French Election Campaign Moves Into Final Week
In Paris and Lyons, former Premier Pierre Mendes-France and rival Edgar Faure push their center left and center right coalitions ahead of the January 2 National Assembly vote. Algeria terrorism delays Algeria voting. both leaders warn of Algeria as a top issue while predicting no clear majority and possible cross coalitions.
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Paris
National Assembly
Normandy
Pierre Mendes-France
Lyons
Republican Front
Mendes-France
Edgar Faure
Faure
Jura
Algeria
Mendes - France
National Front
U. S
Joseph Laniel
Radical Socialist Party
France
Assembly
Tunisia
Morocco
Mohammed Ben Youssef
Movie Villain Becomes Sunday Minister in Santa Barbara
Actor Donald Curtis, known for film roles as wolves and barflies, reveals he serves as a minister Sundays at a Santa Barbara church of Religious Science. He commutes from Hollywood weekly, delivering Christmas sermons while studying notes for upcoming talks.
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Aline Mosby
Hollywood
Donald Curtis
Curtis
Church of Religious Science
Santa Barbara
Kim Novak
Jane Wyman
Gift Backfires as Woman Hangs Self in Tokyo
In Tokyo, 80 year old Mrs Chie Nagao died by her own action after disposing of a Christmas gift a bolt of kimono cloth given by her daughter. She was found hanged in her room early today.
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Tokyo
Chie Nagao
Indian Brothers Save 33 In Flood
Eureka Calif two Indian brothers Bill and Greeley Frye rescued 33 people from the Klamath River after a flood swept most of Klamath. They saved a 92 year old woman and a man from a fence post before the brothers took survivors to safety at their home. Ernest Whitney, 51, died in the torrent while relatives clung to a timber and air mattress.
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Eureka
Calif
Klamath
Clifford Whitney
Bill
Greeley Frye
Ernest Whitney
Ernest
Frye
Red Cross Spends Most On Services
The American Red Cross says 41 percent of its 1954 55 budget of 8744 million dollars went to services for the armed forces and veterans. About 8 percent funded disaster relief, more than double the prior year. Fifteen percent supported the blood bank. disaster figures exclude East Coast floods and recent Pacific Coast events.
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Washington
American Red Cross
Red Cross Blood Bank
East Coast
Pacific Coast
Diamond Confidence True Integrity in Watchmaker Rivals
B P Hann of Hamilton Elgin and Benrus Watches promotes a line emphasizing confidence and integrity as successor to Osborns with a focus on 118 308 S 4th contact.
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Hamilton
Elgin
Benrus
Osborn
Boy in Police Uniform Offers Help to Catch Burglars
In Cincinnati a four year old named David Kemper arrived at District 3 police headquarters in a police uniform offering help. Lieutenant Charles Price declined the boy's offer, saying he could not accept assistance from a child.
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Cincinnati
David Kemper
District 3
David
Charles Price
Aged Pair Caught By Holiday Spirit Hurry Up Wedding
ENID Oklahoma. Aged couple Jim and wife to be Lewis wed sooner than planned after a swift romance. He is a widower whose wife died last June. They were to wait a year out of respect but the holidays moved them to marry this week. Both are over 70.
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Enid
Okla
Jim Lewis
Lewis
Contests In 16 States Fire Race For Senate Contests
Washington seed predicts 1956 Senate battles with 32 seats at stake across 16 states. Democrats hold 49-47, fighting primaries or general elections in states like Georgia, Kentucky, Indiana, Wisconsin, Maryland, Ohio and New York as Republicans target several Democratic incumbents. Various governors and party figures are urged to run, with notable attention on Ohio, New York, Pennsylvania and Washington races.
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Senate
South
Sen
Bible
Nevada
Georgia
George
Foreign Relations Committee
Congress On Foreign Affairs
Clements
Kentucky
A. B
Happy) Chandler
Capehart
Indiana
Wiley
Wisconsin
George N. Craig
Glenn Davis
R-Wis
Walter J. Kohler
Maryland
Butler
Ohio
Frank J
Lausche
Bender
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Lehman
Jacob K. Javits
Javits
Pennsylvania
Duff
Bush
Connecticut
Dirksen
Illinois
Ruchel
California
Sen. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Sen. Welker
Idaho
Oregon
Sen. Morse
Former Newsboy Hosts Annual Christmas Party For Kids
CORPUS CHRISTI Texas former newsboy Joe Simon who once sold papers in St Joseph Missouri entertained over 300 newsboys at a Christmas party in a downtown hotel The event featured a turkey dinner Dixie land tunes a stage show a movie and gifts for all attendees Simon who opened a furniture store in 1925 has played Santa Claus for the youths each Christmas since.
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Corpus Christi
Tex
St. Joseph
Joe Simon
First U.S. stamp picturing a ship issued in 1869
A brief note records that the first U.S. postage stamp to depict a ship was issued in 1869, marking a milestone in philatelic history. The item notes the ship image as a landmark in early American stamp design and maritime-themed postage.
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U.S
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Magnuson
Arthur B. Langlie
Newsboy
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