West Germany urges NATO summit for unified defense policy
West Germany's Franz Josef Strauss urged Western leaders to meet at a spring NATO summit to craft a unified defense policy. He opposed a fortress Europe, warned against U S troop withdrawals, and stressed the need to counter Russian threats with coordinated policy and talks with President-elect Kennedy.
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Paris
West Germany
NATO
Franz Josef Strauss
U. S
Oslo
Strauss
North Atlantic Alliance
John F. Kennedy
United States
Europe
Christian Herter
Herter
Trial Ends Prosecution Case in Rose Murder Trial
In Waukon Iowa testimony wrapped up the prosecution case against John Rose year old West Union resident charged with fatally shooting his father Nori last May 24 near their homestead The state produced friends and former schoolmates who testified to a feud over a Nazi flag a discarded scrapbook on Hitler and threats The youth allegedly planned to kill his father before he was 18 years old according to one witness and several others corroborated upset reaction to the flag burning and Hitler scrapbook
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Waukon
John Rose
West Union
Adolph Hitler
Young Rose
Nori
Henry Ficken, Jr
West Union High School
Gladys Seaton
Decorah
Rose
Ficken
John
County Fire and City Discuss Cooperative Ambulance Plan
The Muscatine County Board of Supervisors and five city council committees plus Mayor Walter Conway met at city hall to explore a cooperative ambulance service. They plan a second meeting Saturday to submit detailed plans and proposals, with representations from county and city officials and funds from the Little Ambulance Co donation.
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County ‘Board of Supervisors
Muscatine
Walter Conway
Shandle
Aim
Conway
Little Ambulance: Co
Fhe City
Central State Bank
County Board
Chy
Anity Greom Millee
Sub Freezing Extend Across Gulf States Amid Cold Spell
Sub freezing readings stretched from the eastern Rockies across much of the county into the Gulf states with temperatures as low as the 20s and teens in Wisconsin Minnesota and the upper Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes. Seaboards were warmer with readings in the 30s while central Florida hovered in the 40s and southern states saw 60s in the interior tips of the day.
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Rockies
Gulf States
International Arts, Mini
Grantsburg
Wis
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
Ohio
Easley
Seaboard
Munich Air Disaster injures dozens civilians in Christmas rush
A Convair transport with 20 aboard crashed in central Munich near St Pauls church during the pre Christmas rush. At least 60 killed, including students from the University of Maryland at Montell. Plane attached to the 3rd Air Force, Nordholt, England, with seven crew and 13 passengers. Witnesses describe a low flyover and the plane tearing into a streetcar jammed with shoppers. Rescue crews responded as the burning wreckage blocked Bayer Street. No survivors confirmed in early reports.
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Germany
U. 8
Air Force
Convair
Munich-Riem
London
U. S. University of Maryland At Muntell
England
Washington
3Rd Air ‘Force
Nordholt
St Paul's
Karl Froebligh
Steple
3Rd Air Force
St. Paul's Church
Barbers Cut Gum Use Amid Sanitary Order in Denver
A Denver debate over barber gum use targets young customers. The State Board of Barber Examiners mailed an order on January 1 claiming a sanitary measure, while Victor Lumblade calls it professional jealousy. Ivar Jones notes he spends up to 130 dollars yearly on gum to keep youths seated.
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Denver
Cole
State Board of Barber
Victor Lumblade
Ivar Jones
Denver Barber
Jones
Haile Selassie Returns as Ethiopian Uprising Wanes
Rebels lose momentum in Addis Ababa as Emperor Haile Selassie returns to the capital. Crown Prince Asfa Wasson reportedly freed from blame. royal family reportedly held in the Imperial Palace while rebels still control key posts. Army reports recapture of the city, airfield, and radio station.
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London
Haile
Salaysia
Ethiopie
Addis Ababa
Asmara
Ethiopia
Haile Selassie
Alampot
Dodah
Mac
Agta Wasson
Paldor
King of Kings
London Evening News
Aden
Voice of Ethiopia Radio
Bees
Thief Seized After Truckload Loot Hideout Raid
In Plymouth England Reginald Craddock was brought to court on a charge of stealing about 3 081 items. Police say six men aided by three trucks spent four hours hauling phonograph needles and other loot from Craddock's apartment to a hold location.
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Biymouth
England
Reginald Craddock
Craddock
Third Anti Segregation Session Opens
Louisiana Legislature opens its third anti integration special session as Gov Davis weighs a one cent hike in the two cent sales tax. Court actions involve Orleans Parish School Board seeking to block banks from refusing its checks. A Tipton man, Samuel Thomas, 57, is killed after an on street crosswalk collision. Police report no charges yet. a trooper notes the case under investigation.
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Louisiana
Grow
Jimmie H. Davis
Davis
New Orléans
Orleans Parish
U. S. Goverment
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
New Orleans
Tipton
Samuel Thomas
State ‘Highway Patrol
Wilma-Werling
Thomas
At Least 136 Dead In Brooklyn Staten Island Crash
Rescue teams pressed through cold rubble early today seeking more victims after Friday's airliner collision killed at least 136. FBI fingerprint crews aided the Brooklyn and Staten Island搜 operations as investigators seized tapes and examined jet wreckage from the Trans World Airlines Constellation and United Air Lines jet.
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Staten Island
Trans: World Airlines
United Air Lines
UAL DC
Chicago
Saag
Park’ Slope
TWA
Dayton
Columbus
Ohio
Hide Miller Army Airfield
Church
FBI
UAL
Grand Canyon
Victims Sought Amid Snow After NYC Airliner Crash
Rescue workers and police dig through wreckage on a Brooklyn street as stretcher bearers move past snow covered sidewalks and burning hoses. Authorities report 136 dead, with continued efforts to find victims and identify remains.
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Brooklyn
Pliceman
At Least Give Him His Teeth In Missouri Divorce Case
Clay ton F Holland testified his estranged wife would not let him retrieve his false teeth from their home along with a few shirts and four shoes. Mrs Holland, suing for divorce on general indignities, kept the items over a dispute about antifreeze for the family car. Judge Ben Terle called denying a man his teeth a petty matter and awarded Mrs Holland $143 a month support pending the divorce outcome.
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Isansas Wily
Clayton F. Holland
Holland
Funds Raised for New Trial for Forester Parker
A nationwide fund nears $2,000 to secure a new trial or pardon for Darvel Parker, once Lincoln city forester and life convict for murder. Contributions reach 18 states and four fellow Nebraska Penitentiary inmates. Parker, convicted in 1955 for the strangling death of his wife Nancy, maintains innocence. his parents Myron and Mrs. Lynn Parker of Henderson, Iowa, have hired an Omaha attorney to pursue his release.
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Lynn’ Parker
Henderson, Towa
Omaha
Castro Faults Cardinal Arriaga as Judas in Speech
Fidel Castro denounced Cuba's top Roman Catholic prelate Cardinal Arriaga as a Judas figure during a fiery labor rally. He accused the church of tolerating Batista-era theft and linked the church to the bloody dictator. The speech followed Cuba signing a $166 million Soviet trade pact, with details undisclosed, amid sugar shortages and U.S. embargo pressures. President Eisenhower cut Cuba US sales to zero for the first quarter of 1961 due to regime hostility.
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Fidel Castro
Cuba
Manuel Cardinal Arriaga
Judas
Fulgencio Batista
Catholic Church
Castro
Uunion
U. S
Eisenhower
United States
Castra
Kennedy Set to Complete Cabinet with Day as Postmaster General
President elect John F Kennedy completes his Cabinet by naming J Edward Day of Los Angeles an insurance executive as postmaster general. Day, 46, will join a roster including Douglas Dillon as Treasury secretary and Robert Kennedy as attorney general. The announcements followed Friday night moves from Washington to Palm Beach and Georgetown.
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Palo Beach
John’ F_ Kennedy day
J. Edward" Day
Los Angeles
Palm Beach
Fla
Yohn
Kennedy
Edward
Day
Los’ ‘Angeles
Washington
United States
Elizabeth’ Smith
Democratic National Committee
California
Smith
Douglas ‘Dillon
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Treasury
Dillon
Georgetown
Robert
Byron’ Whit Zer White
Denvyer
Harry J. Auslinger
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