NATO Allies Accept Nuclear Missile Base Offer From U S
President Eisenhower pushes NATO unity at the summit in Paris. He attends a night session after a day of talks, plans to return to Washington tomorrow morning, and backs plans for missile bases and atomic warhead stockpiles in Europe to deter Soviet aggression. Dulles accompanies him at the luncheon with France’s President Coty.
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Eisenhower
Atlantic Alliance
NATO
Washington
U.S
Fic Uy E
Snhower
Palais de Cahillot
Rene Coty
France
Maj
Dulles
NATO Council
Bern
Switzerland
Geneva
United States
Secretary
State Dulles
Spain
Paul- Henri Spaak
Macmillan
Konrad Adenauer
Felix Gaillard
Atlantic
Spaak
Moscow
Indonesia Seizes Dutch Firms as West New Guinea Held
Premier Djuanda announced Indonesia has nationalized major Dutch industries amid the West New Guinea dispute, threatening further action if compensation is not offered. Evacuations began as 700 Dutch left on Waterman, with 46 000 expected to depart. Seizures hit shipping, ports, electricity and gas, worsening famine and shipping bottlenecks across 3 000 Indonesian islands.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Djuanda
Newsmen
West New Guinea
Netherlands
New Guinea
Java
Moluccas
Frozen Girl Foot Amputated After Near Freezing Ordeal
Rosella Auxier a 15 year old from eastern Kentucky had her left foot amputated after five days of near zero temperatures left her legs frozen from knee to toe. Doctors in Louisville say long exposure caused the injury and note she was found unconscious in an abandoned Prestonburg store five days after leaving her grandmother’s house. She recalls attending a show before she was found and being placed in a car by an unknown person.
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Rosella Auxier
Rosella
Kentucky
Prestonburg
Khrushchev Warns on NATO Bases and War Threats
London reports Khrushchev warns Western Europe against hosting American atomic bases, saying it invites retaliatory strikes in a future war. He calls for East West talks and broader meetings of capitalist and socialist reps while urging Britain to avoid becoming a U.S. base for missiles. He says war is not inevitable if peace advocates act.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
T Minneannwlatanan
Usscuss Cuualditile
Communist Party
Russia
Khrushchev
New Statesman
NATO
Bertrand Russell
Russell
Eisenhower
Bulganin
Paris
Soviet Union
United States
Britain
Europe
24 American Youth Passports Canceled
The State Department canceled the passports of 24 American youths who went to Red China despite a ban and remain abroad. Originally 42 traveled to China last summer after visiting a youth festival in Moscow.
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Washington
State Department
Red China
China
Moscow
Congressmen Cooper Dies in Washington at 64
Congressman Jere Cooper of Tennessee and chairman of the Ways and Means Committee died after a severe heart attack at Bethesda Naval Hospital. Born July 20, 1893, he was elected to Congress in 1929 and served continuously. His death alters committee leadership and party lineup.
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Washington
Jere Cooper
D-Tenn
House
Ways and Means
Cooper
Bethesda Naval Hospital
Tennessee
S &Th
Dyer County
Tenn
Cumberland University
Dyersburg
Rep
Mills
D-Ark
Ways and Means Committee
NATO Leaders Endorse Cautious Push for Nuclear Arms Bases
At the NATO summit in Paris on December 18 leaders endorsed a dual track of nuclear stockpile readiness and limited mid range missiles in Britain and Europe while urging guarded talks with the Soviet Union. The United States signaled it cannot supply missiles for a year. Talks on disarmament and further negotiations were described as uncertain but pursued through UN and separate Western ministerial channels.
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Europe
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Britain
United States
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Soviet Union
Turkey
Netherlands
Norway
Denmark
West Germany
Christian Pineau
United Nations
Russia
Iceland
U.S
Andrew Berding
France
Canada
U.N
Jupiter IRBM flight ends early after technical difficulties
The Jupiter intermediate range ballistic missile was fired at Cape Canaveral but did not complete its full flight due to technical problems. Spectators included Gov. LeRoy Collins and Army and Air Force officials, amid tests of IRBM and ICBM programs.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Defense Department
Midway
Florida
United States
Washington
Army
Cape Canaveral Range
LeRoy Collins
John Medaris
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Redstone
Ala
Werhiaher von Braun
Donald N. Yates
Air Force Missile Test Center
Rep. Scrivner
Shoppers Face Mild West Virginia Weekend Weather
The Weather Bureau forecast temperatures 7 to 10 degrees above normal across West Virginia for the next five days, keeping holiday shoppers from being hampered by cold. A mild weekend gives way to colder weather Monday with rain on Thursday and Sunday totaling about one inch.
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Huntington
U.S. Weather Bureau
West Virginia
ICC Strikes Hard Blow At Hot Cargo Truckers
The Interstate Commerce Commission ruled that common carriers must not bow to hot cargo labor clauses and must transport all freight offered under published tariffs. The decision, unanimous with 11 members, holds carriers strictly accountable to serve the public and to prove they did everything possible to fulfill their obligations.
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ICC
Washington
Interstate Commerce Commission
Teamsters Union
Teamsters
Desmond A. Barry
Barry
Galveston Truck Line Corp
Houston
Oklahoma City
Okla
Tennessee Law Men Mentioned in Senate Payoff Hearings
Two Tennesseans testified that $1,000 was paid to fix a Chattanooga court case and a separate claim tied $18,500 in 1951 to quash indictments against 13 Tennessee Teamsters. Judge Raulston Schoolfield did not attend. officials considered subpoenas and a broader labor-violence probe.
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Washington
Chattanooga
Raulston Schoolfield
Harold E. Brown
Senate
Schoolfield
Brown
Tennessee
Schoolfeld
Schoolfield Thement
McLellan
D-Ark
McClellan
James Spence Galloway
Sam C. Jones
Galloway
Jones
Alabama voters approve Macon County abolition plan
White citizens push to abolish Macon County to keep political power as Alabama records show a clear segregation mandate. Across the state a 58,824 to 40,718 tally supports the amendment enabling division of the central county and its Negro population among neighboring counties.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Macon County
Sam Englehardt Jr
Macon
Tuskee Institute
Tornadoes devastate Illinois towns killing five
Five people die and many are injured as tornadoes strike Mount Vernon Murphysboro and Farmington in Illinois and Missouri. Dozens hospitalized. emergency services race to assist amid widespread destruction and disrupted communications.
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Mount Vernon
Ill
Illinois
Missouri
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