Port of New York Shuts Down as Longshoremen Back Seamen Strike
In New York Harbor 20,000 longshoremen join a one day work stoppage delaying about 151 ships and halting 100 foreign-flag vessels. Leaders urge backing the six day strike by 85,000 seamen amid West Coast sailings disrupted and passenger liners delayed.
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NEW York
William V. Bradley
International Longshoremen’s Association
Battery Park
Bradley
New York Harbor
San Francisco
Matsma
Lurline
Monterey
Truman TV Series Rejected by Major Networks
TV producer David Susskind testified at an FCC hearing that all three major networks declined a proposed 26 part Truman series. Networks cited concerns about excess presidential content, while Susskind plans to push the project to individual stations. He warned TV programming could worsen next year, calling 1960 a weak year for the medium.
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New York
David Susskind
Harry S. Truman
Susskind
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Truman
Private Eye
Explosion Rips Old Lightpost at Stannard Rock Lighthouse
A Coast Guard cutter reached Stannard Rock lighthouse in Lake Superior to find fire and wreckage after an explosion. Three men were found stranded since Sunday night and a fourth, William Maxwell, was missing. Oscar Daniels Jr. was seriously injured, with two other crew members uninjured. Authorities noted 1100 gallons of gasoline and propane gas fueled the blast.
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Cleveland, Ohio
Coast Guard
Stan Nard Rock
Lake Superior
9Th District
Oscar R. Daniels Jr
Sault Ste. Marie
Coast
Maxwell
Mike O'Brien
O'Brien
Standard Rock
UPI
Judge Awards $1500 for Minor Nose Injury in Navy Hospital Incident
U S District Judge Ted Dalton found government negligence but ruled the injury slight in a Norfolk case. Mrs Eve lyn Holland claimed a Venetian blind fell on her face at Portsmouth Naval Hospital last July, seeking $20000 damages. Her husband Melvin Holland testified humorously about her nose. Medical expert cited a deviated nasal septum. The Hollands presented neighbors who saw no change in her nose. The court awarded $1500 to Mrs Holland.
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Norfolk
U.S
Ted Dalton
Evelyn Holland
Portsmouth Naval Hospital
Melvin W. Holland
Hollands
Defense Council
Dalton
Czechoslovak U N diplomat Miroslav Nacvalac set to depart
News At A Glance reports Miroslav Nacvalac a Czechoslovak U N diplomat accused by the United States as a master spy preparing to leave the country likely today. Arthur Dean top U S negotiator arrives in Washington for Geneva talks. Adlai Stevenson flies to report on South American tour. Three killed in an Ecorse liquid oxygen plant explosion. Nine racially mixed bus riders jailed in Jackson Miss. Kennedy walks ashore from yacht and schedules a news conference next Wednesday. Disarmament negotiators in Washington agree to meet Friday. Senate vetoes Kennedy plan to reorganize the SEC. Anthony Anastasia urges investigation of maritime strike. Edward Yellin fellowship revoked. Khrushchev warns of resuming tests if the U S does.
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U. N
United States
Miroslav Nacvalac
Adlai Stevenson
Washington
Bogota
Colombia
Kennedy
U.N
Amercan
Man
Prague
Kennedy and Ikeda Agree on More Consultation
President Kennedy and Japanese Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda agreed to establish more effective consultations on a range of problems. The leaders spoke at a White House luncheon and during a yacht cruise on the Potomac River. They planned further talks, with over two hours of private discussions already held and another 45 minute session scheduled.
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Washington
Kennedy
Hayato Ikeda
White House
Potomac
W. M. Tucker Dies Following Fort Gay Fall
W M Tucker 56 Bluefield N and W official dies after falling 45 feet from a Fort Gay railroad bridge. He supervised post derailment cleanup of 40 coal cars. Coroner's jury rules death accidental. Tucker active in Bluefield community and Miss Bluefield Peggy Tucker's father.
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Bluefield
Norfolk and Western Railway Company
Fort Gay
Wayne County
W. M. Tucker
Pocahontas Division
Peggy Tucker
Two Women Injured As Car Drops Off Virginia Embankment
A Bluefield woman and a visitor from Washington DC were injured when their car ran off State Route 650 near Graham High School and plunged down an embankment. Mrs. Elsie L. Graham remained in critical condition with internal injuries and lacerations, while Mrs. Jo Ann Waddell was in serious condition with multiple fractures.
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Bluefield
Elsie L. Graham
Parkway
Jo Ann Waddell
Lebanon St
Graham High School
Graham
Waddell
Bluefield Sanitarium
John Mayo
Washington, D. C
Pocahontas Land Co
William R. Graham
201 Parkway
E. L. Waddell
Washington
Tazewell County
Chip Harvey
Fincastle
Dudley Memorial
Khrushchev threatens new Berlin crisis and nuclear tests
Khrushchev used a Kremlin rally to warn that the Soviet Union may sign a separate peace with East Germany and resume nuclear tests if the United States resumes testing. He pressed for a German peace treaty with all Allies, warned West Berlin risks, and challenged Adenauer while asserting East Germany's integrity and a free city status.
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Khrushchev
United States
Moscow
Nikita Khrushchev
Soviet Union
East Germany
Kremlin
West
Jenenier
Kennedy
Germany
Geneva
East Berlin
German Democratic Republic
West Berlin
Vienna
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Mike Mansfield
U. S. Senate
Berlin
Adenauer
Accused Czech Spy to Leave U N Headquarters
Miroslav Nacvalac, a senior Czech mission official, faces expulsion under U S immigration laws and is to depart New York Thursday for Prague. Washington revoked his diplomatic rights and warned of arrest for illegal presence unless he leaves, amid U S charges he paid a U S Army instructor for secret information.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. S
Czechoslovakia
State Department
Miroslav Nacvalac
Nacvalac
Red
Prague
Washington
U.N
U.S.U
Naevalae
New York
United States
U.S
Monterey
Calif
Karel Hlasny
FBI
San Franscisco
Accidental Gun Wound Fatal To Jaeger Boy 13
A 13-year-old McDowell County boy Clarence Andrew Christian died in Welch hospital after a gunshot wound at his Jaeger home. Police say a playmate accidentally fired a .22 rifle in the home. the gun was in the hands of a 13-year-old girl at the time. He is survived by his parents Julius and Lena Bowles Christian and six siblings. Funeral set for Friday at 1 p.m. at the Church of God near Jaeger High School. Burial in Jaeger Memorial Cemetery at Roderfield.
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Williamson N&w
First Baptist Church of
Railway Ymca Board of Directors
Masonic Lodge
Northfork
College Ave
Hazel Powell Tucker
Patricia Tucker
Peggy Tucker
Ida Singleton Tucker
Crewe
Lile Tucker
Dan Moran
Lawrence, Paul
P. C. Tucker
Claude Tucker
Matewan
McDowell County
Welch
Jaeger
Clarence Andrew Christian
Julius
Lena Bowles Christian
Jack Perry
Mansfield
Christian
West
Larry Christian
Bridgeton
N. T
Billy
Oliver
Donald
Gilbert Christian
Jeanette Pritchett
Carol Christian
Church of God
Jaeger High School
Jaeger Memorial
Roderfield
Fanning Funeral Home
Eichmann Says He Is Still Surprised At What Happened
Adolf Eichmann testified in Jerusalem that he viewed himself as a transport cog in the Nazi machine and was surprised by the scale of the extermination. He stressed he handled only train timetables while others carried out deportations and gas chamber deliveries.
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Eichmann
Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
Gestapo
Hitler
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