France Mends France pushes NATO rearmament amid tense vote
France faced a critical vote on rearming West Germany within NATO and WEU constraints. Mendes France rallied deputies, passing the NATO protocol and Saar accord while WEU faced defeat, leaving the German entry and restoration of sovereignty under close parliamentary scrutiny.
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NATO
WEU
Germany
Mendes- France
Assembly
Western European Union
France
European Defense Community
United States
Britain
Depuries Gils
European Union
Tomorow
Saar
Mendes-France
Foreign Affairs Committee
Nassau County Adopts Permanent Voter Registration
Nassau County becomes the second in New York State to adopt permanent registration allowing voters to remain eligible from year to year after initial enrollment. The Board of Supervisors approved the system under a new state regulation, following Broome County as the first adopter.
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Mineola
Nassau County
New York State
County Board of Supervisors
Brooome County
Fourteen Negro Girls Debut at Willard Hotel Washington
Fourteen Negro school girls aged 16 and 17 made their debut at the Willard Hotel in Washington. They wore white gowns and elbow-length gloves while carrying red roses. Escorts wore white ties as about 200 guests attended the party in the crystal bathroom of the historic hotel, often called the residence of presidents.
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Washington
Willard Hotel
Willard
Charity Agencies To Get U S Food Aid In New York
The State Social Welfare Department will distribute federal surplus foods to private charitable agencies and some municipal institutions after Governor Dewey approved a resolution. The program begins early 1955 and targets non profit tax free non penal institutions caring for children and the aged outside New York City.
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Washington
State Social Welfare Department
Dewey
State Board of Social Welfare
Department
U.S. Agriculture
New York City
Arpad Ce Sre
Missing diamonds valued at sixty five thousand dollars
Two trays of diamond jewelry worth 65 000 dollars vanished from the Marchadl jewelry store in Manhattan during business hours. Manager Edward Segan said he cannot imagine how it happened and clerks saw no strangers enter the back room where the safe is kept. Police reported no stranger access during the day.
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New York
Manhattan
Edward Segan
Marchadl
Perfectly Proper Long Underwear At Coast Swim
Alfred Pattavino, 60, wore long underwear for a swim in the cold Pacific off Long Beach California. Police questioned him but released him after realizing no law barred the attire. He argued the garments were perfectly proper for swimming.
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Long Beach
Calif
Pacific Ocean
Alfred Pattavino
Pattavino
Lot of Halves Crowds Jam Baltimore Downtown
Post Christmas crowds filled Baltimore streets while Frederick Gold selling shopping bags noted half the passersby came for window shopping and the rest were returning packages or heading to the movies.
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Baltimore
Frederick Gold
Grasshopper Invasion Predicted For Large Montana Acreage
In Helena the federal Plant Pest Control office forecasts grasshoppers will infest more than 500000 acres in Montana in 1955. The report also warns mormon crickets may threaten crops in at least six counties though data remain incomplete.
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Helena
Mont
Montana
Man shoots tires of parked bar to stop siesta in Spain
Jose Lage shot the tires of a parked bar after an idle motor disrupted his afternoon rest. He was jailed following the incident in Lugo Spain.
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Lugo
Spain
Jose Lageneg
Jose
Mechanic Charged in $15,000 Safe Robbery Case
Captain Charles N. Thomsen said Weeks, held on $15,000 bond, admitted attempting a weekend safecracking at a Howard University library study. He described a four to five man job using acetylene torches to remove a 3100 pound safe, but the attempt failed when the dolly detached and the box tipped into a ditch. Weeks was captured around noon.
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Charles N. Thomsen
Prince Georges
Weeks
Thomson
iWeeks
Africans killed in tribal clashes in Natal Midlands
At least 11 Africans die and about 20 are wounded in tribal clashes in the Natal Midlands hills over Christmas weekend. Police rush reinforcements to Pomeroy where 200 Africans clash after a tribal member is stabbed. Ladysmith reports six more killed in a Mbazo and Nkweni dispute over marriage payments.
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Durban
South Africa
Natal
M Midlands
Pomeroy
Ladysmith
Husband in custody over child support case in Baltimore
Kelly Johnson was brought to Southwest court charged with failing to support Grace Johnson and her four children. He told Magistrate Howard L. Aaron he has never met the woman, and Grace Johnson confirmed the confusion saying the husband is a different Kelly Johnson and not this man.
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Baltimore
Kelly Johnson
Southwestson
Southwest
Grace Johnson
Johnson
Howard L. Aaron
Portugal Warns India on Damao Invasion Prospect
Lisbon warned India it will use all possible means to resist any invasion of the Portuguese territory of Damao. An overseas ministry communique said armed men with combat equipment had been sighted near the Portuguese pocket and Indian border officials had blocked mail and travel to Damao since Friday.
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Lisbon
Portugal
India
Damao
Deaths of notable figures listed nationwide
Death notices list Robert Blair Cannon 49 of Chattanooga Tennessee a pioneer chenille family member John Scherr MacFerran 64 retired bank VP in Chicago died in Clearwater Florida Elinor Seymour Perry 80 math teacher to President Eisenhower in Abilene Kansas died in Pottstown Pennsylvania John H Bruens 58 U S Foreign Service officer last post Beirut Washington Ms Beryl Cooper Kiss Ling 77 sister of Kent Cooper in Indianapolis Herbert Corey 82 famed World War I war correspondent and writer in Washington.
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Tenn
John Scherr Macferran
Continental Illinois National Bank and Trust Company of Chicago
Clearwater
Fla
Elinor Seymour Perry
Eisenhower
Abilene
Kan
Pottstown
John H. Bruens
U. S
Beirut
Lebanon
Washington
Beryl Cooper Kissling
Kent Cooper
The
Associated Press
George W. Cooper
Indianapolis
Herbert Corey
Stapp Survives High Speed Ejection Tests At Holloman
The test pilot Stapp endured nearly nine Gs during a deceleration run at about 716 mph. He sustained minor injuries including two black eyes and dust blisters, while researchers plan further tests to assess wind blast and safe bail out procedures for supersonic aircraft.
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Stapp
Stapp Aims For Faster Ride In Wind-Screen Test
A university doctor from Alamagordo New Mexico with medical and doctoral credentials plans a new sled test to measure wind pressures up to about 24 psi. He survived a prior run with yellow and red visions and intense pain as the sled stopped 32 feet from the rail end.
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Stapp
Lovers Lane
Alamogordo
N. M
University of Minnesota
University of Texas
Turnpike Killer Sentenced to Death in Pennsylvania
Greensburg reports 24 year old John Wesley Wable dubbed phantom killer of the Turnpike was sentenced to death by electric chair after a July conviction for killing truck driver Pitts in his cab. He faced additional charges of killing another driver and wounding a third.
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Greensburg
John Wesley Wable
Wable
Sayan Bhai
OPA
Bowling Green
Pitts
Booting Hanley Says Politics Behind Job Report
Former Lt. Gov. Joe R. Hanley said “that's politics” when asked about reports the incoming Harriman administration would cut his job as counsel to the Division of Veterans Affairs. A source close to Gov elect Harriman declined comment on the New York Times story. Hanley warned there would be many hungry fellows after these jobs.
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Albany
Joe R. Hanley
Averell Harriman
New York Times
Hanley
Division of Veterans’ Affairs
Pup Sets Fire To Own Doghouse
Arson investigators in West Los Angeles probe a Belgian shepherd named Boots accused of starting two fires that burned doghouses. Neighbors say the dog pulled burning debris from an incinerator and placed it against the kennels. Boots was uninjured as firefighters contained the blazes.
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Los Angeles
Calif
Boots
Ars
Isaiah Summers
Japanese Suicide Toll Reaches Record In 1953
The Welfare Ministry reported in Tokyo today that more than 20,600 Japanese died by their own actions in 1953, a national record. The figure is not exact, with personal crisis reports ranking ninth among causes of death.
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Tokyo CP
Welfare ‘Ministry
Nehru Receives Chinese Gifts At Border
Eight tubs of goldfish and two stuffed deer from Communist China arrive for Prime Minister Nehru at the border. Indian officials collect the consignment, to be shipped to Calcutta for onward use in the new cabinet formation.
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Nehru
China
India
Calcutta
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