Eisenhower backed military training plan questioned in Congress
President Eisenhower urges new national training program to strengthen armed forces reserves. A GOP leader says the briefing sparked peak controversy, with Defense Secretary Wilson to reveal details Friday. The plan offers youths ages 17 and 18 six months training or two years active reserve service, followed by six years in reserve, mirroring a watered down universal military training proposal from the previous year.
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Washington
Isenhower
Congress
White House
Wilsons
National Security Training Commission
Cancer victim, 4, faces possible death this Christmas
In New Castle Pennsylvania four year old Susan Hausler, diagnosed with stomach cancer, was sent Christmas cards and gifts from Alaska as doctors warned she may not reach Dec 25. Her parents canceled a planned Christmas party as she slipped into a coma for a time.
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New Castle
Susan Haufler
Alaska
Charles L. Hausler
Stevenson Names New Law Partners in Chicago Firm
Adlai E Stevenson announces his new law partners effective after January 1 Prof W Willard Wirtz of Northwestern Law School and two former assistants from his Illinois governorship William McCormick Blair Jr and Newton N Minow will join him and Wirtz in their La Salle Street offices Wirtz formerly chaired the National Wage Stabilization Board.
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Chicago
Adlai E. Stevenson
W. Willard Wirtz
Northwestern Law School
Illinois
Wirtz
National Wage Stabilization Board
Stevenson
William McCormick Blair Jr
Newton N. Minow
la Salle Street
Suicide rate in Karakiri reaches postwar high in first five months
The Welfare Ministry reported an average of 54 deaths per day by self harm in Karakiri for January to May, up from 19.6 to 20.2 per 100 000 population. Officials cited economic distress as a contributing factor.
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Tokyo
Karakiri
Hemingway Promotes Home Winemaking In New Book
New book by Ernest Hemingway’s brother Leicester argues home wine making is legal with a permit and shows simple craft methods. It outlines cheap equipment, basic recipes, and quirky examples from rose petals to cabbage, including a complex squeezed-grape brew.
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Hemingway
French Launch New Triple Slaying Probe
French police reopen the Sir Jack Drummond case as Justice Ministry orders a new inquiry into the murders of Drummond his wife and daughter. The move follows fresh testimony from Gaston Dominici 77 who was condemned to die in the guillotine for the Aug 4 1952 killings on his Marseille area farm.
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Paris
Jack Drummond
Justice Ministry
Gaston Dominici
Marseille
Dominici
Two men charged after cleaning out neighbor's apartment
In Baltimore a pair admitted cleaning out the neighbor’s apartment after he died by his own action in the city jail. Tyree and Golden pled guilty to burglarizing Charles E. Smythe’s apartment, 23, with about 500 dollars in stolen property recovered from their places. Bail set at 1500 dollars each.
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Baltimore
City
Thomas H. Tyree
Abraham D. Golden
Tyree
Golden
Charles E. Smythe
Desalting Tests Begin Near Phoenix This Month
The Interior Department will start field tests of desalting equipment near Phoenix Arizona to convert saline groundwater for irrigation of high value crops. The Buckeye Irrigation Co. well site will host the six to eight month experiment with 1 500 to 2 000 gallons per hour capacity. Sonics equipment will reduce salinity from about 4 500 to 350 parts per million. The Phoenix project is among about 20 research contracts totaling 460 000 dollars with the Phoenix contract valued at 92 230 dollars.
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Washington
Interior Department
Phoenix
Ariz
Buckeye Irrigation Co
Tonics, Inc
Cambridge
Mass
Sonics
Engineer Is Santa For Lonely Ranch
At an isolated Albany Wyoming ranch Mark and Sharon Patterson two year old twins waved to a Union Pacific train crew for months. Yesterday the train halted and Conductor Ear L Stark in red suit delivered a wrapped package containing an electric train to the twins before the train departed.
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Albany
Wyo
Mark
Sharon Patterson
Union Pacific
Ear L. Stark
Motel Price War Near End in Daytona Beach
In Daytona Beach Florida thirty five motor courts advertised free rooms in protest of rival price signs. The campaign reduced the number of price signs as all but two motels removed theirs and the remaining two faced picketing by other courts.
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Daytona Beach
Fila
Defense secretary bags crows in Baton Rouge hunt
Secretary of Defense Wilson fired twice with a 20 gauge double barrel shotgun during a crow hunting outing in Baton Rouge with Louisiana Governor Robert Kennedy.
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Wilson
Baton Rouge
Louisiana
Robert Kennon
Terry Moore Leads Overseas Christmas Entertainment Troupe
Hollywood officials announced Terry Moore heads the largest group of Christmas entertainers sent to boost troop morale overseas. The delegation will depart for overseas military commands this Friday to perform for service members.
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Hollywood
Terry Moore
Korea
Bandit Robs Dayton Finance Manager in Broad Daylight
R E Daniel a 31 year old downtown finance firm manager said a masked bandit robbed him of 441 dollars yesterday before fleeing into rush hour traffic. The thief spoke during the escape saying it does not pay to hold up people. In New York Polish tanker captain Leonard Wasowski 41 who sought asylum after his ship was seized by National Chinese off For mosa reported Red reprisals against crew families. He said authorities in Poland had robbed and evicted his wife and two daughters from their home and similar actions targeted other families of escaped crew members.
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Dayton
Ohio
R. E. Daniel
RED
New York
Free World
Formosa
Poland
Leonard Wasowski
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