Ike Expected to Arrive in New York Sunday
President-elect Eisenhower, returning to the United States, has finalized a definite program for directing the new Republican administration. High-ranking party members report he shaped a general philosophy after talks with Dulles McKay and Wilson aboard the USS Helena and in meetings at Kaneohe.
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Honolulu
T. H
U.P
Eisenhower
United States
John Foster Dulles
Douglas McKay
Oregon
Interior
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Helena
Korea
New York
Kaneehe Marine Air Station
Military Air Transport Service
Constellation
Victim Parents Hold Vigil as Quarry Pumps Water
In Naperville Illinois the parents of missing six year old Jean Petersen and three year old Edward Rosenstiel wait anxiously as crews pump millions of gallons from an abandoned quarry believed to be their death trap. The water level has dropped twenty seven feet as pumps keep the dark icy water flowing toward the DuPage River. The case weighs heavily on the families and the Salvation Army worker describes their mounting suspense.
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Naperville
Ill
Salvation Army
Jean Petersen
Edward Rosenstiel
DuPage River
Mary Petersen
Edward
Floyd Rosenstiel
Mrs. Petersen
Burns Fatal to Aged Riley Woman
Mrs. Martha A. Bratt an 85 year old Riley resident died at St Anthony Hospital after burns from an electric heater in her bath room. She was found by her sister Mrs Arletta Hollis and died twenty minutes after arrival. She is survived by another sister a son a granddaughter and four great grandchildren. Body taken to Fox Funeral Home Riley.
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Martha A. Bratt
Riley
St. Anthony Hospital
Hollis
Nellie Haney
Terre Haute
Leroy
R. R
Majorie Fisher
Fox Funeral
Weather Summary From U S Weather Bureau
Cloudy morning with river stage at 3.9 feet and falling. High yesterday 40, low last night 24. Precipitation trace. Average humidity 79 percent yesterday. Sunrise 7 01, sunset 4 27. Local conditions indicate cooler, drying trend.
Weather Forecast for Terre Haute and Vicinity
Cloudy with snow flurries tonight and partly cloudy Sunday. Low temperatures around 23 tonight and 30 Sunday. Indiana and Illinois see mainly cloudy conditions with occasional snow flurries tonight and Sunday, cooler with lows 18 to 24 and highs 28 to 32. Temperature readings near 25 degrees in the morning and afternoon.
Cold and Wet Weather Hits Much Of Nation
The Associated Press reports a cold and wet front across the nation from the Dakotas to New England with light snow in the Ohio Valley and Great Lakes region. Ten deaths occurred in Northern New York and New England due to highway accidents as storms bring snow and rain. Vermont reports over a foot of snow, Maine and New Hampshire receive heavy rain, and temperatures dip to 10 to 15 degrees above zero in the northern plains.
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Associated Press
Dakotas
New England
Ohio Valley
Mississippi Valley
Great Lakes
New York
Vermont
Maine
New Hampshire
Plains
New York State
Snowstorm Kills Ten Across New England and Disrupts Power
A fierce blizzard across northern New England leaves 10 dead and widespread damage. Vermont and New Hampshire report snows and downed lines while at least 20 communities are cut off in a 3500 square mile area. Fatalities include Dr. Stanley Dwinell and three sons in Newbury Vermont and Virginia Lemley of Chester Vermont. Other deaths occur in southern New England from rain.
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Boston
New England
Vermont
New Hampshire
Maine
Stanley F. Dwinell
Bradford
Peter
James
Jonathan
Newbury
Virginia D. Lemley
Chester
Indiana Roads Grow Hazardous in Snowy Spread
Light snows spread driving hazards across Indiana with flurries continuing overnight. State Police report dangers on sideroads and city streets in the southeast and northwest while winds push snow off main roads. Temperatures dip below normal into the lower teens with 18 in Indianapolis and a cold Sunday ahead.
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Indianapolis
Indiana
Lafayette
Evansville
Bradley to report on Eisenhower Korea visit
Gen. Omar N. Bradley chairman of the joint chiefs of staff will report to President Truman on Eisenhower's Korea inspection tour. Bradley accompanied Eisenhower on the three day visit and will also brief Deputy Defense Secretary Foster. The Pentagon declined to say if conclusions or recommendations will be relayed. Truman had called it Eisenhower's duty to report if a practical solution to end the war existed.
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Washington
U.P
Omar N. Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Truman
Eisenhower
Korea
Bradley
Defense
William C. Foster
Pentagon
Hawaii
Pacific
Herbert Brownell
George M. Humphrey
Treasury
Wilton Persons
Lucius B. Clay
St Mary Students Aid Optimists in Mile-o-Dimes Drive
St Mary of the Woods College volunteers helped Terre Haute Optimist Club solicit funds at the Mile-o-Dimes booth to clothe 500 needy children this Christmas. The goal is $10,000 with nine days left. daily targets and recent contributions total just over $1,000 so far.
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St. Mary-of-the-Woods Cllege
Terre Haute
Mile-o-Dimes
Wabash Avenue
Wilbur Shaw
Indianapolis Motor Speedway Corporation
William Shaker
Fifth District of Optimists
Charles Simon
South Fourth Street
Charles E. Blanford
Christian Churches Issue Nationwide Open Letter On Values
The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the U S A issued a letter urging churches to sensitize the nation’s conscience. It backs the United Nations, calls for patience in world disputes, condemns racial discrimination, and urges believers to seek public office despite personal sacrifice. Dr John Mackay led the drafting committee and the document was adopted unanimously.
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George W. Cornell
Denver
Christian People of America
National Council of the Churches of Christ
U.S.A
United Nations
John Mackay
Princeton Theological Seminary
Veterans Hold Conference Here With 300 In Attendance
More than 300 Veterans of Foreign Wars and auxiliaries gathered in Terre Haute for a two day mid winter conference of the Indiana VFW department and auxiliaries. Department Commander Clyde Miller presided at the opening session at the Terre Haute House with a service officers school following and a district and post officers meeting. A joint VFW and auxiliary session was planned at Moose Hall with a banquet at the post home. Speakers include Department Commander Miller and Mrs Addie Wilkerson and Rev Johnston Beech national chaplain. The Warren Henderson band would provide music for dancing after the banquet.
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Veterans of Foreign Wars
Terre Haute
Indiana Department of the Veterans of Foreign Wars
Ladies’ Auxiliary
Fathers’ Auxiliary
Clyde ‘Miller
Greencastle
Terre Haute House
Wabash
Miller
Addie Wilkerson
James Butters
V.F.W
Lawton Byrum
South Thirteenth Street
Moose Hall
Wabash Avenue
Post Home
Frank L. Miklozek
Wilkerson
Johnston Beech
Gainesville
Tex
Warren Henderson
V.F.W. Department Council of Administration
Council of Administration
Mayflower
Paul A. Benning
Earl Elliott
U N weighs Morocco plea after Tunisia debate at UN
At the United Nations in New York the General Assembly Political Committee opened a Moroccan matter after wrapping up a Tunisian debate. A mild Latin American resolution urged France to negotiate Tunisian independence, while a tougher Arab Asian proposal for UN good offices was rejected. France said Morocco and Tunisia are internal issues. In Tunis anti French violence flared with 50 youths damaging shops and beating Europeans.
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General Assembly
Morocco
Tunisia
France
Tunisian
Soviet Bloc
Britain
U.N. Good Offices Commission
U.N
Afghanistan
Burma
Egypt
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Lebanon
Pakistan
Philippines
Saudi Arabia
Syria
Yemen
Tunis
Casablanca
Woman, 27, Given Death Sentence in Alabama
Chubby 27 year old Mattie Smarr was sentenced to death for kidnapping and killing five year old Ivory Posey and injuring siblings in Eutaw Alabama. The jury convicted her in 15 minutes. Judge Emmett Hildreth set the electrocution date for March 20 with automatic appeal.
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Eutaw
Ala
Chubby
Mattie Smarr
Emmett Hildreth
Alabama Supreme Court
Ivory Posey
Posey
Ollie
Mattie Jean
Lassie
Frank Lee
Man Arrested As Killer Of Four Persons
Police in San Francisco arrest Travis Hall 27 known as Al Foley in Chester California mass slaying case. His father Wendell Hall 49 is held in Fresno on a separate charge. Four victims including grocer Gard Young 43 and his children Jean 7 Judy 6 and Michael 4 were killed on a remote road near Chester. Surviving 3 year old Sonia Gay Young described the assault by two masked men in a blue sedan.
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San Francisco
Travis Hall
Richmond
Calif
Bay
Chester
Edward D O’haire
Michael Doherty
Hall
al Foley
Wendell Hall
Fresno
Foley
Young
O’haire
Doherty
Gard Young
Plumas
Westwood
Jean
Judy
Michael Saile
Sondra Gay Young
Robbers Break Into Italian Court and Steal Lire
Thieves broke into a Piacenza court room last night and stole 300000 lire about 500 dollars from a safe. The crime occurred in the courtroom with no injuries reported.
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Piacenza
Italy
South Korean Troops Seize Little Nori From Reds in Bloodied Push
South Korean forces, supported by Allied artillery and U S Patton tanks, stormed Little Nori and held the crest after repelling repeated Communist assaults. The battle on the Imjin front near Seoul saw heavy shelling, with analysts noting 25 000 rounds fired and casualties mounting as the fight raged through Thursday.
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Little Nori
Republic of Korea
Big Nori
Imjin
Nori
R.o.k.’S
Sniper Ridge
Triangle Hill
Korea
Noris
U. S
Roks
ROK
U.N
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Mine blast in Kentucky kills two miners at Evanston shaft
A mine explosion at Pond Creek Poca hontas Coal Co. near Evanston Kentucky killed at least two workers and trapped others as rescue crews fought a fire in the 300 foot deep shaft. The mine had opened only months earlier and a new close knit community of miners formed around it.
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Salyersville
Here
Evanston
Pond Creek-Pocahontas Coal Co
Breathitt County
Fragrant Drunk Bert Saylor Returns to Jail
Bert Saylor was jailed again within an hour of his three day sentence for intoxication in Ottumwa Iowa on December 13 He said he drank rum taken from the police chief's desk and was re-arrested after his release.
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Ottumwa
Bert Saylor
Saylor
Boy Paralyzed 11 Moves Limbs After Brain Surgery
An 11 year old from St John Illinois who had been paralyzed and speechless for eight months after a fall regained movement in his right arm and leg following delicate brain surgery at New York University medical center. Doctors say there is a fair chance of partial recovery but not a guaranteed full return to health.
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New York
St. John
Iil
Carl Edward Joslin
Carl
United Mine Workers Union
New York University Medical Center
Irving S. Cooper
New York Bomb Drill Claims One Life Amid Test
In New York City during the nation’s largest atomic test a man named Cesar Flores refused to obey orders and attacked a patrolman. Four shots ended his life as civil defense measures paralyzed streets and broadcast networks. The test aimed to simulate destruction from a more powerful bomb than Hiroshima.
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New York
Bronx
Hiroshima
Flores
Ludwig Schilling
Schilling
Lincoln Hospital
Civil Defense
Vincent Impellitteri
Skelton Recovers After Major Diaphragmatic Hernia Operation
Santa Monica Calif Dec 13 Red Skelton recovers from a three hour operation Friday to correct a diaphragmatic hernia. Dr Stanley W Immerman said he should leave hospital in 10 to 12 days and stay home three weeks longer. Skelton’s condition caused breathing difficulty as his stomach pressed on his heart and lungs.
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Santa Monica
Calif
Red Skelton
Stanley W. Immerman
Skelton
Georgiana Skelton
Fire Fatality in Martinsville Apartment Above Market
Robert Fisher, about 60, died from asphyxiation when a blaze raced through his single room dwelling over a food market on the court house square in Martinsville Indiana. Coroner E C Holmes announced the cause of death.
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Martinsville
Ind
Robert Fisher
Courthouse Square
E. C. Holmes
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