Supreme Court narrows union dues use in politics
The high court ruled that union dues cannot be spent on political aims opposing a member’s wishes while upholding the union shop. The decision, split 5-4, addressed Railway Labor Act provisions and Georgia court findings, with justices Brennan Warren Douglas Clark and Stewart in the majority and Black Frankfurter dissenting.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Thruston B. Morton
R-Ky
National Right-to-Work Committee
Georgia
Southern Railway
Georgia Supreme Court
U.S. Supreme Court
Brennan
Agreemnet
Earl Warren
William C. Douglas
Tom Co. Clark
Potter Stewart
Hugo Black
Felix Frankfurter
John M. Harlan
Frankfurter
Charles E. Whittaker
Fidel Castro’s Tractor Offer Rejected by Detroit Group
The Tractors for Freedom Committee in Detroit rejects Castro’s terms for freeing 1,200 rebels. It maintains an offer of 500 tractors worth 28 million dollars, insisting only farm tractors be sent and setting a Friday deadline for Castro’s reply. The panel led by Walter Reuther Eleanor Roosevelt and Milton Eisenhower issued the cable from Detroit.
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Detroit
Tractors For Freedom Committee
Fidel Castro
Castro
Havana
Walter Reuther
Eleanor Roosevelt
Milton Eisenhower
Cuba
Supreme Court rules illegally obtained evidence admissible in state courts
The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 that evidence obtained illegally may not be used in state prosecutions, overturning a 1949 federal precedent. The decision, delivered during a busy session, also touched on birth control and religious tests for public office, with Justices Frankfurter Clark Whittaker Brennan Black Harlan Stewart and Douglas in majority and dissenters named.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Paige Sellar
Qhem
Connecticut
Felix Frankfurter
Earl Warren
Tom C. Clark
Charles E. Whittaker
Frankfurter
William J. Brennan Jr
Hugo Black
Harlan, Stewart
William C. Douglas
Roy R. Torcaso
Wheaton
Black
Appellant
Torcaso
Laos Princes Push to Oust Premier in Unity Talks
In Zurich three Lao princes press Premier Boun Oum to quit as part of a national unity government amid civil conflict. Souvanna Phouma and Souphanouvong back the move. Boun Oum hints at retirement to seek national reconciliation.
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Zurich
Switzerland
Laos
Boun Oum
Souvanna Phouma
Souphanouvong
Pathet Lao
Boum Oum
U.S. and Soviet Open Talks on Disarmament Resumption
U.S. and Soviet representatives began discussions at the State Department aiming to resume general disarmament negotiations halted a year earlier. The sides diverge over agenda, with the U.S. seeking procedural issues and the Soviets pressing for substantive topics including Khrushchev's nuclear test ban proposal.
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Washington
United States
Soviet Union
Geneva
U.S
Valerian A. Zorin
State Department
John J. McCloy
Kennedy
McCloy
Chev
Kennedy defends cost of protecting Freedom Riders
Atty Gen Kennedy told a Senate subcommittee the government spent 225000 for travel and overtime of special deputy marshals sent to Alabama after local law enforcement broke down. He noted the riders faced no difficulties in Louisiana and praised Louisiana officials for handling the situation.
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Washington
Robert F. Kennedy
Alabama
Freedom Riders
Kennedy
Senate Appropriations
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
Justice Department
Son
Allen J. Ellender
D-La
Ellender
Louisiana
ACLU Opposes Kennedy Fifth Amendment Immunity Push
The ACLU oppose Kennedy requests for new power to compel testimony from witnesses invoking the Fifth Amendment. Lawrence Speiser says the authority would undercut the Constitution though not claiming it unconstitutional. Kennedy seeks immunity in exchange for testimony in labor racketeering and gambling cases and has proposed seven bills aimed at fighting organized crime. AT&T official Hansenelman urges stronger penalties for sharing gambling information and protection for carriers who refuse service to suspected gamblers.
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Washington
American Civil Liberties Union
Atty
Robert F. Kennedy
Lawrence Speiser
Union
Senate Judiciary
Kennedy
Speiser
Congress
John J. Hanselman
American Telephone & Telegraph Co
Telephone and Telegraph
Jeff Chandler Rites Attended By 1200
Hollywood actor Jeff Chandler was buried Monday after Jewish rites attended by about 1200 people, many outside the temple. The 42 year old star died Saturday from blood poisoning after a five week hospital stay and a single emergency operation that lasted seven hours and required 55 pints of blood.
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Hollywood
Jeff Chandler
Temple
State's 98th Birthday Closures Proclaimed in West Virginia
Charleston AP reports state offices close for West Virginia Day celebrating the state's 98th birthday. Except the Motor Vehicles Department and Supreme Court, all offices shut. banks liquor stores and county city offices also close. Federal offices stay open. Governor Barron will testify in Washington on youth conservation corps and youth opportunities act.
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Charleston
Motor Vehicles Department
Supreme Court
West Virginia
Merous County
Barron
Washington
Senate
Youth Conservation Corps
Striking Seamen Block Oil Supplies Across U.S.
Striking seamen picketed shores hoping to choke oil flow as refinery work stoppages spread from Houston to Bayonne. About 100 ships tied up in 30 ports amid a multi-union walkout over crew rights, while some refineries faced shut downs and truck deliveries risk delays.
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New York
Houston
Tex
Sinclair Oil
Gulf Coast
Bayonne
N.J
Texaco
Maritime
Anacortes, Wash
Boston
Chelsea
Oil, Chemical ,and Atomic Workers Union
Teamsters Union
Atlantic
Mobile
New Orleans
Seattle
Pacific
Buchanan Man Shot In Chest In Domestic Quarrel
James Dotson of Roseann Virginia was listed in very critical condition with a .38 caliber gunshot wound to the chest after his wife Janet Dotson fired at him at their home about 6 30 p m He was paralyzed from the waist down Sheriff Burl Riffe said Janet Dotson was admitted for shock and the investigation by Deputies Everett Justice Tom Potter and the sheriff continues.
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Buchanan County
Grundy, Va
Buchanan
Burl Riffe
James Dotson
Roseann
Riffe
Janet Dotson
Grundy Hospital
Tractors for Freedom Rejected Terms in Castro Talks
The tractors for freedom committee rejected Fidel Castro's latest terms and restated its original offer. A federal grand jury in Washington indicted former U S Diplomat Irvin Scarbeck on a charge of giving classified information to Poland. Adolf Eichmann prepared to take the stand in his own defense when his trial resumes in Jerusalem today.
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Tractors For Freedom Committee
Fidel Castro
Washington
U. S
Irvin Scarbeck
Poland
Adolf Eichmann
Jerusalem
ICC Rejects NYC Rail Bid
New York Central Railroad Co faced a hearing to delay ICC reevaluation of East Coast railroad alignments. Central contended Chesapeake & Ohio seeks control of Baltimore & Ohio through a faulty application. The examiner ordered the hearing to continue despite Central requests to suspend.
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ICC
NYC Rail
Washington
New York Central Railroad Co
Interstate Commerce Commission
East
Central
Chesapeake & Ohio Railway
Baltimore & Ohio Railroad
John L. Bradford
C&o
B&o
Charges Dismissed Against Hazen Fair
In Kanawha County Court, former State Police Superintendent Hazen Fair had a charge of false swearing dismissed after Prosecutor Charles M. Walker cited two prior hung juries. The misdemeanor stemmed from Fair’s testimony about not authorizing a deal that spared a female state employee from prosecution over a $689 shortage.
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Charleston
Hazen Fair
Kanawha ‘County
Charles M. Walker
Walker
Fair
Kanawha County
Five Day Forecast Temperatures Slightly Below Normal
The forecast calls for Monday night through Saturday to run 2 to 3 degrees below normal lows of 55 in the north and 62 in the south and highs of 81 north and 86 south. Expect warm Tuesday with cooler conditions Wednesday through Saturday. Thunder showers possible Tuesday afternoon and night and again toward the weekend, totaling about half an inch.
Eichmann Defense Set to Open in Jerusalem Trial
Adolf Eichmann begins his defense in Jerusalem as the prosecutor submits remaining documents. The 55 year old ex Gestapo official faces charges of organizing the murder of six million Jews in the Nazi genocide. The defense aims to show his role was transport not execution and he plans to question prosecution evidence over eight days.
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Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
Europe
Gideon Housner
Eichmann
Robert Servaetius
Servatius
Jawohl
Gestapo
Budapest
Auschwitz
Israel
Argentina
Heinrich Hinwaler
Minow urges FCC to regulate networks for public interest
FCC chairman Newton Minow called for direct regulation of television networks to ensure stations operate in the public interest. He criticized much children’s programming as wasteful and urged Congress to authorize rules governing network policies and practices affecting licensee operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Newton D. Mineow
Telesvision
Minow
Commission
Congress
Virginian Rider Reaches Raleigh on Civil War Trek
Fred Williams, age 50 from Roanoke, rides a Confederate-flag bearing horse named Stonewall from Charleston to Manassas as part of a Civil War Centennial observance. He paused at the North Carolina state capital grounds in Raleigh before continuing toward the July 22 23 Bull Run reenactment with pistols rifle and sword.
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Raleigh, N. C
Charleston
S. C
Manassas
Raleigh
Stonewall
Fred Williams
Steed
Capitol
Apex
Bull Run
Williams
Roanoke
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Zorin
Khrush
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UPI
ACLU
By Arthur Everett
O. A. Knight
OCAW
Shippers
National Maritime Union
Seafarers Union
Masters, Mates and Pilots Union
Marine Engineers Union
Pursers Union
Everett Justice
Tom Potter
High Tribunal
Federal Aviation Agency
Hawaii
McDowell County
The
State Health Department
Counter Intelligence Agency
Women’s National Press Club
Jessie Stearns Buscher
Columbus Dispatch
CIA
Allen Dulles
Ruth Hagg
ABC
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Barbara Kober
Hearst Newspapers
Nancy Hanschaman
CBS
Patty Cavin
NBC
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