Missouri Prison Riot Leaves One Dead Inmates Battle Over Food
In Jefferson City Missouri a riot at the state men s prison left one convict dead and about twenty injured as 1000 inmates fought over meals. A related disturbance at the women s prison saw beds burned but no injuries. The unrest marks the fourth riot in a month with earlier fires and a dining hall protest. Guards fired riot guns as bricks flew between white and Negro prisoners during the melee.
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Jefferson City
Missouri
Oe Men's Prison
Eidson
Hugh Waggoner
Highway Patrol
Edison
Steinhauser
Donnelly
President On Stump For GOP Candidates
The Associated Press reports the 1956 campaign nears peak with Eisenhower barnstorming for GOP nominees in Pennsylvania and predicting a 1956 run. Bernard Shanley says the President will run. Eisenhower courts Rep. S. Walter Stauffer at Gettysburg farm rally. Nixon blasts Communists. housing scandals loom as Labor and other officials outline economic plans. Polls hint Democratic gains in New York, Arizona, and Colorado with New Jersey Senate seat at risk.
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Eisenhower
Bernard Shanley
Shanley
Pennsylvani
Pennsylvania
Rep
S. Walter Stauffer
Eisenhower Farm
Mitchell
Tuesae
Walter Reuther
Detroit
Arthur Burns
Ident
Reuther
Burns
Richard M. Nixon
Senate Banking Committee
Federal Housing Administration
York
Arizona
Colorado
New Jersey
Soviet Union calls Big Four session on German unity
Moscow urges a Big Four foreign ministers meeting next month to discuss German unity and all German free elections. The note denounces London Paris Western Germany remilitarization and NATO ties as threats to peace. It seeks talks on troop withdrawal and a pan European security system.
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Soviet Union
Paris
Germany
London
Europe
V. M. Molotov
Foreign Ministry
West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
NATO
United Nations
Tie Note
Stevenson Assails Wilson Over Defense in Politics
Adlai E. Stevenson charged Secretary Wilson has dragged the Defense Department into politics by giving campaign speeches and soliciting funds. He criticized the Republican campaign as a “cheap, sordid, ugly slug-fest” and warned against subverting unity after the election. Stevenson spoke at a Democratic women's clubs rally in Chicago.
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Chicago
Adilai FE
Stevenson
Wilson
Defense Department
Republican High Command
General Motors
Roosevelt
Truman
Army
Navy
Illinois
America
Nixon
Sen
Dirksen
R-Ill
Fire Routs 50 Guests at Rex Hotel in Memphis
A downtown Rex Hotel blaze in Memphis on October 23 displaced more than 50 guests in nightclothes. Three people were hospitalized for smoke injuries including two firemen and a Marine guest. Firefighters evacuated civilians from the three story 42 room hotel as an aged man was rescued from the roof. The night clerk said 50 to 60 guests were registered, mostly sailors and Marines from the Memphis Naval Air Station.
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Memphis
Tenn
Rex
D. A
Memphis Naval Air Station
Ex-POWs Ousted For Misconduct
The Army ousted 15 former prisoners of war for misconduct during captivity by Chinese-Korean forces. About 40 more cases may face court martial, with 57 POWs noted for bravery and meritorious conduct. Forty others await court-martial decisions, and thousands were examined for possible actions.
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Washington
Army
United States
Pentagon
Watkins To Refuse McCarthy Invitation
Senator McCarthy asked Senator Watkins to testify before the McCarthy subcommittee on the Peress case. Watkins, Utah Republican, refused comment then planned to appear after November 8, citing prior commitments. The dispute centers on Zwicker’s role and McCarthy’s censure as the Senate debates the matter.
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John Chadwick Wagton
Sen
McCarthy
Wis
Watkins
Utah
Peress
Senate
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Ralph W. Zwicker
Irving Peress
Salt Lake City
Arthur Watkins
Burbank
Calif
Select Committee
New York City
Zwick
Special Committee
Zwicker
Embezzling Mother Faces Charges In Wichita Case
A 41 year old mother from Wichita was charged with embezzling more than 9100,000 from banks over nine years. She waived preliminary hearing, awaits arraignment, and was released on 3000 bond. FBI noted the 300 dollar amount was only one day’s transactions.
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Wichita
Kan
Virginia
Nice
Lorer
Arthur Gaia Jr
American National Bank of
Hutchinson
FBI
Abraham Weinlood
Weinlood
Pact Signing Triggers Sharp Soviet Reaction in Paris
Fifteen Western nations signed postwar pacts in Paris to end occupation of West Germany and admit Saar status. The move drew immediate Soviet denunciation as war-breeding. Adenauer and Mendes France reached a Saar accord amid wary German Socialists in Bonn.
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Saar
Soviet Union
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Russia
Germany
Belgium
Netherlands
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Italy
Canada
Foreign Ministry
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Eiffeld Tower
NATO
John Foster Dulles
Eisenhower
Foreign Office
Adenauer
Mendesee
Snake
Astun
Ssels
Europe
Socialist Party
Sailor Willis and Cat Return to U S After 115 Day Raft Voyage
The 61 year old sailor William Willis and his cat Meekie return to continental America from a 115 day 6400 mile voyage from Peru to Samoa aboard a balsa raft. Willis says the Lehi drift demonstrates raft construction matters more than currents. He plans to sell his story and reunites with his wife in New York after arriving in San Francisco.
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Harold Steater
San Francisco
William Willis
Meekie
Continental America
Peru
Samoa
California
Hawaii
Willis
New York
Teaching At Trinity Expands Courses For Boys
Trinity School widens its faculty and offers new classes from farming to home economics for boys. Part of the Enterprise series on local schools, with related features on design in parks and other pages.
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Trinity
Trinity School
Rembrandts
Thomasville
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By Preston Grover
Sailor Willis
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