Senate Leaders Confer on Excise Tax Cut Bill
Senate Republicans opened their tax conference over the 988 million excise tax cut opposed by Eisenhower with expectations the measure will pass. Debate centers on possible amendments favoring auto and household appliance industries and the impact of Treasury Secretary Humphrey on a proposed $600 personal exemption plan.
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Senate
Washington
INS
Eisenhower
Treasury
George M. Humphrey
Congress
Damage suit over 1952 crane crash in Kingsport
Testimony continued in Law Court for five plaintiffs seeking 145000 in damages from Kingsport Utilities and B and Welding after a 1952 crane incident killed one man and injured five. Plaintiffs, including Lawrence Brown and Arion Shelton, testified about injuries while defense questioned their electricity awareness. The case, previously mistried, has jurors and photos of insulation conditions during the incident on the Johnson City Highway site.
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Kingsport Utilities
B & § Welding Company
Thic
Hiram Sil
Lawrence Browth
Snelburne Ferguson
Johnson City
Plainifff
Bant & Welding
Austin Billie Davis
Arion Shelton
Bobby Walage
Lawrence Brown
May State View On McCarthy Probe
Washington report notes White House spokesman Hagerty declining to state Eisenhower’s views on McCarthy’s participation in the probe. Presidents will speak at a 10:20 a.m. press conference and will not discuss hydrogen bomb specifics until Strauss returns from Pacific tests in a week or so.
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Washington
INS
White House
Eisenhower
Joseph R. McCarthy
Wis
Army
News
James
Hagerty
GOP
Leonard Hall
McCarthy
Wisconsin
Republican
Karl E. Mundt
U.S
FBI Alerts Police On Midget Atomic Bombs Nationwide
The White House confirms a National Security Council alert ordering police nationwide to be on guard for tiny atomic bombs hidden in pockets or containers. FBI Director Hoover warns officers not to dismantle devices and to report any fissionable material to FBI agents immediately.
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Washington
White House
Cocay
P31
PBI
U. S
Customs, Immigration, Coast Guard
National Security Council
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Hoover
Justice Department
Indian Springs Boy Found After Search
A 24 hour search for missing Indian Springs schoolboy Bobby Gobble 13 ended Tuesday morning when he returned home unharmed He disappeared on Monday while walking to school and said he camped out all night on Bays Mountain A party of 30 schoolboys and 20 neighbors joined the hunt aided by Arena lifesaving crews police and highway patrolmen The youth returned to an aunts home on Bloomingdale Road around 10 am Tuesday and was quoted as making the statement The Kingsport Lifesaving Crew participated with members including Jim Hare Joe Blevins Tommy Hillard and Tommy Bacon in the search efforts
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Indian Springs
Arena
Bays Mountain
H. L. Gobble
Jim Hare
Kingsport Lifesaving
Blountville
Lavea
Army Tightens Security Oath
The Army issued March 11 a new order requiring all commissioned and warrant officers to sign fresh loyalty certificates and created procedures to handle officers who refuse to sign or invoke the Fifth Amendment. The directive, signed by Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway, bars promotion, decoration, reassignment, or active-duty orders for those not meeting the certificate, updating the list of organizations on the attorney general's subversive list.
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Washington
Army
Matthew B. Ridgway
Stevens
Communist Party
New Order
Maj
Irving Peress
New York
Sen. McCarty
R-Wis
Peress
McCarthy
Party Lines Firm In Fight To Oust N. Mexico Solon
Senate Democrats rejected a Republican bid to water down a resolution canceling the 1952 New Mexico senatorial election in which Ben Chavez defeated Patrick J. Hurley by about 3,000 votes. The vote gap hinges on a push to void the results, with possible special election or replacement by a Republican governor, while Hennings denounces the amendment as an attack on New Mexico election legitimacy.
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Washington
Senate
Ben Chavez
New Mexico
Chavez
Patrick J. Hurley
Senate Elections Subcommittee
Sen
Hennings
D-Mo
Morse
Oregon
Edwin L. Mechem
Cordon
R-Oho
Chavey
Crooner Dick Haymes Ordered Deported From U S
Justice Department orders singer Dick Haymes deported to Argentina after a hearing. Attorney General Herbert Brownell Jr. said the order takes effect in 10 days unless appealed. Haymes, in New York, vowed to fight. He was arrested last August 6 for seeking exemption from military service as an alien and Argentine citizen. He re entered the U S from Hawaii after visiting Rita Hayworth, now his wife. The couple has since faced tax and debt troubles.
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Washington
INS
Justice Department
Dick Haymes
Argentina
Herbert Brownell Jr
Haymes
New York
David Marcus
U. S
Hawaii
Rita Hayworth
Internal Revenue
Dien Bien Phu Holds Under Vietminh Attacks
At Dien Bien Phu in Indochina the French Union forces say they repelled a sharp Vietminh assault on a battalion in the fortress area. The clash follows the heaviest fighting in nine weeks as Vietminh forces press toward the fortress while French tanks and air power strike concentrations.
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Hanot
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Red River
Twins Born On Different Days near 100 Miles Apart
Twin daughters of Mr and Mrs E L Yarbrough were born on separate days with birthplaces about 100 miles apart. The first daughter was born Sunday at the Yarbrough home in Alamo Tennessee. Complications sent Mrs Yarbrough to a Memphis hospital where the second daughter arrived the following day.
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Memphis
E. L. Yarbrough
Yarbrough
Alamo
Tenn
Britain starts anti Red Drive in Jamaica raids
Britain launched an anti Red Drive in Jamaica with raids on two leftist centers in Kingston. Police seized documents at the home of Jamaican labor leader Ferdinand Christopher Smith, assistant secretary of the World Federation of Trade Unions, and at the offices of the People’s Educational Organization linking organizers to Communist activity. No immediate action against Smith or the organization leaders was announced.
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Kingston
Jamaica
Britain
Caribbean
West Indies
British Guiana
British Honduras
Ferdinand Christofer Smith
World Federation of Trade Unions
People's Educational Organization
Documen
Smith
Jamaica Federation of Trade Unions
JFTU
United States
CIO
National Maritime Union
Biola
Dianna Bixby Seeks New World Round-The-World Speed Record
Long Beach housewife Dianna Bixby plans a solo attempt in a modified Mosquito bomber to set a 20 525 mile world speed record in 49 hours 20 minutes starting from Long Beach. The route includes San Francisco Newark Paris Basra Karachi Calcutta Tokyo Midway and back. If successful she would be the first woman to fly solo around the world since Amelia Earhart.
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Long Beach
Calif
INS
Dianna Bixby
Avistrix
Bill Odum
Dianna
San Francisco
Newark
N. J
Paris
Bas~ia
Saudi Arabia
Karachi
Calcutta
Tokyo
Midway Island
Bay City
Amelia Harhart
Miss Earhard
Bob
Anna
National Aeronautical Association
NAA
Robert
Js i
Lillian
Flying ‘Tiger Air Service
California
Mexico
Flying Tiger
Radar speed check by Tennessee Highway Patrol in Kingsport area
Tennessee Highway Patrol started radar checks on Highway No. 23 near Sullivan Washington County line in Kingsport for about three hours. Motorists were clocked from 20 to 68 mph in a 45 mph zone and warned. Tickets will follow in weeks. Capt. Frank Williamson expects fewer accidents by next year as radar reduces risk and units are rolled out statewide.
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Tennessee Highway Patrol
Kingsport
Sullivan-Washington County
Rada
Jon
Frank Williamson
Highway Patrol
Worried Depositors Await Books Audit
Depositors distressed as audit on the defunct Cifo Merchants Exchange began in Clayton to reveal remaining funds after Royall Reynolds, jailed on embezzlement charges, had variedly claimed to settle accounts. About $87,000 of the officially estimated $187,000 on deposit is under review. A private $81,800 non-operating capital lay in an Atlanta bank.
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Clayton
Ala
Cifo Merchants Exchange
Royall Reynolds
Reynolds
Ohio
Merchants Exchange
Atlanta
McCarthy Demands Right To Crossexamine Army Witnesses
Senator McCarthy asserted his right to cross examine Army witnesses during the Senate subcommittee probe, stating he would not vote but remains capable of questioning. He removed himself from procedural matters while insisting on the same examination rights as other members. The panel approved television coverage and created a ground rules subcommittee, with talks of a special counsel and questions about pay for the Wisconsin senator.
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Washington
Sen
MeeCarthy
R-Wis
Senate
Army
McCarthy
Stevens
Je Wow
Jong Ay T
Army of Nelals
Republlican
White House
Eisenhow
Suhcommittee
Sen. Mundt
Sen. Dirksen
R-I
Sens
Free Korea Is Key To Geneva Meeting
A high administration official in Washington says the United States will not compromise the principles for which the UN fought. He insists a free democratic and united Korea is a prerequisite for peace and rejects any settlement based on a division along the 38th parallel. The official also says the U.S. will not fund peace by admitting Red China to the UN or concede to Indo China through concessions to the Communists.
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Washington
INS
U. S
Korea
Geneva
Soviet Russia
Red China
United Nations
United States
Deadline Near For Absentee Applications In Primary
Wednesday is the deadline to apply for an absentee ballot to vote in the April 3 county Democratic primary. F W Isley, primary board chairman, reminds readers that applications for absentee ballots may be mailed to the primary board chairman.
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F. W. Isley
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