Rackets And Labor Link Seen In Cleveland Hearing
The second day of a House hearing on labor racketeering opened amid testimony about construction firm bombings and clashes with investigators. Witness Richard Finley, a former convict, alleged a trucking company paid him about 20 000 dollars for 12 of 15 bombings and vandalism over three years. Co‑owners Triscaro and Marabito testified but invoked the Fifth Amendment.
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Cleveland
George H. Bender
Rohio
House
Subcommittee
Richard L. Moose Finley
Joseph Triscaro
Shaker Trucking Co
Sebastian Marabito
Finley
Triscaro
Marabito
Long Time I Semis Die Long Time I Semis Die
Two Centre County soldiers Pvt. John W. Zerby and Pvt. Harry E. Booth died in the ferryboat capsizing during a typhoon in northern Japan. They grew up seven miles apart in Pennsylvania and served nearby abroad without knowing each other were stationed in the same region.
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State College
Johnny Zerby
Harry Booth
Centre County
Japan
Army
John W. Zerby
Robert H. Zerby
Spring Mills
Harry E. Booth
Clair E. Booth
Aaronsburg
Route 1
Millionaire Playboy Allegedly Bought Dope
Robert Shevak, bass player, testified that a young millionaire musician paid $20 for marijuana at a nightclub parking lot. The testimony came during a preliminary hearing for Mark Lamb, 41, charged with selling narcotics in Los Angeles.
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Playboy
Dope
Los Angeles
George (Geordie) Hormel
Robert Shevak
Hormel
Shevak
Mark Lamb
Rhodes Deems Lausche Fifth Term Wrong in Principle
Republican candidate James A. Rhodes urged Ohio voters to reject a fifth term for Gov. Frank J. Lausche at a Greeneville Republican rally. He tied the call to align with the national administration and end what he described as a fifth-term Democrat regime of special interests and influence peddling.
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Fairborn
James A. Rhodes
Train Kills Two Men in Creston Crossing Crash
A Baltimore and Ohio passenger train struck and fatally injured two Creston men at a crossing in Wooster area early today. The state highway patrol identified the victims as Charles McGuire, 35, and Phil Lip Hatton, 49, both residents of Creston.
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Wooster
Ohio
B&o
Creston
State Highway Patrol
Charles McGuire
Phillip Hatton
Harold Stassen Slated to Speak at OU Session
Ohio University will close its sesquicentennial year with a Conference on Higher Education in Ohio and a convocation address by Harold E. Stassen. Stassen, former governor of Minnesota and ex-president of the University of Pennsylvania, will speak at 2:30 p.m. November 10. The event, part of the final sesquicentennial functions, follows Founders Day in February and a June commencement.
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Ohio University
Ohio
Harold E. Stassen
John C. Baker
Stassen
Foreign Operations Administration
Eisenhower
Minnesota
University of Pennsylvania
Baker
Divers Begin Recoveries From Toya Maru Sinking Toll
Japanese divers started recovering bodies from the sunken Toya Maru after it capsized in a typhoon. The disaster, Japan’s worst maritime wreck, left about 1,508 dead overall with 1,341 aboard and 173 survivors. The scene at Hakodate harbor saw divers pulling bodies as a U.S. Air Force helicopter dropped flowers.
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Tokyo
Tengaru Strait
Harodate
Hakodate Harbor
National Rural Police
Japan National Railways
U.S. Air Force
AFL Calls for Substantial Wage Increases at Convention
The AFL urged wage boosts as unions face a weak economy. Delegates blasted the Republican administration and backed a labor endorsed candidates stance while warning workers not to be swayed by employers. They argued wage hikes are needed to raise living standards and match rising productivity despite downturn concerns.
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Los Angeles
AFL
Husband and Wife Cited for Excessive Speed in Omaha
Wade A. Pugh of Omaha and his wife Shirley were each arrested for driving 45 mph in a 15 mph zone in the same area. They were fined $10 and costs. the couple traveled in separate cars.
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Omaha
Neb
Wade A. Pugh
Shirley Pugh
Navy Patrol Plane Crashes at Manila Takeoff
A U S Navy amphibious patrol plane crashed on takeoff from Sangley Point Naval Air Station in Manila. The Navy reported there were no survivors.
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NAVY
Manila
Sangley Point Naval Air Station
Warm Weather Across Nation With Heat in Southwest
Broad areas of the nation featured near summer like conditions with clear to partly cloudy skies. Temperatures climbed into the 90s from west Texas to South Carolina and southern Missouri, while the Midwest stayed in the 80s. The coolest regions were the northern states and New England, with El Centro reaching 107. A fresh Canadian air mass pushed into Montana dropping temperatures to around 40 degrees. Corpus Christi registered 81.
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West Texas
Gulf States
South Carolina
Corpus Christi
Canada
Montana
Witness Links Publisher to Reds in Commission Hearing
A commission witness, Ernest Courey, testified that Edward Lamb, publisher and broadcaster, gave $7 to a Communist on two occasions about 15 years ago. Courey, 54, previously sentenced to life for murder in Cleveland, claimed his sentence was commuted after five years in prison. The hearing weighs renewal of Lambs Erie station WICV license as Lamb denies the charges and accuses investigators of pressuring for false testimony and offering bribes.
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Washington
Edward Lamb
Communications Commission
Lamb
Ernest Courey
Cleveland
Ohio
Commission
Erie
WICV
The
Erie Dispatch
Pennsylvania
Florida
Hundredth Arrest Marks Century for Long Beach Man
Wilson Ray Parkins celebrated his 60th birthday behind bars for the 100th time in Long Beach California. Police records show arrests since 1936 for drunkenness vagrancy disorderly conduct drunken driving and fleeing traffic warrants.
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Long Beach
Calif
Wilson Ray Parkins
Parkins
Trade Education Head Resigns To Teach At Ohio State
R. M. Ey man of Columbus state director of education announced that Robert M. Reese state supervisor of trade and industrial education has resigned to become a professor at Ohio State University. He will be succeeded by Byr i Shoemaker of Columbus, his former assistant.
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Columbus
R. M. Eyman
Robert M. Reese
Ohio State University
Byri Shoemaker
Girl Changes Mind But Judge Doesn’t
Lawrence Mass. judge sentences 24 year old Joseph Persechino of Methuen to five months in the House of Correction for assault with a dangerous weapon. He wounded Miss De Marco after she ended their romance last June 2.
Nine nation talks aim for West German rearmament accord
London hosts a nine nation conference led by Anthony Eden to map West German reintegration into Western Europe defense ties. France blocks a smooth plan over Saar region while Germany offers to cede Saar to Council of Europe administration. aims include general agreement within about 50 days amid talk of a second parley.
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Europe
Britain
Anthony Eden
United States
Canada
West Germany
France
Italy
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Lancaster House
Buckingham Palace
Eden
Saar
Council of Europe
Council
Train wreck near Hyderabad sinks into flooded river
An eight car Hyderabad to Kazipet express plunged into a flooded river near Aler after a bridge collapsed. At least 53 dead or missing, 18 bodies recovered, 30 hospitalized. 8 railwaymen and 27 troops listed as missing in one of India's worst rail disasters.
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Bombay
India
Hyderabad
Baby hippo dies at Columbus Zoo after birth
A 105 pound baby hippopotamus died at the Columbus Zoo yesterday four days after birth. He was the fourth offspring of Pete and Snooky to die in infancy at the zoo.
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Columbus
Columbus Zoo
Pete
Snooky
Attlee Wins Warmed Debate on German Armament at Labour Confab
In Scarborough Britain the Labour Party narrowly backs Clement Attlee’s call for West German rearmament by 248000 votes out of 6292000. Moderates support reunification talks and Soviet engagement while Bevan loses fight for party treasurer and plans to leave the executive at conference end.
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Scarborough
England
Britain
Labor Party Today
Clement Attlee
Geerman
Attlee
West Germany
United Nations
London
Soviet Union
Germany
Bevan
Hugh Gaitskell
McCarthy Faces Senate Censure Battle Ahead of Reconvening
The article reports Senator McCarthy confronting a possible censure vote when the Senate reconvenes in November. A bipartisan committee urged formal criticism of his conduct, while McCarthy prepares a vigorous defense amid mixed Republican and Democratic sentiment and an uncertain Senate lineup.
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McCarthy
Senate
Wisconsin
F Kennett Willian
The
Chicago Tribune
the Tribune
Williama
Williams
Associated Press
Aper
Arec
Milford Delaware school clash over integration escalates
In Milford Delaware segregationists urged white pupils to stay home as 11 Negro students attend Milford High School amid police presence. Attendance hovered under 80 percent, with one of the 11 Negroes attending briefly before a police escort drove him home. Authorities cite parental fear of violence as a key factor. Across the state line in West Virginia, Four States coal town education boards seek court relief against protests over integration. An Annabelle elementary class opened with 13 Black and 157 white students. white attendance later fell by about half. Across Milford mass meetings, segregationists pressed for a boycott, while NAACP leader Bryant Bowles urged sympathy strikes. Reopening followed a one-week shutdown. calls circulated for ousting the superintendent and principal, with a criminal probe targeting staff.
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Milford
Marion
West Virginia
County Board of Education
Emal
Annabelle
County Board
J. S. Straight
Lincoln
Mannen Warrington
Delaware
National Association For the Advancement of White People
Bryant Bowles
NAACP
Warrington
Ramon C. Dobbs
M. Alexander Glasamire
Spurned suitor fatally shoots rival and wounds woman
Roy Antoine, 55, killed Elmer Thomas, 42, and fatally shot Reuben Benson, 53, as he opened fire outside a home in Iowa County. Patsy Walton, 44, was wounded in the head while Mrs. Hughes escaped unharmed. Antoine had warned Thomas to stay away and pursued marriage with Mrs. Hughes. Walton remained in critical condition at St. Joseph’s Hospital Dodgeville.
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Iowa
Ray Reese
Roy Antoine
Ruth Hughes
Elmer Thomas
Chicago
Reuben Benson
Mineral Point
Antoine
Patsy Walton
Linden
Korean Veterans and Workers Protest U S Troop Withdrawal
About 200 crippled veterans sat in front of the American embassy and 100 others protested at foreign press billets while leaders said 50,000 veterans joined 200,000 labor unionists in major South Korean cities to oppose redeployment of U S troops.
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South Korea
Bert Lytell Dies at 69 in New York Hospital
Prominent stage actor and silent film star Bert Lytell, 69, died at Roosevelt Hospital after a recent operation. He had been hospitalized for 10 days and his illness was not immediately disclosed.
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New York
Bert Lytell
Roosevelt Hospital
Lytell
Finance Officer Elected at Institute Meeting
Frank T. Hodgdon Jr. controller of the Cleveland Plain Dealer and News was elected second vice president of the Institute of Newspaper Controllers and Finance Officers at the group's seventh annual meeting held in Detroit yesterday.
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Detroit
Frank T. Hodgdon Jr
Cleveland Plain Dealer and News
Institute of
French U S Officials Discuss Aid to Troops in Indochina
United States and French diplomats resumed talks on financial aid for French forces still in Indochina. After a two hour session yesterday they issued a joint communique noting a considerable area of agreement on aid terms.
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Washington
United States
Indochina
U. S
Poland Official Flees To U S Asylum, Swiatio Granted
A Polish high security official from the Ministry of Public Security defected and received asylum in the United States. Swiatio, former deputy chief of Department 10, fled from Warsaw last December and later surrendered in the American sector of Berlin. He and his security chief traveled toward East Berlin for talks with East German intelligence before Swiatio disappeared. He is married with two children. his family remained in Warsaw.
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Poland
United States
Tempora Pony! Bn
Keuka
Swiatio
Ministry of Public Security
Warsaw
Justice Department
Brownell
Berlin
East Berlin
Swiatlo
Sone
U. S
Madyna
Manny
Secrest Sworn In as Federal Trade Commissioner
Robert T. Secrest of Ohio’s 15th District was sworn in as a federal trade commissioner for a seven year term appointed by President Eisenhower. The ceremony, attended by about 60 staff and Secrest’s family, included remarks as he began familiarizing with duties. Secrest, a Navy veteran, previously served 1933-1942 and 1949 onward.
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Washington
Robert T. Secrest
Ohio
Sean
Eisenhower Secrest
Senecaville
Harold H. Burton
Supreme Court
Secrest
Virginia
Nancy
Alee
15Th
Max '. Underwood
New Lexington
Underwood
John E. Henderson
Cambridge
Culprit Seeks Leniency in Street Display Window Case
Parker 22 charged with breaking a street display window and stealing merchandise told the judge he was satisfied to do 70 worth of time. Judge Michael J. Manley sentenced five years in the House of Correction considering the defendant's extended criminal record.
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Baltimore
Parker
Michael J. Manley
House of Correction
Quick-Witted Friends Save Companion's Life
In Charleston West Virginia a three year old boy was saved when quick calls and frantic actions drew rescuers to a dangerous fly ash crater formed by deposits from a local chemical plant. Witnesses described the scene as perilous and some bystanders helped free the child.
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Companion
Charleston
W. Ve
Norvella
Gary Snider
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