Death of polio survivor Fred B. Snite Jr at 44
Fred B. Snite Jr 44 long paralyzed by infantile paralysis died in a West Palm Beach hotel after traveling to Florida for the state bridge championships. Doctors cited heart strain from years in an iron lung. Snite, once called the Boiler Kid, inspired many with his fight and travels from Peiping to Lourdes. He married Theresa Larkin in 1939. they had three daughters.
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Miami Beach
Fred B. Snite, Jr
West Palm Beach
Miami
Snite
Chicago
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Ridge
Shie
Peiping
China
Our Lady of Lourdes
France
Theresa Larkin
Dayton
Ohio
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Katherine
Mary
United States
Young Snite
President Coolidge
San Francisco
Jacques Fath Dies Paris Fashion Leader at 42
Jacques Fath a top Paris fashion designer died at 42 after a period of illness. He started as France's youngest couturier in 1936 and built a major fashion house employing about 600 in Paris. He survived by his wife Genevieve, a son, his parents, and a sister.
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Jacques Fath
France
Fath
Genevieve
U. S
Christian Dior
Pierre Balmain
Pierre de Serbie
Eugenie
Weird Pranks Admit Killjoy Tombstone Gag by Iowa Students
Mason City police charged two 18 year old junior college students Donald Vargert and Richard Tierney after they—as members of a secret Lost World Literary Society—took an old tombstone from Elmwood cemetery and propped it on a girl’s porch. They left notes with archaic language and a mock death threat, later confessing the pranks.
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Mason City
Earth
Mason City Junior College
Donald George Waigert
Richard Louis Tierney
Lost World Literary Society
Elmwood Cemetery
H. Rider Haggard
Valgert
Tierney
Congressional panel waives 30 day rule on Dixon Yates contract
The joint atomic energy committee approved waiving the 30 day requirement to review the Dixon Yates contract by a 10 to 8 vote. The deal would fund a $107.25 million plant at West Memphis Arkansas to supply power to TVA facilities and faces possible opposition from Democrats in the new Congress.
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Washington
INS
Joint
Congressional Atomic Energy Committee
Dixon- Yates
Congress
Sen. Hickenlooper
Rla
Hickenlooper
E. H. Dixon
E. A. Yates
Cole
R-N.y
Ties Exchange Commission
West Memphis
Ark
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate to Open Hearings on Harlan Supreme Court Nomination
The senate judiciary committee will begin hearings November 19 on the nomination of Federal Judge John Marshall Harlan to the supreme court and on ten other presidential appointments.
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Washington
Llp
Senate Judiciary Committee
John Marshall Harlan
Supreme Court
Weather outlook shows cloudy, colder tonight and Sunday
Weather forecast: tonight will be cloudy and colder with a low of 30 to 35 degrees. Sunday starts partly cloudy and colder with a high of 40 to 45 degrees.
Man Convicted Of Killing Wife and Faking Accident
Ross Hawkins, 59, found guilty of murdering his wife on August 22 and staging an auto crash to collect life insurance. Jury refused mercy, making the death penalty mandatory. Hawkins held two $1,000 policies and aimed at a third on his grandson, with past claims tied to his son’s hunting death.
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Ross Hawkins
Hawkins
Joe MacFarland
Iowans Pack Twin Cities for Iowa Minnesota Game
Lou Breuer reports a 12 000 Iowa turnout packed Twin Cities hotels and clubs ahead of the Iowa Minnesota clash. Coach Forest Eva svheski jokes about third team plans as fans anticipate a close contest and a 64 000 sellout crowd.
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Minneapolis
St. Paul
Minister Withdraws Murder Charge After Accidental Hunting Death
In Blairsville Georgia prosecutors drop a murder charge against Rev Carl Brewer 46 who said he accidentally killed Alvin Towe 40 while hunting a squirrel on November 5 He preached Towe’s funeral and then confessed a week later Hershel Towe the warrant signer withdraws it after investigation showing the killing was accidental.
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Blairsville
Jack Tarpley
United Press
Carl Brewer
Brewer
Tarpley
Alvin Towe
Hershel Towe
Soviets Call for European Security Conference in Europe
Moscow charged that London and Paris arms plans for West Germany raise the threat of a destructive atomic war. It invited 23 European nations and the United States to a conference on collective security to be held in Paris or Moscow on November 29. Red China invited as observer.
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Russia
London
Paris
West Germany
Europe
U. S
Red China
Molotov
Berlin
Britain
France
Moscow invites talks seen as bid to scuttle West German rearmament
Washington officials dismissed Moscow's latest call for security talks as a bald undisguised attempt to undermine Western accords on West German rearmament. They cited press reports showing no new points in the invitation.
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Washington
Moscow
Cruel Hunt Season Tricks Ruin Pheasant Farm in New Jersey
A Monmouth Junction pheasant breeding farm faced ruin after unknown vandal released about 3000 birds two days before hunting season. Olive Oberman and Harold B. Cumbaugh describe heavy losses and debts while hunters swarmed the property, halting protection efforts as birds were slaughtered or carried away.
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Monmouth Junction
N. J
Olive Oberman
President Eisenhower Bags Duck Limit on Lake Erie Hunt
President Eisenhower hunted Friday near Maumee Bay Toledo with Humphrey, bagging the daily four-duck limit in 30 minutes and taking five pheasants with no limit. They traveled by marshes in flat bottom punts, ate lunch at Cedar Point club, and planned to return to Washington Saturday.
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Toledo, Ohio
Eisenhower
Treasury
Humphrey
Lake Erie
Maumee Bay
Toledo
Cedar Point Club
Washington
German Boy Tries Spanking Asylum at Border
A 13 year old and his 18 month old brother attempted to seek spanking asylum at the East German border but were sent back by East German police and later returned to their father in West Germany. No comment from the father was reported.
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Friedrichshof
Germany
East Germany
Mink Theft Hits Chicago Hotel Suite
Margot Clark wife of actor Dane Clark reported a burglary in her Chicago hotel suite. Thieves stole a $4000 mink coat and a $750 mink stole while she slept, sparking police investigation.
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Chicago
Margot Clark
Dane Clark
G O P Ballot Buying Probe in Maryland
The FBI investigated allegations that Republican politicians bought votes from eight Charles County residents in the November election. Attorney General Brownell announced the probe with no details. The Washington Post and Times-Herald reportedly handed affidavits to the justice department claiming they were paid after voting.
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FBI
Charles County
Herbert Brownell
Washington Post
Times-Herald
Justice Department
Recount Set For New Jersey Senate Race
A statewide recount of about 1.7 million votes is scheduled to begin November 22 after court orders for a new tally were granted to both parties. Republican Clifford Case leads Democrat Charles R. Howell by 3,369 votes in the certified result.
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Trenton
New Jersey
Clifford Case
Charles R. Howell
Queen Mother Elizabeth Begins Five Day Canada Visit
Queen Elizabeth starts a five day Canadian tour as a guest of Governor General Vincent Massey. A Royal Canadian Air Force plane ferried her from Langley AFB Virginia to Uplands Airport for the official ceremonies at Government House.
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Ottawa
Elizabeth
U.S
Canada
Royal Canadian Air Force
Uplands
Langley Air Force Base
Virginia
Vincent Massey
Government House
Navy ends search for Constellation missing at sea
The navy announced that the search for the Constellation, a navy liner with 42 aboard, missing since October 30 over the Atlantic, was called off at sunset Friday after no trace was found.
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Washington
Navy
Atlantic
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