Reds Imprison Bishop Walsh
The United States plans the strongest possible protest to Red China over the 20-year prison sentence given to 68 year old American Roman Catholic Bishop James E. Walsh, an ailing prelate.
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U.S
Red China
Washington
United States
Red
Walsh
China
Shanghai
Spellman
Peiping Radio
Francis Cardinal Spellman
New York
Herter
Bid to Narrow Voting Referee Plan is Beaten
The House faced a split vote as backers of a voting referee plan lost a key bid to broaden its scope. The measure would allow referees to assist Black voters in contests beyond federal elections, while opponents argued for narrower application. Secretary of State Christian Herter condemned alleged conspiracies tied to Red China and urged protests to representatives in Warsaw, citing diplomatic tensions and prisoner matters.
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Washington
House
Christian
Herter
U.S
Warsaw
United States
Jacob D. Beam
Wang Ping-nan
Red China
Peiping Radio
Soviets Accept Ike Proposal For N Test Ban
In Geneva Soviet delegates accepted President Eisenhower's partial nuclear test ban plan and proposed an immediate three power moratorium with the United States and Britain. They urged a joint scientific study on small underground blasts while offering no international verification. The move followed U S plans for Operation Gnome and amidst a tense presidential campaign backdrop.
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Geneva
Eisenhower
United States
Britain
Soviet Union
Semyon Ts@rapkin
Hernan Silés Zuazo
United Ted
Wadsworth
David Ormsby-Gore
Tsarapkin
U. S. Atomic Energy Commission
New Mexico
Senate Vote Sets Referees in Civil Rights Clash
The Senate defeated 53 24 a plan to allow presidential appointment of referees in areas with voting discrimination against Negroes. The roll-call was by tellers with no individual names recorded. Republicans split near evenly despite administration push, while Southern lawmakers backed limits. House Democrats led by Emanuel Celler predicted the measure would pass by a substantial margin. The outcome hinged on further Southern-backed amendments and a decisive vote anticipated Tuesday.
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Senate
William McCulloch
Ohio
House
McCulloch
Emanuel Celler
New York
Loyal Forces Dominate Bolivian Revolt In La Paz
In La Paz Bolivia a segment of the national police revolted against the government. The government radio station labeled the uprising a reactionary subversive coup and said loyal military forces control the situation.
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LA Paz
Bolivia
Eisenhower To Relax At Camp David
President Eisenhower stays indoors at Camp David amid heavy snow in the Catoctin Mountains near Thurmont Maryland. He arrived with George Allen from the White House for a weekend stay and plans to remain through Monday while Mrs Eisenhower continues a vacation near Phoenix Arizona and plans to return Monday.
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Thurmont
Aspen Cottage
Radio tags linked to birds to trace their movements
Washington authorities report the Federal Communications Commission authorized tiny radio transmitters on game birds to trace their movements. The announcement carried the line radio has really become something for the birds.
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Washington
UPI
Federal Communications Commission
Eleven Die in Japanese Hospital Fire in Kurume
AP dispatch from Kurume Japan reports a fire at a mental hospital housed in an old wooden army barracks. Eleven inmates died and another was missing presumed dead as staff could not reach those locked in barred cells before the blaze was extinguished.
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Kurume
Japan
Carole Bernard Finch Freed on $25,000 Bail
Carole R. Bernard Finch, 23, left county jail in Los Angeles on $25,000 bail posted by two bonding companies for her pending retrial on murder and conspiracy charges. Her release followed a hung jury in the prior trial. She hugged her parents outside the jail as Finch remained in custody for the retrial.
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Carole Tregoff
Los Angeles County
Los Angeles
UPI
Carole R. Bernard Finch
Tregoff
Day of Freedom
South Pasadena
Miss Tregoff
Finch
Barbara Jean
James Tregoff
Miss Tregoffs
Bdriefly
Carole
MacArthur to Undergo Surgery Soon
General Douglas MacArthur will undergo an operation to reduce an enlarged prostate after seven weeks in Lenox Hill Hospital. Dr. George W. Slaughter said the preparation period is starting and the general’s condition is being monitored. The bulletin notes he remains hospitalized.
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New York
UPS
J Douglas MacArthur
Vantal
George W. Slaughter
Ilenow Hill Hospital
MacArthur
Milwaukee plan calls for 120 million tax relief package
A Milwaukee tax study panel approved a three part program to ease local tax burdens including a 3 000 homestead exemption a personal property tax cut and a shift to higher income or sales taxes to cover about 120 million dollars in annual revenue loss. The plan, chaired by John Lobb, could face full committee review by April 1.
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UPI
Vision Committee
John Lobb
Lobb
James Martineau
J. Oconto
Glen Pom
Mevening
R - Wauwatosa
Howard Packard
Racine
Remains Sought in Plane Crash Dig Site
Power shovel crews moved to recover wreckage and bodies from a crater in a southern Indiana farm after a Northwest Airlines Electra exploded midflight killing 63 aboard. Investigators weighed sabotage or severe turbulence as possible causes, while officials planned memorial services for victims. Senator Capehart, grieving for his son and daughter-in-law, pressed for answers. Northwest prepared symbolic caskets for each faith and belief system aboard.
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Tell City
Ind
Northwest Airlines
Indiana
Homer E. Apehart
R-Ind
St. Paul
Minneapolis
Chicago
Miami
Ohio River
Wilson
CAB
Ed Slattery
Capehart
Thomas Capehart
Indianapolis
Jamaica Island
Donald W. Nyrop
Northwest
Granddaughter of A C McComb among victims in Tell City crash
Suzanne Zang 28, granddaughter of Frank L. Zaug and A C McComb of Oshkosh, died in the Tell City Ind plane explosion. She had traveled from Milwaukee to Chicago for a seat, then flew to Florida to visit her parents Mr. Kareld M. and Mrs. Mary Jane McComb Zaug of Pompano Beach. Her relatives include Frank L. Zaug, former American Plywood owner, and A C McComb, noted Oshkosh industrialist.
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New London
Oshkosh
Tell City
Ind
Pompano Beach
Fla
Suzanne Zang
Milwaukee
Chicago
Mitchell Field
Miss Zang
Kareld M
Mary Jane McComb Zaug
Frank L. Zaug
American Plywood Corp
4. C. McComb
Vanishing Rutland County Drives Slow Sign
UPI reports England is set to dissolve Rutland County into a larger county. Road signs warn drivers to slow as the tiny county disappears, signaling an administrative reorganization and a shift in local governance.
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London
UPI
England
Rutland
Floodwaters Strike Central Florida as 5000 Displaced
United Press International reports floodwaters sweeping across the peninsula forced more than 5000 residents from homes in central Florida and nearby Tampa suburbs. Four days of rain and Guardsmen support worsened conditions as the Suwannee River and local lakes rose, traffic blocked, and emergency shelters opened.
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United Press International
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Ponta
Tampa
Texas
Suwannee
mid-Mississippi
Tennessee
Great Lakes
Placi
Fort Myers
Great Plains
Yuma
Ariz
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