Pinay Seeks New Cabinet to Lead France
Paris Feb 7 Antoine Pinay conservative former premier seeks to form France's 21st postwar government after Mendes France, aiming to present a list of prospective ministers by Thursday. Pinay, 63, hopes to rally non Communist factions as he faces confidence votes and a short-lived tenure expected to follow.
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Paris
Antoine Pinay
France
Pierre Mendes- France
Pinay
Republican
Mendes-France
MRCP
Assembly
Cedieaile
West Germany
Council of the Republic
Mendes- France
Playing With Gasoline Fatal to 2 Children
Two children died after playing with gasoline in a home incident. Kathy Renny 9 months and Keith Lane would have turned two. authorities say a small gasoline jar brought inside by Kenneth Clark Jr. led to fumes that ignited near a bathroom heater.
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Kenneth Clark
Kathy Renny
Keith Lane
Battalion
Don Ratliff
Cak
Ratliff
Weather and lake level readings at Crab Orchard and Little Grassy
Temperature readings show a low of 33 yesterday and 29 at 7 a.m. today with a high of 43 yesterday and 43 at noon today. Sunrise is 7 00 a.m. and sunset 5 27 p.m. Crab Orchard Lake level with spillway and Little Grassy Lake level 1 inch below spillway today.
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Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Road Report Clears Southern Central and Northern Illinois
Road conditions across Southern Central and Northern Illinois are reported as clear. No major closures or delays observed on highways or main routes. Travelers are advised to remain attentive for weather changes and construction zones as the day progresses.
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Southern
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Northern
Illinois
Nugent Trial Witness Describes Death Threat in Court Martial
Army court martial for Maj. Ambrose H. Nugent enters third week as witness John P. Porter testifies that Chinese captors warned against opposing a central peace committee Nugent chaired. Porter recounts talk with Lt. Col. Paul V. Liles about escape. Several ex-POWs testified to anti-American petitions forced by Communists.
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Okla
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John P. Porter
Red
Central Peace Committee
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Porter
Valley Forge Hospital
Pennsylvania
Paul V. Liles
Pyongyang
Liles
Reds
Gun Collector Eugene Haskins Shot Death at College
Memorial service planned at Culver-Stockton College for Eugene T. Haskins 33 admissions counselor fatally shot in his apartment while showing his gun collection to two students Alan Woods and Don Robenhorst both Hammond Indiana. He died on arrival at a Quincy Illinois hospital with an inquest scheduled.
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Quincy
Ill
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Lewis County
Alan Woods
Don Robenhorst
Hammond
Ind
Woods
Culver-Stockton
Canton
Mississippi River
Jewelry Store Burglary Nets $75,000 Loot
Police seek clues after a burglary at Olsen and Ebann Jewelry Store in the business district. The thieves first entered the Visiting Nurses Assn offices on the second floor, cut through the floor, crawled between a false ceiling to a ventilating duct, and entered the vault through a 10 by 14 inch opening, escaping with cash and valuables estimated at $5,000.
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Olsen & Ebann
James Ferris
What A Fellow Won't Do To Get Valentine For Dear Old Mother
Druggist Basil Clark reported a robbery at his store in Los Angeles on February 7. A man watched valentines, then threatened with a pistol and demanded cash. He struck Clark, escaped with $35 and a large valentine addressed to his mother.
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Los Angeles
Basil Clark
Paps
Mother Has Two Sets of Twins in Ten Months
Rochester woman Mrs. Charles Profetta leaves the hospital with her second set of twins in ten months. Twin girls Gina and Carmi born last March 29. Twin boys Rudolph and Vittorio born last Tuesday. Mrs Profetta, 26, and husband 25, say the family expanded from two to six in under a year. The father notes he was a bachelor two years ago.
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Rochester
N. Y
Charles Profetta
Gina
Carmi
Rudolph
Vittorio
Profetta
Seventeen Musicians Hurt When Orchestra Bus Crashes
A chartered St. Louis Symphony Orchestra bus carrying 32 musicians skidded into a railway underpass near Clifton Forge Virginia causing injuries to 17 aboard. Three required brief hospitalization. conductor Vladimir Golschmann was aboard another bus. The group was en route from Roanoke to Portsmouth on a 20 city tour.
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Muncie
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Elmer Willis
Granite City
Ill
Sleeping Passenger Rolls From Auto in Route 8 Accident
Peoria story reports Manley Herring 36 of Crewe Coeur rolled from a tavern car on a curve of Route 8 while asleep. Malson and Compton of Peoria were in the car. Herring was taken to a Peoria hospital with cuts and bruises.
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Manley Herring
Thomas Chittenwood
Dennis Jenkins
Herring
Crewe Coeur
Merrill Malson
James Compton
Oak Hill
Malson
Compton
Rosemary Clooney Gives Birth to Son Miguel Jose
Singer Rosemary Clooney and actor Jose Ferrer welcomed their first child, a 7 pound 9 ounce boy named Miguel Jose, born today at St. Johns Hospital in Santa Monica California. The couple wed on July 13 1953.
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Rosemary Clooney
St. John’s Hospital
Jose Ferrer
Miguel Jose
Chicago Alderman Candidate Escapes Shotgun Attack
William M. Jones Jr., 29, a candidate in the 6th Ward race, was fired upon as he entered his home after a TV appearance on WGN-TV. He escaped unharmed while injuring himself on a basement window. He said the shooting may involve policy vice and political group factions.
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South Side Negro
S. Ingleside Ave
Willie Jones
Clarence Balek
Wgn-Tv
Balek
Martin H. Kennelly
Benjamin $. Adamowski
Richard J. Daley
Democratic County Committee
GI Schooling Bill Endorsed by Senate Labor Committee
The Senate Labor Committee unanimously approves a GI education measure for servicemen who entered the armed forces on or before January 31. The bill, already greenlighted by the House and backed by the White House, mirrors a New Year’s Day War end date and grants 1.5 days of schooling per day in uniform up to 36 months. Enlistees after January 31 receive no educational benefits under the GI bill.
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Slain Honor Student Anne Yarrow Struck Down in Manhattan
Anne Yarrow 23 a Guilford College 1953 graduate and NYU Washington Square College student was found choked and stabbed at least 40 times in a sixth floor Manhattan apartment. Police call the crime brutal with possible sexual assault. friend found body after returning from South Carolina.
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William Schnabel
Anne Yarrow
South Carolina
Miss Yarrrow
Herta Payson
Milton Helpern
Guilford College
Greensboro
N. C
Brooklyn
Miss Payson
Miss Yarrow
Wis Boose
Washington Square College of
New York University
Evacuation of Tachens and nearby islands under U.S. protection
The Chinese Nationalist evacuation of the Tachens and nearby is lands involves removing about 41 688 people including troops guerrillas and civilians. Heavy loading constraints and tides of 16 to 18 feet challenge the operation aided by the U S 7th Fleet. Nearby islands Yu Shan Pishan and Nanchishan may also be evacuated or reassessed as northern shield positions for Formosa.
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Red China
Formosa
Associated Press
Fred Hampson
Taipei
Yu Shan
Pishan
Nanchishan Island
Hampson
Nanchishan
Three Killed On Route 40 Near Mulberry Grove
Three people died and five were injured in a three car crash on U S Highway 40 near Mulberry Grove. Victims were Pvt. William D. Owens 18 of Ft Leonard Wood Mo Oscar A Lindsay 64 and his wife Elizabeth Lindsay about 80 of West Terre Haute Ind The injured included Mrs Rosaline Lindsay 35 and her four children Oscar 8 Collin 6 Sammy 3 and a 3 month old unnamed baby The Lindsay driver was in critical condition at a Vandalia hospital The soldier's car veered across the highway into a transport truck then into the Lindsay car The truck driver escaped injury Mulberry Grove 45 miles east of St Louis.
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William D. Owens
Ft. Leonard Wood
Oscar A. Lindsay
Elizabeth Lindsay
West Terre Haute
Ind
Rosaline Linday
Oscar
Collin
Sammy
Lindsay
St. Louis
30 000 To Be Brought Off The Tachens
evacuation of 30 000 Nationalist soldiers and civilians from the Tachens under U S 7th Fleet protection proceeds amid reports of enemy fire. Marines ashore assist as carrier pilots claim antiaircraft fire from Communist islands north of Formosa. Amphibious task force led by Rear Adm Sabin joins fleet. 75 warships in position.
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7Th Fleet
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Formosa
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Tachen
Liu Lien-yi
Chiang Kai-shek
Jim Becker
Adm
Alfred M. Pride
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Yorktown
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Saigon
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Midway
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Princess Margaret Hosts State Dinner in Port of Spain
Princess Margaret presides at a state dinner in Port of Spain Trinidad in a formal gown and high hairdo. The British royal, sister to the monarch, attends in ceremonial role during a high profile visit.
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Trinidad
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