Dublin Flood Deluge From Gales Strikes City
Gales drove tides from the Irish sea into five square miles of Dublin flooding 6 000 homes in one of the city s worst disasters. The Liffey and Tolka rivers overflowed depths up to five feet as thousands were forced from their homes and power was cut to prevent electrocutions. Municipal officials called it the worst disaster since 1916.
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Irish Sea
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Britain
Vets Building Debate To Resume On Parking Land Swap
A Cedar Rapids public hearing drew 53 citizens as the council weighed trading Greene square parking lot space for a future Fourth avenue extension. The 10 member committee meets Dec 11 at 9 30 a m to review the plan with input from Legion, merchants and the YWCA. Mayor Sedlacek says a final decision will come at the Monday meeting.
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Abbott Lipsky
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YWCA
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City Plan Commission
George Cockburn
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Sedlacek
Everett Stout
Father Dies in Fire While Saving Daughters in Chicago
Earl D. Jorgensen, 32, an advertising representative for the Philadelphia Inquirer, and his two daughters Elizabeth, 5, and Margaret, 2, died in a North Side Chicago home fire as he searched a third floor for them. His wife and two sons escaped along with a maid. The family said a muffled explosion preceded discovery of the blaze, which caused all fatalities by suffocation.
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The
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Margaret
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Eric
David
Swiss vice-president Joseph Escher collapses during debate dies
In Bern, Switzerland, 69 year old Vice President Joseph Escher collapsed during a parliamentary session on Thursday and died minutes later. The incident occurred amid a heated debate and Swiss officials mourn his death.
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Bern
Switzerland
Joseph Escher
Adenauer Loses Bavaria as Coalition Forms in Bonn
Munich AP reports Chancellor Adenauer loses control of Bavaria as Socialists and three right wing parties unite to form a four year state government. The move likely ends his two thirds Bonn upper house majority and jeopardizes Paris treaty ratification on German rearmament.
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Adenauer
Bavaria
Bonn
Man Wins Long Court Duel Dies After Verdict
Badeen Leon age 65 won an $8000 verdict in a four and a half year personal injury suit arising from a May 1950 automobile collision in Brimfield Massachusetts. He died of a heart attack an hour after the verdict was announced. Leon had been convicted of dangerous driving and fined $50 in the same incident.
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Badeen Leon
Brimfield
Mass
Leon
McCarthy Attack To Spur Backing Office Hall Says
Republican National Chairman Leonard Hall says Senator McCarthy’s attack on President Eisenhower will strengthen unity and support from GOP members of congress. Hall claims nationwide Republican leaders and a representative Senate and House sample back the President and program despite McCarthy’s stance.
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Russia Charges U S Aggression at U N Vote
At the United Nations in New York the Soviet delegation accused the United States of aggression against China and urged the General Assembly to condemn Washington. Arkady Sobolev claimed Formosa was made a U S military base while aiding Chinese Nationalists raids into Communist areas. C D Jackson dismissed the charge as an anti American provocateur tactic.
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Red China
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Assembly
Arkady A. Sobolev
Formosa
C. D. Jackson
China
Home Fire Trips Up Christmas Cards Safe
Pasadena AP report says Mrs Lee Van Valkenburgh escaped a blaze with her 4 year old son Gary and 1250 Christmas cards she was addressing saved from the flames. She quipped she saved the cards to avoid rewriting them.
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Pasadena
Lee van Valkenburgh
Gary
French soldiers to receive milk with breakfast coffee
Premier Mendes France ordered all French soldiers to have one eighth liter of milk with their breakfast coffee. This decree increases rations for troops and highlights a shift in provisioning for the military.
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Paris
Mendes- France
Finn twins win return of war surplus C46 plane
In a federal ruling, George and Charles Finn are declared legal owners of a C46 war surplus transport plane seized after they flew it from Bakersfield. Judge Mathes ordered the government to return the plane and pay $50,000 if not returned, plus $15 a day rental. The case stemmed from a two year dispute with the government and the Vineland school district.
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California
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French Girl Refuses Milk at Mendes France Drive
In Chatelet en Brie Denise, seven, balks at drinking milk promoted to curb alcoholism among French children. Premier Mendes France campaigns free compulsory school milk, while officials tour schools and serve hot sugary milk. Denise swaps bowls and wipes milk away, drawing attention to the initiative.
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Chatelet-En-Brie
France
Denise
Mendes-France
Chatelet
iSeine-and-Marne
Printer in La Porte Held on Kidnap Charge
Robert Panek a 25 year old printer at the La Porte Herald Argus was jailed on disorderly conduct and assault charges after kidnapping Abbey Johnson 22 a reporter from the paper during a two hour car ride. He forced her at gunpoint then returned her unharmed and surrendered to police. Johnson said they had dated since February and Panek proposed marriage, which she refused. Police do not expect kidnapping charges given the brief duration of the ordeal. Johnson planned to return to Chicago with her parents.
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Abbey Johnson
Panek
la Porte
Abbey
Chicago
Associated Press
LaPorte
Ind
Herald-Argus
Mother and Son Die as Icy Iowa Roads Crash
A winter storm left Iowa highways slick with ice and snow causing two deaths and multiple injuries. In Delaware County near Manchester a car truck crash on highway 20 killed Mrs. Melvin Fick and her son Gerald with truck driver Russell Kuper injured. Five more people were injured in other local crashes as ice covered routes from Carroll to Ames and Cedar Rapids to Davenport.
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Oelwein
Delaware County Memorial Hosital
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Vicki Ray
Frances Luce
Cedar Rapids
Mary Hohenshell
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Mason City
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Marengo
Ottumwa
Estherville
Sheppard Denies Beating Son as Trial Opens
In Cleveland Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard testified he spanked his son Chip but did not brutalize him and disputed a claim that head injuries were faked for insurance. Prosecution witnesses described a harsh beating, while two defense witnesses testified to a bushy haired man near the home the night of Marilyn Sheppard’s murder.
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Samuel H. Sheppard
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Thomas Weigle
Marilyn Sheppard
Weigle
Leo Stawicki
Richard E. Knitter
Stawicki
Knitter
Bay Village
Sheppard Home
Penrose of American University of Beirut Dies at 46
Dr. Stephen Penrose president of the American University of Beirut died Thursday in Beirut Lebanon from a heart ailment.
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Beirut, Lebanon
Stephen Penrose
American University of Beirut
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