Father of Fire Victims Accused
BUNKER MA January 12 An 84 year old father was charged with arson and first degree murder after a fire killed three children in the burned out home of Cleve Street Jesse Willard Hill a mill worker was arrested soon after the bodies were found He told police his wife Georgia Marie Hill took the children to the Street home for protection after quarreling with him She said she and Street saw Hill approaching carrying a can and they left with the children behind
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Bunker
Better Shop
Chitaren
Jesse Willard Hill
Cleve Street
Georgia Marie Hill
Street
Hill
Truman Backs Up on Taxes
President Truman plans no immediate tax rate hikes in 1951 aiming instead for tighter tax enforcement and closing loopholes costing billions. Budget message due Jan 21 signals a $50 billion spending program with a hoped deficit shrink as revenue grows, while taxes have risen three times since Korea.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Korea
U S Considers Russ Atom Control Plan
Paris Jan 12 AP Andrei Vishinsky outlined a plan for simultaneous atomic weapon prohibition and a strict international control system with continuing inspections in any country including Russia. He urged UN assembly endorsement and a one third reduction in Big Five armed forces, while preserving non interference in domestic affairs.
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Paris
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Russia
United States
Britain
France
China
Vishinsky
Assembly
Security Council
U. N
Dozens Seek Tots Whom Mother Left With Judge
ANTIOCH January 12 Dozens seek to adopt the five pincurl kids after parents turned them over to Justice Yates F Hamm following fines for keeping their 15 year old daughter Theola home from school The judge said he has received many calls from people wanting to adopt and noted the children are cheerful and likable The couple who fined the children 10 each refused to pay and the court gave them until next Friday to settle Theola may become a ward of the juvenile court as authorities decide on charges of child abandonment
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Antioch
Justice of the Peace
Yates F. Hamm
Theola
Judge Hamm
Hamm
Amos Barton
Theola Barton
Norman A. Gregg
Hortons
Charles L. Henning
10000 Reservists to Get Army Call
Army Secretary Frank C Pace Jr announced that fewer than 10000 reserve officers would be called to active duty this year unless the international situation worsens. He noted the Army would not involuntarily mobilize more enlisted reserves unless conditions deteriorate and cited a 24 month expansion since Korea.
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Washington
Frank C. Pace Jr
District of Columbia
Pace
Europe
Mac Support of Taft Seen as GOP Hope
Sen Brewster of Maine says MacArthur is in sympathy with Taft and may publicly back Taft before the July convention. Eisenhower remains indispensable in Europe, while Taft, Eisenhower, and their camps prepare for next week’s Republican National Committee meeting in San Francisco where Warren and Stassen will speak. Truman’s fate looms as Kefauver weighs a bid, Mundt doubts Truman run, and Ohio Gov Lausche confirms another term. Bricker and DiSalle debate a path in Ohio politics.
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Brewster
R.-Me
Douglas MacArthur
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Taft
MacArthur
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Europe
North Atlantic
Eisenhower
GOP
Republican National Committee
San Francisco
Warren
Earl Warren
California
Harold
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Senate Crime Investigating Committee
New Hampshire
Truman
Mundt
R-S. D
Southwest
Midwest
South
Stassen
Warren Trail
Columbus
Frank J. Lausche
Lausche
U. S. Senate
John W. Bricker
Bricker
Michael V. DiSalle
DiSalle
Missionary Murdered by Brazil Indians
CHICO Calif Jan 12 UP A 33 year old missionary David Yarwood formerly of Mohier Washington was found dead in the upper Amazon near the Guapore River after his body was pierced by arrows and mutilated. He trained with New Tribes and had contact with primitive tribes for about three months prior. Kenneth J Johnston vice chairman said the body was found last month by a Brazilian tax collector. Two other mission group members had brought their wives and children to the Guapore camp.
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Brazil
Bolivia
Yarwood
Tom Moreno
Guapore
Mascot of 34th Div unit in war killed in Korea
Houston dispatch recalls a former 133rd Regiment mascot known as Alexander Stewart. The French boy saved by Red Bull soldiers in North Africa later returned to service, adopted and married by Lou Nora Spiller, assistant U S attorney. He served as corporal and was killed in action in Korea.
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Korea
Houston
133Rd
34Th
Red Bull
North Africa
Alexander Stewart
France
Galveston
Lou Nora Spiller
U. S
Axel Axelford
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