Giles Acknowledges Mistakes in 100 Million Veterans Land Program
Texas Senate investigators hear Bascom Giles concede some mistakes in the veterans land program but defend that 95 percent is good. The hearing examines alleged fraud in quick profit land deals in South Texas and potential liability on $1.17 million in deals.
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Austin
Veterans Land Board
Bascom Giles
Senate
Giles
Land Board
Shivers
Shepperd
Texas
Sen. C. C., Small Sr
Senate Committee
Sharyland
Mission
Rio Val Development Co
Winter Garden Development Co
Alamo Development Co
Dorsey Hardeman
San Angelo
Department of Public Safety
Veterans Land
N. K. Dixon
Marcelino Castillo
Liberto Esquivel
Carrizo Springs
Eddie L. Zimmerman
Castillo
Esquivel
Dixon
Zavalla County
John Flanagan
Crystal City
Paul Little
J. C. Hillery
Zavalla
Guadalupe
Webb
Dimmitt
Maverick
South Texas
Military Pay Hike Proposed by Senator Mansfield
Sen Mansfield proposes a 25 percent military pay boost to sustain a three million man force with limited draft use. He opposes universal service without an excess profits tax on war production and backs a wartime excess profits tax as an amendment. The plan includes a draft extension and six months of annual training for 100000 volunteers, with service in the reserves for 92 years. The administration seeks a pay increase but has not set the amount.
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Washington
Sen
Mansfield
D-Mont
Eisenhower
Congress
Senate
Wilson
Wind fires devastate mill and grain elevator in Crowell
A wind fueled blaze in Crowell Texas destroyed the Tillery Elevator and damaged the nearby Foard County Mill. Some 80 000 bushels of wheat burned or soaked, worth about 180000 dollars. The mill lost 4000 bushels of oats and 5000 dollars in building damage. Firemen from Crowell Quanah and Vernon extinguished the blaze six hours after it began.
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Crowell
Tex
Texas
Hubert Brown
Foard County
Minister Found Slain in Philadelphia Apartment
Police investigated an auto crash near Old St. Peter's Church and found Rev. Dr. Benjamin H. Bissell, 59, dead in his bachelor flat. James Morrison, 26, injured in the wreck and later held at Jefferson Hospital, is being questioned as a possible suspect. Evidence includes a stolen clerical stole, watch, and bloodstained items tied to the victim.
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Philadelphia
Old St. Peter’s Episcopal Church
Joseph Nicholl
Meyer Weise
Benjamin H. Bissell
Jefferson Hospital
James Morrison
Morrison
Nicholl
Weise
Dr. Bissell
Henry Brown
Dr. Rissell
Johnston seeks inside story on Ladejinsky dismissal
Senator Olin Johnston demands from the Eisenhower administration a full account of the firing of Wolf Ladejinsky the U S agriculture attache in Tokyo. He plans a broad inquiry to uncover security rule vagueness and potential partisan use with other cases in the files.
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Washington
Olin D. Johnston
D-Sc
Eisenhower
Wolf Ladejinsky
U.S. Agriculture
Tokyo
Secretary of Agriculture
Benson
Ladejinsky
State Department
Johnston
Senate Civil Service Committee
Particuar
H.W. Brawley
Dulles
Brawley
Weather Outlook North and West Texas Turning Colder
North Central Texas sees cloudy skies this afternoon with much colder tonight as lows dip to 22 to 32. Wednesday remains partly cloudy and milder. West Texas clears slowly this afternoon and tonight with lows 10 to 20 in the Panhandle and upper South Plains 20 to 30 elsewhere, with generally fair and warmer conditions on Wednesday.
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Texas
West Texas
Panhandle
Upper South Plains
Snow Blankets Panhandle as Texas Faces Hazardous Roads
Snow and ice grip West Texas and the Panhandle with roads nearly impassable from Amarillo to Fort Worth. Authorities urge minimal travel as cold fronts drop temperatures, while Texas records rising traffic deaths during the holiday period and snow accumulations reach up to two inches in some areas.
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Texas
Associated Press
State Department of Public Safety
California
Panhandle
West Texas
Grover Farley
Crystal City
Charlotte
Thomas Taylor
Sweetwater
Raymond Mohindro
Abilene
Fort Phantom Hill Lake
Jones County
David Turpin
San Antonio
Houston
J.W. Messec
Pasadena
A.L. Messec Sr
Jim Batten
Angleton
Walter Fox
Hondo
Yancey
Forrest Hoffman
Wharton
Edward Smith
Port Arthur
Warren Smith
Carlsbad
N. M
Monahans
Johnny Alexander
Ernest Morris
Thomas Johnson
Jefferson
Marshall
Ete
Snyder
Amarillo
Lubbock
Lamesa
San Angelo
Big Spring
Fort Worth
Bill Zimmerman
Sheriff's Department
Zimmerman
Charles M. Richter
Dallas
Dee Claude Stanford
Air Force
Clovis
N.M
Here
U. S. Highway 84
Stanford
Richter
New Mexico
Raton Pass
Eros- Pecos
el Paso
Wichita Falls
Highway Patrol
Pecos
Guadalupe Pass
Mercury
Shreveport
Lufkin
Laredo
Mineral Wells
Dalhart
Brownsville
Weather Bureau
The
Oklahoma
Midland
Childress
Salt Flat
Wichita
Dallas-Fort Worth
Texarkana
Colorado
Wyoming
Soviets May Release Trio of American Prisoners
Newly released German POWs said three Americans once reported held by the Russians are at a Soviet discharge camp and may be released soon. The men are William T. Marchuk, Breckenridge PA. John H. Noble, Detroit. William A. Verdine, Starks LA.
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Vienna
Austria
William T. Marchuk
Breckenridge
John H. Noble
Detroit
William A. Verdine
Starks
Camp Patma
Moscow
U.S
Charles E. Bohlen
Yugoslavia
Hostile Planes Over Seoul Trigger Short Alert
Seoul issued a 52 minute alert after Allied military authorities reported a few hostile aircraft sighted over the Western Korean Front. An all clear followed at 10 30 p m with few details from military sources.
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Seoul
Buttons Help Relieve Tension At Eisenhower HQ
In Augusta Georgia amid the Western Germany rearmament debate at the French National Assembly President Eisenhower's staff handed out lapel pins reading RELAX to ease pressure on reporters. Jim Hagerty, the press secretary, distributed the buttons to calm tensions at the holiday site.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
French National Assembly
Germany
Jim Hagerty
Convictions in Federal Tax Cases Highlight 1954 Year
The Justice Department Tax Division reports 542 prosecutions for federal tax law violations in 1954, with 123 convictions after trial and 419 guilty pleas. About 7,150 tax cases remain pending, including 960 criminal and 3,665 civil, plus 2,525 tax lien and miscellaneous cases. Notable figures convicted or indicted include Frank Costello, Joseph D. Nunan Jr., Emmett Warring, Sam Bear, and J. Richard Kates, among others.
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Washington
Justice Department
Brownell
Asst
H. Brian Holland
Holland
United States
Frank Costello
New York
Joseph D. Nunan Jr
Internal Revenue
Emmett Warring
Washington, D.C
Sam Bear
Warring
Harry Gross
Frank Erickson
Benny Binion
Harry J. Klein
Louisville, Ky
Paul Dillon
St. Louis
J. Richard Kates
New Jersey
Harold Adonis
Alfred C. Marshall
San Francisco
Frank L. Saubter
Oakland
Calif
George B. Parr
Duval County
Tex
Carroll E. Mealey
Hyman H. Klein
New York City
Jack Dragna
Los Angeles
Evan Dale
Southern Illinois
Virginia Hill Hauser
Cecil and
Fred Folsom
Alabama
Trains Collide In Dunkirk Wreck Injures Seventeen
Seventeen men were hurt when a Nickel Plate freight train, 65 cars long, hit a standing six car wrecking train in Dunkirk New York early today. Seven hospitalized in good condition. ten treated and released. Wreck damaged track and piled eight cars in a flaming wreckage. Freight train carried fruit vegetables and perishables. Wrecking train had pulled onto a westbound track to let the freight pass.
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Dunkirk
N.Y
Buffalo
Reed vows to oppose foreign trade plan
Rep. Daniel A. Reed of New York declares he will fight any administration foreign trade program that fails to protect American workers and producers. Eisenhower seeks Congress to extend the Reciprocal Trade Act for three years and grant authority to cut tariffs by 15 percent. Reed, longtime Ways and Means critic, hints at this goal.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Daniel A. Reed
Eisenhower
Congress
Reed
House
Ways and Means
Rye
New York Inspectors Hunt Odor Source Near Landmarks
New York health department inspectors searched today for the source of an unpleasant smell reported near the Empire State Building Penn Station and Rockefeller Center. Residents described the odor as cooking cabbage rotten cabbage or a dead body and some suggested city smog as the cause.
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New York
Health Department
Empire State Building
Pennsysver Station
Rockefeller Cet
France moves toward West German rearmament faces new hurdles
President Eisenhower and Secretary Dulles withheld applause as France’s National Assembly voted 289 to 251 to preliminarily approve West Germany’s entry into NATO. Mendes France must survive two more confidence votes while securing 500,000 West German troops and a seven nation pact, amid cautious optimism and caution from U.S. officials.
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Washington
Eisenhower
France
Germany
French Assembly
Dulles
Pierre -Mendes-France
Augusta
National Assembly
West Germany
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Harvey Hudson
Paris
Pierre Mendes-France
Assembly
Mendes- France
West Oeroth
Sarena Union
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David W. Ratliff
Stamford
Harley Sadler
C. T. McLaughlin
Douglas Orme
Cosden Petroleum Co
Ratliff
Orme
Robert F. Wasson
Wasson
Lee Watson
Norther
West
North Texas
Charles N. Snyder
Rose Circle
Charles Snyder
Jodie
Drake
Jack Adams
Sen. Monroney
D-Okla
Europe
Asia
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Inurope
Wiley
R-Wis
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
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