McCarthy Urges Restart of Red Probe in Government
Senator Joseph R. McCarthy urged the resumption of investigations by his subcommittee to expose remaining Communists in government. He attacked two Democratic-led subcommittees for ridiculing anti commun ist security measures and called on Sen John L McClellan to repair the damage he said these committees caused.
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Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
R.-Wis
Senate
McCarthy
Senate Constitutional Rights Subcommittee
McClellen
Three Injured In Head-On Collision East Of Highland Lawn Hill
A head on crash on U S Highway 40 near Highland Lawn hill left three youths injured two seriously. Fred Nasser 19 Terre Haute R R 5 James Crane 17 Mattoon Ill and Raymond Brown 17 1012 Poplar street were identified. Nasser and Crane were hospitalized in fair to good condition while Brown remained in fair condition at Union Hospital. Deputies said Brown’s westbound car collided with Nasser’s eastbound vehicle near the jog just east of the hill. Crane was a passenger in Brown’s car. Hospital attendants said both Nasser and Crane showed shock and the full extent of injuries was not yet known.
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Highland Lawn Hill
U. S. Highway 40
Fred Nasser
R. R
Terre Haute
James Crane
Mattoon
Ill
Raymond Brown
Poplar Street
Nasser
Crane
St. Anthony Hospital
Callahan
Brown
Union Hospital
James McKinney
Jay Bailey
Fugitive Surrenders in Terre Haute After Tired of Running
Harry O. Fisher of Xenia Ohio surrendered to police saying he was tired of running from the law. Authorities say Fisher on parole for grand larceny left Ohio without permission and had been working since July as a laborer at a Terre Haute junk yard.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Terre Haute
Xenia
Frank Riddle
Harry O. Fisher
Riddle
Fisher
Steel production makes record gain this year
The American Iron and Steel Institute reports that total 1953 output already surpassed the previous record of 111,609,719 net tons and will average about 343,000 net tons per working day through year end, signaling a new annual production peak.
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Washington
American Iron and Steel Institute
Resignation Accepted of Santa Barbara Provost
Dr. Harry Wellman announced that the Regents accepted the resignation of Clark George Kuebler 47 provost of the Santa Barbara campus. A morals charge against Kuebler was dismissed in New York City on grounds of insufficient evidence. Dean John C. Snidecour has been acting provost during Kuebler's absence.
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Los Angeles
Harry Wellman
University of California
Clark George Kuebler
Santa Barbara
Kuebler
New York City
Hyman Bushel
John C. Snidecour
School of Applied Arts
Talks to Free Yanks in Red China Hold Geneva Talks
United States will continue Geneva talks with Red China to win release of American civilians held in China. Beijing accuses Washington of violating the Sept 10 agreement. State Department says 14 Americans still remain, with some letters sent through the British charge d affaires.
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Washington
United States
Geneva
Red China
Phineas and Seanad
China
State Department
Communist China
U. S
John Downey
New Britain
Conn
Homer W. Bradshaw
New York
Downey
Bradshaw
Lincoln White
Freight Rate Boost Sought By Railroads
Railroads seek a seven percent freight rate increase from the Interstate Commerce Commission to offset rising wage and material costs amounting to over half a billion dollars. The move follows meetings of chief and top traffic officers and follows a prior 15 percent hike authorized in 1952.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Washington
ICC
Debt burden rises as families near credit exhaustion
Morrie Rabinowitch told a California legislative subcommittee that about 20 percent of U S families are deeply in debt and at credit exhaustion. He urged regulation of pro raters who charge up to 15 percent to manage debt repayment plans for clients and distribute payments to creditors.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Morrie Rabinowitch
California
Assembly Subcommittee On
Lutheran Churches Propose Merger of Lutheran Bodies
In Chicago on December 17 the United Lutheran Church in America and the Augustana Lutheran Church invited the nation’s 16 Lutheran bodies to a conference to draft a constitution and create procedures for uniting into a single church. A merger plan aims to form The American Lutheran Church by 1960, involving four denominations: Evangelical Lutheran American Lutheran Lutheran Free and United Evangelical Lutheran.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
America
United Lutheran Church In America
Augustana Lutheran Church
American Lutheran Church
Evangelical Lutheran
American Lutheran
Lutheran Free
United Evangelical Lutheran Churches
Judge Qualifies in Annexation Suit in Terre Haute Case
Greene Circuit Court Judge Edwin B. Long will hear the remonstrance of Harrison township residents against annexation by Terre Haute. He qualified as special judge in Vigo Circuit Court and was sworn in by deputy clerk Agnes Hanley. He plans to contact attorneys to set a hearing date.
Prudential Indiana regional managers meet in Chicago
Doyle M. Wilcox acting district manager attended the first Indiana regional manager conference in Chicago December 12 and 13 at the Prudential building. Carlyle P. Ruhl directed the agencies for Indiana as managers reviewed 1956 sales plans with company officials.
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Doyle M. Wilcox
Harry E. Hopewell
Prudential Insurance Company
Terre Haute
Tribune
Indiana
Chicago
Prudential
Carlyle P. Ruhl
Unions Skeptical of Westinghouse Xmas Aid Offer
Two striking unions in Pittsburgh reacted mixed to Westinghouse Electric Corp offering to lend up to 100 to strikers and furloughed workers for Christmas. Union leaders called the gesture a bribe while some said it ignores wage demands and reemployment needs.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Gwilm A. Price
Westinghouse
al Hartnett
International Union of Electrical Workers
Daniel Marguriet
Dist. 6
United Electrical Workers (Independent
Price
I.U.E
U.K
Outline for Cotton Growers Relief Proposed by AFBF
Chicago December 17. A voluntary acreage cut and price supports tied to crop quality are proposed to aid cotton farmers in a new program outlined by the American Farm Bureau Federation directors. The plan follows recommendations from a committee chaired by Walter L. Randolph of the Alabama Farm Bureau. The board also urged no increase in the 1956 national cotton acreage allotment due to the large surplus.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
American Farm Bureau Federation
A.F.B.F
Walter L. Randolph
Alabama Farm Bureau
Youths Admit Theft at Sandison School
City Detective Eugene Butts said two teenage youths aged 10 and 12 admitted breaking into Sandison School at 1800 Chestnut on December 13 and stealing 37 dollars. They entered by removing a manhole cover to reach the coal room and took funds from defense savings stamps proceeds in Warren Bandy’s classroom.
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Eugene Butts
Sandison School
Chestnut
Friendly Inn
Defense Savings
Warren Bandy
Auto train crash claims life of woman at Porter crossing
Porter Indiana December report states Neva Brandhorst 31 of Percy Illinois died when a passenger train struck her auto at a city crossing. Passenger Myrl Bigham 28 of Rock Island Illinois was hospitalized at Valparaiso.
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Porter
Ind
Neva Brandhorst
Percy
Ill
Myrl Bigham
Rock Island
Valparaiso
West Berlin urged revolt and expulsion of occupiers
Berlin dispatch says Alfred Neumann the Berlin Communist Party leader urged West Berlin workers to join Reds and overthrow the West Berlin government. He demanded Americans go home and called for removal of Western occupation forces. East Germany closed border exits to tighten the iron curtain and restrict travel to West Berlin.
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Berlin
West Berlin
Reds
Alfred Neumann
Communist Party
Neumann
Indiana governor's teen offender institute gains dorms
Indiana Governor Craig wins committee approval to build two dormitories for 250 first offenders aged 16 to 20 near Pendleton Reformatory. The panel rejects a $1,000 yearly salary hike for about 60 department heads, citing it as inadvisable while praising their work. The $800,000 facility aims to separate youthful offenders from adult prisoners.
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Indianapolis
Craig
State Budget Committee
State Department
State Correction
Hugh O’brien
State Reformatory
Pendleton
O’brien
Reformatory
State Farm
Freedom Was Near But Now Is Distant
Huey Long Meadows was arrested in a Jacksonville courtroom for passing bad checks. Judge Henry Grady sentenced him on an abandonment and non support conviction to leave North Carolina for five years with suspended terms. Sheriff Thomas Marshall then detained him as he attempted to depart.
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Jacksonville
N. C
Huey Long Meadows
Meadows
Henry Grady
North Carolina
Thomas Marshall
Grady
University approves 95 million budget for eight campuses
Regents of the University of California approve a 95 million dollar budget for 1956-57 across eight campuses. Vice President Harry Wellman notes projected enrollment at 40,559 students, up 7.7 percent from the prior year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
University of California
Harry Wellman
Boy Freed After Piano Thumb Pinch at Clarke School
Five year old Brian Moore was playing a Christmas carol on a Clarke School piano when his thumb got caught in the keyboard. Firemen dismantled the piano to free him.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Swamiscott
Mass
Brian Moore
Clarke School
Saarland votes Sunday in second election in two months
The Saar region of Western Europe, with 660,000 registered voters, votes Sunday for a new legislature after the previous assembly was dissolved when Saarlanders rejected a plan to Europeanize the area in October. A pro German victory is predicted, which could hasten return to Germany.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Saarbruecken
Saar
Germany
Nationalist Chinese Commandos Raid Communist Mainland Town
A 14 man Nationalist guerrilla squad landed at Changloh Hsien, about 30 miles southwest of Matsu Island, early Thursday. They remained over an hour and withdrew without facing heavy resistance, according to a Matsu Island military communique.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taipei
Formosa
Matsu Island
Changloh Hsien
Free Europe Claims Soviet Prisons Hold Poles
P Radio Free Europe reports the Soviet Union holds more than 500,000 Poles in prison camps with about 200,000 believed to have died in captivity since 1948. The claim comes from the anti-Communist broadcaster broadcasting from Munich on December 17.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Munich
Germany
Radio Free Europe Today
Soviet Union
West Germany and Romania Sign Trade Agreement
Frankurt report says West Germany and Romania signed a trade and payments pact on Friday. It calls for the exchange of 20 million dollars in goods next year, and was signed by the Federation of German Industries and Romania’s communist government trade monopoly.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frankfurt
Germany
West Germany
Romania
Federation of German Industries
Guatemalan UN secretary Ramirez found dead in New York
Mario G. Ramirez 62 permanent secretary of Guatemala's UN delegation was found dead in his New York apartment. He had known heart trouble and death was likely from natural causes. Delegation members alerted police after he did not appear at the UN.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Mario G. Ramirez
United Nations
Ramirez
Schweitzer sails from Europe to Lambarene colony
Nobel Peace Prize winner Dr Albert Schweitzer left Europe aboard the Claude Bernard on Friday night, returning to his leper colony and hospital at Lambarene in French Equatorial Africa after a four month visit.
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Bordeaux
France
Albert Schweitzer
Lambarene
French Equatorial Africa
Schweitzer
Claude Bernard
Europe
Straw for Livestock Feeding Urged From Field After Harvest
Farmers are advised to remove straw for livestock feeding from the field promptly after combining. Early gathering reduces loss and storage needs and supports immediate feeding options for herds.
Judge Fines Man 25 Cents in Contempt Case
In Fulton superior court Judge E. E. Andrews fined Joseph T. Looney Jr 25 cents for contempt after he visited a drugstore where his wife worked and used abusive language amid a restraining order dispute. Looney paid the fine when unable to do so himself.
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Atlanta
Fulton Superior Court
Louise Kuher Looney
Joseph T. Looney, Jr
Looney
E. E. Andrews
Weather Outlook Signals Cold Wet North U.S. Next Month
The Weather Bureau projects a colder and wetter pattern for the next 30 days. Temperatures are expected above normal in the Southwest and near normal along the Gulf Coast and northern New England, with below normal readings across the rest of the nation and the coldest weather in the Northern Plains.
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Washington
Weather Bureau
Gulf Coast
New England
Great Lakes
Pacific Coast
Tennessee Valley
Man Held on Theft Charge in Torch Stolen Case
Parke County authorities took Albert Perkins 43 of Terre Haute into custody after Ralph Jeffers said Perkins left a welding torch valued at 130 dollars near Montezuma December 9. Detective Gene Butts led the investigation.
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Parke County
Terre Haute
Montezuma
Albert Perkins
South Fourth Street
Perkins
Ralph Jeffers
North Twentyfourth Street
Jeffers
Gene Butts
Two U S Soldiers to Face Army Court Martial in Berlin
In Berlin the U S Army announces two American soldiers Pvt Willie J Holden and Pvt Richard L Calbert will be tried by an Army court martial on charges of being disorderly in uniform after an incident at a cabaret. East German police arrested them on December 7 and handed them to Soviet authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
United States Army
East Berlin
U. S
Willie J. Holden
Poplarville
Mass
Richard L. Calbert
Kansas City
Werner Lierck
Holden
Calbert
State Authority to Fit Police Cars With Safety Belts
Albany December 17 The New York State Thruway Authority buys safety belts for use in cars driven by state troopers patrolling the toll superhighway.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albany
N. Y
New York State Thruway Authority
Chicago Livestock Market Report Dec 17
Salable hogs 2000 with barrows and gilts 25-50 lower, sows steady, 190-230 lb barrows in mixed lots 10.75-11.75, No 1 grades scarcer in large lots. Cattle: slaughter steers steady to 50 lower, cows 25-75 higher, bulls 25-50 higher, stockers weak. Prime steers 24.00-24.50. heifers 19.00-21.50. cows 9.75-11.50. stockers 16.50-18.75. Sheep: lambs 75-1.00 lower, ewes up 25, prime lambs 17.50-19.00 103 lb, other lambs 8.00-15.50.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Local Markets Livestock and Poultry Prices Report
Market reports salable hogs 450. price ranges by weight from 180 to 350 pounds. Lambs 3,000. choice 18.50, good 16.75, medium 15.50, common 13 and down. Eggs 46 cents delivered. hens 16 to 12 cents. corn 1.09 to 1.11. soybeans 2.16 for yellow, 1.86 for black and mixed.
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