Traffic Deaths Sharply Reduced Early New Year Weekend
Early New Year weekend traffic toll shows fewer deaths than the prior week with two deaths in Massachusetts, Michigan and California and one in several states. The National Safety Council estimates 420 fatalities by midnight Monday, a potential record for the period. Police alert for emergency action to curb the toll.
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Michigan
California
New York
Kentucky
Maryland
Washington
South Dakota
New Hampshire
New Jersey
National Safety Council
Ohio Sees Fatal Start to New Year Weekend Traffic
An Associated Press report says three pedestrians died Friday night in Ohio as the week began, bringing the total to five so far, including a youth killed in a three car crash. The toll echoes the 40 deaths recorded during Christmas weekend traffic tragedies.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Record toll of Christmas New Year traffic in 1954 shifts law enforcement
Officials ordered guardsmen to assist highway patrols across four states Illinois Wisconsin Michigan and Arizona after a record Christmas traffic toll. Planes scouted above highways in Illinois and Louisiana while extra police patrolled cities amid dry weather forecasts. The National Safety Council notes lower traffic volume than New Year but counts show 364 deaths in a December weekend survey and 296 deaths during the 1954-55 holiday period, with total violent deaths at 782 including 68 in fires and 105 in miscellaneous accidents. Dela reports later injuries raised the toll to at least 664 for Christmas.
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Michigan
Arizona
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Louisiana
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Associated Press
Ohio Highways To Be Watched For Holiday Drivers
Columbus Ohio watch dogs of Ohio roads begin an aggressive campaign against careless holiday drivers. Special targets are tipsy drivers celebrating the New Year weekend. Director A Felty of the Highway Safety Department said five statewide associations will join the patrol in the effort against drunk driving.
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Columbus
Ohio
A. Felty
Department of Highway Safety
Ohio Highway Patrol
Khrushchev Speech Angers Western Diplomats in Moscow
Western diplomats react to Nikita Khrushchev's hard hitting address to the Supreme Soviet denouncing President Eisenhower and Israel. Observers call it the toughest talk since Stalin's death while questions arise on its Cold War intent. The speech follows Bulganin's critical remarks on Western policies and sparks Israeli and Arab reactions in Jerusalem and Washington.
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Moscow
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Supreme Soviet
Eisenhower
Khrushchev
Stalin
Key West
Fla
Nikolai Bulganin
Jerusalem
Israel
Moshe Sharett
Alexander N. Abramhov
Legless Veteran Defends VA Benefits Amid Subversion Charge
Washington veteran James Kutcher who lost his legs in World War I fights to keep his 329 dollar per month compensation after being accused of disloyal activities. VA hearings await a verdict with possible appeals and court action. Kutcher acknowledges Socialist Workers Party membership and defends constitutional, nonviolent aims.
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Washington
James Kutcher
Kutcher
Veterans Administration
Peyton H. Moss
VA Appeals Board
Socialist Workers Party
House Committee On UN- American Activities
Leon Trotsky
Special Tax Benefit To Die Tonight
Washington AP reports that at midnight tonight the government will end special tax write offs fueling a multi billion dollar rush in fall for new freight cars aircraft and power plants. The Office of Defense Mobilization will bar further five year write offs for railroads airlines and electric utilities. The move stems from an Eisenhower era plan to sharply trim rapid write offs aiding defense oriented expansion since 1951. Only 26 defense production goals will remain unfiled from about 225.
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Washington
Office of Defense Mobilization
Humphrey
Oft Married Woman Held In Slaying
BROCKVILLE Ontario four times married Virginia Ricks daughter of former Syracuse mayor is jailed without bail charged with murder in the shooting of George Franklin Knapp a fishing guide at her island cottage on Newboro Lake A party at the cottage ended with Knapp returning drunk and shot in the abdomen with a 7.6 mm Mauser pistol Justice of the Peace Wallace Johnson set a preliminary hearing for January 6.
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Ont
Syracuse
N.Y
Virginia Ricks
Charles Hanna
Justice of the Peace
Wallace Johnson
George Franklin
Tom) Knapp
Knapp
Ricks
Newboro Lake
Johnson
Ontario
Westport
Clifford Perry
David Adair
Criminal Investigation
Ricks Cottage
Jake Burns
Royal Rideau Lodge
Mud Lake
Kingston
Helen Hayes Honored by Show People at Waldorf Ball
In New York a large show business turnout celebrated Helen Hayes marking 50 years before the footlights. Notables performed scenes from her career while Hayes watched from a stage box. Proceeds from the $50 per person event went to the American Theatre Wing, led by Hayes.
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New York
Helen Hayes
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Miss Hayes
American Theatre Wing
Doctor Ross A. Hill Closes Career On City Commission
The Middletown City Commission honored Dr. Ross A. Hill at the last regular meeting of 1955 for eight years of service. A commendatory resolution was presented, with praise from commissioners and a chef pen and pencil set given at a dinner. Hill noted his 14 point city improvement program started in 1947 has all but two points completed or under contract before he leaves office. He declined a third term as Carmody Stiles and Miller assume new terms.
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Ross Hill
City Commission
Francis Carmody
Commission
Hill
Ross A. Hill
Dr. Hill
Francis B. Carmody
Carmody
Middletown
William Denham
Arthur Sanderson
Charles Stiles
Stiles
Martin B. Miller
Heinkel
McCoy Oil Co
City Fuel Inc
Hatfield Coal Co
Cleveland Hoax Burn Victim Dies
Earl R. Fryman a 17 year old who claimed three teens tortured him in Metropolitan Park died after being burned and chained to a tree. Police doubted his tale as detectives found his clothing in a river and a hardware clerk confirmed he bought the locks and chains.
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Cleveland
Earl R. Fryman
Metropolitan Park
Fryman
David E. Kerr
Fairview Park Hospital
Polce Department
Miami
Fla
Westerner Wins Liars' Club Crown With Montana Wind Tale
Claude T. Yerkes of Kalispell Montana received the 1955 top award from the Burlington Liars' Club for a tale about a sheep herder in a trailer unable to fit flour and a wind that carried the sack away. Vernon Charnetski of Prelate Saskatchewan earned an honorable mention for a joke about height of a grain elevator and a carpenter's rotted hammer handle.
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Burlington
Wis
Liars
Montana
Claude T. Yerkes
Kalispell
Mont
Hulett
Yerkes
Vernon Charnetski
Box 142
Prelate
Saskatchewan
Eisenhower Hopes for Health and 1956 Term Decision
President Eisenhower ends 1955 hopeful for health restoration and a possible second term. He suffered a Sept. heart attack and witnessed the Geneva Big Four conference followed by Khrushchev’s attack. A State of the Union message is nearly finished and he plans to stay away from Washington until Jan 8.
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Key West
Fla
Eisenhower
Geneva
Russia
West
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Khrushchev
Europe
United States
White House
Congress
James C. Hagerty
Washington
State of the Union
Quints Say Family Dispute Overtaken by Reconciliation
North Bay Ontario report states the Dionne quintuplets and their parents resolved a recent misunderstanding. Olivia Dionne said the rift had caused drifting apart while the quintuplets and Papa Dionne expressed renewed unity after all parties discussed the issue and feel better about the family.
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North Bay
Ont
Dionne
Oliva Dionne
Callander
Papa Dionne
Linda Christian Freed Of Charge In Purdom Divorce Case
Contempt citation against actress Linda Christian was dismissed in the Purdom divorce contest. Attorney for Tita Purdom said he will seek to compel Christian to testify about a 1954 Mexico visit. Christian, subpoenaed, left the courtroom and is ordered to appear next July 11.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Linda Christian
Edmund Purdoms
Tita Purdom
Miss Christian
Mexico
Purdom
Atty
Albert Pearlson
Orlando H. Rhodes
Tyrone Power
Voters Close Campaign in Algeria Row Ahead of National Assembly
France heads to polls on Monday as Premier Edgar Faure condemns a deadly gendarme shooting of an unarmed Algerian prisoner last August. Bribery claims tied to a Fox Movietone News cameraman fade after officials say evidence is lacking.
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Paris
Algeria
National Assembly
Edgar Faure
Faure
Dole
France
L'Express
Pierre Mendes
Iiter
Ministry
Georges Chassagne
Fox Movietone News
Chassagne
Algiers
Interior Ministry
Jacques Soustelle
United Nations
Youth and Age Lead New Congress in 1956
Four leaders form a mix of youth and experience as the 1956 Congress opens. Sam Rayburn and Joseph Martin lead the House while Lyndon Johnson and William Knowland head the Senate GOP and Democratic ranks confront a presidential election year. Johnson faces a heart attack from last July that may slow his pace.
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Washington
Congress
Capitol Hill
Sam Rayburn
House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Rayburn
Texas
Senate
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Massachusetts
William F. Knowland
GOP
White House
Martin
Johnson
Knowland
Woodrow Wilson
Peron Banned Paper Returns to Salta Readers
El Intransigente resumes publication in Salta Northern Argentina after a six year ban. Publisher Michel Torino leads the revival as the paper brings world news to 70 009 residents amid a long political struggle.
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Buenos Aires
el Intransigente
Salta
Argentina
Michel Torino
West Chester Woman Killed In Kentucky
A head on collision at the U S 27 and U S 62 junction half a mile south of Cynthiana Kentucky last night killed Nancy Anderson 52 of West Chester Ohio. Her daughter and son in law Edward Gillipin and wife and their daughters Nancy and Franc were hospitalized with unspecified injuries.
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Cynthiana Ky.p
U. S. 27
U. S 62
Here
Nancy Anderson
West Chester
Ohio
Cynthiana Hospital
Edward Gillipin
Gillipin
Nancy
Franc
Senate subcommittee brands Matusow a liar in recantation case
The Senate subcommittee charges Harvey Matusow lied when he recanted testimony against 244 individuals and says communists paid him to recant. It calls his reversal an apparent conspiracy to obstruct justice and seeks further prosecution. Matusow appeals a three year sentence for contempt of court and is free on bond.
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Senate
Harvey M. Matusow
Matusow
Subcommittee
Sen
Hennings
D-Mo
Clinton Jencks
Eastland
D-Miss
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