Reds Abandon Round-Table Conference Idea
Allied and Communist negotiators report progress toward a Korean peace conference despite the Reds dropping a round-table format. They propose neutrals attend as a third party with limited voting, while U S envoy Arthur Dean seeks clarification. Interviews with Korean and Chinese war prisoners stall as the Communists press to interview only specific detainees.
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Panmunjom
Russia
Reds
U. S
Arthur Dean
Korea
Wilfred Burchett
Red
McCarthy Opens Probe Of GE Plants
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy arrives in Boston to lead a permanent investigations panel into General Electric plants in Lynn and Everett. At least 18 GE workers are summoned to a closed hearing. two identify themselves and pledge to invoke the Fifth Amendment. McCarthy hints a link to spy activity at Fort Monmouth and pledges a public hearing when feasible. GE defends its security measures as above federal standards.
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Boston
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
General Electric
Lynn
Everett
Nathaniel Mills
Robert Goodwin
United Tes
McCarthy
New York
Ft. Monmouth
General Electric Co
Schenectady
Wicks Ouster Circumstances Serious Blow To Dewey's Political Prestige
Albany NY Acting Lt Gov Arthur H Wicks agreed to resign as Senate president in exchange for GOP to drop ouster demands The deal, made behind closed doors, weakens Gov Deweys standing as Wicks remains a senator and prepares for the 1954 legislative session amid Sing Sing prison labor extortion controversy involving Fay.
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Wicks
Dewey
Albany
N. Y
Arthur H. Wicks
Senate
Thomas E. Dewey
Negrea
Sing Sing
Joseph
Fay
Legis
Yester
North Carolina Farm Bureau seeks 5 percent tobacco acreage cut
The North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation ends its 18th annual convention by backing a 5 percent reduction in the flue cured tobacco allotment for 1954 after defeating calls for no cut and a 10 percent cut. Delegates reelect officers and urge broader farm price supports and policies to aid rural areas.
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Raleigh
North Carolina Farm Bureau Federation
Federation
G. Gordon Maddrey
Ahoskie
Esident
R. Flake Shaw
Greensro
M. A. Morgan
Smithfield
Zeno Ponder
Marshall
A. D
Wilson
M. A. Hester
Forsyth County
Hester
Kemp Culbreth
Robeson
Commodity Credit Corp
U. S
Suport
State Milk Commission
Production Marketing Administration
Balanced Budget Silence on White Case and Debt Limit
President Eisenhower said the federal budget is unlikely to be balanced in the coming fiscal year beginning July 1. He indicated the debt ceiling may need raising beyond 275 billion dollars and cited tax adjustments and drought related farm costs as factors. He planned meetings with Republican congressional leaders December 17 to 19 to firm up the legislative program.
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Washington
Eijer
Harry Fer White
Congress
Eise
Eisenhower
Snyder Drawn Into Controversy Over Glasser Appointment
The Senate internal security subcommittee tied former Treasury Secretary John W. Snyder to promoting Harold Glasser in 1946 after FBI reports linked Glasser with Harry Dexter White in Soviet espionage. Snyder sent a letter approving Glasser as director of monetary research at ten thousand dollars yearly, amid broader probes into suspected Soviet agents at the Treasury.
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Washington
Senate
Secretary of the Treasury
John W. Snyder
Harold Glasser
FBI
Glasser
Harry Dexter White
Nternal Security
Snyder
Treasury Department
Monetary Research Division
Jenner
Department
J. Edgar Hoover
Truman
Hoover
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
White
Greenlease Case Close Expected Today In Kidnap Verdict
Mrs. Grace Greenlease testified in federal court that Carl Hall and Bonnie Heady lied to obtain a 600000 ransom for 6 year old Bobby. She said Hall assured her her son was alive though he was slain, as the government presses for the death penalty. Robert Greenlease and intermediary Robert Letterman sat nearby during the testimony.
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Kansas City
Bobby Greenlease
Carl Austin Hall
Wastrel
Robert C. Greenlease
Hall
Bonnie Brown Heady
Robert Letterman
Tulsa, Okla
Fatal C119 crash during Ft Bragg mass drop kills 15
At Ft Bragg North Carolina a C119 Flying Boxcar crashed during a mass parachute drop killing 15 aboard and on chutes. The ill fated drop involved about 1000 paratroopers from the 82nd Airborne Division and a board of officers opened an investigation. Two Carolinians among the dead include Cpl Ley Montrose of Florence and 1st Lt Leo Burr Clark of Charleston Heights.
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Ft. Bragg
Cig
82Nd Airborne Division
Air Force
J.C. Hubert Sluss
Bristol
456Th
Charleston
S. C
Jode
Leo Burr Clark
Elizabeth ‘A. Clark
Blackwell Ave
Generally Mild Weather As Cool Fronts Press South
Mild weather persisted across the eastern two thirds of the nation with cooler spots in the Mid- Atlantic and Northeast. Pacific and Canadian air moved eastward, bringing light snow to the northern Rockies and rain or snow to the southern Rockies while forest fires in northwest Georgia were labeled critical with 11 fires out of control and 7,500 acres burned.
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Middle Atlantic
Gulf of Mexico
Louisiana
Pacific
Minnesota
Nebraska
Arizona
Rockies
Southeast
New England
Midwest
Fargo
N.D
Duluth
Minn
Detroit
Moline
Chicago
Georgia
State Forest Commission
Forest Commission
Dulles Says Soviets Refuse Talks From Fear of Losing Control
Secretary of State Dulles told CIO delegates that Soviet rulers retreat to a diplomatic defense and fear losing their grip over captive peoples behind the Iron Curtain. He urged readiness to discuss concrete Europe Asia issues but warned against seeking talks that would undermine Western defense pacts.
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Cleveland
Dulles
CIO
Europe
Asia
Kremlins
McCe Dulles
Free World
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Austria
East
Ecene
East Berlin
Principle worth money to this man in Midland
Dr Kenneth McKay refused to pay a 1941 overtime parking fine, saying it is a matter of principle. He was fined 15 dollars plus 11.05 costs, reduced on appeal, and has resisted cashing checks totaling 99 dollars sent by the county. He claims the defense has cost him several thousand dollars.
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Midland
Mich
Kenneth McKay
McKay
University of Michigan
Circuit Court
Ray Hart
Michigan Supreme Court
Benjamin E. Voorhees Jr
Renewed probe into Greenlease ransom money mystery
St Louis police renew their inquiry into the Greenlease kidnap case amid new confessions in Kansas City. Carl Hall says he had about 592000 of the 600000 ransom in a room at the Town House when arrested, contradicting earlier accounts and Lt. Louis Shoulders remarks. Police seek a full transcript as officials weigh the missing funds and outcomes.
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ST. Louis
Greenlease
St. Louie
Carl Austin Hall
FBI
Kansas City
Hall
Town House
Newstead Ave. Dist
Louis Shoulders
Wealthy Recluse Found Murdered in Greensboro Home
Johnathan Alonzo Anthony, 75, of Rt. Greensboro, was found bound and gagged in a three room log cabin. Coroner W. W. Harvey said the body showed a severe beating and appears to have died from strangulation about two days earlier. Neighbors recall the victim as wealthy with an estate over $100,000.
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Greensboro
Johnathan Alonzo Anthony
Guilford County
W. W. Harvey
Harvey
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International Airs Department
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E. Howard Hill
Iowa Farm Bureau
Ike
West
Roscoe Hill
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Hill
National Turkey Federation
Poultry and Egg National Board
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