Economic forecasts split on 1954 outlook in Washington
Washington economists presented divergent views at the American Economic Association meeting. Dr George W Hilde urged tax cuts and easy money to sustain a private enterprise led expansion next year while Albert Gailord Hart warned of a looming slump in demand for autos appliances and machinery within a few years.
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Washington
American Economic Assn
George W. Hilde
University of California At Los Angeles
Eisenhower
Albert Gailord Hart
Columbia University
U. S. Treasury
Hart
Hildebrand
William J. Fellner
Yale University
Huttons Fifth Marriage Sealed in Simple Park Avenue Ceremony
New York heiress Barbara Hutton wed Porfirio Rubirosa in a brief 10 minute civil ceremony at the Manhattan home of Dominican consul general Dr Joaquin Salazar. Rubirosa said riches meant little to him and pledged to make his wife happy. Zsa Zsa Gabor attended in spirit, away in Las Vegas.
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New York
Barbara Hutton
Porfirio Rubirosa
Manhattan
Joaquin Salazar
Rubirosa
Doris Duke
Miss Hutton
Park Avenue
Zsa Zsa Gabor
Las Vegas
New
Miss Gabor
Man Walks 63 Miles to Deliver Tree to President
Ray Brinson, 36, walked from Swainsboro to Eisenhower’s Augusta vacation home, a 63 mile trek that began Monday noon and ended Tuesday afternoon. The seedling pine was accepted by aides and will be planted on the Augusta National Golf Club clubhouse grounds.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Ray Brinson
Swainsboro
Augusta National Golf Club
Cliff Roberts
Butte Welcomes Diamond Jubilee Year With Festive Plans
Butte launching its Diamond Jubilee as the city marks 75 years since the charter. New Year’s Eve services fill Protestant and Catholic churches, with Watch Night at several congregations. Public dances, private parties, and club events fill the city, including Elks Eagles Legion Knights of Columbus and Butte Pioneers hosting celebrations.
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Butte
Pate
First Baptist
St. Mark Lutheran
Grace Silver Bow Methodist
First Church of the Nazarene
Church of God
Butte Hill
Elks, Eagles
American Legion
Knights of Columbus
Butte Pioneers Club
Eagles
K. of C
Elk’s
Butte Country Club
Top CIO Official Refuses Iowa to Join Federal Board
Washington A top CIO staff member refused a post on the International Development Advisory Board named by President Eisenhower. Stanley H. Ruttenberg, CIO research and education director, said he never heard of the appointment until newspapers reported it, calling the vacancy due to Eisenhower not reappointing another CIO man. He urged the President to discuss the matter with him or CIO officials.
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Washington
CIO
Eisenhower
Stanley H. Ruttenberg
International Development Advisory Board
Ruttenberg
White House
AFL
George Meany
Foreign Economic Program
Meany
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Maurice Hutcheson
AFL Carpenters Union
David J. McDonald
CIO Steelworkers
Glacier Park Tops Montana Tourist Draw in Erickson Report
Albert Erickson, Montana Advertising Director, calls Glacier National Park the state’s number one tourist lure, with Yellowstone a comparable magnet. He cites famous fishing rivers, Virginia City and the Custer Battlefield as other key draws, but notes visitors often pass through without stopping to see local attractions. He adds Montana’s 1953 tourist income rose 1.2 percent, while tourist traffic slowed.
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Helena
Glacier National Park
Montana
Albert Erickson
Yellowstone National Park
Wyoming
Erickson
State Highway Commission
Virginia City
Custer Battlefield
Human Heart Most Efficient Machine
No man made machine compares in efficiency with the human heart according to authorities. The ad urges placing a Want Ad by phone 5451, promising a master of efficiency to cover the town daily and finish tasks quickly. A baby buggy is advertised with phone number 0000.
Eisenhowers Plan to Pull Troops Landed
Senator Edwin C. Johnson of Colorado backs Eisenhower’s plan to withdraw two Army divisions from Korea and shift focus to European manpower. He urges arming friendly nations and replacing U.S. troops with native forces, citing Greece and Turkey as models, while other Democrats voice doubt and call for investigations.
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Washington
Edwin C. Johnson
Colorado
Eisenhower
Korea
Europe
Senate
Johnson
Senate Finance Committee
United States
Sen
Russell
D-Ga
Monroney
D-Okla
Congress
Sens
Sparkman
Ala
McCarran
Nev
Humphrey
Minn
Western Europe
U. S
Greece
Turkey
Tax Collectors Reap Praise for Instituting High School Course
Washington dispatch reports Internal Revenue chief T. Coleman Andrews praising a new high school curriculum teaching students to compute income tax. Launched last year, kits are mailed to principals amid positive feedback from teachers in Malakoff Texas and Central Point Oregon.
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Washington
T. Coleman Andrews
Andrews
Internal Revenue Commissioner
Malakoff
Tex
Central Point
Ore
California Fire Near Mt Wilson Threatens Observatory
Two fires raged in the San Gabriel Mountains with Mt Wilson at risk. About 4,200 acres burned since Sunday as 900 firefighters, 59 pumpers and 16 tractor bulldozers fought the blaze. Indian crews from Arizona and New Mexico assisted along the northeast edge.
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Los Angeles
Mt. Wilson Observatory
Richard Johnson
U. S. Forest Service
Mt. Wilson
Johnson
San Gabriel Mountains
Arizona
New Mexico
Provocative Acts Charged by Reds
Peiping said the U N Command was warned to pay serious attention to three air violations over the neutral headquarters of the Military Armistice Commission. The broadcast heard in Tokyo said the warning against provocative acts was made at a meeting of Military Armistice Commission secretaries by Col Ju Yon.
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Tokyo
Peiping
U. N. Command
Military Armistice Commission
Ju Yon
Lost Dog Ad Triggers Elated Caller Mystery
Mrs Homer Craig of Bedford Indiana was thrilled by a telephone reply to her newspaper ad about a lost dog but forgot to obtain the caller’s name and address. She had to place another ad to learn where to pick up the dog.
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Bedford, Ind
Homer Craig
Butte Civic Center Commission Elects Three Members
John Downey W P Donnelly and Fred Searle were elected lay members of the Butte Civic Center Commission at a special meeting in the courthouse Wednesday night. Downey fills the unexpired term of Rene Rouleau. Donnelly and Searle have been commissioners and were reelected to three-year terms. Also present were Loretta Sullivan Newell Evans T E Downey District Judge, Mayor Tim Sullivan and Mayor James Shea.
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John Downey
W. P. Donnelly
Fred Searle
Butte Civic Center Commission
Downey
Butte
Rene Rouleau
Civic Center
Donnelly
Searle
Commission
Loretta Sullivan
Board of County Commissioners
Newell Evans
Butte’ School Board
T. E. Downey
Tim J. Sullivan
James Shea
Walkerville
Missing French Army Plane Feared Crashed in Pyrenees
A Nord twin-engined military plane with 11 aboard vanished Tuesday night over the Pyrenees near Luchon. Bad weather hindered rescue efforts as ski teams and Republican Security guards searched in drifting snow toward Mont de Marsan Base, without any trace found.
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Luchon
France
U.P
Pyrenees
Nord
Algiers
North Africa
Here
Mont- Be-Marsan
Bordeaux
Two Tankers Collide in Delaware River Toll Five Dead Four Missing
In dense fog two Texas bound tankers, Atlantic Dealer and Atlantic Engineer, collided 60 miles south of Wilmington. Five crewmen died from exposure after either jumping or being pitched overboard, four others remain missing. The ships carried 223000 barrels of crude oil and 123000 barrels of gasoline. Victims named include Joseph Vogt and James Laughlin, with others from Philadelphia, Middleboro, Ocean View, and the Philippine Islands. Rescue operations by Army Engineers recovered four bodies as authorities labeled four men missing and presumed dead. The incident occurred in a busy waterway near New Castle and Philadelphia, prompting repairs and continued movement upstream once fog lifted.
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Wilmington
Del
Texas
Philadelphia
Delaware
C. Everett Kelley
Coast Guard
Army Engineers
Atlantic Ocean
Atlantic Refining Co
Atlantic Dealer
Port Arthur
Tex
Atlantic Engineer
New Castle
Atlantic
Clifford Bennington
Jesse Walling
U. S. Army Engineers
Edgemoor
Joseph Vogt
John Waller
Middleboro
Mass
Louis S. Williams
Ocean View
Edilberto P. Jamias
Philippine Islands
Jamias
Los Angeles
James Laughlin
Gordon
Shoulders Silent in Perjury Case
Former St. Louis police Lt Louis Shoulders surrendered to federal authorities, posting 10000 bond after being indicted for perjury over testimony about the Greenlease ransom money. He will face the case in Kansas City. patrolman Elmer Dolan is free on bond on the same charge.
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ST. Louis
Louis Shoulders
Shoulders
Henry G. Morris
U. S
Edwin J. Bean
Kansas City
Grand
Robert Greenlease Sr
Elmer Dolan
Carl Austin Hall
Grand Jury
Hall
Bonnie Brown Heady
Missouri
French Approve Western Note on Big 4 Parley
The French cabinet approved a Western Big Three note authorizing a foreign ministers conference with the Russians in Berlin on January 25. Britain and the United States also approve and plan to forward the note to Moscow within 48 hours. The aim is to start the Berlin meeting soon so France can decide on European army ratification.
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Pais
A.P
Berlin
Moscow
Britain
United States
France
53,000 Workers Laid Off or Facing Idleness
At least 53,000 workers have been laid off their jobs in industry and railroads nationwide in recent weeks or face unemployment soon. November figures show total unemployment at 1,428,000, up 10,000 from 1952. There are openings in other fields, with many help wanted ads.
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Associated Press
U. S. Bureau of Labor Statistics
Eisenhower
Weather outlook with light snow and cold front passage
Mostly cloudy Thursday and Thursday night with light snow starting Thursday afternoon. Colder Thursday night. Friday partly cloudy and slightly colder with highs around 30 and Thursday night low near 15. Period highs 30s to mid 40s across regions with varied winds. generally fair Thursday night into Friday.
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Divide
Charge Woman in Massacre
Harriet Henson, 30, former paramour of Jack Santo, was charged in Quincy with four counts of murder for the Chester massacre on Oct 10, 1952. The complaint covers the deaths of grocer Guard Young and his daughters Judy and Jean, a neighbor boy Michael Saile, and Young’s youngest daughter Sondra who was beaten. Sheriff Melvin H. Schooler signed the complaint. Dist. Atty. Kean declined to reveal if she did the killings. Henson, formerly a waitress, was to be released from Nevada County Jail when charged.
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Quincy
Calif
Harriet Henson
Jack Santo
Chester
Melvin H. Schooler
Miss Henson
Nevada County
Nevada City
Santo
Schooler
John Kean
Plumas County
Jean
Michael Saile
Young
Sondra
Rebels Attack 3 French Strong Points in Indochina
Ho Chi Minh leading a 1954 push against French forces with Moscow and Red China support. Rebels struck three northern Laos forts and pressed toward Dien Bien Phu as fighting spreads across Indochina amid a widening war.
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Hanoi
Indochina
Ho Chi Minh
Red China
Laos
Dien Bien Phu
Viet Nam
Poe
Red
U. S
Vietnam
Thailand
Judge Rules Toll Bridge Act Legal in Montana
District Judge George W. Padbury Jr. ruled the 1953 toll bridge law valid, allowing a $450,000 bond issue by the State Highway Commission as bridge authority. Monarch Mining Company and D. L. Jones, taxpayers, pledged to appeal immediately to the State Supreme Court to challenge the act’s constitutionality.
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Helena
U.P
George W. Padbury Jr
Montana
State Supreme Court
Monarch Mining Company
D. L. Jones
State Highway Commission
Theaw
Padbury
United States
Monarch and
Jones
William A. Brown
Airlines carry record 52 million passengers worldwide
The International Civil Aviation Organization announced in Montreal that global air travel reached an all-time high of 52 million passengers this year, surpassing the previous 50 million mark for the first time in powered flight history.
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United Nations
International Civil Aviation Organization
Montreal
Viet Minh Tighten Pressure at Dien Bien Phu
Viet Minh rebels intensified pressure Wednesday on Dien Bien Phu the last French fortress in northwest Indochina French sources say its the major objective in the current Communist offensive continuation noted on page 3 column 3
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Thakhek
Mekong River
Indochina
Thailand
Savannakhet
Vientiane
Luangprabang
Dien Bien Phu
Viet Nam
Hanoi
President Works on His Message
President Eisenhower refines his January State of the Union draft while golfing at Augusta National. He plans to present the speech to Congress in person next week as Washington aides arrive to help finalize the messaging.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
White House
Augusta National Golf Club
State of the Union
Washington
Congress
Henry Cabot Lodge
U. S
United Nations
Joseph M. Dodge
Sherman Adams
Gets 10 Umbrellas for Christmas
Miss Mildre Taylor Sanderson, director of public health nursing, said she has never bought an umbrella and won t have to now. She received 10 umbrellas for Christmas from friends far away as California and New York. St Louis remains drought and rainfall is miles below normal.
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ST. Louis
Mildre Taylor Sanderson
California
York
Miss Sanderson
Polic Health Nursing
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