Adlai Appeals To Labor For Vote Support
Adlai E Stevenson urged 16 million AFL CIO members to participate in politics and back his campaign. He criticized Taft Hartley Act provisions as inequitable and urged reforms. He denounced right to work laws and called for stronger rights to organize and bargain collectively to strengthen democracy in daily work.
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New York
Adlai E. Stevenson
Labor
A-F.l.c.l
Labor Organization
A-F.l.c.llo
Stevenson
New
Averell Harriman
Worker Held After Fatal Elkhart Shooting
In Elkhart Indiana a 25 year old factory worker moved from Salem West Virginia a month ago fatally shot Herbert Singer after a downtown street argument. Robert A Meadows 24 said he unintentionally discharged a .22 during a scuffle. Singer died soon after at General Hospital.
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Elkhart
Ind
Salem
Robert A. Meadows
Herbert Singer
Meadows
Singer
General Hospital
Jo Ann
Willard Chips
Chips
Singer and
Five Bodies Recovered in Austrian Avalanche Disaster
In Salzburg Austria five power station workers bodies recovered raising total dead to 15 from the winter's first avalanche. The avalanche buried workers at a power station site in the Alpine region prompting full rescue efforts.
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Salzburg
Austria
Neighbors Help Polio Stricken Smith Family in Ojai
In Ojai California Betty and Herb Smith former Spokane residents lie in iron lungs at Ventura County General Hospital since October. Their Nordhoff High School and nursery school teaching roles are supported by a community fund and a March of Dimes grant enabling mortgage payments and care for their two children Debra and Jody. The town raises 2200 from a raffle and 300 from a local high school game. Santa helpers, Christmas tree, and meals sustain the family until discharge and mortgage relief.
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William H. Smith
Betty
Ventura County General Hospital
Ventura
Calif
Ojai
Ojai Valley
Spokane
Wash
A.P. Wirephoto
Herb Smith
California
Smiths
William H
Nordhoff High School
Nordhoft
Jody
Smith
Ernestine Hix
Debra
March of Dimes
Santa
Navy Seaplane Bomber Explodes Killing One and Missing Three
In PATUXENT Maryland a prototype Navy jet bomber, the Seamaster, exploded and crashed into Chesapeake Bay killing one crew member and leaving three others missing. The four engine aircraft, claimed to be the world’s first multi jet seaplane, was developed by Glenn L. Martin Co. Divers and a salvage barge searched the 55-foot waters as hopes faded.
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Patuxent
Chesapeake Bay
Glenn L. Martin Co
Baltimore
Navy
Air Force
Prison Con Held By FBI In Cashier's Death
James P. Taylor a former Terre Haute convict released Oct. 29 was arrested by FBI agents in Joplin Missouri for interstate transportation of stolen travelers checks tied to the kidnapping and murder of Minnesota bank cashier Kenneth Lindbergh. Taylor alias Charles D Kennell faced a Detroit filed complaint under the interstate transportation of stolen property law and allegedly moved over $5 000 in Bank of America checks from Detroit to San Francisco.
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James P. Taylor
Terre Haute Federal Penitentiary
FBI
Joplin
Minnesota
Kenneth Lindbergh
Percy Wyly II
Kansas City
Taylor
Wyly
Detroit
Charles D. Kennell
Bank of America
San Francisco
Thief River Falls
Minn
Lindbergh
Cal Howard
Donations to Basket Fund Support for Terre Haute Needy
Donations to the Tribune Star Basket Fund totalled 22 dollars for aid to families in Terre Haute and nearby areas. Excluded are Phi Beta Psi bridge proceeds expected to top 125 dollars. Gifts to be sent to Tribune-Star office, baskets applications due by December 20 at Friendly Service Association.
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Tribune-Star Basket Fund
Terre Haute
Phi Beta Psi
The
Tribune-Star
Wabash Avenue
Friendly Service Association
Chestnut Street
Russians to Send More German Prisoners Home
Bonn Germany Dec 8 The Foreign Office announced the Soviet Union will resume sending home German war prisoners 600 prisoners to arrive next Tuesday at the West German border.
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Bonn
Germany
Foreign Office
Store Robbed in Marietta Daytime Heist
Two masked bandits robbed the Hoff Market in Marietta Indiana, a Shelby County crossroads town, of 1394 dollars today.
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Marietta, Ind
Shelby County
Navy Patrol Bomber Crash Off Oahu Rescues Three Men
A two engine Navy patrol bomber crashed at sea during air submarine maneuvers near Oahu. Seven airmen remained missing as two escort destroyers and multiple subs and planes searched the area. Three survivors were rescued by the submarine Bashaw and identified as Lt K C Guedel, Lt (jg) E J O Malley, and Lt (jg) Robert S Smith. the bomber originated from Barbers Point Naval Air Station.
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Honolulu
Navy
Oahu
Bashaw
K. C. Guedel
E. J. O'Malley
Robert S. Smith
Barbers Point Naval Air Station
Weather map and forecast for Terre Haute area
Fair and colder tonight with a low around 14. Friday partly cloudy and cold. Saturday partly cloudy and not so cold. Indiana notes show some snow flurries mainly north with a colder regime. Overnight low 18 to 25, highs 25 to 32, river stage 4.1 ft and rising.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Jury hears Evelyn Fuller account in Wallace Fuller shooting
In Vigo County court Judge Herbert Criss hears Evelyn Mae Fuller describe the March 14 shooting of her blind lawyer husband Wallace Fuller. She and a coroner deposition claim the death was accidental and recount the brief struggle over a gun in their Ohio Street apartment.
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Vigo
Herbert R. Criss
Evelyn Mae Fuller
Wallace Fuller
Ohio Street
John O'Leary
Willard Gantz
D. M. Ferguson
Vigo County
Fuller
Confessed Slayer's Story Is Checked In Indiana
Indianapolis police verify the claim of Richard A. Robinson 24 who says he helped kill a sex deviate at a New York beach in 1950 and dumped the body in an Indianapolis quarry. He previously confessed to the ice pick killing of wealthier Lawrence Scott 35 in Pittsburgh.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Richard A. Robinson
Pittsburgh
New York
Robinson
Lawrence Scott
Joseph Flynn
Temperatures Sink Beneath Freezing Across Indiana
A sudden return to cold weather sent temperatures below freezing across Indiana with snow flurries forecast in the north. Daytime highs reach from 26 to 56 degrees earlier in the week while low temperatures dip into the teens and low twenties, and the outlook for Saturday is partly cloudy and not so cold.
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Indiana
Evansville
South Bend
Fort Wayne
Indianapolis
Lafayette
Woman killed en route to home in Indiana collision
In Rushville Indiana on December 8 Mrs Josephine Bergman 27 was killed when her car lost control on a narrow bridge east of Milroy and struck Milroy milk truck driver John F Ladd 28 who reported no injuries Mrs Bergman leaves a husband and a son.
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Rushville
Ind
Josephine Bergman
Richland
Milroy
John F. Ladd
Manilla
Bergman
Ladd
Two U S Soldiers Turned Over to Soviet Authorities
Reports from East Berlin say two American soldiers arrested after a street fight were turned over to Soviet military authorities. A U S Army spokesman said no reply from the Russians yet and records showed no men absent without leave. The incident followed East Berlin claims of sovereignty and four power control changes.
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East Germany
Reds
East Berlin
U N Assembly Approves New Member Plan
The United Nations General Assembly approves a package to admit 18 new members but faces a potential Soviet veto in the Security Council. The vote in the Assembly was 52 to 2 with 5 abstentions, awaiting the council’s final say.
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United Nations
N. Y
U.N. General Assembly
World Organization
Assembly
Security Council
China
Outer Mongolia
Russia
Cuba
United States
Eisenhower
Chiang
Cyprus Archbishop Rejects British Peace Plan
Archbishop Makarios rejected a British plan to restore peace in Cyprus without discussion. He leads the Enosis movement favoring union with Greece and said the plan recognizes self determination but imposes unacceptable conditions making it unattainable.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
Makarios
Enosis Movement
Greece
Christmas Mail Destroyed by Fire in Germany
Thousands of Christmas packages and cards sent by American troops in Germany were destroyed by fire on Wednesday. Army officials said about one third of the mail in a railway car was burned. The mail had been collected from Army post offices across Germany and was to be loaded onto a ship at Bremerhaven.
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Bremerhaven
Germany
Accused Woman Details Rival's Fatal Fall in Caspar Case
Rose Alexander 42, jailed without bond, testified before a coroner's jury that she buried Barbara Alexander 27 in the cellar to spare her children. Barbara died July 18 1953 from a fractured skull after a blow by unknown persons.
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Barbara Alexander
Casper
Wyo
Rose Alexander
A.P
Casper, Wyo
Rose
Barbara
James
Worland
East Casper
Bar
Attack on British Ship Off Foochow Reported
The British Navy received word from the freighter Hydralock that two Chinese Nationalist jet fighters attacked the ship Monday off Foochow's mainland coast. The Hydralock reported no casualties though the crew counted 25 bullet holes in the superstructure.
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Hong Kong
Foochow
Brentano May Visit U. S. Soon
Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano may visit Washington early next year to discuss the problem of German unification, according to informed sources. The trip would follow British Prime Minister Anthony Eden’s expected arrival in Washington on January 30.
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Bonn
Germany
Heinrich von Brentano
Washington
Brentano
Anthony Eden
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