Outburst at Attacks on Stalin Told
Reports from Vienna and London describe mass Georgian protests in Tiflis on March 8 against Kremlin attacks on Stalin. Crowds tore down portraits of Khrushchev and other leaders, with police passive and troops kept from firing. no bloodshed reported.
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London
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Kremlin
Josef Stalin
Vienna
Russia
Khrushchev
Iron Curtain
Tiflis
Soviet Communist Party
Bulganin
Churchill
Cryovac and Union Reach Wage Pact After 12Hour Strike
Cryovac Cedar Rapids workers struck for 12 hours starting midnight Saturday with only a few maintenance staff off duty. Settlement at noon Saturday raises average hourly wages by 11.1 cents. individual raises range seven to 17 cents, top rate for maintenance at 2.25. The contract changes include vacation and jury-pay provisions. other sections remain unsettled. Negotiations began December 16 under a wage reopening clause. the deal does not require union ratification. Local 426 of the United Rubber Workers represents the plant, a Cryovac division of W R Grace.
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United Rubber, Cork, Linoleum and Plastic Workers of America
CIO
Cryovac Company
W. R. Grace Corporation
Dewey and Almy
Weather Update Mostly Fair Through Sunday
Mostly fair conditions continue through Sunday with a gradual warmup. Tonight will be a bit cool with lows near 30. Sunday’s high near 53 degrees.
Boat Victim Gains $265000 in Speedboat Case
San Bernardino Calif A former airline stewardess Boni Buehler won a 100000 judgment against Insurance Broker Geary Steffan for the Lake Arrowhead speedboat accident that deprived her of an arm and leg. The total awards reach 265000 after two prior settlements from Conrad Hilton and the Hollywood Turf Club.
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San Bernardino
Calif
INS
Boni Buehler
Geary Steffan
Lake Arrowhead
Conrad Hilton
Miss Buehler
Hollywood Turf Club
Steffan
Hilton
the Turf Club
Detroiter Named U S Chamber Leader Promotes Trade and Politics
John S. Coleman age 58 chosen as president of the U S Chamber of Commerce by a 58 member board. He will start May 2 and urges businessmen to engage in politics and public affairs to safeguard democracy while pushing for increased foreign trade. He was formerly head of Burroughs Corporation in Detroit and was born in Charleston West Virginia.
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Washington
John S. Coleman
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Coleman
Burroughs Corporation of Detroit
Charleston
W. Va
Malenkov Affirms Friendship With Khrushchev
In London the former Soviet premier Malenkov said he has not studied reports of Khrushchev’s denunciation of Stalin but may comment later. Asked if he remains friendly with Khrushchev he replied firmly that he is still friendly.
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London
Malenkov
Britain
Stalin
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Divorce Granted After Fish Allergy Claim
Mrs. Irving Solomon testified in Hackensack New Jersey court that her husband beat her twice and forced her to eat fish. The divorce was awarded amid her claim of a fish allergy.
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Hackensack, N.J
Irving Solomon
Domestic Court
Quake Toll Rises to 112 in Lebanon Night Earthquake
The tremor in Beirut and southern Lebanon killed at least 112 people Friday night as rescue workers dug through collapsed structures. Officials warned the toll would rise with many villages leveled and the public health ministry called for blood donations. By Saturday the nation entered three days of mourning.
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Beirut
Lebanon
INL
Beirut! Radio
Floods in Hungary Claim Four Lives at Mohacs
Radio Budapest said floods along the Yugoslav frontier at Mohacs killed four people and displaced many others. Local rescuers reported rising waters and damage to homes and farms in the town and surrounding areas.
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Radio
Budapest
Hungary
Mohacs
No Wonder Place Looked Different
George Karadi Mas, 75, a retired Cleveland bar tender, ended up in Rome by mistake on a trip home to Greece after 49 years. He left an Athens bound flight, walked past passport control, and rode a cab into the city before realizing the mix up. Air officials later sent him to Athens.
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Rome
George Karadimas
Cleveland
Greece
Karadimas
Athens
Ciampino
French Tunisian talks end in breakdown raising North Africa tension
PARIS. Talks between France and Tunisia on independence collapsed Saturday, creating a risk of renewed strife in a previously quiet North African region.
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Paris
Cedar Rapids to supply water for Marion housing area
Cedar Rapids and Marion officials ended a tense Saturday session with a plan for Cedar Rapids to furnish water and temporary sewer service to the Hennessey Barry Glenbrook Cove development south of First Avenue and west of Tama Street SE. The arrangement specifies Cedar Rapids will own water mains in Marion and Marion will grant an easement. in an emergency Cedar Rapids mains could revert to Marion.
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Cedar Rapids
Marion
Hennessey-Barry
Glenbrook Cove
First Avenue
Tama Street
Archie Conklin
Indian Creek Valley
Charles Mulliinex
Howard R. Green Company
Garberson
Green Company
Blizzard Toll Widens Across Northeast With Ships In Peril
A Nor eastern blizzard left 47 dead and imperiled six ships as snowdrifts up to ten feet paralyzed New England. Destroyers ran aground near Narragansett Bay. crew rescued by coast guards. Etrusco driven ashore near Scituate. 30 crewmen saved. Deaths reported across Rhode Island, Massachusetts, New York, Ohio, Connecticut, New Jersey, and Maine.
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Gazette
Etrusco
Scituate
Mass
Coast
Long Island
Coast Guard
Sylvia
Texas Tower
Cape Cod
Air Force
Navy
Harbor
Newport Naval Base
Augusta
Maine
New England
Ohio
New York City
New Haven
Florida
New Jersey Turnpike
Irene Joliot Curie Dies Nobel Chemist at 58
Irene Joliot Curie, 58, Nobel Prize winning scientist and daughter of Pierre and Marie Curie, died Saturday in a Paris hospital. Her career faced postwar criticism over alleged Communist ties. She and Frederic Joliot won the 1935 Nobel Prize in chemistry for the theory of artificial radioactivity. The government ousted her from the atomic energy commission in 1951. The American Chemical Society rejected her 1954 application for membership citing Communist associations.
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Irene Joliot- Curie
Pierre
Marie Curie
Frederic Joliot
Mme
Joliot-Curie
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