U S Cuts Air and Naval Forces Near Formosa
The United States reduces air and naval strength around Formosa after a lull in Communist bombardment. The 7th Fleet and air units in Japan, Korea, Okinawa and the Philippines could be recalled quickly if needed, citing improved Nationalist defenses and new Washington weapons.
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Taipei
Formosa
United States
U. S
Washington
Quemoy Islands
Japan
Korea
Okinawa
Philippines
New York Papers Resupply Amid Delivery Strike
Nine major New York dailies published despite a delivery men strike in a contract dispute. Negotiations with the New York Publishers Assn. were to resume, after an 877 772 vote reject. Some printers crossed lines by choice while others stayed home. More details on page ten A.
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NEW York
Assn
The
Daily News
Martin Opposes Changes To House Rules Panel
Washington AP reports House Republican leader Joseph Martin of Massachusetts will resist liberal efforts to alter the 8 Democrats 4 Republicans Rules Committee lineup. He cites an understood bipartisanship and predicts no change despite Democratic gains. The liberal bloc seeks 9 to 3 and a 14 to 21 day time limit. a decision will come with Jan 7 rule adoption.
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Washington
House
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Massachusetts
House Rules Committee
North Attleboro
Martin
Congress
Howard W. Smith
D-Va
William Colmer
D-Miss
Sam Rayburn
D-Tex
Rayburn
Rules Committee
Reps
Frank Thompson
New Jersey
Henry Reuss
Wisconsin
James Roosevelt
California
Lee Metcalf
Montana
Bomb scare calls persist in Carolinas
The Associated Press reports continued bomb threat calls to schools in the Carolinas with Raleigh and Columbia among latest targets. At least 26 calls over two weeks prompted evacuations and searches. no devices found. Agencies note voice likeness to an uneducated man, with schools including Booker T. Washington affected.
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Associated Press
Carolinas
Raleigh
N.C
Columbia
S.C
Hugh Morson
Tabernacle Baptist Church
James E. Hillman
H. P. Rutherford
Booker T. Washington
Six Cult Members Die as Hazardous Device Destroys Retreat
In Chatsworth California a hazardous device demolished the main building of a religious cult retreat. Six people were killed, four missing and believed dead, including founder Krishna Venta. Investigators saw a stranger with a large suitcase arguing with Venta before 2 a.m. The fire burned five bodies beyond recognition. over 30 people slept inside, 14 children among them at the remote canyon site 30 miles from Los Angeles.
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Chatsworth
Calif
Krishna’ Venta
Los Angeles
Canyon
San Fernando Valley
Venta
San Francisco
Nobel Prizes Awarded Amid Pasternak Absence in Stockholm
In Stockholm King Gustaf VI Adolf presents Nobel prizes to Beadle Tatum and Lederberg for medicine and physiology and to Sanger for chemistry. Soviet writer Boris Pasternak, absent, declined the literature prize, though the award remains valid. his diploma and medal are held in trust.
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Stockholm
Gustav VI
Sweden
Alfred Nobel
George Beadle
Edward L. Tatum
Joshua Lederberg
Frederick Sanger
Britain
Boris Pasternak
Doctor Zhivago
Moscow
Anders Oesterling
Royal Swedish Academy
Pasternak
Nobel Fund
Eisenhower Defends Berlin Stand Amid Khrushchev Clash
President Eisenhower said the United States and its allies will protect West Berlin and will not abandon its people. He dismissed Khrushchev's latest nuclear claims as not altering U.S. estimates of Soviet power, while Hum prey relayed the Khrushchev ideas during an eight hour talk.
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Washington
Eisenhower
United States
West Berlin
Hubert Humphrey
Dminn
Khrushchev
Berlin
Humphrey
U.S
State Department
What U S Needs Is Robert Frost
Washington AP reports poet Robert Frost, holder of the Library of Congress chair and four Pulitzers, says he wants to be consulted on everything and could serve as a statesman. He praises Sherman Adams and urges simple schooling tests for integration, commenting in plain, down to earth tone.
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Washington
Library of Congress
Frost
White House
Supreme Court
Congress
Sherman Adams
Adams
Vicuna Coats
Judge Connell Avoids Senate Probe Over Union Gifts
U S District Judge James C Connell says he will not appear before the Senate Rackets Committee. In Washington he denied knowledge of gifts from 1955 champagne buckets linked by Sen McClellan to his Ohio Teamsters ruling. The case, Youngstown Local 377, involved Hoffa monitors later countermanded. Connell said monitors lacked authority to challenge Hoffa administration.
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Cleveland
U.S
James C. Connell
Senate
Sen
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Connell
Washington
McClellan
Ohio Teamsters Union
Youngstown
Ohio
Rights Dispute Boils Up in Alabama Voting Clash
In Alabama a federal civil rights move to compel voter registration records faces defiance by state and county officials. The Justice Department seeks a court order, while six registrars refuse to answer questions. Alabama officials vow to resist in court amid calls of states rights.
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Montgomery
Ala
Little Rock
Alabama
U. S. Civil Rights Commission
Justice Department
Washington
Hartwell Davis
Frank M. Johnson Jr
Johnson
Man Prefers Prison To World Asylum of Asthma and Escape
Pete McKenzie, 53, who has spent 34 years in prison and was paroled to Shelby County Tennessee, says he cannot get asthma treatment in Huntsville and fears the world has changed. He was convicted of murdering San Antonio detective Sam Street in 1923, later life sentence commuted, and credited with saving a guard in the 1930s. Under 1957 parole, he must stay in Tennessee with a brother-in-law in Memphis.
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Dallas
Pete McKenzie
Huntsville
Tennessee
McKenzie
San Antonio
Tex
Sam Street
Texas
Shelby County
Memphis
Enn
Eisenhower Urges Respect for Law in Voter Rights Case
President Eisenhower condemned public officials who refuse to supply Negro voter registration data, urging respect for the law as the Civil Rights Commission moves to compel Alabama officials. He also addressed Berlin’s crisis, reaffirming U S unity with Western allies and commitment to West Berlin's freedom.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Alabama
Soviet Union
Federal Civil Rights Commission
Ubangi Prince in High Point Baffles Police
Ademole Kawama a 26 year old claimed foreign exchange student with a $72 000 a month income and 47 languages astonished officers when he appeared at High Point Memorial Hospital after a bus station call of illness He spoke of seven universities including Moscow and Oxford but wore a soiled shirt carried a small briefcase and had only three dollar shoes Investigators released him with sugar pills and a planned Charlotte speaking engagement while FBI agents headed south to verify the alleged prince’s identity and ties to Equatorial Africa
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Ademole Kawama
University of Okiaa
High Point Memorial Hospital
Kawama
Mosco
Oxford
Africa
Danville
Equatorial Africa
Washington, D. C
Charlotte
FBI
Prince” Kawama
French Equatorial Africa
High Point
Lowest Readings Recorded as Subzero Chill Grips East and Midwest
A mass of cold air blanketed the region with subzero and near zero temperatures. readings reached -31 in Presque Isle Maine and -34 in International Falls Minnesota while New York City and Philadelphia stood at 16 above. Midwest towns saw -17 to -34 with a warming trend starting as heavy snow continued in parts of New York State.
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Associated Press
Mercury
Presque Isle
Maine
Pittsburgh
Parkersburg
W. Va
New York City
Philadelphia
Buffalo
N.Y
Albany
Midwest
International Falls
Minn
Rockford and Joliet
Ill
Sault Ste. Marie
Mich
Fort Wayne
Ind
Dubuque
Iowa
Madison
Wis
Columbus
Ohio
Chicago
Bismarck
N.C
Minneapolis- St. Paul
Milwaukee
Cleveland
New York State
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Nikita Khrushchev
Robert Frost
John Patterson
Patterson
Man
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Russia
France
Ubangi
Dick Rigby
Enterprise
Higha
Prince
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