Saud Seeks Arab Unity for Middle East Settlements
U S officials express hope that King Saud will press for early Cairo to canal nations accord on Suez Canal operations as shipping resumes in March. Saud meets Eisenhower Dulles Nixon events and talks focus on stabilizing the region and countering Communist influence.
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Washington
U. S
Saud
Egypt
Suez Canal
Eisenhower
Dulles
Nixon
White House
Reed Steps Down From High Court
President Eisenhower accepts the resignation of Supreme Court Justice ana Reed effective Feb 5. Reed, 72, served 19 years and will retire under law with full pay. no successor named yet. Reed’s retirement is second from the Court since October, with Justice Sherman Minton having left due to health. The article notes other justices nearing retirement and mentions a separate House resolution on Middle East security and aid pending Senate approval.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Supreme Court
Ana Reed
Reed
Warren
Harlan
Brennan
White House
Sherman Minton
High Bench
Justice Black
Justice Frankfurter
House of Representatives
Middle East
Senate
Saud
United States
Russia
Cuffs Hold Cop's Son Cuffs Hold Cop's Son
Bruce Alan Gibson four found a pair of handcuffs in his policeman father’s chest of drawers and cuffed his ankles. Police Sgt. Glenn Gibson made an emergency call from his own home.
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Waco
Tex
Bruce Alan Gibson
Glenn Gibson
Hungarian Students Taught Russian Again
In Budapest compulsory Russian language instruction has been reinstated in Hungary’s schools. The policy echoes a move that helped trigger the October revolt among students.
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Budapest
Hungary
Diamonds Hide Under Fire Ruins In Philadelphia Joust
Philadelphia jewelers guard $50,000 worth of diamonds buried under debris from a December 28 fire. City officials prohibit entry to the site at Eighth and Chestnut as engineers reexamine the wreckage, delaying salvage by the merchants who want access.
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Philadelphia
Eighth and
Chestnut Streets
Gimbel’s
Diamond Center
Knights In Armor
Leo Goldstein
Dept. of Licenses and Inspection
Goldstein
Bedwell Denies Killing Grimes Girls in Court
Edward Bedwell, a 21 year old Skid Row dishwasher, repudiates a 14 page confession as a lie and testifies he never saw the Grimes sisters. Sheriff Lohman asserts Bedwell remains the prime suspect despite medical autopsy findings and contradictions about the confession.
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Loretta Grimes
Chicago
Edward
Bennie) Bedwell
Grimes
Bedwell
Skid Row
Grimes Sisters
Wilbert F. Crowley
David E. Bradshaw
Barbara
Joseph Lowman
Frank
Lohman
William C. Willingham
Willingham
Flood Devastates Appalachian Towns Across Four States
Emergency aid floods into Kentucky West Virginia Virginia and Tennessee as the flood swamps coal towns and towns face destruction. At least 11 deaths are reported with hundreds homeless and thousands evacuating as Army helicopters deliver medicine blankets and food. Hospitals and towns fear further floods with forecasted rain.
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Appalachian Mountain
Prestonsburg
Army
Ft. Knox
National Guard
Red Cross
Civil Defense
Carbourville
Hazard
Kentucky
Pound
Logan
W. Va
S. C. van Duren
Harlan, Ky
Daily Enterprise
Kentucky River
Bill Sizemore
Mack Hill
Raymond Ward
George Dewey Ward
Portsmouth
Ohio
Hyden
Leslie County
Billie Dixon
Queenie Bennett
West Virginia
Tennessee
Cumberland
Clinch
Virginia
Tug
Guyandotte
UN Pushes For Peace In Desert Standoff
United States and Canada press Israel and Egypt to accept a two phase plan to end the Sinai standoff. The scheme, possibly to reach General Assembly today, would call for full Israeli withdrawal from Aqaba Coast and Gaza, and U N E F deployment on both sides until peace is secured. Egypt rejects UN occupation of its territory and insists on unconditional Israeli withdrawal.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
Canada
Israel
Egypt
Siani
General Assembly
Aqaba
Gaza Strip
U. N
UNEF
Cairo
Nasser
Eilat
Red Sea
Chuckle Wife Description Sparks Witty Self Praise
A playful jab at a spouse highlights a magnetic personality and strong character while noting a weight miscount and flirtatious tone. The lighthearted piece portrays a wife teasing about intellect wit and attractiveness to the opposite sex.
January Ends With Warmer Z Note and Mixed Winter Weather
The weatherman forecasts slightly warmer temperatures through Friday with a high near 34 today. Expect occasional rain or snow, mostly cloudy skies, and warmer overnight with a high around 38 and a low of 27. Middletown records a 30 degree high yesterday and a 28 degree low this morning as 0.02 inches of snowfall accumulate.
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Frida
Middletown
Rugged rancher defies order to vacate McGregor range
N M 82 year old John Prather vows to stay as the Army and U S attorney demand he vacate his edge of the McGregor guided missile range by March 1. His 1.2 mile frontage inside the range contains lush grassland fed by underground water. Ten other ranchers face similar orders though only one has moved.
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Orogance
N. M
John Prather
U. S
Southcentral
New Mexico
Prather
Ft. Bliss
New Mexico Line
el Paso
Tex
McGregor Range
Hazard Suffering After Worst Flood Since 1927
Hazard Kentucky reels from 18 hours of rising waters flood peak. Five deaths confirmed with drownings and elderly couple killed in a fire. Five dozen homes destroyed and 65 people sheltered elsewhere. Power and communications cut. hospital without power. Emergency aid from Fort Knox and Red Cross arriving as banks estimate losses near 250 million dollars.
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Hazard
United Mine Workers Memorial Hospital
Fort Knox
Red Cross
Dewey Daniel
People’s Bank
Neon
Irvine
Fleming Has Large Family
Indiana Pa. news notes Tom K Fleming 88 with a large brood of 32 children, 20 boys and two girls. Twenty are living. One son Harry became a father yesterday in Erie Pa. for the seventh time. Grandchildren count reaches 76.
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Indiana
Tom K. Fleming
Fleming
Harry
Erie
Tom
Town Overrun by Polecats in Stillwater
In Stillwater Oklahoma a winter buildup of polecats is blamed on scarce food for skunks. Dr Roy W Jones of Oklahoma A M College zoology department says skunks are natural scavengers and there is more to scavenge in town during the cold months.
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Stillwater
Okla
Roy W. Jones
Oklahoma A&m College
Plane Breaks New York Paris Flight Record
Pan American Airways DC7C set a commercial record for the New York to Paris run at 8 hours 50 minutes, besting the previous mark of 9 hours 18 minutes.
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Paris
Pan American Airways
New York
Girl with many husbands faces bigamy charge in Indiana
Cynthia Delores Corraditti, 23, returns to Richmond, Indiana, scene of her seventh marriage, to face bigamy charges. Dayton police say she admitted receiving government allotment checks from spouses in the Air Force and Navy while claiming multiple marriages and a baby. Richmond authorities will take her to Indiana. she notes no one seems to want her.
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Dayton
Ohio
Cynthia Delores Corraditti
Richmond
Ind
Ihe
Eugene Fultz
Raymond Morrris
Ray Morris
Fultz
Wilmington College
Monroe
Corraditti
Benni Corraditti
Morris
W. M. Wiles
Oklahoma City
Evelyn Boyd
San Diego
Calif
Diego
Amy
Air Force
Navy
Rebels Raid Rail Center Near Rangoon in Burma
A force of 300 Communist rebels attacked the Burma rail center of Pegu, killing at least seven, looting and burning. The Reds struck the town about 50 miles north of Rangoon on Tuesday night.
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Rangoon
Burma
Pegu
Trigger Man Named in Nicosia Killings
Police in Nicosia claim 22 year old Greek Cypriot journalist Nicos Samson acted as the trigger man in most of the recent murder mile killings. He is now under arrest.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Mostf
Nicos Samson
Pleasant Nonsense Furry Forecaster Had A Shadowy Job
The piece playfully questions groundhog weather lore and notes the animal’s true biology as a marmot. It jokes about hunting, holes, and misperceptions while posing the classic woodchuck riddle and reflecting on the folly of overinterpreting forecasts.
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