11 Heirs Split $1.6 Million Estate Of Kin She Never Knew
A Syracuse widow, Ada Christina Childs, 72, is named as one of 11 American heirs to two thirds of a $1.6 million estate left by Louise Bogart Cox of Toronto. Other Central New York claimants include Geneva Alcherman denry Coleman and sister Leonora, plus Dwight B. Coleman, former Cortland city engineer. Cox, born in Penn Yan, died 1948. her husband Herbert Coplin Cox headed Canada Life. Childs plans no action until funds arrive.
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Syracuse
Ada Christina Childs
Wainwright Ave
New York
Geneva Alcherman
Denry L. Coleman
Leonora
S. Main St
Dwight B. Coleman
Cortland
Colemans
Toronto
Herbert Coplin Cox
Canada Life Assurance Co
Cox
Penn Yan
Yates County
Canada
Soviet Press Attacks Stalin at 20th Party Congress
Anastas Mikoyan’s speech at the 20th Congress harshly denounces Stalin’s writings and legacy. Khrushchev’s keynote frames the shift to collective leadership and rebukes the one man rule. Mikoyan condemns Stalin’s late charges of treason and calls for new communist teachings.
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Moscow
Josef Stalin
Anastas Mikoyan
Soviet Communist Party
Stalin
Mikoyan
Nikita
Khrushchev
Enrollment Lags At West Point
Washington report says a recruiting campaign is being considered to boost lagging enrollments at the U S Military Academy at West Point. Rep Evins of Tennessee, a board member, cites old vacancies and calls for action to strengthen the academy.
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West Point
Washington
U. S. Military Academy
Rep. Evins
D-Tenn
Wasilora
Waddaub Uneie
Segregationists vow unending legal fight in Alabama
In Tuscaloosa a citizens council leader vowed the segregationists will fight as long as white blood flows pure against desegregation efforts after the admission of the University of Alabama's first Negro student Autherine Lucy. State Sen. Walter C. Givhan led the keynote, praising actions within the law, as crowds of 600 heard calls linking Northern and Communist agitation to campus riots. Leonard R. Wilson, a pre-law sophomore, received the biggest ovation for a prior segregation speech on a flagpole. The meeting formed Citizens' Councils of Alabama, tying several state chapters amid the Lucy episode.
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Tuscaloosa, Ala
Citizens Council
South
Walter C. Givhan
University of Alabama
Givhan
Communist Party
Autherine Lucy
Leonard R. Wilson
Tuscaloosa
Citizens’ Councils of
Alabama
Vetoed Gas Bill Declared Dead in 1956 Politics
Widespread reaction labels President Eisenhower’s veto of the natural gas bill as a political move in an election year. Supporters lament the two thirds override impossibility in the House on a bill passed by six votes. Democratic backers call the veto highly political and criticize claims of consumer protection. Senators Fulbright Kerr note Eisenhower seeks electoral favor and hints at a run for re election.
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Wastitington
Eisenhower
House
Francis Case
R-S.d
J. William Fulbright
D-Ark
Senate
Robert S. Kerr
D-Okla
Truman
Five Children Die in Fire at Berube Home
In VAS Lambert near Edmundston, a blaze tore through a two story frame house killing four daughters and a son of Mr and Mrs Maxime Berube. Victims were Viola 11 Marie Ange 9 Marie Reine 7 Rosalie 6 and Gilbert 2. Aunt Maria May 19 who was in charge saved her two brothers Noel 1 and Real 4. Parents were away visiting neighbors. Marie May said there was no time to save the others asleep upstairs.
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Vas Lambert
N. B
Edmundston
Maxime Berube
Viola
Marie Ange
Marie Reine
Rosalie
Gilbert
Maria May
Noel
Real
Marie May
Policeman Fatally Shoots Burglary Suspect in Falls
A youthful burglar was shot by a policeman after being flushed from a real estate office in Niagara Falls. The victim Samuel Cidella, 29, of Niagara Falls died at Memorial Hospital shortly after arrival.
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Niagara Falls
Samuel Cidella
Niagara ‘Falls
Memorial Hospital
Today’s Chuckle on Charitable Deductions and Virtue
A light editorial note jokes that as long as Uncle Sam allows deductions, charitable contributions stay a selfless virtue of the American man. The quip reflects a period view on civic duty and tax policy.
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Uncle Sam
Charitage
Hazing Death Probe Sought in MIT Student Drowning
In Waltham Massachusetts District Attorney Ephraim Martin moved for an inquest into the death of 18 year old MIT student Thomas L Clark found drowned in Cambridge Reservoir after being blindfolded and ordered to return to MIT before 8 am during a Delta Kappa Epsilon hazing stunt. Authorities will question fraternity members as part of the inquiry and the medical examiner cites drowning with no injuries. The case follows calls to curb hazing excesses and a statement from MIT President Killian supporting elimination of hazing excesses.
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Waltham
Mass
Ephraim Martin
Thomas L. Clark
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Clark
Cambridge
Harvey
Ill
Waltham-Lincoln
Mit
Delta Kappa Epsilon
Martin
Middlesex County Superior Court
Alfred R. Clark
Ilinois
Peter Angelo
Thomas Clark
Hobbs Brook Basin
Aftan
Cnd MT
Killian
Fire fails to wake Churchill at Chartwell
West erham England A fire flared in the kitchen of Chartwell Manor near Churchill’s bedroom but the 81 year old former prime minister slept through the blaze. An oil stove lighted by a maid caused the alarm and a policeman and firemen arrived to extinguish and check safety. Churchill spent his first Chartwell night in weeks after seeing Lady Churchill off for a vacation in Ceylon.
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Churchill
Chartwell Manor
Chartwell
Lady Churchill
Ceylon
Sleet Storm Kills Three in Southern Ontario
A severe sleet and freezing rain storm swept southern Ontario last night and today, causing three deaths. In Scarborough a husband and wife were killed when their car stalled on a tracks area. A pedestrian near Toronto died after being struck by a truck. Dozens were injured.
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Toronto
Ontario
Scarborough
Tolane
Bomb rocks New Orleans Post Office Branch
Two postal workers were injured when a time bomb sent through the mails exploded at the main New Orleans post office. Fire damaged a loading platform, pieces of the bomb were found nearby, and investigators traced it to a sender unknown. The device operated on a one cell battery and small wiring fragments were sent to Washington for analysis.
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New Orleans
Joseph J. Zarza
Zarza
Washington
Driver Faces Tipsy Charge in City Traffic Court
Carroll Dowding, 48, of 319 Randolph Sr., pleaded not guilty this morning before Judge P. Leo Dorsey to driving while intoxicated and dangerous driving. Paroled on the dangerous driving charge, bail was set at 1000 for the DWI charge after Dowding’s southbound car on S Salina Street rear-ended Woodard, 27, of 229 Stonefield Rd., Town of Onondaga, who stopped at a red light. Patrolman Jon Zrobiec reported the crash at S Salina and Castle Streets.
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Carroll Dowding
Randolph Sr
P. Leo Dorsey
Dowding
S. Salina St
Woodard
Stonefield Rd
Onondaga
Jon Zrobiec
S. Salina and
E. Castle Sts
President Eisenhower Calls Golf His Main Focus At Glen Arven
Thomasville report says President Eisenhower, after a heart attack, played his first round with caddie Johnny Guyton at Glen Arven Golf Club. Guyton describes the President as an intense golfer who rarely talks, mostly directing his choice of clubs. Eisenhower shot a 47 on the par 36 first nine and will consider a second-term bid.
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Johnny Guyton
Glen Arven Golf Club
Thomasvile
Johnny
Mr. Fisenhower
Glen Arven
Eisenhower
All 50 Aboard Die In Malta Mishap
London staff report a British military airliner crashed while taking off from Luqa Airport Valetta Malta. The craft carried 45 servicemen and five crew on a military charter bound for England. The disaster occurred as the plane left for its flight.
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London
Malta
Mediterranean
Ministry of Civil Aviation
Luqa
Valetta
England
Fatal crash kills 38 Marines near Oakland
A Marine Corps transport plane crashed in a fog bound canyon southeast of Oakland killing all 38 aboard. The disaster followed another Bay Area air crash within 24 hours as a B52 bomber exploded over Tracy. Pilot Maj. Alexander Watson, 32, from Santa Ana, reported an approach to Oakland before vanishing in dense brush 1,300 feet up.
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Oakland
Calif
Marine Corps
San Francisco Bay Area
Tracy
Alameda Naval Air Station
el Toro
Camp Pendleton Marine Bases
California
Treasure Island Navy Base
Watson
Santa Ana
Oakland Municipal
Naval Air Station
Niles
S . San Francisco Bay
Transocean Air Lines
United Air Lines
Winter storm crashes through New York with mixed precipitation
Crazier winter battered New York State with rain freezing rain sleet and snow. Eastern areas faced hazardous driving as the Weather Bureau tracked a complex storm system. Albany could see 3 to 6 inches of snow while Yonkers to Syracuse reported extreme slipperiness and scattered freezing rain across Massena Watertown and the Hudson Valley.
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New York State
Weather Bureau
Albany
State Thruway
Yonkers
Syracuse
Sanders
Taconic State Parkway
Massena
Watertown
Hudson Valley
New York
Washington
Saranac Lake
Binghamton
Hancock Field
Raft La Cantuta Signals Break 23-Day Silence
In Lima Peru two amateur radio operators reported faint signals last night from the raft La Cantuta which set out December 4 for the South Seas with four men and a woman. The signals from Mirko Gurecky were brief and contact could not be reestablished. The crew includes Eduardo Ingris 45 and others aboard the 30 by 13 foot raft named after a Peruvian flower.
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Lima
Peru
la Cantuta
South Seas
Santiago Martinez del Pozo
Enrique Barreda Olavegoya
Mirko Gurecky
Polynesia
Thor Heyerdahl
William Willis
New York City
Eduardo Ingris
Czechoslovakia
Gurecky
Andy Rost
Joaquin Gerrero
Sporeniat
Natalia Mazuelos
Baruch Offers Reward For Quail Stolen From Estate
Bernard Baruch, the elder statesman, offered a reward for the return of two wooden quail stolen from his Little Hobcaw estate near Kingstree South Carolina. He said in an advertisement in the County Record that his greatest disappointment was realizing you never have to lock a door here.
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Kingstree
S.C
Bernard Baruch
iHobean
Little Hobcaw
Niles
Baruch
David McGill
Not Just Another Guy Named Smith
RED SMITH isn t just 36 and a sportswriter with a knack for dissecting language and rebuilding it. He covers skating, boxing, horse events, gridiron, and racing, earning praise from writers and readers alike for Views of Sport.
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Smith
Red Smith
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