Beeson confirmation splits Democrats but unites on issue
Senate vote on Albert C. Beeson to the National Labor Relations Board ended 45-42, with three Southern Democrats supporting Beeson. Despite the defeat, Sen. Hill warned the outcome gives Democrats a clear-cut issue to rally around ahead of the next election. The confirmation drew sharp cross-aisle debate and polarized views within the party.
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Associated Press
Washington
Senate
Albert C. Beeson
National Labor Relations Board
Sen
Hill
D-Aln
Beeson
Senate Labor Committee
Neely O-Wval
Eisenhower
Ben. Langer
R-Nd
Seni
Morse
Ind-ore
Byrd
Virginia
Holland
Florida
Eastland
Mississippi
New Income Tax Bill Presented
Washington Senator George introduced a bill to raise individual income tax exemptions from 600 to 800 this year and to 1000 in later years, calling it a remedy to avert a downturn. Co sponsors include Karr and Freat, with advisers estimating a 5 billion annual revenue impact. President Eisenhower warned of possible tax relief if March employment lags. Gavin requests flood control funding for Bradford and Johnstown.
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George
D-Ga
Toj
Senate
Karr
Oklaoma
Freat
Delaware
Congress
Eisenhower
New Committee To Lead National Highway Safety Push
A new President's Action Committee for Highway Safety takes charge of a nationwide effort to cut automobile deaths. Gov. Dan Thornton of Colorado chairs as one of eight named. the panel will coordinate White House policy with community efforts. Vice President Nixon announced the move at the White House Conference on Highway Safety. The goal is to reduce last year’s 38,300 deaths, with a small staff in Washington and broad voluntary input from about 40 potential appointees.
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Associated Press
Washington
President's Action Committee For Highway Safety Today
Dan Thornton
Colorado
Thornton
White House
Nixon
Eisenhower
Maple Syrup Work Starts in Sugar Bushes
Yesterday’s sun warmed the area boosting sap flow in valleys and lower sections as producers gathered sap. Higher hills held off tapping awaiting fuller thaw while big operators wait for a sustained freeze to protect sap in buckets.
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Inter
Top Japanese Officials Linked to Bribery Scandal
Tokyo reports state that a Diet investigation tainted by testimony from Masamitsu Mariwals links several top government officials to a shipbuilding subsidy bribery case with lavish favors. Asahi newspaper describes the influence tying Yoshida’s cabinet to the probe as it headlines abuse of public funds for geisha quarters.
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Tokyo
Diet
Asahi
Masamitsu Marlwals
Shigeru Yoshida
Shii Tamake
Diet Committee
Dulles To Report On Big Four Meeting From Berlin
Secretary of State Dulles will report on the Big Four Conference in Berlin during a nationwide radio television broadcast at 100 p m EST on Wednesday The State Department said the half hour report will follow meetings with President Eisenhower and Congress starting next Monday Dulles is due back from Berlin late today
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Dulles
Washington
Secretary of
Berlin
State Department
Naion
Eisenhower
See
FolK faces death after torture slaying in Arizona
The Arizona Supreme Court may review the death sentence of Carl J. Folk 60 for the December 1 1953 torture murder of Betty Faye Allen 21 in Wattsburg Pa. Superior Court Judge Don Udall sentenced Folk to die April 30 after denying a retrial. Folk's wife plans an appeal which would stay the sentence.
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Holbrook
Arts
Arizona Supreme Court
Carl J. Folk
Follk
Diay
Supreme Court
Don T. Udall
Folk
Betty Faye Alfens
Wattsburg
Udall
Mary Folk
Polk
New Mexico
Tnisband
U S and 16 Korean Allies Meet Over Panmunjom Talks
United States and 16 Korean War allies met to decide how to drop the Panmunjom peace talks and ignore a Communist demand to reopen negotiations. Senate and general staff voices warned against appeasement as Berlin ministers set a Geneva peace conference for April 26.
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Associated Press
Washington
United States
Panmunjom
Berlin
Geneva
Sri
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
U. S
Red China
Ferguson
R-Mich
Russia
China
Alexander Smith
R-Nj
Eaid
Dulles
Gen
Humphrey
D.minn
New York
United Alions
State Department
Indochina Peace Talks Trigger EDC Dilemma in Europe
Associated Press reports that the Berlin conference’s peace promise for Indochina creates a new obstacle to rapid action on the European Defense Community treaty. France’s National Assembly delays a vote while the United States seeks ratification, hoping to avoid provoking Russia and China.
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Tench
Big Pour
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Asis
European Defense Community
Dilemmi
French National Assembly
United States
Russia
Sly
Tri
Une Assembly
Korea
FBI Nabs Two In Extortion Plot in Chicago
Two Chicago men Benjamin Alleman 27 and Ronald W Greer 23 were seized by the FBI and charged with attempted extortion of 100000 from Tasman Federal Savings and Loan Association president Robert Bor. Banister named the suspects as the targets in a plot involving threats against the banker’s family.
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Chicago
FBI
South Side Savings
Guy Banister
PBI
Benjamin Alleman
South Side
Ronald W. Greer
Banister
Tim
Bor Bobur
Tasman Federal Savings and Louit Association
McCarthy ejects counsel and officer from hearing
Senator Joseph McCarthy ejected the Army’s chief counsel John G. Adams and Brig. Gen. Ralph Zwicker from a closed Investigations subcommittee session as he pressed questions about a Queens dentist Dr Irving Peress and an earlier court martial. Adams later sought guidance from Secretary of the Army Robert T. Stevens about continuing testimony.
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Associated Preset
New York
Josephy BR. McCarthy
R-Wis
Army
Cnet
John G. Adams
Ralph W. Zwicker
Camp Kilmer
Mi Jy
McCarthy
Peres
Adams
Adameala
Robert 7. Blevens
Blevens
Leutenant
Washington
Stevens
New Soviet State Leaders Shakeup Applies in Azerbaijan
In Moscow the Communist party leadership of Azerbaijan changed hands in a second shakeup in months. A new party leader took over in Moldsvia as three new secretaries were named in Azerbaijan. Wisner and Muntafiev were reported among the officials.
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Moscow
Cormukilet
Azerbaijan
M Naw
Moldsvia
Wisner
TD Muntafiev
Indian Troops Leave for Home Under Guard
Four hundred Indian troops, guarded by U S riflemen, boarded a transport for home from Panmunjom to Inchon. In Seoul, 100 liberated Korean War prisoners demonstrated, shouting anti Indian and anti allied slogans as the exchange neared completion. Observers suspect the protest may have been staged by a South Korean official who had demanded guarantees for 76 Korean POWs.
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Associated Press
Seoul
Pone
Pasmunjom
Inchon
ROK
Aouth
Teir
Tadlnp
Dndagopal
Additional judgeships eyed as stalemate eases
Washington Pennsylvania Republican observers saw hope that Senators Martin and Duff would soon agree on more federal judgeship recommendations. A partial break in the patronage logjam occurred as John W Lord of Philadelphia and John Miller of Pittsburgh were proposed for eastern and western vacancies respectively. A Wednesday meeting with Leonard W. Hall and William P. Bowers prompted plans to reconvene and press to resolve the remaining vacancies.
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Py Sammarimvon
Salle
Washington
Pennsylvania
Sens. Martin and Duff
Ale U. 5
John W Lord
Philadelphia
John Miller
Pitteburid
Wna
Leonard W. Hall
Republican National Committee
Atty. den
William P. Bowers
Martin
Duff
Auditorium project approved for Pittsburgh amphitheatre plan
The Pittaburgh auditorium authority plans a 15 million dollar civic amphitheatre in the Lower Hill District. State approval of incorporation clears the way, with construction likely to begin after a legal step completes.
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Pittrburgh
Pittaburgh
Minion Auditorium Authority
Lower Hill
Aua
City Council Approves Two-Way Radio Equipment Purchase
In a special meeting four members authorized a purchase order for two-way radio systems for police and fire departments. Civil Defense funds are available but funding the city share remains undecided. The total cost is about 3200 with parts funded by CD money and the rest by the city.
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City
Govnell
Guy Abbey
Easl J. Gherry
Harley Drake
Roy Laurie
No. 1
Motorola
Auby
Stanford Hose Co
Civil Defense
Ori
Erie County
Councilman Abbey
North East
Unionity
Wesleyville
Rosenberg children taken by court in custody row
In New York, the Rosenberg boys Michael ten and Robert eight, children of executed Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, were ordered removed from a reportedly unauthorized guardian by a state Children's Court. The case arose after the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children charged they were exploited for fundraising by agencies. The boys, living with Ann and Abel Meeropol on Riverside Drive under the surname Meeropol, were granted shelter overnight by a habeas corpus ruling and must appear before Justice James B. McNally for the custody hearing scheduled for February 23.
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New York
Rosenberg
Julius
Ittel Rosenberg
Michael Rosenberg
Robert
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty To Children
Christma
Abel
Ann Mearopool
Riverside Drive
Mearopol
Lewis Aven
Meeropol
McNally
Pass Sentence On 6 Convicted Reds
Six Michigan communists convicted of conspiracy against the government faced prison terms from four to five years or exile to Russia. Federal Judge Frank A. Picard fined each defendant ten thousand dollars as he read the sentences for Saul Wellman Helen Winter Nat Ganley Thomas B Dennis Jr Philip Schatz and William Allan. Winter and Allan received four year terms Ganley five years Dennis four years six months Wellman four years eight months and Schatz four years four months.
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Philip Schatz
William Allin
Picard
Army Moves 70 Court Martial Dickenson In Korea War Question
Army moves to court martial CPL Edward Dickenson on charges of informing on fellow prisoners and passing information to Communist captors while a POW. The Korea war status raises legal questions about war declaration and military law. Marine court of inquiry weighs Col Frank Schwable's possible court martial for admitting under coercion germ warfare. Co-defendant Major Roy Bley shifts status as inquiry proceeds.
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Associated Preas
Washington
Edward
Dickenson
Korea
Marine Corps
Marlen
Neck
Is Red
United States
Frank H. Schwable
Reds
Schwable
Roy H. Bley
Union To Press For Guaranteed Annual Wage In April
In New York, the CIO International Union of Electrical Workers plans presenting a demand for a guaranteed annual wage to the electrical manufacturing sector in April. President James B. Carey said the union, representing about 400,000 members, notes steel and automobile workers are pursuing similar wage guarantees.
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Associates Ee
New York
James B. Carey
CIO International Union of Electrical Workers
CTO
Steel and Automobile Workers
Teo
Vietnam Leaders Approve Idea For Indochina Talks
Associated Press report notes Vietnam leaders approve the Big Four plan to discuss an Indochina settlement in conjunction with a Geneva peace conference for Korea. Saigon officials insist any Indochina settlement must prevent a Vietminh takeover. The Panmunjom deadlock is bypassed with a Geneva conference set for April 26 inviting Red China among participants. The U N General Assembly call for disarmament talks is noted, while Germany Austria and European security issues remain unresolved.
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Berlin
South Korea
Geneva
Karl Hong el
Oald
Seoul
China
Republic of Korea
Germany
Austria
Bonn
Vienna
West Germany
Sovieb Union
Russia
Vietnamem
Indochina
Saigon
Panmunjom
United States
Britain
France
Wlse
United Nations General Assembly
European
V. M. Molotov
Dulles
Washington
Cuban Lad Held For Huge Ransom
In Santiago Cuba eight year old Fecundo Bacardi Bravo of the Bacardi rum family is missing after leaving a private school Colegio Dolores. A ransom note demanding fifty thousand dollars was delivered to the parents Mr and Mrs Dale Bacardi Resell by the chauffeur. The boy’s father is a vice president of Bacardi’s distillery and more details await police.
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Cuba
Fecundo Bacardi Bravo
Bacardi Rum
Colegio Dolores
Fumby
Dale Bacardi
Bacardi Company
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