Doctor charged in wife's death after admitted sedative use
Chicago police filed a murder complaint against Dr Hobart H Todd 43 for the death of his wife Hazel 45 in Skokie. Todd admitted giving two sedative injections and injuring her before calling for help. coroners autopsy pending microscopic study. Todd described a nervous quarrel over money and claimed self-administered sedatives.
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Hobart H. Todd
Hazel
Skokie
Todd
William Griffin
Griffin
P.m
Jerry Kearns
Cook County
Army Medical Corps
New York City
Hobart Todd
Ill
United Press
Eden to Confer With President in Washington
British Prime Minister Eden will meet President Eisenhower in Washington at the end of January. The White House announced Eden will stay a few days to discuss cold war strategy amid Russia's belligerent stance. Eden and British foreign secretary will arrive January 30 to join the talks.
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Gettysburg
Eden
Eisenhower
Washington
White House
Russia
James C. Hagerty
United States
Unexpected Trial Called in Giles Bribe Case
In Crystal City Texas a $59,000 civil suit against former land commissioner Bascom Giles was suddenly set for trial ahead of three associated criminal charges. The suit, filed last Friday, alleges Giles received a bribe from Crystal City attorney J Paul Little related to 4040 acres in Dimmit and Zavala counties.
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Tex
Bascom Giles
Giles
J. Paul Little
Clint Small
Tim McCormick
Small
McCormick
Little
Dimmit
Zavala
Fewer Children Get Second Polio Shots Nationwide
An Associated Press survey shows about 20 percent fewer youngsters received their second polio vaccination than the first in the Salk drive. At least 3,627,036 children have had a second shot, with the first round totaling 34 million.
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Washington
Associated Press
Leonard A. Scheel
National Foundation For
Idaho
Massachusetts
Eisenhower Holds Strategy Session With Nelson Rockefeller
President Eisenhower met with Nelson Rockefeller, his short of war planning adviser, in Gettysburg after a heart attack. They discussed United Nations issues including Outer Mongolia membership and a new Security Council seat, with reports of U.S. urging Nationalist China not to veto. The White House did not comment on reports of intervention with Chiang Kai-shek.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
Nelson Rockefeller
American Federation of Labor
Congress of Industrial Organizations
Chiang Kai-shek
Big Spring Bomber Crash Kills Two Crewmembers
A B 37 bomber on a training flight from Laughlin AFB Del Rio Texas crashed during approach to Webb AFB at Big Spring killing two crew members. One identified as 1st Lt Price Marshall Frazier 23 of Clearfield Utah from the 766th Bomb Squadron Hill AFB Utah. The other victim’s name was withheld pending positive identification.
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Tex
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Ark
Webb Air Force Base
Air Force
Price
Marshall Frazier
Neema Frazier
Clearfield
Utah
Uniontown
Frazier
766Th
Hill Afb
Laughlin Air ,Force Base
del Rio
Webb
Defense Opens In Chapa's Trial
The defense opened its case in the trial of D. C. Chapa 59 former Benavides School District tax collector on charges of diverting 1400 in taxes. The state rested after a 13 day trial with Jose Cadena teller and assistant cashier at Benavides Exchange Bank as final witness. Cadena matched signatures on tax receipts to Chapa noting one irregular letter stroke. Chapa faces eight additional indictments.
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Benavides
Duval County
Jose Cadena
Benavides Exchange Bank
Cadena
Cha
Republicans unite on peace and prosperity campaign motto
Top Republicans agreed the battle cry for next year will be peace and prosperity. Democrats warned of attacks on foreign policy, with DNC head Butler urging Eisenhower to rule out the GOP theme. Dissenters warned Republicans may retaliate over foreign policy criticism.
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GOP
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Eisenhower
Homer Capehart
R-Ind
R-Ind.) ‘Agreed. “of Course We're Going To Idebate “Foreign Policy,” Capehart
Paul M. Butler
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Omar Burleson
D-Tex
Wayne L. Hays
Ohio
Dulles
Joseph C. O'Mahoney
D-Wyo
Capehart
New York
Averell Harriman
Oklahoma
Russia
Harriman
Barr ¥S Goldwater
R-Ariz
Walter Reuther
CIO
Raritan Declares End to Traffic War
Raritan New Jersey mayor and police chief announced peace and a more courteous, efficient police department after a dispute over traffic tickets, following a pay raise referendum defeat. They reported fewer traffic violations recently and said differences between parties are satisfactorily adjusted.
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N.j.pra
Mart O
Anthony Santora
Lorenzo Rossi
Man Knifes Woman After Seizure On Street
A 45 year old man seized Gertrude Searcy 47 as she walked on a street last night and stabbed her in the back and leg. He told officers he thought she was his wife. She was listed in fair condition.
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Gertrude Searcy
Three Jurors Picked In Washburn Trial At Waco
Three jurors chosen today as Harry Washburn faces charges he planted an auto bomb that killed his former mother in law Jan 19. Luther Birch 54 a salvage trucker was seated then Robert Whitley 37 a plumbing contractor and Arthur Leggett Jr. 29 a livestock auction employee followed. The packed courtroom heard defense motions to dismiss the indictment as vague and lacking an overt act. The judge promised a ruling later.
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Waco
Harry Washburn
Luther Birch
San Angelo
Robert Whitley
Arthur Leggett Jr
Cliff Tupper
Washburn
54Th District
State
Defense
Irving Him
Algeria clashes kill dozens as rebels clash with French troops
In a market clash near the Tunisian border, Algerian nationalists and French forces killed at least 40 people. Initial tallies cited 31 Algerians dead in the market and nine more after a bus shooting. France seeks a new treaty on Morocco defense and diplomacy.
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Tunisia
Algiers
Aligeriang
Panhandle Snow Blanket Arrives in Texas
The Texas Panhandle received an inch of snow with Amarillo at one inch and Dalhart lighter, as a cold front keeps temps in the upper teens to 40s. The Weather Bureau warned of possible snow spread into the Plains while East and Central Texas expect intermittent rain and mostly cloudy skies.
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Associated Press
Texas Panhandle
Amarillo
Dalhart
Panhandle
Weather Bureau
Plains
Texas
Waco
College Station
Lufkin
Strauss Refuses to Say If Talks Involved White House
AEC Chairman Lewis L. Strauss declined to confirm or deny discussions with White House officials about repudiating the Dixon Yates contract. He invoked separation of powers and said it would be natural to notify the White House of fraud possibilities, while others testified there was no proven fraud in the contract.
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Washington
Lewis L. Strauss
Atomic Energy Commission
Senate
White House
Dixon Yates
Strauss
Sen
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Congress
William Mitchell
AEC
Nationalist Chinese Air Force Drops Leaflets Over Mainland Bases
Nationalist Chinese air force planes flew over heavily armed Red air bases on the mainland during the night and dropped millions of anti Communist leaflets.
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Taipeh
Formosa
Eisenhower Urges AFL CIO to Protect Minority Rights
President Eisenhower, addressing the AFL-CIO merger convention, urged the new union to safeguard minority rights within its ranks and ensure their views are accurately reflected. He framed the event as a demonstration of democratic process while stressing cooperation between employers and employees and cautioning against Communist methods abroad.
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Eisenhower
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CIO
Afl-Cio
New York
Union
Secre
Burma Unit Is Reviewed By Bulganin
Soviet Premier Bulganin reviewed Burma troops at Maymyo as insurgents pressed in jungles nearby. Khrushchev told officers that keeping an army is costly but needed to fight dissidents including Burmese Communists. Burma’s defense consumes nearly half the budget amid recent insurgent kidnappings of WHO doctors.
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Burma
Ikolai Bulganin
Peneti Ec
Khrushchev
World Health Organization
Bulganin
Mandalay
Taunegyin
Russia
Asia
Europe
Open Sky plan seeks UN endorsement for disarmament
United States presses for U N General Assembly backing of President Eisenhower's Open Sky inspection plan. Henry Cabot Lodge Jr. argues aerial inspection rights and defense blueprints exchange could deter surprise attacks and advance disarmament. He urges Soviet compliance before the assembly ends next week.
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United Nations
N.Y
United States
Fight Today
U.N. Assembly
Eisenhowser
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U.S
Assembly
Soviet Union
Lodge
Eisenhower
Geneva
Harold E. Stassen
U.N
Dulles
Radio war charges spark Tokyo Peiping clash
Tokyo dispatch reports Washington germs generals are said to have gone mad and plotting to sicken or kill a large percentage of foreign peoples. The claim inflames tensions between Tokyo and Peiping as war chatter intensifies.
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Tokyo
Peiping
Washington
East German Curbs End Barges Supplies To Berlin
East German officials said West German barges will lose permits to supply West Berlin after December 31, with the Bonn government to negotiate. A related order addresses foreign vehicle insurance on East German highways and excludes clear mention of Allied traffic. The Moscow treaty assigns Berlin-bound traffic to the Soviets while Allied traffic remains under their control. An American Army tour to East Berlin proceeded without incident.
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West Berlin
Reds
Communist Party
Neues Deutschland
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Finance Ministry
East German Legal Bulletin
East Germany
Soviet
Russia
Moscow
East Berlin
America
Ramona Deftmeyer
Lincoln
Neb
James T. McQueen
Mulvins
S. C
Red Threatens To Bar Scribes In Burma Tour
In Maymyo Burma Gen Ivan A Serov warned Western reporters they could be barred from the Soviet premier Bulganin Khrushchev tour party after a British photographer photographed a detachment member elbowing a Burmese soldier. Serov said the Soviet party was disgusted by the journalists and photographers conduct. He told the photographer such pictures would trigger a beating in his country.
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Maymyo
Burma
Ivan A. Serov
N. A. Bulganin J
Communist Party
N. ‘Khrushchev
Serov
Man Killed by Pickup Truck Near Highway 96
Jasper P William Berryman aged 85 died when struck by a pickup truck two miles north of town on Highway 96 early today. Police reported the incident occurred in the morning with emergency responders on scene.
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Jasper P
William Berryman
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Weather: Cooler with Light Rain Likely
Cloudy and cool conditions continue this afternoon with a chance of light rain tonight. Partly cloudy skies and slightly warmer conditions are expected Tuesday. Highs around 48 today and 52 on Tuesday with lows near 30 tonight.
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