McCarthy Ends Chairmanship After Witness Links Reds to Westinghouse
McCarthy's final committee session featured Mary Stella Beynon, a 31 year old brunette who said she faced a Communist death sentence for FBI undercover work and named Westinghouse employees as party members. Frank Nestler echoed her list, with eight Pittsburgh area workers identified. Some testified, others invoked the fifth amendment, and contempt actions were pursued against noncompliant subpoenas. McCarthy called the hearing his swan song as he passed the gavel to Senator John McClellan.
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Washington
Joseph McCarthy
FBI
Mary Stella Beynon
Communist Party
Miss Beynon
Westinghouse Company
Pittsburgh
Roy Hudson
Western Pennsylvania
Permanent Investigation
Frank Nestler
Jeanette
Beynon
Reds
McCarthy
Reds Planned To Smash EDC
Dr. J Lyle Wyatt, president of the local United Nations Group, warned at the Medicine Hat Rotary club that Soviet Russia aims to smash the EDC and counter NATO gains. He linked Berlin talks to a French Assembly vote and predicted renewed Western European focus, with Germany’s rearmament and Mendes France’s shaky tenure. The talk covered NATO control of atomic weapons and Canadian milestones in 1954.
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Europe
NATO
Germany
J. Lyle Wyatt
United Nations Group
Medicine Hat
Soviet
Russia
Dr. Wyatt
E.D.C
Pierre Mendes-France
France
Wyatt
Western Europe
Far East
Formosa
Korea
United States of America
NATO Command
Service Club
St. Lawrence Seaway
Labrador
Kitimat
H.M.C.S. Labrador
Halifax
Esquimalt
North West Passage
Arctic
Canso Causeway
Winston Churchill
Daniel Malan
South Africa
Tenders Set for New Municipal Hospital Opening
Final drawings for the two million dollar municipal district hospital will be approved by a board on January 10. Tenders will open over six weeks until February end, with a contract likely issued in March. The winning bidder can assemble equipment before May excavation.
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Municipal District Hospital
Aid
J. W. Douglas
Antipodians See Snow on Vancouver Arrival
Australians and New Zealanders aboard the RMS Orcades stepped ashore to Vancouver as the liner completed its first trans Pacific voyage. Passengers, thrilled by a thin snow cover, exclaimed they had never seen snow before. The Orient Lines vessel carried 534 passengers and was the third of its fleet to visit Vancouver.
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Vancouver
Orcades
Orient Lines
Edmonton Weather Sees Warm Sun and Clearing Snow
Dry chinook winds are melting snow as cold air retreats eastward. Temperatures rise 15 degrees above normal, with sun and wind creating continued warmth and more sunny skies in the outlook.
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Edmonton
Will Investigate Woman's Story Promises Hearings
Senator John McClellan announced the Senate investigations sub committee may pursue further inquiry into Mary Beynon's testimony that a Communist threatened her life. Beynon, 31, a former FBI undercover informant, testified at Monday's hearing as McCarthy prepares to relinquish the chair to McClellan. McClellan plans follow-up hearings on Communist subversion and Beynon's 1947 death-sentence shadow claim.
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Miss Beynon
McCarthy
McCellan
Comec
Schlitter To Stay Out Of London Post Amid Incident
West German diplomat Oskar Schlitter will not return to the London embassy for now as foreign office officials assess his resignation offer after his wife Daisy caused an international incident. Daisy Schlitter, once Miss Germany 1931, is hospitalized after a nervous breakdown and her remarks at a embassy Christmas party drew an apology from West Germany.
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Bonn
Reuters
Oskar Schliter
London
London Post
Foreign Office
Schlitter
Daisy
Britain
Beaverton Police Chief suspended over drunken driving charge
Beaverton Ont chief constable H W Reid 51 plans to fight a drunken driving charge he says is political. Reid who borrowed a car crashed through seven guard rails and ended in a ditch three miles north of Beaverton while returning to investigate a minor accident. He has served the village for over 20 years in part time and full time roles and is suspended for the second time in three years.
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H. W. Reid
Beaverton
Ont
Reid
Toronto Tax Evaders Seek Toronto Tax Evaders
The Telegram reports a city wide probe into income tax evaders among Toronto professionals especially physicians and lawyers. A large, secretive squad of internal revenue investigators works with the Toronto office, moving into offices to seize books and receipts and compare totals with returns.
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Toronto
Department of Internal Revenue
CPI dips in November as food prices fall
The Ottawa consumer price index dropped to 116.6 in November from 116.8 as lower food costs offset higher rents. The food sub-index fell four-fifths of a point to 112.6 while shelter rose to 128.2. other components showed little change.
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Ottawa
Globe and Mail Offered for Sale in Toronto
The Globe and Mail will be offered for sale January 10 by the Chartered Trust Co. as co executor of the estates of George McCullagh and William H. Wright. The paper, formed in 1936 by merging The Globe and The Mail and Empire, is housed at King and York streets in Toronto and is Toronto's oldest newspaper. The McCullagh estate holds a majority interest and trustees will oversee sale decisions.
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Toronto
Globe and Mail
Canada
Chartered Trust Co
George McCullagh
William H. Wright
H. E. Langford
Trust Company
Globe Printing Co
Great Britain
United States
McCullagh
H. G. Kimber
Globe
Mail and Empire
King and
York Streets
Wright
Toronto Telegram
Telegram
John Bassett and Associates
The
Canadian cabinet to press US on trade curbs at Geneva talks
A three man Canadian cabinet delegation led by Howe Pearson and Harris will travel to Washington to urge the United States to back tighter GATT trade rules and reduce import curbs. They will meet with Dulles and other officials amid discussions on Geneva negotiations and possible subsidy reform for gold mines as Parliament opens.
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Ottawa
Washington
United States
Howe
Pearson
Harris
Dulles
Geneva
Four Children Die in Green Lake Fire
RCMP reported four children presumed dead after a fire destroyed the home of widowed Cecile Ross at Green Lake 100 miles north of North Battleford Saskatchewan The victims were Murray 11 Lillian 9 Patsy 6 and William 4 A 13 year old Jackie Ross survived with severe burns and was hospitalized at Meadow Lake RCMP sent an officer to investigate
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North Battleford
Sask
RCMP
Green Lake
Here
Cecile Ross
Ross
Murray
Lillian
Patsy
William
Jackie Ross
Meadow Lake Hospital
Fire in Quebec Kills Four Children in House Blaze
In St. Elzear Quebec four children aged 2 to 5 died trapped on the second floor of their two story home after a short circuit sparked a blaze. Their mother was near a neighbor’s house making a call as the fire spread. A neighbor rescued a three month old, Gaetan, from a downstairs room as the house burned.
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ST. Elzear, Que
Yvon Vachon
Remi
Lucille
Rene
Pauline
Paul-Eugene Vachon
Gaetan
Joseph Labbe
Quebec City
Leeds
Man Dies Fleeing Alleged Break-in at Calmar Plant
RCMP report one man killed during a fugitive attempt from an Alberta Poultry Producers plant break-in in Calmar, 25 miles southwest of Edmonton. The dead man, Phillip Mah, may have died from gunshot wounds after a car crash as three suspects fled. two men, George Mah and Eugene Grills, were held as material witnesses. Willis Bonin, the plant manager, fired at the fleeing vehicle after being alerted by a neighbor.
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Edmonton
Phillip Mah
George Mah
Eugene Grills
Calmar
Willis Bonin
Mexican Cattle Now Cross International Boundary
Mexican cattle crossed the border into Arizona for the first time in over two years as the U S lifted the disease ban. More than 200000 head are expected to move in 1955 with 381 Herefords arriving at Agua Prieta for fattening before sale in U S markets.
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Douglas, Ariz
International Boundary Line
Arizona
United States
Mexico
Agua Prieta
Douglas
U. S
Panama City eyes unidentified killers in Remon murder
Authorities pressed a search for professional killers accused of assassinating Panama's President Jose Antonio Remon at a race track. The government ordered a 10 day siege as security forces questioned ex president Arnulf Arias and two women amid reports the guns were German made.
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Panama City
Panama
Jose Antonio Remon
Catalino Arrocha Graell
Arroacha
National Assembly
Arnulf
Arias
National Guard
Remon
Start Drilling Second Oil Well in Virden
Drilling began Saturday on the town of Virden's second oil well located 1,320 feet south of the initial discovery in Mike Kalinski's cow pasture. The project Ponder-BA-Virden 8-22 sits on land farmed along the town's southeastern outskirts by Harold Beerman with ownership split among the town corporation 13 acres the Manitoba government six acres and Beerman two acres.
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Virden
Manitoba
Mike Kalinski
Ponder-Ba-Virden
Harold Beerman
Ponder
Beerman
St Boniface Installs First French Speaking Mayor in 33 Years
St Boniface swore in its first French speaking mayor in 33 years. J G Van Bellegham, former alderman and Manitoba legislature member, succeeds E A Hansford who held the post for the last two years. The previous French speaking mayor was N A Laurendeau who retired in 1922.
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ST. Boniface
Cay
Manitoba
E. A. Hansford
N. A. Laurendeau
Smilestones Claim Scooting to Start Car
A brief, fragmented OCR line notes a quoted voice saying a car could be started “while out one EO you can’t start my car” with unclear context and attribution.
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Nist
Westinghouse
EDC
Grevin Museum
Paris
Premier Mendes-France
W M
Mac) Rae
Susan McArthur
Historical Society
J. G. Kidd
Province of
Alberta
Kidd
Council
Daily Sketch
Herr Schlitter
Daily Herald
Department
J. Gear McEntyre
Revenue Department
Laurent
McCann
Transport
Marler
Florida
Defence
Campney
Battleford
Quebec
Bonin
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