Senator Smith Escapes Red Police in East Berlin Incident
Senator Margaret Chase Smith was rushed to safety by an American newsman after Communist agitators surrounded her party in Alexander Square. Red police arrived a minute later and released the three aides after questioning. Smith continued her tour toward Moscow via Zurich and Prague.
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Joseph H. Singer
Berlin
INS
Margaret Chase Smith
East Berlin
Red
Maine
State Department
Prague
Malenkov
CBS
Richard Hottelet
Sen
Hottelet
Bus union and National City Lines resume wage talks
Cedar Rapids continuing negotiations between the bus drivers union and National City Lines with Federal Conciliator Roy Shaffer chairing. A 10 am session ran two and a half hours and a 2 pm meeting was scheduled. Shaffer declined to comment on progress but said talks were proceeding smoothly.
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Cedar Rapids News
National City Lines
Roy Shaffer
Shaffer
Missing Father Reunited With Chicago Police Help
Mary Ann Perkins, 12, of St Louis, wrote to Chicago Police Lost and Found asking to locate her father Lee Perkins from Vicksburg Mississippi. Sam Perkins, a construction worker, told the bureau he is Mary Ann's father and that everything is okay.
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Chicago
Lost-And-Found
Mary Ann Perkins
Mary Ann
St. Louis
Lee Perkins
Vicksburg
Miss
Lost and Found Department
Sam Perkins
Audit Friday Night Drives Cedar Rapids Chest Campaign
The Cedar Rapids Marion Community Chest campaign schedules a Friday audit led by chair John B. Tuthill with a 10 a.m. report brunch. Workers should bring reports of contributions and pledges, full or partial, for the audit conducted by the Cedar Rapids chapter of the National Association of Cost Accountants.
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Cedar Rapids News
Cedar Rapids-Marion Community Chest
John B. Tuthill
Tuthill
Cedar Rapids
National Association of Cost Accountants
James Cooper
Chamber of Commerce
Marion
Debbie Reynolds Engagement to Eddie Fisher Confirmed
Hollywood reports confirm Debbie Reynolds and Eddie Fisher are engaged and plan to marry next June. Reynolds, 22, and Fisher, 24, began dating earlier this year and both will wed for the first time.
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Hollywood
Debbie Reynolds
Eddie Fisher
Fisher
New York
Eddie Cantor
Debbie
Eddie
Cantor
Raymond Reynolds
Miss Reynolds
Testimony Hits Taylor Wallace in Communist Claim
Senate internal security panel released sworn testimony by two men alleging Glen Taylor and Henry A. Wallace led a Communist controlled Progressive party ticket. Taylor and Wallace denied the accusations, with Taylor challenging the panel and Wallace denying the claims and saying he would not tolerate Communists.
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Washington
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Sen
Jenner
R-Ind
Glen Taylor
Senate
Idaho
Henry A. Wallace
Taylor
Wallace
Idaho Falls
Progressive Party
South Salem
N. Y
Kefauver Sees Low Chance of 1956 Presidential Run
U S Senator Kefauver of Tennessee said it is unlikely he will seek the Democratic nomination in 1956 after his 1954 bid, though he did not rule out the door being left open. He noted he has made no plans for 1956.
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Madison
Kefauver
Tenn
Adlai Stevenson
FBI Nabs 10 Puerto Rican Red Leaders
The FBI arrested 10 Puerto Rican Communist leaders, nine in Puerto Rico and one in New York, accusing them of conspiring to overthrow the government. Hoover said the roundup cripples the Puerto Rican Communist apparatus aiding the Nationalist movement.
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Washington
FBI
Red
Puerto Rico
New York
J. Edgar Hoover
Communist Party
Nationalist Party
House Chamber
Truman
Hoover
Utilities Assured On Atomic Power
Westinghouse President Gwilym A. Price told the American Bankers Association that atomic power will not disrupt electric utility economics. He cited three reasons: similar equipment to coal plants, rising long term power demand, and that widespread use for divine purposes is still years away.
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Atlantic City
INS
Westinghouse
Gwilym A. Price
American Bankers Association
Our Salvation Depends on Spiritual Values Ike Says
President Eisenhower warned that victory or defeat in war no longer exists and only the degree of destruction remains. Addressing about 7 500 at Trinity College, he urged American youth to uphold spiritual values and national virtue to shape a virtuous republic and global education.
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Ike
Hartford
Eisenhower
Trinity College
Ike on KCRG TV And Radio Tonight
President Eisenhower's speech at the National Jewish Tercentenary Dinner in New York will be broadcast on KCRG TV tonight from 9 to 9 30 and on KCRG radio from 9 30 to 10 in the Astor hotel's grand ballroom.
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Eisenhower
New York
Kcrg-Tv
Astor Hotel
KCRG
Eisenhower Receives Honorary Degree As Nation Focuses On Peace
President Eisenhower attended a college ceremony honoring its 132nd year and received an honorary Doctor of Laws. He traveled from Washington to deliver speeches in New York, billed as non political, influencing campaign discourse. Crowds greeted him warmly along the campus route and airport area. The citation praised his Normandy leadership andAtoms for Peace program, linking past heroism to current national goals.
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Associated Press
Dwight Eisenhower
Washington
Connecticut
New York
William Draper
Air Force
Eisenhower
White House
Nixon
Lairport
Striking Dockers Walk Off Liners Amid Shipping Paralysis
Striking dockers walked off the liners Queen Elizabeth and America at Southampton, spreading shipping paralysis across Britain. About 39,000 dockers were out nationwide with port actions in London, Liverpool, Birkenhead, Hull and Southampton. 55 men unloading the America quit, delaying cargo for New York. Queen Elizabeth crew also downed tools. the ship planned to sail Thursday with Queen Mother Elizabeth aboard to the United States.
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London
U.S
Petersen Indicted for Handling Defense Secrets
Joseph S. Petersen, 40, named in an indictment in Alexandria, pleads innocent to charges of unlawfully handling government defense secrets. The case cites use of classified information prejudicial to the United States and beneficial to another nation. The Netherlands is not named in the indictment.
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Alexandria
Joseph S. Petersen
Petersen
National Security Agency
Netherlands
Democrats Seek Prettiest Donkey
The Young Democrats of Colorado plan a Saturday dinner and offer five dollars each to the first four female donkeys delivered, aiming to display the prettiest donkey in the state at the $7.50 plate event in Denver.
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Denver
Young Democrats
Colorado
Alex Keller
Defense Finally Reads Name of Susan Hayes in Sheppard Case
In Cleveland AP report the defense obtained the name Susan Hayes into the Sheppard trial record after two days. Juror questioning on sexual matters had been resisted by objections. Louise Feuchter was asked about Hayes statement and indicated it would not prejudice her.
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Susan Hayes
Cleveland
Sheppard
Istick
Miss Hayes
California
Fred W. Garmone
Defense Counsel
Louise K. Feuchter
Sam Sheppard
Chiefs Agree On Germany
Paris sources report the Big Three Western Powers and West Germany agreed on steps to end Allied occupation and restore nearly sovereign status. Dulles, Britain, France, and Adenauer outlined basis for an accord with remaining issues to be refined for resubmission to the four ministers on October 21.
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Paris
Bonn
West Germany
Dulles
Britain
France
Adenauer
Police Dog Boots Foils Would-be Holdup in Owosso
In Owosso Michigan a highway holdup attempt failed when Boots the police dog lunged for the suspect after Gail Shewalter called the dog. Boots chased the man to a fence and bit his leg before the offender fled with a partner.
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Owosso
Mich
Boots
Gail Shewalter
Shewalter
Communist Party Aims at Major U S Parties, Witnesses Say
Two witnesses testified that the Communist party seeks to infiltrate the Republican and Democratic parties and backs candidates favorable to its program. Former FBI undercover agent Matthew Covell and ex Communist functionary John Lautner told the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that Communists shifted to the two major parties after the Progressive party collapse in 1948.
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Washington
Communist Party
Matthew Covellc
FBI
John Lautner
Senate
Internal Security
Eight Killed By Rooming House Gas in Detroit
Eight people died from carbon monoxide seeping from a faulty chimney in a three story rooming house on the edge of Detroit's downtown. Nin e others were rushed to hospital in temporary serious condition. Owner Joseph Filjackowski, 58, credited with saving lives after discovering fumes and banging on doors.
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Detroit
Joseph Filjackowski
Cedar Rapids Man Sues Over $44 173 in Income Taxes
James H. Maloney, partner in R. D. Hunting wholesale lumber, sues in Cedar Rapids federal district court seeking refunds and recovery of allegedly over collected income taxes for fiscal years 1944 to 1946. He claims a 1942 partnership reorganization and a trust were valid and seeks jury trial and interest on the disputed amount. Also noted is RFC related case dismissal in the same court.
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Cedar Rapids
U. S
Federal District Court
James H. Maloney
R. D. Hunting
Maloney
Commissioner of Internal Revenue
Robert O. Daniel
T. M. Snngersoll
Bureau
Partnership and Trust
Internal Revenue Code
Ednesday
U.S
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Lee H
Iris M. Chandler
Chandler Macchine Products Company
RFC
Cross
Linn County
Morehead Construction Company
Joint Bid for Testimony in Harriman Pier Scandal
New York Senator Irving M. Ives challenged Averell Harriman to join him in requesting federal court to release Harriman’s testimony before a grand jury on a $250,000 pier lease scandal from the 1920s. Ives accuses Harriman of complicity via Tammany Hall tied docks deals, while Harriman denies any payments and says he alerted a grand jury. he calls Ives’ tactics desperate.
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NEW York (Ap
Irving M. Ives
Averell Harriman
Harriman
Ives
New York
Tammanys
United American Line
Tammany Hall
Tuberculosis Patient to See Baby by TV Broadcast
Denver KFEL TV obtained permission to televise a tuberculosis patient Cpl Ramon L. Gray viewing his newborn daughter Kelly Lyn Gray born Tuesday to the couple. The first child, Gray is hospitalized with TB contracted in a North Korean prison camp and will see pictures of his baby each afternoon for the rest of the week.
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Denver
Kfel-Tv
Fitzsimons Army Hospital
Kelly Lyn Gray
Ramon L. Gray
Gray
Food Price Index Hits New Low For Fourth Week
New York AP reports the wholesale food price index from Dun and Bradstreet fell for the fourth straight week to 6.59, down from 6.64 last week. The index remains 0.8 percent higher than the same week last year.
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New York
Dun and Bradstreet
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