Reds Claim Spies Confess During Public Peiping Trial
Tokyo dispatch says John T. Downey Richard G. Fecteau and Col. John Knox Arnold admitted in a Peiping court they received espionage and guerrilla warfare training. Arnold described as commanding officer of the 581st Wing said his unit did not serve in Korea and worked with U S intelligence to aid underground agents. Exhibits included firearms code books gold bars and a device for pickup by aircraft.
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Tokyo
Red China
John T. Downey
Richard G. Fecteau
Col
John Knox Arnold
Peiping
United Press
Radio
Arnold
U. S. Air Force
581St Air Resupply
U. S. General Intelligence Agency
Red Radio
Downey
Fecteau
Little Girl Pleads For Playmate Family
A ten year old girl writes to Good Fellows asking that a playmate be remembered. Her friend’s father is in hospital for two years and the mother with younger siblings struggles on welfare for food. The appeal highlights unselfish devotion.
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Cer
Doubt Eisenhower Nominee Will Get Senate Blessing
President Eisenhower faces doubt over Theophil C. Kammholz's nomination as general counsel of the National Labor Relations Board. Senate sources warn he may not be confirmed this session or next, highlighting the key role the post holds in deciding prosecutions under the Taft Hartley act.
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Rowland Evans JR
Washington
Eisenhower
Theophil C. Kammholz
Chicago
National Labor Relations Board
Senate
Kammbholz
NLRB
Blood Spot Trail In Doctor's Home Shown To Jury
Photographs showing a trail of blood spots through the Sheppard house were introduced in the murder trial of Dr. Samuel H. Sheppard. A chemist identified 15 luminol enhanced images as blood traces, with defense objections overruled. The state accuses Sheppard of killing Marilyn Sheppard after an affair with nurse Susan Hayes.
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Cleveland
Sheppard
Henry Dombrowski
Samuel H. Sheppard
Bay Village
Marilyn
Dombrowski
Fred Garmone
Susan Hayes
Crackdown on Drunk Drivers Continues in Fourth District Court
Judge Jesse Heard fined four drivers 300 dollars plus costs for operating a motor vehicle while intoxicated and scheduled Edgar Stringer for December 10 trial. Additional speeding fines were issued to Arceneaux, Herlong, Crawford, and Howe, with bonds forfeited for overlength load offenses involving Elbert Barns.
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Jesse Heard
Fourth District Court
Gordin L. Mitchell
Edward Carter
G. M. Watley
James Wilson
Edgar Stringer
Arnie A. Arceneaux
Zack N. Herlong
Pierce T. Crawford
Hardie E. Howe
Elbert Barns
Marvin
Burglaries Reported Here On Thanksgiving
City detectives said burglars struck five places during the night totaling minor losses. Two sites Cullen's Bar and Bennett's Pool Hall were entered by removing skylight panes. liquor and coins were taken. Rendezvous drive in restaurant was entered through a broken west side pane with the thieves fleeing.
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Cullen's
DeSiard
Bennett's Pool Hall
North 6Th
Bennett's
Louisville Avenue
Scattered Clouds Scheduled Today Over Twin Cities
Forecast from the C. A. A. notes broken clouds in the Twin Cities with scattered clouds at 12 000 feet expected to linger through the afternoon. Morning high reached 64 degrees at 11 30 a.m. and a low of 45 degrees was recorded around 7 a.m.
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Twin Cities
Ensminger Named Monroe Bus Department Head
R. W. Ensminger Sr former state police captain and Selman Field airport assistant manager was named superintendent of Monroe city bus department replacing Wiley Moseley who resigned after a drunk driving guilty plea. Cline announced immediate start with council vote unanimous. Ensminger, 53, born in Winnsboro, long resident of Ouachita parish, married with five children, resides Monroe.
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R. W. Ensminger, Sr
Monroe
Wiley Moseley
Moseley
Ensminger
Cline
Winnsboro
Ouachita Parish
Hawthorne
Irma Grant
Selman Field
Man Held For Fatal Shooting Of Stepson 16
In Fort Wayne Indiana a 45 year old father of seven was jailed on homicide charges after fatally shooting stepson Gerald Landis 16 and wounding brother Glen 17 at the King home during Thanksgiving preparations. The victims were visiting from Logansport with their brother Jack 15. The shooter cited the youths as trouble makers.
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Fort Wayne, Ind
Everett H. King
Zeis
King
Landis
Jack
Logansport
Thanksgiving Day Traffic Toll Tops 100 Lives
United Press tally from 6 pm Wednesday to midnight Thursday reports 115 traffic deaths, plus four fires and 18 other misadventures for a 137 total. Illinois leads with 16 deaths. Texas nine and New York five. Weather and bad driving contributed to the holiday carnage.
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United Press
Illinois
Texas
Kentucky
Michigan
New York
National Safety Council
Eisenhower
Mendota
Ill
Monmouth
Yoshida Set to Call Election in Power Struggle
Tokyo reports embattled Prime Minister Shigeru Yoshida prepared to call a general election if he cannot retain office or appoint a successor as premier. With a Diet session in four days, three factions vie for power, two conservative and one socialist.
Whisky bottle highlights local justice cost to drinker
An empty whisky bottle is shown in the window of L. I. Harris justice of the peace office in Fruita Colorado. A penciled note reads This cost the man who drank it 266 dollars detailing the financial consequence of the act.
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Fruita
Colo
L. I. Harris
Justice of the Peace
FBI arrests third inmate in Lewisburg prison killing
The FBI charged Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary inmate 17 year old Chattanooga native Lewis Cagle Jr. with the murder of former government economist William W. Remington. Cagle admitted planning a room ransack with McCoy and Parker, while McCoy and Parker face charges for beating Remington with a brick wrapped in a sock. Remington died from a skull injury after denying sharing secrets with Communists. The case clarifies the motive and precedes Alger Hiss's release from the same prison, amid anticipated reunion with his wife Priscilla.
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Lewisburg, Pa
FBI
Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary
William W. Remington
Norman H. McCabe
Philadelphia
Lewis Cagle Jr
Chattanooga
Tenn
Remington
McCabe
Cagle
McCoy
Parker
George Junior McCoy
Grundy
Robert Carl Parker
Washington
D.C
Alger Hiss
Priscilla
Hiss Leaves Federal Pen Tomorrow On Probationary Basis
Alger Hiss, age 50, will leave Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary tomorrow on a probationary basis after 314 years behind bars. His wife Priscilla is expected to meet him at the gate. He was convicted of perjury in a case tied to covert espionage but received an earlier release for meritorious conduct. He will be unable to vote or hold public office as a convicted felon.
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Hiss
Federal Pen
Lewisburg, Pa
Alger Hiss
Lewisburg Federal Penitentiary
Priscilla
State Department
Congressional
Fred T. Wilkinson
Russians Deny Asylum to US Deserter in Court Martial
Berlin reports an Army court martial disclosed that Russians refused political asylum to an American soldier who deserted. U S officials called it the first such instance since the Cold War began.
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Berlin
U. S
Blood Evidence Shapes Ohio Murder Case
The state described in court that the killer of Marilyn Sheppard left a blood trail around the Cleveland home and paused at the bedroom door where her young son Chip slept, arguing the scene and conduct point to the suspect.
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Cleveland
Marilyn Sheppard
Chip
Red Chinese Troops Invasion of Wu-chiu Island Reported
Taipei reports a Chinese Communist amphibious assault on Wu-chiu Island with a beachhead seized at 9 am and retaken an hour later by Nationalist forces. Nationalists claim heavy fighting, air strikes on the invading flotilla, and warning of possible repeat raids.
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Taipei
Formosa
Wuchin
Chiang Kaishek
Witchiu
Quemoy Island
Wuchiu
Chiang
Fog shuts down transport across Southland
The worst fog in years cripples land sea and air travel from San Luis Obispo to the Mexican border. Coast Guard rescues Harmony near Catalina Island as airports close and traffic crashes rise in the Los Angeles area. Three three month old babies die from respiratory ailments amid smog conditions.
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Los Angeles
California
Coast Guard
Harmony
Isthmus Cove
Catalina Island
Los Angeles International
Pacific
San Luis Obispo
Frank Champion
Complete Kill of Fish After Ammonia Leak Near Sterlington
Ammonia lines leaked near Sterlington causing a complete kill of fish in the Ouachita River upstream of the area. The leak was corrected quickly. fish deaths occurred within a mile or two downstream. Dead fish began washing ashore Wednesday and Thursday. officials expect no further damage as the water purifies and fish return soon.
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Sterlington
Ouachita River
State Wildlife and Fisheries Department
Secret files burned at Ft Monmouth during hearings
New York Daily News quotes Capt Benjamin H Sheehan a former Counter Intelligence Corps agent who says ten wastebaskets full of secret files were burned just before the Army McCarthy hearings at Ft Monmouth New Jersey The 1952 espionage probe at top secret labs is cited with details of orders to report to the West Coast and a sudden file consolidation by a CIC officer.
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New York
New York Daily News
Ft. Monmouth
N. J
Electronics Center
News Syndicate Co., Inc
Benjamin H. Sheehan
Counter Intelligence Corps
CIC
Sheehan
Far East
Baltimore Clothes Store Shakes with Radiator Ruckus
Police rushed to a clothing store after calls about hammering sounds. Three patrol cars a patrol wagon and fourteen officers found the radiator system rattling in the cold.
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Baltimore
Hoover Praises Berlin Defenders Against Red Inroads
Former U S president Herbert Hoover lauded West Berlin for resisting Communist influence during a five day visit with Chancellor Adenauer. He urged world nations to learn from Berlin, warned of three Communist threats and stressed freedom requires patient cultivation and moral resistance.
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Berlin
Herbert Hoover
Hoover
Konrad Adenauer
West Berlin
Senate
Solu- Hoover
West Ger
W. L. Mitchell Sr. Dies In West Monroe
William Louis Mitchell Sr. 70 longtime West Monroe business figure and founder of the Mitchell family name in local commerce died after a short illness. Funeral services were at Mulhearn Funeral Home with burial at Riverview. Survived by wife Maude, son W L Mitchell Jr, daughter Mrs Henson Coon, two grandchildren, and many nieces and nephews.
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William Louis Mitchell
W. R. Mitchell and Company
West Monroe
Mulhearn Funeral Home
W. D. Milton
James T. Horton
Riverview
Mitchell
First Methodist Church
Mitchell School
Maude Rogers Mitchell
W. L. Mitchell, Jr
Henson Coon
Martha Ann Coon
Henson Coon, Jr
Brando Arrives Home Denies Publicity Rumor
Marlon Brando returned to New York from a voyage and angrily rejected rumors of his engagement as a publicity stunt. He said he asked Josanne Mariani not to attend the dock reunion and left to meet her at an undisclosed location.
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New York
Marlon Brando
Josanne
Brando
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