Eisenhower’s New Deal Like Proposals Stir Democrats
President Eisenhower’s address to Congress outlines 33 foreign and domestic items labeled New Dealish by Democrats. Democrats mostly back some measures while opposing farm price supports, Taft Hartley revisions, and Alaska statehood, with probes into security firings and patronage to follow.
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Catholics Backed Union Wins at Rock Island Tractor Plant
The International Harvester Farmall works voted 1 740 to 760 to switch allegiance from the Farm Equipment Workers Union to the CIO United Auto Workers. Production and maintenance workers cast ballots under NLRB supervision with 81 voting no union and 93 challenged ballots. The UAW move marks its fourth Quad City area win over the FE, previously expelled for Communist links.
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United Auto Workers
National Labor Relations Board
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East Moline
Legion Protests Chaplin Pictures Cancelled in Allentown
Muhlenberg College canceled a scheduled showing of early Charlie Chaplin films after a formal protest by the American Legion Lentz post. President Dr. J. Conrad Seegers said the post objected to Chaplin’s anti-American record of recent years and the Feb. 4 screening marked a phase in U.S. motion picture art development.
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Muhlenberg College
American Legion Post
J. Conrad Seegers
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Lentz Post
Seegers
U.S
December Job Picture Shows Unusually Strong Outlook
Government data show both unemployed and working counts down in December with a slightly better overall seasonal picture. Employment fell 1,043,000 to 60,688,000 while unemployment declined 55,000 to 2,638,000, offset by farm wives and off season workers. Non agricultural payrolls rose 600,000 to 49,432,000 as auto assembly offsets declines in farming and outdoor jobs.
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Washington
INS
Commerce and Labor Departments
Injured Boy Hits 109 Temperature After Coasting Accident
Hanover New Hampshire July report says 3 year old George McCusker ran a temperature of 109 for an hour after a coasting accident. Dr Ernest Sachs notes the temperature then normalized by Friday though the boy’s condition stayed serious. Pediatricians marvel at his survival amid medical uncertainty.
Rock Island Delays Decision On Parking Lot Transfer
Cedar Rapids officials await Rock Island Line word on selling or leasing city offstreet parking land near Greene square. General Industrial Agent A F Hatcher in Chicago says decision postponed for department review with potential reply within a week. Commercial Agent Everett Stout will relay updates.
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Milo Sedlacek
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Chicago
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Fourth Street
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The
Legion
Board Endorses Eisenhower Highway Modernization Plan
The Eisenhower highway commission endorsed a 101 billion dollar nationwide modernization program over ten years. It proposes the federal government fund most work on a 24 billion dollar strategic interstate network.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Highway Commission
Giggling Over Phone Line Causes Connection Risk
In Slagelse Denmark telecom officials warn a woman that her laughter disrupts lines capable of handling 48 conversations at once. The amusing incident underscores fragile telephone links and the need for calm on busy networks.
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Slagelse
Denmark
Note for $200 Results in Hunt for Heirs to Fortune
In 1850 a poor lawyer bought a mid Manhattan farm for 200 dollars. New York’s growth lifted the parcel to a seven million dollar claim and a vast inheritance battle now tracks 25 potential heirs including Pocahontas descendants and Poe relatives. Surrogate Judge Collins nears resolution after years of genealogical search.
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Sticks
Manhattan
John M. Bixby
Gotham
Edgar Allan Poe
Election Figures Put Republicans In Spending Lead
The 1954 congressional campaign shows four Republican national groups spent about 3.72 million dollars, 28 percent more than Democratic groups. Democratic labor organizations contributed 2.82 million, with CIO PAC not yet reporting, and both sides posted roughly 266 thousand dollars in deficit.
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Clerk
House
Senate
CIO Political Action Committee
Wall Street Opens With Broad Rally After Break
Buyers surged at the opening bell in New York sending stocks higher after a two day break. Interludes of selling were few as prices had fallen enough to attract cash on the sidelines, prompting renewed buying.
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Tire price hikes hit U S Rubber products
United States Rubber Company announced immediate price increases of 2.5 to 5 percent on passenger car and truck tires and farm tires and tubes due to higher costs.
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New York
United States Rubber Company
Turin Police Nab Theater Kissers
In Turin Italy a special anti kissing squad entered motion picture theaters and arrested 35 couples in the first hours. Police said the unit will patrol cinemas daily. No one was jailed. suspects will face trial later with possible fines up to 16 000 lire or a month in jail.
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Italy
Motion Icturé
Mother of Dr Sam Sheppard Ends Own Life
Mrs Richard A Sheppard mother of Dr Samuel H Sheppard the convict in the wife slaying was found dead Friday at the home of her other son Dr Stephen A Sheppard. Police said she shot herself leaving a note saying she can't carry on without father. Her husband was in hospital with pleurisy. The note made no mention of Sam. She had suffered a stroke last fall and had been hospitalized periodically. She testified at an inquest July 23 saying she did not believe her son killed his wife but that they had discussed divorce.
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Richard A. Sheppard
Samuel H. Sheppard
Stephen A. Sheppard
Sam
Porter
Bid for New Trial Dropped in Sheppard Case
Dr Samuel H Sheppard lawyers withdrew their bid for a new trial after new evidence claim. The ruling cancels a pending hearing and clears the way for the life sentence to be carried out. An appeal of the second degree murder conviction was filed and the judge stayed execution until the appeal brief is submitted.
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Samuel H. Sheppard
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Ohio Penitentiary
William J. Corrigan
Edward Blythin
Corrigan
Court of Appeals
Dag Hammarskjold and Chou En Lai Meet in Peiping
United Nations secretary general Dag Hammarskjold and Red Chinese Premier Chou En-lai held a nearly four hour second round of talks in Peiping on prisoner releases. No details were released. Hammarskjold said the next conference will be Saturday and that he and his party would attend the opera that night with Wang Cho-ju.
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Dag Hammarskjold
Chou En-lai
Peiping
Hammarskjold
Wang Cho-ju
Men Outnumber Women in Hospitals Despite Longer Female Life
A nationwide hospital survey by the American Medical Association shows men patients outnumber women by 77 720 late in 1958, with 642 156 men and 564 436 women. Women outlive men and dominate health outcomes across ages, while males make up 53.2 of hospital patients.
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Chicago
Bureau of Medical Economic Research
American Medical Association
Frank G. Dickinson
Bureau
Noel Fields Vanish from U S Light
US officials report Noel and Herta Fields have vanished again while in Hungary. The couple, freed from a Hungarian jail in 1960 after five years, were said to seek asylum in Budapest but the US legation cannot locate them. Ambassador Ravndal is pressing Hungary for information as reports of their whereabouts shift.
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Noel
Herta Field
Hungary
Budapest
U.S
Christian M. Ravndal
Foreign Office
Ravndal
Herta
Dog At Door Costs Alaska Man His Toes
Phillip Gleason a 35 year old carpenter in Fairbanks Alaska says his dog pushed open the door of his cabin during an extreme cold night 42 below zero. He awoke to find his toes frozen and they may need amputation.
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Fairbanks
Alaska
Phillip Gleason
Atty Gen Opens War On Liquor in Iowa
Iowa Attorney General Dayton Countryman launched a wide crackdown on illegal liquor sales urging county attorneys and sheriffs in 78 counties to raid taverns and check for violations. He urged the State Beer Permit Board to dismiss investigator Ray O. Kuehl for failure to notify enforcement officers.
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Dayton Countryman
State Beer Permit Board
Melvin D. Synhorst
Ray O. Kuehl
Countryman
Martin Lauterbach
Kueh
C. B. Akers
Cedar Rapids
Beer Board
Kuehl
Iowa
Leo A. Hoegh
Hoegh
British Rail Strike Called Off After Government Talks
In London AP reports union leaders canceled a nationwide rail strike that had been set to begin Sunday. The government had convened union chiefs and management to avert the industrial action.
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