British morale bruised by Egypt invasion fallout
British public opinion sours over Egypt venture as inflation unemployment and higher taxes loom. Eden faces pressure with a possible lighter Commons majority while US and Canada face questions over wartime aid. Tax rises and fuel shortages stagger Britons amid pleas for national unity and renewed effort. U.N. debate on Hungary sees strong U.S. backed resolution. nine Soviet bloc nations oppose.
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Egypt
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Painter Miswrites Bourbon On Roof Sign
A Philadelphia caller mocks a painter who signs a roof sign as burbon. The whisky firm confirms the correct spelling bour bon and the misprint becomes a light, humorous note in AP dispatches.
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Hungary Rejects Dag Hammarskjold December Visit Plan
Hungary said it is not suitable for UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold to visit Budapest on December 16. He had hoped to arrive for a three day stay, with U N Undersecretary Philippe de Seynes accompanying him to finalize arrangements.
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U.N. Assembly
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Phillippe i de Seynes
Imre Horvath
Phone Wage Pact Reached
New York AP The American Telephone and Telegraph Company and the Communications Workers of America reached a contract agreement covering 25 000 long distance operators and workers in 42 states and Washington DC. It calls for weekly wage increases of 2.50 to 3 for 10 500 operators and 3.50 to 5 for plant craftsmen with location based salary variations. The old contract expired November 28 and the new pact to run through January 3 1958 upon ratification by the union. Starting minimums rise by 2 to 4 weekly for operators and 2 to 5 for craftsmen.
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American Telephone and Telegraph Company
Communications Workers of America
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Manpower Chief Burgess Resigns to Return to Private Life
President Eisenhower accepted the resignation of Assistant Defense Secretary Carter Burgess the Pentagon’s manpower chief. Burgess said he would leave by February 1 to return to private business to provide for his growing family. Eisenhower praised his work rebuilding the reserve program and strengthening career incentives in the armed forces.
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Food Price Index Turns Downward in New York
New York AP reports wholesale food costs measured by Dun and Bradstreet fell this week for the first time since early November. The index stood at 6.14 on December 4, down from 6.16 the prior week and 5.99 a year earlier, remaining 24 percent above the same week in 1955.
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Dun and Bradstreet
Detonating Fuses Cited in Pier Fire
New York AP reports Fire Commissioner Edward F. Cavanagh Jr said a shipment of detonating fuses likely caused the Brooklyn pier explosion during a Monday fire. The finding points to a potential accidental ignition and ongoing investigations.
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Edward F. Cavanagh, Jr
Brooklyn
French cabinet to grant equal Arab representation in Algerian councils
Paris reports the cabinet on Wednesday decided to grant Arabs equal representation on municipal councils in rebellion torn Algeria. The move appears aimed at quelling a threatened uprising against Premier Mollet's Algeria policy.
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Algeria
Mollet
Demonstration at U. S. Embassy in Budapest Quelled
Hungarian police acting on Russian orders dispersed a 400 person protest in front of the U S embassy with rifle butts. The crowd shouted down with the AVH and demands to end deportations as tanks and armored cars loomed nearby. Police carted off demonstrators including women and children while others mourned insurgents killed in the anti Communist uprising.
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U. S
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Petoef
Danube
Sandor Petoefi
State horse shoers test fails majority of applicants
Springfield Illinois AP reports sixteen of twenty applicants for professional horseshoer licenses failed the state test. The examining committee notes insufficient practice among applicants as the issue.
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Springfield, Ill
Hungarian Plea at Border Ends in Tears and Refusal
Ignac Habetler, a 30 year old Hungarian farmer, pleaded with his wife Maria at the Austro Hungarian frontier to join him in New York. She refused preferring to stay in Hungary even with war risk. He left his wife and two children behind and sought aid to bring them to America.
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Soviet Student Unrest Reported
London reports of unrest among Soviet students and workers surfaced on Wednesday amid disillusionment with Communist doctrine. No official confirmation or evidence linked to the Hungarian revolt, but concern grew as Moscow journals highlighted youth restlessness. The Daily Mail cited Moscow University transferring over 100 expelled students in two months for criticism and demonstrations.
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Dulles Ready to Resume Full Duties after Recovery
Secretary of State Dulles has made a full and complete recovery following surgery on November 3 for an intestinal cancer. Doctors who operated on him and examined him this week say he is fit for full resumption of his normal duties, ending retirement rumors.
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Eisenhower to Tour Drouth Stricken Midwest and Southwest
President Eisenhower plans a mid January campaign tour by plane to drought affected areas in Missouri Oklahoma Texas Colorado Kansas Arizona and New Mexico. He intends to visit several states with the itinerary and exact dates to be finalized later.
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Thunderstorms On Dec 4 Like Snow in July
Iowa weather report notes an unusual storm in eastern Iowa on December 4 with Tuesday rain thunder and lightning and a tree struck by lightning at 326 Third Street SW Cedar Rapids. Total rainfall ranged from .14 inches at the municipal airport to .09 in downtown Cedar Rapids as showers spread southeast.
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Powell Tax Affairs Probed by Federal Grand Jury
A federal grand jury in New York began investigating the tax affairs of Representative Powell of New York, with authorities examining possible tax irregularities. The probe marks a formal step in examining the congressman's financial records and tax compliance.
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Tax Affairs
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D-N.y
Desperate California mother kills self and four children
In San Gabriel Ramona Hughes 27 killed her four children aged 8 3 2 and 9 months and herself by exhaust gassing in the family car after quarrels over Christmas funds. A note blamed debt of 435 85 and pleaded to keep the family together. Husband William 47 found them. A second note was given to the sister.
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British Lock Horns Over Suez Affair
In a Commons debate Prime Minister Eden faces Labor criticisms over the Suez crisis. Foreign Secretary Selwyn Lloyd accuses the opposition of avoiding the issue while detailing Soviet aid to Egypt and UK options. Bevan retorts that Britain colluded with war. Lloyd urges U S expansion in Baghdad Pact talks.
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Egypt
Judge orders actions after Clinton Tennessee disturbances
Federal Judge Robert L. Taylor in Knoxville orders citations for criminal contempt tied to Clinton racial violence. The unrest centered on peaceful school integration and a white citizen council backed election defeats. Brownell and Gov. Clement urged local handling while federal agents begin probes.
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Clinton
U. S
Robert L.taylor
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Herbert Brownell
Anderson County
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Tennessee
Frank Clement
Taylor
Soviets Block Yank Convoy Near Berlin Checkpoint
Soviet guards blocked a weekly U S army truck convoy from Berlin at the Dreilinden checkpoint demanding searches for concealed persons. The convoy refused and returned to Berlin, marking the first Allied traffic interference since the end of the Soviet blockade seven years earlier. A British train and a U S train faced earlier detentions at borders.
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U. S
Stevenson Announces He Will Not Run For Presidency Again
Adlai E. Stevenson stated he will not seek the presidency again and plans to resume law practice in Chicago on January 1 with colleagues W. Willard Wirtz William McC Blair Jr and Newton N Minow. He added his Democratic Party interest remains and he will join the party advisory committee.
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Adlai E. Stevenson
Democratic National Committee
Chicago
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William McC. Blair, Jr
Newton N. Minow
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Democratic Party
Passenger Alarm Ignites Planeload of Police
In San Francisco a United Air Lines Flight 658 from Los Angeles was halted after a woman passenger warned a stewardess that a man asleep across the aisle carried a .45 pistol in a shoulder holster. The captain notified San Francisco airport. six officers confronted the plane and confirmed the man as Joseph Pom U S marshal for New Jersey.
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