Reds Build Up Mideast Drive To Bring Chaos
In Beirut and Baghdad the rise of Communist influence spreads across Iraq Syria and Lebanon amid post insurrection chaos. U S assistant secretary of state William M Rountree faced violent mobs and mudballs during talks in Baghdad while Iraqi Premier Abdel Karim Kassem seeks to balance growing Communist support.
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Reds
Tom Masterson
Beirut
Lebanon
Middle East
Iraq
U.S
William M. Rountree
Syria
United Arab Republic
Khaled Bagdash
Egypt
Bagdash
Cairo
Communist Party
Abdel Karim Kassem
Nasser
Baghdad
Rountree
Watertown High Evacuated Over Bomb Threat
Watertown high school pupils were sent home after an anonymous caller warned of a bomb just before 8:30 a.m. Police traced the call to a nearby pay phone as investigators searched the premises.
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Watertown
Watertown High School
Wells Building Plans Progress
The Wells building near 11th street will open for recreational use early January with Monroe high school students occupying space and fitting out a youth corner. Students install pool and table tennis tables from the former youth center razed last spring, as redesign proceeds under Stanley Howe and Ronald D. Johnson. City engineer Walter Ekum notes the rear stairway is nearly done and toilet frames are in place. the entrance must be widened and floor braced before public opening. Connors Plumbing and Heating Co. won the bid for 1 138.50. Council to consider the contract tonight. The city owns the building and rear warehouse to be razed for parking. first floor and basement will be used for recreation on a trial basis, with permanent improvements. Tonight's council agenda also includes hearings on raises for the fire chief, two assistant chiefs, and the city sealer, effective Jan 1, funded in the 1959 budget.
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11Th Street
Stanley Howe
Monroe
Ronald D. Johnson
Park and Recreation
Walter Ekum
Connors Plumbing and Heating Co
Board of Public Works
Freda M. Bray
Connors
Green Bay Hunting Missing Man Theft Warrant Issued
Green Bay district attorney Robert Petitjean issued a theft warrant for George L. Clarkieu a 58 year old insurance firm operator and Lincoln National Life district manager who disappeared from his home over a week ago. Investigators say more than ten thousand dollars in income tax money he prepared returns for over four years may be involved with as many as 25 clients reporting loss.
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Green Bay
Robert Petitjean
Petitjean
George L. Clarkieu
Lincoln National Life Insurance Co
Clarkieu
Cold Wave Ends as Snow Forecast for Vicinity Tonight
The cold snap eased with temperatures not dropping below zero for the first time in nine days. A low of five to 15 above zero is expected tonight with snow, and a high around 25 tomorrow. Winds may bring blowing and drifting snow in many areas.
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Mercury
Madison man dies from gunshot in garage
Thomas Voegely 51 a Madison resident and Monroe native was found dead of a gunshot wound in his garage yesterday evening. The Dane County coroner investigates the death which may involve a self inflicted discharge while handling a gun from a car trunk. Surviving are his widow Zenna LaRonge Voegely an only child Mrs Edward M Boland his mother a brother a sister and three grandchildren. Services set for Thursday in Madison and Monroe with burial in Greenwood cemetery.
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Thomas Hefty Voegely
Madison
Monroe
Rose Hefty Voegely
Highway 59
Dane County
Voegely
Albert
Zenna LaRonge
Edward M
Arden) Boland
Casper
Wyo
Ray Voegely
Selena Bevins
Wisconsin Rapids
Michael
Tommy
Kathy Boland
Boland
Wyoming
Frautschl Funeral Home
St. John’s
Antifreeze Drink Fatal to Girl 17 in Party
West Newbury Massachusetts police report a teen party at a home led to the death of Carol Curry 17 and four teens hospitalized after consuming antifreeze mistaken for liquor. Richard Keller 17 of Merrimac temporarily lost his sight. Peter Bent Brigham Hospital Boston later said sight returned.
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West Newbury
Mass
Carol Curry
Buell Curry
Boston
Richard Keller
Merrimac
Peter Bent Brigham Hospital
Eden Leaves London for New York and Mexican Vacation
Former British prime minister Sir Anthony Eden, taken ill, departed London by plane for New York today en route to a winter holiday in Mexico.
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Eden
London
Sir Anthony Eden
New York
Mexico
Delay in Alarm and Address Mixup Tied to Our Lady of the Angels Fire
Chicago fire commissioner cites delay in sounding the alarm and a street address mixup as direct causes in the Our Lady of the Angels School fire that killed 89 pupils and three nuns. He notes three witnesses hesitated and a late U.S. alarm led to wasted time before firefighters learned the blaze location.
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Chicago
Our Lady of the Angels
Robert J. Quinn
Quinn
Missiles Ready In South Korea
United Nations Command announced that SEOL Matador guided missiles have been brought into South Korea. The UN stated the weapon can be armed with an atomic warhead but did not confirm whether nuclear warheads were present or provide details on numbers or dates.
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South Korea
United Nations Command
U. N
Knutson Says He Was Duped Over Coya Letter
Andy Knutson testified he would not have signed the Coya Knutson campaign letter if he had known who backed it. The letter helped trigger Mrs. Knutson's defeat by Odin Langen as she sought a third term, while a House committee probes the controversy and the author Maurice Nelson's role.
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Washington
Andy Knutson
Coya
Coya Knutson
D-Minn
Maurice
Nelsoff
Fossten
Minn
Langen
Walter Surrey
Knutson
Surrey
Congress
NATO Parley Rejects Berlin Demands In Mixed Talks
The 15 NATO foreign ministers flatly rejected Soviet pressure on Berlin while keeping open the possibility of high level talks on East West issues. Dulles predicted Khrushchev will not risk war over Berlin and warned against giving the Soviets an inch.
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Paris
Berlin
Soviet Union
West Berlin
Serretary Dulles
North Atlantic Council
Khrushchev
Dulles
Hitler
Europe
Germany
NATO
Britain
France
United States
Greece
Turkey
Cyprus
Moscow
West Germany
Paul-Henri Spaak
Rapacki
Wisconsin Republicans vow to win independents with information drive
Jasper chairing state GOP says independents can back Republicans if informed on issues. He cites unity and plan to rebuild local organization. Governor Thomson touts two decades of sound Republican governance and urges defenders of the record.
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Madison
Claude Jasper
State Republican Organization
Jasper
Eisenhower
Wisconsin
Benson
Thomson
Air Crash Kills Firm Executives Near Boston
Seven men lose lives in a company plane crash during a snowstorm in a swampy area south of Boston. Among the dead are five executives from Johnson and Johnson of New Brunswick New Jersey. The pilot and copilot also perished. The flight originated from Linden New Jersey en route to Boston. The last radio contact was 9 30 a m reporting an engine failure.
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North Smithfield
R. L
New Jersey
Johnson and Johnson Co
New Brunswick
N. J
Linden
Boston
Franklin
Mass
Plea Entered in Contempt Trial of Goldfine and Secretary
Industrialist Bernard Goldfine and his secretary Mildred Paperman pled not guilty in federal court to contempt charges related to failure to produce records from Goldfine companies for a tax probe.
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Boston
Bernard Goldfine
Mildred Paperman
Goldfine
Family Killer Flips Then Confesses in San Diego Slaying
In San Diego police capture Carl Eder after he confesses to slaying Thomas Pendergast’s wife Lois and their four children. Eder, a 16 year old runaway, says the killings started when a child’s noise provoked him and he used a pistol and a hunting knife to kill Diane 4 Allen 2 David 9 and Tom 6. He claims he did not want to but he claims it just flipped.
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San Diego
Calif
Thomas Pendergast
Pendergast
Carl Eder
Tom
New York
Eder
Lois Pendergast
Mission Beach
Diane
David
Commie Chief To Retain Post As Party Leader
Peiping officials informed foreign diplomats that Mao Zedong will retire from the government chairmanship next month while remaining head of the Communist party. Chen Yi announced Mao would not seek re election when the current term ends in January. Nationalist sources say Chu Teh could succeed Mao amid party opposition to reforms. Khrushchev in Moscow attacked the anti party group and boasted Soviet agriculture leads the United States in several outputs.
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Red
China
Peiping
Mao Tze - Tung
Warsaw
Poland
Chen Yi
Mao
Communist Party
Chen
Communist Party Central Committee
Formosa
Chang Kai-shek
Taipei
Party Central Committee
Han- Kow
Chu Teh
Central Daily News
Moscow
Khrushchev
Malenkov-Molotov
Central Committee
Kremlin
Tass
Georgi Malenkov
Nicolai Bulganin
V. M. Molotov
Dimitri Shepilov
Lazar Kaganovich
Soviet Union
Ivan Serov
Serov
United States
New York Newspaper Deadlock Persists Amid Shutdown
Negotiators reopen talks to end the nine New York daily newspapers shutdown. National mediator Joseph F. Finnegan again joins the Newspaper Mail and Deliverers Union with the Publishers Association of New York City as losses mount for both sides.
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New York
Joseph F. Finnegan
Newspaper Mail and Deliverers Union
Publishers Association of
New York City
Nobel laureate Wolfgang Pauli dies in Zurich hospital
Zurich reports the death of Prof. Wolfgang Pauli a Nobel prize winning physicist aged 58. Pauli won the 1945 physics prize for the Paulin principle.
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Zurich
Wolfgang Pauli
Pauli
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