Modified Labor Bill Advances In House Push
Democratic leaders back a move to bring a compromise labor bill to a vote next month. Speaker Rayburn supports Roosevelt’s eleventh hour plan limiting the bill to anti racketeering controls and postponing Taft Hartley amendments to next year. Roosevelt says most labor committee members expect a July 15 passage target, with Republicans backing the effort to send the bill to the floor.
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B. L. Livingstone
Washington
House
Sam Rayburn
Texas
House Labor Committee
James Roosevelt
Calif
Roosevelt
Senate-House
Rayburn
Newsmen
Congress
Californian
Labor Committee
William H. Ayres
Ohio
Teamsters
Ex-Wife Held After Cedar Rapids Man Fatally Shot
Lyle V. McCroskey, 33, died at Mercy hospital after a gunshot wound inflicted by his former wife Joyce McCroskey, 27, at her home. She is held on an open charge as detectives probe the case. The shooting occurred during a confrontation with McCroskey and her boyfriend William Cook. An autopsy was planned.
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Cedar Rapids
Mercy Hospital i
Joyce
Sixth St
McCroskey
Percy. Harris
Linn County
Cook
Lyle
Sunday’s Index Section I Notes From Gazette City Hall
The page fragment presents a cover of Sunday Index with segments on city hall notes late news and editorial notes. It mentions Iowa news and sections titled Servicemen's Roundup Television Tabloid Farm and Building Garden across pages 4 through 11.44.
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Gasette City Hall
Iowa News
Iowa
Boy Cleared of Wrecking Train in McRae
A 10 year old boy accused of wrecking a train in McRae Georgia was freed by Judge John Whaley who ruled the boy lacked the mental capacity and strength to open the switch. The judge ordered commitment to a mental institution.
Big 4 seek counsel of home governments in Berlin talks
Geneva dispatch reports the Big 4 foreign ministers sending word to their capitals on salvaging or ending Berlin talks. Khrushchev’s ultimatum and Soviet intransigence threaten a stalemate as Herter and Gromyko remain apart in Geneva.
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Geneva
UPI
Berlin
Russia
Nikita S. Khrushchev
West Berlin
Selwyn Lloyd
Maurice Couve de Murville
Harold Macmillan
London
Christian A. Herter
Andrei A. Gromyko
New Pakistan Govt Setup Introduces Basic Democracies Plan
President Ayub Khan and a high level conference announced a new political framework for Pakistan termed basic democracies. The move aims at governing the country in the future and is viewed as a step toward a new constitution.
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Karachi
Pakistan
Ayub Khan
Ayubi
Monkeys Prepare for Human Space Return Tests at Wallops
At Wallops Island NASA plans launch of Little Joe rockets carrying rhesus monkeys and a chimpanzee to altitudes of 10 to 150 miles to verify capsule recovery methods. Tests include parachute signaling and automatic escape rocket to lift the capsule clear of danger, with full-scale capsule flights from Florida Atlas rockets planned mid July.
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Earth
Florida
Recession Licked Says Mitchell at ILO Meeting
U S Secretary of Labor James P. Mitchell told an ILO gathering in Geneva that the United States has licked the recession. He warned inflation remains a danger while noting record levels and improving unemployment as the economy stabilizes.
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Geneva
UPI
U.S
James P. Mitchell
International Labor Organization
United States
Mitchell
Four youths found guilty in Tallahassee case
In Tallahassee Florida four white youths were convicted for the assault of a 19 year old Black coed. The all white jury spared them from the electric chair with a mercy verdict and sentenced them to potential life terms or probation. The courtroom fell silent as the verdict was read after two and a half hours of deliberation.
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Tallahassee
Fla
W. May Walker
Pearlie Collinsworth
Jesus
David E. Beagles
Ollie Stoutamire
Florida
Florida A&M _ university
Wife Bitter Is Sure He Is Innocent After Release
Erna Alley, wife of Maj. Ronald E. Alley, expressed joy at her husband’s release from prison but remained certain of his innocence. She criticized Maine officials for lack of assistance, said she and her two children survived by working odd jobs, and expected his arrival from Fort Leavenworth by Monday.
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Bar Harbor, Maine
Ronald E. Alley
Erna Alley
Ft. Leavenworth
Kan
Alley
Maine
Bar Harbor
New York
Boston
Tugboat Sinks In East River After Collision
In New York the tug James F. Murphy sank in the East River after being rammed by its own barges. Two men were feared lost, three others were rescued, and the channel was partly blocked.
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New York
East River
James F. Murphy
Gallagher Sand and Gravel Co
Army Major claims scapegoat role in Korea war case
Leavenworth former major Ronald E. Alley says he contacted the Soviet Union for dossiers on 143 U.S. officers as part of alleging a miscarriage of justice. He was court martialed in 1955 for aiding the enemy and later released after 3 years and 7 months in prison. Alley asserts 142 other officers are as concerned as he is and criticizes wartime treatment and speech restrictions. He plans further remarks in Bar Harbor, Maine.
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Leavenworth, Kan
Korea
Soviet Union
Ronald E. Alley
Ft. Leavenworth
U.S
Ft. Meade
Russia
Fort Meade
Alley
United States
Pentagon
Bar Harbor
Maine
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