Congress Today Debates Farm Bill As Week Nears End
Congress enters its second week of debate on a Democratic farm bill with farm bloc leaders hopeful a vote by week end. Senator Potter doubts approval, Humphrey plans lengthy speech to rebut claims of farmers’ hardship, while Hennings pushes to keep primaries in any campaign finance law.
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Senate
Charles E. Potter
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D-Minn
Thomas C. Hennings
D-Mo
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Harley M._ Kilgore
Hotel thief at Coronet Hotel in Danvers Mass
A man checked into the Coronet Hotel and upon checkout the manager found items missing including two table lamps a mahogany night table four sheets two pillow cases two foam rubber pillows two blankets two bedspreads two bath towels two hand towels two ashtrays two glass tumblers and a shower curtain.
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Coronet Hotel
Segregation Official Attacks Catholic Institutions
An Orleans Parish School Board member pledged to maintain racial segregation accused Roman Catholic institutions of aligning with sinister forces after a non segregated interracial Loyola of the South meeting. Archbishop Rummel and Hulan E. Jack shared the platform. Wagner released four pages linking Jack to subversive groups, which Jack denied.
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All Aboard Survive As Plane Crash Lands in Snow
A West Coast Airlines DC3 carrying fifteen people survived a snowstorm crash landing three miles northeast of Moscow Pullman Airport. Pilot A H Whithead and Dr D M Spear walked to a farm house, Merrill Boyd hauled five women to the road, ambulance brought them to Moscow hospital, most released to a hotel that night. One passenger Donald Cissal Idaho Falls described a bumpy landing on its belly with wings not digging in.
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Merrill Boyd
Donald Cissal
Idaho Falls
Defensive Atomic Tests Are Stated
Chairman Lewis Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission says spring tests will emphasize defensive nuclear weapons designed to blunt an attack. He mentions devices against incoming planes or missiles and hopes for weapons for all defensive purposes except hand grenades. Tests are planned at the Pacific proving ground with no date announced.
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Lewis Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Pacific Proving Ground
Rickshas Replaced by Modern Taxis in Shanghai
Tokyo Tumor Radio Peiping reports Shanghai shifts from ancient rickshas to modern taxis in a sign of urban change. The note highlights a transport transition impacting daily life and city identity.
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Shanghai
Radio Peiping
Cross Country Jet Record Set By F84s From California
Langley AFB Va two Air Force F84 jet fighters completed a nonstop flight from Norton AFB California to Langley in 3 hours 23 minutes covering 2400 miles at average over 670 mph. Pilots Lt Col Robert R Scott and 1st Lt Richard Hill flew at 31500 to 41500 feet. Scott previously set a transcontinental record from Los Angeles to New York at 652 mph over 2240 miles.
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Los Angeles
New York
Boy Losing Sight Leaves For Blind School Tomorrow
A 13 year old Navajo artist David Chee who is deaf and going blind will leave for the Perkins School for the Blind in Watertown Massachusetts tomorrow. He can still draw likenesses of classmates but a disease will cloud his eyes to blindness. He has gained more than $2000 in contributions from 42 states after nationwide newspaper stories about his plight. He must learn to hear words by touching lips of speakers.
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David Chee
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Watertown
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Marshall Hester
New Mexico School For the Deaf
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Excessive Speed Tops Fatal Highway Crashes
Excessive speed is blamed for three of every ten fatal highway accidents, highlighting speed as a major risk factor in road fatalities. The statistic underscores the need for stricter speed enforcement and driver awareness campaigns to reduce deadly crashes.
New Peace Bid Seen In Cyprus
British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd rushed to Cyprus on a predawn mission amid talk of a fresh peace move in the Cyprus dispute. He sought first hand information and hoped for happier relations, while Archbishop Makarios faced amnesty demands for terrorism convictions as Greece union plans stirred tensions. Prime Minister Eden’s government faced parliamentary pressure over security on Britain’s eastern Mediterranean base. Turkey warned it would not accept a settlement that unites Cyprus with Greece.
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Britain
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Eden
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Fuat Koprulu
Turkey
Perry Death Ruled Death by Own Action in Oklahoma Field Car
A 28 year old Shawnee man, Jack E Bailey, was found dead in a car with a garden hose linked to the exhaust near Perry Oklahoma, ruled as death by own action. Bailey, possibly an embalmer, left a note to his two sons Ricky and David of Clinton. The death followed another apparent self cause in Perry within a week.
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Shawnee
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David
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Doctor Links Tobacco Tar to Cancer in Animals
Dr. Evarts A. Graham, St Louis chest surgeon, reports that painting tobacco tars on rabbit ears produced malignant cancers, supporting evidence that cigarette smoke can cause cancer in animals and likely in humans. He cites prior mouse studies and human data, noting cancer appears after long-term heavy smoking.
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Evarts A. Graham
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Burglars Loot Sheriff's Pistol Range Arsenal
Weekend burglars stole a pistol, ammunition, a telescopic sight and pistol clips from the county sheriff gun range in Phoenix Arizona. The burglary occurred at the sheriff's pistol range facility.
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Ariz
Youth Arrested Over Life for Sale Placard in Ginza
A 22 year old jobless man Hideo Maeda was detained in Tokyo's Ginza district after walking with a placard offering his life for sale. Police confiscated the sign and released him.
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Tokyo
Hideo Maeda
Ginza
Can't Find a Cop in Time on Louisville Run
Gordon Hamilton, 27, sped into downtown Louisville at 70 mph seeking help after a hitchhiker pulled a pipe from his pocket and grabbed $4 when forced to stop at a light. No police were nearby to intervene.
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Gordon Hamilton
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