FBI Informer Gives Brink's Story to Jury
FBI informant testimony links to the Brink's case as jurors hear details. U S officials pledge toned down nuclear tests this spring at Eniwetok in the Marshall Islands amid international protests. Tests will use weapons smaller than the 1954 blast but still powerful and conducted away from the Nevada site.
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Washington
United States
Pacific
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Eniwwetok Proving Grounds
Marshall Islands
mid-Pacific
Ence
AEC
Lewis L. Strauss
India
England
AEC Defense Department
Continental
Nevada
Pacific Proving Ground
Bridges Warns Delegates Fight If Ike Skips Run
Senator Bridges says he will seek a delegate spot or oppose any slate in New Hampshire if Eisenhower does not run again. He warns against cornering the state delegation for other candidates and notes Adams and other White House aides may back such efforts. Bridges predicts 1952 outcomes with Eisenhower favored in the GOP and Kefauver in the Democratic race.
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Knowland
Calif
Sherman Adams
Adams
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
New Jersey
Lane Dwinell
Tokyo chef freed after machine tilt entrapment
Tokyo scene reports 37 year old cook Yonenaga fell and wedged between train car and platform. Passengers and officials struggled to release him as a crowd shifted to ease the pressure. Tilt triggered a brief entrapment but he escaped with bruises.
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Bunichi Yonenaga
Cook
Yonenaga
Cessna seeks NYSE listing amid multiple exchanges
Cessna Aircraft Co. has applied for listing of its outstanding stock on the New York Stock Exchange, according to President Dwane L. Wallace. The firm is already listed on the American Stock Exchange since 1941 and on the Los Angeles Stock Exchange. In Emporia bids will open January 25 for construction of the Northern Heights High School building east of Allen in north Lyon County.
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New York Stock Exchange
Dwane, L. Wallace
Cessna
American Stock Exchange
Los Angeles Stock Exchange
Emporia
Northern Heights
Allen
Lyon County
Police arrest man for car theft and peeping charge
Sacramento police nabbed 25 year old Donald Erby as a peeping Tom suspect. At the station he denied the charge and claimed to be a burglar waiting for an elderly woman to bed. Police say he admitted five local burglaries.
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Sacramento
Calif
Donald Erby
Erby
Aiken Confident About Ag Record
Senator Aiken of Vermont, senior Republican on the Senate Agriculture Committee, voiced confidence in reaching agreement on a soil bank plan. Senate Agriculture Committee Chairman Ellender prioritized the soil bank in drafting a new farm law based on Eisenhower recommendations. The plan would pay farmers subsidies up to perhaps 400 million dollars this year for removing land from crop production and planting grass or trees.
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Sen. Aiken
Vermont
Senate Agriculture Committee
Soll Bank
Sen
Ellender
D-La
Eisenhower
Congress
Soil Bank
Benson
Senate
Six the Follower: Gop filing for New Hampshire primary delegates
In Concord New Hampshire six Eisenhower loyalists led by Lane Dwinell filed for convention delegate seats as the March 13 primary opened. Joining the Republican slate were ex governor Blood executive Chandler John P H Chandler Guilder French Warren and a truckers union leader. A Kefauver and a Williams backer Democratic entrant also filed for the year’s first primary.
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N. H. Val Gav
Lane
Dwinell
Eisenhower
New Hampshire
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Michigan
G. Mennen Williams
Rwinell
Local Farmer Craves Moisture Snow On Screen
A local farmer named Lawrence laments extreme dryness and says he would even welcome some snow on his television screen to relieve the drought. He warns that lack of moisture threatens crops and pastures this season.
Gangster Says Planning Took Year and Half
Boston reports Suffolk County grand jury indicts 11 men named by the FBI in connection with the Brink's $1,218,111 robbery six years ago. Joseph J. O'Keefe testified that the plan spanned a year and a half and described entry methods, money handling, and later disputes over shares. Hoover announced the case solution as 6 already detained, two jailed, two at large, and one dead.
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Suffolk County
Grand Jury
FBI
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Gyp
Dorchester
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Garrett H. Byrne
Brink's
Brink
Byrne
Grand
Greater
U.S
Dulles Defends Brink Policy On China Crises
Secretary of State Dulles reaffirmed his brinksmanship policy as deterring Red China in Korea Indo China and Formosa crises despite Democratic criticism and British alarm. The Life interview quotes him on walking to the brink and taking strong action while White said the substance needed no correction. He spoke amid Senate Foreign Relations talks and a dispute over long term foreign aid commitments.
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Formosa
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I.minn
Senate
Dean Acheson
Lincoln White
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White
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George
Rockets Planned For Baby Moon Project
The Defense Department announced plans to launch a 21 inch metallic satellite from Patrick Air Force Base in Florida aboard a three stage rocket. Weighing 2144 pounds, the sphere will reach 18 000 miles per hour and an altitude around 300 miles, then orbit Earth on an oval path between 200 and 800 miles away for up to a month.
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Defense Department
Florida
Earth
United States
Patrick Air Force Base
Cocoa
Fla
Turnpike Rainfall Sparks Farm Drainage Debate
Kansas Turnpike engineers say paved drains will carry only water from the grassed median and will not flood adjoining fields. Kaw Valley farmers insist drainage will spill onto their bottom lands, arguing slopes will shed runoff onto their farms despite grassing and embankment slopes.
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Turnpike Authority
Topeka
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Journal-World
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Stroup
Frank Walters
Route 4
Mud Creek
Kansas Turnpike
Walters
Lawrence Has Second Phones for Teen-Agers
American parents install private telephones for teens in Lawrence. Local Southwestern Bell manager Owen Smith notes a few known cases and says there are likely more. A second line has its own number with no special rate. He doubts a surge but says the office can handle up to ten such requests. Some phones are Christmas or birthday gifts. Continued on Page 2.
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Lawrence
Owen Smith
Southwestern Bell Telephone Co
Journal.World Today
Smith
Wiler
No Change Seen For Mild State Weather
The Weather Bureau reports no break in Kansas mild dry conditions. Expect five days of near normal temperatures with little precipitation. Tonight and Saturday bring warmer temps statewide with clear east and partly cloudy west skies. lows 25 to 35, highs mostly 30s to 60s.
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Topekap
Kansas
Weathes Burea
Pearmal
Tay Arnold
Static electricity zaps kissing amid drought weather
Local residents report repeated shocks from static electricity disrupting kisses at home and in cars during a dry spell. Experts explain charges build through friction and discharge when contacting metal or fabric, with harsher shocks in colder drier air reducing daily affection and sparking humorous concern.
Missing Jacqueline Smith Murder Case Shocks New York
New York police arrest two men Thom as G. Daniel, 24, and Leo Piju an, 46, on homicide charges in the missing 20-year-old Jacqueline Smith case. They allegedly dismembered and dumped her body after an abortion in Daniel's Manhattan apartment. A Mexican doctor Ramiro Morales assisted, claimed to pronounce her dead, and did not report the death.
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New York
Jacqueline Smith
Thomas G. Daniel
Leo Pijuan
Ramiro Morales
Daniel
Manhattan
Morales
Coffeyville Doctor May Face New Abortion Trial
Coffeyville doctor Dr. BE O Squire faces a possible retrial after a hung jury in a first degree manslaughter case over the death of Mrs. Mary Midget last April 1. The state said the 34 year old divorcee died of peritonitis from an abortion Squire allegedly performed. his medical license had been revoked last June. The district court judge set bond at 15,000 dollars as the case proceeds.
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Coffeyville
BE. O. Squire
Mary Midget
Squire
Afidier
Friday the thirteenth cautions in Chicago
Chicago residents feared bad luck on Friday the thirteenth with superstition running high. The item notes two additional Friday the 13ths in 1856, in April and July, following last year’s May and August occurrences. Real estate listings by Andy Hess Real Estate are mentioned.
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Chicago
Legislators See No Tax Increase On State Income
At a Civic Affairs dinner in Lawrence, Democratic Senator Joseph Mcdowell and Republican Representative Howard Immel predicted Kansas will not raise state income taxes this year and will avoid new taxes. The forecast followed Gov Hal’s proposal for a 6 percent home tax increase to fund next year’s services. The Lawrence League of Women Voters sponsored the event.
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Gos
Hotel
Eldridge
Joseph Mcdowell
Kansas City
Howard M.tony Immel
Iola
Lawrence League of Women Voters
Hults Proposes Referendum on School Tax Increase
State Sen Don Hults of Lawrence says he may back a statewide referendum in the August primary on a one cent sales tax hike to fund elementary and high school aid. He estimates a three cent dollar tax would raise about 25 million yearly, matching the needed school aid, as legislators seek options to cover Governor Hall's 292 million budget for the 1957 fiscal year.
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Don
Hults
Lawrence
The
Journal-World
Hulte
Fred Hall
Hall
Tax base debate highlights Kansas revenue sources
The meeting featured a panel on assessment and taxation with Paul Maione of Kansas University among about 100 attendees including local officials. McDowell warned Kansas has a narrow tax base with only three legal revenue sources, noting real estate is among the major ones.
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Paul Maione
Kansas University
McDowell
Kansas
Five Day Weather Outlook for Nebraska Kansas and Oklahoma
Five day forecast shows temperatures 3 to 6 degrees above normal in western areas with normal values in eastern parts. Turning colder by weekend, then warming midweek. Nebraska highs in 30s, Kansas and Oklahoma mostly 40s. lows 10 to 15 Nebraska, near 30 eastern Oklahoma, 20s elsewhere. Scattered showers possible in southeastern Oklahoma early next week. Generally fair in Kansas with east to partly cloudy, winds increasing. Highs 50s to 60s, tonight 25 to 35.
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