U N awaits China reply on free the fliers trip
Dag Hammarskjold and aides await a formal answer from Peiping on the proposed visit to discuss the fliers and other U N personnel held in China. A Peiping radio broadcast questioned U N interference and cited China’s sovereign right to punish spies. A U N spokesman said a deadline is not set and several days may pass before any reply.
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U.N
Dag Hammarskjold
Red China
Hammarskjold
Peiping
U. N
China
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Hammerskjold
Chou En-lai
Soviet Union
U. N. Assembly
U. S
Washington
State Department
Auto and Truck Crash Kills Four Near Wilmington
Four killed in a head on collision on Ohio 22 six miles west of Wilmington. Victims include three Pennsylvania soldiers Pvt Joseph L McCandless 20 Elwood City Pvt Joseph Owrey Jr 23 New Castle Pvt Clair L Drushell 19 Fombell and Lois Drushell 19 Wexford. The truck driver Richard Switzer 34 Covington KY survived shock. All four killed instantly. The soldiers were stationed at Fort Knox Kentucky.
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Wilmington
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Here
State Highway Patrol
Joseph L. McCandless
Elwood City
Joseph Owrey Jr
New Castle
Clair L. Drushell
Fombell
Lois Drushell
Wexford
Ft. Knox
Richard Switzer
Covington
Thugs Wound Dayton Patrolman In Gun Raid
Patrolman J R Sheehan was wounded by shotgun blasts from guns stolen from Central Police Station. He grappled with a thief and recovered a shotgun. a second shooter struck his hand and leg. The stolen guns included police property and other firearms found in the car with Illinois plates as officers hunted the suspects statewide.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton
Central
J. R. Sheehan
Sheehan
Olstor
Illinois
Sheriff's
Box 21
U S Leads Reds In A Field Says Strauss In Atomic Arms Race
Chairman Lewis L Strauss of the Atomic Energy Commission told U S News and World Report that the United States is making rapid progress and leads Russia in nuclear weapons. He cited earlier start, more materials and facilities, and a devoted free-man workforce as key factors while noting uncertainty beyond the Iron Curtain. The interview quoted him on the current spending and future annual outlays in atomic energy.
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Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
United States
Russia
U. S. News and World Report
Soviet Russia
Strauss
Toledo slasher says he hates women and killed stranger
Thomas P. Leonard, 34, unemployed transient from Harrisburg, admits fatally slashing Mrs. Virginia Thayer, 36, as she loaded gifts from a lodge meeting. He claimed women mocked him and said he only meant to cut her, then surrendered after a sighting led police to his hotel room. The victim died from neck wounds.
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Toledo
Ohio
Thomas P. Leonard
Virginia Thayer
Leonard
Harrisburg
Ralph Murphy
Lattimore Case Heads Back To Court Over Indictment
In Washington the Lattimore case returns to court as attorneys seek to strike a new two count indictment alleging he lied to the Senate Internal Security subcommittee in 1952 about following Communist lines and promoting Communist interests. The judge plans to hear arguments after earlier disputes over a defense affidavit and Ro ver’s challenge to disqualify him from the case. Presidentials and government officials were not named in the present filing.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
Lattimore
U. S
Dist
Leo A. Rover
Rover
Luther W. Youngdahl
Youngdahl
Senate Internal Security
Missing Jap Communist Leaders In Red China
Tokyo Kyodo News reports two top Japanese Communist leaders Sanzo Nosaka and Kyuichi Tokuda are in Red China after disappearing with seven other members following a 1950 occupation purge. Police believe the remaining five may still be in Japan.
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Tokyop
Wily Wolf Outsmarts 275 Hunters
Plano Texans recount a large fox hunt led by 275 hunters seeking timber wolves blamed for sheep losses. The party, organized with maps and strategy, covered Albritton Bottom area in a lengthy morning chase, but found only two foxes two owls a squirrel and no wolves amid the hunt.
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Plano
Tex
Miller & Son
Murrell
Brisk Brinkley murder case shocks town
A young Brinkley mother was bludgeoned with a four foot stove wood in her bedroom. Her husband found her near dawn. she died two hours later in hospital. Police chased a tall, shoe-less suspect with barefoot prints in the yard as detectives questioned former Fuller employees and a Negro woman reported a fleeing man.
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Brinkley
Ark
Milton Fuller
Mary Helen
Kathy
Frank Henderson
Fuller Yard
Warrant Due To Be Served On Garrett
Galveston Texas reports a grand jury indictment needed to serve a fugitive warrant on Silas Garrett TIT tied to the Phenix City cleanup. Garrett is hospitalized as doctors say he is too ill to move. Investigators note first degree murder charges linked to Albert L Patterson’s 1954 death. two people are already under arrest, with a third indictment kept sealed until arrest.
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Galveston
Tex
Alabama
Silas Garrett Tit
Phenix City
Ala
Galveston News
Galveston County
Jack Callahan
Lamar Murphy
Russell County
Callahan
Albert L. Patterson
Albert Fuller
Arch Ferrell
Five Sisters Die in Baltimore Fire Tragedy
In a second floor Baltimore apartment a flash fire last night trapped five sisters in their bedroom. Six year old George Davis Jr. survived with serious burns after the father, a Negro longshoreman, left to a nearby restaurant and Ruth Davis, 26, was at a movie. The boy arrived home to find smoke and called for help.
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Balimore W
George Davis Jr
South Baltimore General Hospital
Ruth
Davis
Teen-Age Youth Admits Setting Fire Fatal To 4
In Haverhill Massachusetts a 16-year-old trade school student admits arson and manslaughter in a downtown apartment fire that killed four people including his parents Alfred La Plante 45 Eva La Plante 43 and others. He said he set the blaze because he disliked the place and warned friends. About 20 residents mostly elderly escaped the blaze.
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Haverhill
Mass
Charles F. Turner
Richard EB. la Plante
Alfred la Plante
Eva
Fred Bacigalupo
Mahlon Cutler
Direct Testimony Ends Committed Some sins
Dr Samuel Sheppard closed his direct testimony as he admitted owning up to sins and human frailties in the murder trial of his wife Marilyn He acknowledged possible ties to police questions about a broken wrist band and a T shirt found near his home as investigators pursued clues in the case He claimed uncertain memory of the shirt while insisting he may have worn it.
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Cleveland
Samuel Sheppard
William J. Corrigan
Corrigan
Sheppard
Marilyn
Cor
Break In Pope Pius XII Health Seen By Vatican
Pope Pius XII showed a modest improvement after a restful night, though he remained weak from a yearlong gastric ailment. He listened to a blessing broadcast from his sickbed during the Milan Archbishop Montini ceremony, and doctors prepared for further checks as his voice faltered once during the recording.
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Vatican City
Pius XII
Milan
Msgr
Giovanni Battista Montini
Vatican
Antonio Gasbarrini
Bologna
Riccaredo Galeazzi-Lisi
Meer
Montini
North Pole Santa in New Hampshire for sixth year
Veterans Administration clerk Joseph Schanbier of West Lebanon New Hampshire resumes his Santa role for the sixth year from 6 to 9 pm EST callers may reach the North Pole switchboard. Schanbier 37 says 3500 calls last year and expects more this year with help from his wife Frances and neighbors.
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Richard J. Sinnott
Lebanon
N. H
Santa
Santa Claus
Joseph Schanbier
Veterans Administration
Nick
North Pole
Schanbier
Frances
Knowland Sees Change in Senate Probe Rules
Senate Republican Leader Knowland said proposed changes in rules for Senate investigating committees will be taken up early in the next session. He noted a general belief among senators that a code of fair procedures is needed, with bipartisan cooperation essential for approval.
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Washington
Senate
Knowland
Congress
Bipartisan
McCarthy
Investigative Committee
Sen
Janner
R-Ind
Jenner
Senate Republican Policy Committee
Knowlard
Phoenix's Crew Plans World Trip
Dr Earl L Reynolds and his family, reported missing on a 48 day sailing to Japan, plan a three year around the world voyage aboard the 50 foot ketch Phoenix. They arrived in Hawaii after skirting two typhoon winters and will leave for Australia, then India Ocean, Africa, Americas, and via Panama back to Japan.
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Honolulu
Japan
Earl L. Reynolds
Takaroatsu
Phoenix
Barbara
Jessica
Ted
Nichi Mikamai
Motosada Fushima
Mitsugi Suemitsu
Dr. Reynolds
Hiroshima
Coast Guard
Hawaii
Yellow Springs
Ohio
Australia
Indian Ocean
Cape of Good Hope
South America
United States
Panama Canal
Pacific
Freighter Southern Districts Missing Near Maine
Portland, Maine authorities report the 3,337 ton freighter Southern Districts missing with a two man crew and a sulphur cargo. The ship left Port Sulphur Louisiana over a week ago bound for Portland and has been unheard since December 3 in the Gulf of Mexico. Coast Guard units from St. Petersburg Miami and Elizabeth City conducted searches with no contact after multiple radio attempts.
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Portland
Maine
Southern Districts
Southern Steamship Co
Wilmington
Del
Port Sulphur
Gulf of Mexico
Coast Guard
St. Petersburg
Fla
Miami
Elizabeth City
N. C
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