Condemned Kidnapers Readied for Missouri Execution
KANSAS CITY AP The condemned kidnap killers of year old Bobby Greenlease wait in jail cells for their last trip to the gas chamber at Missouri State Prison just after 12:01 a.m. Dec 18. Carl Austin Hall and Mrs Bonnie Brown Heady show little emotion as a federal judge sentences them to die. An Episcopal priest noted remorse from Hall and Heady. A federal official says double executions have occurred before and will occur here. They will sit in two metal chairs with sulphuric acid under the seats. cyanide will be released, rendering them unconscious within seconds. Heady, a divorcee, has expressed a wish to marry Hall before execution.
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Kansas City
Bobby Greenlease
Missouri
Carl Austin Hall
Bonnie Brown Heady
George Evans
Hall
Heady
Yugoslavs Cast Votes On Sunday in One-Party Election
Belgrade reports Yugoslavia conducts a secret ballot under a new constitution for 353 seats in the Federal Council. The one party primary system limits competition as Tito’s Socialist Alliance dominates while Italy's Trieste dispute shapes voters’ focus amid domestic discontent.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Narodna Skupstina
Tito
Socialist Alliance of the Working Peoples
Italy
Trieste
Zone A
Zone B
Federal Council
U.S
House of Representatives
Opera Star Refuses To Stab Carmen In NYC Opera
In Chicago last night the New York City Opera performance of Carmen ended abruptly when Don Jose actor David Poleri refused to stab Carmen. He tossed his hat and cape, told conductor Joseph Rosentock to finish the opera, and left. Gloria Lane as Carmen died in the final scene as the curtain fell, with no curtain calls and a puzzled audience.
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Chicago
Don Jose
Carmen
New York City Opera Company
David Poleri
Poleri
Joseph Rosentock
Gloria Lane
Civic Opera House
Hendrickson Calls Clark To Explain White Case Role
Senator Hendrickson R New Jersey urged Supreme Court Justice Tom Clark to publicly explain his involvement in the Harry Dexter White affair. Clark, 1946 attorney general, oversaw White’s IMF appointment amid FBI cautions he was a Russian spy. Brownell’s accusation spurred Senate probe into government communism.
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Hendrickson
Supreme Court
Tom C. Clark
Harry Dexter White
Clark
White
Truman
U. S
International Monetary Fund
Atty
Brownell
FBI
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Report cites 12 to 14 million forced in Russia
Athens Ohio audience heard Dr Walter Kotschnig head of UN economic and social affairs discuss a forthcoming UN report on forced labor in Russia. The 600 page two year study says the figure ranges 12 to 14 million and that slave labor now serves economic aims within the Soviet system. Also noted US general Twining urged superior air power to deter Red armies.
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Ohio
Russia
State Department
United Nations
Ohio University
Walter Kotschnig
U. N. Economic and Social Affairs
General Assembly
Kotschnig
U. N
Kidnaper Seeks Sanity Hearing in Baby Kidnap Case
In Muskogee Oklahoma attorneys for 11 year old kidnapping suspect Mrs Tommie Dene Doughty filed a motion for a sanity hearing in federal court. They argued she is mentally incapable of committing a crime. The baby, 5 month old Richard Lee Stammers, was taken from Evansville Indiana on November 6 and recovered unharmed at her father’s southern Oklahoma home.
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Muskogee
Okla
Tommie Dene Doughty
Cleon Summers
Duane Stratton
Doughty
Richard Lee
Evansville
Ind
Carnival
Oklahoma
Bodies Recovered After Utah Mine Disaster
Rescue teams recovered the first of eight miners' bodies from the American Gilsonite Co mine in Bonanza Utah after a November 5 explosion and fire. Company officials stated no positive identifications could be made yet.
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Bonanza
Utah
American Gilsonite Co
Wildlife Council Opens Pheasant Rabbit Hunting Season
The Ohio Wildlife Council approved delaying the pheasant rabbit hunting season to begin Monday November 23. The move shifts the start date by one week from the original plan following council action in Columbus Ohio.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Wildlife Council
Security Sought CIO Convention Pushes For Fixed Annual Wage
The CIO pushed guaranteed annual wage as a main bargaining goal at its closing five day Cleveland convention. President Walter Reuther and officers were expected to be re elected. A resolution for employer funded full year jobless pay for unemployed workers also will be considered. CIO unions seek steady income to bolster family security and national stability. Managers warn such plans raise bankruptcy risk for some employers. The steelworkers and Reuther have moved past last year’s rivalry, with McDonald’s absence not signaling opposition.
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CIO
Walter Reuther
Reuther
Auto Workers Union
Steelworkers
Steelworkers Union
David J. McDonald
Allan Haywood
McDonald
Ex-President Says Nothing About White Controversy
Former President Harry S. Truman avoided commenting on the Harry Dexter White affair at a Jackson County Young Democrats dinner in Kansas City. He recited his usual stance and read telegrams from supporters, refusing to escalate the dispute despite anticipated questions from about 350 attendees.
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Harry S. Truman
Harry Dexter White
Jackson County Young Democrats, Inc
Gen. Brownell
Harry
Truman
Federal Law To Curb Baby Black Market Urged
Senator Hendrickson cites New York City prosecutor on a baby black market as proof a federal law is essential. Testimony follows Criminology researchers Dr and Mrs Sheldon Glueck and NYPD prosecutor Ernest Mitler urging interstate sales of babies be made felony.
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Washington
Hendrickson
New York City
Sheldon Glueck
Harvard Law School
Ernest Mitler
Mitler
Informant says Lodge in danger at U.N. visit
An anonymous informant says U S Ambassador Henry Cabot Lodge has a 24 hour armed guard at the Waldorf Astoria suite to shield him from Puerto Rican nationalists. The source says Lodge requested it about ten days ago. No confirmed threats are reported. The Daily News cited possible other guards, tied to Puerto Rican extremists upset over the independence debate.
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N. Y.P
U.S
Henry Cabot Lodge
Waldorf Astoria
Lodge
New York Daily News
The
Daily News
U.N
Truman
Washington
Changes In Taft Hartley Said Unlikely
Rep. Barden of North Carolina said he expects Congress will face political storms that will reduce prospects for revising the Taft Hartley Act. He noted elections next year will bring excitement while predicting the administration may or may not push changes. He criticized lengthy hearings that did not lead to action.
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Washington
Barden
D-Nc
Congress
House Labor Committee
Eisenhower
Eisenhower budget aims for 3 to 4 billion deficit
An administration official said the 1955 budget could show a deficit of three to four billion dollars if federal spending is cut by about six billion. Most cuts would hit national security, and tax rates may be extended beyond April. The plan also anticipates raising the debt limit from 275 to 290 billion and aligns with Treasury forecasts of an eight to nine billion deficit beginning next July.
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Congress
Eisenhower
Treasury Department
Secretary of the Treasury
Humphrey
U S Ready To Launch UN Demand
The United States prepared to present a Western Big Three draft demanding the UN Security Council vote the strongest censure of Israel's October Kibya attack on the Jordan border village. The draft, supported by Britain and France, would declare the assault a violation of the Palestine armistice and seek more U N observers.
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United Nations
Israel
Abba Eban
Jordan
U.N
Kibya
Vagn Bennike
Dag Hammarskjold
Gen. Bennike
Witness Links Moscow Plot To Seize President In U S Reds Trial
In Detroit a Red conspiracy trial transcript shows testimony that Moscow schools instructed American Communists to seize the president and cabinet during a U S revolution. William O'Dell Nowell testified of orders to hostage the cabinet, while a mistrial motion was denied. The six defendants face charges of conspiring to advocate violent overthrow.
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Detroit
U. S
William O'Dell Nowell
Moscow
Nowell
The
Immigration and Naturalization Service
United States
Saul Wellman
Frank A. Picard
Wellman
Whisky returns to Britons as New Year cheers rise
Britons will toast the new year with whisky again as rationing ends. After eight years of exports and tight quotas, production boosts end austerity, allowing home consumption. Scots insist on whisky neat, prefer malt “uisge bheatha,” while debates on grain vs malt continue amid high prices and lingering taxes.
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London
Highlands
Hebrides
Britain
Chiang To Get 2 U. S. Destroyers
Admiral Robert B. Carney announced plans to turn over two U S destroyers to the Chinese Nationalists on Formosa. He spoke after returning from a East Asia Pacific tour at a news conference as Red China loomed and Nationalist forces faced major operations.
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Robert B. Carney
United States
Formosa
Carney
East Asia
Pacific
China Mainta
Sunday Journal previews Thanksgiving plans and features
In Sundays Journal readers learn Midletown area plans to help the needy and a big day for the fortunate. The Women of the House may cook Thursday while husbands join in briefly. Plus Society pictures and recipes. Muscular Dystrophy drive starts next week with mailmen march coverage. Attic rummage yields a 129 year old paper and Butler County history from 1826.
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Middletown
Butler County
Sundays Journal
Pakistan Official Denies Rumors of Base Trade Talks
Pakistan's governor general Ghulam Mohar says reports of negotiations with the United States to trade military bases for arms are unfounded. Mohar is en route home from the United States after talks with President Eisenhower and other officials.
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London
Pakistan
Ghulam Mohar
United States
Mohammed
Eisenhower
Disgrace Hits Soviet Textile Plants Over Bad Cloth
Soviet Deputy Premier Anastase Mikoyan, wielding new powers, publicly disgraced two well known textile factories in Trud for producing substandard cloth. He ordered massive returns of bad fabric and sharply cut future textile orders, leaving the plants unable to meet annual production plans and depriving workers and executives of bonuses.
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New York
Anastase Mikoyan
Trud
Mikoyan
Philippines Need Cash Prompted by Magsaysay Remarks
President elect Ramon Magsaysay said Manila will seek American aid to finance his administration’s program as the treasury is empty. He warned the situation requires outside assistance and rapid action to fund ongoing reforms.
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Manila
Ramon Magsaysay
Two GE Workers Suspended Over Communist Allegations
GE suspended Robert Goodwin and Nathaniel Mills of its Lynn River Works after FBI informant William Teto named them Communists at Senator McCarthy's hearing. Both invoked the Fifth Amendment amid calls for a probe by Essex County District Attorney Hugh Cregg into possible criminal action related to access to sensitive military products.
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General Electric Co
FBI
Joseph R. McCarthy
Robert Goodewin
Nathaniel Mills
River Works
Lynn
William H. Teto
Ashby
Communist Party
Federal Bureau of Investigation
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Mills
Sen. McCarthy
U. S
McCarthy
Senate
Essex County
Hugh A. Cregg
Goodwin and
Teto
Armed Services
Indian Summer Forecast Brief Shower Chance in Miami Valley
The weather outlook notes scattered showers in the Miami Valley this afternoon ending a dry spell and bringing cooler air. Showers expected tonight with a possible weekend snow later if moisture from the south rises. Highs around 65 today, 42 tonight, 52 tomorrow as a cold front arrives.
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