Eisenhower charts 1955 course amid Congress battles
In Washington Eisenhower lays out his 1955 domestic and foreign policy with Congress as Democrats hold a thin majority. He seeks bipartisan help to push his program while facing intraparty clashes led by McCarthy and Knowland that could affect the GOP's 1956 prospects.
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James Marlow
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Solons
Hawaii
America
House
Senate
Sen
McCarthy
R-Wis
Sen. Knowland
Ieee
Sia
Dickenson Case Appealed Again
Army Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson seeks relief from a 23 year sentence for alleged collaboration with the Communist enemy in Korea. A three man Army board upheld the court martial conviction, and the case moves to the U S Court of Military Appeals. Dickenson is held in an Army stockade at New Cumberland Pennsylvania.
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Washington
Army
Edward S. Dickenson
Korea
Court of Military Appeals
Dickenson
Guy Emery
Army Board of Review
Review Board
Emery
U. S. Court of Military Appeals
Virginia
Cracker’s Neck
U. S. Control
New Cumberland
Lefty Fowler Loses Clemency Bid in Oklahoma
Oklahoma City December 14 The Pardon and Parole Board denied clemency to E L Lefty Fowler the former Duncan policeman convicted in the 1948 Helen Beavers murder after months of review The board did grant several paroles and delayed others including local cases of burglary manslaughter and assault involving Oklahoma and Comanche McCurtain and Okmulgee counties and Tulsa convict Tom Smith the board cited lack of merit in Fowler claim of coerced confession
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E. L
Lefty) Fowler
Duncan
Helen Beavers
State Pardon and Parole Board
Fowler
Harry Rosen
Johnston Murray
Torre
Argosy Magazine
Tom Smith
Tulsa County
Ida Steward
Smith
Pittsburgh
McAlester
Irvin C. Bernell
Pardon and Parole Board
Bernell
Ruby Barkley
el Reno
Comanche
Maudine Riddle
Flore — R. L. Blocker
McCurtain
Mable Lewis
Okmulgee
Elliott Pickens
Oklahoma
Sam Lambness
Erskine R. Kelly
Love
Fred Aubrecht
Test Tube Baby Ruling Sparks Chicago Legal Controversy
A Chicago Superior Court ruling declares a test tube baby illegitimate if the donor is not the husband, prompting appeals to the Illinois Supreme Court. Mrs. Mary Doornbos seeks divorce and sole custody, while experts urge new laws on artificial insemination.
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Chicago
Illinois Supreme Court
Superior Court
Gibson E. Gorman
Gorman
Charles Cooley
Mary B. Doornbos
George
Cooley
Sol T. de Lee
Funeral Rites for Mrs. Phil Ashline Held In Lawton
Death in Portland Oregon at 62 followed a heart condition. Mrs. Ashline left Lawton in 1946 with her husband and moved to Omaha in 1920 from there. Survived by husband three sons Maj Carl Ashline Capt Clifford E Ashline and Mark Anthony and brother Art Ashline. Burial planned in Omaha with services pending there. She was a Baptist.
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Ward
Phil Ashline
Britons Favor Fireplaces Amid Smog Debate
The Daily Express reports a survey showing 94 percent of British homeowners have at least one fireplace and 61 percent intend to keep them despite smog. A government study cites open coal fires as a major cause of deadly London smog.
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London
The
Daily Express
Emmons Denies Plot For Cheap Indian Land Sale
Indian Commissioner Glenn L. Emmons denied reports that the Bureau of Indian Affairs plans a liquidation to let Indians’ land be bought cheaply. He said termination measures are a progressive policy and noted several tribes’ termination bills across Oregon Wisconsin Utah and Texas with safeguards against mineral exploitation.
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Glenn L. Emmons
Emmons
Reuben Olson
Anselm Forum Inc
Gary
Ind
Olson
Indian Affairs Bureau
Congress
Oregon
Wisconsin
Utah
Texas
Mountain Home Town Confronts Movie Star Tour Plan
Herman Hass president of the Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce says he will write to the Hollywood Coordinating Committee after it announced a group of movie stars will visit Mountain Home Air Force Base. Hass questions the committee claim that the base is 55 miles from the nearest settlement and says locals are not cowboys and Indians.
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Mountain Home
Idaho
Herman Hass
Chamber of Commerce
Hollywood Coordinating Committee
Mountain
Air Force Base
Hass
Blast and Fire Near Wichita Damages Estimated at $100000
An explosion and fire at Riverdale near Wichita damaged a service station cafe and trailer park, with damage pegged at over $100,000. One driver R K Finch hospitalized in critical condition, while gas spread and knocked out communications between Wellington and Sedgwick.
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Riverdale
Kan
U. S. Way 81
Wichita
Don Wilson
R. K. Finch
Finch
Wellington
Sedgwick County
Glen Kemp
Wilson
Seieile
Murray Rountree To Discuss November Firing Of Newton
Gov. Johnston Murray planned a meeting with Health Board Chairman Charles R. Rountree to review the November dismissal of Dr. Charles D. Newton as medical director of the Oklahoma General Hospital at Clinton. Newton had pressed for an inquiry by the governor.
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Murray
Rountree
Newton
Oklahoma City
Johnston Murray
Health Board
Charles R. Rountree
Charles D. Newton
Oklahoma General Hospital
Clinton
Greek Students Riot Over U S Cyprus Decision
Greek students demonstrated against U S refusal to back Athens on Cyprus storming the American mission in Athens and clashing with police. Police estimated 4000 to 5000 protesters outside the building housing U S missions and British offices.
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U.S. Cyprus
Athens
Greece
U.S
Mediterranean
Cyprus
Onvek
Cavendish Cannon
United States
U.N. Assembly
New York
Alexioae
Assembly
Britain
Middle East
Air
Consulate and Information Service
Demanding Protest Turns Violent injures Students and Officers
A protest turned violent as demonstrators hurled stones and riot police clashed. First aid stations treated three students with minor injuries while witnesses reported three officers injured.
Three Die In Abandoned Mine Near Welch
Three men found dead from asphyxiation in an abandoned coal mine near Welch West Virginia. brothers Warren Roderfield 23 and another unnamed brother were visiting with their cousin William Duncan 28 of Washington DC.
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Welch, W.va
Warren
Roderfield
William Duncan
Washington, D.C
Illness Fatal for Noted Song Writer Founding ASCAP Member
Miami dispatch reports the death of Raymond Day a songwriter and one of the nine original founders of the American Society of Composers Authors and Publishers He retired to Florida in 1937 after composing music for about three dozen musicals including seven Ziegfeld Follies
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Miami
Raymond
Scielan
Hubbell
The
American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers
Florida
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