Order to Destroy Red Files Faces Probe in Senate
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee plans full dress hearings to learn who ordered destruction of Army intelligence files on communism in 1944. Sen Styles Bridges claims higher ups blocked the order, while Adm Ernest King and Adm Chester Nimitz deny recalling the conversation. Open hearings promised soon.
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Giant Safari Hunts Elusive Critter in Cogan House Area
A safari of 8H hunters with airplanes and a Red Cross unit seeks a mysterious “critter of Cogan House township” believed to be a black panther, mountain lion, or large bobcat. A $300 prize and 100 pounds of dog food spur the hunt on Bobst Mountain near Williamsport, with Judge Charles Scott Williams leading from Steam Valley Mountain headquarters.
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B 47s Will Be Within Striking Range of Russia
Washington reports about 45 Boeing Stratojets will fly nonstop from Barksdale AFB Louisiana to a forward base in French Morocco for a 4,775 mile training and alert mission. The B 47s are fitted for atomic warfare and this marks the first regular assignment of a wing to Mirado with three fields operating and a fourth under construction.
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Ohio Coffee Boycott Officially Sanctioned
Toledo officials proclaimed a coffee boycott day led by Mayor Ollie Czelusta to roll back prices to a reasonable level. The measure aims to make coffee affordable for all residents and reflects broader cost concerns in the community.
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War Department Ordered Destruction of Intelligence Files
Former Sen Joseph C O Mahoney recalls the War Department ordered its intelligence files on subversion and security destroyed. He says the origin of the order could not be traced and notes the files contained information on suspected communists and subversives who had applied for commissions in sensitive jobs. He adds he was told it was routine to purge a huge accumulation of papers.
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Lodge says U.N. not nest of spies and cites aims
U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Henry Cabot Lodge Jr told Virginia lawmakers that the U.N. is not a nest of Communist spies and that U.S. citizens employed there have been and will be screened. He praised the U.N. for halting regional wars and defending against aggression while noting its failures, urging scrutiny of its purposes and benefits for America.
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Bricker Amendment Deal Delayed As Senate Debates Compromise
Washington report says Senate Republicans fail to agree on a bipartisan Bricker Amendment compromise. Key lawmakers, including Knowland, favor settling the issue on the floor, while Bricker and the administration press for changes curbing the president’s treaty powers. Talks to craft a workable formula continue into the weekend with no clear agreement.
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John W. Bricker
British coal digging costs one life a day
London report by Coal Board chief Sir Hubert Houldsworth shows 364 miners were killed or injured in accidents in 1955 and 1,904 were seriously hurt. The figure implies a death every day in Britain’s coal pits, highlighting dangerous working conditions.
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Coal Board
Hubert Houldsworth
Tito Takes Oath As Yugoslavian President
In Belgrade President Tito was sworn into office with a crowded gallery watching. Diplomatic representatives of Western powers attended the ceremony as Yugoslavia marked the transition of leadership.
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Belgrade
Yugoslavia
Mild to severe cold snaps hit Wisconsin in quick swing
Cold returned to Wisconsin after a milder day as blue skies gave way to sharp drops in temperature. Readings statewide fell 27 to 41 degrees from Friday afternoon with Grantsburg at minus 13 and Bemidji and Caribou tied for national lows at 20 below zero.
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Caribou
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Secret H Bomb Lab Revealed at Livermore
Washington report says a secret H-bomb facility at Livermore California run by the University of California for the AEC has existed since 1952. About 1,500 scientists and technicians work there. The disclosure marks official acknowledgment of the lab and its role in Teller’s hydrogen bomb work and future tests at Eniwetok Bikini.
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Livermore
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Edward Teller
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Pacific
House- Senate Atomic Energy Committee
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Sandia Laboratories
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Spoon River
Illinois
West Blocks Red Move To Hear East Germany West Blocks Red Move To Hear East Germany
The U S Court of Appeals unanimously affirmed the Federal Power Commission action granting the Power Authority of New York a license to join the 600 million dollar St Lawrence River power project. The plan aims to create a sea route and faces possible Supreme Court review by opponents who may seek certiorari, delaying final decisions for months.
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Western Allies reject Soviet bid at Big Four talks
The United States Britain and France blocked a Soviet move to bring East German delegates to the Big Four conference as high level talks on Germany opened. Dulles Eden and Bidault rejected Molotovs proposal and affirmed unity against recognition of the East German government. The session focused on Berlin and the peaceful use of atomic energy.
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Anthony Eden
Georges Bidault
Germany
Molotov
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Bidault
Korea Pact Parleys Are Left to Reds
The United States plans to propose resuming stalled Korean peace talks after Red negotiators withdraw insulting charges. Washington would set an early date while maintaining the demand that the perfidy charge be withdrawn. If the Communists reject the interpretation, responsibility for blocking talks would fall on their side.
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Washington
U.S
United States
Arthur H. Dean
Dean
John’ Foster Dulles
Berlin
North Korea
Red China
Fanfani Government Falls in Italian Crisis
Rome reports that Amintore Fanfani’s 11 day Christian Democrat government collapsed when the Chamber of Deputies denied a vote of confidence 303 to 260. Only CD, one trade union member, and the Republican party backed him. De Gasperi’s name emerges as next premier as Einaudi plans consultations. Fanfani blasts Communists calling them Volga sturgeons and denies fascist leanings.
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Luigi Einaudi
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Palmiro Togliatti
Pietro Nenni
Benito Mussolini
Eisenhower weighing Ripon speech and Milwaukee dinner invites
The White House said President Eisenhower was considering but undecided about speaking at Ripon Wisconsin in March for the Republican party centennial and receiving an honorary degree from Ripon College. A separate invitation asked him to address a $100 plate dinner in Milwaukee on March 20 after the Ripon event. The central Wisconsin town plans a special stamp issue to mark the GOP birth with 10,000 sheets of stamps sold at $1 each.
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Prisoner-turned-guards joke as 21 Americans call each other Mister
Panmunjom, Korea AP Peiping Radio said 21 Americans along with one Briton and 325 South Koreans who returned to North Korea spent their first night in Kaesong in a spacious two story stone house. The men who refused to return Rome and delivered propaganda attacks were said to be sightseeing and playing with children while in custody.
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China
North Korea
Eisenhower signs quota bill to set 1954 cotton allotment
President Eisenhower signed a bill fixing the 1954 national cotton planting quota at 21 379 342 acres. Reports from Peiping Radio said Chinese and North Korean Red Cross officials would handle prisoners’ welfare as peace talks loom. Reds demand prisoner status for 21 000 anti Red North Koreans and Chinese liberated by Allies. Prisoners topic continues with federal and diplomatic negotiations noted.
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Senate panel flags badly undermanned military reserves
The Senate Armed Services Committee warned reserves across all services are seriously short of manpower. It blamed inactive reservists and World War II veterans called to duty in the Korean War for the shortfall and noted misaligned pay and training policies destroying trust among nonpaid reservists. The National Guard is seen as better but needing a year of training to be combat-ready.
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Senate Armed Services Committee
Egypt Political Chief Given 15 Year Prison Term
Cairo court sentences former Wafd party figure Serag El Din to fifteen years for corruption abuse of power illegal profiteering and undermining state influence while controlling finance and interior ministries in 1951 52 dates.
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Cairo
Pfaad
Law expands Agriculture Dept powers on food aid and crops
The new law restores the Agriculture Department's authority to buy potatoes for school lunch distribution and authorizes planting of durum wheat outside normal quotas. The measure follows a period when price supports for potatoes were eliminated after losses surpassed 500 million dollars. Durum wheat remains extremely scarce.
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U N Korea Talks Hinge On Three Votes
At the United Nations in New York the push for a special Korea session hung on three undecided votes. As Friday ended, 28 nations opposed India's Feb 9 meeting call, 22 supported it led by the Soviet bloc, and eight of 10 yet to vote leaned against the session. Dag Hammarskjold would relay negative balloting to Prime Minister Pandit.
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N.Y
Korea
General Assembly
U.N
Vijaya T Lakshmi Pandi
Dag Hammarskjold
Pandit
India
Renue
U.S
Washington
Far East
Russia
Panmunjom
Pope Pius XII Shows Steady Improvement at Vatican
Pope Pius XII, troubled by a nervous stomach worsened by overwork, was reported to be improving slowly. He rested well, stayed in his Vatican apartments, and celebrated Mass in his private chapel this morning.
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Pius XII
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Wisconsin Weather Forecast For Sunday
Fair and little change in temperature tonight with partly cloudy skies. Warmer on Sunday with low temperatures from minus 15 to minus 5 and highs around 15 to 22. Northwest winds diminishing today, becoming light southerly Sunday. Northwest Observations note clear skies and temperatures around 5 at 10:30 p.m.
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