Cuban Agents Arrest Miami Newsman After Escape
Cuban military intelligence agents captured Frank Austin Young of Miami who fled a military jail to avoid a 30 year sentence. Minutes later James Buchanan of the Miami Herald was arrested in Havana alleging he was carrying medical aid to Young. Both men were detained in a Havana tourist hotel.
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Havana
Frank Austin Young
Miami
Young
James Buchanan
Fla
Herald
Cus
Letter to Baby Jesus Returned to Girl in New Jersey
A New Jersey girl, Susan Long, had a letter addressed to The Baby Jesus at Bethlehem returned for better address after 34 cents postage was added by her father Rev. Frederick Long. The note asked for a birthday greeting and thanks, signed by Susan and siblings. The dead letter office said such letters are sent back when possible. In Havana, Cuban exile case dominates as Nelson Young faces a new military trial after a dramatic escape from custody. He was captured in a Havana hotel after 36 hours of freedom and had boasted of avoiding prison. An NBC report noted Cuban photographers Santos and Rivas detained in Pinar del Rio.
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Jesus
Bethlehem
Susan Long
Susan
Frederick Long
Christ Episcopal Church
Santa
Love
Laurie
Lynday
Kim
Chris Long
Newark
Young
National Broadcasting Co
Charles Santos
Luis Rivas
Pinar del Rio
Havana
St. John’Hotel
Jack Morton
Sergio Hernandez Reyes
Feud Splits Cambridge Hospital Doctors vs Directors
In Cambridge Maryland a long running clash between the hospital's doctors and its 18 member board over chief administrator Harold Coston escalates. Doctors threaten a boycott and relocation of patients while directors resist and consider sale. the dispute affects about 40 patients at the 61 year old facility.
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Cambridge, Maryland
Dorchester County
Harold Coston
Coston
W. Laird Henry Jr
John Mace
Mace
Easton
Salisbury
Cambridge Hospital
Hermione Gingold Collapses During Sinatra Show Rehearsal
Hollywood star Hermione Gingold collapsed during a rehearsal for a Frank Sinatra television spectacular. She received treatment at Cedars of Lebanon Hospital for a mild respiratory condition and was released in time for the broadcast.
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Hermione Gingold
Hollywood
Frank Sinatra
Cedars of Lebanon Hospital
North Carolina Escapees Largely Recaptured Seven Still At Large
Thirteen prisoners surrendered from the Alcatraz of North Carolina camp near Ivy Bluff. Seven ringleaders remain at large and possibly armed. Charles W. Stewart of Wilmington among the escapees. Eleven of 17 stolen weapons still missing, including a submachine gun. Robert Lee Council, from Fayetteville, was arrested near Rustburg Virginia after walking a highway.
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Ivy Bluff
N.C
Charles W. Stewart
Wilmington
Robert Lee Council
Fayetteville
Council
Rustburg
Lynchburg
Alcatraz
North Carolina
Fugitive Joseph Lloyd Thomas Captured in South Carolina
The FBI arrested Joseph Lloyd Thomas, a top wanted fugitive, Thursday night in Pelzer South Carolina where he had been living about a year with his wife and two children under an assumed identity.
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Washington
FBI
Joseph Lloyd Thomas
Pelzer
S. C
Tearful plea from Detroit widow to Senator McNamara
In Detroit Bessie Sohn a 70 year old widow testified before Senator McNamara's subcommittee on the problems of the aged. She said taxes upcoming assessments threaten her home while living on 54 dollars a month. She asked for help and dignity in old age.
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Detroit
Patrick V. McNamara
D-Midh
Bessie Sara Sohn
McNamara
Rulings Steel Talks Suspended By Mediator
Washington AP The government suspended steel labor peace talks after no progress and amid leaders leaving to join aluminum negotiations. Federal mediator Finnegan cited lack of substance and noted Kaiser Steel’s role in aluminum talks. McDonald called for direct company bargaining as industrywide talks faltered.
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Washington
United Steelworkers
Joseph F. Finnegan
Federal Mediation Service
Eisenhower
Kaiser Steel Corp
Steelworkers
David J. McDonald
Chicago
Finnegan
McDonald
R. Conrad Cooper
U.S. Steel Corp
McDonald's
United States to Withdraw All Army Troops From Iceland
The Army will pull about 1 200 troops out of Iceland within six months while 4 000 other U S personnel remain. The move is a redeployment not a NATO retreat, with the U S pledging continued Iceland defense under the 1951 agreement. Parts of the 81st and 101st Airborne Divisions and the 4th Infantry Division could be moved to Iceland if needed in an emergency.
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Washington
Iceland
Defense Department
U.S
Air Force
Navy
United States
Army
NATO
Iceand
Christian A. Herter
The
Ice
Strategic Army Corps
81St
101St Airborne
Ft. Bragg
N.C
Ft. Campbell
4Th Infantry
Ft. Lewis
Wash
Johns Hopkins Expert Slams New Drug Deluge as Miserable
Dr. Louis Lasagna of Johns Hopkins University criticizes a steady stream of new drugs as of miserable quality and potentially harmful. He accuses manufacturers of a pharmaceutical numbers racket pushing more potent sounding brand names with little real benefit. He warns physicians buy into this rhetoric, likening it to a dime being more potent than two nickels.
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Washington
Senate
Louis Lasagna
Johns Hopkins University
Lasagna
Johns Hopkins
Violence erupts at Wilson meatpacking plant strike
Jeering pickets in Albert Lea Minnesota hurled stones at cars and dragged nonunion workers from the Wilson Co meatpacking plant. Gov Freeman said he would meet with Wilson president James Cooney to discuss the strike.
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Albert Lea
Minn
Wilson & Co
Orville Freeman
St. Paul
Wilson
James C. Cooney
Chicago
Pope John to Give Christmas Message
Vatican press office says Pope John XXIII will deliver his annual Christmas message at noon to 6 a.m. EST on Dec 23. The address will be broadcast by Vatican radio with the Italian network and translations will reach more than twenty languages.
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Vatican City
John XXIII
Vatican Press Office
Vatican Radio
Compromises Sought in U N Security Council Race
At the United Nations delegates pressed three main issues as adjournment nears. Private talks focused on the Security Council election Algeria and outer space matters. Poland reportedly signaled willingness to compromise in the Turkey contest for the two year Council seat.
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U. N
General Assembly
Security Council
Algeria
Outer Space
Poland
Turkey
Council
Inside The Tiser Bridge
A fragment lists sections and page numbers from a newspaper, citing sports television and theatre content alongside area news and editorials. The text indicates a contents page with mentions of deaths and women’s markets in a historic publication.
Red Foley Charged With Tax Evasion
Federal grand jury indicts country music star Clyde J. Foley on two counts of income tax evasion for 1954 and 1955. Prosecution says true incomes were higher than filed. wife not involved. Foley, 49, lives in Springfield Missouri and faces civil and criminal actions with ongoing Tax Court appeal.
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Kansas City, Mo
Clyde J. (Red) Foley
Foley
U.S.A
ABC
Springfield
Internal Revenue Service
United States Tax Court
U.S. Tax Court
IRS
Parliament urged to swallow balloons at royal society talk
London reporters note MPs were urged to swallow balloons to illustrate how abdominal and thoracic pressure reveals bone and muscle disorders, though the method of balloon ingestion was not disclosed. Also covered are sidewalk foremen listening to music on site and Slippery Sue the pheasant roaming the London Zoo.
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London
Royal Society
New Zealand House
Slippery Sue
THE
ZOO London
London Zoological Gardens
Eisenhower urges world law to secure peace in India visit
President Eisenhower calls for a reliable framework of international law to prevent war and aid development during his Delhi University convocation and World Agriculture Fair appearances. He praises India's acceptance of ICJ jurisdiction and urges greater student exchanges to foster global understanding. His remarks connect peace, law, and development amid India’s border tensions with China.
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India
Eisenhower
Red China
Delhi University
United States
Delhi
International Court of Justice
The
Hague
U.S
Soviet Union
Tribute Urged To Curtiss Wright Brothers
Governor Rockefeller proclaimed December 17 as Wright Brothers Day in New York and urged residents to remember aviation pioneer Glenn Curtiss. He cited Curtiss’s Hammondsport plant and Keuka Lake experiments as forerunners of marine aircraft, marking 56 years since the Wright brothers’ first powered flight near Kitty Hawk.
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Rockefeller
New York
Glenn Curtiss
Orville
Wilbur Wright
Kitty Hawk
N.C
Empire State
Hammondsport
Keuka Lake
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