Payoff Tied to Pittsburgh Newspaper and Union Leader
Senate investigators heard that a Pittsburgh Sun Telegraph official was paid over 100000 dollars across nine years to avert labor troubles. The paper allegedly funded a driver supervisor on payroll to avoid disruption, while a Teamsters Local 211 president invoked the Fifth Amendment in refusal to answer.
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Washington
Senate
Pittsburgh
Teamsters
William J. Poch
Pittsburgh Sun-Telegraph
Theodore Cozza
Cozza
Poch
Senate Labor Management Committee
Robert F. Kennedy
Teamsters Local 211
Sun- Telegraph
Dreamsters Union
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
James R. Hoffa
McClellan
Hoffa
Governor Long Seeks Divorce From Wife Amid Hospital row
Louisiana Governor Ear K. Long filed a separation suit blaming cruelty desertion abandonment and slander as he seeks release from a state mental hospital. The suit filed by attorney J B Nesom before Judge Joe Sanders aims to terminate the governor’s marriage while Mrs Long fled the state last week and remains out of state.
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Louisiana
Ear K. Long
J.B. Nesom
Galveston
Tex
Mandeville
Long
Covington
Welcome for Queen and Philip in Montreal crowd
Queen Elizabeth II and Prince Philip arrive in Montreal for the Seaway opening ceremony amid massive crowds estimated in the hundreds of thousands. The event marks the U S Canada project’s ceremonial start with a 31 mile yacht cruise and a passage through locks raising 224 feet.
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Montreal
Elizabeth II
St. Lawrence Seaway
Eisenhower
Elizabeth
Prince Philip
Philip
Queen
Queen Elizabeth
St. Lawrence
Lake Ontario
Woman Admits Drowning Second Husband for Insurance
A 52-year-old, thrice married woman Helen Rabin Bartlett admitted to police that she held her second husband Alfred Babin’s head under water in a bathtub three years ago. She collected between 30 000 and 69 000 in life insurance and sought more than 100 000 on her current husband Wright Bartlett, 69, prompting investigators. Bartlett, who married in March after a Florida honeymoon, said she wanted to know about insurance to justify caring for an old man. She told police she was glad after the act and was charged with first degree murder.
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Buffalo, N. Y
Helen Rabin Bartlett
Alfred J. Babin
Wright Bartlett
Babin
Helen
Bartlett
Bristol Bridge Collapse Aftermath Claims Bristol Victims
A 63 year old Bristol man dies from injuries suffered June 14 when a suspension bridge tilted during a gospel singing event at Big Stone Gap. Twenty three were injured as an anchor cable snapped dumping attendees into Powell River. Big Stone Gap officials order full probe.
Mother Held On Kidnapping Charge
In Ashland Kentucky police arrested 33 year old Ruby Matthews on kidnapping charges after she allegedly abducted her 4 year old daughter Robin from a Kanawha County foster home at gunpoint. Matthews drove to Huntington and then Ashland intending to flee to Winston Salem North Carolina with the child.
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Ashland
St. Albans
W. Va
Charleston
E. C. Collier
Ruby Matthews
Robin
Huntington
Collier
West Virginia
Winston-Salem
N.C
G. D. Raider
Clyde Worstell
Worstell
New Satellite Attempt Fails To Hit Orbit
The Air Force’s fourth Discoverer satellite rocket failed to reach orbit from Vandenberg. The empty life capsule was to be recovered later by aerial snagging near Hawaii if orbit had been achieved.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Calif
Air Force
Hawaii
Alaska
Arctic
Spitzbergen
Senate OKs Levy Out Measure Faces Action In House
The Senate agreed to end federal taxes on travel and communications but the House may resist. Eight amendments were ready, including sunsetting the 10 percent travel tax August 1 and the 10 percent communications levy July 1 1960, costing 235 and 735 million annually. Johnson pressed for closing tax loopholes and speeding action.
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Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Johnson
Treasury
Finance Committee
Starkweather Ends Crime Career in Electric Chair
Charles Starkweather, 20, was executed by electric chair at 12:05 a.m. after a day of failed appeals. Prison doctor Dr. B A Finkle, 75, died of a heart attack during the procedure. Deputy Warden John Greenholtz and a crowd outside watched as Caril Fugate, now 15, serving a life sentence for the same murders, remained unaware of the execution.
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Lincoln
Neb
Charles Starkweather
Starkweather
B.A. Finkle
John Greenholtz
Dr. Finkle
Greenholtz
Stark
Caril Fugate
Virginia Side Merchant Dies
Jessie S. Gillespie, 67, of 713 Tazewell Avenue, Bluefield, Va., died at Bluefield Sanitarium Thursday night after a week as a patient. He owned and managed the R. P. Harman Company in Bluefield for years and belonged to Graham Christian Church. Survived by wife Brenda Wright Gillespie, son Gillespie Jr. of Richmond, three brothers T W Gillespie Maxwell, R G Gillespie, Mrs Fred Lowe, Mrs James Miller. Funeral arrangements are pending at Dudley Memorial Mortuary in Bluefield.
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Jessie S. Gillespie
Tazewell Avenue
Bluefield
R. P. Harman Company
Graham Christian Church
Brenda Wright Gillespie
Es. Gillespie Jr
Richmond
T. W. Gillesper
Wife Of U S Information Agency Official Slain
Dale Nutter, chief of the USIA finance reports, was shot to death in his Falls Church home. His wife, 49, is charged with murder after allegedly shooting him as he slept at about 5 45 am. She told Detective Cowden a second shot was meant for her but she missed. The home, bought after selling land in Arlington, cost about 90000. Mrs Nutter bonded for 10000 and a July 22 preliminary hearing was set.
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Falls Church
Dale Nutter
U. S. Information Agency
Cowden
Government
Mount Nebo
W. Va
Washington
Nutter
House Appropriations Committee pushes July stopgap bill
The House Appropriations Committee on Thursday recommended a stopgap resolution to fund the government through July amid the usual late June money bill impasse.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Lonely vigil at hilltop grave of young slayer
In Bennet Nebraska during Charles Starkweather execution, Robert Jensen Sr. kept a lone vigil at his son Robert Jensen Jr.'s hilltop grave. Starkweather received the electric chair for the January 1958 murder. Jensen says the act will not bring back his boy or Carol King.
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Bennett
Neb
Charles Starkweather
Robert Jensen Sr
Starkweather
Nebraska
Jensen
Robert Jr
Carol
Carol King
Newspapers Publish Again In St. Louis
In St Louis the daily presses resumed after a 16 day strike by 44 Stereotypers at the Post Dispatch. The morning copy followed, and the Globe, printed under Post contract, shut down earlier. Wages were not the issue. a $10 weekly raise raises top pay to $129, tops nationwide with Detroit.
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ST. Louis
Evening Post Dispatch
Globe
Post
Detroit
Steel strike threat looms as talks stall
The steel industry rejects a union bid to extend contracts to July 15 with retroactive gains and proposes resuming talks Friday at 10 am. The union insists on retroactivity and rejects an indefinite extension. A Wednesday strike remains possible as negotiations continue amid industry shutdowns planned.
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Norman Walker
New York
Althogh
David J. McDonald
McDonald
R. Conrad Cooper
U. S. Steel Corp
Eeee McDonald
Steelworkers’ Executive Board
International
Steel
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Kanawha County Domestic Relations and Juvenile Court
Davis
Bell-Hustler
West Coast
Virginia Side Merchant
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