Knowland calls for tight naval blockade of China
Senate GOP Leader Knowland urged a tight naval blockade of Communist China if imprisoned Americans are not released. He said the U.S. should act with or without UN support, and requested a list of U.S. personnel known to be held in Red China. He argued the move could yield results without risking all-out war.
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Washington
INS
Senate
G.O.P
Knowland
Calif
China
State Department
U. S
Red
U.N
America
Executive Branch
Wounded White Man and Indian Death in Marshall County
Officials investigated a shooting and a death tied to tensions over an Indian woman. Vernon Jefferson and Frank Pushetonequa were sought after the dawn incident near Dunbar. Clinton Brown was found dead near Montour after a car crash. Henry Halvorson was wounded and hospitalized in Iowa City. an autopsy awaited Brown’s cause of death.
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Toledo
Marshall
Tama
Marshall County
Harry W. Jennings
Clinton Brown
Montour
Henry Halvorson
Dunbar
Halvorson
University Hospitals
Iowa City
Vernon Jefferson
Brown
Jennings
Dorothy Jefferson
Jefferson
Pushetonequa
U S Protest Demands Release of 13 Americans in China
The government plans a vigorous Free World campaign to win freedom for 11 military men and two civilians held in Communist China. A formal note demanding prompt release was delivered to Peiping via London at the British request, with U N involvement noted by Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. and Dag Hammarskjold.
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Washington
China
Red China
London
U. S. State Department
Peiping
U. S
U. N
New York
Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr
Dag Hammarskjola
First Snow Slips Roads In Early Saturday Crash
Iowans faced winter driving as snow made highways slick across sections. A head on collision on highway 149 north of Homestead left Herbert Meyer and Joe Elan injured, Meyer in serious condition at St Luke's Cedar Rapids. Elan listed in good condition.
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Highway 149
Homestead
Herbert Meyer
Cedar Rapids
Joe Elan
Marengo
St. Luke’s Hospital
Meyer
Elan
Mason City
State Highway Commission
Forest City
Oelwein
Cambridge mother celebrates seventh son on 43rd birthday
Anna Martell of Cambridge celebrated her 43rd birthday by giving birth to her seventh son, bringing her total to 17 children. The event marks a remarkable family milestone for Martell and highlights a long-running brood in the city.
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Cambridge, Mass
Anna Martell
Weather Outlook Cloudy Tonight and Sunday
The forecast calls for cloudy conditions tonight with a chance of light showers late tonight ending early Sunday. Sunday will be partly cloudy with cooler highs around 38 degrees and overnight lows near 32 to 34.
Smuggling of French Style Designs Told
A government agency reported that about half the autumn and winter collections of Dior Fath Balmain were smuggled from France. Three major networks were uncovered with three women arrested and a fourth at large. Raids totaled twenty with twenty five people questioned across Paris regions and abroad. Leading figures included Simone Archambaud Marguerite Brossard and Rajala Rotztain.
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Paris
INS
Christian Dior
Jacques Fath
Pierre Balmain
France
Surette Nationale
Ministry of Interior
Haute Couture Chambre Syndicale
Haute Couture
Spain
North Africa
South America
Couturiers
Couturier
Simone Archambaud
Marguerite Brossard
Rajala Rotztain
President Eisenhower orders nationwide narcotics study
President Eisenhower on Saturday asked five cabinet members to prepare a comprehensive survey on narcotics addiction in the United States. He also requested a report on local and state efforts to combat the narcotics problem, with letters sent to Dulles Brownell Wilson Humphrey and Hobby. The group will coordinate federal anti drug programs.
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Augusta
INS
Eisenhower
U.S
Dulles
Brownell
Defense
Wilson
Treasury
Humphrey
Welfare
Oveta Culp Hobby
Industrial Monticello Inspires Prairie Towns
Monticello in north Jones county Iowa is hailed as its most industrious small city in a farming region. The piece, titled Pittsburgh of the Prairies, appears in Sunday Editor John Reynolds’s Iowa News Section in this Sunday Cedar Rapids Gazette.
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Monticello
Jones County
Iowa
Pittsburgh
Prairies
John Reynolds
Iowa News
Cedar Rapids
Dahl Sentenced In Swiss Court For Gold Heist
American pilot Harold Whitey Dahl was sentenced in Geneva to two years in prison and a 2500 dollar fine plus trial costs for stealing 55 pounds of gold worth 36400 dollars from a Swiss air cargo plane last year. He faces a 10 year ban from Swiss territory after serving the sentence and has 1 year 8 months left to serve. A key witness, Eila Eppenberger, testified Dahl was incapable of such a deed. Dahl had previously survived a death sentence during the Spanish civil war after his former wife appealed to Generalissimo Franco.
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Geneva
INS
Harold “Whitey
Dahl
Eila Eppenberger
Canada
Generalissimo
Franco
Mundt urges narrow Hiss inquiry not fishing expedition
Senator Mundt says investigators should not summon Alger Hiss unless new clues arise. He favors letting Hiss testify only with specific questions and notes a double jeopardy bar on past points. Mundt expects FBI to question Hiss and would support using a congressional forum if new disclosures emerge.
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Washington
INS
Mundt
R-S.d
Alger Hiss
Hiss
State Department
Capitol Hill
House Committee On un-American Activities
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Committee On un-American Activities
FBI
Place for Gifts Not Safe Enough
The Murray family fears fewer Christmas presents as Eleanor hid gifts in a cellar carton stash. Her husband disposed of cartons during a tidy up, and police seek the garbage truck to recover the packages.
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Hamilton
Ont
Murray
Eleanor Murray
Medical Professor Granted Divorce Over Wife’s Career Choice
CHICAGO AP A medical professor Dr Conrad L Pirani 28 a pathology professor at University of Illinois College of Medicine was granted a divorce from Ornella Pirani 35 a Harvard medical student. He charged she deserted him January 5 1953.
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Chicago
Conrad L. Pirani
University of Illinois College of Medicine
Ornella Pirani
Harvard Medical School
Woman Held In Death of Three Mates
Tulsa county officials questioned widow Nannie Lanning Doss after three husbands died, two with poison found in autopsies. Police linked poisons to Samuel L. Doss and Richard L. Morton. another husband Harley Lanning died earlier, with Mrs Doss as beneficiary on small policies. Investigations extended to Lexington North Carolina.
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Tulsa
J. Howard Edmondson
Edmondson
Nannie Lanning Doss
Samuel L. Doss
Richard L. Morton
Emporia
Kan
Edmundson
Morton
Doss
Lonely Hearts Club
Lexington
N. C
Harley Lanning
Unauthorized Hop Nets Term in Pen
Darry Spaulding an 18 year old who flew a Lear aircraft to Gladstone Michigan in an unauthorized flight two weeks earlier was sentenced Friday to 18 months to five years in Southern Michigan prison.
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Grand Rapids
Darry Spaulding
Lear, Inc
Gladstone
Mich
Michigan
Alger Hiss Proclaims Innocence After Prison Release
Alger Hiss, 50, former state department official, left Lewisburg federal prison vowing to fight for exoneration after serving three years eight months of a five year sentence for perjury. He told reporters he would dispel the myth about him and planned to write, as his wife and lawyers stood nearby.
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Hiss
Alger Hiss
Lewisburg
State Department
INS
Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary
Whittaker Chambers
Priscilla
Anthony
New York
Chester Lane
Robert Benjamin
U.S
Greenwich Village
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William Theis
Frank Pushetonequa, Jr
Tama County
Russell Kern
Robert
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