Western ministers weigh plans for postwar Germany
Berlin AP dispatch reports three Western foreign ministers meeting before the Big Four conference on Germany and Austria. Two main strategies aim for positive outcomes: insist on free all German elections before a unified government, and a British plan outlining life for East and West Germany if unity talks fail. Molotov and Soviet security measures loom as East Berlin tightens around the embassy route.
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Germany
Austria
East
West Germany
Anthony Eden
Tegel Forest
Georges Bidault
U. S
John Foster Dulles
V. M. Molotov
East Berlin
Time Running Out 347 Pros In UN Red Squeeze
In Panmunjom the United Nations and Communist forces clash over 347 pro Reds in the neutral zone. Indian guards withdraw as Reds refuse to take back 21 Americans Briton and 325 South Koreans, with U N command pressuring for rapid transfer north of the demilitarized zone. Defense Secretary Wilson warns Americans to decide quickly on repatriation.
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Panmunjom
Korea
U. N
Washington
U.S
Wilson
Pentagon
K. S. Thimayya
Red
Lee Sang Cho
Ping Kuo Yu
Red Cross
Thimayya
U.N
Formosa
South Korea
Rumor Says Churchill May Retire Next May
IMMINGHAM England AP A Conservative MP Cyril Osborne says talk in the House of Commons links Prime Minister Churchill retirement to Queen Elizabeth II’s return from her royal tour. Osborne notes Westminster circles have discussed a May retirement, though Churchill 79 has not indicated any plan. He recently attended the Bermuda Big Three conference and a Berlin Big Four ministers meeting is set to open Monday.
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Immingham
England
House of Commons
Churchill
Elizabeth II
Cyril Osborne
Westminster
Bermuda
Berlin
Illinois Supreme Court agrees to hear Heirens postconviction plea
William G. Heirens, 25, serving three life terms for the Degnan slayings and two other Chicago murders, wins a postconviction review petition. The Illinois Supreme Court approved the appeal, likely to be heard in March, with a ruling expected two months later. Heirens contends his confession was invalid because he was a minor and his lawyers did not act in his best interests. He was 17 at the 1946 murders of Suzanne Degnan and two other women and later faced robbery burglary and assault charges.
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Springfield
Illinois Supreme Court
William G. Heirens
Little Suzanne Degnan
Chicago
Heirens
University of Chicago
Supreme Court
Cook County
Stateville
Joliet
Degnan
Florence Brown
Joseph Ross
Italy's First 54 Fashion Show Opens
Rome hosts Italy's 1954 spring and summer fashion opening with foreign buyers from the United States in attendance. Designers Giovanelli-Sciarra display silk fabrics, color, and natural waistlines. Beaded collars, cape borders, and slim trousers on beach and lounge pieces draw interest for the season.
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Rome
Italy
United States
Giovanelli-Sciarra
Silver Fox
Princess Silhouette
Customer mails $1,000,003.21 check to Cleveland store
A Cleveland customer sent a cashier's check for 1,000,003.21 dollars to Jack Belkin Furniture Co. Owing 3.21 dollars, the drawer’s payment was misrouted. The Belkins joked they would frame the giant check while awaiting proper settlement.
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Cleveland
Jack Belkin Furniture Co
Belkins
Sinatra escapes uninjured in Beverly Hills auto crash
Beverly Hills California singer Frank Sinatra narrowly escaped injury in a traffic accident yesterday. Mrs Myrna McClees was hospitalized with a severe concussion and bruises after her small English car collided with Sinatra’s Cadillac when he said he did not see her approaching at an intersection. She was sent home after treatment.
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Beverly Hills
Calif
Frank Sinatra
Myrna McClees
McClees
Sinatra
Border Guards Clamp Down On Mexicans Seeking Farm Jobs
Mexican soldiers and immigration officials guard 42 miles of the California border to bar Mexicans from entering the United States for harvest work. About 700 nationals climbed or wriggled over the fence near Calexico Mexicali and entered the desert, seeking roughly 3,000 lettuce and carrot jobs in the Imperial Valley after U S Mexican contract talks collapsed. Some initially refused screening, then crossed at the boundary line to enter legally.
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Calexico
Calif
California
United States
Calexico-Mexicali
Mexico
Imperial Valley
Unions Face New Bill on Communist Control
Washington AP reported House Un-American Activities Committee chairman Velde plans to introduce a bill to bar any Red dominated union from National Labor Relations Board services. The measure would have the Subversive Activities Control Board decide union Communist control and trigger disclosure duties under the McCarran Act. Eisenhower noted labor proposals under study and urged non Communist affidavits from employers.
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Washington
Velde
R-Ik
House Un-American Activities Committee
National Labor Relations Board
Subversive Activities Control Board
McCarran Interal Security Act
Communist Action
Justice Department
Eisenhower
Congress
Thrill-Seeking Romeo Trapped By Artist In New York
Dorothy Paris, a 42 year old artist, exposed Robert Lane, 31, of Queens, after he posed as Mr Crow from WHMI TV and used a prize lingerie hoax to gain access and measure her for underwear. Lane, married with one child, was arrested on disorderly conduct.
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New York
Dorothy Paris
Mr. Crow
Whmi-Tv
Chicago
Miss Paris
Robert Lane
Queens
Lane
Manhattan
Dairy Industry’s Future Not Good
Robert F. Loree of Madison New Jersey told the National Purebred Dairy Cattle Assn at its 12th annual meeting in Cleveland that dairy farmers could break even on milk if they cut supply, but the economic outlook for the industry “is not too good.”
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Cleveland
National
Byrd Backs President's New Look
Senate Democrat Byrd said he is strongly in favor of Eisenhower's plan to reduce ground forces and rely on massive atomic retaliation to deter aggression. He disputed Gore and other Democrats who oppose the approach as risky. Republican Knowland defended the potential use of atomic weapons and warned against doubting this option.
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Washington
Sen
Byrd
D-Va
Eisenhower
Senate Armed Services Committee
Gore
D-Tenn
S. Gore
Knowland
California
United States
Weather Outlook For Miami Valley With Cloudiness
Vandalia forecasters expect increasing cloudiness and warmer air in the Miami Valley tonight and tomorrow. Lows near 20 this night, 15 last night. highs around 34 tomorrow, matching yesterday. Snow in the southwest tapered today while slick highways remained hazardous in many areas of the storm belt.
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Vandalia
Miami Valley
New England
Virginia Soldier Faces Possible Death Penalty
Cpl. Edward S. Dickenson, a Virginia farm boy, is charged by the Army with unlawfully holding intercourse with the enemy to obtain better treatment while a prisoner in Korea. If convicted on one charge he could be sentenced to death. The Army released the charges and arrested him at Walter Reed Hospital after a physical exam. Officials emphasized this is a preliminary action and a trial is not assured until investigations are completed. Dickenson's home is Cracker's Neck, Virginia, and he was among 23 American soldiers who refused to return to UN lines after the Korean armistice. His mother in Kermit, Texas, hopes he returns to face his situation.
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Washington
Edward S. Dickenson
Virginia
Korea
Army
Dickenson
Walter Reed Hospital
Reds
Military District of
Cvies
Cracker's Neck
United Nations
Cpl
Claude J. Batchelor
Tokyo General Hospital
Far East Command
Batchelor
O. L. Batchelor
Kermit, Tex
Treaty Appeal Likely Delayed Amid Bricker Rift
Washington AP Sen Knowland predicts President Eisenhower will delay appealing to the people on limiting treaty making as Bricker presses a constitutional amendment to curb executive foreign policy powers. Bricker claims opponents misrepresent the amendment as curbing treaties. debate set for early next week with weekend talks likely.
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Washington
Sen
Knowland
Calif
Eisenhower
Bricker
Ohio
Ohioan
Senate
Congress
U. S
Oil Firm Docks Destroyed At Point Wells Fire
A spectacular blaze destroyed Standard Oil Co docks at Point Wells north of Seattle after a tank ship scraped a pier and sparked drums of high test gasoline. No deaths or injuries reported. Fire control achieved in about 90 minutes as Coast Guard cutters and vast mobile units responded. The tank farm, completed in 1949, held 29 million gallons and lies inland from the piers connected by pipes.
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Seattle
Standard Oil Co
Point Wells
Here
Puget Sound
Coast Guard
Standard Oil
Taylor Identifies Units Going Home
General Maxwell D. Taylor, commander of the U S Eighth Army, identified two American divisions to be with General from Korea. The 45th Division, formerly the Oklahoma National Guard, will return to the United States between February 15 and March 15, and the 40th, formerly the California National Guard, later.
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Seoul
Maxwell D. Taylor
U. S. 8Th Army
Korea
Oklahoma National Guard
United States
California National Guard
Couple Seeks Returned Lost Son In Cleveland
In Cleveland a despondent father Wesley Herman, after a year, seeks the return of his year-old son given away to a couple with a long foreign name. Police report he sobered from a binge, separated from wife Margaret, and learned their other son Terry was also in someone's care. The wife says she signed papers notarized at a funeral parlor after a nursery advised a good home.
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Cleveland
Wesley Herman
Vatro J. Grill
Margaret
Terry
Wesley Jr
Herman
Grill
Hermans
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Andrei Vishinsky
Stalin Allee
Gene Goecke
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Winston
High Court
Triple Slayer
Cracker
Taylor
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