Hoffa Paid Debts to Chicago Underworld, Report Claims
Senate committee reports allege James R Hoffa used three million dollars of Teamsters health and welfare funds to settle a long standing debt with the Chicago underworld and to aid Paul Dorfman and family. The findings also accuse Hoffman of steering Midwest union funds to benefit Dorfman and associates through insurance ventures.
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Washington
Senate
James R
Hear- Hoffa
Chicago
Teamsters Union Health and Welfare
Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Paul Dorfman
Dorfman
Midwest Mob
McClellans
Kennedys
John L. McClelland
D-Ark
Robert F. Kennedy
John F. Kennedy
Dmass
Midwest Teamsters Union
Max
Louis Block
Amalgamated Meat Cutters and Butcher Workmen
North America
New York
Max Block
E. L. Reynolds
A&p
Eastern Division
Black
Reynolds
A&P’s
John L. McClellan
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers Union
Allen Dorfman
Rose Dorfman
Dorfmans
Central Conference of Teamsters
Michigan
World leaders urge peace as Khrushchev eyes US talks
Khrushchev greeted by goodwill as he invites a U.S. meeting with Eisenhower to pursue peace. Western ministers in Geneva doubt Russia's Berlin stance while Nixon returns to Washington with insights from his two week trip behind the Iron Curtain. Warsaw crowds greet Nixon before his flight. Khrushchev claims no territorial disputes or insoluble conflicts between the powers.
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Eisenhower
Moscow
Geneva
Russia
Berlin
West Berlin
Richard M. Nixon
Washington
Warsaw
Nixon
Khrushchev
Kremlin
Watershed Leaders Seek Flood Structures Plan
A delegation of Allen and Neosho county farmers and Big Creek Watershed District officers met with the Kansas State Soil Conservation Committee in Salina to urge planning for 19 flood control structures in the Big Creek watershed. Delegates included Ralph Bauer and Jack Jordan from Allen County and Lyle Meyers, Bob Eberhart, Earl Reinhardt, and D. A. De Merritt from Neosho County, with Bill Qualls of Allen county Soil Conservation Service and John Gorton of Cha nute Chamber of Commerce.
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Allen
Neosho Counties
Big Creek
Kansas State Soil Conservation Committee
Salina
Earl Reinhardt
Lyle Meyers
Bob Eberhart
Neosho County
Ralph Bauer
Jack Jordan
D. A. de Merritt
Allen County
Bill Qualls
Allen County Soil Conservation Service
John Gorton
Agriculture Committee
Chanute Chamber of Commerce
All Goes Well Until Driver Hits Freeway
Dorothy Mead had trailed her husband Army Captain Chester R Mead for 3000 miles from New York to the Los Angeles Freeway. At a cloverleaf she lost him and learned his car with two children was missing, prompting an all points bulletin. He was later found at Castaic, 40 miles northeast of Los Angeles, and police guided Mrs Mead past the confusing signs.
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Los Angeles
New York
Dorothy Mead
Army
Chester R. Mead
San Francisco
Mead
Germany
Mrs. Mead
Castaic
Wholesale Food Prices Rise After Five Week Decline
New York AP reports Dun and Bradstreet wholesale food index climbed to 5.99 from 5.96, though still 91 percent below the 6.59 level a year earlier. The index measures the cost at wholesale for one pound of 31 commonly used foods.
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New York
Dun & Bradstreet, Inc
Two Stowaways Die as Cordoba Returns to New York
AP report details a harrowing dockside discovery on the Cordoba after a Havana voyage. A gaunt man emerged from the hold clutching his throat and fleeing to a bar. hours later a second naked body was found wedged behind tobacco. Heat in the hold exceeded 115 degrees, with at least one man believed to have died of thirst.
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New York
Cordoba
Havana
Country Club Greens Damaged by Vandals
Two greens at the Country Club golf course were damaged last night when vandals drove over them with cars. Police reported the turf was cut and graded near the entrance drive off old highway K39. Beer cans and soft drink bottles were found nearby. caretaker Lee Battershell saw the damage around 7 a.m.
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Country Club
Lee Battershell
Five Hurt in County Road Crash Near Here
Five persons injured in a car pickup truck collision at a county road intersection three miles northwest of here around 6 p.m. yesterday. Among the injured are Mrs. John A. Gier 30 and her three children, Clifford L. Manly 46, and John A. Gier Jr. 12 in critical condition, with multiple injuries. The crash occurred two miles west of the city limits on highway K39, as Manly traveled north in a 1951 Pontiac and the Gier party rode west in a 1950 Chevrolet pickup en route home from a hay field. All were taken to Neosho Memorial Hospital. officers investigated.
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Here
Thehighway Patrol
John A.gier
Gier
Clifford L. Manly
Neosho Memorial Hospital
John A. Gier Jr
Manly
Mira
Sandra
Giers
R. L. White
Highway Patrol
Chanute
Robert Fullerton
Ralph Toland
Jerry Sloan
George Neely
John Gier
Agents Smash St Louis Counterfeit Ring In Midwest
U S Secret Service says a St Louis counterfeiting ring passed about $10 000 in bogus $10 notes across the Midwest in recent weeks Four members were arrested in Louisiana and Webster Groves Missouri while one was taken in suburbs of New Orleans The ringleader was identified as Barr plates and negatives seized at his home with Barr held on $5 000 bond The group reportedly printed $50 000 in counterfeit bills with $840 recovered and the ring worked from Chicago to New Orleans avoiding St Louis.
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ST. Louis
U. S
Secret Service Today
Middle West
Stigallee Barr
Barr
U.S. District Court
Stigall
Secret Service
Chicago
New Orleans
55 Acres of Crops For Church Fund
Thirteen tractors plowed 55 acres for High Prairie church twelve miles southwest of Chanute on US 75. Twenty one men from the congregation, including two local dealers furnishing tractors, worked through the day to prepare ground, plant, and harvest with profits supporting the church building fund and emergencies. One tractor front end dropped into an abandoned well but no injuries occurred.
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High Prairie Church
Chanute Onhighway
US 75
Max Davis
Chanute
Carl Kuntz
Altoona
WSCS
Carl Stone
Otho York, Jr. D
Paul Campbell
Jim Stone
Jerry Han
Philip Wing
Ray Vining
Charles Warner
Jess Olson
Lee Campbell
Dwight Olson
Robert Olson
Duane Baird
Woman in Deep Shock Remains Critical
A 39 year old Coffeyville woman remained in critical condition after entering deep shock during preparation for surgery to remove bone fragments from a broken leg. A physician reported no heartbeat for five to eight minutes and said artificial respiration and stimulants were used for about two hours. The spinal anesthesia was not linked to the shock from the fall off her porch.
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Coffeyville, Kas
Coffeyville
Pitts
July Fire Loss Totals Highlight Chanute Year to Aug 1
Fire Chief C W Brennan estimates July losses at 400 bringing total year to Aug 1 to about 4830. First seven months of 1958 show 5428 in losses. The department logged 164 runs this year, up from 73 a year earlier, with nine runs in July including residential alarms and a grass fire in Tioga and Big Creek townships.
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Chanute
C. W. Brennan
Tioga
Big Creek Township
Wilson County
Pastor Found Shot to Death in Dayton Church Study
In Dayton Ohio Rev George H Riggs 40 pastor of a large church was found shot to death in the church study. Deputy coroner Harry Bloomer said Riggs may have been shot with his own gun by a prowler during what police suspect was a burglary interruption. The body was found an hour after he left the parsonage armed with a shotgun.
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Dayton, Ohio
Dayton
George H. Riggs
Louisville
Harry Bloomer
Riggs
Edna
David Roddy
Bloomer
Three-Way Crash Damages Three Cars at Main Street
Police report a 12:45 p.m. three car collision at 115 E Main involving Mrs. James D Clements, Robert E Phillips, and Mrs. Randall Diver. Clements brake failure sent her 1955 Chevrolet into Phillips rear shoving Phillips into Divers wagon.
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E. Main
Outposts Recaptured In Phongsaly Province
Laotian army units have recaptured all jungle outposts abandoned to Communist forces in Phongsaly province near North Vietnam, the Defense Ministry announced. The move follows prior clashes and signals regained control in the border region.
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Vientiane
Laos
Phongsaly
Viet Nam
Laotian Defense Ministry
Air Force Admits Some Enlisted Aides Do Household Tasks
Washington AP The Air Force acknowledged that some enlisted men may perform servants’ duties for officers. Army backs away from using GIs in menial tasks, reassigning those in officers clubs after a House Armed Services subcommittee probe. Lt Gen Truman H Landon said a clear line is hard to draw between duty and non duty tasks for enlisted aides.
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Air Force
Truman H. Landon
Kansas Heat Wave Eases? Weather Outlook Stays Hot
Weather Bureau reports northern Kansas to see reduced heat with no major cooling in sight. Temperatures expected four to six degrees above normal through next Monday. Tuesday highs ranged 96 to 105, with varying overnight lows and scattered showers across counties including Atwood and Hiawatha.
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Topeka
Kansas
Weather Bureau
Olathe
Garden City
Goodland
Atwood
Atchison
Hiawatha
Centralia
Bird City
Horton
Leavenworth
Valley Falls
Traffic Fatalities In Twenty Four Hour Period In Topeka
Topeka report shows Kansas traffic fatalities for the 24 hours ending 9 a.m. with 1959 totaling 339 compared with 297 in the comparable period of 1958.
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Topeka
Kansas
Mitchum Suffers Black Eye in Dublin Bar Incident
In Dublin a film crew star Robert Mitchum was punched by an Irish autograph seeker after signing a rude message “Kirk Douglas” in mock tribute. Mitchum defended himself with a head butt when two companions attacked, police questioned all but made no arrests.
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Dublin
Ireland
Robert Mitchem
Mitchum
Here
Kirk Douglas
Robert Mitchum
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George G. Kaines
Norman S. Bennett
Berkeley
William J. Lindquist
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Lindquist
Jim
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Wasser
James D. Clements
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Robert E. Phillips
Randall Diver
Larson
Clements
Phillips
Diver
Vernon Myers
Landon
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