Bascom Giles Sentenced To Six-Year Term
Bascom Giles, former Texas land commissioner, was sentenced to six years in prison after pleading guilty to accepting two bribes totaling 44 000 dollars related to the state veterans land program. The sentence runs concurrently with existing terms. he faces a separate 15 000 dollar bribery charge and nine additional indictments.
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Crystal City. Tex
Bascom Giles
Veterans Land Program
Ausstin
San Antonio
Giles
Austin
J. Paul Little
Crystal City
Little
Dimmit
Iavala
Zavala County Abstract Co
Crookston
Minn
Carl O. Whistler
Minnesota
Red Lake County
Zavala County Bank
Coy B. Henson
Austins
Woman Injures Ankle After Slipping In Waiting Room
Mrs Sarah Hubbard slipped while rising from a waiting room chair and broke her ankle after leaving a doctor's office in Waterbury Connecticut. No fault attributed to the physician.
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Waterbury
Conn
Sarah Hubbard
Weather Outlook With Warmer Temperatures Ahead
Partly cloudy skies today turning cloudy tonight with fresh south winds. High around 55 today, low near 22, the warmest day reaching up to 62. Yesterday peaked at 63 with a low of 25.
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St. Everight
Universities Burn Governor In Effigy
Emory University and the University of Georgia joined a wave of protests over a racial policy affecting Georgia teams. Thousands of students burned Governor Marvin Griffin in effigy at multiple campuses while police contained scattered disruptions and minor disorder on Athens and Atlanta campuses.
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Atlanta
Emory University
University of Georgia
Georgia
Marvin Griffin
Griffin
State Board of Regents
Georgia Tech
Pittsburgh
Tech
Athens
Mercer University
Macon
East German press accuses Conant of boasting on Berlin
The East German Communist paper Neues Deutschland denounces James B. Conant for boasting that the United States will maintain the four power status in Berlin. It says the four power laws no longer exist and warns of new East German sovereignty moves and threats to border and road traffic.
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Berlin
James B. Conant
United States
West Berlin
Neues Deutschland
Britain
France
Russia
Bonn
P. A. Dibrova
East Germany
German Democratic Republic
Conant
Sagebrush War Games End With 32 Dead in Louisiana
In Exercise Sagebrush, seven million acres in western Louisiana hosted the massive U S war games. Thirty two of about 140000 servicemen perished, due to vehicle crashes, drownings, a helicopter crash, electrocution, lightning, disease, and one broken neck with two deaths under investigation. Umpires halted the fighting phase after repelling the aggressor invasion.
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FT. Polk
America
Army
Air Force
U. S
Sagebrush
Louisiana
Big Four Recognize Austria Perpetual Neutrality
The United States Britain France and Russia formally recognize Austria's perpetual neutrality. Secretary of State Dulles delivered a note to Austrian Ambassador Karl Gruber, with identical notes sent to the Austrian government. The recognition follows Austria's Oct. 26 law pledging neutrality and nonalignment in military alliances.
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Washington
United States
Britain
France
Russia
Austria
Dulles
Karl Gruber
State Department
GM To Revise Franchise Pacts
President Harlow Curtice announced General Motors will revise its automobile dealer franchise agreements to five years from one year. The move comes as Senate Monopoly Subcommittee hearings on GM continue to scrutinize the company's practices.
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Washington
ULP
Harlow Curtice
General Motors Corp
Senate
Curtice
Khrushchev Visit Questioned by British Critics
Britons suspect Khrushchev seeks to cancel his London visit by pressuring Britain through hostile remarks during tours in Asia. Churchill urged careful deliberation while Eden had invited the leaders to London for April, amid Western calls to curb Soviet inflammatory rhetoric and pressuring politics.
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London
Nikita Khrushchev
Russia
Man Queried In Death Of 3 Chicago Boys
A 23 year old Michigan man, Owen Robert Moser of Fenton, is being questioned in connection with the disappearance and murder of three Chicago boys in October. Police say he admits being in the Chicago area and picking up two or three youths, but state there is no evidence tying him to the killings. He is jailed on an unregistered firearm charge after police found a gun in his car during a traffic stop. Police say Chicago authorities overstated a signed statement and that Moser denied any link to the triple slaying. The boys, Robert Peterson 14, John Schuessler Jr. 13, and Anton Schuessler 11, disappeared October 16 and were found October 18 in a forest preserve ditch. Moser says he lived in Homewood, Illinois, and worked at a local coffee shop January to October before moving to Michigan. State detectives say he denied connection to the murders.
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James Parker
Holly
Owen Robert Moser
Fenton
Mich
Moser
Oakland County
Parker
Chicago
Robert Peterson
John Schuessler, Jr
Anton
Homewood
Iil
Charles Leif
Melvin Kaufman
Triple Slaving
Husband testifies in first televised murder trial at Washburn case
The husband of victim Helen Harris Weaver testified that Harry Washburn threatened to kill him and his wife in 1951 and demanded a note rewrite and payments. The trial in Waco is reported as perhaps the first murder trial telecast live, with jurors questioned on circumstantial evidence.
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WACO
Helen Harris Weaver
Harry Washburn
Washburn
Weaver
San Angelo
Houston
Poe
D. W. Bartlett
Kwtx-Tv
Bill Stinson
Texas
Court To Hear Arguments On Witness Immunity Law
The Supreme Court considers the constitutionality of a 1954 immunity law that directs reluctant witnesses to answer with promised immunity from prosecution. William Ullman argues the law is used to trap him into perjury as he appeals a contempt conviction from a grand jury probe into wartime espionage.
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Washington
Supreme Court
William Ludwig Ullman
Air Force
Treasury
Ullman
New York
U. S. Dist
Edward Weinfeld
Grand
U. S. Court of Appeals
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Senate
Pentagon
Elizabeth Bentley
Ohio teens bound to grand jury in matron murder
Five Akron area teenage girls are bound to the Summit County grand jury for allegedly strangling a detention home matron. Among the defendants is Shirley Shingler 14 the youngest ever bound to a grand jury for murder in Ohio. The case heads to adult court with potential death sentence unless mercy is recommended.
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Akron
Ohio
Russell W. Thomas
Summit County
Miri Cain
Alva J. Russell
Thomas
Hi Court
Eula Bonham
Shirley Shingler
Russell
Ruth Beichler
Margaret Nicholson
Zelda de Cost
Spellman to Visit Troops in Far East for Christmas
Francis Cardinal Spellman the military vicar to Roman Catholics in the armed services will depart December 16 for the Christmas season. He has spent the holidays visiting troops in the Far East for the past four years and will continue this year's mission among service members.
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New York
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Armed Services
Far East
Eisenhower Eden to Focus on Mid East Cooperation Talks
President Eisenhower and British Prime Minister Eden plan high priority talks January 30 on Middle East cooperation. They will review Western Russia policy after recent regional visits and explore Eden's mediation role to ease Arab-Israeli tensions while seeking a united front against the Soviet bloc.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Anthony Eden
Middle East
Russia
India
Burma
Afghanistan
Britain
Europe
Geneva
China
United States
Israel
Eden
Cisen
Far East
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Richard R. Tenneson
Alden
Tenneson
Korea
Peiping
American Red Cross
Adam Knox
Knox
Red Cross
Red China
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Alarilla
Ecaga
Denver
St. Ey
Paso
Fort Worth
Galveston
St. Louis
East Berlin
Neutral
Khrushchev
Yuri Zhukov
Taungegyi
Soviet Union
Asia
Pilgrims
United States of America
Pravda
Bulganin
Communist Party
West
Foreign Office
Khushchev
Winston Churchill
Anthony Nutting
Woodford
England
Churchill
Bulgaria
Bulgania
Ft. Leavenworth
Kans
North Korea
Ninevah Carter
Lyle G. Swanton
Monroe
Wisc
Harvey O. Mitchell
Detroit
United Press Telephoto
Pontiac
Michigan
Spellman
Mid-East
Ike
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