East Berlin soldiers held by Soviets after bar attack
East Berlin reports two American soldiers beat a nightclub performer and tried to flee to the West. They were turned over to Soviet authorities by East Berlin police, with U S Army inquiry promised. The East press called the pair gangsters while noting no AWOL records yet.
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East Berlin
East
East Press
German Democratic Republic
U.S
Army
Werner Lierck
the Thorn
Lierch
School Board Sets Trip on Candidate
Jefferson City residents weigh in as Nichols contemplates acting superintendent role. Board members stress a united, open minded process to select the best candidate for head of the schools, weighing patron sentiment and multiple factors before any final decision.
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Remley
Board of Education
Jefferson City
Thorpe Gordon
Russell Rinklin
Everett Sugarbaker
Nichols
Ford criticizes Fund for the Republic actions
Henry Ford asserts private rights to intervene in Fund for the Republic affairs and questions its methods. Paul G. Hoffman defends the fund in Los Angeles, noting records show progress against the Communist menace, civil liberties awareness, and racial equality studies, while New York HQ offers no comment.
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Fund
The
Republic
Tam
Paul G. Hoffman
Los Angeles
New York
Bank Pays 5 Cent For Each $1 Bill in Penny Rolls
Rutland Vermont The Killington Bank and Trust Co offers $1.05 for each dollar in pennies rolled in wrappers due to a national penny shortage confirmed by the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston. The unusual bargain aims to boost penny circulation.
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Rutland
Killington Bank and Trust Co
Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
Vermont
Pickets Stop Work At St Louis County Water Plant
Pickets lines set up by the AFL-CIO Pipe fitters Union halted work on the $1,500,000 St Louis County Water Co project near Fenton. W Victor Weir, president of the firm, cited a jurisdictional dispute with AFL-CIO Utility Workers Local 335 over the 7,000 foot pipeline and related jobs.
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ST. Louis
Afl-Cio
Pipefitters Union
Atomic energy facts questioned by scientist in Kansas City
Dr. Ralph E. Lapp, Manhattan Project veteran, charged the Atomic Energy Commission with withholding true facts about nuclear weapons. He said Russia tested 14 nuclear devices in 14 months, including a super bomb comparable to America’s hydrogen warhead, and urged more open public information to deter use.
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Kansas City
Atomic Energy Commission
Ralph E. Lapp
Office of Naval Research
Russia
United States
America
Bikini
Lapp
Tokyo
Central Meteorological Laboratory
Midwest Research Institute
U. S
International Cooperation Admin names Allen Loren deputy director
Allen Loren, 37, named deputy director of ICA operations mission to Thailand. Since September 1953 he has led the Indonesia Thailand divisions of ICA Office of Far Eastern Operations. Loren was born in Monroe County Missouri. Missouri to exceed bond quota by about six percent. Bond sales expected to reach 168 million dollars for 1955.
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Washington
the International Cooperation Administration
ICA
Allen Loren
Thailand
Loren
Monroe County
Missouri
ST. Louis
Arthur K. Atkinson
47 Story Dallas Building Planned Tallest West of Mississippi
The Southland Life Insurance Co announced a 47 story downtown Dallas project to be the tallest west of the Mississippi. Construction will begin on December 31.
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Dallas
Southland Life Insurance Co
Mississippi River
Burglars Take 1000 Pound Safe From Lutesville Motor Co
In Lutesville Missouri last night a 1000 pound safe was carted away from the Lutesville Motor Co and another safe was cut open. Sheriff T B Graham reported the contents of both safes are unknown. A second safe was opened but its contents are not disclosed.
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Lutesville
T. B. Graham
Lutesville Motor Co
Jefferson City Couple Granted Marriage License
Oliver Bates 21 and Rosetta Weider 20 both of Jefferson City received marriage licenses.
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Oliver Bates
Rosetta Weider
Jefferson City
Early Trials Seen For Connelly Caudle
In St Louis on December 7 the government prepared for the early trials of Matthew J. Connelly Theron Lamar Caudle and Harry Schwimmer for conspiracy to defraud the government. Warren Olney III planned prosecution staff space while federal judges work out scheduling. Trial dates remain unset.
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St, Louis
Matthew J. Connelly
Theron Lamar Caudle
Harry Schwimmer
Warren Olney Sii
U.S
Federal
Connelly
Truman Caudle
Justice Department
Schwimmer
Ruby M. Hulen
George H. Moore
Fred Black Former Jasper Treasurer Dies in Car Crash
Fred B. Black, 72, deputy inspector for the Missouri Motor Fuel Tax Division and a former Jasper County treasurer, died today after collapsing in a car driven by his wife. A Democrat, he served as treasurer from 1932 to 1944 and had worked in the tax division since. Survivors include his wife, a son Fred B. Black Jr. of Joplin, and a daughter Pauline Willoughly of Blair Texas.
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Carterville
Fred B. Black
Missouri Motor Fuel Tax Divsion
Jasper County
Black
Fred B. Black Jr
Joplin
Pauline Willoughly
Blair, Tex
NAM and Labor Clash Over Live and Let Live Pact
New York December 7 Labor leader George Meany said the National Association of Manufacturers agrees to discuss his idea for a live and let live labor industry pact The NAM says no authorized representatives spoke with Meany beyond inviting him to speak at its meeting Meany and NAM officials hinted at staff level discussions with no concrete pact details and Meany suggested room for an agreement if there is goodwill in the American system
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New York
George Meany
National
Assa. of Manufacturers
NAM
Meany
Afl-Cio
Sunday
New York Times
Charles R. Sligh Jr
Poad
NAM Board
Charles R.sligh Jr
National Assn. of Manufacturers
Association
Sligh
Congress of American Industry
Organized Labor
Jet bomber hailed in Wichita audience
A 200 ton B52D global jet bomber rolled out before 15,000 Kansans in Wichita on December 7 as Air Force Undersecretary James H. Douglas lauded the aircraft as the best bomber of its type. He noted future weapons remain in design stages and far from mass production.
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Wichita
Air Force
James H. ‘Douglas
Douglas
Humphrey Sees Economic Course From American Action
Secretary of the Treasury George M. Humphrey told a St. Louis audience that the nation’s economic path depends largely on 166 million Americans. He urged consumer spending and business investment, arguing prosperity should come from free enterprise in peacetime, not war scares or artificial government stimulants.
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ST. Louis
The
Treas
George M. Humphrey
Humphrey
Mercantile Trust Co
St. Louis Republicans complain of funds and bleak prospects
W A Republican ward committee women accuse party financial leaders of treating members as beggars, claiming funds are insufficient for even basic election costs. Mrs. Helen Riehl resigns to city chairman Charles P. McBride, saying no outstanding Republican candidate can be elected in St. Louis.
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ST. Louis
Helen Riehl
Chas. P. McBride
Attlee Named Earl Resigns Party Post
Former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee, who led Labour from 1945 to 1951, is named Earl and steps down from a party post. The piece notes his role in nationalizations, welfare expansion, decolonization moves, and postwar Cold War leadership as Labour rethinks its socialist state model amid 1959 election plans.
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United States
Britain
Attlee
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