Riots and Bombs Blight Cyprus as Americans Hurt
Cypriot unrest and antiBritish violence spread with bombs injuring three Americans including two consular staff and a wife. A Quaglinos Bar blast wounded ten, while British soldiers and civilians suffered additional injuries in separate attacks. Archbishop Makarios condemned the funeral disturbance as tear gas dispersed mourners.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Mediterranean
Robert Murphy
Wheeler
U. S
Quaglinos
Famagusta
Makarios
Greece
Pr Hce
Paris
Spiro Theotokis
Britain
Arms Contract Practice Hit By Committee
The House Armed Services Committee found shocking procurement practices by the Defense Department with almost all purchases by direct negotiation rather than competitive bidding. From 1933 to mid 1955 only about 2 of 34.256 billion dollars were bid publicly, with Air Force procurements showing less than 0.5 percent by competitive bid.
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Washington
Vinson
D- iGa
House, Armed Services, Committee
Armed Services
Defense Department
Air Force
Kaiser Industries Eye Consolidation Plan Unveiled
In New York on December 18 Henry Kaiser and Edgar F Kaiser announced a plan to consolidate all Kaiser enterprises into Kaiser Industries Corp. through stock exchanges. Kaiser Motors would own Henry Kaiser Co which would be renamed Kaiser Industries Corp to cover Kaiser Co and Kaiser Motors operations. The Kaiser Co. holds stake in Kaiser Aluminum Kaiser Steel and related firms.
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New York
Henry J. Kaiser Enterprises
Kaiser Industries
Henry Kaiser
Edgar F. Kaiser
Kaiser Motors
Henry F. Kaiser Co
Henry Kaiser Co
Kaiser Industries Corp
Kaiser Plans Restructure of Kaiser Motors and Kaiser Industries
The Kaiser plan proposes merging Kaiser Motors into a new Kaiser Industries Corp to repay 13.3 million owed to the Reconstruction Finance Corp and borrow 95 million from banks. Willys Motors would remain a wholly owned Kaiser subsidiary, and public stockholders would retain a substantial stake. Independent advisors work on details for proxy filing before the March 1958 stockholders meeting. Henry J. Kaiser presently owns 37 percent of Kaiser Motors common stock.
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Kaiser
Kaiser Motors
Kaiser Enterprises
Reconstruction Finance Corp
Willys Motors
Kaiser Industries Corp
Racine Bus Crash Injures Eight on Icy Curve
Eight people were injured when a Greyhound bus skidded on an icy curve near the KanaIhe Boone County line and crashed into a hillside. Two sisters were ejected through the windshield, with Mary Stowers severely hurt and Lula Mae Shrewsbury among other passengers receiving injuries.
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Racine
Greyhound
Winston-Salem
U.S. 119
Kanaiwha
Boone County
Charleston Memorial Hospital
Lula Mae Shrewsbury
Glenfork
Wyoming County
Mary Stowers
Rocky Gap
Miss Stowers
Reba Mae Stowers
Gordon Asbury
Keith
William Miracle
Pennsboro
Ritchie County
Marine Corps
Camp Lejeune
N. C
Kefauver rules out second place on Stevenson ticket
Washington reports Sen Estes Kefauver said he will seek only the Presidency and would not accept the Vice Presidential nomination. President Eisenhower urged peace in a Gettysburg address, while Senate GOP Leader Knowland weighs a late bid and a nationwide fundraising drive starts January 20 with Salute to Eisenhower dinners in 51 cities.
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Washington
INS
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Lony
Stevenson Kefauver
Kefauver
Barry Goldwater
R-Ariz
GOP
Senate
Earier
sKefauver
Goldwater
U. S
Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
New York
Averell Harriman
Gettysburg
Senate Gop
William F. Knowsland
Knowland
Emd
New Hampshire
Minnesota
Illnois
Ohio
West Virginia
Alaska
Wisconsin
New Jersey
Massachusetts
Oregon
Florida
Republican” National Finance Committee
North Korea Ex-Foreign Minister Sentenced to Death
Tass reports Pak Hun Yong, North Korea's former foreign minister, has been sentenced to death on charges of espionage subversion murder and terrorism. The special collegium of the Supreme Court reportedly investigated the case on December 13 in Pyongyang. The broadcast says Pak contacted an American spy named Underwood as early as 1919 and defected to Japanese authorities in 1925 helping arrest Korean Communist leaders.
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London
Tass
Pak Hun. Yong
North Korea
Moscow
Pyongyang
Supreme Court of
Korean Peoples Democratic Republic
Pak
Underwood
Korean Communist Party
Kom‘somol
Young Communist League
Fall short of goal pro German parties Saar Parliament vote
The Saar elected a 40 member Parliament dominated by three pro German parties pledged to unite with West Germany. They won 63.9 percent of votes but failed to reach a 75 percent majority, forcing coalition talks with the CVP and smaller parties.
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Saarbruecken
Saar
West Germany
France
Bonn Republic
Runaway Jet Destroys Hangar at Lincoln NAS
Three airmen died when a jet ran wild on the Lincoln Naval Air Station flight line, rammed into a hangar and exploded. Four other airmen were injured with shock and burns as six other planes and the hangar burned. authorities investigated the Bla anal Pen damage.
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Lincoln, Neb
Lincoln
Neb
Naval Air Station
Five Youths Die in In Car Crash at Emlington
A 1840 auto crashed into an embankment near Emlington, Penn. Five young skaters died in the blaze. Victims include James Snow 23 of Emlington and four Harrisville residents. Police say driver attempted to avoid a collision, car overturned, two teenagers survived with burns.
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Emlenton
Pennsylvania
Jtown
Pittsburgh
James Snow
Rfc Port
Sion
Hames
Snow
Harry Stewart
Emlenton Red 2
Fred Peters
William
Harrisville
BFD
Arlene Shult
Ronald Kellerman
Emdenton
Thomas Meyer
Cliftonville
Kellerman
Meyer
Grave City
Beirut
Lebanon
Clin
Tonville
Venango County
Abou Ali
Reds to Free Missionaries in China
The American Red Cross announced that a Pittsburgh missionary couple, Dr Homer W Bradshaw and his wife, held in Communist China for over five years, will be released Monday in Hong Kong after negotiations with Peiping. Both have served under the Presbyterian Board of Missions since the early 1920s and the wife has been under house arrest.
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Washington
CIS
American Red Cross
Pittsburgh
China
Hong Kong
Red Cross
Peiping
Homer W. Bradshaw
William A. Bradshaw
Bradshaw
Presbyterian Board of Missionaries
Dr. Bradshaw
Chinese Red Cross
Auto Mishaps Across State On Increase
Ice and freezing rain across Charleston and nearby communities caused numerous minor accidents and led to 22 pedestrians treated for injuries from falls. One serious case was West Virginia labor leader Eugene A. Carter with a broken back, while several others suffered wrist and hip fractures. Temperature fluctuations and foggy conditions disrupted Kanawha Airport operations as a cold front moved through.
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Charleston
Atlantic Greyhound
Racine
Eugene A. Carter
Fairview
West Virginia
Kanawha
Weather Bureau
Kanawha Valley
Plains
U.S
Ohio
Kanawha River
Carter
AFL Teamsters’ Union
Deleie Mallory
Pennsylvania Ave
Lillian Lowe
Virginia Ave
Rufus Haynes
RFD
Wall Pen Hollow
Natin
Lock E. Haynes
RFD 5
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Kaiser Industries Eye Consolidation
Permanente Cement Co
E- Caeeees Astrology
Bob
Orla Cstamas
Perons
Gazette
Frank Wilkin
Christian People’s Party
CVP
Johannes Hoffmann
Hut
Heinrich Schneider
Democratic Party
Bonn
Konrad Adenau- Aplease
Noou Hwag
Vernon R. Chapman Jr
Grand Island
Kenneth Cecil Newman
Hubert Lee Tracy
Roy Highberg
Iiaison
Chapman
Highberg
TRE Racing
Neptune
Friplal
City Scene
Summers St
Reds
Chicago
Little Susie Quigley
Togar
Illinois National Guard
Santa Claus
Kalanilehua
Susie
Tagar
Charleston General Hospital
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