Three East German Communist leaders purge under Ulbricht
East Germany's Stalinist leadership fired three top party officials including Karl Schirdewan and Ernst Wollweber amid a purge aimed at liberal elements. The move, backed by Moscow, signals a harsher stance under Walter Ulbricht as Honecker's report labels the exiled leaders as liberal critics. Oessner’s dismissal cites discipline violations.
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Berlin
East Germany
Communist Party
Walter Ulbricht
Karl Schirdewan
Ulbricht
Central Committee
Fred Oessner
Ernst Wollweber
Neues Deutschland
Fast Berlin
Kremlin
Misis
East Berlin
Erich Honecker
Wollweber
Schirdewan
Oessner
Politbureau
Barrel of cyanide lost near Liverpool shocks police
A barrel containing cyanide pellets capable of killing half a million people rolled off a truck between Liverpool docks and a Widnes factory. A 14 mile road search failed to find the container and police warned that even touching it could be deadly.
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Liverpool
England
Widnes
Chinese Claim Denied by Nationalist Air Force
Chinese air force headquarters denied a Peiping radio report that Nationalist forces shot down a Nationalist plane and damaged three others off Fukien Province on Monday. The claim cited by Peiping was disputed by Taipei authorities.
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Taipei
Formosa
Peiping
Fukien
Monay
Todays Chuckle Elephant Color Joke
An animal appears in one of three colors based on context a safari church committee or weekend party. The playful line notes color choices reflect the setting and mood of the audience.
Florida Faces Worst Winter Yet Hit by Cold and Losses
Florida endures its harshest winter with cattle starvation risk and citrus damage. January to March projections warn 275000 cattle may die from feed shortages as freezes and floods wreck grass. Citrus losses total millions though prices may rise. hotel revenue on Miami Beach falls 25 to 30 percent prompting an advertising push.
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J. ©. Pearce Jr
Pearce
Florida
Homer Hooks
Florida Citrus Commission
Miami Beach
Probers Seek Stop to FCC Gratuities in Probe
Rep Moulder heads a House subcommittee examining alleged misconduct by five FCC members. He backs legislation banning payments from industry to FCC members and suggests government should cover travel costs while disallowing honorariums. The hearings resume Tuesday as rival claims arise.
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Washington
House
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Rep
Moulder
D-Mo
Sen. Capehart
R-Ind
Congressional Committee
Capehart
Elkhart
Ind
Eisenhower
Truman
Egg and I author Betty MacDonald dies of cancer
Betty MacDonald 49 longtime Seattle writer of The Egg and I died after months of illness from cancer. Her works include The Plague and I Nancy and Plum and the Mrs Pigglewiggle series. She faced a 1951 libel suit by the Albert Bishop family and Raymond H Johnson, which a Superior Court jury rejected.
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Seattle
Betty MacDonald
Olympic Peninsula
Eleven South Korean Soldiers Die In Truck Cliff Fall
In the South Korea Sth Corps area about 30 miles north of Seoul a military truck plunged from a cliff killing eleven soldiers and injuring thirteen, two seriously, Thursday night.
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Seoul
Sth
Two Senators Propose Immediate Crash Economic Plan
Senators Sparkman of Alabama and Gore of Tennessee urge swift action to curb recession and unemployment. Sparkman calls for a crash program to accelerate home construction and slump clearance. Gore backs a large public works push, highway expansion, tax relief, consumer credit, and RF C credit revival.
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Washington
Sen
Sparkman
Ala
Congress
White House
Sen. Gore
D. Tenn
Gore
Hillary Delayed by Weather on Transantarctic Trek
Sir Edmund Hillary could not depart Scott Base due to bad weather delaying his final leg to Depot 700. On arrival at Depot 700 last night he was contacted by radio by Dr Vivian Fuchs and his British party pursuing the coastward section of their Antarctic expedition.
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Auckland
New Zealand
Sir Edmund Hillary
Scott Base
Depot 700
Vivian Fuchs
Fuchs
Hillary
Atlas ICBM Explodes After Brief Flight
The Atlas two million dollar intercontinental ballistic missile exploded about four minutes after launch near Cape Canaveral. Despite the breakup the Air Force said the test yielded essential data for future ICBM work, with earlier flights labeled 95 percent successful.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
Air Force
Rie Daena Sonantia Tadass Stadut
FC Vilu
Wuay Wer
Missile Test Center
Atlas
Itinerant Slain Suspect Admits Multiple Murders
Jeremiah McCray, 25, an itinerant Black man, admits killing five people starting in 1956. Authorities in Ohio Georgia and Alabama seek to verify details as McCray reveals crimes across several states. He names Virginia cases including Mrs Harnette Griffin and Mrs Virginia Stevens with graphic but non-graphic confirmation.
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McCray
Ohio
Georgia
Alabama
Richmond
Orland Hays
Fayette County
Sarah DeWitt
Washington Court House
Anniston
Ala
Rogena
Calhoun County
Daisy F. Gilbert
Hearnette M. Griffin
Ladysmith
Colonial Heights
Virginia Maclin Stevens
Stevens
Johnson Named ARPA Head As Space Agency Forms
Roy W. Johnson, 52, of General Electric, was chosen to lead the new Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop future weapons including satellites and missiles. He will take the post April 1 after resigning from GE, with ARPA coordinating defense space research and potentially outsourcing projects to services and firms.
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Elton C. Fay Washington
Defense
McElroy
New
Advanced Research Projects Agency
Air Force
ARPA
Roy W. Johnson
General Electric Co
Pentagon Space Agency
Johnson
General Electric
Stamford
Ter
New York
Defense Department
Congress
William Holaday
Pentagon
Space Agency
NYC Board suspends hundreds of pupils under new policy
The New York City Board of Education orders suspensions of violent students to protect others. About 544 elementary junior and vocational high school pupils and at least 100 academic high school pupils were suspended. Brooklyn accounted for most suspensions amid recent school violence.
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New York
Board of Education
AAA
Ve. Pmps
Elemetary
Brooklyn
Manhattan
Bronx
iQueens
Staten Island
Wiliam Jansen
Going Hunting For Trouble
Pittsburgh police arrested Domenic V. Rizzella a 36 year old from Wilkinsburg after discovering a 38 caliber revolver a .22 automatic a black jack and a long knife. In Allegheny County Court he said he planned to go hunting. He received 18 to 36 months in the county workhouse for possessing deadly weapons.
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Pittsburgh
Domenic V. Rizzella
Wilkinsburg
Rizzella
Allegheny
City adopts policy on suspensions for chronic school misbehavior
Mayor Wagner backs a new policy allowing suspensions for pupils with serious, ongoing misconduct. Ralph Whelan will study youth services as the city implements a $33 million program. Albany's education commissioner notes authority to act but cites financial and administrative hurdles rather than legal barriers.
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Robert F. Wagner
Ralph W. Whelan
City
Albany
James E. Allen
Divorcee Faints After Conviction For Theft
Decatur Georgia where Margaret L Burton, a 51 year old divorcee born in China and British subject, is in Grady Hospital awaiting sentence after a two count larceny conviction for 186757 dollars from a employer. A two to five year term was recommended to be served concurrently by an all male jury after a week long trial in Dekalb Superior Court.
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Decatur
Margaret L. Burton
Prosperous
Decatur Medical Clinic
Clarence Vaughn
Norfolk
Los Angeles
San Antonio
Vancouver
British Columbia
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Cape, Canaveral
National Airlines
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Greenwood
Jeremiah McCray
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Weith
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