Brownell resigns as attorney general amid Little Rock crisis
Brownell leaves the cabinet to return to private law practice. He defends his role in federalizing Arkansas National Guard and sending federal troops to Little Rock Central High. President Eisenhower expresses deep regret while noting Brownell’s long tenure as attorney general.
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Eisenhower
Brownell
Congress
Little Rock
Rogers
McNamara
D-Mich
Capitol Hill
Homer Cummings
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Mrs. Mary Barra Hurt In Auto Crash
Mrs. Mary Barra, 46, of 329 Eisenhower View avenue, suffered possible head injuries when the car she was riding in collided with another vehicle at Main and Goodsell streets. She was treated at the scene by Dr. Telamo Sato and later taken to St Vincent's hospital for observation.
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Telamo Sato
Rogers
Norfolk, N
Colgate
Rogers tied to past with Dewey and political adviser links
Adele Langston of Wenonah N T recalls 1936 schooling. The Rogerses have four children. Tie White Dewey Rogers, age 44, is nine years younger than Brownell and shares a past tie with Dewey. In 1938 he became assistant district attorney in New York County under Dewey. Rogers is a lawyer and political strategist, counted among Nixon's chief advisers in the 1952 campaign.
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Adele Langston
Wenonah
N.T
Rogerses
Dewey Rogers
Brownell
Dewey
New York County
Rogers
Nixon
Spy Trial Testimony Highlights New York Court Proceedings
Testimony in the New York spy trial centers on Hayhanen’s defection and Abel’s arrest after a Russian espionage network links. Roy Rhodes, an Army Master Sgt., admits spying for Russia from 1951 to 1953 while employed at the U.S. embassy in Moscow. He says no contact with Abel since return.
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Hayhanen
West
Roy Rhodes
Red Link
New York City
Connecticut
Rhodes
Russia
Byram River
U.S
Moscow
Thn
Governor Ribicoff Praises Turnpike Workers on Bridge Tour
Governor Ribicoff toured the Quinnipiac river bridge with New Haven ironworkers and city mayors praising the project. Workers like Pat Consiglio plan a Thanksgiving bridge party and expect completion soon. Mayors from Bridgeport Norwalk Stamford echoed the road’s value for commerce and development.
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Pat Consiglio
New Haven
Quinnipiac River
Johnny O'Shea
Mr. O'Shea
Wwe Cane
Amalactios
McLevy
Bridgeport
George R. Brunjes
Norwalk
Thomas F. J. Quigley
Stamford
Ribicoff
Argraves
Edward J. Troy, Architect, Dies at 68 in Bridgeport
Edward J. Troy age 68 of 804 Laurel Avenue died yesterday at 6 40 p m in Bridgeport Hospital after admission October 10. Services to be announced by Dillon and Collins Funeral Home Stratford. Survived by wife Frances M. Troy.
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Edward J. Troy
Laurel Avenue
Bridgeport Hospital
Dillon and Collins Funeral
Stratford Avenue
Stratford
Frances M. Troy
Plane overruns runway injures none in heavy rain
Capitol Airlines DC 4 en route from Detroit to Chicago skids off a wet runway at Lansing airport. Four crew and 35 passengers escape with no injuries as the aircraft slides into a muddy area after the main gear sinks in.
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Irwin E. Friedman
Fairfield
Connecticut Civil Rights Commission
Elmo Roper
Redding
Frank P. Simpson
Commission
Hartford
Friedman
Alien F. Jackson
Roper
Civil Rights Commission
Raymond E. Baldwin
Joseph M. Griffin
Meriden
Ralph
Wm. Goglia
West Haven
David N. Beach
New Haven
Allen F. Jackson
Cotter
Lansing
Mich
Marshall
Ray A
Capitol Airlines
Reeek Ar
Rere Eanrs Eran Neees
Chicago
Turnpike Work Nearing Finish Except in City
Killingly reports progress on the 129 mile route with one ring due by January in upstate segments. At the Greenwich end the temporary terminus will be at Leohard Avenue near Cos Cob station as NYS delays bridge crossings and five miles of the New England Thruway until December.
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Killingly
Upstate
Greenwich
Leohard
Anti-Union Plot Denied at Probe
The committee investigated an un sworn statement about Shefferman hiding in Canada to block testimony at NLRB hearings on Marion plant practices. McClellan called the claim a fugitive tale while Continental Baking officials denied slanders and urged fairness in the inquiry.
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Shefferman
Canada
Checov
NLRB
Marion
McClellan
Iig
George Faunce Jr
Continental Baking Company
Continental
Bakery Workers Union
Campaign Gifts Push Fund Total Toward $700000
Large sums were reported at yesterday's United Fund meeting with gifts from D M Read company Manning Maxwell Moore Stratford and others. Major gifts included $9 051 from the Read firm and employees $17 700 for 1957 from M M M including $11 000 company and $6 700 employees. Other sizable contributions came from Bryant Electric $18 000 and Warner Brothers $11 000 total. The meeting also noted many smaller gifts from diverse Connecticut firms and employees, with leadership from Stratford hotel host and Rabbinic and corporate speakers.
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D. M. Read Company
Manning, Maxwell and Moore, Inc
Stratford
Sidney Reisman
MMM
Bryant Electric Company
Warner Brothers Company
Red Star Company
Merit
Johnson Manufacturing Company
Hollander Metal Products Corporation
Continental Baking Company
Connecticut Cake Sales
Buckley Brothers
People’s Saving Bank
Post Publishing Company
Bridgeport Hydraulic Company
Southern New England Telephone Company
Lederer’s
Bullard Company
Detroit Controls
H. G. Davis, Inc
Leake and Nelson Company
Harvey Hubbell, Inc
la Resista Corset Company
Mitchell Brothers
Globe Tapping Machine Company
Davis Tool and Manufacturing, Inc
Raine
Stratfield Hotel
Max N. Schreier
Congregation Ahavath Achim
James R. ‘Kerr
Lycoming
Avco Manufacturing ‘ Corporation
Flu Season Events Highlight United Fund Meeting
Reports from vision captains at yesterday's meeting show progress toward quotas across multiple sectors. Residential leader Mrs. Charles H. Merritt reports 48.4 percent of a 57 680 goal, while public service chair I Robert M. Shultz notes 56.7 percent of 26 855 and educational head Miss Augusta Mendel records 69.1 percent of 23 345 toward their dates.
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Jat
Charles H. Merritt
Saul Lichtenstein
Norman K. Parsells
M. W. Ried
Industrial
Alexander Hawley
I. Robert M. Shultz
Public Service
Augusta Mendel
Educational
Charles R. Patterson
Stratford
C. Philip Epifano
Robert McLevy
UAC Unit Awarded Convair Contract
The Convair 880 transport will receive an air conditioning system from Hamilton Standard division of United Aircraft Corp for over two million dollars. A.W. Morgan of Convair General Dynamics said the system will supply conditioned air to the passenger cabin and flight deck. Hamilton Standard begins delivering equipment for the first 48 Convair 880s in March 1958 with airline deliveries set for November 1959.
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Calif
Hamilton Standard Division
United Aircraft Corp
Windsor Locks
Conn
Convair Today
A.W. Morgan
Convair
General Dynamics Corp
Hamilton Standard Will Beign
Richards, Litchfield official, dies at 50
Charles A. Richards, 50, longtime Litchfield selectman and town employee, died in Waterbury hospital. He leaves his mother and stepfather, wife, two sons, two daughters, three brothers and two sisters. Services set for Saturday at Northfield Congregational Church in Litchfield. Alma Gregory of Washbank, South Africa, became Mrs Jamie du Plessis in a bridal dress made of 72 yards of lace.
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Waterbury
Charles A. Richards
Litchfield
Waterbury Hospital
Board of Selectmen
Richards
Northfield Congregational Church
Alma Gregory
Washbank
South Africa
Jamie du Plessis
Jace
Vanguard Rockets Soar in 109 Mile Sky Test
Vanguard test flights report high altitude and speed with Test Vehicle Zero reaching 125 miles and 4,000 mph in a 180 mile run last December. Test Vehicle One followed May 1 in a high altitude split using a Viking first stage and a redium second stage. Four more shots TV3 TV6 are planned in December as news limits ease. Suns Sputnik circles Earth 277 times by noon Moscow time, 7.2 million miles, prompting questions on solar radiation recharging its radio batteries.
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Vanguard
Viking
TV3
TV6
Defense Department
Washington
Patrick Air Force Base
Florida
Moscow
Sputnik
Earth
Moon
USS
Trumbull Probe Expands Into Town Court Funds Handling
Willis informs Judge Devlin that auditors’ report on Town court funds for the last fiscal year ending June 30 has been turned over. Judge Pickett awaits formal notification as a one man grand jury is to be appointed before scheduling hearings. He previously led a one man grand jury in a Westport police officer case tied to CT turnpike contractors.
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Willis
Devlin
Pickett
Westport
Connecticut
Fire kills four children in California mobile home blaze
In San Jacinto California a pre-dawn fire gutted a frame house killing Barbara Brands two Carolyn Brands four and Connie Lynne Brands five all siblings of Sharon Brands six and daughters of Fred and Mrs. Brands The aunt Mrs Carl Harris and others survived after smoke woke them and helped two children escape. investigators linked the blaze to a cigarette on a couch.
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San Jacinto
Calif
Colorado
Carl Harris
Sharon Brands
Barbara Lee Brands
Carolyn
Connie Lynne
Fred Brands
Harris
Walden
Colo
Abe Lyman, Famed Bandleader, Dies at 59 in Beverly Hills
Abe Lyman died at his Beverly Hills home aged 59 after a cancer battle. A Chicago native, he began drumming in 1916 and moved to Los Angeles in 1918. With Gus Arnheim he opened the Ambassador Cocoa Nut Grove, later leading a band that toured the U.S. and Europe and appeared on radio and film. He wrote songs like Mary Lou I Cried for You and After I Say I'm Sorry, achieving major popularity in the late 1920s and early 1930s.
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Calif
Abe Lyman
Chicago
Los Angeles
Gus Arnheim
Ambassador Hotel
Cocoanut Grove
United States
Europe
Lyman
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