Move On Second Negro Coed Creates Court Tension
A federal judge dismissed a contempt charge against University of Alabama Dean W F Adams for refusing to admit autherine lucy’s coed replacement. The Tuscaloosa race crisis intensified after lucy’s suspension and campus riots including cross burnings.
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Birmingham
Ala
University of Alabama
U. S
Hobart Grooms
State University At
Tuscaloosa
Autherine Lucy
Pelly Ann Hudson
Adams
Jeff Bennett
Oliver C. Carmichael
Folsom
Miss Lucy
Bennett
MacArthur Links Firing and Spy Trial Demand
General MacArthur revealed that he urged treason trials for Red spies in Washington and linked the spy ring to British agents Burgess and MacLean. He argued Truman’s handling of the Korean War and alleged leaks forced his removal, while Senate investigators pledged to probe the accusations. The Life magazine piece contains his full account of the spy ring and the dismissal.
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Washington
INS
MacArthur
Truman
Pentagon
Moscow
Red China
Korea
Manchuria
Guy Burgess
Donald MacLean
Soviet Russia
Burgess
Life Magazine
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
James O. Eastland
D-Miss
Eastland
Far East
Alger Hiss
Harry Dexter White
Trusman
Democratic Party
Eighth Army
Walton) Walker
Japan
Payroll Checks Taken in Breakin at Royal Laundry
Cedar Rapids police seek a man with a pocketful of payroll checks totaling 782.56 dollars after a Tuesday night break in at the Royal laundry. At least two checks had been cashed by Thursday noon. The 25 checks ranged from 6 to 86 dollars.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids
John Kuba
Royal Laundry
Kuba
Food poisoning hospitalizes 26 children in Michigan meal
Twenty six children were hospitalized and more than 100 others treated after a school luncheon in Brethren Michigan. Health officials traced the illness to potato salad prepared in the lunchroom at the consolidated school. Remains of the luncheon were to be examined.
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Brethren, Mich
Consolidated School
PTA Poll Sparks Concern Over Parental Awareness
In LONG BEACH, N J, the gram mar school PTA president reported a flawed telephone poll asking parents if they know where their children are. Many calls found children answering that they did not know where their parents were.
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Long Beach
N. J
Grammar School
PTA
William Schlenger
Chuckle on Loyalty and State in Marriage Joke
Humorous line mocks communism by urging a man to tell his wife his first duty is to the state, blending satire with a domestic setup. The quip lands as a compact, period-tinged joke reflecting midcentury social humor about allegiance and personal loyalty.
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America
Boy Scout Day Observed at Cedar Rapids City Hall
Cedar Rapids News reports Boy Scout Day at City Hall with Scouts voicing praise for the city’s leadership. Scout Mayor Jack Wright and others praised the council as Fire Chief Terry Nelson urged two new fire stations, and Park Commissioner Mike Hawks noted parks funding shortfalls.
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C.R. City Hall
Scout
Jack Wright
Jim Meaghan
David Little
Terry Nelson
Jesse Hunter
David Axline
Jim Scolaro
Mike Hawks
Don Gardner
Eisenhower pushes regional talks to curb traffic toll
President Eisenhower on Thursday urged the 48 state governors to back regional conferences to combat the nation's appalling traffic toll. He directed the President's committee for traffic safety to begin meetings nationwide to boost local participation in laws and efforts to cut accidents.
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Washington
INS
Eisenhower
Committee For Traffic Safety
Group Insurance on GM Dealers
General Motors President Harlow H Curtice announced a plan to provide more than one billion of group life insurance for 20 000 GM dealership owners, to take effect March 1. Eligible are passenger car and truck distributors and dealers handling other GM products, with life policies up to 100 000 for dealers under 65 without medical exam.
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Detroit
INS
General Motors
Harlow H. Curtice
Curtice
Russia says U S weather balloons near Soviet air space threaten safety
In a Spiridonovka Palace briefing Foreign Ministry official Leonid Tlyichev charged the United States with a brink of war policy by launching balloons from West Germany and Turkey. He showed equipment, cited January balloon captures, and noted 500 reports cited by U S press.
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Moscow
Russia
U. S
Spiridonovka Palace
Foreign Ministry
Leonid Tlyichev
State Dulles
Life Magazine
Ilyichev
U.S
West Germany
Turkey
Lyihev
Soviet Union
Free Europe Committee
Mexico City Archbishop Luis Maria Martinez Dies at 74
Mexico City AP reports Arch bishop Luis Maria Martinez, head of the Roman Catholic Church in Mexico, died after a year of illness and a week in a coma. He was 74 and had served as archbishop for decades, shaping church leadership in the country.
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Mexico City
Luis Maria Martinez
Mexico
Border quake rattles California towns near Mexico
A 6.8 magnitude quake centered south of the border shook southern California from Calexico to San Diego, causing minor damage but no deaths. Water mains burst, windows cracked, fires started, and buildings swayed in San Diego County and Imperial County with reports of broken storefronts and alarms. Mexicali felt the tremor but reported no major damage. La Jolla noted a quarter-inch pavement crack. No injuries were reported.
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EL Centro
Calif
Mexico
California
Los Angeles
San Diego
Imperial
Tehachapi
Long Beach
Calexico
Imperial Valley
Pete Figueroa
Holtville
Bill Herring
Mexicali
la Jolla
Imperial Counties
Convicted at Columbus Westinghouse strike four dozen fined
Seven men who joined a mass demonstration at the Westinghouse Columbus plant gates were jailed for contempt after violating a court order limiting pickets to six per gate. Forty seven others were fined and Local 746 was fined 500. Jail terms ranged from two to five days and fines from 10 to 50 dollars.
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Columbus (Ap
Columbus
Westinghouse
Electric Corporation
Common Pleas
Dana F. Reynolds
International Union of Electrical Workers
Afl-Cio
Seven rescued after Antarctic plane crash near Little America
The US Navy reported that seven men aboard a downed Otter I plane on the Ross Ice Shelf have been rescued and are safe at Little America. Helicopters aided the operation as weather hampered ground recovery, with last contact logged an hour seven minutes after takeoff.
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Washington
Navy
Antarctic
Little America
Ross Ice Shelf
Don M. Sullivan
Alexandria
Wien
Rockefeller Mountains
South Pole
Auto's Purring That of a Cat
Cecil Qualls took his car to a garage after odd noises emerged under the hood. A mechanic phoned asking if he owned a cat. Qualls denied it, and the mechanic explained a large cat had leaped out when the hood was lifted, likely hiding there for days.
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Oklahoma City
Cecil Qualls
Qualls
Women, the mans view and a psychologist says it
A Cedar Rapids chamber audience heard Dr. Cleo Dawson suggest men should know that women process emotions more than men, need to be needed and bossed, and that romance hinges on shared problems and affection. Her talk covered four core emotions fear rage sex and wonder and urged men to study wives fears to direct energy and to keep marriage alive through mutual sharing.
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Cedar Rapids Chamber of Commerce
Cleo Dawson
Dawson
Rescue completes for eight Flyers in jungle maritime incident
A helicopter rescued five more U S Navy and Marine personnel from a north Venezuela jungle marsh where their Neptune patrol bomber crashed. They were flown to Port of Spain after three others were airlifted there, all eight unhurt and en route to Antarctica on a rescue mission.
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San Juan
Puerto Rico
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Antarctica
Prague to Cut Defense Spending in 1956 Budget
Prague will reduce defense outlays by about 155 million dollars in 1956, reallocating funds to industrial development. Finance Minister Julius Duris announced the plan in the national assembly, following a Soviet style budget pattern. Western observers note Communist regimes often mask armament costs beneath benign labels like industry and special funds.
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London
INS
Prague
Julius Duris
National Assembly
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