Weather Front Approaches Coast Slowly
Intermittent rain and scattered showers marked the day as a Pacific weather front moved toward the Southern California coast. The U.S. Weather Bureau warned of heavier rain from a low pressure area stretching from San Diego to the northern Washington coast. Skies remained cloudy and cooler with mountain highs in the 40s, coastal and valley highs in the 50s to 60s, and lower desert areas near 65. Snow levels in the mountains were expected to drop to about 6,500 feet.
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California
Pacific
U.S. Weather Bureau
San Diego
Washington
U S Still Has Reservoir Of Good Will In Hungary
United Press correspondent Russell Jones reported in Los Angeles that the United States retains a large reservoir of goodwill in Hungary despite the revolt’s failure. He noted Hungarians look to Washington for leadership and saw U.S. moral support as crucial, while many expected aid or intervention. Jones warned the revolt’s defeat could slow freedom movements in Soviet satellites for years.
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Los Angeles
United Press
Russell Jones
Budapest
United States
Hungary
Washington
Jones
United Nations
Europe
Soviet Union
California highway average speed climbs to 54.22 MPH
Sacramento AP reports the California Division of Highways says the average speed of all vehicles on open roads rose to 54.22 mph. The figure compares with 49.9 mph in 1951, reflecting motorists pushing harder on the accelerator each year.
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Sacramento
California
Weather Summary for San Bernardino Valley and Mountain Areas
Cloudy conditions bring intermittent rain Sunday with moderate to heavy showers at times in foothills. Little temperature change. Highs 56 to 60. Mountain areas see rain through Sunday with moderate to heavy precipitation, snow level near 6500 feet, slightly cooler. January 12 1957 noon reading shows high 55, low 51, rainfall 24 hours 0.01, season 2.90, last year 2.39. One year ago today highs 76, low 49.
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San Bernardino Valley
Labor Demands British Vote on Elections After Queen’s Role
The Labour Party pushes for immediate elections arguing the Queen’s political role in choosing a new prime minister breaches constitutional neutrality. The monarch traditionally abstains from politics, as Eden’s resignation left Macmillan and Butler as contenders while Labour presses for a new mandate.
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Labor
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Britain
Harold Macmillan
House
R. A. Butler
Anthony Eden
Labor Party
Macmillan
Chou En Lai Aids Khrushchev In Moscow Visit
London reports say Premier Chou En Lai personally traveled to Moscow to bolster Khrushchev amid Soviet leadership turmoil. He reportedly aims to defend Soviet control of Eastern Europe, with Hungary as the immediate test, reflecting Peiping’s effort to preserve their alliance and secure continued Soviet support.
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Red China
Chou En Lai
Nikita Khrushchev
Bos
Khrushchev
Russia
Europe
Hungary
Chou
Moscow
Warsaw
Budapest
Peiping
China
Kremlin
Asia
Mideast
Fagg to resign as USC president effective July first
Dr. Fred D. Fagg Jr. 60, head of the University of Southern California since 1947, announces resignation due to health and energy limits. Board names him president emeritus and forms a six member group to find a successor. Fagg denies links to Pacific Coast Conference pay disputes and defends athletes.
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Los Angeles
Fred D. Fagg Jr
University of Southern California
Fagg
Southern California
Northwestern University
Oranston
Jagg
University of Redlands
U. of A
Vera Wilkes
Redlands
Barbara
William Bachman
Queen May Visit U S This Year
London reports President Eisenhower has invited Queen Elizabeth II to make a non political visit to the United States in October. The invitation, to be extended by retiring U S Ambassador Winthrop Aldrich, follows weeks of White House Buckingham Palace talks. It would be her first sovereign visit to the United States and her second overall, after a 1951 tour with Prince Philip.
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London
Eisenhower
Elizabeth
United States
London Daily Mirror
U.S
Winthrop Aldrich
White House
Buckingham Palace
British Empire
Canada
Harry S. Truman
Navy develops Polaris 1500 mile ballistic missile
The Defense Department announced the Navy is developing a new ballistic missile with a 1,500 mile range called Polaris. This adds to five missiles planned for future nuclear war, ranging from 1,500 to 5,000 miles, designed to strike targets with atomic warheads in a ballistic trajectory from space speeds.
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Defense Department
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Polaris
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Budapest Shooting May Spark New Demonstrations
VIENNA (UP) The shooting of workers in Budapest by Communist forces may trigger new violent protests against the puppet Janos Kadar regime. Reports say factory workers nationwide are ready to follow Budapest’s lead in opposing mass dismissals and police-state measures.
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Vienna
Budapest
Janos Kadar
Hungary
United Nations
Csepel Steel and Iron Works
Canadian Rail Strike Ends Ends After Nine Days of Strife
Ottawa reports a nine day railroad firemen strike against Canadian Pacific Railway ending Friday night. Work to clear 17000 miles of track begins as Prime Minister Louis St Laurent tells the House of Commons the halt is over. A three man inquiry will decide if firemen are essential to safety on diesel locomotives and report by October 1.
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Canadian Pacific ‘Railway
Louis St. Laurent
House of Commons
Threeman
St. Laurent
Pravda Warns Britain Hands Off Yemen In Middle East Row
Pravda denounces Britain and warns to keep hands off Yemen in a Ra dio Moscow broadcast. The piece calls the Yemen a small but freedom loving state pursuing peace while Britain faces a hoax bomb threat to a United Airlines flight in Stockton California. Russia and Egypt are cited as stirring the Yemen dispute, heightening regional tensions.
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Yemen
London
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Middle East
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Stockton
Calif
United Airlines
Russia
Egypt
Negro Leaders Seek Eisenhower Help on Dixie Bus Segregation
About 60 Southern Negro integration leaders, meeting in Atlanta, sent a letter to President Eisenhower asking him to visit the South and use federal influence to end bus segregation and what they call a state of terror. The White House had not replied by press time.
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Talla‘assee
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Florida
Leroy Collins
South
Supreme Court
Richard Nixon
Europe
Martin Luther King, Jr
Montgomery
Expert predicts moon landing within 25 years
Princeton expert Willy Ley told about 200 students that space flight would progress rapidly. He said a manned space station may precede a Moon landing and that human ar manship could reach the Moon within a quarter of a century, with landings within 25 years.
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Princeton
N.J
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Ley
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Rocket Society
Outeria
Wintry Blasts Pound Atlantic Coast in Bitter Cold
United Press reports a brutal cold wave swept the nation leaving at least 43 dead. The Eastern two thirds faced subzero air as temperatures fell across the Mississippi Valley and Great Lakes, with snow forecast for the Middle Atlantic and New England regions.
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Suspect Not Mad Bomber In Manhattan Case
New York police stayed without fresh suspects after a flurry of early morning activity, then hit another dead end in the search for the mad bomber of Manhattan. Papers with handwriting like the bomber’s were found in the apartment of a machinist who had died two days earlier, but a handwriting expert ruled out any link to Andrew Kleewen, 67, and the suspect remained unidentified as the man who injured 15 people over 16 years.
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Manhattan
Andrew Kleewen
Ogg to Face Murder Charge in Pomona Arraignment
Francis M. Ogg 37, a wealthy pool salesman and former boxer, is to be arraigned January 25 in Pomona on charges of killing his wife Edna 47 on Christmas Day. He was arraigned Friday before Municipal Judge Albert H. Miller after being arrested in a Las Vegas bar December 28 when Mrs. Ogg’s battered body was found in the family bed by her daughter. Ogg says she died from injuries in a fall.
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West Covina
Francis M. Ogg
Pomona
Edna
Ogg
Albert H. Miller
Las Vegas
Nev
Fireclaims Life of Man in Garage Apartment Blaze
Charles Wesley Long aged 33 died today in a fire at his garage apartment in Firestone Park. The blaze started when he apparently fell asleep while smoking in an overstuffed chair. Damages were estimated at 3000 dollars.
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Firestone Park
Charles Wesley Long
Long
Graham, Airliner Bomber, Goes Calmly To His Death
John Gilbert Graham, 24, was executed in Colorado's gas chamber for the deaths of 44 people. He faced the sentence with mixed emotions, making brief statements to warden and attorney as cyanide gas ended his life at the state penitentiary. His last meal included a large steak and sides.
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Colo
John Gilbert Graham
Colorado
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New York
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United
Air Lines
Brooklyn
Harry
John Gibbons
FBI
Denver
Lloyd Kellams
Menver
Gibbons
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Hejeven
Supreme Court
Tually
Saudi Arabia Fires On Israel at Gulf of Aqaba Entrance
Israeli military spokesman says Saudi Arabian positions opened cannon and machine gun fire on any Israeli Navy ship at the entrance to the Gulf of Aqaba Friday marks first shooting incident involving Saudi forces. Saudi Arabia lies on the east edge of the gulf.
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Gulf of Aqaba
Israel
Saudi Arabia
Gulf
Ross Takes Leave Amid Congress Probes Contracts
Assistant Defense Secretary Robert Tripp Ross goes on leave as Congress probes defense contracts tied to his wife’s firm Wynn Enterprises Inc. The Army awarded Wynn $834,150 for 249,000 pairs of trousers last November. Ross’s wife Clare Wynn Ross is company president. she and her brother hold interests in firms with $5.3 million in military orders. The Senate subcommittee led by John L. McClellan will review possible conflict of interest and violations of law.
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Robert Tripp Ross
Congress
Newark
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Ross
Wilson
Defense Department
Army
Wynn Enterprises, Inc
New York
Clare Wynn Ross
Department
D-Ark
Senate
McClellan
Wynn Enterprises
Broker Waldo Logan Dies in Pennyless Motel Suicide
Police report Waldo Logan once a Chicago broker and socialite, famed traveler of the 1930s, ended his life in a shabby downtown Motel room on Friday morning leaving him penniless.
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Miami
Waldo Logan
Chicago
United Nations to report on relief needs for Hungary
UN representative Philippe De Seynes arrives in New York to brief Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold on Hungary relief observations. A four member team visited Budapest for three days to assess aid distribution via the International Red Cross amid a secret mission under Hungary’s Communist regime. The General Assembly set up a five nation commission to probe Hungary and Soviet intervention. Hungary protests the move as unprecedented interference and seeks removal from the assembly agenda. Egypt seeks a new assembly meeting to address Israeli troop withdrawal.
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United Nations, N.Y
United Nations
Philippe de Seynes
Dag Hammarskjold
Hungary
de Leynes
U.N
Budapest
World Organization
Janos Kadar
International Red Cross
Assembly
Eogypt
United States backs three stage Suez plan hopes talks soon
Washington supports a three stage Suez Canal negotiation path aimed at a March opening. Hammarskjold would mediate Egypt with Britain and France, then broaden to include other nations. Dulles and Pineau discussed Luce controversy with cautious optimism about a settlement by early March. France favors a temporary status if a final accord is not ready.
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United States
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Dag Hammarskjold
New York
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Gaza Strip
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Pineau
France
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Hammarskjold
Egypt
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