Moscow push to unite Western Europe tops new Soviet strategy
U S officials expect Moscow to launch a powerful political offensive in Western Europe soon. Khrushchev in the 20th Congress speech proposed united front actions with groups like the Social Democrats and argued peaceful coexistence as an alternative to revolution. He said violence is not essential and communism may rise through parliamentary means.
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Washington
United States
Moscow
Europe
South Asia
Middle East
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Communist Party
Khruschev
Social Democrats
Khrushchev
Grandmother 36 Delivers 18th Child in Huntington
Mrs. Herman Burd of near Ona, a 36 year old grandmother, gave birth to her 18th child. Burd, a machinist by trade, is unemployed due to ill health. The family includes 17 living children, led by eldest daughter Lillian Seale aged 21 who is also a mother. The father expects to resume work only when health improves. The couple plans no name yet for the newborn.
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Herman Burd
Ona
Route 1
St. Mary’s Hospital
Huntington
Burd
Near
Daughers
Lillian Seale
Lillian
Kay Frances Fitzgerald
Herman David Jr
Paul Henley
Dreama
Arthur
Betty
Foster
Homer Carl
Doris
Linda
Sharon Ann
Michael James
Otis
Ronnie Ray
Brenda Gay
The
Byrds
Continental Europe Floods and Nordic Ice Trap Ships
Floods across Continental Europe leave rivers bursting and towns flooded while in Scandinavia 225 ships are stuck in ice and two small fishing boats feared lost. A three week cold spell has claimed at least 575 lives as the Rhine swamps German towns and Humber the Swedish motor ship is missing with four crew.
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London
Europe
Scandinavia
Lorch
Lorchhausen
Assmannshausen
Turkey
Yugoslavia
Stockholm
Baltic Sea
First National Bank Rises In US Standing
The First National Bank of Bluefield moved up seven places to rank 723rd among the 800 largest U S banks in 1955 from 730th at the end of 1954. The Daily American Banker reports 1955 speed of 29 181 923 dollars and notes there are 14 000 banks in the United States.
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New York
First National Bank of
Bluefield
Spee
United States
Daily American Banker of
Bonnie’s Bark Now Surely Worse Than Bite in Dog Cleansing
Two year old pedigreed collie Bonnie in North Attleboro Massachusetts resented strangers and risked bites. Dentist owner Dr D Eugene Lecco had 16 front teeth removed by Dr James De Witt the veterinarian leaving Bonnie with molars for eating.
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North Attleboro
Mass
Bonnie
D. Eugene Lecco
Leco
James de Witt
Eisenhower Hopes To Rally Top Execs For National Service
President Eisenhower hunted quail in Georgia and announced a plan to recruit 3 000 to 4 000 business and labor executives for government service in a national mobilization. The program offers unpaid, expense, or salary positions with training by the Office of Defense Mobilization. James Hagerty noted exemptions from conflicts laws for mobilization work and that Thuston Morton resigned as assistant secretary of state to pursue the Kentucky Senate bid.
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Thomasville
Eisenhower
Hagerty
Office of Defense Mobilization
ODM
Departments of Defense, Commerce, Labor and Interior
White House
James C. Hagerty
Thuston B. Morton
Morton
U. S
Kentucky
Ogden Newspaper Chain Backs Underwood for Governor
The Ogden newspaper chain endorses Cecil H. Underwood for the Republican nomination in West Virginia's governor race. Reaction from Charleston Mayor John T. Copenhaver and Wheeling editors follows. Stubblefield and Hallanan previously kept a hands off stance. The Intelligencer praises Underwood as reform minded with a record of common sense and anti corruption drive.
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Wheeling
Ogden
Charleston
John T. Copenhaver
Cecil H. Underwood
Frances Ogden Stubblefield
GOP
Copenhaver
Ogden Press
Logan
Ogden Rs
Wheeling Intelligencer
H. C. Ogden
Underwood
Cecil Underwood
The
Intelligencer
Ray
Io Kh
Stubblefield
Walter S. Hallanan
Hallanan
Ogden Chain
Virginia Segregation Plan Seen Likely To Pass House
Richmond insiders predict the Moore resolution will advance in the Virginia House to keep the state on a segregated school path for another year. The measure has more than 60 co sponsors, while Speaker Blackburn Moore avoids comment. Separately, sales tax plans face a tight race in the House Finance Committee with potential action delayed until Wednesday.
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Richmond
Moore
Virginia
General Assembly
House Finance Committee
Finance Committee
Pope- Witten
Coaraen K. Hutchens
Newporters
Hutchens Committee
House
Senate Finance Committee
Del
Sam Pope Southampton
Senate Finance
House Committee
Senate
House Appropriations Committee
Staley
Appropriations
Senate Votes for Full Bribes Probe Into Campaign Financing
The Senate Elections subcommittee unanimously approved a full investigation into attempts to influence Congress through campaign contributions. Led by Sen. Gore, the probe will run through 1956, amid cases like Sen. Case being offered 2500 dollars for his re election bid. The panel aims for a nonpartisan, fact finding inquiry to inform the American public.
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Washington
Senate Elections Subcommittee
Congress
Senate
Ntot
Sen. Gore
D-Tenn
Gore
Sen. Case
R-Sd
Case
Mansfield
D-Mont
Curtis
R-Neb
Omaha Library Finds Slow Reader Note in Return
Omaha librarians report a humorous late return on The Laughing Cavalier from March 9, 1929. The borrower wrote, Sorry, I’m a little late. But I just finished the book. No fine was charged.
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Omaha
Omaha Public Library
Anita Ekberg Denies Marriage Plans in Sweden Visit
Swedish actress Anita Ekberg denied plans to marry British actor Anthony Steel during a visit to her parents in Malmo. Steel did not deny anything, saying Tony is just a good friend. Ekberg said they traveled together and plans include Hollywood soon for her film.
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Malmo
Sweden
Anita Ekberg
Anthony Steel
Steel
Tony
Heart Attack Fatal To Italian Minister Ezio Vanoni
Ezio Vanoni Budget Minister and chief planner of Italy’s economic revival plan collapsed in the Senate building after defending his 40 billion dollar 10 year program. The portly minister died about an hour later in the Senate office.
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Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Humphrey Plantation
C. Hagerty
White House
Eisenhower
Rome
Ezio Vanoni
Italy
Senate
Jeep
Predia
Spring Dollar Day Sale Opens In Bluefield Today
The two day event runs 9 a m to 5 p m today and 9 a m to 6 p m tomorrow with 50 stores taking part. Max Kammer of the Bluefield Chamber of Commerce says merchants show strong enthusiasm and promises a major local sale. Bargains on winter clearances and new spring Easter merchandise are featured.
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Bluefield
Max Kammer
Super Market
Acme Sunes
Market Afred Land Jewel
Draft order shifts call to younger nonfathers
President Eisenhower issued an executive order that moves drafting priority to childless registrants aged 19 to 25, relieving fathers and men over 26 from being drafted unless shortages require it. The change aims to use the best available personnel and minimize disruption while strengthening military reserves.
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Washington
White House
Eisenhower
Selective Service
Uin
Buchanan Murder Suspect Quizzed
Charles Tiller, 22, of Buchanan County, questioned about the killing of his four year old niece Arlene Joyce Tiller. The child was found in a barn near Council with stab wounds and neck injuries. Police arrested Tiller Wednesday night. a knife is believed to be the murder weapon. Funeral services were set for 11 a.m. at Tillertown Church with burial in Tiller Cemetery.
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William Karston
Marjorie
Jimmy
Bloomfield
Iowa
Hamilton, Ill
Wendell Jones
Davis County
Karston
Iowa Supreme Court
Karstons
Charles Tiller
Buchanan County
Arlene Joyce Tiller
Woodrow
Emma Presley Tiller
Council
Tiller
Lebanon
Burl Rife
Dewey McClanahan
Munder
Viola Tiller
Washington, D. C
Norma Jean
Dimple
Leman
Tillertown
Earl] James
Milton Boyd
Weather Returns To Normal Winter Pattern After Rains
The weather shifts back to a typical winter pattern after floods from torrential rains across the South. Freezing rain and drizzle hit central Illinois and Indiana while rain and showers spread through the Mississippi Valley and parts of Kentucky Tennessee and Alabama. Light snow fell in the Northern and Central Plains and central Rockies with 1 to 2 inches in some spots and colder air pushing southward.
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Associated Press
Illinois
Indiana
Mississippi River Valley
Kentucky
Tennessee
Alabama
Plains
Rocky Mountains
Great Lakes
Rockies
Great Basin
Milford
Utah
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Matthews
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First National Bank
Henry Krajewski
Secaucus
N. J
Robert M. Fahrey
New Jersey
Trenton
Krajewski
Anne Marie Yezo
North Bergen
Angrist Men’s Shop
Betty Lee
Bluefield Music Co
Bluefield Since Co
Bluefield Furniture Co
Central Pharmacy
Clark Stores
Cohen Drug Co
Colonial Jewelers
Aew. Cox Dept
Divine Shop
Effrons’ Army and Navy
Gilvert Loan Co
Goodykoontaz
H & M Shoe
Hawley’s Dpt
the Jewel Box
Kummer Furniture Co
Kresge
F. W. Woolworth Co
Warlick Furniture Co
Buchanan
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