United States and Nationalist China approve defense treaty
The Senate approved a defense treaty with Nationalist China by 64 to 6, pledging US support for Formosa. The pact covers Formosa and the Pescadores and is permanent, unlike a prior temporary authorization. Six senators opposed, including Chavez Gore Kefauver Lehman Langer Morse. The action follows redeployment on the Tachens and evacuation of civilians from Yushan and Pishan islands. Continued on Page 2.
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Taipei
China
Tachen Islands
Defense Ministry
Yushan Islands
Pishan
Formosa
U.P
Senate
United States
Red
Pescadores Islands
Red China
Dennis Chavez
D.N. M
Albert Gore
D.-Tenn
Estes Kefauver
Herbert H. Lehman
William Langer
Officials of Ohio Company Here To Discuss Operation
Preliminary talks in Terre Haute explored creating a new bus operator with St John Transportation of Dayton. Mayor Ralph Tucker met Roland St John and Olin W Michael as state-level moves to grant the city franchise jurisdiction over buses progress, amid a strike history and ongoing court challenge to Terre Haute City Lines.
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Terre Haute
St. John Transportation Company
Dayton
Ohio
Ralph Tucker
Roland St. John
Tucker
Ralph Johnson
Olin W. Wichael
St. John Company
Ohio Company
Dayton Concern
Midwest
Lima
Waterloo
Iowa
Senate
Harold O. Burnett
Indianapolis
Leonard F. Conrad
Conrad
Burnett
Public Service Commission
House
Three Remain In Tachen Island Evacuation
On February 10 a U S Navy spokesman reported that three civilians stayed behind during the evacuation of the Tachen Islands and a 10 year food supply was left for them One elderly couple an 80 year old and an older man refused to evacuate saying they wished to end their lives in their ancestral homes
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Tachen Islands
United States Navy
Navy
Upper Tachen Island
Lower Tachen
Withdrawal on Tachens advances as Nationalists push refugees to Formosa
Troops fired on U S transports amid rain while civilians fled to Formosa. Nationalist forces blasted extensive cave works on the Tachens as they withdrew, with 7th Fleet ships guarding the East China Sea and jets overhead. Civilians had already been removed or were en route.
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Quemoy
Matsu
Nanchishan
U.S
Tachens
Chiang Kai-shek
U. S. 7Th Fleet
East China Sea
Formosa
Yu Shan
Pishan
Weather Gureasa: cloudy and colder forecast
Local conditions show a 6 ft river rise and no precipitation. Terre Haute and vicinity expect cloudy conditions, much colder tonight and Friday with low teens and highs in the mid teens. Indiana experiences a cold wave with subfreezing lows, north snow totaling up to 4 inches and rain changing to near freezing in the south this afternoon.
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Terre Haute
Indiana
Crushed by Car in Front Seat Death in Evanston Driveway
James M. Bennan, 44, was fatally crushed when his car rolled forward after he stepped to the front and clung to the vehicle as his wife Elizabeth Bennan, 39, sat inside. The car moved about 70 feet, struck a parked car, and Bennan died at the scene. he owned an electric company in Bellwood.
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Chicago
James M. Bennan
Robert Witt
Bennan
Elizabeth
Bernard Fallon
Evanston
Witt
Churchill Sets Conditions for Meeting Bulganin in Four Power Talks
In London, February 10, Prime Minister Winston Churchill said he would meet Russia’s new premier Marshal Bulganin in a four power conference only after full ratification of the German arms agreements. He stressed the talks would follow the same terms he had outlined with Malenkov and urged the conference yield genuine results. The cabinet met to discuss Russia’s leadership shift as dispatches continued.
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London
Winston Churchill
House of Commons
Russia
Marshal Nikolai Bulganin
Georgi Malenkov
Bulganin
Churchill
Time Runs Out In California Heart Case
El Monte California recounts a dramatic sequence where Harry Apperson revived a driver after being pronounced dead by a doctor and directing the vehicle toward a hospital. He later died from a heart attack, his body returned to the mortuary where he began the journey last September.
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EL Monte
Calif
Harry Apperson
Jones
Love Will Find A Way Sailor To Woo British Girl
Lloyd Parker a Texas sailor met Maureen Tooze 19 of Arundel Sussex on shore leave in Portsmouth last year. He plans to return after discharge this December to marry her, though she says they are not engaged and will stay on the hill country ranch until he comes home. Parker, in Cuba, calls his sister who warns of visitors interrupting their wait.
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Kerrville
Tex
London
Lloyd Parker
Maureen Tooze
Arundel
Sussex
Portsmouth
England
Si Tnttaa
Texas
Maureen
Lloyd
Parker
Cuba
Ruth Leclare
Indiana House Budget Approval Raises Tax Debate
Indianapolis Feb 10 lawmakers faced a 675 million state budget with a minor House change. Treasurer John Peters urged a three month interim budget then special session. Gov. Craig rejected tax rise, citing growing pupil numbers. House approved 156 million in state aid to schools for two years. Continued on Page 5.
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Indianapolis
Statehouse
House
John Peters
Senate Finance Committee
Peters
Senate
Craig
David W. Dennis
R.richmond
Robert P. O'Bannon
Corydon
Budget Committee
Crawford Failey Adds Observatory
Mr. Crawford Failey of 416 South Sixth street plans a private observatory at the rear of his half block property between Swan Oak Sixth and Center streets. He has held the telescope and equipment for some time and studies astronomy. He states the observatory is for his own study with no commercial or educational plans.
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Crawford Failey
South Sixth Street
Swan
Oak Streets
Sixth
Center Streets
Failey
Obedient couple dies within minutes of each other in Foggia
In Foggia Italy on February 10 Michele V Erario and his wife Maria both suffered heart attacks. Michele urged Maria to follow him and died minutes later. Maria died eight minutes afterward. The couple had been married twenty years.
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Foggia
Italy
Michele V’erario
Maria
Michele
Near Zero Cold To Hit Indiana Tonight
The Weather Bureau warned of a cold wave with temperatures plunging to near zero in Indiana tonight. Upstate readings would drop from highs near 58 Wednesday to lows of 10 to 15, with up to four inches of snow forecast in northern areas. Snow, fog, and slippery roads were reported in several counties as rain shifts to snow and a clearing trend follows Friday.
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Indiana
Weather Bureau
Cass
Kosciusko
Fulton
Indianapolis
South Bend
Injured Shoals man dies after auto crash
117 Wilima Moffitt 77 of Shoals died Wednesday from injuries suffered Feb 1 in a car crash on U S 50 three miles west of Shoals.
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Shoals
Ind
Willima Moffitt
U. S. 50
Here
Pflimlin Named To Try To Form French Cabinet
Paris February 10 Pierre Pflimlin of the Popular Republican Party was named premier designate by President Rene Coty in a fresh bid to end a six day old government crisis. Antione Pinay failed to assemble enough support to form France s twenty first government since World War II. Pflimlin may not accept the invitation, keeping an early crisis end in doubt.
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Paris
Rene Coty
Pierre Pflimlin
Popular Republican Party
MRP
France
Antoine Pinay
Coty
Pflimlin
Pierre
Mendes-France
Western European Union
Soviet atomic car risks gamma ray exposure in test claim
An East German newspaper said the Soviet Union is developing an atomic automobile that could run for weeks without refueling. The hitch is the lack of a method to shield riders from deadly gamma rays and neutrons from the uranium reactor.
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Berlin
Soviet Union
Four Children Die in Wheeling Fire Tragedy
In Wheeling West Virginia on February 10 a fire set by an exploding kitchen range trapped four children aged 3 months to 5 years in a second floor bedroom. Their mother Mary Stewart, 34, suffered severe burns while attempting to rescue them.
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Wheeling
W. Va
South Wheeling
Mary Stewart
Terre Haute Faces Showdown To Stay In Baseball League
Tonight at 8 o'clock a mass meeting in the Mayflower Room of the Terre Haute House seeks to keep Terre Haute in the Three I League. Mayor Ralph Tucker and Fans Association officials urge all loyal fans to attend as proof the city remains on the national baseball map and plans to stay.
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Terre Haute
Ralph Tucker
Lonely toast at Waldorf for 80 year old Blair
Charles H. Blair drank alone in a crowded Waldorf Astoria bar as a ghostly chorus of Far Above Cayuga's Waters played on. At 80, he kept a 61 year old pledge to reunion, then went home to bed.
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H. D. Quigg
New York
Charles H. Blair
Waldorf-Astoria Hotel
Cayuga
Blair
Demo Leaders Seek To Restore Manpower Cuts
House Democratic Leader Mc Cormack of Massachusetts urges reconsideration of Army manpower cuts with 95 percent of House Democrats opposing. Other items include Russell reporting B 52 bugs slowing bomber placement, Bradley slated to head veterans benefits study, and a Senate mix on school segregation challenges. Eisenhower seeks 913.50 million in new appropriations, and the House Judiciary Committee votes a 5,000 pay boost while a 10,000 raise stalls. Detroit hosts the 1960 Olympic Games bid.
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House
McCormack
Massachusetts
Richard B. Russell
D.-Ga
Senate Armed Services Committee
Air Force
Russell
Bradley
Eisenhower
Omar N. Bradley
Paul H. Douglas
D.-Ill
Olin D. Johnston
Strom Thurmond
Supreme Court
U. S. Court of Appeals
Douglas
Defense Department
Pentagon
Department
Congress
Veterans Administration
House Judiciary Committee
National Association of Special Delivery Messengers
White House
Detroit
Turkish Iraqi pact signing soon threatens Arab League
In Ankara diplomats report a Turkish Iraqi defense pact to be signed in Baghdad this month likely before Feb 18. The Western backed accord sparked Egypt to attack the pact as Arab nations diverge, with Cairo vowing to leave the Arab League on the signing day while other members resist Egypt’s condemnation.
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Ankara
Turkey
Baghdad
Egypt
Cairo
Iraq
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Washington
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Jim Becker
Associated Press
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