Britain rejects Kremlin push for general Far East talks
Britain spurned a Soviet offer for broad East West talks on Far East issues on New Year’s Day. Foreign Office said only specific questions like Formosa or Korea could justify any conference and urged readiness to meet once Paris accords on Germany are ratified. Malenkov’s reply suggested a wider meeting, but London held to a selective agenda and warned talks could be used for propaganda.
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Seymour Topping
London
Churchill
Kremlin
Far East
Georgi Malenkov
Malenkov
Indochina
Korea
Red
Pierre Mendes-France
Germany
Anthony Eden
Paris
Serses
Joseph Stalin
Democrats to push scrap Ike farm supports in new session
Democratic drive to end the Eisenhower administration flexible farm price supports begins as Congress opens Wednesday. Sen. Humphrey outlines a plan to abolish the program that adjusts supports with surpluses and stock levels. The push follows Democratic victories and accompanies a nationwide influx of lawmakers.
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Ike
Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Senate Agriculture Committee
Midwest
Mphrey
Aay Tex
Rayburn
House
Senate
McCarthy
R-Wis
Four Veterans Close Out Senate Careers
Six senators including four long serving veterans end their terms as the 84th Congress ends. Governors and committee leadership changes mark the departures as the 1955 session begins with new leadership and farm policy battles anticipated.
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Senate
Washington
Sens
Cooper
Cordon
Ore
Ferguson
Mich
Hendrickson
Gillette
Iowa
Edwin C. Johnson
Cole
Congress
Ogg Ge
Colorado
Interstate and Foreign Commerce Committee
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Republican Policy Committee
Appropriations
Tiseriar
Hammarskjold heads to Asia in bid for freed U N personnel
U N Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold left Europe for Red China to press for freedom of 11 U N airmen held as spies and other jailed personnel. He met French Premier Mendes France at Orly and planned talks with Nehru in Delhi before meeting Chou En Lai in Peking.
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Malenkov
Far East
Churchill
Peiping
Moscow
Aoe
U.S
Hammarskjold
United Nations
Paris
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Europe
Red China
Asia
U. S
China
Pierre Mendes- France
Orly Airfield
Beirut
Karachi
New Delhi
India
Nehru
Chou En-lai
Peiong Nehru
Indonesia
Toll Now Mounting Across Nation During New Year Holiday
AP survey records 181 deaths from 6 pm Friday to midnight Sunday as highway toll climbs toward 300. Nontraffic deaths include a 6 year old Maine boy at a sledding party mishap. State tallies list wide ranges of fatalities across the country with traffic, fires and other causes.
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Associated Press
Safuncil
Maine
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Connecticut
Florida
Georgia
Idaho
Mlinois
Indiana
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Louisiana
Maines
Maryland
Massachusetts
Missouri
Montana
New Jersey
New York
New Hampshire
New Mexico
North Carolina
Ohio
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Rhode Island
South Carolina
South Dakota
Tennessee
Texas
Utah
Vermont
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Wisconsin
Man Flinches After Ice Pick Stab In Atlanta
A 43 year old man walked a mile with an ice pick lodged in his forehead seeking help. John Evans staggered into the Atlanta police station with two inches of the weapon protruding from his head. Doctors removed the metal with pliers and said the skull and sinus were pierced. Evans claims his wife attacked him. she is held on suspicion of stabbing.
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Atlanta
Homicide
W. D
John Evans
Browning
Evans
U N chief Dag Hammarskjold plans China talks
Dag Hammarskjold travels toward Peiping to press for release of 13 Americans jailed as spies amid Red China propaganda. Peiping radio cites Downey training claims and alleges U S agents trained Chinese nationalists near Tokyo to establish comms and feed information along the Manchurian route.
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Tokyo
Peiping
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
Red China
Geil Care
Japan
John As Downey
New Britain
U. S
Downey
Morton Downey
North An
Reds
Manchuria
Chang Tsai-wen
Luan Hengeshan
Chigasaki
U. S. Intelligence Agency
Antung
Sheneyang
Szepingkai
Korea
Bac
Progress Report on U S Anticommunist Drive 1954
The Justice Department Internal Security Division reports six months of work yield notable progress against communism. Smith Act prosecutions rise with convictions of party leaders in Philadelphia Detroit and St Louis and new trials slated for Connecticut Puerto Rico and the Denver area. Additional convictions include four in San Francisco for harboring Communist official Robert Thompson and four union leaders for filing false reports.
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Jack Adams
Washington
Justice Department
Internal Security Division
William F. Tompkins
Brownell
Browner
Tompkins
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Immigration Service
Joseph M
Communist Party
Parrty
Philadelphia
Detroit
St. Louis
Connecticut
Puerto Rico
Denver
San Francisco
Robert G. Thompson
Benefits Cut For Army's New Recruits
President Eisenhower issues an executive order cutting off many veterans benefits for new Army recruits after Jan 31 1955 including hospital care non service pensions education GI loans and housing aid. The changes do not affect current service members or the wartime emergency status remains. The tax exemption for those in the Korean combat zone is also ended as of Jan 31 1955. */
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Korea
James C. Hagerty
White House
Truman
Hagerty
Record Numbers of North Carolina Jobless in 1954
Raleigh January 1 1955 Unemployment in North Carolina rose 75 percent in 1954 to its postwar high. Total payroll fell 2.6 percent to about 1.99 billion dollars while unemployment benefits totaled just over 37 million for roughly 2.4 million weeks. Average monthly employment ran 715000 with at least 175000 workers drawing benefits. Kendall notes end year upturn may lift 1935 economy.
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Raleigh
Henry E. Kendall
State
ESC
Kendall
Top High Point 1954 Stories Highlighted
The Enterprise lists the ten top High Point news stories of 1954 with reporters and photographers who covered them firsthand. The five most memorable local pictures appear on Page 2D and an industry feature on Micro-Products signs runs on Page 3D.
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Mirro-Products
Micro-Products
New England
Venezuela
Japan
Sendai
Thomasville
Long Beach Tops Tournament of Roses Parade in 1955
In light rain Long Beach won its seventh Tournament of Roses with a 200000 blossom float featuring Miss Universe 1954 Miriam Stevenson. The parade drew about 1.5 million spectators, over 35 million viewers on NBC, and 61 floats. Grand Marshal Earl Warren rode with his wife amid roses and floral display.
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Pasadena
Calif
Long Beach
Miriam Stevenson
Winnsboro
S. C
Clarence Morris
NBC
Fio
Earl Wareren
California
Miss Stevenson
Lander College
Tewood
S. Military Academy
West Point
Ohio State University
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Insular Affairs Committee
Eee
Ned H. Dearborn
Council Arge Aggre
Dearborn
Joey Vitale
Newark
N. J
Orange
Bernard M. Shanley
Duke
Bill Murray
Nebraska
Miami
Fla
U.N
N.C
Miss Universe
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