U N Council Hears Chinese Invite for Peiping Delegation
The United Nations Security Council voted to invite Peiping to participate in a debate on Formosa area hostilities. Dag Hammarskjold was to hear Peiping's response after the council extended the invitation amid New Zealand’s call for mediation and Soviet demands.
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U.N
Dag Hammarskjoki
New Zealand
U.S
Formosa
Peiping
Hammarskjold
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Lodge
China
Red China
United States
Indochina
Geneva
T. F. Tsiang
Arkady A. Sobolev
46 Die In Fires This Week
Across six states 46 people perish in fires this week. Notably in Amsterdam New York a 10 family tenement fire kills 12 including seven children. in New York City blasts from kerosene heaters and oil stoves claim multiple victims. Other deaths occur in Virginia Georgia Indiana Kentucky New Jersey Maryland and New York amid oil lamp accidents and a million dollar Baltimore auto agency blaze.
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Associated Press
Amsterdam
N. Y
Juan Rivera
New York City
Manhattan
Virginia
Robert L. Eley
Chuckatuck
Georgia
Rossville
Alta Wright
Augusta
Army
John T. Smith Jr
Camp Gordon
Indiana
Kentucky
Charles E. Hodge Sr
Liberty
New Jersey
Baltimore
Stanbrook Lodge
Rhinebeck
Tenement Fire Kills 12 in Amsterdam NY
A fire in a 10 family tenement in Amsterdam New York killed eleven children and their father and two adults, with five others injured. Fire officials blamed an overflowing oil stove and noted 50 gallon drums in the basement exploded. Rescue efforts saved dogs. many residents fled into a snowstorm.
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Amsterdam
N.Y
Anna Gagliardo
Celia Kosiba
Marvin Swart
Samuel Palumbo
Fresh Fighting Boils Up In The Tachens
Fresh fighting swirled around the Tachens as United States and Nationalist China debated the fate of the offshore islands. Nationalists and Communists traded deep bomb and gunfire while 10 Communist warships shelled Yushan. The U S 7th Fleet and Sabrejets stood by in Formosa awaiting orders to evacuate about 30 000 troops and civilians if pledged US defense is provided for other outposts.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Tachen
United States
China
Chiang Kai-shek
Washington
Red
Defense Ministry
Yikiangshan
Toumen Island
Yushan
Chang-huan
Quemoy
Matsu
U.S. 7Th Fleet
Tachens
Field and wife seek permanent stay in Hungary
Noel Field, once a U S State Department employee, says he and his wife will remain in Hungary indefinitely after being granted political asylum. The U S legation confirmed their request was voluntary and that they plan to stay in Hungary long term.
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Budapest
Hungary
Noel Field
U. S. State Department
U. S
Spencer Barnes
Legation
Textile and apparel groups urge scrap of trade policy
Industry spokesmen from textile and apparel sectors unite to ask Congress to reject extending the Reciprocal Trade Act and granting more executive tariff powers. They warn the State Department would gain control over foreign economic policy, amid worries over cheap imports and job losses in a $1.1 trillion invested sector with about 2 million workers.
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Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means Committee
Executive Department
PCR
Bacott
New England
W. Ray Bell
Assn. of
Cotton Textile Merchants
New York
R. E. Hamilton
Dalton
Assn
Rep
Lanham
D-Ga
Georgia
South Carolina
Florida
Murchison
Japa
Much Debate Expected Pentagon Dispute Over Army In Open
A Pentagon dispute over administration plans to cut Army strength was aired in Washington and is set to provoke substantial debate as Congress weighs military manpower and draft extension considerations.
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Pentagon
Army
Washington
Congress
Princess Margaret Heads For Trinidad on Caribbean Tour
Princess Margaret began a month long Caribbean tour with a first stop in Trinidad where she landed at Port of Spain after leaving London. Governor Sir Hubert Rance welcomed the royal visit as Port of Spain decorations fluttered despite torn bunting. U S air rescue planes escorted the royal flight from Canada to the colony. Generals Ridgway and Stevens discussed potential Army cuts amid assurances of balance with economic factors.
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Port OF Spain
Trinidad
Britain
Princess Margaret
Caribbean
Canopus
Queen Elizabeth
London
Treat
Hubert Rance
Piarco
U.S. Air Force
Canada
South Amer
State tax deadline tied to House approval
The North Carolina House approved a bill to move the state income tax filing deadline from March 15 to April 15 matching federal due dates. The measure also shifts due dates for intangibles and gift tax returns to April 15 with Senate action anticipated.
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Raleigh
House
Senate
North Carolina
B.T. Falls Jr
Cleveland
Robert F. Morgan
Morgan
State Department of
Solution to Cotton Acreage
Rep Dowdy proposes a plan for cotton allotments of five acres or less to plant cover crops and receive two bales of surplus cotton. The idea aims to cut surplus by about 500000 bales and remove about a million acres from cotton, while Sen Eastland urges guaranteed minimum five acres for all growers.
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Washington
Rep
Dowdy
D-Tex
Agriculture Department
Sen
Eastland
D-Miss
Congress
Department
Commonwealth Ministers Postpone Formosa Cease-fire Move
Prime ministers in London held off independent Formosa cease-fire efforts awaiting United Nations Security Council action. The council invited Red China to talks, with observers unsure of success as Chiang Kai-shek may be asked to surrender Quemoy and the offshore islands as part of a potential deal. Nehru signaled readiness to sway neutralists once Peiping clarifies its stance.
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United Nations
N.Y
U.N. Securit Council
Formosa Strait
Red China
Ate
London
Commonwealth
China
United Nations Security Council
Security Council
New York
Formosa
U.N
Chiang Kai-shek
Quemoy
Tachen
Matsu
Fingerprints Traced in Rubinstein Case
New York authorities traced ten fingerprints from Serge Rubinstein's bedroom as part of the murder probe. Six matched the victim, two were smudges, and the rest were inconclusive. Investigators compare prints against 5,000 nightclub entertainers and probe noted female belongings linked to Pat Wray.
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New York 2
Serge Rubinstein
Asst. Dist. Atty
Alexander Herman
Herman
Rubinstein
5Th Avenue
Pat Wray
Las Vegas
Nev
Courtlandt Nicoll
Lee B
Conside Brooks
Nicoll
Brooks
Stanley T. Stanley
Stanley
Ducal
Gore asks AEC for formal vote on Dixon-Yates contract
Senator Al Gore urges the Atomic Energy Commission to record a formal vote on canceling the Dixon-Yates contract after a congressional committee request. AEC member Thomas Murray backs cancellation, citing ongoing discord and past support tempered by desire to end the dispute. The 107 million dollar project would build a West Memphis Arkansas plant to supply TVA while replacing TVA electricity.
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Washington
Sen
Gore
D-Tenn
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Commission
Senate House Atomic Energy Committee
Thomas E. Murray
Joint Committee
Eisenhower
West Memphis
Ark
Dixon-Yates Private Power Group
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Senate House Committee
Murray
Truman
Ray
Six Children Die In House Fire At Chuckatuck
In Chuckatuck Virginia six children aged from 3 to 14 were burned to death when fire trapped them on the second floor of their frame home. Father Robert L. Eley woke to a roaring blaze and escaped while mother Evalina Eley was at a night job in Suffolk. Firemen recovered the victims Catherine 12? nee. Bet provided through the text.
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Chuckatuck
Virginia
Robert L. Eley
Evalina Eley
Planters Nut & Co
Suffolk
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