Peace talks reopen urged in Korean negotiations
Communists in a letter to Washington proposed resuming preliminary talks for a Korean peace conference. Kenneth Young said the letter was relayed to Washington and awaits official action. Panmunjom liaison officers could meet Wednesday to set timing for resumed talks.
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Panmunjom
State Department
Kenneth Young
Washington
Red China
Peiping
India
New York
Seoul
Neutral Nations Repatriation Commission
NNRC
Six Die In Fire At Engelhard North Carolina
Six persons including Willie Spencer and his wife Mary and their four children died in a frame house fire west of Engelhard. Dave Spencer, a shopkeeper, found the blaze around 3 30 a.m. Neighbors blamed a faulty stove or chimney as the likely cause and the sheriff called it the county history’s worst tragedy.
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Engelhard
N. C
Willie Spencer
Mary
Willie Jr
Bobbie
Yula
Shirley
Here
Dave Spencer
Hyde County
Charlie Cahoon
Spencer
Davis High School
Famed Composer Oscar Straus Dies At 83
Oscar Straus, Viennese born composer of The Chocolate Soldier and more than 50 operettas, died of heart disease in Bad Ischl at age 83. He fled Austria after the 1938 Anschluss, lived in Paris, then moved to America in 1940 to escape the Nazis and remained there through WWII.
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Vienna
Oscar Straus
Bad Ischl
Johann Strauss
Straus
Austria
Paris
America
Atomic Parley Launched in Talks on Peaceful Atomic Uses
Washington Secretary of State Dulles and Soviet Ambassador Zarubin begin private talks on procedures for a broader conference on peaceful atomic energy. The session aims to gauge Soviet sincerity and may be held outside the UN. Key issues include Eisenhower's international pool proposal and a Moscow pledge against atomic weapons.
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Washington
State Dulles
Georgi N. Zarubin
United States
Russia
Dulles
State Department
Moscow
United Nations
U.S
Britain
Eisenhower
Cotton Acreage Tackled by Senate on 1954 allotment plan
The Senate debated fixing the 1954 cotton acreage allotment at 21 379 000 acres as set by a Senate Agriculture Committee bill. A House-Senate conference was proposed after differing House versions, with Southern opposition hoping for adjustments. The measure would allocate state quotas across 20 cotton states including Texas 8,719,178 and California 936,397 with other states listed.
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Washington
The
Senate
Agriculture Committee
House-Senate
House
Aiken
Senate Agriculture Committee
Alabama
Arizona
Arkansas
California
Florida
Georgia
Illinois
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
Missouri
Nevada
New Mexico
North Carolina
Oklahoma
South Carolina
Tennessee
Texas
Virginia
Eisenhower urges 14 Taft Hartley amendments including secret strike vote
President Eisenhower asked Congress to amend Taft Hartley with 14 provisions. A key change would require workers to approve any strike in a secret government held election. Proposals mix management and labor suggestions, adding state jurisdiction and affidavits for employers and union leaders while easing some boycott and strike limits. He backs a thorough study of welfare funds and asserts Taft Hartley is sound but needs reinforcement.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Congess
Arbitrator awards AP employees wage increase setting
New York The impartial arbitrator William E. Simkin awarded AP employees under the Guild contract a weekly raise from 2.50 to 4.50. The grant, retroactive to November 5, lasts through November 4, 1954, with the board split on other requested changes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
William E. Simkin
Associated Press
American Newspaper Guild
Guild
Simkin
Arbitration Board
Guild and Simkin
Philadelphia
Bitter Snowstorm Sweeps Nation With Foot of Snow In New England
A complex winter storm brings snow sleet and frigid cold from the South to the Northeast. New York City endures its worst snowstorm in five years with eight inches by 7 am and forecasts exceed 15 inches. Southern New England may see about a foot, northern New England four to six inches, and upstate New York four inches. Temperatures plunge below zero in Maine New York and Minnesota health warnings rise as four traffic deaths occur in Kentucky and Pennsylvania amid hazardous driving.
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Associated Press
New York City
Weather Bureau
New England
Upstate
New York
Caribou
Maine
New York State
Jackson
Vicksburg
Miss
Mississippi
Kentucky
Illinois
Washington
Charleston
W.va
Harrisburg
Virginia
New Jersey
Arkansas
Ternnessee
Pennsylvania
Coeline
Plains
Great Lakes
Rockies
Minnesota
North Dakota
Houston
Fargo
N. D
Duluth
Minn
Albany
N.Y
Lebanon
N. H
Syracuse
National Guard Wing to Inspect Greensboro High Point Airport
High Point Chamber of Commerce president Bistrot Ed Mendenhall and Caesar Cone of the Greensboro Chamber announce a Thursday visit by Air National Guard officers from Washington to inspect the Greensboro High Point Airport. Major Gen John Hall Manning will lead the NC National Guard contingent, with local officials attending a luncheon at Sedgefield Inn.
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Ed Mendenhall
High Point Chamber of Commerce
Caesar Cone
Greensboro Chamber
Air National Guard
Washington
Greensboro High Point
Charlotte
John Hall Manning
Adjutant General of
North Carolina National Guard
Sedgefield Inn
High Point and
Greensboro Chambers of Commerce
Skidding hillside threatens Astoria homes
In Astoria Oregon a hillside slide forced thirty four families to evacuate their homes on the water soaked slope since last Tuesday. City officials warn the slide area may be expanding and remains under close watch.
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Astoria
Ore
Oregon
Against Law To Get Stuck On Icy Streets
Washington motorists faced potential arrest for stranding on main streets without chains or special tires as a traffic emergency was declared under a year old ordinance. Fifty six arteries are covered though no arrests were reported early.
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Washington
Capital
Plane Crash Kills Braniff President and 11 Others
A seaplane owned by United Gas Co. crashed near none Lake, Louisiana, killing Braniff president Thomas Braniff and Texas Eastern Gas Transmission chief R. H. Hargrove plus ten passengers and two pilots. The doomed flight from a Louisiana marsh hunt struck trees and a house, fire burning for hours with no survivors.
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Shreveport
Braniffin Airways
Texas Eastern Gas Transmission Co
Louisiana
Gulf Coast
Airlines
Thomas Braniff
Dallas
Tex
R. H. Hargrove
Texas Eastern
Big Inch
Little Inch
United Gas Co
None Lake
United Gas
Braniff
Hargrove
The
American Gas Assn
Littlejohn Hearing Continues in Charlotte
Public hearing on charges against Charlotte Police Chief Frank N. Littlejohn continues with star witness C. C. Sharpe expected to testify. Grand jury presentments allege gambling facilitation and illegal rewards. Alonzo G. Squires testified the Moose Club protected gambling. Sharpe was paid to manage games and arrested Friday.
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Charlotte
Frank N. Littlejohn
Star Witness
C. C
Doc) Sharpe
Littlejohn
Alonzo G. Squires
Charlotte Moose Club
Sharpe
Florida
Frank Ratcliff
Eisenhower Seeks Flexible Farm Price Supports and Labor Reform
President Eisenhower urged Congress to freeze 2.5 billion in farm surpluses and implement a flexible price support program. He also pushed for Taft Hartley labor law revisions including a worker vote before strikes and a study of union welfare funds. The plan aims to bolster farm programs, expand foreign markets, and keep prices stable during shortages or surpluses.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Comity Credit Corp
Tax Rate Compromise Proposed By House GOP Member Kean
Representative Kean proposes a tax rate compromise on corporation income taxes to ease differences between Congress and the Eisenhower administration. The plan would keep the 52 percent rate through year end and cut to 50 percent starting January 1 1955, with some urging a 50 percent move by April 1. President Eisenhower wants no change for another year.
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B. L. Livingstone
Washington
Rep
Kean
Eisenhower
Congress
Capitol Hill
Eisenhower seeks to extend current tax rates and avoid cuts
In his State of the Union, President Eisenhower urged Congress to cancel the April 1 tax cuts. He called for keeping the corporation income tax at 52 percent and maintaining scheduled excise tax reductions on liquor, tobacco, gasoline, and automobiles. Rep. Reed May is expected to oppose any reversal in tax policy.
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Eisenhower
State of the Union
Congress
Reed
Daniel Ta
Ways and Means
Prosecutor Pushes Warrant in Walter Reuther Shooting Case
Detroit prosecutor Gerald O'Brien seeks an assault with intent to kill warrant against ex-convict Donald Ritchie to compel Canadian police aid in locating the missing witness. Ontario authorities say they cannot actively search without the warrant, while surveillance targets include Ritchie’s mother’s home and a girlfriend’s residence.
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Detroit
Wayne County
Gerald K. O'Brien
Walter Reuther
Donald Ritchie
Ontario
Ritchie
O'Brien
Reuchter
Carl Renda
Renda
Santo
Sam) Perrone
Perrone
Clarence Jacobs
Tecumseh
Ont
Reuther
CIO Ag
Jacobs
Posse Closing In On Trapped Negro Killer Near Lexington
A 150 man posse surrounded a five square mile woods area in Holmes County Mississippi as Ed Noel a 28 year old Negro suspect in a weekend shooting spree faced capture. Noel allegedly killed storekeeper Willie Dickard and wounded several others before Deputy Malone was killed. Teles phone worker Joe Stewart and two others were wounded as Noel exchanged fire house to house before fleeing into woods.
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Lexington
Miss
Richard F. Byrd
Holmes County
Ed Noel
Noel
Coxbury
Byrd
Willie Raymond Dickard
Dickard Oide Noel
Noe
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National Guard Wing
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Washington Group
T. J. Rucker
Forbing
CAA
Harold and
Julian Martinez
E. C. Crain
Windsor
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