Senator Case Testifies About Fake Telegram Ties
Washington AP Senator Case SD says a telegram urging support for the gas bill appeared faked and signed by one of his fundraisers. He recounted a later denial by Griffin and urged a full subpoena of all telegrams to verify signers. Case opposed the bill which would exempt gas producers from direct federal price regulation.
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Senator Case
R-S.d
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Nebraska
John M. Neff
John Griffin
Sioux Falls
Griffin
Opal van Horn
Charles W. Steadman
Steadman
Neff
E. J. Kahler
Argus- Leader
Suspect Arson In Blaze at Indian School
Fire at the Mesquakie Indian settlement day school near here caused extensive damage. Sheriff Flynn said evidence pointed to arson with a 50 000 loss. building and contents valued at 125 000. Firefighters under control by 11 a.m. Principal's office breakin cited. investigation aided by state marshal and Indian affairs official. About 120 pupils attend kindergarten through seventh grade.
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Tama
Tama County
F. L. Flynn
Mesquakie
Here
Flynn
Toledo
P. N. Meggers
Herb Davis
Minneapolis
Argonne Lab Director Zinn Resigns Over Contract Row
Walter H. Zinn 49, head of Argonne National Laboratory New York Chicago area, resigns amid dispute over a Midwest Universities Research Association contract. Zinn favored Argonne control and had led the lab for 10 years while on leave from the University of Chicago after helping advance nuclear research.
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INS
Walter H. Zinn
Argonne National Laboratory
Lemont
Atomic Energy Commission
Midwest Universities Research Association
Zinn
AEC
Argonne
University of Chicago
Argonne Laboratory
Manhattan District
Bing Crosby’s Son Cleared In Driving Charge
Phillip Crosby 21 son of Bing Crosby faced a drunk driving charge in Tacoma Washington but the case was dismissed after a blood test showed he was sober at the time of the collision with a pedestrian. Authorities indicated the charge was filed to keep him in the jurisdiction as he prepared to report to an overseas replacement company.
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Tacoma
Phillip Crosby
Bing Crosby
Glad It's All Over Sighs Irvin
Leslie Irvin the Indiana killer known as a homicidal maniac was captured in a San Francisco pawn shop after a nationwide manhunt. He described his cross country flight from a Princeton jail through ten states, cashing two bogus checks, and evading capture for weeks before surrendering meekly.
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San Francisco
Leslie Irvin
Indiana
John O’keefe
Leo T. Ferrogiaro
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Director of Corrections
Princeton
Mt. Carmel
Cairo
Coast to Coast Drive Aimed at Doubling AFL-CIO Membership
AFL-CIO executive council heard a plan from organizing director John W. Livingston to double the 15 million member base within a few years. The proposal includes a multi million dollar financing fund and targets white collar workers including federal state and city employees as well as retail and office workers. Meany and Reuther led a south rally urging unionization.
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Afl-Cio
John W. Livingston
Livingston
United Auto Workers
Aes
George Meany
Walter Reuther
South
Abuse of VA Free Medical Aid Reported
Rep. Teague said GAO found flagrant abuse of free VA medical care for penniless veterans. Cases include a 25 day hospital stay for a high net worth retiree and an affluent farmer, both claiming inability to pay. He may publish names to curb misuse and restore trust in the program.
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Rep
Teague
Texas
Veterans Administration
Ihouse Veterans Affairs Committee
General Accounting Office
GAO
Man Hanged for Slaying of Hunter
Wilbert Coffin, 44, a prospector, was hanged in Montreal for the 1953 slaying of a young American hunter in the Quebec bush. He proclaimed innocence to the end, remaining silent in his final hours with no farewell notes.
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Montreal
Wilbert Coffin
Quebec
Coffin
Senate committee backs soil bank tied farm bill
The Senate Agriculture Committee approved an election-year farm bill linking Eisenhower’s soil bank with rigid 90 percent parity supports for wheat cotton corn rice and peanuts. It adds provisions for dairymen barley and flue-cured tobacco and sets parity by the higher of two formulas. The panel also favors 750 million for soil bank payments and 350 million for a conservation reserve with 80 percent parity for milk butter and cheese.
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Senate Agriculture Committee
Eisenhower
Soil Bank
Ellender
D-Law
Senate
Benson
House
Tuesday Meeting Set Over Garbage Dispute In Cedar Rapids
Cedar Rapids officials say garbage pickup will not resume before Tuesday at the earliest. Mayor Jim Meaghan noted a council session is planned after talks with UAW CIO spokesman Lloyd Ferris and sanitation workers idle since Monday.
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Jim Meaghan
Lloyd Ferris
UAW Cio
M. A. Halvorson
Carl Smith
Richard Carlyle
Ames
City Engineers of Iowa
Iowa Chapter of
Public Works Officials
Meaghan
Ferris
Gazette
Nutter Sentenced to Death for Independence Policeman Killing
An 18 year old Illinois youth, Warren Jack Nutter of Freeport, was sentenced to hang for the murder of Independence Patrolman Harold Pearce, 52, on January 5. Judge Shannon B. Charlton declared the death penalty and ordered confinement on death row at Fort Madison pending execution on February 18, 1957. Nutter pled guilty to first degree murder after a brief hearing. his co defendants were later rounded up as the getaway group.
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Gazette
Tom Merryman
Warren Jack Nutter
Freeport
Ill
Independence
Harold Pearce
Nutter
Buchanan County
Ray Moline
Illinois
Iowa
Warren
Jack” Nutter
State Parole Board
Associated Press
Des Moines
Towa
Shannon B. Charlton
Manchester
Edith [Schoop
Charlton
Lehti Declines Re election To Cedar Rapids School Board
Cedar Rapids into a March 12 election with Lehti not seeking another term leaving at least one new member. Chairman Kesler undecided about seeking re election while treasurer Pratt signals likely candidacy. Nominations may be filed at the board of education building.
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Cedar Rapids News
David W. Lehti
Cedar Rapids
Carl C. Kesler
Lehti
Kesler
Board of Education
E. W. Lundquist
Everett C. Pratt
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