Robeson Contempt Cited By House Un American Committee
The House Committee on Un American Activities moves to cite Paul Robeson for contempt after a heated session in which Robeson called the panel “bad Americans” and refused to answer some questions. Chairman Walter adjourned the hearing amid a table banging exchange, with action to be ratified or sent to the full House for a contempt vote.
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Washington
House Committee On ‘UN
Walter
Robeson
Sen
Eastland
D-Miss
Soviet Union
Communist Party
SediNthea
Dulles
Joseph Stalin
Russia
America
Rutgers University
Paris
Moscow
Jackie Robinson
Hagerty
Eisenhower
Paul M. Butler
Chicago
White House
I Iless
Butler
Denver
North South Route Hinges on Senate Highway Amendment
Washington June 12 West Virginia’s north south route depends on retaining a Senate provision in the federal highway bill. The Senate allotted 2 500 extra miles beyond 40 000 total. Rep Byrd says West Virginia officials and delegation hope the amendment is adopted by conference. He expects House support.
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Washington
West Virginia
Senate
Byrd
D-Wve
Congressional
Gunman Steals 66 Thousand From Southport Bank
A lean soft spoken gunman kidnapped the Southport State Bank president and his wife and looted the bank of 66 546. He held 16 captives until the vault opened at 9 a.m. then fled in a waiting car abandoning a $2 bill and leaving authorities with the biggest Indiana bank robbery in years.
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Indiana
Southport
Ind
Southport State Bank
Whalen
Ruth N. Drake
Automaei
Indianapolis
Precautions For Radiation Warned By National Academy
The National Academy of Sciences urged two hereditary precautions to curb radiation risk in the atomic age. It called for a national lifetime exposure record for every American and limits on man made radiation reaching reproductive organs. The report warns any increase in worldwide testing would raise genetic hazard and notes future radioactive waste from power plants could threaten the environment if not controlled.
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Frank Carey
Associated Press
Ashington
National Academy of Sciences
Academy
Air Force Pool Plan Faces House Opposition
Washington June 12 Funds totaling 62 million dollars for Air Force recreational facilities including 5,767,000 for swimming pools meet resistance in the House Appropriations Committee. Rep Scrivner questions need and notes many taxpayers lack pools and morale not linked to pool access.
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Washington
Air Force
House Appropriations Committee
Rep
Scrivner
R-Kan
Scrivmer
Kansas
Nation's Apple Crop Estimated At 85 Million Bushels
Apple growers from 35 states at the National Apple Institute meeting in Atlantic City estimate the 1956 crop at about 84.8 million to 85 million bushels, down from 105.3 million in 1955. The guesstimate reflects a drop of over 20 million bushels year over year.
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Atlantic City
N. J
National Apple Institute
Shopper Recovers Lost Money After Store Mix Up
Toronto reports Paul Binneau a machine operator found a bundle totaling 18000 dollars missing from a Gordon Weinberg store box. He returned the cash and checks split 11000 cash and 7000 checks. Weinberg gave his wife a gift in apology.
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Toronto
Paul Binneau
Gordon Weinberg
Binneau
Weinberg
Brooklyn cave in kills six children during reckless play
In Williamsburg Brooklyn a 25 foot expressway trench collapsed as a dozen children played cowboys and Indians. Six four boys and two girls aged 5 to 10 died buried under sand. a seventh child was hospitalized in critical condition. Two victims were siblings. Police and fire crews searched for hours as neighbors watched.
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New York
Brooklyn
Greenpoint Hospital
Williamsburg
Tomate Aioe Palins
Ohare
Caress
Ilamaburg
Williamsburg Bridge
Low- Manhattan
John William McKenzie
John T. Kotov
Anna Ortiz
Louis Nitti
Lorraine Penne A
Michael
Anatoli Bykov
States Wildcat Strike Appears Over FAIRMONT
Northern West Virginia's wildcat coal strike seems ended with all 33 mines back in operation. In Harrison County Williams No. 98 mine led the return to work after a May 24 dispute over roof busting machine manning. A Williams committee will meet with Vase Mine Workers President John L Lewis in Washington to discuss grievances.
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Fairmont
West Virginia
Wildcat
Monongalia
Marion
Harrison
Barbour
UMW
Williams
Harrison County
Resi
Icee Consolidation Coal Co
W. Va
Vase Mine
John L Lewis
Washington
Lewis
International
Compass Coal Corp
UM/ District 31
Cecil J. Urbaniak
President Appeals From Sick Bed On Foreign Aid Funds
Sen. George of Georgia pushed to restore part of the foreign aid cuts after President Eisenhower, ill in hospital, urged in Washington for relief of the House reductions.
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Washington
Sen
George
D-Ga
Eisenhower
House
Eisenhower seeks partial restoration of foreign aid funds
President Eisenhower, hospitalized after abdominal surgery, urged Congress to restore part of the foreign aid funds cut by the House. White House aides indicated a cautious approach, with some support for adding about 600 million dollars, while Radford and Senate leaders debated the scope and timing of any restoration.
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Secion
Senate
Lyndon Mson
D-Tex
GOP
William Knowland
R-Calif
White House
Administration
George
Eisenhower
Sherman Adams
Army
Walter Reed Hospital
James C. Hagerty
House
Hagerty
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Washington
Walter Reed
Congress
Panama City
Adm
Arthur W. Radford
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Russell
Senate Armed Services Committee
Can
Radford
Adams
Dulles
John
Techata
Ignites B Johnson
Texas
Knowland
California
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Sens. Long
D-La
Byrd
D-Va
Steelworkers Board Receives Contract Report
The executive board meeting at the Roosevelt Hotel reviewed progress as negotiations began a week ago. The unions and the Big Three steel firms Bethlehem, Steel and Repub lic plan counter offers starting tomorrow. A union spokesman said the four-man negotiating team briefed the board on events to date.
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Steel
Bethlehem
Repub
Roosevelt Hotel
Fallout From H-Bomb Not Dangerous Now
London report by Medical Research Council says current fallout dangers are negligible. It warns that higher H-bomb tests could, within the lifetime of some living, produce ill effects in a small portion of the population. Prime Minister Eden requested the committee last March due to public concern.
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London
Medical Research Council
Eden
Private Dinner Turns Out Not So Private
Danville Virginia June 12 a hotel manager Robert Purdum planned a quiet dinner in his Apartment at the Hotel Burton Charcoal steaks cooked in a window drew a passerby who alerted the Fire Department Engines arrived but Purdum kept cooking after firefighters left and finished his meal elsewhere.
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Danville
Robert Purdum
Purdum
Burton
Main Street
T S Eliot Reported Doing Very Nicely
London report says T S Eliot was described as doing very nicely after an attack aboard the Queen Mary. The note cites his condition and the incident details remain uncertain from the brief dispatch.
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T. S. Eliot
London
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Idaho
James Y. Horton
Seattle Pacific College
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Milwaukee
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