Atom Peace Drive Cited By Bulganin
Premier Bulganin declares Atomic Age communism aimed at world peace and peaceful transition to communism. He cites Khrushchev on non inevitability of war and notes Russia leads in peaceful atomic energy use, urging a future built on this discovery.
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Atom
Bulganin
Henry Shapiro
Moscow
Soviet Communist Party
Khrushchev
Russia
V. I. Lenin
Lenin
Josef Stalin
FiveYearOld-Cedar Rapids Boy Shocked By TV Set
A 5-year-old Cedar Rapids boy was critically injured after crawling under a table model TV set and receiving a electric shock at home. Paramedics treated him at Mercy hospital where he showed notable improvement by Tuesday afternoon.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital
Thomas Cain
Edward Cain
Second Street
Red Dean Choirmasters Pay Clash at Canterbury Cathedral
A six member volunteer choir clashed with Dr. Hewlett Johnson known as the Red Dean over pay during Canterbury Cathedral services. The singers demanded a raise but were told by the dean that no rise would be given and that they could leave if unhappy.
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London
INS
Canterbury
Hewlett Johnson
Johnson
Dr. Johnson
Pince-Tane
Franklin Student Shot by Youths in Passing Auto
Cedar Rapids police investigated an apparent shooting of 14 year old Robert Long of Franklin High School by youths in a passing car. The gun reportedly used was loaded with blanks and wadding remained in the victim’s nose. The assault occurred shortly after 10 p m on Center Point Road near Oakland Road as Long waited for a carload of youths who shouted draw.
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Cedar Rapids
Robert Long
Center Point Road NE
Franklin High School
Center Point Road
Oakland Road
Long
Balloon Blame Clash Over Prague Airliner
Prague accuses an American balloon of causing the Jan 18 collision with a Czech airliner that killed 22. Radio Prague says a balloon crossed into Czech airspace from behind the Iron Curtain. U S officials call the charge completely phony and insist weather balloons pose no danger.
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London
Czechoslovakia
Radio
Indict Twins 14 In Boy Slaying Case
Wheeling West Virginia report says county grand jury indicted 14 year old twin brothers Tommy and Joseph Williams for murder in the bludgeon slaying of Cub Scout David Powell. Powell's body was found February 10 under a porch at the twins home as prosecutors pursue possible death penalty implications under state law.
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Wheeling
W. Va
Tommy
Joseph Williams
David Powell
Demos Grumble Over Foreign Policy Moves
Senate and House Democrats accuse the administration of bypassing Congress on foreign policy actions such as the tank shipment to Saudi Arabia. Dulles is set to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, while House leaders protest lack of consultation and review.
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Washington
Senate Land House
Congress
Saudi Arabia
Dulles
George
D-Ga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Rep. Richards
D-S.c
House
Richards
Senate
Middle East
LeFebure and Craig Systems Plan Consolidation
LeFebure Corp and Craig Systems announce a consolidation creating a Cedar Rapids based subsidiary. LeFebure will keep its name and remain under Delaware incorporation, with no staff or policy changes. Annual sales conference set for Cedar Rapids the week of March 11 to formalize the merger with about 150 representatives attending.
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Cedar Rapids
LeFebure Corporation
Craig Systems, Inc
Danvers
Mass
LeFebure
Leo T. LeFebure
Delaware
Craig Systems
LeFebvre Company
Oakland Road NE
Lawrence
Oregon Floods And Slides Cut Southwest Roads
Heavy rains trigger earth slides and floods in southwest Oregon. Grants Pass is cut off by road for a time and four buses with 75 passengers are stranded. The Southern Pacific main line in the Cascade mountains is blocked by three slides. One slide hits a passing freight and two cars, but no injuries are reported.
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Portland
Oregon
Grants Pass
Southern Pacific
Cascade Mountains
Penny Stock Purchase by Allen Tied to Steep Rock Deal
Cleveland based report notes George E. Allen friend of Presidents bought 10,000 shares of Steep Rock Iron Mines Ltd at one cent a share on June 22, 1943. United States revenue agents state the stock was valued at 2.25 dollars. Cyrus S. Eaton defends the sale as proper amid prior RFC loan backing and Allen later became RFC director.
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Cleveland
George E. Allen
U. S
Cyrus S. Eaton
Allen
Truman
Eisenhower
Steep Rock Iron Mines, Ltd
Eaton
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Steep Rock
RFC
Ten-Party Line System Studied
TOKYO INS The Japanese Telephone Corporation studied a plan to install a ten party line system to cut installation costs. The system would reduce installation costs to about 30 dollars. A telephone now costs about 100 dollars to install. In addition the subscriber must post a 150 dollar bond with the corporation.
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Tokyo
INS
Japanese Telephone Corporation
13 Year Old Drives Jeep Into Cedar Rapids House
A 13 year old, possibly the youngest in Cedar Rapids court on a traffic charge, was fined 128 dollars for reckless driving and driving without a license. The accident on Forest drive SE damaged a house at 198 and 200 Forest drive, with about 2000 dollars in damage. The Jeep owner is identified as Alice Andrews. accomplice Roger McCray, 14, took the vehicle earlier.
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Cedar Rapids
Irvin Hubbard
C Avenue NE
James Patterson
Hubbard
Forest Drive SE
Forest Drive
Alice Andrews
Roger McCray
Second Avenue SE
McCray
Young McCray
Ike to Announce At His Time Says Weary Hagerty
President Eisenhower will announce his second term decision in his own time. Press secretary James C. Hagerty urged reporters to stop pressing and said no comment will be given at any news conference. He stressed there is no reason to expect an announcement at the upcoming press briefing.
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Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Relief Order Extends U S Aid To Curtain Nations
American ambassadors in 19 countries including four behind the Iron Curtain were ordered to arrange rapid relief under President Eisenhowers plan. They must gather complete estimates of needs for food blankets and warm clothing and begin long range studies to counteract crop loss amid the cold wave.
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Washington
INS
Eisenhower
U. S
Europe
State Department
Romania
Bulgaria
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Britain
France
Netherlands
Belgium
Norway
Denmark
Italy
Greece
Turkey
Luxembourg
Portugal
Spain
West Germany
Austria
Yugoslavia
Term Reduced for Red Collaborator
Sgt. William E. Banghart convicted of collaborating with the enemy in Korea had his sentence cut from 15 years of hard labor to one year. General Floyd L. Parks, Second Army commander, granted leniency as charges showed no mistreatment of prisoners.
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FT. Meade, Md
William E. Banghart
Korea
Floyd L. Parks
Second Army
Banghart
United Fund Drive Idea Is Well Received
Sympathy expressions toward a United Fund campaign in Cedar Rapids and Marion were voiced at a Tuesday noon Public Welfare bureau meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. No action was taken on a CIO Industrial Union Council request for a single annual fund drive in the two cities.
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United Fund
Cedar Rapids
Marion
Public Welfare Bureau
Chamber of Commerce
Bureau
CIO Industrial Union Council
CIO
Ward Hauskins
Industrial Union Council
Hauskins
Union Council
Community Chest
Chest Ape
C. H. Jordan
Kenneth Everhart
Community Chests and Councils of
Iowa
United Fund of Iowa
Des Moines
United Fund idea discussed at Cedar Rapids welfare meeting
Cedar Rapids officials and CIO leaders debated replacing separate drives with a United Fund to pool campaigns. Ward Hauskins urged combining campaigns, while officials weighed how to educate organizations and the public. The discussion showed sympathy but no mandate to join. Washington news noted five ballistic missile tests approved by the House Armed Services Committee and a warning from Gen Twining about Soviet progress.
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Washington
House Armed Services Committee
Nathan F. Twining
Air Force
Fof
Senate Armed Services Committee
Russia
U. S
House Committee
Rep. Rivers
D-S. C
Rebels seize two Brazil airstrips in Amazon campaign
Belem Brazil UP reports a 100 rebel force led by four air force officers seized airstrips at Itaituba and Belterra after evacuating Santarem 400 miles west. The hit and run tactic group expanded control of two airfields in the Amazon jungle.
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Belem
Brazil
Amazon
Fair Force
Santarem
Here
Itaituba
Belterra
Humphrey Plans Quick Trip North
President Eisenhower's host in south Georgia Treasury Secretary Humphrey leaves Wednesday for a quick trip to New York for a speaking engagement then returns to Thomasville to stay through the end of the week.
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Thomasville
Eisenhower
South Georgia
Treasury
Humphrey
Wednessday
New York
Sacred Cows Run Rampant in Indian Farmlands
In New Delhi and 150 miles north a herd of over 1000 sacred cows roams the countryside terrorizing crops. Some 17,000 peasants threaten a no-rest strike unless the government acts to deter the marauders. Cows raid fields at night, graze on wheat, and force continuous local guards to protect croplands.
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New Delhi
Here
Phantom of Orly Mystery Baffles Paris Officials
The government seeks to solve the phantom of Orly a gigantic flying saucer like object seen on radar at supersonic speed. It has appeared three times in less than a year at the Orly airport near Paris. The object described as twice the size of the largest known plane moved up to 2000 mph and hovered around the airport for about four hours.
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Paris
Orly
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