U S Retains Testing Ban and Shifts to Indefinite Basis
The United States will suspend nuclear tests on an indefinite basis with no fixed end date, while keeping power to resume tests if needed. President Eisenhower targets Soviet bargaining at Geneva and in Paris, urging Khrushchev to attend a May 16 Four Powers summit in Paris.
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Augusta
United States
Eisenhower
Russia
Soviet Union
Geneva
U.S
Paris
Nikita Khrushchev
Khrushchev
Harold Macmillan
Britain
Charles de Gaulle
France
Statisticians Say Studies Imperfect Yet Useful
Two professors from Johns Hopkins and Harvard say statistical studies linking smoking to lung cancer are imperfect but the best method now. They note evidence appears incriminating, though critics argue statistics alone don’t prove causation. They propose a 30 year controlled human trial but doubt public support.
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Washington
Jerome Cornfield
Johns Hopkins University
William Cochran
Harvard
Cornfield
Cochran
Government Reports Identify Four Fastest Growing Goods
Washington federal data show air conditioners TV sets clothes dryers and boats as the four fastest growing consumer products over the past 12 years. Between 1947 and 1949 production of each item rose by more than 400 percent.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Nothing New In Slaying
Lake County Sheriff Evans says after two hours with Lois Clark there is still no new information about the Christmas Eve slaying of her husband Charles R. Clark in Mentor. Clark, a 30 year old widow, remains cooperative and offered to take a polygraph. a test may be scheduled by the prosecutor in the next day or so.
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Painesville
Ohio
Lake County
William B. Evans
Lois Clark
Charles R. Clark
Mentor
Evans
Unseasonable Warmth Sparks Pansy Bloom Then Snow
Monroe Michigan reports nine pansy blossoms opening in 57 degree sun marking a four day stretch of unseasonable warmth. Temperatures drop to freezing with snow and drizzle beginning Tuesday. London neighbor of Dr Barbara Moore plans to roller skate the Edinburgh to London route. Copenhagen crash near Roskilde leaves motorcyclist unconscious. same collision history repeats five years apart with concussion for Christian Madesen.
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Monroe
Mich
Clyde Knaggs
London
Barbara Moore
Edinburgh
A. H. Pip Baker
Copenhagen
Denmark
Roskilde
Christian Madesen
Madesen
Western New York storm leaves thousands in the dark
A major winter storm knocked out power for more than 30 000 households in the Rochester area and over 10 000 in Buffalo with about 4 000 more in 12 eastern counties. Utilities deployed crews from NYSEG and the Elmira office of New York Telephone to repair hundreds of miles of downed lines. Some towns reported water emergencies and officials warned of more ice coated lines as 25 mph winds were expected.
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Albany
New York
Rochester
Buffalo
The
RP Ney
Ine Gimira Olicess III
New York State Electric & Gas Corp
Elmira
New York Telephone Co
Upstate
Hudson Valley
Weather Bureau
Lower
Hudson
Fulton
Oswego
Niagara County
Webster
Brockport
Caledonia
Cherry Valley
Hilton
Dollar Drain Scored By Anderson
Washington AP Secretary of the Treasury Robert B. Anderson cautioned against any setup to stem the drain of U S dollars overseas. He warned that a short run improvement in the balance of payments does not end the nation’s problems and that the United States must cope with a troublesome outlook next year despite a Commerce Department report showing a better July to September quarter.
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Washington
Secretary of the Treasury
Robert B. Anderson
U.S
United States
Anderson
Commerce Department
Eisenhower inquiry board closes steel strike hearings
The Eisenhower inquiry board wrapped two days of hearings on the steel dispute. R Conrad Cooper accused the United Steelworkers Union of inflationary monopoly while David J McDonald countered that steel fabricators overpay for steel from warehouses, some owned by steelmakers. The panel, led by George W Taylor, prepares a situation report for Eisenhower due January 6.
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Washington
Eisenhower
R. Conrad Cooper
United Steelworkers Union
David J. McDonald
Cooper
McDonald
Burma Plans New Try In 1960 Election
Burma's Gen Ne Win will yield power to elected civilians after 15 months of rule. Burma votes February 6 to choose a government for a neutralist nation bordering Red China, amid political feuding within the Anti Fascist People's Freedom League and concerns over a shift toward military rule in the region.
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Rangoon
Burma
Ne Win
Southeast Asia
Red China
People’s Freedom League
Catch-All Common Front
Britain
Anti-Semitic Acts Cited In Germany Reported
In Bonn Germany reports describe a fresh wave of anti Semitic acts including vandalism at a Cologne synagogue and a Nazi victims memorial. Swastikas appeared on stores in Rheydt with pig symbols on a Jewish shop window, and an 80 year old concentration camp survivor received an anonymous threat near Frankfurt.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Cologne
Rheydt
Seligenstadt
Frankfurt
Scientist Dies in St Louis at 90
Dr. Leo Loeb a renowned research scientist and professor emeritus of pathology at Washington University died Monday night at his home after a long illness.
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ST. Louis
Leo Loeb
Washington University
Anti-Castro plots exposed by Castro regime in Cuba
Cuban authorities say they smashed three major plots to seize a navy arsenal, form an anti-Communist army, and carry out a dynamite terror campaign. Forty-two arrested including ex-director Eugenio de Sosa Chabau. suspects linked to anti-Castro groups in Miami and arms from the United States.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
DIFAR
Castro
Department of Investigation For
Armed Forces
Eugenio de Sosa Chabau
Raul
de Sosa
Cuba
Casa Blanca
Miami
Fla
United States
Winston Churchill Expected In Monte Carlo Visit
Sir Winston Churchill is due to arrive Saturday for a vacation lasting two to three weeks. The brief trip follows recent wartime duties as Churchill travels to the Riviera for rest and recovery.
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Monte Carlo
Sir Winston Churchill
Nixon May Let GOP Convention Pick 1960 Running Mate
If Nixon becomes the Republican nominee by default he may allow the convention to choose his No 2 to boost interest in a fading event. Nixon seeks a vigorous successor able to campaign widely and travel globally like Eisenhower.
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Washington
Richard M. Nixon
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Nixon
Associates
Eisenhower
International Church gains 129277 members in 1959
Indianapolis report notes that the Inter national Convention of Christian Churches Disciples of Christ announced a gain of 129 277 members for 1959 on Tuesday.
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Indianapolis
International Convention of Christian Churches
Disciples of Christ
Man Not the Darling of Gods in Evolution
George Gaylord Simpson warned that human evolution shows no clear progress toward a transcendent goal. Speaking at AAAS, he argued that life diversifies into millions of species with most perishing, and humans are part of nature like any other organism from amoebas to tapeworms.
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Chicago
George Gaylord Simpson
Harree University
American Assn
Simpson
Plan for Guard Evacuation Deferred in Albert Lea
In Albert Lea Minnesota Civilian law enforcement heads were told to be ready for evacuation of National Guardsmen from the Wilson and Co meatpacking plant Sheriff Everette Stevern asked Governor Freeman to keep the Guard in Albert Lea until the Wilson dispute is settled Adjutant Gen Joseph E Nelson confirmed discussions about potential removal but no date was set Non union workers entered the plant without interference from United Packinghouse Workers Union pickets on the second day of operation resumed
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Alberta Lea
Minn
Wilson and Co
Everette Stevern
Orville Freeman
Stevern
Albert Lea
Willson
St. Paul
Joseph E. Nelson
Albert
Nelson
United Packinghouse Workers Union
Wilson
Snow Staggers Ice-Battered Toronto
TorontoArea face new snow up to nine inches as power failures from the ice storm crippled services. Officials warned restoration would continue as crews repair hundreds of poles and lines with normal service expected today.
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Toronto
Ann Landers Bridges Markets For Five Radio Comics
A syndicated column by Ann Landers discusses five radio comics and a bridge between markets. The piece notes editorial viewpoints and public reception across media platforms.
High Tides Batter East Coast in Severe Northeast Storm
Record high tides flooded coastal towns from Scituate to Marblehead with Boston recording a 14.3 foot tide the highest in 108 years. Snow piled across Maine New Hampshire Vermont and northern New York while deaths rose to 20. Evacuations occurred along the Massachusetts coast with Coast Guard rescue efforts hampered by rain hail and sleet as crews aided panicked residents.
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Associated Press
Boston
Scituate
Marblehead
Atlantic
Maine
New Hampshire
Vermont
New York
Massachusetts
Kansas
Wisconsin
Iowa
Oregon
New Jersey
Kenberma
Coast Guard
Senate Sets Tranquilizer Drug Probe Headlines
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly subcommittee will hold public hearings starting January 21 to probe tranquilizer drug prices. Officials from four major drugmakers are summoned to testify in the second inquiry into medicine pricing amid reports of extreme profit margins and questioned competition.
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Washington
Senate
Senate Antitrust and Monopoly Subcommittee
Sen. Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Subcommittee
Robison Recaps First Year In Congress
Washington representative Howard W. Robison of Owego reports a busy first year with fifty six speeches ninety four receptions and dinners two hundred twenty group meetings three hundred individual constituent meetings twenty six round trips between Washington and his district and a 97.6 percent attendance rate on roll call votes.
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Washington
Howard W. Robison
Owego
Congress
Robison
House
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