Plan Rites For Marines At Oelwein
Two Oelwein marines were among six Iowa servicemen killed when a transport plane crashed near Oakland California. Pvt. Robert Offenburger and Pvt. Salvador Hernandez, both 19, are mourned by families as a double funeral with full military honors is planned at Sacred Heart church.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa News
Oelwein
Iowa
Robert L. Offenburger
Lawrence E. Offenburger
Salvador R. Hernandez
Joseph Hernandez
Brant Chapel
Sacred Heart Church
Court orders reargument in Watkins contempt case
The U S court of appeals vacated a ruling in the Watkins contempt case and ordered re argument before a full bench. The decision held the committee investigation appeared aimed at exposure rather than determining legislative need. The case concerns John T. Watkins, UAW organizer, who refused to name former communist associates.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U. S. Court of Appeals
Congressional
John T. Watkins
Rock Island
United Automobile Workers
Watkins
House Committee On un-American
Red
U. S. District Court
Henry W. Edgerton
David L. Bazelon
Edgerton
Spurned Lover May Have Killed Wife in Bay Village
Dr Samuel H Sheppard contends his wife Marilyn was killed by a spurned lover or potential lover. Defense briefs filed with the Ohio Supreme Court argue trial misconduct and juror bias in his 1954 case. The court will hear oral arguments April 17 to decide life sentence or new trial.
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Columbus
Samual H. Sheppard
Ohio Supreme Court
Paul M. Herbert
Sheppard
Herbert
Marilyn
Bay Village
Cleveland
Common Pleas
Edward Blythin
Close Farm Fight Seen by Knowland
Senate Republican Leader Knowland of California foresees a tight race over the farm bill that would restore rigid price supports. He had forecast the rival program might pass by two to three votes and said the present flexible support system would remain otherwise. He noted uncertainty about the Senate line-up after Eisenhower vetoed the natural gas bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ulp
Senate
Knowland
Calif
Eisenhower
Boeing Reports 106 Million Profit For 1950–55
Boeing Airplane Company said profits after taxes totaled 106 million dollars from 1950 through September 1955, a 2.7 percent return on sales. Of the profit 73.6 million was reinvested in research development and production of superior military weapons. President William M. Allen testified before a House Armed Services subcommittee reviewing military plane profits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Lp
Boeing Airplane Company
Boeing
William M. Allen
House
Armed Services Subcommittee
Eisenhower to extend Georgia stay through Saturday
President Eisenhower plans to remain in Georgia through Saturday with quail hunting and golf. White House secretary Hagerty indicated no second term decision will be announced before next week, possibly at a Wednesday February 29 news conference, with a fuller explanation later.
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Thomasville
INS
Eisenhower
Georgia
White House
James C. Hagerty
Washington
Hagerty
Picket Line Tiff At Plane Plant Sees Eight Arrested
In Farmingdale New York a clash at Republic Aviation plant led to at least eight arrests as pickets attempted to overturn an auto. The strike call by Machinists Local 1987 involved Hicksville Port Washington and Greenlawn plants with 12 000 of 19 000 workers nonmembers.
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Farmingdale
N. Y
INS
Republic Aviation Corporation
Hicksville
Port Washington
Greenlawn
International Association of Machinists
Unen
Farmingdale Mechanical and Plant
Justin Ostrow
Machinists
William McCollum
John J. Ryan
Republic
Manchester Man and Infant Die in Iowa crash
A Manchester man Walter Lux 22 and his seven month old son Larry died in a two car crash southeast of Ryan. Lux wife Kathleen 20 and Mrs Charles Wolf injured with critical injuries to Mrs Wolf. The weekend toll reached 102 for Iowa in 1956, with other fatalities including Lee Bosche 17 and Morgan Keiser 32.
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the Gazette
Manchester
Ryan
Walter Lux
Larry
Lux
Memorial Hospital
Kathleen
Charles Wolf
Wolf
Lee Bosche
Elk Horn
Morgan Keiser
Oskaloosa
Defeat of Adenauer Shakes Ruhr State Government
Chancellor Adenauer suffered a sharp defeat as North Rhine Westphalia ousted his party. State Premier Karl Arnold was toppled by a coalition of right wing and left wing groups, replaced by Socialist Fritz Steinhoff. The non confidence vote 102 to 96 ends the CDU led cabinet.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
Adenauer
Ruhr
North Rhine- Westphalia
Karl Arnold
Arnold
Christian Democratic Union
Fritz Steinhoff
Free Democratic Party
Free Democrats
Center Party
Plane Crash Near Cairo Kills 52 on Flight From Saigon
A DC-6 Cloudmaster of Transport Aeriens Intercontinentaux with 64 aboard crashed and burned near Cairo while attempting a landing. Fifty two passengers and crew perished, including two children, with six crew and six passengers hospitalized. American pilot William Judd aided survivors. The crash follows a spate of Mediterranean air accidents, including a Malta incident that killed 50 British servicemen.
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Cairo
Paris
Charles Billet
Saigon
William Judd
Judd
South Haven
Kan
New York
Transport Aeriens Intericontinentaux
Mediterranean
Malta
Molotov Breaks With Stalin Calls For Collective Leadership
Moscow AP Molotov a veteran Bolshevik joined in criticism of Stalin’s one man rule. His remarks delivered before the party congress and printed in Pravda call for collective leadership against the cult of the individual.
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Moscow
Molotov
Josef Stalin
Stalin
Communist Party Congress
Pravda
Communist Party
Ike Offers Surplus Food to Cold Victims in W Europe
President Eisenhower offered U S surplus agricultural commodities to Western European nations hit by severe winter. Details depend on European needs, with potential gifts or nominal sales under existing laws. praise came from France Austria and West Germany while Western Europe weighs needs and political constraints.
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Ike
Europe
Thomasville
Eisenhower
U.S
Western
Congress
State and Agriculture Departments
France
50th Street Paving To Be No 1 Project
Cedar Rapids eyes a six point belt line plan for a city wide highway network. The proposal includes paving Fiftieth Street NE as a four lane link and adds by passes to connect highways 150 30 and 149 amid plans to ease truck traffic away from populated areas.
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Cedar Rapids
Fiftieth Street
First Avenue
Center Point Road
Marion Road
Waterloo, Cedar Falls and Northern Railroad
City
Milwaukee Tracks
Marion
Seventh Avenue
Williams Boulevard
Williams
Bertram
Hiawatha Area
Cedar ‘Rapids
Sixth Street
Sixteenth Avenue
William CC. Culver
Iowa Highway Commission
Hawkeye Downs
Hearings Revived on Case Offer Probe In Senate
The Senate special committee reopened its probe into a $2,500 campaign gift linked to Case. John M. Neff testified that he was asked to help represent Superior Jail Company regarding the natural gas bill and to contact Nebraska senators Curtis and Hruska. The panel broadens inquiry to assess the general pattern of campaign fund handling and motives behind the Case contribution.
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Washington
Donald R. Ross
U. S
Nebraska
John M. Neff
Neff
Superior Jail
Ross
Senate
Senator Case
R-S.d
Superior Oil
Curtis
Hruska
Lexington, Neb
Case
South Dakota
Congress
Howard B. Keck
Superior Oil Company
Elmer Patman
Austin
Superior
Pat
George
Special Committee
No One Hurt in Airliner Mishap at Midway Airport
An airliner with 36 passengers and four crew belly landed at Midway after landing gear collapsed. The Viscount pine was Capital Airlines Flight 141 from Detroit to Chicago. the craft skidded several hundred feet but stayed upright. No casualties and minor damage reported.
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Chicago
Midway Airport
Capital Airlines
Detroit
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Crash
Offenburger and Hernandez
Sacred Heart High School
Marine Corps
Hernandez
Delores
Albertina
Josephine
Lupe
Carl
Leopold
Offenburger
John
Sandra
Caroline
Larry Horton
Francis H. Horton
Des Moines
Terry G. Maxwell
William J. Maxwell
Mason City
James L. Mulholland
James F Mulholland
Clinton
Rodney J. Nelson
Oliver J. Nelson
Davenport
John Glacklin
Pfe
James Higginbotham
LeClaire
Oakland
el Toro Marine Air Station
Santa Ana
Alameda Naval Air Station
Department of Defense
Camp Pendleton
Oceanside
Clayton C. Jerome
el Toro
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Smithland
Lynn Johnson
Gloria Rasmussen
Audubon
Sioux City
Edward
Manilla
Leland
Iowa City
Keiser
Munterville
Ottumwa
Kisor
Deakt Adenauer
West Berlin
Justice Department
Hayden
D-Ariz
Bridges
R-N.h
Thye
R-Minn
Keck
Senate Elections Subcommittee
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