Eisenhower vows not to give up Indochina
President Eisenhower said the United States will not abandon Indochina and that allies should not intervene without invitation. He noted differences with Secretary of State Dulles are in utterances, not opinion, as Dulles briefed the Senate panel on Southeast Asia.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Indochina
Dulles
Southeast Asia
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Vorys
Ohio
U. S.S
Congress
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Chiperfield
R-Ili
House
House Committee
France
Geneva
Nolan Wildcat Near Maryneal Seeks Cambrian Discovery
Nolan Jones and Stasney of Albany with Group Oil Co announce a 7,500 foot Cambrian wildcat in South Central Nolan County. Drilling on No 1-B G W Cochran will start at once about six miles southeast of Maryneal.
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Jones & Stasney
Albany
Group Oil Co
Houston
Nolan County
G. W. Cochran
Maryneal
Railroad Commission
Guy Mabee
H&gn
Justiceburg
General
J. W. Young
Kent County
Clairemont
Texas Crude
Winnie Thompson
Howard
Genius, Rapist May Be Saved From Chamber
SAN QUENTIN Calif Gov Goodwin J Knight agreed to review Chessman 32 year convict in a bid to spare him from the gas chamber The governor will check one point of the 1948 conviction about court reporter notes after Chessman author and criminal Berwyn Rice argued the record may be flawed Remarks noted his crimes include kidnapping attempted rape sex perversion and robbery and a victim remains in a mental hospital The case has drawn pleas from Niven Busch and criminologist Negley Teeters to spare him for science or civic reasons.
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San Quentin
Calif
Caryl Chessman
Goodwin J. Knight
Los Angeles
Knight
Chessman
California
Berwyn Rice
Rice
Supreme Court
U. S. Supreme Court
Earl Warren
United States
Niven Busch
Negley K. Teeters
Temple University
Lake J B Thomas rises three more feet after rains
Lake J B Thomas climbs three feet with this week’s rainfall adding 17 000 acre feet to the reservoir raising the level to 2231 feet. Officials forecast another foot before flows stop boosting total to about 80 000 acre feet. Bull Creek levee leaks persist and local roads remain impassable.
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J. B. Thomas
E. V. Spence
Colorado River
Bull Creek
Amarado Petroleum Co
Murphy Vincent
Amarado
Murphy School
Indochina Delta Faces Severe Threat as Vietminh Attacks
French General Bodet warned the Red River delta could fall without foreign help if Vietminh forces attack with full strength from Dien Bien Phu. U S Air Force aid was reportedly refused amid Geneva talks while France bolsters defenses and airlifts casualties and reinforcements.
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Hanoi
Indochina
France
Red River
Pierre Louis Bodet
Henri Navarre
Dien Bien
Bodet
United States
Dien Bien Phu
Britain
Delta
Dien Biet Phu
Haiphong
U. S. Air Force
Preesnnice
Vietminh
Vo Nguyen Giap
Giap
Batttefield
Genevieve de Galard Terraube
Enforcement Of Insurance Laws Is Hit
The 3rd Court of Appeals denounces gross laxness in enforcing Texas insurance laws. It ruled Texas Mutual Insurance Co could not force policyholders to pay an extra year's premium to satisfy creditors. Texas Mutual, led by Paul Lowry and Leslie Lowry, was placed in receivership Feb 13 1953.
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Austin
3Rd Court of Appeals
Texas
Roy C. Archer
Robert G. Hughes
Texas Mutual Insurance Co
Texas Mutual
Paul Lowry
Leslie Lowry
Beaumont
Will G. Knox
Appeal Court Denies Airman Death Penalty Appeal
The Texas Court of Criminal Appeals refused Walter E. Whitaker Jr.’s rehearing motion on his death sentence for the 1958 strangling of Joyce Fern White in Wilbarger County. Whitaker, an Air Force cadet, was found guilty by a Wilbarger County jury and had pled temporary insanity. The court had earlier affirmed the conviction and sentence.
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Austin
Court of Criminal Appeals
Walter E. Whitaker Jr
West Texas
Whitaker
Air Force
Wilbarger
Joyce Fern White
Lubbock
Owee
Eisenhower Defends Loyalty Standards After McCarthy Claim
President Eisenhower called it reprehensible for any Army intelligence officer to leak confidential FBI data to Senator McCarthy without authorization. He urged unity on security material, warned against divided loyalty, and said the armed forces would handle loyalty investigations. He also touched on bipartisan foreign policy and unemployment awareness amid ongoing studies.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Army
FBI
Sen. McCarthy
Frees
Indochina
Len McCarthy
Atty
Brownell
McCarthy
Queson
Truman
Defense Department
Armed Services
Defense Wilson
Morals Cases In Court Here
Four persons face morals charges in criminal district court at 9 tomorrow before Judge Sterling Williams. James Woods and Williams Taylor indict ed for sodomy. Emmett Baker and Velma Baker for incest. Woods and Taylor free on 1000 bonds each. Baker siblings-in-law relation cited. The 1950 sodomy case noted as a past example. Velma Baker's prior perjury mistrial is referenced.
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Criminal District
Sterling Williams
Renal B. Rosson
James Lee Woods
Avenue R
Williams Uneal Taylor
Lamesa Highway
Emmett D. Baker
Mineral Wells
Velma Baker
Stephenville
Woods
Taylor
Baker
Cold, Misty Skies Prevail Today
Cool temperatures and cloudiness persist with mist in the area. The high reached 62 yesterday, observed by Mrs. D P Stray horn. Last night’s low was 50, and at 7 30 this morning the reading was 52.
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D. P. Strayhorn
Adams swears Cohn cried this is war at Fort Monmouth
Army counsel John G Adams testified that Roy Cohn shouted this is war when barred from a secret radar lab at Fort Monmouth New Jersey October 20 He alleged Cohn threatened an inquiry into the facility and sought special Army treatment for Pvt G David Schine during the McCarthy hearings Adams said he cooperated with the inquiry under secretary Stevens and recalled McCarthy discussing Schine drafting and related matters on a New York subway ride in mid October.
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Ray Jenkins
Karl Mundt
R-Sd
McCarthy Army
Jenkins
Mundt
John McClellan
D-Ark
Joseph McCarthy
R-Wis
Stuart Symington
D-Mo
Washington
John G. Adams
Roy M. Cohn
Cohn
Ft. Monmouth
N.J
Adams
Army
Sen. McCarthy
Subcommittee
Pvt
G. David Schine
Ray H. Jenkins
FBI
Stevens
McCarthy Subcommittee
McCarthy
Monmouth
David Schine
Schine
New York City
Capitol
Eisenhower
Monday Hearing On Injunction On Union
A Monday hearing will be held here on a contracting firm's request for a permanent injunction against picketing at a 200 home project site. Pickets from the Plumbers Painters and Electrical Workers unions began Friday carrying signs about sub standard wages and working conditions at the site.
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Texas City
No Partition of Indochina Plan Urged at Geneva Talks
Viet Nam's government stated no armistice agreement should partition the country. Foreign Minister Nguyen Quoc Dinh presented terms backed by non Communist delegations. The plan seeks a political settlement with free elections under UN control and guarantees for durable peace and prevention of new aggression. International oversight of cease-fire enforcement is required.
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Geneva
Viet Nam
Nguyen Quoc Dinh
United Nations
Weather Outlook for Texas Regions
Cloudy to partly cloudy in North Central Texas with light rain possible east this afternoon. West Texas partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Thursday. East Texas cloudy with some rain this afternoon, then cloudy Thursday. South Central Texas partly cloudy and cooler this afternoon and tonight with milder Thursday and easterly winds along the coast.
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Texas
East Portion
West Texas
Panhandle Plains
Pecos Valley
East Texas
South Central
Fall Guy Claim Emerges in Dallas Extortion Case
James Hollis Jones, 49, says he is the fall guy in the $200,000 extortion plot against 20 Dallas Jewish families. Ralph Franklin Jones, 42, surrendered and faces similar charges. Bond set at $25,000 each. FBI reports a shot was fired as agents closed in.
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Dallas
Tex
James Hollis Jones
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Jones
Ralph Franklin Jones
U.S
W. Madden Hill
Ont Coes
FBI
George Schepps
Julius Schepps
James Hollis
Sked
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