Senate Quizzers Probe Scranton Payoff Allegations
Senate rackets probes widen Scranton inquiry into payoffs to Teamsters Local 229 officials. The committee questions why firms and leaders face no charges and whether indicting both parties would hinder witnesses. Oliver Dibble notes grand jury dynamics shape prosecutions.
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Senate
Teamsters
Scranton
Justice Department
Senate Committee
McClellan
D-Ark
Oliver Dibble
Senator Seeks Return of Unspent Stationery Funds
Sen Williams of Delaware reports repeated attempts to return $1508.26 in unspent last year stationery funds. He notes a new Treasury rule requires spending or taxation of the balance. He sought guidance from the Comptroller General and considered ordering $1508 of stationery and discarding it to avoid taxation.
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Washington
Sen. Williams
Del
Treasury
Williams
Delaware
Senate
Campbell
Rhee Commutes General Kang Moon Bong Death Sentence
President Syngman Rhee in Seoul commutes Lt. Gen. Kang Moon Bong's death sentence to life imprisonment in a landmark judicial clemency action. The move shifts the fate of a high ranking figure amid ongoing tensions in Korea.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Kang Moon Bong
Plane lands hard at Pittsburgh airport no major injuries
Capital Airlines DC4 evades disaster after hard landing at Greater Pittsburgh Airport. Pilot R L Calhoun from Alexandria Virginia lands the craft seconds before inboard engine fires. Flight crew and 50 passengers exit safely. nine treated for shock or bruises. Stewardess Katherine Szymanski led calm response.
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Greater Pittsburgh
Capital Airlines
R. L. Calhoun
Alexandria
Capital
Calhoun
Katherine Szymanski
New Kensington
Capt. Calhoun
Lausche Fires Liberal Gal
A Washington stenographer, Mrs. Audrey Henrickson, claims Senator Lausche discharged her for being too liberal. She says the office philosophy differed from hers though she calls Lausche a conservative Democrat. Administrative assistant Ray White confirms she was fired for not adapting to routine.
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Washington
Sen. Lausche
Ohio
Lausche
Audrey Henrickson
Los Alamos
Santa Fe
N. M
Sen. Morse
D-Ore
Sen. Clark
D-Pa
Ray White
Henrickson
French decorated G I convicted of desertion
Pvt. Vito Sala a 31 year old Brooklyn soldier who earned the Croix de Guerre for service in Indochina was court-martialed in Poitiers and sentenced to five years with dishonorable discharge and forfeiture of all pay The amnesia defense was rejected and the deserter vanished from Heilbronn Germany in April 1945 The case is subject to automatic appeal and review
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Poitiers
France
Brooklyn
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Sala
U. S
Heilbron
Germany
Ohio Senate defeats bid to guarantee life of public works funding
In Columbus the Ohio Senate defeated a Deddens proposal to preserve public improvement appropriations beyond the two-year legislative life. The plan failed 17 to 21, while the House sent to the Senate several big money bills totaling more than 145 million dollars for aged and disabled assistance, vocational training, and other state programs.
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Columbus
Ohio Senate
Ohio
William H. Deddens
Hamilton
Deddens
Senate
Dedden
C. Stanley Mechem
Athens
Mechem
House
Defense Aide Frank Newbury Resigns Amid Research Pressure
The Chicago Tribune reports Frank D. Newbury, 76, assistant secretary of defense and head of the Pentagon Research and Engineering Office, resigned Thursday after pressure from research science groups over emphasis on engineering and applied weapon research. Newbury had led the office since 1953, overseeing its merger with the research office last February.
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Chicago Tribune
Frank D. Newbury
Defense
Pentagon Research and Engineering
the Tribune
Washington
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Newbury
Wilson
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Ex Governor Ben Hooper Dies at 86 in Newport Tenn
Former Tennessee governor and Republican leader Ben W. Hooper died Thursday in Newport Tennessee at age 86 from pneumonia. He served on the U S Railway Labor Board appointed by President Harding in 1921 and chaired the board from 1922 to 1925, credited with averting a nationwide rail strike.
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Newport
Tenn
Ben W. Hooper
Tennessee
U.S. Railway Labor Board
Harding
Hooper
Florida Joins Rebels To High Court Decision
Florida adopts an inter-position resolution joining Southern states in declaring U S Supreme Court rulings null and void. Gov. Leroy Collins denounces the action saying it makes the state look foolish. The Senate backs the move as stultifying federal rulings.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida
Leroy Collins
Senate
U. S. Supreme Court
Collins
Membership Slump Hits British Communist Party
The British Communist party admitted a wholesale downturn in its membership over the past year due to Soviet actions in Hungary.
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London
British Communist Party
Hungary
Congress Freezes Funds for Aged Relief Checks Resolution
Congress ends a funding delay by releasing 275 million dollars for the federal share of public assistance payments to the aged and others, with Easter recess starting. House and Senate clash since February over the money, while other provisions such as minerals buying, drought feeds, and federal grant limits are dropped or contested.
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Washington
Congress
House
Senate
Eisenhower
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Welfare Department
Police Kill Three Burglars In Chicago Vault Heist
In Chicago a gun battle between seven detectives and three burglars on State Street ended with all three attackers dead. Detectives hid on the 11th floor after a tip and opened fire as the men tried to breach a Mandel Brothers vault containing about 250000 dollars. Officers reported no injuries to them. The suspects were identified as Jimmy Rentner 30 James Wulf 28 and James Bertimio.
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Chicago
Mandel Brothers
Credit Department
James Lynch
William Toby
Lynch
Jimmy Rentner
James Wulf
James Bertimio
Suspect in 66 000 payroll heist hunted after FBI agent death
SUFFIELD Conn Police pursue Francis Kolakowski 42 after he shot and killed an FBI agent and killed his wife on March 29. He then killed himself after a 19 day fugitive run tied to a Windsor factory payroll robbery of 66 000 last week while his 13 year old daughter watched.
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Suffield, Conn
FBI
Francis Kolakowski
Hartford
Army Lands Ohio Convicts In Tularemia Vaccine Study
Thirty one Ohio Penitentiary inmates volunteered for an Army research project on tularemia vaccine. They received achievement certificates at a penitentiary dinner as Maj. Gen. Creasy urged continued participation. Army researchers with Ohio State University study vaccine effects as a cure for infectious diseases common among hunters.
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Columbus
Ohio Penitentiary
Army
Ther
William M. Creasy
Ohio State University
Actor's Son Killed In Rifle Accident
Hastings on Hudson New York January 4 A 16 year old boy died from a rifle wound at his home The death of Dekker was ruled accidental His son Albert Dekker was found on the floor of a second floor bedroom by his mother Edith Dekker He lay next to a .22 caliber rifle with a cloth in his hand a bullet had pierced his right eye
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Hastings-On-Hudson
N. Y
Jan Dekker
Albert Dekker
Young Dekker
Edith Dekker
McDonald Reelected United Steelworkers President
David J. McDonald was reelected president of the United Steelworkers with 404,172 votes to 223,516 for challenger Donald C. Rarick. The announcement came as ballot tallies were released in Pittsburgh.
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Pittsburgh
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
USW
Donald C. Rarick
Dynamite Caps Found Widespread in Collinsville School Area
Police chief Don Brinkley recovered roughly 85 of 100 dynamite caps after boys admitted taking them from United Brick Co. sites and sharing them around Collinsville Oklahoma. Caps appeared in a girl's coat pocket and at school, with some destroyed dynamite sticks also found at an old coal pit. No explosions occurred.
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Collinsville
Okla
Oklahoma
Don Brinkley
United Brick Co
Brinkley
Tulsa
Holy Week Observances In Holy Land Amid Crises
Devout pilgrims from Jews Christians Muslims and Samaritans gather in Jerusalem for Good Friday and Easter observances. Tourists flood hotels as Arab Jerusalem hosts thousands while the Palestine frontier sees limited crossings. Ramdan practices draw Moslems to the Dome of the Rock and Way of the Cross ceremonies unfold along the Old City route.
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Jordan
Israel
Palestine Armistice Frontier
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Jesus
Christ
Israelis and Arabs clash on two border fronts
Israelis and Arabs clashed along the Israeli Syrian frontier and at Megiddo on the Jordan border. UN truce supervisors intervened. no casualties reported. Iraq protested a U S tanker voyage to Eilat as tensions rose in the region.
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Israel
Syria
Sea of Galilee
Meggido
Iraq
Gulf of Aqaba
Eilat
Mad Bomber Metesky Ordered Commit to Hospital
A New York judge ordered Mad Bomber George Metesky committed to a hospital for the criminal insane. The judge noted a recent medical report showing tuberculosis and said the decision came strictly on psychiatric grounds, leaving open the chance of trial in another jurisdiction on related bomb charges.
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New York
George Metesky
Metesky
Kings County
Samuel Leibowitz
Leibowitz
Driver Killed Five Hurt In Route 50 Crash Near Athens
Chester Earl Palmer 32 of Parkersburg West Virginia was killed when his steel laden trailer overturned after a collision with a car on U.S. 50 two miles east of the Washington County line near Athens. Five car occupants were hospitalized at Camden-Clark in Parkersburg with several in critical condition including Harry Merrill 34 his wife Juanita and Opie A Kuhn. Johnnie Kuhn and Stephen Kuhn were listed in fair condition.
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Chester Earl Palmer
Parkersburg
W. Va
U.S. 50
Washington County
Athens
Highway Patrol
Camden-Clark Hospital
Harry Merrill
Belpre
Ohio
Juanita
Opie A. Kuhn
Five Day Forecast Sees Warmer Temps Across Region
Temperatures will run 8 to 12 degrees above normal with highs from 59 to 66 and lows around 39 to 43. Cooler Sunday then warmer Monday before cooler again midweek. Showers possible tonight Saturday Sunday and again Tuesday and Wednesday with up to 1 inch total.
President selects new ambassadors to Mexico Sweden and Colombia
President Eisenhower named Robert C. Hill as ambassador to Mexico. Francis White moves from Mexico to Sweden as ambassador. John M. Cabot will shift from Sweden to Colombia as ambassador.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Mexico
Sweden
Colombia
Robert C. Hill
Congressional Relations
Francis White
John M. Cabot
What Easter Means to Humankind and Messenger Highlights
The Sunday Messenger magazine section features Rev. Clarence Seidenspinner’s piece on Easter’s meaning renewing hope and faith. Also includes Cable Car's Last Trip, a San Francisco hillclimber purchase for 51 dollars, and articles on money, housing, fashions, cooking, homemaking, and children.
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Clarence Seidenspinner
Uncle Sam
Larston D. Farrar
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Messenger
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