UN Okays Contested PW Count At Panmunjom
The United Nations Command endorsed an Indian custodian head count of Chinese POWs at Panmunjom, 135 of 4385 prisoners eligible to request repatriation. South Korea protested, while the Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission discussed the matter and an official memorandum was to be sent. Pyun Yung Tal denounced the tally as a violation of armistice terms.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Panmunjom
WU. N
U. N
United Nations Command
Pyun Yung Tal
Pyun
ROK
Freighters Collide Off Northern California Coast
Freighters Permanente Silverbow and Colorado collided 11 miles off Ft. Bragg. Both vessels suffered significant damage with 45-50 men aboard each. Silverbow pursued toward San Francisco escorted by J H MacGare Gill tanker, Coast Guard responding with patrol boat and Escabana cutter.
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San Francisco
Permanente Silverbow
Colorado
California
Permanente
Oil Co
J. H. MacGaregill
Coast Guard
Ft. Bragg
Calif
San Francisco Bay
Silverbow
Kaiser Companies, Inc
Oakland
Portland
Ore
The
States Steamship Co
New York
Registe
Vancouver
Wash
Manila
Gulf of Alaska
Editor Loses Legs In Wreck
In Williamsport Pennsylvania reporter Rebecca F Gross editor of the Lock Haven Express lost both legs in a two car collision while en route to the airport to meet her sister. She was thrown from her car and pinned against a utility pole as the vehicles collided early New Year’s Eve. She had just completed an editorial on safe holiday driving.
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Williamsport
Rebecca F. Gross
Lock Haven
Williamsport Hospital
Miss Gross
Gillette urges curbs on McCarthy investigations in foreign affairs
Senator Gillette of Iowa proposes the Senate strip the Government Operations Committee of authority to probe international relations and transfer powers to the Foreign Relations Committee. He warns careless actions could jeopardize U S standing as McCarthy and others clash over oversight of subversive activity. McCarran and McCarthy defend the work while Sparkman questions Republican handling.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sen
Gillette
Iowa
Senate
McCarthy
Wis
Government Operations Committee
Foreign Nations Committee
Gile
Wisconsin
Foreign Relations Committee
Sen. McCarran
Nevada
McCarran
Nevadan
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Miami
Internal Security Subcommittee
Pat McCarran
Pat
Sen. Sparkman
Alabama
China
Europe
U.S
United Nations
Knowland
California
GOP
New Year Fatalities Hit 136
The Associated Press reports New Year weekend traffic deaths reached 136 by 6 p.m. local time, with fire and miscellaneous fatalities totaling 44. The year’s toll from traffic accidents is projected near 38,000 nationally, with state tallies listed for Arizona to Wyoming and several others.
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Associated Press
National Safety Council
Ned H. Dearborn
Dearborn
Noag
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Connecticut
Kentucky
Maine
Mary
Massachusetts
Michigan
Minnesota
North Carolina
Ohio
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Vermont
Virginia
West Virginia
Wyoming
Ex Red's Case To Be Heard In Charlotte
Former Communist linked to Young Communist League and Communist Party seeks commission or release from service in an appeal to the Fourth Circuit. Herbert L. Nelson, 37, now serving as a private dentist, contests Army denial of a commission and cites World War II deferments and shipyard work in defense of his case. Brig Gen Loyal Haynes named respondent at Ft. Pickett, Virginia, as the two week January term opens.
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Charlotte
U. S. Court of Appeals
Fourth Circuit
Herbert L. Nelson
Army
John J. Parker
Morris A. Soper
Baltimore
Armistead M. Dobie
Charlottesville
Neats
Nelson
Young Communist League
University of Washington
Communist Party
Progressive Party
Henry Alsace
Sident
Vast Hooligan Wave Sparks Polish Youth Crackdown
Vienna reports hundreds of Polish teenagers arrested in recent weeks amid a drive to curb rowdy youths threatening Communist order. Newspapers say gangs roam Warsaw Kow Lublin and smaller towns assault police and officials, disrupt meetings, and even beat teachers, with injuries and deaths reported.
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Vienna
Austria
Pola
Warsaw
Kow
Lublin
U.S
Zycie Warszawy
Eisenhower Confers With Advisers On Messages To Congress
President Eisenhower, at Augusta National Golf Club, prepares a new set of messages to Congress amid ongoing budget and economic reports. Attending regular sessions are Hagerty Dodge Lodge Flemming Adams and other White House aides as plans unfold for a nationwide address Monday night. Denny is reappointed to a Civil Aeronautics Board six year term subject to Senate confirmation.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Congress
Augusta National Golf Club
Shetter
James S Hagerty
Peestonties Press Sec
Joseph M. Dodge
Henry Cabot Lodge
U.S
United Nations
Artour S. Flemming
Office of Defense Mobilization
Sherman Adams
White House
Washington
Harmar D. Denny
Civil Aeronautics Board
Pittsburgh Republican
CAB
Senate
Student Confesses Extort Plot
Long Beach police say 23 year old Robert Wallace Moen, a pomona College student, signed a statement admitting an extortion plot involving four wealthy oil and furniture families. Moen was arrested after a trap. a dummy package prompted his capture. Another suspect, James Chambers, 23, is detained on extortion charges and questioned.
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Long Beach
Calif
William H. Dovey
Robert Wallace Moen
Pomona College
Dovey
Moen
James W. Wood
Lester Callahan
Elmer Decker
Ed Frank
Chief Dovey
James Chambers
Texas Corporal Urges Probe of Pro Red Compound
Cpl. Claude J. Batchelor of Kermit Texas, one of 23 American POWs held near Panmunjom, asked to repatriate and called for an investigation of the neutral zone compound. He said guards and Indian officials must search for hidden weapons while detailing mixed loyalties and Communist influence among prisoners.
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Seoul
Texas
Claude J. Batchelor
Batchelor
Kermit, Tex
Cpl
Edward S. Dickenson
Big Stone Gap
Ict
Kyoko
America
Cpl. Dickenson
United States
Newsmen
Kermit
Postmaster Irked Over Loss Of Job At Alice Tex
In Alice Texas Mrs Mullen protests her replacement as postmaster claiming political motives. She shut the office and turned funds and stamps over to a clerk, vowing to hand over duties only to a qualified successor once appointed by authorities. Authorities have not yet named a successor.
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Alice
Tex
Aa Guerite Benaion
Gust
N. RK. Abrams
Mullen
North Carolina City Basks in New Year Twin Babies as First 1944 Citizens
A Greensboro couple welcomed a boy and girl at 8:47 and 8:53 a m making them the city s first 1944 children. Other newborns across the state included a Winston-Salem boy at 12 01 and a Greensboro girl at 12 02 with several more births noted in Asheville Durham Charlotte Raleigh and Linwood.
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North Carolina
Yee Gressshere
Lees
Associated Press
Sie Ee
Charles Allen
Elizabethtown
Allen
Stanley Allen
Frank McCulloch
Lexington
Snyder
Linwood
John McCulloch
Gee
Effie Blalock
A. A. Young
Elizabethtown High School
Marvin Mecham
Winston-Salem
Les Schoolfield
Greensboro
Leonard Moseley
Asheville
Mary Arm Glosson
Durham
Bascom V. Belk
Charlotte
J. B. Cash
Raleigh
Irl
Minor Quake Jars Regions Of Mountains
A minor earthquake rattled homes across three states from Middlesboro Kentucky to Asheville North Carolina last night. The tremor began at 9 25 pm and lasted several minutes causing many calls to newspapers radio stations and police. AEC officials reported no tremor and no idea of origin while residents noted moved clocks and shifting impressions in buildings.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Middlesboro
Here
Asheville
N.C
Atomic Energy Commission
Oak Ridge
AEC
Suspect Soviet Tactics Delay Berlin Talks
Western officials warned that Moscow may use the Berlin foreign ministers meeting to block European defense plans and delay West German rearmament by prolonging talks. Possible delays include French government changes, site choices, and agenda disputes as the conference hinges on East-West negotiation prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S
Berlin
Russia
Moscow
West Germany
Germany
Allied Control Authority
West Berlin
Reds
East Berlin
Washington Paeiaes
Deelay
China
Retmest
Impellitteri to Take Court Office Today
Former New York City mayor Vincent R. Impellitteri is to be sworn in as justice of the Court of Special Sessions amid chatter of a political bargain with the new mayor Robert F. Wagner Jr. Wagner denies any deal and notes he followed Board of Estimate guidance.
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New York
Vincent R. Impellitteri
Court of Special Sessions
Robert F. Wagner Jr
Wagner
Impelliteteri
Wagener
City Board of Estimate
Impellitteri
Herbert M. Rosenberg
U.S
Tammany Hall
Carmine G. de Sapio
Impellitteria
Wilfred A. Waltemade
Bronx
Board of
Rudolph Halley
Liberal Party
Halley
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Cne
U.S. Army
U.N
Heeemly
Stalin
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