Knutson denies hearing aimed to aid campaign
Moorhead Minnesota Congresswoman Coya Knutson denies a Clay County Republicans charge that a House subcommittee hearing was staged to bolster her re election bid. Witnesses urged high rigid supports for agriculture as dairy policy critics attacked administration programs during the Moorhead session.
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Minn
House Subcommittee
Rep
Coya Knutson
Minnesota
Gaylord Saetre
Clay County
Republicans
Knutson
Administration
Saetre
St. Paul
West Warmed and East Snow Sweep Nation
A warming trend hit the West from the Western Plains to the Pacific while heavy snow blanketed the East. Northern Rockies saw 30 degree plus gains. Cut Bank Montana rose 37 degrees in a day. Dakotas remained cold with Bismarck at 2 below zero. Snow spread from the Lower Mississippi Valley to the Ohio, Great Lakes, Pennsylvania and New York with up to 2 inches in places. Pacific Northwest continued snowy with 4 inches at Mullen Pass Idaho and 9 inches at Omak Washington.
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Pacific Coast
Rockies
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Sheridan
Wyo
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Pendleton
Ore
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Bismarck
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Ohio Valley
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Pennsylvania
New York
Tennessee
Arkansas
Kentucky
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Mullen Pass
Idaho
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Wash
Eisenhower Takes Holiday From Work at Gettysburg
President Eisenhower, returning to a normal schedule, relaxes with old friends at his Gettysburg area farm. Observance of Lincoln’s 92nd anniversary planned by neighbors. defense talk with Gen Gruenther noted but no public duties. Social bridge game precedes a quiet weekend with golf putter and entertainment.
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Eisenhower
Abraham Lincoln
Alfred M. Gruenther
NATO
Europe
Gruenther
Denver
George E. Allen
Howard M. Snyder
Officials Mum on Graham's Buying Bomb
Denver authorities refused to confirm or deny a Rocky Mountain News report that Jack Gilbert Graham bought a timing device last month for 5.95 at a Denver electric supply. The device allegedly used to detonate dynamite aboard a United Air Lines plane, killing Graham's mother and three others near Longmont. Dist. Atty. Bert M. Keating and the FBI declined comment.
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Jack Gilbert Graham
The
Rocky Mountain News
al Nakkula
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Dist. Atty
Bert M. Keating
FBI
United Air Lines
Longmont
Colo
Daisie King
Five Vehicles Slide on Ice Near Faribault Injury Report
A St Paul boy Stephen Ryan 18 months old suffered head injuries in a crash on icy Highway 165 north of Faribault as five cars and a pickup collided. The chain reaction began when a car slid after brakes were applied and ended with the Ryan vehicle struck by a broadside pickup. Parents and driver Hubert Rowland were hurt but not believed serious.
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Faribault
Minn
St. Paul
Stephen Ryan
James J. Ryan
Folwell
Highway 165
Here
Hubert R. Rowland
Owatonna
Dulles Keeps Peace Hopes Alive in Geneva Report
President Eisenhower says the United States will never admit defeat in seeking a just and durable peace despite the Geneva stalemate. Secretary of State Dulles reports cautious optimism, noting the Geneva spirit persists while Moscow’s diplomacy shifts from threats to calmer tones. The three weeks at Geneva yielded no progress but reinforced resolve to avoid drastic defense cuts and sustain aid programs.
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Eisenhower
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Russia
Eisenhower Administration
John Foster Dulles
Fraternity House Demolished in Blast at Butler
An explosion at the Sigma Chi fraternity house at Butler University in Indianapolis demolished the 155000 brick building and lightly injured seven people. Firemen said the five year old three story structure was a total loss after a 1000 gallon hot water tank that was installed Friday exploded. Eleven members and the house mother were present, with more than 20 students living there.
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Indianapolis
Sigma Chi
Butler University
USI drive nears 75 percent with $42,338 raised
In a Friday report, USI contributions total $42,338.15 toward a $59,998 goal. Race Crane, general chairman, said $14,660 remains and no Hormel plant worker reports have been received yet. Worker solicitations will continue for two weeks.
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USI
Geo. A. Hormel & Co
Race Crane
Hormel
Pulitzer Prize Winner Marquis James Dies at 64
Rye New York Marquis James Pulitzer prize winning biographer and historian died at his home of a cerebral hemorrhage after recent illness. He won 1930 for The Raven and 1938 for a two volume life of Andrew Jackson and had just finished research on Booker T. Washington. James was the third prize winner to die this week following Bernard De Voto and Robert Sherwood. He began as a newspaperman and wrote for magazines and radio. He was a Springfield Missouri native.
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Rye
N. Y
Marquis James
James
Sam Houston
The
Andrew Jackson
Booker T. Washington
Bernard de Voto
Robert Sherwood
Pope Receives Stassen at Castel Gandolfo
Pope Pius XII granted a special audience to Harold E. Stassen at Castel Gandolfo. Stassen, President Eisenhower's disarmament adviser, arrived Friday to consult Italian officials on disarmament policy.
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Castel Gandolfo
Italy
Pius XII
Harold E. Stassen
Eisenhower
Stassen
Grange backs Thye plan for united farm program
Sen. Thye of Minnesota announced National Grange master Herschel Newsom replied in strong support for a three group meeting to forge a single farm program. He noted Farm Bureau and Farmers Union had not yet replied and that Minnesota leaders will gather in St. Paul on December 16 to discuss the proposal.
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Saetre
House
St. Paul
Moorhead
Knutson
Farm Bureau
J. Delbert Wells
Minneapolis
Minnesota Farm Bureau
Wells
Washington
Sen
Thye
R-Minn
National Grange
Herschel V. Newsom
The
Grange
American Farm Bureau
National Farmers Union
Congress
Farmers Union
Minnesota
Search Party Hunts Plane in Mountains
A Carlisle search party waded through snow in Cumberland County looking for a reported aircraft crash nine miles southwest of Mt. Holly Springs. Civil Defense coordinator Dale Murphy said the “ghost plane” vanished from sight after spotters reported a craft about 1,000 feet over the area. No missing aircraft reports could be confirmed.
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Carlisle
Dale Murphy
Cumberland County Civil Defense
Murphy
Civil Defense
Mill rate for Austin School District 27 to stay near current level
The Austin School District 27 mill rate for next year will be roughly the same as this year. A Herald Friday tax story said the levy may rise from 112.12 mills this year to about 130 mills for 1956 taxes, but officials said the budget will require about 112 mills next year, effectively identical to the 112.12 mills paid this year.
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Austin
Herald
FBI Clues Sparse in Cashiers Car Case Report
The article notes limited clues from FBI agents about a Cashiers area car incident as investigators press for details. It mentions ongoing inquiries, without revealing new evidence or identifications, as authorities pursue leads in a high profile local case.
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FBI
Money Found in Abandoned Car Linked to Missing Bank Cashier
FBI and sheriff investigate disappearance of Thief River Falls bank cashier Kenneth Lindbergh after a Detroit Lakes call. Car in north Minneapolis held $1,530 in coins from missing bank funds, plus personal items. Kennell charged with interstate transportation of stolen property. Kennes not matching Lindbergh.
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FBI
Thief River Falls
North
Kenneth Lindbergh
Detroit Lakes
Calvin Howard
Detroit
Kennell
Lindbergh
Chicago
Reds Tighten Border Control
In Helmstedt Germany Communist border police tightened highway checks on the East German frontier then relaxed them after six hours. At Marienborn checkpoint guards searched West to East traffic for Western newspapers but eased controls as the day wore on. West German officials call it a spot check, not a broader harassment campaign, following two prior moves.
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Germany
Mar Jienborn
Berlin
East Germany
Minneapolis Sailor Killed in Collision
A car crash at the junction of routes 9 and 20 killed Lawrence Keener 19 of Minneapolis and injured four others. The group, all from the U.S.S.R. Antietam docked at South Boston, were returning from a visit when their car rear ended a trailer truck.
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Mass
Worcester Memorial Hospital
Lawrence Keener
Minneapolis
Standish Ave
U.S.S.R. Antietam
South Boston
Blast Wrecks Gas Station in Faribault Minnesota
An explosion at a Cities Service station leased by Fritz Stoeckel in Faribault damaged the building and nearby homes early today. Doors were blown 80 feet onto a house porch, one residence scorched with broken windows, and a bulk oil truck was total loss. No injuries were reported.
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Faribault
Minn
Fritz Stoeckel
Fred Miller
John Miller
Rescue Team Climbing to Wrecked Air Force Plane
LAS VEGAS Nevada A Arctic rescue team may need two more days to reach the wreckage of an Air Force transport carrying 14 men all presumed dead. Five para medical technicians camped on Charleston Peak in temperatures under 20 below zero. They used snowshoes and skis and covered four miles on the first day after leaving an arctic truck. The 42nd Air Rescue Squadron from March Air Force Base California said they might reach the crash site late today but probably not until tomorrow.
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Las Vegas
Nev
Charleston Peak
Air Force
42Nd Air Rescue Squadron
March Air Force Base
Calif
300 School Children Stone British Troops
About 300 school children stoned British troops and police in Larnaca, injuring a security officer and a British soldier. Authorities dispersed the demonstration as violence continued with bombings and shootings blamed on nationalist terrorists. Two British sergeants were killed by a time bomb at Kykko camp near Nicosia.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Larnaca
Kykko
Caliph Slain by Angry Mob in Morocco
In Rabat an angry crowd killed Taieb el Baghdad, caliph to the Pasha of Fez, during palace unrest as Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef sought peace. Two others died in the melee, while a Marrakech incident left a police assistant wounded and the attacker burned.
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French
Morocco
Sultan Sidi Mohammed Ben Youssef
Fez
Taieb el Baghdad
Mohammed Ben Moulay Arafa
Youssef
Arafa
Tangier
Berlin Rally Denounces Geneva Failure to Unite Germany
More than 30,000 West Berliners gathered in front of City Hall to protest the Geneva conference’s failure to unify Germany. Mayor Otto Suhr led the rally urging world attention to a divided homeland and stressing Germans’ demand for unity.
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Germany
West Berlin
Otto Suhr
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