Roosevelt defends congressional bid amid wife's adultery charges
James Roosevelt says allegations of adultery by his wife Ramelle Schneider Roosevelt will not derail his campaign for California's 26th District seat. He spoke at the 20th Congressional District Democratic Council event in Pasadena while his divorce and custody actions seek alimony and child support.
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Pasadena
Calif
James Roosevelt
California
20Th Congressional District
Democratic Council
Roosevelt
Tom Mechling
Nevada
Sam Yorty
D-Caitf
Ramelle Schneider Roosevelt
Weather notes and a desert fable from January 30, 1954
Coastal and intermediate valleys forecast mostly sunny with high clouds and fog in tower regions early morning. Noon reading shows a warm high of 69 and low 40. One year ago today highs reached 79 and 45. Local musings mention Oak Glen rain, Redlands boasting, and a joke about a rabbit and a lion at a restaurant.
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Jimmy
Clarence Wilshire
Oak Glen
James
Redlands
U N Not Nest Of Red Spies Declared By Ledge
Williamsbug Virginia hearing Henry Cabot Ledge Jr United Nations ambassador says the UN is not a nest of Communist spies and no US citizen employed there has faced espionage charges. He notes screening under a Civil Service Commission FBI plan within months as lawmakers attend a commemorative session.
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Williamsburg
Henry Cabot Ledge Jr
United Nations
United States
Civil Service Commission
FBI
Virginia
Reds Consider POWs Prisoners
PANMUNJOM Korea Twenty one Americans and a Briton held as POWs are described as prisoners by North Korea. In Kaesong they were to be housed in a spacious stone house while in Indian custody they had delivered propaganda against the homeland. Peiping Radio claimed the group spent time sightseeing and playing with children.
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Panmunjom
Korea
Kaesong
Peiping Radia
China
North Korea
Huge iron ore finds near Wyoming rail line
Los Angeles report says geologists for Union Pacific Railroad discovered vast ore near Albany Wyoming with at least 228 million tons near the surface. Ore samples show 46 percent iron 19 percent vanadium and about one percent titanium per the railroad president William Reinhardt.
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Los Angeles
Pharamie
Wyomin
Union Pacific Railroad
Railroad Voice
Wiliam Reinhardt
Red Hunters Probe Military File Order in War Years
Senate subcommittee open hearings will probe who ordered destruction of Army and Navy files on communism during World War II. Senator Bridges says a 1944 order came from higher than the War Department. Jenner cites a verified report that King told Nimitz the White House ordered junking naval files. Both say origin is unclear and a full investigation will reveal who directed the deletions. Former senator O'Mahoney recalls files on suspected communists but doubts the exact order originated above the War Department.
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Washington
Senate
Red Hunters
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
War Department
Subcommittee
William E. Jenner
R-Ind
Adm
Ernest J. King
Chester Q. Nimitz
White House
Junk
Naval Intelligence
King
Naval Operations
Nimitz
Pacific Fleet
Jenner
Bridges
Senate Military Affairs Committee
Joseph
O'Ma
Honey D-Wyo
Army
O'Mahoney
Flood Control Zone Approved for Coastal Areas
Los Angeles county Board of Supervisors approves a flood control zone to curb seawater intrusion into underground water supplies in Redondo Beach Manhattan Beach Gardena and Hawthorne amid ongoing water resource concerns.
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Los Angeles
County Board of Supervisors
Redondo Beach
Manhattan Beach
Gardena
Hawthorne
Army to File Airtight Court Martial Charges
Seoul Korea AP reports the U S Army plans soon to file airtight court martial charges against former POWs who betrayed fellow Americans for Communist favors. An informant said prosecution was delayed to ensure no more of the 23 Americans who chose Communism would renounce their stance. Charges target those accused of sharing escape plans and prison camp activities with the Communists in exchange for privilege. men who were only deluded by propaganda face no action.
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Seoul
Korea
U. S
Souree
Italy Overthrows Premier Amid Political Crisis Looms
Rome reports 11 day old cabinet of Amintore Fanfani toppled by 303 votes to 260 in the Chamber of Deputies with 12 abstentions. Only Christian Democrats and allied Republicans backed him as centrists abstained. Crisis threatens Italy's stance on the European Army Pact and western defense amid a rising left and Communist influence.
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Rome
Amintore Fanfani
Chamber of Deputies
Fanfani
Christian Democratic
Christian Democrats
Italy
Bricker Bill May Return To Senate Committee
Washington reports a possible move to send Bricker's amendment uniting the President's treaty powers back to the Judiciary Committee unless a bipartisan compromise emerges. Senate leaders, including Republican William Knowland, seek a middle path, while Bricker clubs for a plan opposed by Eisenhower. a final deal remained uncertain as debates resume Monday.
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Washington
Senate
Bricker
John W. Bricker
Judiciary Committee
William F. Knowland
Middle Way
Knowland
Eisenhower
Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Commodity Credit Corp
Train crash in Egypt near Cairo kills and injures crowd
A diesel train plowed into a crowd near Kafr El Zayat in the agricultural town area about 59 miles northwest of Cairo. Reports say casualties are feared heavy and emergency crews rush to the scene. President Mohammed Naguib reportedly involved in the incident.
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Catrke
Egypt
Mohammed Naguib
Kafr-El
Zaiyat
Cairo
Secret H Bomb Lab at Livermore Revealed by AEC
Washington report discloses for the first time the existence of a secret H bomb laboratory at Livermore California run for the AEC by the University of California. The facility has operated about 18 months since June 1952 with some 1500 scientists and technicians. The AEC avoids naming it as an H bomb lab, using the broader term weapons. Dr Edward Teller helped develop the hydrogen device climaxing in November 1952 and plans for spring tests at Eniwetok. The Livermore lab was created to supplement Los Alamos and Sandia in nuclear weapons work. The semiannual report also notes lower costs of atomic production and advances in cancer research and radiation therapy. The U.S. has invested over 12 billion dollars in atomic projects since 1940.
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Washington
Livermore
Calif
The
Atomic Energy Commission
Con
AEC
University of California
Commission
Edward Teller
Teller
ABC
Eniwetok Proving Ground
Pacific
House-Senate Atomic Energy Committee
Los Alamos
Sanda Laboratories
New Mexico
United States
Beeson To Confer With GOP Heads
Washington senators planned private talks with Albert C Beeson as Democrat leaders urged inquiry into possible conflict of interest over his Senate confirmation to the National Labor Relations Board Beeson would return to a $30000 yearly post with Food Machinery and Chemical Corp in San Jose California if confirmed and if the conflict finding is not made.
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Murray
Beeson
Food Machinery and Chemical Corp
San Jose
Calif
NLRB
Unemployment To Level Off
Washington economists predicted unemployment would level off next month and may drop in March. New applications fell to about 411600 last week, while total unemployed claiming benefits rose about 68000 to 2039000 in the week ending January 16. The 520000 rise this month over December was considered expected due to seasonal factors and the economic dip.
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Washington
Labor Department
Teacher Accused By Mother in 50 000 Suit
Wanda L. Rea filed a case against Manhattan Beach Mira Costa High School teacher Wendell S. Ladd and the school district. The suit alleges Ladd beat her 18-year-old son Boyd in a classroom causing deafness in one ear and profound nervous shock.
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Los Angeles
APJ
Redondo Beach
Wanda L. Rea
Wendell S. Ladd
Dodd
Manhattan Beach
Mira Costa High School
Boyd
Molotov Duties To Confer After Berlin Meet
Berlin talks on Eisenhower atoms for peace progress moved to high level negotiations as Dulles and Molotov agreed to open pool talks after a Big Four foreign ministers session. Eden outlined German unification steps toward free all-German elections and a peace treaty with a national army option.
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Berlin
Eisenhower
Russia
John Foster Dulles
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Dulles
Eisehower
Germany
Anthony Eden
Molotov
Georges Bidault
West Germany
Eden
Bidault
European Army
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Judge Attacks VFW Post Report of Suspected Communists
Chicago Chief Justice and VFW leaders clash over a Connecticut post program that called for reporting suspected Communists to the PBS. Dougherty, head of the National Americanism Committee, says the FBI should handle ferreting out such individuals.
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Chicago
Charles Dougherty
National Americanism Committee
Veterans of Foreign Wars
Connecticut
VFW
PBS
Dougherty
Ilinois
Iowa
FBI
Prison Riot Quelled by Guard Action at Lincoln Facility
Twenty Nebraska Penitentiary inmates in solitary after a brief riot in the prison laundry. Lifers poured lighter fluid on mangles as flames spread, prisoners overpowered four guards. Chief Guard Albert Nance then entered unarmed to restore order, halting a mass advance by ordering turret guards to shoot the first movers.
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Lincoln
Neb
Nebraska Penitentiary
Albert Nance
Nance
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