Sanctions prospects clouded by Middle East talks and U.N. role
Reports from New York and Jerusalem describe a slowing push for U.N. sanctions against Israel as Dulles and Eban pursue a possible settlement on Gaza and Aqaba. Israel appears ready to cede control while seeking U.N. administration and to avoid Egyptian movement in the area. Macmillan and Western leaders press for U.N. responsibility while opposing sanctions.
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Abba Eban
Hammarskjold
New York
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Gaza Strip
Gulf of Aqaba
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Strip
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Aqaba Gulf
Senate
Dulles
Eisenhower
Middle East
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Cairo
Egypt
Syria
Saudi Arabia
Jordan
Monona Crash Kills Woman Injuries Five
A Clayton woman, Louise Weldy, 39, was killed in a two car collision six miles southeast of Monona on highways 1352. Navalle Egelsever, 28, and two passengers in the Weldy car were injured along with Donald Walters and his wife. Walters, married in Elkader, was en route on their wedding trip. The accident prompted Sheriff Forrest Fischer and Patrolman Bob Janet to investigate as Iowa’s weekend toll reached 88 deaths for 1957.
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Clayton
Louise Weldy
Prairie du Chien
Wis
Donald Walters
Onslow
Mrs. Walters
Elkader
Wisconsin
Egelsever
Iowa
Mary Lou Wilkinson
Ponca
Neb
Danbury
Genevieve Jensen
Plymouth
Great Western
Des Moines
Woodbury County
Government opens major probe into union welfare funds
The Justice Department launched its first major investigation into alleged scandals in union welfare funds. The open session grand jury met in Chicago as Sam J. Byers, president of the Laundry Workers' International Union, testified as a trustee of the fund. The probe follows past Senate charges of plunder and embezzlements.
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INS
Justice Department
Chicago
Sam J. Byers
Laundry Workers’ International Union
Byers
Senate
Smothers Trial Opens On Manslaughter Charge
A Kansas youth T H Smothers goes on trial in Linn county district court for manslaughter in a July highway crash near Covington that killed Cedar Rapids residents Glen Brown and his family. Jury selection occupied Monday with four days expected for the trial.
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Linn County
T. H. Smothers
Cedar Rapids
Highway 74
Covington
Richard Nazette
James Bromwell
Maurice Nathanson
Smothers
Glen Brown
Glen, Jr
J. E. Heiserman
Open Letter Thanks Lone Pilot for Saving Farm Family
Locust Grove Georgia United Press report describes Elbert and Betty Seabolt and their three year old son Joseph escaping a blazing four room home after a plane buzzed low and awakened them. The unnamed aviator’s daring is credited with saving their lives though the pilot’s identity remains unknown.
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Elbert
Betty Seabolt
Seabolts
Joseph
Aviator
Woll resigns as Teamsters general counsel on eve of probe
J Al bert Woll resigned Monday as general counsel for the Teamsters union before a congressional investigation into the union. He told reporters he submitted the resignation in a letter to Union President Dave Beck. Woll also serves as AFL CIO general counsel and provides legal work for other labor groups amid pressure to quit either post.
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Washington
J. Albert Woll
Teamsters Union
Woll
Dave Beck
Teamsters
Afl-Cio
Afl-Cio Post
Moran Dies in Federal Prison at Leavenworth
George C. Buggs Moran, 64, a Chicago Prohibition era gangster, died Monday in federal prison at Leavenworth of lung cancer. He had been brought there last month to serve a 10 year bank burglary sentence from Ansonia Ohio and had completed a 10 year Ohio robbery sentence last year. Moran led a Chicago liquor and gambling gang. several lieutenants were slain in the 1929 Valentine Day massacre.
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George C. “Buggs” Moran
Chicago
Moran
Ansonio
Ohio
Ohio Penitentiary
Pro Football Declared Subject to Anti Trust Laws
The Supreme Court ruled professional football is subject to anti trust laws in a 6 3 decision led by Justice Clark. The ruling comes on appeal by former Southern California star William Radovich and follows the 1953 Baseball exemption.
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Washington
Supreme Court
Clark
William Radovich
Eisenhower urges Middle East aid to curb communism
President Eisenhower, in a Voice of America address marking its 15th anniversary, urged Middle East nations to build economies and institutions and cited a US anti-communist program. He called for congressional approval of economic aid and potential American troop use if needed, while backing UN methods to resolve disputes and referencing Suez fallout.
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Eisenhower
Voice of America
Congress
Middle East
U.N
U.S
Formation of Iowa Safety Council set
NEVADA IA AP Formation of a new Iowa Safety Council to promote a statewide public membership and a scientific approach to traffic accident prevention was announced by temporary chairman John Hattery. The first statewide meeting is planned for March 5 in Des Moines.
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Iowa Safety Council
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Hattery
State Highway Patrol
Chicago
Northwestern Bell Telece Company
Despines
Bryan Connell
Q. E. Thornburg
Des Moines
Iowa
Russell I. Brown
Thestate Safety Education Division
Eisenhower Nominates Houghton Envoy to France and Three Other Ambassadors
President Eisenhower named Amory Houghton to be ambassador to France replacing C. Douglas Dillon. He also nominated David Bruce as ambassador to West Germany and William Sebald as ambassador to Australia. John A. Perkins was sent to the Senate as under secretary of health education and welfare.
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Eisenhower
Amory Houghton
The
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France
David K. E. Bruce
West Germany
William J. Sebald
Australia
Senate
John A. Perkins
Uni
Versity
Delaware
Houghton
C. Douglas Dillon
Paris
Bruce
James B. Conant
Sebald
Douglas Moffat
State Department
Dairy Farmers Launch Boycott in Tri-State Area
Dairy farmers in northern New Jersey and adjacent New York and Pennsylvania areas began withholding raw milk from creameries to protest prices. Led by Rev. John W. Dorney of the Tri-State Master Dairy Farmers Guild, the effort aims to enroll up to 8,500 farmers. About 45,000 dairy farmers feed milk distributors in the New York metropolitan milk shed.
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New York
Pennsylvania
John W. Dorney
Tri-State
Master Dairy Farmers Guild
Floyd R. Hoffman
New Jersey Agriculture Department
Henry Cabot Lodge Drops Jr From U.N. Title
The chief U.S. delegate to the United Nations will be known as Henry Cabot Lodge, dropping the junior from his birth name. He was named for his grandfather, a Massachusetts senator, while his father was George Cabot Lodge.
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U. S
U. N
Henry Cabot Lodge
Lodge
Massachusetts
George Cabot Lodge
Extension of Wage Floor Law Is Urged
Washington AP The administration urged expanding federal minimum wage coverage to about 2.5 million more workers mainly in stores. Secretary of Labor Mitchell proposed including employers with at least 1 million dollars in annual business and 100 or more employees, without raising the minimum or overtime terms. The plan would cover large chain stores, giant department stores, city transit workers, telephone staff, seamen, hotel employees, taxi firms, and about 100 construction firms, while keeping the existing interstate commerce definition. AFL-CIO has urged extending coverage to about 10 million of the 20 million currently excluded.
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Mongay
Secretary of Labor
Mitchell
Senate Labor
Afl-Cio
Congress
West Coast floods force thousands from homes as storms rise
Torrential rains and alpine melting snow swollen rivers across Oregon and California. 1,500 in Yale and 150 in Enterprise evacuated. floodwaters locked U S 101. fog and rain disrupted Los Angeles and San Francisco airports. Pan Am flight Honolulu to San Francisco set a record time of six hours four minutes.
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Honolulu
Wedding can go afoul at 79 too in Maine
Ida F. Grover, 79, wed Albert L. Pierce, 35, after a series of mishaps. The Rev. John F. Philpot arrived late, Pierce's boss failed to appear, dog Sport interrupted the ceremony, and a double ring plan was only learned late. The couple finally married amid interruptions and cheers from the group.
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Otisfield Gore
Ida F. Grover
Albert L. Pierce
Buzz
John F. Philpot
Boulogne Declared Eating Champion of France in AMIENS
Pierre Boulogne, a 198 pound six footer, won the eating title in AMIENS France. He downed ten stuffed eggs six portions of coq au vin Maroilles cheese a pineapple in Kirsch coffee cognac Beaujolais wine and fifteen beers as the crowd watched.
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France
INS
Pierre Boulogne
Boulogne
McCarthy Wins Right to Question Brennan at Hearing
The senate judiciary committee voted unanimously to allow Senator McCarthy to cross examine Supreme Court Justice William J. Brennan Jr. at a public hearing. McCarthy seeks Brennan's views on communism and cites his speeches criticizing senate investigations of communism.
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Washington
Senate Judiciary Committee
McCarthy
R-Wis
Supreme Court
William J. Brennan
Brennan
Eisenhower
Judiciary Committee
Senate
Fog and light rain grip Texas after weekend rainfall
A belt of fog drizzle stretched across much of Texas after a weekend of widespread rain that delighted farmers. District Ag Agent Ted Martin said north central Texas farmers are more optimistic about conditions than in five years. Central Texas agent R G Burwell in Stephenville noted prospects look better despite light showers.
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Texas
District Agriculture
Ted Martin
R. G. Burwell
Stephenville
Army Agrees to Guard Plan Stay
The Army backs a compromise postponing the six month service plan for National Guard recruits to January and requires 11 weeks of Army service starting April 1. The change follows guard protests and will be presented to Major General Ellard Walsh for approval.
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INS
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National Guard
Guard
Ellard Walsh
National Guard Association
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