Eisenhower sets conditions for new East West talks
President Eisenhower prepared a reply to Soviet Premier Bulganin outlining clear demands for talks. He seeks German reunification, tied disarmament talks to a nuclear test stop, and a halt to Soviet moves in the Middle East and Southeast Asia. The message, drafted for NATO partners first, signals openness to talks only if Moscow demonstrates honesty.
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Germany
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Atlantic
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Geneva
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Europe
Four engines working as navy plane crashes off Oahu
Navy WV-2 Super Constellation crashes 25 miles off Oahu with 23 aboard. Four survivors identified as Lt. Richard Rentschler and Franklin Henry with Cmdr. Guy Howard and Lt. Thomas Kline. Bodies of two more recovered. 17 still missing. Rescue ships and planes launched at dawn on Christmas.
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Pearl Harbor
Pacific
Richard Rentschler
Lincoln
Neb
Franklin A. Henry
Kankakee
Guy Howard
Oakland, Calif
Thomas Kline
East Willston
N.D
Oahu
Tripler General
White Christmas Delights Iowa With Snow Across State
Experts predicted a dry holiday but a sudden warm moisture surge brought a white mantle to Iowa. Snow up to five inches fell in the north with Elkader reporting the heaviest amounts while Cedar Rapids saw light rain turning to snow. Rain and a mixed thaw were forecast for Thursday as temperatures rise.
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Santa Claus
Iowa
Elkader
West Union
Oelwein
Postville
Decorah
New Hampton
Ossian
Births in 1957 US reach about 4.3 million, record high
The Public Health Service estimates 1957 births will total about 4,318,000, the seventh straight annual record and up 98,000 from 1956, with the figure likely to exceed last year.
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Washington
The
Public Health Service
Wall Collapse Forces 500 Tenants From Manhattan Homes
A 75 foot section of a retaining wall between three Upper West Side buildings collapsed after midnight, sending boulders into two lower structures. About 500 tenants fled. police opened emergency relief, served coffee, and ordered total evacuation across the three buildings with all residents out within two hours.
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New York
Manhattan
Upper West Side
Quiet Christmas in Holy Land as Pilgrims Rejoice
Bethlehem sees its happiest Christmas in years with over 5000 pilgrims crossing No Man's Land. The Church of the Nativity ceremony led by Patriarch Alberto Gori included placing the Christ Child in the manger while bells rang and choirs sang. Services also in Nazareth and Haifa with international sailors among worshippers.
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Church of the Nativity
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Haifa
Sweden
Yacht explosion kills 30 students on Brazilian voyage
A chartered yacht carrying students home for Christmas exploded and sank in the Atlantic near Itacare, Brazil. All 30 aboard were reported killed, with debris seen from a passing plane and no survivors found. The vessel, Cisne Branco, was en route from Salvador to Belmonte when the blast occurred.
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Salvador
Brazil
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Rio
Itacare
World Christmas Moments Across the Globe Amid Tensions
The Associated Press reports on a varied Christmas scene: Bethlehem hosts 5,000 pilgrims reenacting the nativity while in the White House Eisenhowers host a turkey dinner. Rome and Moscow mark the day with services and propaganda limits, and refugees, poverty, and hunger temper celebrations from Asia to Europe.
Tiny Tim Cartoonist Stanley Link Dies at 58
Stanley Link, 58, creator of the comic strip Tiny Tim, died Tuesday at his Long Beach Indiana home. A Chicago native, he began as a sidewalk cartoonist, did animated shorts at 16, entertained World War I doughboys with chalk talks, then returned to the U.S. as a freelance cartoonist. His other strips included Ching Chow and The Dailys.
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Stanley Link
Tiny Tim
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Link
U. S
Dailys
Long Island Rail Strike Ends After Brief Walkout
The Long Island Rail Road and two trainmen lodges settled all grievances after a Christmas Eve strike that halted service for about an hour and 38 minutes. Federal mediation and talks with railroad president Thomas Goodfellow resolved the dispute, with angry scenes at Penn Station noted during the stoppage.
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Long Island Rail Road
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Railrroad
Brotherhood of Railroad
Pennsylvania
Long Island
Harold Pryor
Brotherhood
Junion
Pryor
Thomas M. Goodfellow
Land Federal
Michael O'Connell
Federal
Five Highway Deaths Bring Toll to 713
Five more highway deaths were added Wednesday to Iowa's 1957 traffic toll raising the total to 713. The latest victims include Helen Kaylas, 16, of Sioux City, who died from injuries from a two car crash near Sioux City on December 15 that killed four other teenage girls.
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Iowa
Helen Kaylas
Sioux City
Asks World To Follow Old Virtues
A long wire service style report mixes Iowa traffic fatalities with a London broadcast. The piece notes several crashes on highways near Creston Jewell and Carroll plus a five teen crash on Roller Coaster road. Queen Elizabeth II delivers her first televised Christmas message urging adherence to old virtues honesty and self restraint.
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London
Elizabeth II
Two Die In Walford Highway Crash
Two people were killed and a third injured in a two car wreck five miles south of Walford on highway 149 Wednesday morning. Ambulance driver Jim Davis said one car struck the other broadside sending it into a roadside ditch. Names of victims were not released.
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Sioux City
Iowa
Perry
Creston
McCarrigle
Albert C. Rother
Farmington
Ivan E. Wurr
Lidderdale
Carroll
Glidden
Wurr
Danny Carlson
Iown
Walford
Jim Davis
Holiday Traffic Deaths Climbing
The Christmas holiday traffic toll rose with mild nationwide weather boosting travel. Early counts report 70 traffic fatalities, 11 fire deaths, and 5 other mishaps totaling 86. A Bradford Ohio collision at a crossing killed four adults. a Quincy Massachusetts oil burner explosion burned a young mother and two children to death.
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Associated Press
Bradford
Ohio
Quincy
Mass
Yuletide Tragedy in North Carolina
Charlotte police report a young father named Thomas Jefferson Koonce aged 30 was killed Tuesday when he slipped while picking up dropped Christmas packages and was run over by a bus he was waiting to catch. The accident occurred as he waited on a Charlotte street with a load of gifts.
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Stefan Cardinal Wyszynski
Poland
Warsaw
Charlotte
N. C
Thomas Jefferson ‘Koonce
Harrisburg Apartment Fire Injures Eight on Christmas Eve
A four story Harrisburg apartment building near downtown caught fire on Christmas Eve night injuring eight people, one critically. Firefighters from 16 city units and suburban crews battled the blaze as ambulances ferried the wounded to Polyclinic and Harrisburg hospitals. The cause was under investigation with a resident reporting three explosions before the fire started.
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Harrisburg
Polyclinic
Harrisburg Hospital
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