Clashes Rock Brussels as State Troopers and Strikers Clash
In Brussels a violent melee erupts as state troopers confront strikers during an 11 day nationwide walkout. One demonstrator dies from a sabre blow and police report multiple injuries. violence spreads from Brussels to Antwerp Mons Charleroi and other towns amid protests of austerity measures and Congo revenue cuts.
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Brussels
Belgium
Ministry of Interior
Sabena Airlines
Antwerp
Gustav Eyskens
Mons
Charleroi
Baudouin
Senate
House of Representatives
Eyskens
Theo Lefevre
Roger Motz
Leo Collard
Collard
Congo
Esykens
Walloon
Couillet
Marcinelle
Gilly, Marchienne-au-Pont
Jumet
Erie Kiwanis Charter Night marks new officers installed
Erie Kiwanis Club's Charter Night featured 20 members and wives at Erie High School. New officers Marion Showalter president Marion Richey vice president Tom Burress secretary Virgil Moody treasurer and directors E C Bryan Dick Wood Pershing Brady Lester Shepard Hollis Dunham Verle Craven were installed by Lt Governor Mel Loomis. The event included performances by Erie High School girls trio under Helen Gould Scoville and John Wright at piano with travel photos by Earl Parker.
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Erie Kiwanis Club
Hillcrest
Marion Showalter
Marion Richey
Tom Burress
Virgil Moody
E. C. Bryan
Dick Wood
Pershing Brady
Lester Shepard
Hollis Dunham
Verle Craven
Kenneth Beeney
Edwin E. Lowe
Albuquerque
N. Mex
Lewis Lowe
Mrs Lowe
Albu
Tiny Quebec village mourns fire that killed mother and 11 children
In Noyan Quebec near the Vermont border a blaze killed Mrs Abel Vosburgh and 11 of their 15 children with only the father surviving. The village of 500 mourns as relatives and neighbors cope with the tragedy in a wood shack the family lived in due to housing scarcity.
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Quebec
Abel Vosburgh
William Sellwood
Vermont
Vosburgh
Man Given Three Years For Threatening President Eisenhower
Laurence G. Thompson, 58, received a three year federal sentence for writing threatening postcards to kill President Eisenhower. He admitted to committing such acts while drunk and said he only stays sober in prison. Thompson has about 30 prior convictions and around 40 years in time served.
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Memphis, Tenn
Eisenhower
Laurence G. Thompson
Blue Gray Classic Set To Fly Off At 2 P.M.
South head coach Paul Dietzel plans a strong aerial attack with Francis Tarkenton as starter and Norman Snead to see action as rain is not expected to hamper play at Cramton Bowl. North coach Jack Mollenkopf doubts weather changes gate impact with cloudy skies and no rain forecast. Bernie Allen leads the North offense in a bid to extend two years of winning streak.
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Montgomery
Ala
South
Paul Dietzel
North
Jack Mollenkopf
Cramton Bowl
NBC
Dietzel
Louisiana State
Georgia
Francis Tarkenton
Wake Forest
Norman Snead
Bernie Allen
Purdue
Minnesota
Tension grows over Tennessee tent city and votes
In Somerville Fayette County a Black tent city of about nine families with 50 children grows near the Illinois border area three miles south of the town. A sharecropper was shot while sleeping in his tent amid rising racial tensions and job scarcity. The 6th Circuit granted a temporary injunction to halt evictions of approximately 300 Black sharecroppers who registered to vote in Haywood County, Tennessee. The decision keeps contracts in place as February hearings proceed.
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Somerville
Tenn
Fayette County
Williams
West
Tennessee
Cincinnati
Ohio
U.S. 6Th Circuit Court of Appeals
Haywood County
U.S Dist
Marion S. Boyd
Memphis
Boyd
Appeals
Humboldt area birth and reunion details span joyous events
Humboldt J David Woods announces the December 20 birth of his seventh great granddaughter Juli Ann Vignery in Concordia weighing six pounds four ounces. The Humboldt Chorister Association held its seventh annual reunion with dinner at Tik Tok restaurant and dancing in the Humboldt Clinic basement, featuring speeches, musical numbers, and elections. Garry Lassman joined Western Electric as industrial engineer in Lees Summit Missouri. Nearby relatives visited for the family Christmas dinner and holiday gatherings across Humboldt and surrounding towns.
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J. David Woods
Concorda
Juli Ann Vignery
Mrs. Vignery
Harlan Woods
Concordia
Humboldt Chorister Association
Tik Tok
Humboldt Clinic
A. J. Trueblood
Robert Hiller
James Anderson
Marie Reynolds
Dennis DeMeritt
Rose Marie Laude- Chambers
Jimmy Redfield
DeAnna DeMeritt
Dennis
Hazel Fiene
Harold Dean Whitaker
Sondra Lassman
Jerry Long
Garry W. Lassman
Western Electric Company
Lees Summit
A. C. Lassman
Humboldt
Local Christmas Travel Stories and Holiday Decorations
Families visiting relatives in Albuquerque and Lawrence report icy roads in the Oklahoma Panhandle and slow travel then clearing near Wichita. Christmastime visitors arrive in Chanute and Humboldt with holiday meals and a Pilgrim Holiness pastor recovering from an injury. Humboldt honors decorating contests with first prize to Jesse Wilson for illuminated carolers and prize rewards to Canty and the Chrysts. several others receive honors for Christmas themes.
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Gary Lower
Debbie
Walt Middendorf
Jerry
Albuquerque
N.M
Lewis He
Bert
Lloyd Cook
Middendorfs
Oklahoma Panhandle
Wichita
Alice Hay
Baltimore
Mary Droz
Marcus Harman
Tommy
Lawrence
Louise Perrenoud
Lena Perrenoud
Dora Lacy
Helen Lacy
Walter S. Fees
Grand Junction
Colo
Jola
Fees
Lacy
Ruth Campbell
Pilgrim Holiness Church
Neosho Memorial Hospital
Chanute
Jesse Wilson
Humboldt Chamber of Commerce
E. C. Canty
Chrysts
Courtney Moses
Ralph Cox
Wilson Pitman
W. Dr. Gregory
Bob Coldwell
Officials Probe Unexplained Train Derailment in Payallup
Railroad investigators inspected 400 feet of torn track after a Northern Pacific passenger train derailed while carrying 500 holiday travelers to Pasadena for the Rose Bowl. Two passengers and three crew members were hospitalized. thirteen others treated and released. remaining passengers continued by a special train from Seattle.
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Payallup
Wash
Northern Pacific
Pasadena
Calif
Washington
Seattle
Burroughs Mail Christmas Cards Fit for Prowning Warning
Sarasota couple sent cards without checking contents and found one addressed to Prowning Repair and Welding Wheatland Wyoming on the remainder. The incident shows risks of mailing errors in holiday greetings.
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Sarasota, Fla
Charles Burroughs
Sarasota
Burroughs
Prowning Repair and Welding
Wheatland
Wyoming
Writers and actors sue studios over alleged Hollywood blacklist
A group of twelve writers and actors including Oscar winners Nedrick Young Albert Maltz and Cale Sondergaard sue eight studios for 7.5 million dollars alleging a conspiracy to bar employees who refused to answer questions before Congress The suit filed in Washington DC cites the Sherman Act and accuses studios of a blacklist and unlawful employment bans headed by anti Communist sentiment.
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Hollywood
U.S
Washington, D.C
Nedrick Young
Albert Maltz
John Howard Lawson
Herbert Biberman
Lester Cole
Robert L. Richards
Frederick S. Rinaldo
Philip Stevenson
Cale Sondergaard
Alvin Hammer
Mary Virginia Farmer
Shimon Ruskin
Maltz
Young
Miss Sondergaard
Lawson
Biberman
Cole
A. L. Wirin
Wirin
American Civil Liberties Union
Hollywood Studios
Blacklist suit names major studios and associations
The suit alleges a blacklist used by Metro Goldwyn Mayer Columbia Paramount 20th Century Fox Warner Brothers Universal International Walt Disney Allied Artists and industry groups Motion Picture Association of America and the Association of Motion Picture Producers. The text also mentions Mohole drilling and heavy scientific aims, including sampling mantle and Moho boundary to study Earth's history.
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Metro- Goldwyn-Mayer
Columbia
Paramount
20Th Century-Fox
Warner Brothers
Universal - International
Walt Disney Productions
Allied Artists
Motion Picture Association of America
The
Association of ‘Motion Picture Producers
Earth
Plan to Drill Through Earth’s Crust Mohole Project
Tests begin in March near Guadaloupe Island off Mexico to drill a hole from sea level through the ocean floor into the earth’s crust. The Mohole aims to reach the Moho boundary and study mantle rocks, with a shipborne rotary drill and several test holes planned over coming years.
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New York
Detlev Bront
National Academy of Sciences
National Research Council
Guadaloupe Island
Mexico
National Science Foundation
Academy Research Council
Mohorovicie
Welsh Wool Weaving Tied to British Army Uniforms
A historical note explains that at a certain period the British Army uniforms were crafted entirely from Welsh mountain sheep wool woven in Wales.
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Wales
Two From Michigan To Be Offered Jobs In Kennedy Admin
The Detroit Free Press reports Otis M. Smith the State Auditor General and Wade McCree Jr. the Wayne County Circuit Judge have been chosen by President-elect Kennedy for top federal posts at the sub-Cabinet level in recognition of Negro Democrats.
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Lansing
Mich
John F. Kennedy
Detroit Free Press
James Robinson
Otis M. Smith
Wayne County
Wade McCree Jr
Kennedy
Tarragona Emerges as Spain’s Wine Hub 60 Miles from Barcelona
Tarragona, located about sixty miles south of Barcelona, stands as a major wine producing center in Spain, shaping regional viticulture and export activity through its established vineyards and wineries.
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Tarragona
Barcelona
Spain
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