7 Percent Freight Rate Increase Sought by Railroads
Chicago IP report says the nation's railroads will ask the Interstate Commerce Commission for a seven percent freight rate increase. The move aims to offset rising costs from wage and material price hikes totaling over a half billion dollars. An eight percent hike previously authorized in 1952 remains in the rate structure. The request follows meetings of chief traffic officers and top executives and comes after an emergency fact finding board recommended wage hikes for about 750,000 non operating employees and welfare extensions.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
ICC
Kefauver seeks unity for 1956 bid amid primaries
The piece traces Kefauver’s call for party unity and a vigorous 1956 campaign, noting past 1952 Chicago walkaround for delegates, potential primaries in California and other states, and Florida May 29 hints. It also covers Stevenson’s announced primaries, Ohio and New Hampshire intrigues, and Bricker’s stand-in plan if Eisenhower won’t run. The labor clash features Reuther described as public enemy No 1 by Hiestand and Goldwater’s rebuttal.
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Kefauver
Chicago
Stevenson
Eisenhower
Minnesota
Illinois
Pennsylvania
Florida
California
Miami
Frank Katzentine
Francis A. Costilio
Ohio
Bricker
Goodwin J. Knight
Nixon
Knight
Fisenhower
Rep
Hiestand
Walter Reuther
AFL Cio
Public Enemy
Sen
Goldwater
Arizona
Reuther
Los Angeles
Russia
United Auto Workers
UAW
Detroit
Eisenhower open sky plan sparks United Nations debate
The UN Assembly wrestled with Eisenhower's open sky proposal for aerial inspection as a disarmament prelude. A lottery by Maza prompted immediate criticism from delegates. Yugoslavia led with 31 votes but failed to reach the two thirds. Adjournment and procedural wrangling followed as debate centered on legality and dignity.
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Eisenhower
Maza
Yugoslavia
Philippines
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
U.S
Vasily V. Kuznetsov
Sir Pierson Dixon
Mates
Romulo
Australia
New Zealand
Soviet Union
Commission
United States
Dali Turns to Cauliflower in Paris Lecture
Salvador Dali visited Sorbonne University in a Rolls Royce packed with cauliflower to discuss his painting method. He linked copying Vermeer's The Lacemaker to rhinoceros horns and sunflowers, citing a childhood memory and a rhinoceros horn walking stick as influences.
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Paris
Salvador Dali
Sorbonne University
International Center of Esthetic Research
Louvre
Jan Vermeer de Delft
Dali
Figueros
Vermeer
Warren shoots on winter holiday with companions near Colusa
Chief Justice Earl Warren and two friends bagged 20 ducks and 10 geese near Colusa California on the former governor's first day of a winter holiday. Local report notes the landmark hunting count during Warren's vacation.
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Colusa
Calif
Earl Warren
California
Judge Fines Man 29 Cents for Contempt in Court
In Fulton Superior Court Judge FE E Andrews held Joseph T Looney Jr in contempt for violating a restraining order by visiting a drugstore where his estranged wife worked and using abusive language. The judge fined him 25 cents and Looney paid it on the spot citing no funds elsewhere.
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Atlanta
Fulton l Superior Court
Louise Kuher Looney
Joseph T. Looney Jr
Looney
FE. E. Andrews
British Soldier Killed on Cyprus
NICOSIA Cyprus a British soldier was killed last night in a terrorist attack on an isolated police station at the northeastern tip of Cyprus. An official report said terrorists cut telephone lines to Yialousa and attacked the police station with rifle fire and grenades. A British soldier and a young Cypriot girl were injured yesterday when a bomb was thrown in at Limassol street.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Yialousa
Limassol Street
Free Trade Unions Group Hits Reds
The International Confederation of Free Trade Unions advised members in 80 countries to avoid delegations with Communist labor groups. The executive board said such exchanges aid Communist dictatorships in gaining legitimacy for state company unions.
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New York
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
Confederation
Pierson case links murder to vast past escape history
The 1930s slaying involved James Pierson, son of Texas Supreme Court justice William Pierson. He was found insane and committed to Austin State Hospital after a murder trial. Pierson escaped hospital twice, first in 1938 and again in 1952, with recapture in both cases. He gave varying motives and identities and worked odd jobs while living under aliases.
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Pierson
Austin
Tex
Texas
Lee Allen
William Pierson
Texas Supreme Court
Minneapolis
Russians Try To Win Over Afghanistan
Russians touring leaders Bulganin and Khrushchev publicly pledged sympathy for Afghanistan’s push for a separate state for Pathan tribes. They mingled at a Kabul banquet, signaling Soviet support as Pakistan and West Asia tensions rise. The visit follows Afghanistan turning to Moscow after transit disruptions and Pakistan’s inaction on Pathan autonomy.
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Afghanistan
Kabul
Russia
Nikolai Bulganin
Pushtoonistan
Pakistan
Bulganin
Nikita Khrushchev
Premie Sardar Mohamoud Daud
Bulgania
West
Indus River
Karachi
Khyber Pass
Typhoon Strikes Iwo Jima Battering Air Base
A typhoon swept past Iwo Jima delivering 60 mph winds to the American Air Force base. The small garrison shut down radio communications for nearly 12 hours and sheltered in storm proof caves. By 10 p.m. radio links were restored and the base reported as operational. Iwo Jima escaped the storm’s main force, which peaked at 145 mph.
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Tokyo
Iwo Jima
U.S
Battle Island
Japan
Jowa Jima
Ryan Undergoing Psychiatric Study At Bellevue Hospital
New York Joseph P. Ryan longtime leader of the International Longshoremen s Assn is a voluntary patient in Bellevue Hospital psychiatry division. Hospital officials said he entered the hospital three days ago his condition described as satisfactory He is under federal indictment on income tax evasion charges and is scheduled to go on trial next April.
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New York
Joseph P. Ryan
Interational Longshoremen's Assn
Ind
Bellevue Hospital
Ryan
Burglar Steals Food and Birds From California Home
Thad L. Graves reported a burglary in Half Moon Bay in which 130 pounds of hamburger were taken from a deep freeze and fed to Wolfhounds to keep them quiet while 75 parakeets were stolen from Graves aviary. Local police investigated the incident as described in the report.
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Half Moon Bay
Calif
Thad L. Graves
Palice
iGravs
MacRae Fined for Drunk Driving Conviction
SAN FERNANDO Calif Gordon MacRae facing a drunk driving conviction after police said he failed a sobriety test following a traffic accident Tuesday He pleaded innocent and demanded a jury trial Yesterday he waived jury trial and submitted the case to Judge Julian Beck fueling the final judgment.
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San Fernando
Calif
Gordon MacRae
MacRae
Julian Beck
Wanted ad pun prompts playful job-search joke
Coldwater Michigan brief notes a want ad from the Coldwater Advertiser, a weekly paper. The advertisement jokes about an attractive woman seeking a man who earns on Tuesday and runs out by Friday.
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Coldwater, Mich
Coldwater Advertiser
Baffled Librarians Learn Power of the Press
Rochester librarians discovered how researching reader questions through a newspaper story can yield rapid answers. They traced who devised the traffic cloverleaf to Johnston of Worcester, learned the text of The Doctor's Prayer from local physicians offices, and found the origin of the phrase tell it to Sweeney to a Marine Corps source.
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Rochester
Rochester Public Library
Robert Asman
Dumont
N. J
John Johnston
Worcester
Mass
Johnston
Massachusetts Highway Department
Library of Physicians
Sweeney
New York Daily News
Stuyvesants
U. S. Marine Corps
Huey Meadows Sentenced for Abandonment and Non-Support
In Jacksonville North Carolina Huey Meadows a former theology student was jailed after a court found him guilty of abandonment and non support He received a suspended five year sentence with removal from North Carolina The sheriff interrupted his exit and claimed jurisdiction in the case as Meadows protested he had to leave the state
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Jacksonville
N.C
Huey
Long Meadows
Meadows
Henry Grady
North Carolina
Thomas Marshall
Grady
German Red Urges Force in West Berlin Overthrow
Alfred Neumann, first secretary of the Berlin Communist Party, calls West Berlin workers to unite with the Reds to oust the West Berlin government and pull troops from the western sector. He repeats the claim Berlin is the Soviet zone capital as East Germany tightens borders.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Reds
Alfred Neumann
Communist Party
Neumann
Who Is Cutting Her Shade Trees?
FALL RIVER MASS A resident reports unidentified person cutting half through the 10 inch diameter shade trees on Mrs Anne L Mitchell’s property. She asked police yesterday to investigate noting the trees were sawn so they might topple onto the house when the wind blows.
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Fall River
Mass
Anne L. Mitchell
Mitchell
Queen Elizabeth Dances at Windsor Christmas Ball
Queen Elizabeth II danced with a footman and the Duke of Edinburgh with a housemaid at Windsor Castle for the staff Christmas ball in the Waterloo Chamber. Queen Mother Elizabeth and Princess Margaret attended the Windsor event Friday night.
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Windsor
England
Elizabeth II
Duke of Edinburgh
Windsor Castle
Elizabeth
Princess Margaret
Waterloo
Four Children Die in Mission Quonset Hut Fire
Four children aged seven months to three years died when an explosion and fire destroyed a quonset hut farmhouse seven miles north of Mission Texas. Fire Chief Ray Landry said the hut burned completely and the bodies were hard to find and severely charred. The mother had stepped outside to fetch a wrench for her husband, who worked in a nearby field. Identified victims were Eva Mercado, three. Amadeo Mercado, seven months. Marie de Rosario Moncerrata, two. and Maria de Moncerrata, nine months.
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Mission, Tex
Mission
Ray Landry
Eva Mercado
Amadeo Mercado
Marie de Rosario Moncerrata
Maria de Moncerrata
Pay Check Cashed Twice at City Prison
A grand jury probes William A. Warfield Jr. a 51 year old guard at Rikers Island penitentiary who allegedly cashed his Oct 30 pay check twice at the Manhattan city prison. Warfield of Jamaica Queens was suspended by Corrections Commissioner Anna Kross. William R. Peer notes the cashier found the duplicate check after Warfield allegedly cashed it a second time.
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New York
al Rikers Island
William A. Warfield Jr
Jamaica
Queens
Anna Kross
William R. Peer
Robert F. Wagner
Warfield
Manhattan City Prison
Ihe Tombs
Peer
Regents approve 95 million budget for UC system
Regents of the University of California approve a 95 million dollar budget for eight campuses for 1956 57. Vice President Harry Wellman cites an estimated total enrollment of 40 559 for 1956 57, about 7.7 percent above the prior year.
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Los Angeles
Regents
University of California
Harry Wellman
Bandit Trio Robs New York UPS Warehouse
A three man gang staged a $600 robbery at a United Parcel Service warehouse in Long Island City Queens. They pretended to be workers and fired at staff wounding a driver and killing a warehouseman. The managers and workers scrambled as the trio fled in a nearby car.
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New York
United Parcel Service
Long Island City
Queens
Charles Rodentz
Rodentz
Bloomingdale’s
Julian Urbanasky
Edward Morenski
Baldwin, N. Y
Hotel Burns Two Killed At Attaquin Hotel Fire
A fire at the Attaquin Hotel in Mashpeeo r Massachusetts killed two men tentatively identified as Staff Sergeant George Gray and Staff Sergeant Luke Concannon from Otis Air Force Base. Five others, including the owner Thomas Lyons and Miss Alice Fitzpatrick, jumped from second floor and were taken to Cape Cod Hospital in Hyannis with non serious injuries. Loss was estimated unofficially.
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Mashpeer
Mass
Attaquin
George Gray
Luke Concannon
Otis Air Force Base
Thomas Lyons
Alice Fitzpatrick
Air Force Set
Bruce Tucker
Garrett, Pa
Cape Code Hospital
Hyannis
Tokyo Fire Leaves Five Dead in Downtown Blaze
Five young factory workers died in a downtown Tokyo fire that broke out early today. Police report two others hospitalized, including a firefighter, and five houses were destroyed or damaged.
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Tokyo
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