Solons Urge Anti-Red Political Offensive
A nine member House committee urged a bold bipartisan political offensive against international communism. It called for stronger Voice of America funding, a global free nations conference, severing ties with Moscow regimes, and UN action branding Russia an aggressor. The report cites 50 hearings and 335 witnesses detailing communist crimes.
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California
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Connecticut
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Ohio
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Voice of America
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Radio Free ii Europe
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United Nations
Russia
Former GE Employees Named Red
Washington (UP) A 26 year old General Electric worker named seven former GE employees as Communists in testimony to the Senate Investigations Subcommittee. The seven were Sidney Friedlander Gordon Belgrave Arthur Owens Dewey Brashear Emanuel Fernandez Robert Northrop and Joseph Gebhardt.
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Communist Party
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CIO
Top Rank Red Official Missing in Vienna
Soviet official Lt. Col. Gregori Rapalov, 42, director of Asia, a network of Austrian Russian run enterprises, is missing in Vienna after attending a New Year’s Eve party. He was last seen on a Danube bridge early Sunday. Austrian police, asked by Russians to assist, have not located him.
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Austria
Gregori Rapalov
Rapalov
Danube
Bus Collision Kills Two, Wounds Ten Near Gallup
Two airmen killed and ten injured when an eastbound Greyhound bus skidded on a slick U S 166 and struck a car headed west toward Gallup. Names withheld pending Air Force notification. Bus occupants included college students and servicemen returning from vacations. Four ambulances carried injured to Gallup’s St. Mary's Hospital.
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U.S. 166
Air Force
Dick McCool
I Grant
Gallup
McCool
St. Mary's Hospital
Charles Owens
Flagstaff
Aziz
Here
McCoo
Florence Bagaus
Newcomb
Minn
Ana Fasana
Kenosha
Wis
Richiaraé McDonald
San Pedro
Calif
Thief Steals Doctor's Kit and Narcotics from Car
A medical kit with narcotics and surgical instruments was stolen from Dr. Jack M. Osborn's car Sunday while parked in the driveway at 11972 Samuel Drive. Osborn valued the loss at $282.
Old Sheriff Bows Out in Slugfest With New Athens Sheriff
Retiring Sheriff Jess Sweeten and incoming Sheriff J. W. Brownlow recall a New Year’s Eve brawl by the jail. Brownlow says the clash involved two 45s and a deputy confiscating the firearms, while Sweeten insists only two blows were exchanged and denies major injury. Both note strained relations but deny lasting hard feelings as Brownlow takes over at midnight.
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Tex
Jess Sweeten
J. W. Brownlow
Brownlow
Brown
Sweeten
Daven
East
Texas
Chase Bank Manhattan Near Merger
New York reports indicate Chase National Bank and Bank of the Manhattan Co plan a merger after a previously blocked August 1951 attempt. If combined, the banks would exceed seven billion in resources, creating New York City’s largest bank and the nation’s second only to Bank of America.
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Bank of the Manhattan Co
Bank of the Manhattan Company
New York City
U.S
California
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Bank of Manhattan
Chase
New York Metropolitan
L A Labor Front More Settled in 54
LOS ANGELES CP Labor management relations in metropolitan Los Angeles were calmer in 1954 than since WWII, says the Merchants and Manufacturers Assn. President William Holzhauer reports 217,802 man-days lost in 63 strikes by 13,000 workers. He notes 99 strikes by 54,800 employees caused a total loss of 827,478 man-days.
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Los Angeles
Merchants and Manufacturers Assn
William Holzhauer
Hell
Medal Returns Spark French Vete Angers iVet Protest
Dayton based U S Army reserve major Kurt Wallach says he is sending his World War II Croix de Guerre back to France in protest amid criticism of West Germany rearmament. Officer Jack Wearlach of Buena Park reports he sent the medal to the French embassy in Washington as his condition worsens after surgery at Long Beach hospital.
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Ohio
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France
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Buena Park
Jack Wearlach
Washington
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Lost Hiker Hunted in Mountains Near San Bernardino
Inyo County authorities resumed the search for Leonard D. Ross 24 of North Hollywood missing since Saturday after a church party. Weather hampered efforts as officials fear exposure may have killed him near Mint Creek Canyon southeast of San Bernardino.
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Inyo County
Mint Creek Canyon
Leonard D. Ross
North Hollywood
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U. S. Vanadium Co
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Fazzi
William E. Blanchard
Confession by Eldred Ends Trial
Santa Ana Arthur Gordon Eldred, 35, once a prominent real estate broker, admitted two counts of forgery of trust deed assignments ending his Superior Court trial. He asked for probation and sentencing was set for January 14 at 1 30 p.m. The court dropped six other forgery counts and Eldred will be sentenced Jan. 14 on grand theft convictions. He was indicted four times, and additional charges include burglary of an investment broker's office and conspiracy involving liquor licenses.
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Robert Gardner
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Crop income near San Diego record in 1954
San Diego County crop income in 1954 was estimated by the County Agriculture Department as slightly below the 1953 record of 84 million dollars. Lemon, orange, avocado, apple and other tree crops were profitable, while vegetables yielded little profit aside from a good fall tomato crop. Poultry and eggs faced overproduction and low prices.
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San Diego
Agriculture Department
Topeka Girl, 13, Kills Father With Rifle
Linda Lee Lantis 13 confesses to police that she killed her father Law r Lantis 46 in their home over a dispute about a boyfriend. She admitted using a .22 caliber rifle, the same weapon tied to her marksmanship medal. The incident followed an earlier phone confrontation with the boy friend.
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Nan
Uri
Sali Linda Lee Lantis
Linda
Rence R. Lantis
Drunk Count Against Bing's Son Dismissed
Dennis Crosby, 20, one of Bing Crosby's twin sons, had a drunken driving charge dismissed by a Los Angeles municipal judge after a police stop on Wilshire Boulevard. Norman Gilmore Jr., a Stanford student, faced drunk driving suspicion. two pedestrians, Paul Mdadesich and Joseph Gresham, were booked on similar charges. Gilmore posted $265 bail.
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Dennis Crosby
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Los Angeles
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Jetty
Richard C. Bergin
Norman Gilmore Jr
Stanford University
Atherton
Calif
Wilshire Blvd
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James Whitehead
Gilmore
Paul B. Mardesich
Sunnyvale
Joseph Eldon Gresham
Saraone
India Hangs Woman in Jealousy Slaying
Rattan Bai Jain a Delhi steril ity clinic matron about 35 was executed for poisoning candy and harming three of her employees who she suspected had romantic ties to her husband. It marked India's first female execution in New Delhi since British rule ended seven and a half years ago.
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Clin‘ic
Rattan Bai Jain
India
Wife Diplomat Recalled Over Enemies Remark in London
Bonn recalls Charge d'Affaires Oskar Schlitter and wife Daisy after she calls Britain an enemy country at a Christmas party. German officials review press reports and announce he is on leave while a decision is made. London calls it an internal German affair.
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Britain
Oskar Schlitter
Daisy
Schlitter
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