President Eisenhower Rejects Khrushchev Charge on Policy
President Eisenhower flatly denies being an exponent of interference in Middle Europe. He tells reporters Khrushchev is wrong about American foreign policy and vows the United States will not retreat from supporting Middle European peoples toward freedom from Soviet control.
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Key West
Fla
U.P
Eisenhower
Russia
Middle Europe
Nikita Khrushchev
United States
James C. Hagerty
RED
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Supreme Soviet
Moscow
Embezzlement Charge Tied to Million-Dollar Shortage
Norfolk, December 30. Miss Minnie G. Mangum, 52, official of the Commonwealth Building and Loan Assn, faces a $100,000 grand larceny charge with suspected shortages potentially reaching $1,000,000 over five years. Atty Linwood Tabb Jr. cites irregularties. eight houses recovered valued at $50,000 each, plus other assets. Mangum, who joined the firm 28 years ago, was released on $25,000 bond after a preliminary hearing.
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Norfolk
Minnie G. Mangum
Commonwealth Building and Loan Assn
Commonwealth
Linwood Tabb, Jr
Miss Mangum
Portsmouth
Esther M. Cannon
Waukegan
Ill
Joseph J. Reid Tribune-Star employee dies at 2 a.m.
Joseph J. Reid, an assistant foreman in the Terre Haute Star composing room, died suddenly at 2 a.m. Friday at 2526 North Tenth Street. Born October 27, 1901 in Belleville Illinois, he began as a linotype operator for the Terre Haute Tribune in 1922 and moved to the Star in 1950. He held memberships in several fraternal and professional groups and was survived by his widow Ruth K Reid, his mother Mrs. George R Reid, and sister Mrs. Hilma Weaver. Burial is at Highland Lawn Cemetery after services Monday at Thomas Funeral Home with Masonic rites.
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Joseph J. Reid
Tribune-Star
North Tenth Street
Mr. Reid
Terre Haute Star
Belleville
Ill
Reid
Terre Haute Tribune
Collett
Garfield High School
Typographical Union
Star Chapel
Tribune-Star Publishing Company
Euclid Lodge
F.&a.m
Scottish Rite
Zorah Shrine
B.P.O.E
Maple Avenue Methodist Church
Ruth K
George R. Reid
Terre Haute
Hilma Weaver
Brazil
Ind
Ruth Kindle
Thomas Funeral Home
Richmond Blake
Highland Lawn Cemetery
Euclid Lodge No. 573
Professor John Peters Dies in New Haven Sanatorium
Yale medical professor Dr. John P. Peters, 68, who faced a controversial dismissal from a government post on loyalty grounds, died in a New Haven sanatorium yesterday. An international authority on nutrition, he also served as a consultant to the U.S. Surgeon General.
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New Haven
Conn
John P. Peters
Yale
U.S
Weather map and forecast for Terre Haute area
Mostly fair and colder tonight with Saturday fair and cold. Sunday mostly fair with rising temperatures. Indiana counties mostly fair and colder with a chance of light snow near Lake Michigan. Highs near 35 across region, lows 6 to 14 in interior. River stage 2 feet, stationary. Urban weather details include sunrise 7 10 and sunset 6 36.
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Tfrre Haute
Indiana
Lake Michigan
Indiana Cold Wave Drops Temps Across State
United Press reports of a sharp cold snap as Indiana temperatures fell up to 23 degrees from Thursday highs. Readings today ranged 24 to 32 with night lows 7 to 14, then slowly rise over the New Year weekend toward normal levels.
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Indiana
Midwest
Lake Michigan
Bomb scientist at Los Alamos suffers heart attack
Dr. Alvin Graves 46, who since 1948 directed all American tests of atomic weapons, collapsed with a heart attack in Los Alamos New Mexico on Thursday. His condition was reported satisfactory by late Thursday night. Graves has been director of the test division since 1944 at the Los Alamos laboratory.
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Los Alamos
N. M
Alvin Graves
Graves
Los Alamos Scientific Laboratory
Moore Pleads Not Guilty To Murder Charge
Edward L. Moore Sr. pleads not guilty in Vigo Circuit Court to a second degree murder charge connected to the death of his eight month old son. He also moves to quash the grand jury indictment while held without bond in Vigo County Jail.
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Edward L. Moore
South Fourth Street
Vigo County
Vigo
Herbert R. Criss
Warren Everett
Criss
Moore
Hubert L. Perkins
North Seventh Street
Dickie R. Brandenburg
Wabash Avenue
Robert Peffley
Thirtieth Street
Raymond E. Denbo
Billie D. Majors
Terre Haute
Marines Move Headquarters to Okinawa Base
Tokyo reports the command echelon of the U S 3rd Marine Division Headquarters will relocate to Okinawa on Tuesday to facilitate moving all Marine units from Japan to the island fortress Gen Thomas A Wornham and Gen I D White announced the plan.
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Tokyo
U. S
3Rd Marine Division
Okinawa
Japan
Thomas A. Wornham
I. D. White
Far East
New Year Holiday Banking Hours Observed
Terre Haute banks close at 5 p m this evening and stay shut until 9 a m Tuesday Jan 3 in observance of the New Year holiday. Savings and Loan Associations in the city also remain closed Saturday through Monday reopening Tuesday morning at the customary time.
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Terre Haute
Savings and Loan Associations
Russia strengthens Asia push with anti colonial emphasis
Western diplomats say the Bulganin Khrushchev report from their India Burma Afghanistan trip signals a stepped up Soviet policy in Asia. They stress anti colonialism as a core issue and note new urgency with India and China rising in power.
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Moscow
India
Burma
Afganistan
Russia
Asia
Supreme Soviet
Kremlin
China
Nikolai Bulganin
Communist Party
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Vyacheslav M. Mo
Josef Stalin
Georgi Malenkov
Alexander Korneichuk
Supreme Soviet of the
Ukraine
Yalta papers allege Soviet tricky stance cited by Harriman
Newly released 1945 Yalta documents show U S Soviet friction as Averell Harriman reports warning of trouble days after the meeting. The State Department disclosure feeds political clash over Roosevelt Churchill Stalin summit and charges of Soviet delay in co operation for air team access and bomb damage appraisal.
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Washington
Yalta
State Department
Roosevelt
Winston Churchill
Josef Stalin
Averell Harriman
Moscow
Harriman
New York
United States
Soviet Union
German Officers to Visit U S for Training
The first contingent of West German military personnel will depart Duesseldorf for training in the United States. Forty officers and enlisted men, including lieutenant colonels, will fly on a Lufthansa airliner and wear the Streit Kraefte uniform with full equipment.
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Duesseldorf
Germany
United States
Lufthansa
Streit Kraefte
Hutchins to be called on Ford Fund for the Republic
Senate and House committees plan to call Robert M. Hutchins for testimony on the Ford financed Fund for the Republic. Hutchins directs the Ford Foundation funded civil rights studies project. The fund disputes Congress labeling the Communist Party as part of an international conspiracy.
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Washington
Francis E. Walter
D.-Pa
House UN- American Activities Committee
Robert M. Hutchins
Republic
Hutchins
Ford Foundation
Walter
Communist Party
Congress
Chinese Reds Attack Ends of Nationalist Island Chain
United Press reports from Formosa that the Chinese Communists bombarded both ends of the Nationalist offshore island chain in an apparent prelude to an invasion of Matsu, Quemoy, or both. Heavy Nationalist air and naval patrols were seen in the area.
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United Press
Taipei
Formosa
U.P
Matsu
Quemoy
Nationalist Defense Ministry Reports No Action Today
The Chinese Nationalist Defense Ministry said it had received no reports of any action today in the offshore island area where Nationalists and Red China have traded gunfire for the last three days. The Official Central News Agency reported Gen. Peng Meng-chi, head of the Nationalist general staff, made an uneventful round trip to the Matsu area.
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Taipei
Formosa
Defense Ministry
Central
Peng Meng- Chi
Matsu
Naval skirmishes flare near Matsu and Quemoy shells
Sketchy reports say Nationalists expect an attack on Matsu or Kaoteng while artillery duels continue at Quemoy Island. Communist gunners reportedly fired 700 shells on Thursday as sporadic shelling targets Kaoteng in the Matsu island group, 150 miles from the mainland.
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Matsu
Kaoteng
Quemoy Island
Chiang Kaishek
Matsu Island
Eastern Capital Aids Distillery
A $600000 loan to Merchants Distilling Corp will help meet obligations. 80 percent of the distillery’s stock will be transferred to Sidney B. Flashman of Boston in return for the loan after meetings at 1535 South First Street. The talks began Wednesday and ended Thursday afternoon with the company board and Flashman.
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Merchants Distilling Corporation
Sidney B. Flashman
Boston
Mass
Flashman
Mr. Flashman
South First Street
Indiana To Jail Drunken Drivers
Indiana deploys 420 state police troopers on main highways for New Year traffic patrols in a bid to curb holiday deaths. The move follows nationwide grim tolls and calls for tougher penalties and enforcement to prevent a repeat of Black Christmas.
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Indiana
Hooiserland
Hodges Describes a Radad for Detecting Uranium
Gov. Luther Hodges explains he received a radad for Christmas a pocket sized device with snowflake like contents. He says its purpose is to detect uranium, leaving reporters puzzled by the gadget.
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Raleigh, N. C
Luther H. Hodges
Hodges
Bride to be killed in fatal car crash near Anderson
Doris Lawson, 20, of Anderson, who planned to marry next Thursday, died when a car driven by her fiancé Robert Maddox, 20, overturned on a county road four miles west of Anderson. Maddox suffered leg and collar bone fractures. Both worked in local General Motors plants.
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Anderson
Ind
Doris Lawson
Rt. G. Anderson
Delce-Remy
General Motors Corp
Robert Maddox
Maddox
Officers Patrol New Year Drunk Driving Crackdown
On duty Saturday night and through early Sunday, troopers watch for New Year’s Eve celebrants who drive after drinking. Near Indianapolis, troopers will use squad cars with chemical testing devices for the first time.
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Indianapolis
1955 Traffic Toll Seen At 38 500 In U S
The National Safety Council estimates 1955 traffic deaths will total 38,500 the highest in 14 years as emergency measures sweep the nation. Projections cite 34,690 deaths in the first 11 months and later AP counts show at least 35,785, with year end pushes lifting the total.
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Chicago
National Safety Counci
Associated Press
Safety Council
U. S
Classified ads closed New Year’s Day notice
The Tribune-Star Classified Department will be closed all day Sunday January 1 and until 6 p m Monday January 2 in observance of New Year’s Day No copy will be accepted then Copy for Sunday Monday and Tuesday will be accepted until 6 p m Saturday evening The department will be open Monday evening between 6 and 8 Place your ads early and avoid the rush List for 7 days and save Dial C 1331 Ask for an Ad Visor.
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