Reds Accept East-West Foreign Ministers Talks
A French foreign ministry spokesman in Paris said Moscow agreed to an East West foreign ministers meeting to set agenda for a planned summit. Washington and allies expect at least some topics to be discussed before any heads of state conference. The Kremlin had resisted earlier plans for a ministers session, but notes to Western powers indicate a limited purpose meeting in about two months.
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Moscow
Kremlin
Washington
Russia
United States
State Dulles
Unnaver Nallee
Doctors say Eisenhower fully recovered from minor stroke
Presidents physicians at Walter Reed announced after a 70 minute neurological exam that Dwight D. Eisenhower is completely recovered from the November 1957 stroke with normal brain function and no central nervous system damage. The update follows prior heart attack care and a dental procedure before today's checkup.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Walter Reed Army Hospital
James C. Hagerty
White House
Neralei J
Walter Reed General Hospital
Hagerty
Here We Go Again Snow Sets Syracuse Monthly Record
February snow in Syracuse shatters monthly record with 72.6 inches, surpassing January 1925. Weather Bureau expects continued snow and cold tonight into tomorrow, with overnight low near 27 and high around 35. Season total reaches 126.7 inches, 20.1 inches behind the all time mark of 146.8.
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Syracuse
Weather Bureau
Teeth Loss Haunts Hamilton After Hialeah Defeat
In Hialeah, Lewis Hamilton has not eaten well since losing at the racetrack. He lost a set of false teeth during the event, complicating recovery and prompting concern over his health and performance.
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Hialeah
Lewis Hamilton
Hialeah Race Track
Death trap bus disaster in Levisa Fork search underway
Boats reported locating a sunken school bus about five feet under the surface of the rain swollen Levisa Fork at Prestonsburg Kentucky. Army engineers float a barge as divers prepare to anchor and drag the bus out. Conflicting counts list 23 or 24 dead and 14 to 16 survivors. The National Safety Council calls it the worst highway accident involving children in U.S. history.
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Levisa. Fork
Army
Virgil
U. S. Coast’ Guard
James Mundy
Point, Pleasant
W. Va
Ornce
National’ Safety Council
Seven Die in De Kalb Farmhouse Fire
A De Kalb Junction area farmhouse fire killed seven members of the Van Ornum family and left five others including Joyce Barden and a guest escaping. The blaze started around 4:30 am most likely from an overheated chimney in an upstairs bedroom. The dead include Lloyd Van Ornum 44 and Geneva 43 with children Lionel 7 Laurel 5 Fern 8 Carol 10 and Donald 18. James 19 and Jane 12 escaped from upstairs. James jumped from a second story window to safety. Jane’s escape method is unclear. The father had turned 44 the day before. he farmed locally and worked at McEwen Milling Co. The farm lies between DeKalb Junction and Ola DeKalb, about 10 miles southwest of Canton.
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Lloyd, Jr
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Joyce Barden
Denard van Ornum
Edward J. Noble
Canton
Joy van Ornum
Pauline Burdette
First Methodist
DeKalb Junction
William McMullen
Fern
Carole
Lionel
Laurel
Donald
James
McEwen Milling Co
DeKalb
Ola DeKalb
Comedy Cohens Case Closed in Brooklyn Escape Tale
Myron Cohen, a 52 year old parolee and four time offender, escaped from Brooklyn City Prison after a guard called him by mistake. He boarded a ride with Emanuel Cohen, then avoided police who later tracked him to the garment district and arrested him on an additional charge of escaping lawful custody.
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Myron Cohen
Sol Cohen
Sam Cohen
Emanuel Cohen
Myron
Cohen
Yrsoney
Emanuel
Sol
Brooklyn
City
Police
Kith
Sam
26Th Street
Eighth ‘Avenue
Anthony Cantore
James Porter
Senate postal bill delay threatens veto and rate clash
Senate approved a nickel stamp and large pay hikes for post office workers triggering a delay as House-Senate conferees reconcile rate increases with a separate 7.5 percent federal wage hike. President Eisenhower’s potential veto looms amid Democratic attempts to hold rates and salaries.
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INS
Senate
House
Hisenhower
Eisenhower
Frank Carlson
R-Kans
Lawmakers Face Ambitious Payroll Probe Amid Reports
Buffalo news reports rising calls for a full scale probe of legislative payrolls. Senate Leader Walter Mahoney cites top paid aides Saul Kaplan and Bernard Nadell while noting possible joint legislative committee involvement. The Knickerbocker News lists Democratic committee staffers Joyce Martin, Eleanor Gaynor, Joyce Curtis, and Ellen Morrissey with various salaries.
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Senate
Walter J. Mahoney
Mahoney
Saul Kaplan
Brooklyn
Assembly
Bernard Nadell
Manhattan
Joint Legislative’ Committee
GOP
Paul L. Tallot
Otsego County
Burlington Flats
Oswald D. Heck
State’ Democratic Committee
Knickerbocker News
Joyce Martin
Eleanor C. Gaynor
Joyce E. Curtis
Ellen T. Morrissey
Miss Martin
Democratic Committee
Joyce Bowden
Two Bootleggers Held in Bronx Wood Alcohol Poisoning Deaths
In New York City police booked Norberto Diaz aged 30 and Jose Bellido aged 42 on homicide charges as the death toll rose to 19 from a wood alcohol poisoning epidemic. Authorities say they ran the Bronx's largest retail distribution center for a lethal Moonshine potion called King Kong sold at 1.50 a pint. Federal agents joined nearly 100 detectives in the probe into what officials call the era's most serious moonshine case since Prohibition.
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New York
INS
Norbeto Diaz
Jose Bellido
Bronx
Federal
The
Treasury
Alcohol ‘Tax Unit
Todays Chuckle Old lawyers never die joke
A light humorous quip notes that old lawyers do not die they simply lose their appeal revealing a witty legal profession pun for readers.
Cardinal Stritch Named To Curia In Rome
Vatican announces Cardinal Samuel Stritch Archbishop of Chicago is named pro-prefect of the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith and a member of Rome's Curia. He becomes the first American cardinal to join the high church leadership, with a successor planned for Chicago.
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Nashville
Tenn
Toledo
Ohio
Milwaukee
Wis
Cardin
Samuel Cardinal Stritch
Pius XII
Roman Catholic Church
Congregation For the Propagation of the Faith
Ful
Nee
Convicts Escape Jail In France Then Recaptured
George Herber and Claude Janet broke out of Dermingen jail in Metz France and tried to hitchhike to freedom. A car stopped and the door opened but the driver police officer took the duo back to jail.
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Metz
France
Ins
George Herber
Claude Janet
Dermingen
Local dairies cut milk prices for large quantity orders
Three major dairies cut prices for four quarts or more, reducing pasteurized milk to 25 cents per quart and homogenized to 26 cents per quart. Dairylea, Seneca Dairy, and Netherland Dairy led the reductions, while smaller quantities remain higher.
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Dairylea
Seneca Dairy
Netherland Dairy
Netherland
Ferry Sinks in Marmara Sea Stranding Hundreds
Istanbul radio reported a crowded ferry named Uskadar sank in a sudden storm in the Sea of Marmara. About 300 persons were aboard and only 16 were rescued. The voyage from Izmit to Istanbul followed a stop near a U.S. base. ages were mainly teenagers.
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Turkey
Sea of
Marmara
Istanbul Radio
Izmit
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