Hopes Businessmen Cut Costs to Strengthen U S Defense
President-elect Eisenhower taps a civilian panel of industrialists to head the armed services aiming to save taxpayers money without weakening national defense. Charles E. Wilson leads as secretary of defense with Stevens, Anderson, Talbott named to Army Navy and Air Force posts respectively. Roger M. Kyes named deputy secretary.
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New York
Eisenhower
Defense High Command
Charles E. Wilson
General Motors
Wilson
Army
Navy
Air Force
Robert Ten Broeck Stevens
South Palmfield
N. J
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Quartermaster General
Robert Bernard Anderson
Vernon
Tex
Texas
Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas
Harold E. Talbott
Chrysler Corp. Finance Committee
North American Aviation Company
Dayton Wright Company
War Production Board
Roger M. Kyes
Bloomfield Hills
Mich
Kyes
Anderson
Mary B. Lord
George Kyes
Defense
Center
Robert B. Anderson
Brodie Twins Still Alive After Separation
Rodney and Roger Brodie, Siamese twins, remained on the critical list after a 12 hour 40 minute operation to separate them. Rodney showed signs of improvement and began to respond to voices, while Roger stayed in very precarious condition.
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Chicago
Rodney Dee Brodie
Rodney
Roger
Illinois Neuropsychiatric Institute
University of Illinois
Weather Forecast for La Crosse Area Light Snow and Colder Weekend
Light snow ends Saturday afternoon or evening. Saturday night turns mostly cloudy and a bit colder. Sunday remains partly cloudy with little temperature change. Lows around 24 Saturday night. highs near 32 Sunday.
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la Crosse
Taft All But Elected As GOP Senate Leader
Senator Taft of Ohio appears set to become the Republican floor leader in the coming Senate session. He secured assurances from Senators Bridges and Knowland that they were not pursuing the post, while Eisenhower aides signaled no objection to Taft's leadership.
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Washington
Sen
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Bridges
R-Nh
Knowland
Rcalif
Carlson
Byan
Eisenhower
Martin P. Durkin
Dur
Bee Taft
Gale Ettrick district keeps status after four hour hearing
Ettrick Wisconsin public hearing on dissolving the Gale Ettrick School District failed to reach unanimous support. Three boards voted to dissolve and revert to preconsolidation districts while three favored keeping the integrated district. Petitioners argued for local control and criticism of remote decisions. The district remains unchanged with no vote to dissolve.
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Tribune
Ettrick
Wis
Gale-Ettrick
Edward Beirne
Robert Rogne
Galesville
Trempealeau County School Committee
Ettrick Village
North Bend
Gale and
Trempealeau
W. J. Albrecht
Ray Turnbull
Gale Farmer
Arnold Olson
Sophia Uhl
Loren Mitchell
Claus Anderson
Milton Scarseth
John Bosshard
Bangor
Aid To Needy Districts Will Continue, Key Salon Says
Rep. Sam McConnell of Pennsylvania said the new Republican Congress will keep federal aid for schoolhouse construction in government impact areas. He supported aid to needy districts but rejected general federal funding for maintenance and operation of schools. McConnell stressed local control and said no broad aid proposals would pass the House Education and Labor Committee.
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Key Salon
B. L. Livingstone
Washington
New Republican Congress
Sam McConnell
R-Pa
House Education and Labor Committee
McConnell
House
Second Brink's Suspect In FBI Custody
FBI reportedly holds a second man in the Brink's vault holdup case tied to the $1 219 000 robbery on Jan 17 1950. The unnamed 37 year old with a long record may talk. FBI affidavits no longer available named him among hooded gunmen who escaped with the cash.
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Boston
FBI
U. S
Joseph ‘Specs’ O'Keefe
Federal Building
O’keefe
USAF Jet Interceptor Crashes in Japan Killing Two
A U S Air Force F 94 jet interceptor crashed in Hakata Bay near Fukuoka on Kyushu Japan today. Both crew members were killed and recovered by a rescue boat. Identity was withheld pending next of kin notification.
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Tokyo ‘P
Japan
Air Force
Hakata Bay
Fukuoka
Kyushu
Nine Inches Of Snow Slows Traffic Here
La Crosse and the upper Mississippi Valley faced a heavy snow episode with nine inches of snow by 7 a.m. brisk winds caused drifts while railroads reported no major delays. County plows and graders kept roads open though drivers were urged to stay home until conditions improved.
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la Crosse
Coulee
Mississippi Valley
A. D. Sanial
U.S. Weather Bureau
Rockland
Hartwig
American Automobile Association
Cache Weapons For Cuba Uprising
Westchester County police raided an abandoned gas station in Mamaroneck and seized two truckloads of napalm grenades rifle grenades bazooka shells and other munitions linked to a Cuban revolution plot. Three men were arrested including Alfred Manheim who claimed the arsenal was for ex President Piio Socarras. others faced charges of felonious possession of firearms.
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Mamaroneck
N. Y
Westchester County
New York City
Alfred Manheim
John E. Hoy
Asst
Atty M. Morton Edmiston
Manheim
Carlos Piio Socarras
Cuba
Piio Socarras
Mexico
Miami
Fla
Batista
Park Avenue
Frank Connell
Brooklyn
Connell
Jose Duarte
Yonkers
Hoy
Duarte
Globemaster crashes after takeoff killing hundreds of servicemen
A Globemaster C 124 carrying about 130 service members home for Christmas crashed shortly after takeoff from Larson Air Force Base near Moses Lake Washington. The Air Force counts 101 known dead with many injured or unaccounted for as flames and wreckage spread.
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Moses Lake
Wash
Air Force
Larson Air Force Base
P. W. Wassum
Washington
Spokane
Globemaster
Cardiff
Wales
Ireland
Kelly Air Force Base
San Antonio
Tex
Major Wassum
Texas
Washington, D. C
Westby Crash Kills Woman and Injures Six
A Viroqua woman, Mrs. Wallace Broadhead, 60, was killed in a two car collision on U S Highway 14 at the south edge of Westby. Six others, including Wallace Broadhead, T. J. Mollen, and a six month old, were hospitalized with injuries after the Friday evening crash in snowy, slick conditions.
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Westby
Wis
U.S. Highway 14
Wallace Broadhead
Broadhead
T. J. Mollen
Coon Valley
Donald Broadhead
de Soto
Martina Twite
Viroqua
Norman Carlson
St. Paul
Earl Picha
Vernon County
Mollen
Tragic Bryant Family Perishes in Arc Fire Burial
In Enola Arkansas eight members of the John Hilton Bryant family are buried after a kerosene explosion leveled their three room home. Only 12 year old Shirley survives with severe burns and plans to spend Christmas with relatives despite the loss of her siblings and parents.
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Enola
Ark
John Hilton Bryant
Bryant
Marie
Johnny
Jean
Ronnie
Billie
Patsy
Ruth Ann
Voice of America Predicts Trial and Hanging for Gottwald
The Voice of America broadcasts an imagined trial accusing Czechoslovak leader Klement Gottwald of pro Tito leanings and links to Slansky, citing alleged attempts to join the Marshall Plan and secure Bank loans. It mentions Marta Gottwald’s Yugoslav connections and calls him an illegitimate son with bourgeois leanings.
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Washington
State Department
Moscow
Klement Gottwald
Czechoslovakia
Voice of America
Gottwald
The
Voice
Maria Svermova
Slansky
Marta
Belgrade
Dragutin Dzhurdzhev
Foreign Ministry
Fire Destroys Houston Mill in Minnesota Blaze
In Houston Minnesota the elevator and feed mill of the Houston Feed and Produce Co. burned Friday night as three area fire departments battled the fire. Loss is estimated at 25 000 to 30 000 and partially covered by insurance. Owners N T Brevig and Maynard Nelson hope to rebuild next spring.
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Houston
Minn
Houston Feed and Produce Company
N. T. Brevig
Maynard Nelson
Opera
Dale Thompson
Rushford
Caledonia
Co-Operative
Standard Oil
Co-operative Oil
Brevig
Nextpring
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Brodie
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GOP
John Chadwick
Ettrick Hall
Rogue
Tremjpealeau County School Committee
Turnbull
Congress
Brinks
William T McCarthy
Thomas F. Richardson
Vincent Costa
Richardson
Costa
Adolph ‘“Jazz
Maffie
John W Daley
Edward A Bennett
McCarthy
USAF
Miodrad Damjanovich
Draja Mihailovich
Zivadin Mladenovich Damjanovich
Germany
Tito
Samal
Iowa
Minnesota
Wisconsin
Paul Hartwig
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