Newsman Refuses to Identify as Communist Before Senate Panel
Robert Shel gron, NYT copy editor, defies questions on Communist ties and refuses to invoke the Fifth Amendment as Senate Internal Security questions press freedom. Eastland orders him to answer or face contempt as hearings on red influences in the press continue with references to information from Clayvian Knowles.
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Income Reaches New Peak In Record Personal Earnings
The Commerce Department reported personal income rising to a record annual rate of 311% billion dollars, about two billions higher than October. For the first five months of the year the rate stood at 02 billions, about 15 billions above the same period last year, driven mainly by higher industrial payrolls and gains in the automobile industry.
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Today’s Features Highlight Republic Redemption Plan
Cornoct tae Pha Bund op the Republic to redeem it acif fe eutiiery by Bevil Lawrence on today’s Bitterinl Paar. TALKING TF OVER on page 12 and regular features listed across Amusements Financial Bridge Ing. Report Radio-TV City Life Women Editorials Your Money Letters and Pictures on pages 3 32 43 1 27-25 26 30-31 24 5.
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Princess Grace to Marry Prince Rainier of Monaco
News from Philadelphia reports Oscar winner Grace Kelly plans to marry Prince Rainier III of Monaco soon after Easter. The engagement sparked jubilation in Monaco and Hollywood alike with radio bulletins, champagne toasts, and shop windows showing their pictures.
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Polio Stricken Walsh Family Faces Grave Condition
Edward Walsh a 15 year old polio patient in Chicago remains unconscious with a greenish tint as his 18 member family from Durand Illinois suffers polio. David 17 and other siblings also affected while parents report lighter symptoms. Over $7000 raised nationwide for the Walsh children.
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Israelis and Egyptians clash along border near El Auja Nizana
Israeli and Egyptian patrols exchange fire for about 30 minutes across the border in the El Auja Nizana area. An Israeli spokesman says Egyptians opened fire and Israel returned fire. incident reported to UN observers. An Israeli armored car carrying Edward was brought to hospital. Several children in Rockford area hospitalised after unrelated incidents.
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Fire Truck Stolen During Night Club Blaze
Firefighters battled a night club fire in the theatrical district when a thief stole a large fire engine. The truck crashed into two fences at Boston Common before being abandoned. Fire Chief Flanagan estimated property damage around 140 000 dollars due to a cigarette-related carelessness.
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New York to Request Record Budget in 1958
Governor Harriman will submit the largest budget in New York history to the Legislature on February 1. General fund appropriations are expected to exceed the current year’s 1.26 billion dollars, heavily influenced by education aid and Health Commission recommendations. A proposed 55 million dollar increase is discussed, with only 42 percent slated for the new fiscal year starting April 1, and 35 million expected for school aid in 1957-58.
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Mild Weather Brief Turns Cold Ahead
A mild spell ends tonight as a Great Lakes storm brings snow. Today’s high reaches 34, dropping to 24 tonight and 12 tomorrow. A cold air mass settles through Wednesday with a 28 high tomorrow and temperatures 4 to 6 degrees below normal for five days. Relief arrives Tuesday with a slight rise.
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Sanatorium work in Onondaga infirmary to be improved
The Onondaga Sanatorium infirmary building will see improvements as the State Department of Public Works reports Isen Contracting Co of Waterbury submitted the low bid of 4312 dollars.
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Black Fog Paralyzes Britain Amid Severe Smog Crisis
London endures a choking smog for the third straight day as air travel stalls and hospitals report surge in chest cases. Officials warn oxygen demand rises while police aid mobility and safety amid eerily thick, toxic fog likened to the 1952 disaster.
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Tipsy Driver Jailed Fined First 1956 Drunk Driver
Thomas W. Cloyd 49 of 326 Green St. was jailed 30 days and fined 100 dollars after pleading guilty to drunken driving. Judge Truman H. Preston ordered license revocation following an Nov. 25 accident in the 800 block of Townsend Street involving Sidney Stolusky 26. Patrolman Andrew McArdle reported Cloyd backed out of a driveway into Stolusky’s car.
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Hat critic skewers Lady Eden as hats spark debate
London fashion expert Eneen Ashcroft derides Lady Eden as vain and indecisive over hats. The Prime Minister’s wife, once a debutante, is praised and panned for varied, fussy styles including the "Clarissa cloche" while Eden herself largely abandons hats and Anthony Eden favors bareheaded looks.
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Sandburg at 78 Seeks Longer, Better Poetry and Happiness
Carl Sandburg is 78 today. He hopes to publish a longer and better poetry book and plans a sequel to Always the Young Strangers. He spends hours answering mail, sticks to a lighter schedule, and will appear on Feb 12 in A Lincoln Portrait during an Ed Sullivan telecast. His happiness prescription includes being out of jail, regular meals and sleep, having his work printed in a free country, and receiving love and esteem outside the home.
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Political Overtones Charged In Congressional Clash Over Election Issues
Democrats led by Johnson challenge President Eisenhower on foreign policy farm tax and other election year issues. Johnson calls the president’s message optimistic and the domestic and international outlook not rosy. Byrd backs Eisenhower on debt and tax policy as politics heats up in Congress.
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Red China Won't Set Time for U.S. Prisoner Release
London reports Red China refused to fix a time limit for releasing Americans held as criminals. Pelping said during Geneva talks that prisoners serving sentences have no right to seek permission to return to the United States. The United States accuses Red China of violating a September 16 agreement to permit release.
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Old Soak’s Last Binge Positively Repeats
A PoPlar Bluff note describes a robin named Old Soak who drinks haw juice at Dr Z Lee Stokely hawthorne tree and mimics the Geneva release talk about 40 Americans held in China. The State Department says China will release prisoners expeditiously as Sino foreign stance remains sovereign and open to repatriation aid.
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Feathers and a Wing Remain After Cat Encounter
A lingering scene from a daily event shows a hungry cat likely roaming during a spree. All that remained from Old Soak were a few feathers and a wing, suggesting a recent predation.
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Infanta Beatrix of Bourbon Suffers Stroke
Infanta Beatrix of Bourbon aged 46 wife of Prince Alexander Torlonia suffered a stroke and was taken to a hospital. A hospital maid reported she is in a serious but not desperate condition. The couple are prominent figures in Italy with vast wealth.
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Vehicle break in and theft reported in Miami Beach
A Colorado Springs man told police on Monday that a burglar stole a metal box a strongbat containing personal papers and a duplicate car key from his motor vehicle. He also reported his scar was stolen from the same place yesterday.
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Fire claims two lives in three story apartment blaze
Two women died in a Kinderhook three story frame apartment house fire last night. Mrs Mary Wixwell aged 82 apparently died of smoke poisoning, coroner Robert H Near reported. Two others escaped the blaze.
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Hie Plays Sax as Landlord Questions Ailments
A late night sax practice prompts a landlord to joke about a small ailment. The witty exchange captures a light moment in a city apartment.
Five Waosseln Family Die in Arctic Cold near Lake Sliaman
A Civil Air Patrol plane found the Simeon Waosseln family dead in the snows near Lake Sliaman 250 miles from Anchorage. Of nine sled dogs only two survived. Ages ranged from less than a year to 14. Officials say exposure caused the deaths after a trip from Newhalen to Iruigig.
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Profiles In Political Courage Series By John F Kennedy
Profiles In Political Courage recounts Adams Webster Benton Houston Norris Taft as models of decisive brave action in politics. The inspiring series, written by Massachusetts Senator John F Kennedy, is set to begin Sunday as Congress sits in a charged year.
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