General LeMay warns U S could face surprise Soviet strike
Washington General Curtis LeMay warns in secret testimony that as early as 1959 or 1960 the Soviet Union could launch a complete surprise attack and destroy the United States. He cites gaps in manpower bases bombers tankers and readiness and urges a world wide air command and urgent missile production while extending B 52 and bomber capabilities. He clashes with Eisenhower Wilson and Dulles over naval air power and defense planning.
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Washington
INS
Curtis E. LeMay
U. S
Moscow
LeMay
Russia
Strategic Air Command
Stuart Symington
Pentagon
Eisenhower
Navy
Symington
Allen Dulles
Central Intelligence Agency
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Gulf
Mexico
U.S
Atlantic
United States
Wilson
Dulles
Canada
Supreme Court rules on rail unions and segregation decisions
The Supreme Court left in place a lower court ruling allowing firing of railroad workers who refuse to join unions on religious grounds under union shop contracts. It also upheld a federal court ruling that Louisiana’s segregated schools policy was invalid under prior court decisions. The cases involve Plymouth Brethren members and other railroad workers challenging union membership requirements.
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Washington
Supreme Court
High Court
New Orleans
Louisiana
Los Angeles
North Carolina Supreme Court
Illness Removes Defendant From Tax Fraud Trial
In St Louis Harry S Schwimmer a defense attorney in a tax case with two Truman officials is removed due to illness. Judge Hulen lets the others proceed and notes Schwimmer may be tried separately later. Endorsements on four oil royalty checks attributed to Caudle link to alleged bribe in Sachs case.
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ST. Louis
Llp
Harry S. Schwimmer
Truman Administration
Rubey M. Hulen
Matthew J. Connelly
T. Lamar Caudle
Hulen
Schwimmer
Ellen Hodges
Tax Division
Washington
Caudle
Truman
Sachs
Connelly
USW Starts Contract Talks With Major Steel Firms
The United Steelworkers opened negotiations with U S Steel Bethlehem Republic and other firms seeking substantial wage hikes a 52 week layoff pay plan company paid insurance and premium pay for weekend work with a June 30 deadline and potential strikes if no agreement is reached. McDonald and the union plan to present the same demands to four more companies Tuesday.
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Pittsburgh
United Steelworkers
USW
David J. McDonald
Clifford Hood
U.S. Steel Corp
Bethlehem
Republic Steel Corporations
McDonald
Jones & Laughlin
Youngstown Sheet & Tube
Inland Steel
Great Lakes Steel
John A. Stephens
U.S. Steel Negotiations Group
Kennedy pleads guilty in U S District Court
Joseph Kennedy 68 former secretary treasurer of the Wabash Valley Trust Co. of Peru changed his plea to guilty on two counts of making a false entry in a bank ledger in U S District Court. Judge Parkinson referred the case for a pre sentence investigation. Kennedy denies taking the money and says he merely admits the false entries. The plea concerns withdrawals from 1954 1955 entries totaling about 964? 1890? and involved accounting irregularities at the fruit company account and St Charles School building fund. He is free on bond pending disposition around mid July.
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South Bend
Ind
Joseph Kennedy
Wabash Valley Trust Co
Peru
U.S. District Court
W. Lynn Parkinson
James F. Keating
Kennedy
Keating
Parkinson
St. Charles
Fruit Company
Prohibition Party To Meet In June In Indianapolis
Indiana state nominating convention set for June 8 in Indianapolis to nominate candidates for most state ticket positions. Chief speaker is Dr. Enoch A. Holtwick of Greenville Illinois, the party's presidential nominee. Prohibitionists qualified to appear on ballot without petitions after exceeding 0.5 percent of last secretary of state vote.
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Indianapolis
Prohibition Party
Indiana
Paul W. Cox
Cox
Enoch A. Holtwick
Greenville
Ill
Mushroom chase ends in hospital for winner
Donald Shay aged 26 won a $1 bet with his father in law by finding the season’s first mushrooms. He dashed to show them and collided with a barbed wire fence, suffering facial cuts requiring a dozen stitches from doctors.
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Boyne City
Mich
Donald Shay
Shay
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