Federal Reserve Hikes Rates Amid Credit Crackdown
The Federal Reserve Board raised the discount rate for the fourth time since April, cutting bank credit by selling securities on the open market. Officials cite rising business demand for credit and higher metal and farm prices, aiming to curb inflation while keeping some lending access at higher costs.
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Federal Reserve System
European unity faces hard test amid Bonn Moscow tensions
The drive for a Western European federation stalls as Monnet's action committee in Paris prompts debate. West German Socialists join the effort, signaling a potential bipartisan stance despite East West division. Molotov pressure worsens Berlin disentanglement and cools prospects for a unified Europe.
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Konrad Adenauer
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WEU
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Kremlin
Manketer Vu. M. Molotov
Moscow
Senator's Wife Breaks Ankle in Football Play
Boston item states Mrs Jacqueline Kennedy wife of Senator K A (D Mass) is recovering from a broken ankle at Newland Baptist Hospital. Kennedy said she broke it Sunday while playing touch football with JT Teddy, a Harvard football team's first string end.
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Boston
Jacqueline Kennedy
Sen
K A
D-Mass
Newland Baptist Hospital
Kennedy
Teddy
Harvard
Pig at Louisville Intersection Killed by Passing Truck
A pig in Louisville narrowly escaped market day crossing and was struck and killed when it jumped from a passing truck at a main intersection.
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Louisville
Bend
Youths Face Life For First Time As Boys
In Kenosha Wisconsin two brothers aged 15 and 11, dressed as girls, faced life for the first time as welfare officials investigate why their parents raised them as girls. The parents unnamed, kept them in cuffs and out of school while living with their mother dead in a darkened hotel room. Juvenile probation officers headed the case as hotel staff say the boys lived there about a month with rare outings for bakery goods.
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Kenosha
Talks With Dulles Office Telecast Schedule
NBC telecast at 11 30 p m and NBC radio at 9 30 p m with ABC CBS at 10 30 p m cover the Eisenhower Dulles talks. The discussions so far rehash East West relations since Geneva and raise What next. President Eisenhower and aides including Dillon Anderson speak as schedule dictates.
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Eisenhower
Washington
Dillon Anderson
Counse
Public Bomb Test Proposal Sparks Senate Debate
Four atomic commissioners opposed a proposal by AEC Commissioner Thomas E. Murray to invite foreign observers and conduct a show of force by an H-bomb test in the Pacific. Murray's plan drew Senate opposition while the full AEC signaled the motion was not an administration policy.
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AEC
Thomas EF. Murray
New York
Senate
Pt Ford
Eniwetok
Murray
Commission
Free World
Pacific
the Salgman
Acme Eenttomic Commission
Lewis L. Strauss
Willard F. Libby
John von Neumann
Harold. Vance
Panene
Truman
Car Wreck in Vermont Leaves Eggs Intact
A car driven by W. Harrington Hemenway of Adams Massachusetts overturned in Londonderry Vermont. Four dozen eggs in the back seat survived unbroken while the driver, though spared injuries, escaped unharmed.
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Adams
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Hemenway
Rescuers Seek Wreckage After Nevada Air Crash
An Air Force transport with 14 aboard crashed en route to Groom Dry Lake near Las Vegas. Arctic rescue teams from March Air Force Base struggled through subzero conditions to reach the wreckage near Mt. Charleston, while officials said there was no confirmation of atomic crew aboard.
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Tax evasion sentence suspended for attorney E A Wright
Greensboro reports an active one year prison term given to High Point attorney E E Wright for tax evasion was suspended on condition he pays a $1 000 fine and taxes totaling $6 206 04 including penalties and interest for 1950 through 1952. The payment was made to the Middle District court clerk as Judge Johnson J Hayes ordered the suspension before 1 pm.
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High Point
EE. A. Wright
Federal
Middle District Court
Johnson J. Hayes
Airliner Crashes in Flames Near Seattle
An un scheduled airliner crashed after takeoff amid ice and snow, killing many and injuring others. Soldiers aiding victims described a scene of burning wreckage, with bodies and debris scattered as ambulances struggled through icy streets. Surviving passengers included a woman and two children, while crews and citizens aided in the grisly aftermath.
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Esce Ee
Donald Genard
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William R
Everett H. Trainor
Island
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Miracle Plane Crash Survival Shocks Seattle
In Seattle a DC4 crash scene left 27 dead and many survivors. Eyewitness E I Rice described a miraculous last seconds as the airliner clipped a tree and plunged, with passengers escaping as flames engulfed the wreckage near a row of houses. Soldiers aided the injured by the road.
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E. I Rice
Rice
Posenz Transport Co
Boeing Field
Violent Storms Diminish But Toll Mounts Across Nation
The nation saw storms lessen in intensity but violence left at least 13 dead and nine missing. Snow and rain hit western states while severe winds and heavy snowfall disrupted travel from Montana to Michigan.
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Miss America Sharon Ritchie and Buster Crabbe Join Thomasville Parade
Christmas parade planner Herb Stone announced Miss America Sharon Kay Ritchie and actor Buster Crabbe will appear in Thomasville on Saturday November 26 at 10 AM. Ritchie travels from Charlotte with a $5000 scholarship to study drama, while Crabbe stars in Captain Gallant and will perform in the large float lineup with local beauty queens and multiple school bands.
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Buster Crabbe
Thomasville
Sharon Kay Ritchie
Crabbe
Herb Stone
Hill Perryman
Stone
Charlotte
Greensboro
High Point
Miss Ritchie
Grand Island
Neb
One Playhouse
Hollywood
French Foreign Legion
Captain Gallant
Patsy Kidd
Salem College
Winston-Salem
Church St. School
Fair Grove School
Five Die in Roxboro Auto Crash Into Creek
Five persons perished when a car carrying Lemmie Day age 21 Lacy Briggs 22 Harold Kirkman 25 Ivey Lou Poole 18 and Reconew Poole 16 left a country road near Roxboro North Carolina and sank in Maho Creek. Eyewitness Edwin Yarboro reported hearing screams as the vehicle went off a curve and overturned into the water.
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Maho Creek
Lemmie A.day
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Edwin Yarboro
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