Convicts Seize Guards at Boston Prison Riot
Five guards were held at gunpoint by six inmates led by Theodore Green and Walter Balben at the Massachusetts State Prison. The riot confined to Cherry Hill block as police surrounded the 150 year old facility. The warden reported negotiations and that a chaplain witnessed confessions in isolation.
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Massachusetts
Gret
Edward Hartigan
Perery S. Vance
Vance
Walter H. Balben
Balben
Warren L. Harrington
Harrington
Theodore
Teddy) Green
Green
Fritz Swenson
Joseph Flaherty
Flaherty
Cherry Hill
Air Sea Search For Survivors After Navy Crash
Air sea search off Newfound land combed stormy seas for 13 presumed dead after a navy super-constellation crash. Among the victims is 22 year old Elmer Wave Jeanette Elmer, daughter of Mr and Mrs Henry Elmer of Syracuse New York. Army tugboat a 56 foot crash boat and coast guard cutter from Argentia Newfoundland aided the search for survivors wreckage and bodies.
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Nild
Jpan
Newfoundland
Jeanette
Elmer
Henry Elmer
Syracuse
N. Y
Coast Guard
Argentia
Nld
Weather: Cold Cloudy in Wisconsin With Snow North
Wisconsin remains cold and cloudy after a frigid night with lows around 16 degrees. Monday’s high reached 30 with readings near 27 downtown and at local facilities. snow flurries appeared farther north along the lake shore. tonight and Wednesday forecast show continuing cold with highs near 20 to 27 and variable clouds.
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Wisconsin
Vcoday
American Motors
Lake Shore
Byrd urges 4 percent cut to balance budget
Senator Byrd of Virginia urged Eisenhower to trim spending by four percent and balance the federal budget. He singled out the proposed $4.7 billion foreign aid outlay in the annual budget message to Congress as a starting point amid a $62.408 billion spending plan for the coming fiscal year. The President forecast a $2.408 billion deficit, about half of this year's shortfall.
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Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Eisenhower
Congress
Texas Senator Heads For Mayo Clinic
Washington Lyndon B. Johnson of Texas will travel to Mayo Clinic Rochester Minnesota for examination and tests related to a kidney stone ailment. Aides said surgery may be required and the length of his absence from the senate will depend on whether surgery is needed.
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Senate
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Johnson
Knowland Says Hammarskjold Mission Not a Failure
Senate leader Knowland says there is no conflict between his view the Hammarskjold mission to Red China failed and Eisenhower’s caution against impetuous words. He did not discuss the airmen held by China or Hammarskjold’s Peiping visit with reporters. Other committee members disagree, awaiting more facts before judgment. Morse backs Eisenhower, pledges support for the president’s approach.
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Senate
Knowland
Dag Hammarskjold
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China
Eisenhower
California
White House
U.S
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Peiping
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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Bill Knowland
McCarthy Demands State Department Clarify Communist Ties
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy pressed for numbers on how many of the 90 State Department employees he alleged as Communists or supporters remain. He also accused Senator Olin D. Johnston of twisting the facts in interpreting a department letter about those cases.
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Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
State Department
McCarthy
Sen. Olin D. Johnston
D-S.c
Dallas Slayer Pleads Guilty to 1949 Slaying
Dallas-Keith Petersen, son of a Dallas utility executive, faces life imprisonment after a surprise guilty plea in the 1949 slaying of Carolyn Schofield. A swap led to the plea and a judge's sentence counting five years in mental hospitals toward his prison term, making parole possible in seven or eight years.
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Dallas
Keith Petersen
Petersen
Carolyn Schofield
Henry King
Texas
Henry Wade
Miss Schofield
Seaway Expansion Backed by City Council
The Kenosha city council endorsed extending Great Lakes channels to deepen the St. Lawrence Seaway, hoping to allow deep draft vessels to reach Midwest lake ports. The move followed a survey by City Manager Custer and discussions with harbor officials and Great Lakes-St. Lawrence Association.
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Great Lakes
St. Lawrence Seaway
Kenosha
R. H. Custer
City Harbor Commission
Corps of Engineers
Red Chinese capture of island raises Formosa worry
Washington reports say President Eisenhower monitored word of a Red Chinese capture of a small island from the Chinese Nationalists. Officials fear it could presage an assault on Formosa as Clarence Cannon proposes trimming the defense budget by removing the supercarrier as an outmoded asset.
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Washington
Eisenhower
U. S
Formosa
Clarence Cannon
Dmo
House Appropriations Committee
Viet Minh Arm Imports Reported To Arm Four Divisions
The Viet Nam embassy charged today that Communist led Viet Minh forces in Indo China have imported enough arms from the Soviet bloc and Red China to equip four to six divisions.
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Washington
Viet Nam
Indo- China
Soviet Bloc
Red China
Balzer Expelled From Assembly Democratic Caucus
Madison Wis. Assemblyman Arthur J Balzer D Milwaukee was expelled from the Democratic caucus for backing Assemblyman Mark Catlin R Appleton as speaker last week. The move reflects intra party power dynamics and balance of influence within the Wisconsin state assembly.
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Madison
Wis
Arthur J. Balzer
Milwaukee
Assembly
Mark Catlin
Appleton
Panamanian Panel Probes Guizado Murder Plot Claim
A three man committee of Panama's national assembly opened an inquiry into charges that ousted President Jose Ramon Guizado plotted the murder of his predecessor Antonio Remon. The panel also will decide on lifting the state of siege.
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The
National Assembly
Jose Ramon Guizado
Antonio Remon
Twining Takes Command of 1st Marine Division near Korean front
Maj. Gen. Merrill B. Twining of Monroe Wisconsin today assumed command of the 1st U. S. Marine Division stationed adjacent to the Korean truce line.
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Seoul
Merrill B. Twining
Monroe
Wis
U. S. Marine Division
Joined Reds to Aid FBI Milwaukeean testifies
Milwaukeean Michael Andrejka, a Marquette law student and former Allen Bradley operator, testified in a federal case about joining the Communist party at the urging of the FBI. He named Claude Lightfoot of the Illinois Communist party, described party roles, meetings in Milwaukee and Chicago, and his periodic FBI reporting.
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FBI
Chicago
Michael Andrejka
Milwaukee
Wis
Marquette University
Communist Party
Federal Bureau of Investiwe Abtinn
Gauvus
Andrejka
Allen Bradley Company
Claude Lightfoot
Illinois Communist Party
Lightfoot
Young Progressives of America
Eastern Divsion
Allen Bradley
Milwaukee Hall
State Street
Halsted Street
Wisconsin
Gil Green
Illinois
Jack Kling
Wisconsin Legislature Weighs Daylight Saving Time Push
Madison lawmakers enter the 72nd regular session with fast time daylight saving proposals under review. Republicans plan caucus discussions led by Speaker Mark Catlin Jr to decide whether to pursue daylight time this year.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Republican Party
Mark Catlin Jr
Appleton
U S Donated Food Bombed by Commies
U S donated food for the needy in Nationalist China was destroyed in the Communist bombing of the Tachens on January 10. More than 140000 pounds, about 70 percent of the total sent, were lost.
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Taipei
Formosa
China
Tachen Islands
Chicago Pair Ends Eight-Year Silence in Court Clash
Benjamin Micele 46 and wife Eleanore 44 spoke for first time since 1946 in Judge Elmer Holmgren court. The dispute over income tax exemption led to separate maintenance demand. Judge ordered Micele to pay 36 dollars weekly for six children.
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Chicago
Benjamin Micele
Micele
Eleanore
Mrs. Micele
British to Airlift Food to Scotland
The Royal Air Force and navy launched an airlift to feed hundreds of snowbound Scottish families cut off by 20 foot drifts. European floods threaten further disaster as Rhine, Seine rise while Danube falls. At least 50 deaths blamed on weather across Europe since Saturday, with West Germany and France hardest hit.
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London
Royal Air Force
Navy
Scotland
Europe
Rhine
Seine
Danube
West Germany
France
Britain
Scandinavia
Switzerland
Warships Back Invaders Capture of Yikiangshan Island
Reports from Nanking say a Communist invasion force with about 20 warships struck Yikiangshan and ostensibly captured the Nationalist post. Peiping radio claimed the island was liberated and defenders wiped out after landing at 2:30 p.m. local time.
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Taipei
Formosa
Yikiangshan
Peiping
Tokyo
Red Radio
Dulles Says Yikiangshan Island Not Vital to Defenses
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles stated at a news conference that Yikiangshan Island, invaded by Red China today, is of no particular importance to the defense of the Chinese Nationalist stronghold of Formosa. The remark appeared to suggest no U S military intervention was likely at this stage.
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Tachens
Yikiangshan
U.S. Seventh Fleet
Formosa Strait
United States
Formosa
Pescadores
Washington
John Foster Dulles
China
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