Stormy Congress Ahead Defense Costs Threaten Tax Cuts
Eisenhower calls for a billion dollar boost in defense spending with a 3514-billion-dollar budget, aiming to fund B52 bombers jet interceptors and missiles. Bipartisan support exists, but opposition to tax cuts and balanced budgeting signals storms ahead in a contentious session. Lawmakers clash on foreign aid debt highway school financing and farm programs as parties push for or against tax reduction.
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Eisenhower
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White House
House
Senate
Bridges
R-Nh
GOP Policy Committee
Byrd
D-Va
Senate Finance Committee
Russell
D-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Richards
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Europe
Asia
Rayburn
D-Tex
Johnson
Reds Leave Warm India After Four Week Visit
New Delhi reports Premier Bulonin and Khrushchev wrapped up a four week trip through India and Burma with pledges of closer political economic and cultural ties. They planned direct flight to Tashkent to weather a Kabul snowstorm as a final tour stop. The leaders urged unconditional prohibition of nuclear weapons and large scale disarmament though the USSR signaled it would strengthen defenses until major powers ban atomic arms. Prime Minister Nehru stressed friendship with the Soviet Union is not against anyone and India aims to expand trade with Moscow.
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Bulonin
Nikita Khrushchev
Odia
Russia
Asia
Tashkent
Soviet Asia
Kabul
Afghanistan
Bulgaria
Nehru
Bulgarin
Communist Party
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
India
Burma
Explosion deaths at United Fireworks plant near Dayton
Edward Terry, 50, died from blast injuries received December 6 at the United Fireworks Manufacturing Company near Dayton. The accident occurred at the factory, with investigators examining the scene and determining the cause of the explosion.
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Dayton
Ohio
United Fireworks Mfg. Co
Here
Edward Terry
Air Force survival school suspends brainwashing tests
The Air Force survival school at Stead Base Nevada halted student volunteers from brainwashing interrogations. Volunteers now merely observe rugged questioning staged by instructors while psychologists study which teaching method is most effective. The 10 day course prepares airmen for ordeals if stranded or captured.
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Washington
Air Force
Nevada
Stead Air Force Base
Nev
Gaitskell Seen as Attlee's Successor in Labor Race
The Labour leadership contest narrows to a dapper 49 year old Hugh Gaitskell among Herbert Morrison Aneurin Bevan as contenders. Balloting by 278 Labour MPs in the Commons was due late tonight with Gaitskell seen as the front runner.
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Dapper Gaitskell
Attlee
London
Britain
Labor Party
Clement R. Attlee
Hugh Todd Nay
Gaitskell
Herbert Stanley Morrison
Aneurin Bevan
House of Commons
Winchester
West Keeps Close Wraps On Dr John John Bonn Case
Bonn West Germany holds Otto John under tight security amid a high level probe into his defection to the Reds and return to the West. East Germany issued a brief comment praising his departure and fight against neo fascism. John was grilled by a Bonn examining judge and kept secluded as officials weigh disciplinary action for leaving his post.
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Otto John
East Germany
West Germany
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German Democratic Republic
Jahn
West Berlin
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Federal Constitutional Court
Brlond
Nazi
Denmark
The
Berlingske Tidende
Hendrik Bonde-Hendriksen
Berlin
East Berlin
Bonde-Hendriksen
Ernst Wollweber
Weather turns windy and colder with snow in Midwest
A cold air mass moved across the nation bringing 60 mph winds and subzero temperatures from Montana to Michigan where up to seven inches of new snow fell. The forecast predicts cloudy skies and colder conditions tonight and Thursday with possible snow flurries and lows near 18 to 22 degrees.
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Miami Valley
Midwest
Montana
Michigan
Lausche Eyes Favorite Son Bid For Democratic Nomination
Ohio Governor Frank J. Lausche says he will allow his name as a favorite son candidate for president at the Chicago convention next August. The move could pit Lausche against Estes Kefauver for Ohio delegates as the state pledges 58 votes at the 1956 convention. Lausche hints at possible future races while Republican leaders prepare to choose their own favorite son Friday.
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Ohio
Frank J. Lausche
Chicago
Rudey E. Stapleton
Fulton County
Democratic Committee
Lausche
Tennessee
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Washington
Hays
Dohio
Kefauver
Democratic National Committee
Lauscher
U.S
Republican State Committee
Work Holiday Plan Rejected By CIO Council
The Columbus CIO Council rejected a one day work holiday for 28 314 members of local CIO unions in support of Westinghouse workers. The council urged peaceful means and warned against hurting the public. Mayor Sensenbrenner to form a Community Relations Committee to prevent bloodshed and seek a settlement. Westinghouse Works Manager Smith welcomed mayoral action but doubted a local panel could settle the 12 week wage dispute.
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Columbus
Ohio
Columbus Cio Council
CIO
Westinghouse
Harry E. Mayfield
Council
M. E. Sensenbrenner
Sensenbrenner
E. L. Smith
Columbus Westinghouse
Newcomer Counts 161 Arrests in 13 Years
Ashland residents compare Jim Fillinger's claim of 161 arrests to local police records. Fred Walters shows 598 arrests since 1934 with 1,629 days in jail and $5,619 in fines for misdemeanors. Lee McCloud had 298 clinic placements yesterday, and John Zornes was arrested 318 times.
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Ashland
Jim Fillenger
Huntington
W. Va
Fred Walters
Lee McCloud
John Zornes
Minks And Gimmicks Christmas Buying Smashing Records
AP reports booming pre Christmas trade across major cities with shoppers spending on luxury gadgets and gimmicks. New York Fifth Avenue stores see strong demand for diamonds and minks while retailers in Dallas Los Angeles and Cleveland note brisk sales and rising payrolls. Unusual items appear including moon real estate claims from Neiman Marcus and novelty mink trimmed toothbrushes and ermined beer openers at New York shops.
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Baltimore
Dallas
Fifth Avenue
Associated Press
San Francisco
Boston
Atlanta
John P. Murphy
Higbee's
Cleveland
M. H. Segner
Seattle
Bon: Marche
Los Angeles
Pittsburgh
J. W. Vanden Bosch
Cleveland, Ohio
Chamber of Commerce
Greater
New Orleans
Los Angeles Mirror-News
Lavilly
Macy's
Neiman- Marcus
Macy’s New York
Black
Starr & Gorham
Ohio drive safety campaign ends with high death toll
A 21 day safe driving campaign in Ohio ends with a preliminary death toll of 112, with officials fearing final figures may exceed 120. From Nov 21 to Dec 11 the campaign recorded 63 deaths in the first ten days, 9 on the climactic S-D Day, and 40 in the final ten days as highway safety officials call for removing dangerous drivers from the roads.
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Columbus
Ohio
State Department of Highway Safety
A. C. Felty
Felty
Frozen body of hospital patient found near Tinkers Creek
Children playing in a southeast Cleveland ravine yesterday found the frozen body of Juanita Scott, 40, a patient who escaped from Cleveland State Hospital on November 12. The body weighed about 245 pounds and lay about 50 feet from the creek bank.
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Cleveland
Tinkers Creek
Juanita Scott
Cleveland State Hospital
United Nations rejects 18 new members package
At the United Nations General Assembly session the package plan to add 18 new members was defeated in the Security Council with Nationalist China vetoing Outer Mongolia and the Soviet Union vetoing 13 non Communist applicants. Among the rejected non Communist states were Italy Ceylon Jordan Ireland Portugal Austria Finland Nepal Libya Japan Laos Cambodia and Spain. The Soviet veto tally reached 75 over ten years, while the only other veto by Nationalist China concerned Outer Mongolia.
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Security Council
China
Outer Mongolia
Soviet Union
Assembly
Council
Arkady A. Sobolev
T. F. Tsiang
South Korea
South Viet Nam
U. N
France
Italy
Ceylon
Jordan
Ireland
Portugal
Austria
Finland
Nepal
Libya
Japan
Laos
Cambodia
Spain
Albania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Tower Climber Is Committed After Oklahoma Tower Stunt
Asa Beck a 45 year old man who climbed the KWTV tower in Oklahoma City to protest his family’s dire plight was ordered committed to Central State Hospital in Norman by Logan County Judge Mildred Patterson on a sanity commission recommendation. Beck said his family was starving and Gov. Raymond Gary said they are being cared for within the law. The Becks receive 136 dollars monthly in public welfare.
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Guthrie
Oklah
Asa Beck
Oklahoma City
Central State Hospital
Logan County
Mildred Patterson
Norman
Beck
Raymond Gary
Syria Pushes UN Action Over Israel Attack
Syria announced at a news conference that it will ask the United Nations Security Council to take stern action against Israel for strikes on Syrian posts along the northeast shore of the Sea of Galilee. Damascus reported 49 Syrians killed including 5 officers and 32 soldiers with 12 civilians among the dead, and 30 captured, while Israel said 55 Syrians were killed and 29 captured and 4 Israelis killed and 12 wounded.
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N. Y
Syria
Security Council
Damascus
Israel
Galilee
Ahmed Shukairy
General Assembly
Council
U. N
U, N
Se Sea of Galilee
Eisenhower Calls Harriman a Park Avenue Truman
President Eisenhower reportedly told Republican congressional leaders he views Gov Averell Harriman of New York as a Park Avenue Truman. Attendees at a White House briefing Monday noted Harriman as a possible 1956 Democratic candidate and described Eisenhower’s sharp response to Harriman’s criticism of the Republican administration.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Averell Harriman
New York
Park Avenue
Truman
White House
Harriman
Harry S. Truman
Cotton County Farmers Crack Bootlegging Ring
Four badge-toting Cotton County farmers led by Sheriff Bill Dyer intercept bootleggers from Texas to Oklahoma cities. After a hot pursuit, Dyer and team seized over 30 cases of liquor, later selling confiscated whisky gin vodka and wine to the J R Ray Co in Dallas. Proceeds go to the county school fund.
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Okla
Oklahoma
Cotton County
Bill Dyer
Texas
David Hooper
Dyer
Lawton
Alvin Clifton
Bop Simpson
Wichita Falls
Tex
Dallas
J. R. Ray Co
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