Mob in Jordan Tries to Block Baghdad Pact
Amman crowds march on the prime minister’s offices demanding a pledge not to sign the Baghdad pact. Arab Legion troops fire tear gas as rioters clash in the capital during six days of unrest. Mobs attacked the U S consulate in Jerusalem and called for free speech and prisoners' release amid Cairo radio attacks on Jordan. King Hussein names Ibrahim Hashim to form a caretaker government and set parliamentary elections within four months to decide the pact.
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Amman
Jordan
Arab Legion
U.S
Jerusalem
Cairo Radio
Malaya
Gerald Templer
Templer
Ibrahim Hashim
Hussein
Hashim
Stubborn blaze damages apartment house ownership bay
Firemen fought a stubborn two car blaze at an apartment house owned by Harry Mac Lend at 624 Lafayette Rd last night. Unofficial damage estimated over 2600 dollars. Cause linked to thawing pipes with a blowtorch igniting old newspapers behind a wooden partition. Fire spread upward through the building as flames roared upward like a chimney and smoke caused damage while water leakage was minimized by canvas covers. Fire crews also battled four calls in the afternoon and evening including chimney fires at multiple residences and a frozen-anti-freeze fire at a Massachusetts operated site.
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Harry MacLend
Lafayette Rd
Joseph Hudson
MacLeod
Harry Eastman
Cabot St
Andino Polini
Circuit Ra
Vaughan Street
Massachusetts
Rita Dougherty
Ernest Levasseaur
South St
Bradshaws Brought To Manila by Plane
American medical missionaries Dr and Mrs Homer Bradshaw were freed after five years in Red China and arrived at Clark Air Force Base from Hong Kong for medical treatment. An Air Force spokesman said no interviews would be allowed due to their fragile condition. They are in their early thirties and had served in China since 1928. Mrs Bradshaw has suffered a mental breakdown and both suffer acute malnutrition.
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Manila
Homer ¥. Bradshaw
Red China
Clark Air Force Base
Hong Kong
Air Force
Bradshaw
Presbyterian
China
Candia Milk Hearing Sparks Local Turmoil
A Candia dairy hearing drew about 300 residents amid subzero weather as Aime Jacobs challenged state milk price controls. Debate centered on removing controls. Jacobs claimed he could profit selling unpasteurized milk at 19 cents quart. The session grew tense with clashes between attorneys and board officials.
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Candia
Aime Jacobs
Aime
Jacobs
State Milk Control Board
MHK
Wesley Powell
Hampton Falls
Friends of Aine Jacobs Committee
Asst
Arthur E. Bean
Maurice @. Chase
Milk Control Board
Bean
Chase
Powell
Eden Shakes Up Cabinet with Mixed Reception
Prime Minister Eden announced a wholesale government reshuffle, moving seven Cabinet portfolios, elevating one department, and dropping another from the inner circle. Butler becomes deputy PM, Macmillan swaps to Treasury, Lloyd to Foreign Office, and Monckton to Defense. The Works Ministry gains Cabinet status. pensions exits. Critics fear a political chairs game as Labour jeers and Conservatives express doubts amid inflation and Foreign policy tensions.
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London
Eden
Winter Cold Wave Bids Harsh Start To Season
Local readings show a severe cold spell across northern New England with Portsmouth officials reporting subzero temperatures overnight. Official stations list 7 am values from eight to minus fifteen below zero as areas including Sherburne and Wentworth Acres report drastic dips while inland towns like Durham and West Epping record twenty below and beyond.
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Portsmouth
Sherburne
Wentworth Acres
Islington Street
Durham
West Epping
Family of Six Lose All Possessions in South Berwick Fire
South Berwick residents rally to aid Clair Wheeler, wife and four children after a fire destroyed their Emery's Bridges Road home while they were at work and the children at school. The Rotary Club led a relief drive with cash donation. Red Cross leased a vacant house, and donations of clothing, bedding, furniture, and stoves poured in to help the family.
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South Berwick
Howald Guilifer
Clair Wheeler
Emery
Bridges
Wheeler
South Berwick Shoe Co
Robert
Horace
Carol
Ronald
Uyaw
Wheelers
Red Cross
Frank Clark
Norton Street
Gulliver
Seventeen Die in Eastern Constellation Crash Near Jacksonville Airport
A crash of Eastern Air Lines Constellation Flight 642 near Jacksonville airport killed 17 people. All passengers and five crew members perished. one body was en route north for burial. Witnesses described a low arc before the crash in pine woods near Highway 17, with wreckage burning after impact. Authorities reported no survivors and noted initial passenger counts varied.
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Constellation
Jacksonville
Fla
Eastern Air Lines
New York
Miami
Boston
Duval
Utility Sale to Speed Natural Gas to Area
A vice president of Allied New Hampshire Gas Co testified that if allowed to buy Gas Service Inc of Dover the firm would extend natural gas to Dover Ports mouth Somersworth and Rochester. A pipeline from Haverhill to Exeter to Portsmouth to Dover and then to Somersworth would be pursued. initial operations would continue manufactured gas in Dover.
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Concord
Allied New Hampshire Gas Co
Gas Service Inc
Dover
Portsmouth
Somersworth
Rochester
Frank C. L. Sperry
Darien
Allied
Exeter
Hampton
Sperry
Haverhill
Mass
Great Bay Bridge
Commission
Charles HR. Prichard
Nashua
Prichard
School Board eyes acquisition of Acres nursery building
The Board of Education may consider obtaining the unused nursery school building at Wentworth Acres. Superintendent Beal plans to notify the Public Housing Administration of Portsmouth about possible future needs and two methods to acquire the building. Conversion to six classrooms is possible, with cost undetermined, and action could come at the January meeting. The move would potentially relieve overcrowding at Wentworth Acres and New Franklin Schools and serve Air Force families.
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Board of Education
Wentworth Acres
Raymond I. Beat
Portsmouth
Acres
Beal
PHA
Department of Health, Education and Welfare
Portsmouth Air Force Base
New Franklin
Air Force
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Waller Reed Army Hospital
John Eisenhower
James C. Hagerty
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Richard A. “Rab” Butler
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Selwyn Lloyd
Foreign Office
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Walter Monckton
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Patrick Buchan-Hepburn
Commons
Nigel Birch
Ministry of Pensions
House of Lords
United States
Soo
Middle East
Daily Herald
Times
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Neville) Chamberlain
Malt i
New England
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Yokota Air Force Base
Tokuo
Mt. Fuji
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Hess
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