle. He aimed to reunite with them after reaching a cabin where he saved himself with warmth cocoa and melted snow.
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Easton
Wash
John Horan
Maynard
Mass
Cascade Mountain
Teruko
Seattle
Japan
Ft. Lawton
Air Force
Horan
Snoqualmie Pass
Pilot Tells Newsmen Crash Landing Just Like a Feather Bed
Capt Harold W. Burch pilot describes a twin engine C45 crash near Graham Ontario after both engines failed in bad weather. Co pilot Capt Dorsey L Stover and Maj Ellis Veatch chaplain survived rough landing and reached safety with help from trains and handcars. All three are Minneapolis residents with families awaiting them at the base.
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Minneapolis
Harold W. Burch
Graham
Ont
Burch
Dorseyll. Stover
Ellis Veatch
Air Force
Veatch
Oscar
Stover
Wold Chamberlain Field
Drake, N.D
Big Step-up Shown in Pork Sales
Hormel figures show Austin stores sold 59 000 pounds of pork and related products during a 10 day Herald promotion. Sales the prior week were 23 761 pounds. W E Tollefson credits in store displays recipes and a pork cooking school for the strong lift. The campaign aimed to aid farmers with surplus and help housewives with lower prices.
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Austin “‘Pork
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Austin
W. E. Tollefson
Austin Daily Herald
Hormel Company
Herald
Tollefson
Horme! Company
Eisenhower Grants 42 Pardons in Yuletide Action
President Eisenhower pardoned 42 convicted criminals and commuted one death sentence in a Yuletide clemency action. The White House announced the list would be released later by the Justice Department after a brief conference with Attorney General Brownell. The move follows the same pattern as last year.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Justice Department
Atty
Gen
Brownell
No Relief in Sight for Areas
Devastating floods spread south to Santa Cruz and east to Reno with nine deaths in northern California and three in Oregon. Santa Cruz reports three dead and 12 missing while 300 to 400 exposure victims seek blankets. Reno traffic halted by swollen Truckee River as rain continues.
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San Francisco
Santa Cruz
Reno
Navy
California
Oregon
Riverside Hotel
U.N. diplomats doubt Israel ouster at Security Council
Diplomats in New York doubt Syria can force a council meeting to demand Israel’s expulsion from the United Nations after the Dec 11 Galilee attack. A censure and negotiations resolution is favored as Syria seeks punitive measures while observers note Syria’s nonmembership in the council.
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United Nations
N.Y
Syria
Security Council
Israel
Galilee
Ahmed Shukairy
Council
Sination Body
Army Expands Atomic Power Deployments in Europe
The Army to send six more Corporal missile battalions to Western Europe in the first four months of next year. The weapons carry nuclear warheads with ranges up to 70 miles and will join existing Corps and Air Force atomic units in the European defense line. All battalions depart from Fort Bliss Texas after months of training. the Corporal is a semiguided missile guided by radar early flight.
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Washington
Europe
Army
Air Force
Ft. Bliss
Tex
Christmas Day closures sweep US financial markets
New York financial and commodity exchanges will be closed on Monday December 26 in observance of Christmas. Some commodity markets will close early today.
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New York
United States
Morrell to Move Office to Chicago
SIOUX FALLS S D General offices of John Morrell & Co will be transferred to Chicago on Dec 31, the company's office here said Friday. By laws were amended to allow the transfer of the general office function with Ottumwa Iowa to Chicago. The firm said the change was made to give a more central location.
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Sioux Falls
S. D
John Morrell & Co
Chicago
Ottumwa
Iowa
Outlaw Chester Merrifield Dies Fainting in Electric Chair
Eddyville Ky Chester Merrifield a noted outlaw who killed Louisville Policeman Alvin Keown died early today in the electric chair after fainting while being strapped in. The 37 year old crippled gunman hobbled to the chair on crutches following a 1953 nightclub parking lot gunfight with Keown. Warden M W Thomas reported the inmate fainted during buckling.
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Eddyville
Chester Merrifield
Louisville
Alvin Keown
Keown
M. W. Thomas
Merrifield
Stores Close Early for Christmas Eve in Austin Area
In observance of Christmas Eve all stores in Greater Austin will close at 5 50 p.m. Saturday after noon. Greater Austin includes downtown Austin Sterling and Eastside shopping centers and all supermarkets. Stores will be closed on Sunday and Monday open until 9 p.m. tonight.
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Greater Austin
Austin
Sterling
Eastside
Rail Workers Plan Strike on Milwaukee
The Railway Yardmasters of America vote to strike against the Chicago Milwaukee St. Paul and Pacific Railroad on Christmas Day. C Earl Falconer as Milwaukee Road general chairman says 160 yardmasters will walk off. He cites a $3.50 monthly wage gap and an unacceptable counter-proposal from Clyde P. Downing. Dyer and Crosby in the division had no official word yet.
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Chicago
America
Chicago, Milwaukee, St. Paul and Pacific
C. Earl Falconer
Union
Milwaukee Road
Falconer
Clyde P. Downing
Divison
M. D. Dyer
M. E. Crosby
32 of 100 Babies May Develop Cancer, Survey Finds
A National Cancer Institute survey across 19 metropolitan areas reports 32 of every 100 newborns may develop cancer in their lifetimes. The study, published in JAMA, notes diagnostic advances, better care, and improving economic conditions as factors behind rising reported cases since 1937 to 1947.
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Chicago
United States
National Cancer Institute
Journal of the American Medical Assn
Detroit
Philadelphia
Pittsburgh
Atlanta
New Orleans
Alias
Denver
San Francisco
Birmingham
Ala
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Patricia Samples
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South Dakota
Healdsburg
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Pacific Coast
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Pepperwood
Elmnor
Weatt
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Eel
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Placer County
Humboldt
U.N
Shukairy
Israel Council
Leslie Munro
New Zealand
U.N. Palestine
E. L. M. Burns
Burns
U. N
Morrell
Killer
Milwaukee
John R. Heller
Sidney J. Cutler
M. A
William M. Haenszel
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