Detroit Underworld Hunts Key Reuther Witness Don Ritchie
Detroit and Canadian authorities race to find Don Ritchie a 33 year old French Canadian key witness to the 1948 Walter Reuther assassination plot. Ritchie fled a downtown hotel guarded by police and sought refuge in Canada. Prosecutor Gerald O'Brien warns publishing his name risks his safety and notes Ritchie identified Peter Jacobs as the triggerman. Ritchie claimed payment of 5000 dollars from Carl Renda and said he worked for Santo Perrone at the time. He was released from Essex county jail December 6 after a theft term and placed in protective custody following questioning by Detroit authorities. Two guards were suspended after Ritchie allegedly eluded them.
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Detroit
Don Ritchie
Walter Reuther
CIO
Ritchie
Canada
Gerald K. O’brien
Ant
O’brien
O'Brien
Carl Renda
Santo
Sam) Perrone
Peter Lombardo
Clarence Jacobs
Reuther
Essex County
Windsor
Donald S. Leonard
Ritche
Wayne Glisma
William Krupka
Leonard
Eisenhower Orders New Reserve Policy Approach
President Eisenhower ordered a new approach to military reserve policies. He endorsed a two tier system with an immediately callable reserve and a selectively callable reserve based on occupation skills and family status, delaying universal training. The plan aligns with Flemming’s recommendations and a 24 member advisory panel.
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Gardner L. Bridge
Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Arthur S. Flemming
Office of Defense Mobilization
Flemming
Lawrence A
The
American Management Assn
Two Miss Death As Plane Hits Tree Near City
Two airborne members of a State Wildlife Commission license-checking party were injured when their two-seater light plane crashed into a pine field eight miles east of Pointon Sumner School Road. Pilot Jim Sullivan and Game Protector Norman Rosenbrook suffered broken shoulders and ribs and head injuries. They were hauled free by a station film director and rushed to High Point Memorial Hospital.
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North Carolina Wildlife Commission
Groometown
High Point Memorial Hospital
Joe Rawley
Commission
Sullivan
Roseback
Sumner Township
Sumner School Road
Charles Seward
Wem-Tv
Greensboro
Point
Highway Patrol
High Point Airpor
Rose suitor’s pants fail during London opera scene
Carmen tossed a rose to her suitor at the Sadler’s Wells Opera House in London. Robert Thomas split his trousers while picking up the rose, prompting a curtain to fall. He returned after changing pants to finish the aria amid surprised laughs.
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London
Dan
Carmen
Sadiers Welle Opera House
Robert Thomas
Gavin Gordon
Thomas
United Fund Plans First Annual Meeting in High Point
The High Point United Fund will hold its first annual meeting Thursday at 4 30 p.m. in the M C A building on South Main Street. George W Lyles Jr president urges every contributor to attend and vote for 30 new board members after reports from the president and an address by Fred Linton Winston Salem Chamber of Commerce executive secretary. Invitations have gone to over 500 volunteer campaign workers and posters will be displayed in industrial and commercial outlets. The fund seeks a strong turnout from Citizenship Club members as they become its backbone.
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Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Karl¢horst
Karlshorst
Red Army
Sergei Dengin
Soviet High Commission
Bulding
U.S
Foreign Ministers
Salaretgtea
High Point United Fund
George W. Lyles, Jr
Fred Linton
Winston-Salem Chamber of Commerce
Citizenship Club
Lyles
High Point ¥.M.C
South Main St
Batchelor Exclusive: Former Prisoner Talks of Convert to Communism
Claude Batchelor, newly freed, speaks in an exclusive Associated Press interview about his personal journey to communism. The piece frames his ideological shift as a major post-release revelation.
Three Killed Four Hurt in Alexandria Gun Fight
In Alexandria Virginia a taxi driver shot at the Schultz Brown family wounding several before a posse closed in on a saw mill shack. Walter Clark 36 was killed during the confrontation. Lorraine Schultz 25 Edna Brown 48 were killed. Herman Schultz 31 William Brown 23 Theresa Schultz 2 were wounded. Officer Dennis O Neil public safety shot in the arm. The confrontation followed threats made by Clark amid a feud with the family over earlier advances.
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Alexandria
Walter Clark
Lorraine E. Schultz
Edna B. Brown
Herman Joseph Schultz
Herman Joseph Schultz Sr., 31, Husband of Mrs. Schultz
Clark
William N. Brown
Schultz
Theresa R. Schultz
Fairfax County Police Pvt
Dennis O'Neil
Schultz-Brown
Brown
Herman Jr
O'Neil
U.N. Eyes Chinese North Korean Release Amid War Risk
In Seoul on January 10 Gen Maxwell D Taylor said 22,000 Chinese and North Koreans in an anti-Red prison camp would be released January 23. Any Communist move to intervene could resume the Korean War. Taylor outlined plans to civilianize 7,500 North Koreans in the South and ship 14,500 Chinese to Formosa. Peiping denounced the plan as forcible retention.
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Williams
Barnard
Seoul
U. N
Maxwell D. Taylor
Red
China
Peiping
United Nations Command
Gen
Taylor
South Korea
Republic of Korea
Formosa
An Kai-shek
Red Na
Ou En-lai
Red China
Mao Tze-tung
Think Reds To Have 300 Subs In '56
Paris report from Combat Fleets estimates about 1956 Soviet submarine force at 300. It sketched a navy of roughly 700,000 personnel with 340,000 aboard ships and 150,000 in the Baltic, 60,000 Arctic, 60,000 Pacific, and 70,000 Black Sea. Naval aviation listed 100,000. coast guard 150,000. sea-going soldiers 50,000. 1953 start counted 3,500 planes with 1,000 bombers including 200 jets. no aircraft carriers cited. The source gave no basis for its figures.
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Paris
Russia
Baltic
Arctic
Pacific
Black Sea
Coast Guard
Navy
Witness Reappears in Charlotte Littlejohn Hearing
C C Sharpe a key witness in charges against Charlotte Police Chief Frank N Littlejohn reappeared before Judge J C Rudisil after returning from Florida. He posted $5000 bonds on gambling charges and testified about lodge gambling activities. Also named as witnesses were Alonzo G Squires and others linked to poker and slot operations.
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Charlotte
N.C
C. C
Doc) Sharpe
Frank N. Littlejohn
J. C. Rudisil Sharpe
FBI
Florida
Eee
King Laat
Cr Moose
Alonzo G. Squires
Littlejohn
Christa
Saiarpe
Heath
W. B. Stogner
Stogner
Littlejorm
Tito Denies Secret Pact With Russia
Belgrade reports Tito rejects a U S magazine claim that Yugoslavia and the Soviet Union planned a Moscow Belgrade partnership. He calls the Freeman article slander and says Yugoslavia seeks openness in international affairs and Western cooperation.
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Tito
Russia
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
U. S
Moscow
Enterprise To Install Wirephoto In High Point
The Enterprise will install its own Wirephoto system by March to receive news pictures within minutes of events. The 85 000 mile AP network will feed pictures via leased wires to High Point and from overseas by radio, enabling eight minute delivery from major U S centers. Portable transmitters in North Carolina will also send images directly to the paper. A photo electric cell converts image lightness into electrical impulses for transmission.
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Associated Press
Atlanta
High Point
United States
Lina
Associated Press Traffic Bureau
T. H. Davis
Enterprise
North Carolina
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Underworld
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Tke
Appley Committee
National Security Training Commission
Julius Ochs Adler
New York Times
Chattanooga Times
Adier Commission
UMT
By Leon Burnett
United Fund
Freedom
Claude Batchelor
Chicago
Sect. B
Sect. C
Reds
Brdo
Slovenia
the Freeman
Bogdan Radisa
Yugoslav Information Det
Radista
Georgi Malenkov
Mg Pe
Tito Declaras
Freeman
New York
Penser
Direct Pictures
North Caro
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