Mason quits Ike commission in protest over Manion firing
Rep Noah M Mason of Illinois resigns from President Eisenhower's Commission on Intergovernmental Relations in protest of Clarence Manion's dismissal for supporting the Bricker Amendment. Manion says he was fired at Sherman Adams request. Bricker and allies condemn the move, warning of political storms ahead.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Commission On Intergovernmental Relations
White House
Clarence Manion
Noah M. Mason
Ilinois
Manion
Mason
Bricker
Notre Dame Law School
Sherman Adams
Manson
United States
John W. Bricker
Ohio
Senate
William E. Jenner
Tod
Clarence
United Press Telephoto
Butcher Samaras Kills Wife and Her Lover in Dallas
John K Samaras, a 2 year old butcher, was freed on $1000 bond after admitting he shot his wife and John Bowers, a 30 year old bartender, in Bowers apartment. He found them together Tuesday noon and later shot them after a tavern meeting. Mrs Samaras survived in fair condition at St Pauls hospital.
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Dallas
John K. Samaras
Samaras
John Bowers
Bowers
St. Paul’s Hospital
Representative Burdick Questions Timberland Debate Process
Rep. Asher L. Burdick of North Dakota challenged members in a tense House debate on timberland rights asking why both sides seem unsure of their aims. He said he had been quiet but concluded that neither side knows what is being done.
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Washington
Asher L. Burdick
R-N.d
Burdick
Attorney Approved Wiley for U S Attorney Post
A Senate Judiciary subcommittee approved President Eisenhower's nomination of Malcolm R. Wiley to be U S Attorney for Southern Texas.
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Washington
Senate
Eisenhower
Malcolm R. Wiley
U.S
Texas
Slayer To Die In Electric Chair Tonight In Texas Killing
Wal ter Collins Green, 25, convicted for the February 1953 slaying of Fred W. Eldridge, a Minnesota traveler. He faced the electric chair in Texas after a long juvenile delinquencies and prior prison terms in Florida Georgia and Washington.
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Huntsville
Walter Collins Green
Green
Francis Duffy
Florida
Fred W. Eldridge
Minnesota
Eldridge
van Horn
Tex
Tallahassee
Fla
West Palm Beach
Bernard George Pregier
Culberson County
Pregier
Hobbs Slayer Set For Chair
Arthur Johnson, 58, is executed in the electric chair for the 1951 Hobbs murder of William Cabrel after a fatal rock blow in a $10 shack. Convicted of 15 felonies, Johnson was described by Warden Abram as a changed man who spent his final weeks reading the Bible.
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Santa Fe
N. M
Arthur Johnson
Johnson
William Cabrel
Hobbs
Cabrel
Hobbs Alley
Victorville
Carliff
Lucille
Oklahoma City
State Supreme Court
Cabre
Morris Abram
Death Row
Abram
Breakfast dispute ends with police chase
Police responded to a 3 am call in East Hartford where a man pursued a woman along a street. Investigating officer said the incident involved a husband chasing his wife because she refused to cook his breakfast at that hour.
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East Hartford
Conn
Army orders court martial for Corporal for aiding prisoners
The Army ordered Corporal Edward Dickenson to stand trial by court martial on charges that he informed on fellow American prisoners and cooperated with Communist captors to secure better treatment for himself.
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Washington
The
Army Today
Cpl
Edward Dickenson
Paul H Brown Improves at McCloskey Hospital
Temple reports state insurance commissioner Paul H Brown showing improvement after pneumonia treatment at McCloskey Veterans Hospital yesterday.
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Temple
Paul H. Brown
McCloskey Veterans Hospital
Brown
Three Texas Cities Battle Rabies Outbreaks
Officials in Santa Rosa Houston and Amarillo declared rabies emergencies as seven mad dogs appeared in Santa Rosa this year and 21 people underwent Pasteur treatment. Houston ordered stray captures, Amarillo pushed 30 day dog quarantine and mandatory vaccination plans.
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Texas
Santa Rosa
Rio Grande Valley
Roy Hofheinz
Houston
Amari
Six Die in Car Train Crash in Sedalia Family Tragedy
In Sedalia Missouri a car driven by 43 year old William E Sprinkles collided with a Missouri Pacific passenger train near his home. Six members of the Sprinkles family died including Frances and three children Dickie Lyla and Carol and Lester Dillard. One survivor 12 year old Bill Sprinkles was hospitalized in critical condition with multiple injuries.
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Sedalia
William E Sprinkles
Missouri Pacific
Sprinkles
Frances
Lester Dillard
Dickie
Lyla
Carol
Bill
President Eisenhower Begins Five Day Palm Springs Vacation
President Eisenhower and Mrs. Eisenhower escaped Washington's winter for five days in Palm Springs California. They stayed at Smoketree Ranch near the town, with Dr. Howard Snyder urging the trip and Paul Hoffman supporting the getaway. The President planned sun and golf while Ben Hogan served as club pro at Tamarisk Country Club.
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Palm Springs
Calif
Eisenhower
California
Hollywood
Washington
Paul G. Hoffman
Studebaker Corp
John S. Doud
Denver
Smoketree Ranch
Town
Hoffman
Tamarisk Country Club
Ben Hogan
Panhandler Charged After Free Meal Ends With Fee
Carroll Moore aged 53 stood before an Odessa bank seeking food when a well dressed man offered a meal and lodging. The man was Odessa Police Chief Jess Cariker who charged Moore a court fee of 15 dollars for panhandling after pleading guilty in corporation court.
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Carroll Moore
Odessa
Moore
Corporation Court
Jess Cariker
Train Car Crash Kills Odessa Man
Odessa man George Parr seeks federal civil rights protection from the Texas Rangers with Arthur Garfield Hays of New York to handle the case. Texas Attorney General John Ben Shepperd accuses Parr supporters of packing a Duval county grand jury and describes a decade-long scheme to influence juries in Benavides school district affairs.
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Alice
Tex
South Texas
George B. Parr
Texas Rangers
Duval County
Parr
Arthur Garfield Hays
New York
Hays
American Civil Liberties Union
Boston
Tennessee
Berlin
Leipzeig
Germany
Reichstag
Benavides Independent School District
Shepperd
Sam Reams
Motorist’s Complaint Triggers Egg-Throwing Incident
A Burlington motorist complained to a woman crossing on a red light. She retorted about personal woes and then struck him with a sack of eggs, prompting a speedy reply from bystanders and authorities.
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Burlington
Iowa
Tragic Odessa Wreck Kills One Injures Two at Crossing
A Texas and Pacific switch engine crashed into a car at the South Crane Avenue crossing in Odessa about 8:30 a.m. Thursday. Homer Dyson, 41, of Odessa died at Medical Center Hospital from a broken neck and internal injuries. Bill Camp, 27, and Walter Carter, 25, sustained injuries. Camp was unconscious on arrival but later recovered, Carter remained conscious and left for home after treatment. Funeral plans for Dyson were pending, and police investigations continued.
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Texas and Pacific
Crane Avenue
Homer Dyson
Llano Drilling Co
Midland
North Amburgey
Medical Center Hospital
North Cowden
Bill Camp
West Ninth
Walter Carter
Driller
South Crane
Camp
Carter
Dyson
Rix-Parr
Odessa
Liano Drilling Co
Gatesville
Edith
Jerry
Teresa Jo
M. C. Dyson
Eucie
Matt Lam
Tascosa
Texas
Bailey Timmons
Raymond Meeker
Vigil Ends Not Yet as Family Hopes for Soldier's Return
In Camden New Jersey Pvt Richard Tartar long presumed dead in Korea prompts a family vigil after a telegram promised his return The father Walter received Hello Pop Will be home Thursday signed Dick The family fears a hoax yet clings to faith and waits with words from a wounded buddy who said Richard did not think he would die Defense telegram had declared his death eleven months earlier
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Camden
N. J
Richard Tartar
Korea
Walter
Pop
Amelia Reece
Richard
Defense Department
Far East Peace Conference Planned in Geneva
Berlin dispatch says the Big Four foreign ministers agreed to hold a Far East peace conference in Geneva on April 15, including Red China, to focus first on a Korean peace treaty. Participants would be the United States Britain France Soviet Union and China with Korea and Indo China groups to follow.
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Berlin
Geneva
Switzerland
United States
Great Britain
France
Soviet Russia
China
South Korea
North Korea
Korea
Indo-China
Britain
Russia
Red China
Indo- China
Viet Nam
Laos
Cambodia
Peiping
Big Four
North
Showers Reported in Several Texas Cities
Thundershowers occurred overnight in Austin College Station Lufkin and Brownsville with traces in Austin and Brownsville .21 inch in College Station and .09 in Lufkin for the 24 hours ending 6 30 am Thursday.
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United Press
Texas
Austin
College Station
Lufkin
Brownsville
Murder Counts Filed In Strange Slaying In Lordsburg
Martin Vaughn and his eight month pregnant wife Ruby Ruth Vaughn were charged jointly with the murder of itinerant mechanic Amos Clarence Burgess in a case Sheriff Richard Richards called the strangest he ever worked. Burgess body was found eight miles east of Lordsburg New Mexico. The couple, transients from Arizona, gave evasive statements and have waived extradition to be returned to Midland Texas for formal proceedings.
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Lordsburg
N.M
Martin Vaughn
Ruby Ruth
Dick Richards
Amos Clarence Burgess
Phoenix
Ariz
Vaughans
Arizona
Vaughan
New Mexico
Burgess
R. C. Richards
Scase
Ed Darnell
Midland
Cornell
Ormandale
Fra
Alabama
Harold Wallace
Wallace
Aout Burgess
East Berlin stages huge Soviet rally
About 150000 East Berlin workers marched under Communist orders in a snow covered Unter Den Linden rally supporting Soviet Russia at the Big Four conference. A silent pro West march was planned later. Prime Minister Grotewohl and party chief Walter Albrecht led the procession.
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Berlin
East Berlin
East Zone
Russia
Unter den Linden
France
United States
Great Britain
Otto Grotewohl
Communist Party
Walter Albrecht
Supreme Court May Hear Case Against Judge
The U S Supreme Court may review the ouster proceeding against District Judge C Woodrow Laughlin. Defense counsel Clint C Small of Austin filed a brief contending the state constitutional provision enabling the action violates due process. Oral arguments were heard by the Texas Supreme Court February 10. A special master found five counts of official misconduct sufficient for removal.
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District Court of Texas
South Texas
Laughlin
79Th District
State Supreme Court
Speeding driver cited after misread highway sign
A North Carolina highway patrolman stopped a speeder at the junction of routes 70 and 101. The motorist claimed the speed limit was 70 miles per hour as shown on a nearby sign. The officer corrected him and issued a ticket before he reached Highway 101.
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Beaufort
N. C
Highway 101
Prisoner Earns Promotion by Laziness, Not Conduct
A Washington prison camp inmate earned an unlikely promotion to the honor grade. The camp superintendent reported the man is very sorry and unfit for guarding, adding he is too lazy to attempt an escape.
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Washington, N. C. W
Weather forecast for today and tomorrow
Partly sunny today with a high near 76 and a low around 45. Tomorrow’s outlook calls for a high near 69 with continued mild conditions.
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