Mendes France seeks confidence vote over Indochina policy
Prime Minister Mendes France pleaded with the French National Assembly to back his Indochina policy after stating the United States would provide about 400 million dollars in 1955 for South Vietnam's economic and military buildup. He said talks with Dulles advanced cooperation while the ASEAN pact aimed to deter new hostilities.
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Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
French National Assembly
United States
Viet Nam
Manila
Indochina
Half Of Burke Recount Money To Be Returned
Thomas A. Burke will receive refunds totaling $33,664 from 24 of 25 recount counties after posting more than $68,666 for a U S senatorial election recount in 25 counties. Allen County pending final report.
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Burke
Columbus
Ohio
Thomas A. Burke
U. S
Ted W. Brown
Brown
Allen County
Foundations Cry Bias in House Report on Socialism Link
Washington based foundations defend themselves after a five member GOP led committee brands major tax exempt groups an interlock and intellectual cartel. The 416 page report accuses foundations of promoting collectivism and socialist ideas while acknowledging medical public health and science benefits.
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Washington
House
Rep
Reece
R-Tenn
GOP
Congress
Foundations
Hays
Vna
Institute of Pacific Relations
China
Korea
Institute
Ford Foundation
Rockefeller Foundation
Carnegie
Youth Admits Swinging Fuller Murder Weapon
Billy Ray Willingham, 19, of Alabama, has admitted striking Mrs. Milton Fuller with a four foot firewood club in Brinkley Arkansas. Prosecutor J B Reed said he will file first degree murder charges as Willingham awaits arraignment after psychiatric clearance and questioning in Forrest City.
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Ray Stephens Brinkley
Ark
Alabama
Milton Fuller
Arkansas
J. B. Reed
Billy Ray Willingham
Fuller
Little Rock
Reed
Willingham
France backs Mendes France on Indochina policy vote
The National Assembly approved Premier Pierre Mendes France by 310 to 172 in a confidence vote on Indochina policy, clearing the way for a four day debate on German re armament. Supporters were fewer than in earlier votes since he took office six months ago.
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Paris
French National Assembly
Pierre Mendes-France
Indochina
Mississippi Vote Set on Segregation Amendment
Mississippi legislators prepare a proposed constitutional amendment to preserve segregation in public schools. The measure would allow the legislature to abolish schools, license private schooling, and funnel tuition to private options if needed. Proponents call it a last resort. opponents warn it grants sweeping control over school systems.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
Legal Educational Advisory Committee
U.s.supreme Court
South Carolina
Georgia
Communists Threaten To Scrap Pact Over German Rearmament
In Moscow the Soviet Union warned it would abandon the British Soviet Mutual Assistance Treaty if Paris moves to rearm West Germany pass. Andrei Gromyko delivered the note to British Ambassador Sir William Hayter, with a similar threat linked to the Franco Soviet pact. The Foreign Ministry held a news conference to release the text.
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Moscow
Russia
Paris
West Germany
William Hayter
Ogain
Andrei Gromyko
Foreign Ministry
France
No Signs Of Verdict In Sheppard Murder Trial
For a fourth day jurors in the Samuel Sheppard murder trial confer without a sign of a near verdict. Judge Blythin may discharge them if deadlock persists, risking another lengthy trial. Sheppard pleads innocence, claims a prowler killed Marilyn Sheppard, who was pregnant, last July 4.
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Cleveland
Sheppard
Edward Blythin
Samuel Sheppard
Marilyn Sheppard
Wreckage Raised After Rome New York Airliner Crash
Salvage crews planned to raise the four engine DC6B wreckage of the Rome to New York airliner in Jamaica Bay. Twenty six people died and six survived. Italy born pilot Capt. Guglielmo Algarotti was among the victims and the C A B held closed hearings. Rosalia d Ugo 12 of Altaville Sicily was among the dead.
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Jamaica Bay
Civil Aeronautics Board
Idlewild
Rosalia d’Ugo
Natali d'Ugo
Chicago
Rosalia
Frank Messina
Mount Vernon
N.Y
Messina
Altaville
Sicily
St. Joseph’s Hospital
Far Rockaway
Queens
Italy
Guglielmo Algarotti
Hammarskjold to Travel to Peiping After Dec 26
UN chief Dag Hammarskjold met with China’s ambassador Gen Keng Piao in Stockholm and said he plans to depart for Peiping sometime after December 26. Peiping radio argued that the 11 U.S. fliers are spies and not connected to the Korean armistice.
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Stockholm
Sweden
U. N
Dag Hammarskjold
China
Peiping
Hammarskjold
Keng Piao
U. S
Pontiff to Broadcast Yule Message Friday
Vatican City AP reports ill Pope Pius XII is finishing a brief Christmas radio address to be aired noon Friday. On Christmas Day he will appear in St. Peter's Square to bless worshippers, amid signs of gradual improvement after his Dec 2 collapse.
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Pius XII
Vatican Radio
St. Peter's Square
Vatican
L'Oservatore Romano
Msgr
Domenico Tardini
Tardini
Pasadena Man Kills Wife and Three Children Then Attempts Suicide
Harold R. Oilar, 39, killed his wife Grace Elizabeth 39 and children Bronwyn 7 Martha 7 Randolph 12 with a Boy Scout hatchet in their Pasadena home. A neighbor’s daughter 7 escaped. Oilar was found unconscious from gas fumes in the bathroom and booked on suspicion of murder. Police say he muttered about a bad dream as he was questioned.
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Pasadena
Calif
Harold
R. Oilar
Oilar
County General Hospital
Oilars
Wayne Bornhoft
Bronwyn Rayburn
Janet
Martha
Randolph
Oslar
Grace Elizabeth
Pasadena Presbyterian Church
Sailors Held in Rape and Murder of Sunday School Teacher
In Middletown Rhode Island two sailors were charged after Margaret Louise Blanchette a 16 year old Sunday school teacher was raped and strangled in a moving car. Frederick B. Zimmer 25 of Rochester New York faced murder charges while Seaman Clyde D Branfield 18 of Rochester was charged as an accessory before the fact. State Police Capt Andrew Casey said Zimmer admitted strangling the girl after she screamed during the assault and that the pair had offered to drive her home from a pre Christmas dance at the naval base in Newport. They were driving away from Newport toward Mount Hope Bridge when the attack occurred and they did not halt the car.
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Middletown
R.I
Margaret Louise Blanchette
Frederick B. Zimmer
Rouchester
N.Y
Clyde D. Branfield
Rochester
Andrew Casey
Zimmer
Portsmouth, R.I
Casey
Naval Base
Newport
Margaret
Branfield
Mount Hope Bridge
Demos Can Defeat Ike Sparkman
Sen. Sparkman predicts Democrats can beat Eisenhower in 1956 by presenting a responsible domestic record. He argues GOP failures on balance of the budget and spending have damaged public confidence, while Democrats can capitalize on foreign policy unity and defense efforts. Sparkman foresees a Stevenson versus Eisenhower rematch.
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Washington
Sen
Sparkman
D.ala
Eisenhower
Sth Congress
Congress
Truman
Adlai E. Stevenson
Five Navy climbers die on Ben Nevis in Scotland
Five Royal Navy recreation climbers fell to their deaths on a 900 foot ice ledge on Ben Nevis, Scotland. The party included three petty officers a midshipman and a Wrens member. Navy rescuers found but could not recover the bodies from a deep rocky gully. A rescue squad planned further actions today. Ben Nevis stands at 4406 feet.
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Fort William
Scotland
Mt. Ben Nevis
Wrens
Ben Nevis
British Isles
Flames Kill Five In New Orleans Aged Home Fire
A blaze swept a Negro home for the aged in New Orleans during the night killing five patients. Fire officials said the flames spread rapidly through the facility. Investigators began examining the cause as families mourn the victims.
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