Kahn Faces Jail Term Over Contempt Data
Publisher Albert E. Kahn faces a six month sentence for contempt unless he hands over data for a book on Harvey Matusow. A federal judge postponed the term if Kahn complies with a grand jury request. The publishers offered to provide material to the Senate Judiciary Committee and argued the demand seeks to seize a book to suppress publication.
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New York
Albert E. Kahn
Harvey Matusow
John W. Clancy
Kahn
Matusow
FBI
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Sen. Mansfield
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
Cameron and Kahn, Inc
Sen. Kilgore
D-Wva
Senate Judiciary Committee
Justice Department
Justice den
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Medics Say Tobacco Can Injure Heart
Chicago reports a Journal of the American Medical Association editorial stating definite evidence that smoking damages the heart muscle. The piece cautions patients with coronary disease against the added risk of smoking to the heart.
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Chicago
Journal of the American Medical Assn
AMA Journal
Witnesses Called For Olson Trial At Fort Bragg
Eighty witnesses including many former prisoners of war will testify at the court martial of M. Sgt. William H. Olson charged with eight acts violating the Uniform Code of Military Justice. Olson, a 20 year Army veteran and ex prisoner of Korea, awaits trial at Fort Bragg while under psychiatric observation at Walter Reed.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
Korea
William H. Olson
Public Information
Olson
Lumberton
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Washington, D.C
Army
Uniform Code of Mill Justice
United States
Youngsville
Leonard Convicted Of Manslaughter In Tate Slaying
A Guilford Superior Court jury found Marvin Eli Leonard guilty of manslaughter in the hotel room slaying of Mrs Florine Spencer Tate. The verdict came after about two hours of deliberation and Judge C W Hall planned to pass sentence that afternoon. Leonard had pleaded not guilty to second degree murder in the Aug 23 1954 slaying of 311 year old Mrs Tate.
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Greensboro
Guilford Superior Court
Marvin Eli Leonard
Florine Spencer Tate
C W. Hall
Leonard
Atomic bomb fallout risks warn of 50 million exposed
Dr. Ralph E. Lapp warned in the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists that 28 well placed hydrogen bomb hits could unleash deadly radioactive fallout affecting about 50 million Americans. He cited a ground burst fireball three to four miles wide and urged underground shelters as the best defense while noting current civil defense plans lag behind nuclear advances.
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Chicago
America
U.S
Ralph E. Lapp
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientist
Lapp
North Carolina Senate Roads Committee Rejects Higher Truck Speeds
The Senate Roads Committee rejected two bills to raise speed limits on highways. One would lift trucks from 45 to 55 mph. the other would let officials set 65 mph limits on select highway sections. Lawmakers debated safety and traffic flow with Motor Vehicles Commissioner Ed Scheidt opposing the increases.
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Raleigh
Senate Roads Committee
North Carolina
Highway Commission
Motor Vehicles Ccmmissioner
Senate
House Education Oe
Senate Roads Group
Motor Vehicles
Ed Scheidt
Ralph Scott
Alamance
Scheidt
Aia
Charlies H. Reynolds
Rutherfordton
E. Averyrat
Anson
Highway Commission and
Motor Vehicles Commissioner
Hightower
Ike Out In Quest For Quail
President Eisenhower hunted quail at Humphrey’s Milestone estate in Thomasville Georgia starting at 9 15 a m with Humphrey and Clifford Roberts present. A light drizzle fell then cleared, temperature about 45 degrees, two birds bagged before dark, near daily limit of 12.
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Thomasville
Eisenhower
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
Washington
James C. Hagerty
White House
Eiisenhower
Milestone
John S. Doud
Spence Air Base
Moultrie
Clifford Roberts
New York
Severe Cold Wave Heads Toward North Carolina
The Weather Bureau forecasts a sharp cold wave for North Carolina with rain on the Coastal Plain this afternoon, snow in the mountains, and sleet in the Piedmont. Temperatures drop to 5–15 degrees above zero in high country, 15–20 in the Coastal Plain, with windy, colder tonight and a brief warm-up by Monday before another chill.
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Associated Press
North Carolina
Weather Bureau
Coastal Plain
Piedmont
Morelli Denies Knowledge Of Murder Held As Witness
New York 27 year old Morelli held on 10000 bail as a material witness in theAnn Yarrow murder denies any knowledge of the slaying and says he never knew the 23 year old NYU graduate. He claims he was with a movie and bars Saturday night and a woman he picked up. Police say he cannot prove where he was when the crime occurred.
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New York
Angelo
Mike) Morelli
Ann Yarrow
Morelli
Miss Yarrow
New York University
Herta Payson
General Sessions
Jonah J. Goldstein
District Attorney's Office
Power Struggle Continues Among Soviet Rulers
Washington officials contend a third phase in the post Stalin power struggle is underway as Malenkov is demoted, Bulganin becomes premier, and Khrushchev rises. They cite the Old Bolsheviks and a possibly strengthened army under Zhukov, with no single dictator yet firmly established.
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Washington
Earefu
Russia
Georgi M. Malenkov
Nikolai A. Bulsyanin
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Moscow
Joseph Stalin
Lavrenty P. Beria
Stalin
Central Committee
Communist Party of the Soviet Union
Bulgaria
V. M. Molotov
Klementi Voroshilov
Lazar Kaganovich
A. I. Mikoyan
Mikoyan
U.S
Waeak Maleenkov
Eisenhower
Georgi K. Zhukov
Evacuation of Tachens Near End as Winds Shift
U S Navy reports the evacuation of the Tachens entering its final phase with most fortifications blown and troops ready for shipping. Nationalist forces strip Tachens of civilians while the Washburn arrives with 1,185 troops and 520 tons of ammunition for transfer to Formosa.
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Taipet
Formosa
U.S. Navy
Tachen Islands
Defense Ministry
Attac
Forrest Edwards
U.S
Edwards
Pe Iri
Navy
Princeton
Tachens
Yu Shan
Pishan
U Tachen
Lower Tachen
Trade Bill Expected To Pass In Congress
Eisenhower administration labor to pass the three year extension of the Reciprocal Trade Agreements Act with tariff cutting powers. House Ways and Means approved the measure 20 to 5 and Speaker Rayburn scheduled floor action for next Thursday and Friday. Rep Reed vows further protections for American industries.
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Washington
Eisenhower
House
Ways and Means
Rayburn
D-Tex
United States
Congress
Daniel A. Reed
Vice Kings Face Trial In Killings
In Birmingham, two ex-officials Arch Ferrell and Albert Fuller are charged with first degree murder connected to the Phenix City vice empire case. Former Alabama Attorney General Li Garrett also faces a murder indictment tied to a plot to prevent Patterson from taking office. Patterson, a 69 year old crippled former state senator, was killed outside his Phenix City law office after winning the Democratic nomination for attorney general. His son John, now attorney general, won the nomination and election. The case involves alleged fraud to steal the nomination from the antivice crusader and a forged vote tally in Jefferson County.
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Birmingham
Ala
Phenix
A. L. Patterson
Arch Ferrell
Albert Fuller
Alabama
Li Garrett
Patterson
Garrett
Galveston
Tex
Phenix City
John
Garrett, Ferrell
Lamar Reid
Lee Porter
Gadsden
Jefferson County
Reid
Debate Set on Panama Death Plot Trial Recommendation
Panama special congressional investigating commission urges the former President Jose Ramon Guizado be tried for complicity in the assassination of Jose Antonio Remon. The National Assembly will debate next Wednesday whether to proceed or quash the accusation. If convicted, Guizado could face 10 to 20 years in prison. The report cites Guizado by his own testimony and others including his son Jose Ramon Guizado Jr. and two business partners among 13 others connected to the January 2 Remon slaying.
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Panamapa Special
Congressional Investigating Commission
Jose Ramon Guizado
Jose Antonio Remon
Lormany
Guizado
Assembly
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Tate
NTA
Pitiwedosaw
Opeecas Nillead
Ike
Quail
Tachen
Cecil Deason
J. Russell McElroy
Panama
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