Torch victim’s uncle vanishes as revenge vow echoes
Frank Kierdorf, 56, lies near death after a human torch attack tied to Teamsters union business. His 63 year old uncle Herman Kierdorf, wanted on a silencer warrant, disappeared after urging a witness to reveal the assailants. A German pistol and silencer, plus weapons, were found in a neighbor’s sack. Both men had testified before the Senate Rackets Committee.
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Pontiac
Mich
Teamsters Union
Hermann Kierdorf
Herman
Frank Kierdorf
Frank
Union
Frederick Ziem
Herman Kierdorf
Ziem
St. Joseph Mercy Hospital
John Doe
Washington, D. C
Senate Rackets Committee
Kierdorf
Flint
Moon Shot Near as Johnson Hints Next Week Launch
Roy W. Johnson, head of the U S moon rocket program, says a first lunar satellite attempt could come as early as next week. The Defense Department aims to decide this week on the date with final timing about five days before launch.
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Washington
Roy W. Johnson
Johnson
Defense Department
Department
Advanced Research Projects Agency
Moon
Thor
Vanguard
Cape Canaveral
Fla
Petitions On File To Ban Union Shop In Ohio
Ohioans for Right to Work plans to file petitions with 440000 signatures to place a proposed constitutional amendment on the November 4 ballot. The drive aims to outlaw the union shop with a midnight deadline, and petitions will be delivered early. Ted M. Gray Sr. leads the effort, with Brinks guarding the transfer from a downtown Columbus bank vault. The total value of the petitions is about a quarter of a million dollars.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohioans For Right To Work, Inc
Ted M. Gray Sr
Ohioans For Right To Work
Brinks, Inc
Rail Strike Averted in Mexico City Deal Reached
An informal agreement ended a nationwide rail workers strike in Mexico, preventing a broader Red-flag general walkout and easing transport disruption across the country.
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Mexico City
Mexico
West Virginia Primary Focus Shapes Senate Races
Four states hold primaries with West Virginia centering on two open Senate seats. GOP incumbents Revercomb and Hoblitzell face no opposition, while four Democrats vie for the chance to challenge Hoblitzell for a six year term. Other contests set nominations for House seats and two governorships.
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G. Mennen Williams
Michigan
Stuart Symington
Missouri
Williams
West Virginia
Kansas
Senate
GOP
Chapman Revercomb
John D. Hoblitzell
Hoblitzell
Matthew Neely
Robert C. Byrd
Bevrcomb
Hoffa Evades Question as Senate Panel Presses Ties
Senate investigators pressed Hoffa on alleged links to gangsters during a hearing. Hoffa refused to comment on any matter, saying he had no comment whatsoever about anything. He sat with aides Edward Bennett Williams and attorneys nearby as Chairman McClellan outlined the record of testimony.
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Washington
Teamsters
James R. Hoffa
Senate
Hoffa
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Rackets
McClellan
Underworld
Michigan
Frank Kierdorf
Edward Bennett Williams
The
Union
George S., Fitzgerald
Detroit
David Previant
Milwaukee
Officer Admits Entry Stealing of City Funds
Cleveland area report says South Euclid Patrolman James Corrigan admitted breaking into a gas station and stealing city funds. Mayor George Urban said felony charges would be filed against him by Monday night.
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Cleveland
Atkinson to Quit Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Herschel C. Atkinson executive vice president says he will resign when his contract ends April 1 1960. Atkinson has served with the Ohio Chamber for 14 years.
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Columbus
Herschel C. Atkinson
Ohio Chamber of Commerce
Atkinson
Ohio Chamber
Ohio linked case notes Buckeye Crime Torch victim
Frank Kierdorf 56 is linked to a human torch attack in Pontiac Michigan and carries Ohio police history. His uncle Herman 63 served time in Ohio Penitentiary for armed robbery. Both men were tied to December 18 1941 Cleveland arrests for a $21 000 Akron department store heist and questioned about a $35 000 AmEx office robbery. extradited to Michigan in 1942.
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Youngstown
Frank Kierdorf
Pontiac
Mich
Ohio
Herman
Frank
Mahoning County
Grand Jury
Navy
Cleveland
Warren Heyser
Heyser
Michigan
Largest Sub Launching Set at Groton
The USS Triton, America’s largest submarine and nuclear powered, will be launched in Groton Connecticut on August 19. Built as a radar picket vessel with two atomic reactors, the 447 foot, 5900 ton ship is designed to stay on station and provide prolonged power.
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Groton
Conn
America
O Neill Pledges Aid To Offset Crop Loss
Gov C William O’Neill pledged aid to farmers damaged by recent rains. He said the administration would act as needed and expects a crop damage report due August 16 from a special committee studying the issue.
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O'Neill
Waverly
Spanish-American War Veteran Dies at 86 in Columbus
Nathan A. McCoy Sr., 86, last officer of the 4th Ohio Volunteer Infantry, Spanish American War unit, died in Columbus Monday after a fall at a son's home. He had been ill for five days.
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Columbus
4Th Ohio Volunteer Infantry
Nathan A. McCoy
Film Tycoon Warner Injured in Accident
Jack L. Warner, pioneer American film tycoon, was seriously injured in a collision near the seaside villa of Prince Aly Khan in Cannes. He was alone in his sports car when it collided with a coal truck while returning from a casino.
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Cannes
France
Jack L. Warner
Warner
Prince Aly Khan
Route 40 Interstate Route Foreshadowed in Keystone Shortway Plan
A secret 1957 engineering report for Pennsylvania proposes the Keystone Shortway a toll free route across central Pennsylvania from Sharon to Stroudsburg. It notes U.S. 40 as an interstate westward through West Virginia and Ohio would shift traffic to the turnpike, offset by a highspeed link into West Virginia and southern Ohio.
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Harrisburg
Ginia
Ohio
State Highways Department
Pennsylvania
Sharon
Stroudsburg
New Jersey
Midwest
New York
Sharon-Stroudsburg
U. S. 40
West Virginia
New Stanton
Chairman Chosen for Virginia Civil War Commission
Richmond Virginia selects Charles T Moses state senator as chairman of the new Civil War Commission. Moses resides in Appomattox near the surrender site of Lee to Grant in 1865.
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Richmond
Virginia
Charles T. Moses
Moses
Appomattox
Lee
Grant
Burns From Electricity Prove Fatal to Worker
Cleveland report says Orlando Ca ferro, 30, a Lorain construction worker, survived a 138000 volt shock but died Monday after burns covered about 85 percent of his body. He had previously lived in Lorain and worked for a local construction outfit.
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Cleveland
Orlando Caferro
Lorain
Legless man drives 18000 miles to rebuild sign business
Cornelius Bud Koster, 39, who spent 15 years in a hospital after a 1942 accident, has driven 18000 miles in a year in a rigged car around Bellwood to revive his electrical and neon sign business. His wife assists by listing potential clients as Bud delivers cards offering services.
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Chicago
Cornelius
Bud) Koster
Bellwood
Koster
Cook County
Josephine Masterson
Bud
Dulles Protests Amid Student Jeers in Rio Stop
Secretary of State Dulles began talks in Rio de Janeiro after a brief student interruption with jeers and a Go Home banner. He planned discussions with Foreign Secretary Lima and President Kubitschek focusing on inter American relations and economic issues including coffee and oil resources.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Dulles
Brazil
Francisco Negrao de Lima
Juscelino Ku
U.S
Ellis
Briggs
National Students Union
Petrobas
United States
Private Talks Continue On Security Council Summit
United Nations delegates held private discussions on arrangements for a Security Council summit while awaiting word if Soviet Premier Khrushchev will attend. No preliminary meeting has been scheduled in the absence of a Soviet decision, with speculation that any public answer may come at the UN rather than Moscow.
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United Nations
N. Y
Security Council
Khrushchev
Moscow
Khruschev
Napoleon editor Don C. Orwig dies in Ohio hospital
Don C. Orwig editor and publisher of the Napoleon Northwest News died Monday at Heller Memorial Hospital in Napoleon Ohio. He led the paper for decades and was a prominent local figure.
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Napoleon, Ohio
Napoleon Northwest News
Don C. Orwig
Heller Memorial Hospital
Weather Summary for West Virginia and Ohio
Fair and cool again tonight with lows 57-62 in the east and 60-66 in the west. Wednesday brings mostly fair conditions and a slight warming trend with a chance of widely scattered afternoon thunder showers in West Virginia. In Ohio, a fair and warmer night with lows 62-65, followed by a partly cloudy and warm day with scattered showers and thunder storms and a high near 90.
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West Virginia
Ohio
Lockbourne Center of Search Tied to SAC Base
A seven year old boy abducted and sexually maimed led investigators to Lockbourne Air Force Base where a windshield sticker bearing an SAC emblem was found. Air Police screen 200 cars matching the description while 7000 base vehicles were checked. Surgeons say injuries are not life threatening and the boy is in good condition.
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Columbus
Lockbourne Air Force Base
Strategic Air Command
SAC
Children’s Hospital
EOKA Offers Pause in Cyprus Violence Amid Crisis
In Nicosia Greek underground group EOKA led by Col. George Grivas announced leaflets ordering attacks on British and Turkish forces to halt. The violence has claimed over 100 lives since June 7 as talks with Turkish Cypriots and British officials proceed.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
EOKA
Mediterranean
George Grivas
U S Forces Begin Lebanon Drawdown Debate
One thousand more U S troops arrived in Lebanon as the movement of forces completes. The nation’s leaders debate withdraw timing with Chamoun resisting U S troop pullout while Shehab signals neutrality and unity. The embassy says withdrawal occurs only at the request of the legitimate government.
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Beirut
Lebanon
U. S
Geiger
Fuad Shehab
Camille Chamoun
Shehab
Chamoun
Washington
Steel Leaders Raise Prices
Pittsburgh report notes three major steel firms including U S Steel Bethlehem and Inland boosted prices on bars rods wire and tubular items in a second round of increases. U S Steel and Inland cite about a 3 percent average rise while Bethlehem withheld specific figures.
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Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corp
Bethlehem
Inland
U. S. Steel
Republic Steel
U. S. Steel and Inland
Fifty five CPA candidates qualify in Ohio exams
The Ohio Accountancy Board announced that fifty five of the 346 candidates who sat examinations May 14 and 15 have qualified to be certified public accountants.
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Columbus
Ohio Accountancy Board
Prefers To Go It Alone Escapee Forgets Pal
A Chicagoan known as Robert Kubat, 23, escaped from Noble County jail after saving a cellblock door lock. He fled with Harry Clark Jr., 22, while Herman Maroni, 30, remains jailed in St. Clairsville. Authorities speculate Kubat and Clark may have left Ohio, with reports tying a Caldwell car to Barnesville, and another car missing from Barnesville.
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Columbus
Florida
Robert Kubat
Noble County
Harry Clark, Jr
Route 4
Caldwell
Kubat
Herman Maroni
St. Clairsville
Ohio
Robery
Maroni
Belmont County
Donald Conaway
Clark
Barnesville
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