FBI Enters Weinberger Kidnaping Case in High-Profile Bid
The FBI joined the Peter Weinberger kidnapping inquiry as officials said cross state lines trigger federal action. Ho overs noted full resources and parallel searches with Nassau County police as hoax calls and fake ransom notes complicate the probe. A Brooklyn woman was arrested over a hoax call and two men were seized for posing as suspects.
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FBI
Peter Weinberger
J. Edgwar Hoover
Hoover
Stuyvesant Pinnell
Nassat
Pinnell
Peter
Beatrice
Brooklyn
Washington
Weinberger
Morris
Tne
Nassau County
Shirley Ginsberg
New York
Thief Wins Photo Finish At Miami Film Award Night
In Miami Florida a thief attempted a break in at George Marshalls auto parts store this month. The burglar used a trip wire to photograph himself before returning early today and gaining entry. He stole only a camera valued at 28 dollars.
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Miami Fla
George Marshall
Steel Strike Parley Opens Today at 4
Washington reports a face to face steel strike parley set for 4 p.m. tomorrow in Pittsburgh after talks in Washington between federal mediator Joseph Finnegan and management. John A. Stephens of U S Steel said they will meet anytime, urging the union to accept the offer. The last offer called for a 3.84 month contract with pay increases of about 17 2-3 cents first year, the union calling it too small.
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Washington
Pittsburgh
Joseph F. Finnegan
Finnegan
Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel
Management
Steelworkers
Hungary Workers Protest Red Rule at Rakosi Plant
Vienna reports Hungarian workers at Matyas Rakosi steel plant protested against pay deductions and uncertain conditions at a large workers meeting. The broadcast linked unrest to wider emulation of Polish protests and recent intellectual and labor dissent in Hungary and other Soviet-influenced states.
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Vienna
Radio
Budapest
Matyas Rakosi
Iisclosure
Poznan
Budapest Radio
Cepek
Hungary
Communist Party
Lee Writers’ Federation
Poland
Czechoslovakia
Kefauver Targets Nixon Nehru Remarks and India Policy
Sen. Kefauver criticizes Vice President Nixon and the Nixon Dul les administration over India policy. He cites dropping John Sherman Cooper as ambassador to India to run for Kentucky senate and warns about driving India toward the Soviet bloc while praising India’s democratic traits. Cooper meets with Sec. Dulles and plans to end his diplomatic service next week.
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Sen. Kefauver
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Senate Today
Nixon
Nehru
India
wuLty Wour
Kefauver
John Sherman Cooper
Kentucky
Tennessee
Dulles
Kefsover
Dukles
Asia
Pakistan
Neutralis
Kelanger
Cooper
Chester Bowles
Fruman
China
Eisenhower
Ambassador Cooper
United States
Four Juveniles Arrested in Area Thefts by State and City Police
Four youths aged 13 to 16 were arrested near South Charleston after a two-pronged theft and burglary spree. They had been sleeping in the woods on stolen blankets and face charges including burglary breaking and entering grand larceny and destruction of property. They are in juvenile detention awaiting hearings with possible further charges from dynamite cap theft.
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Stete
South Charlestm
JF. R. Buckalew
Union Creek
South Charleston
Dunbar
Burkalew
Jim Fenimere
Seth
Buckalew
State Road Commission
al Liberty
State income hits record revenue and large surplus
State Budget Director D L Gainer reports total general revenue fund receipts for the year ended June 30 at 95 515 806 with a record 4 970 770 from gross sales tax and 28 185 208 from consumers sales tax. An unappropriated surplus of 2 224 165 is shown, while 5 600 000 of the gain stems from new tax laws and rack fees.
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D. L. Gainer
Liquor Commission
Special Revenue Fund
Gainer
Jackson County to use rail cars as classrooms next term
Jackson County's Board of Education declared an emergency to address a housing shortage for students. Plans include using railroad cars, shared basements, and temporary auditoriums, with Kaiser Aluminum promising a $248 million plant near Ravenswood to aid relief. Construction and repairs could cost at least $1.4 million, with 1,000 more pupils expected in the 1956-57 year as Kaiser Aluminum begins production.
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Ripley
Spee Jackson County
Board of Education
Emer
Kaiser Aluminum
Ravenwood
House Trims Aid In Rebuff to Strategy
The House approved 284 120 for foreign aid, about 75 percent of President Eisenhower's request, sending the measure to the Senate as a new push to raise the total toward four billion dollars. Debate highlighted party disagreements and attacks on administration advertising tactics.
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lPi
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Eisenhower
Senate
Senate House
Congress
Guatemala
Yugoslavia
Bentley
R-Mich
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Buty
Sen. Bridges
R-Wh
GOR
Appropriations and
Armed Services Committees
Rep
Lanham
D-Ga
Hisenhower
Madison Avenue
Taber
R-Ny
Appropriations Committee
Sen
Humphrey
D-Minn
Rooney
Associated Press
London
Jacob “Malik
Booster
Algiers rocked by coordinated attacks leave several dead
Nationalist rebels staged a night of random assaults in Algiers killing four and wounding seven. A bombing at the opera district shattered windows, injuring four Europeans, while gun battles at a military post left one French guard dead and two wounded. Rebels were killed in pursuit and pursuit nearby. Robert Lacoste warned of no foreign interference as unrest spreads.
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Algiers
Algeria
Lea Analances
Benye
Algiers Opera House
Opera House
Biar
Robert Lacoste
France
Constantine
French Vote to Join Atomic Community
The French National Assembly authorized government participation in Euratom, voting 342 to 183 for the move and defeating amendments 270 to 156. The decision boosts Premier Guy Mollet's European integration policy and sets the stage for drafting the Euratom treaty.
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Atomic Community
Paris
French National Assembly
European Atomic Community
Guy Mollet
Wey Y Ji
France
Robber of meters caught hid in garbage can
City police nabbed Bill Canterbury and Freddie Cavender after they were surprised in the act of stealing parking meters on Charleston's west side. Canterbury was pulled from a garbage can and Cavender evaded capture but was later identified. Police recovered $33.34 and found 17 meters emptied of contents nearby. both suspects face theft charges before Police Judge James Mc Whorter.
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Shocter
Charleston
James McWhorter
Bill Canterbury
Snow Hill
Bernard Settle
Freddie Cavender
Wertz Ave
Bill Allen
Dulles challenges Moscow to free captive lands
Secretary of State Dulles urged Soviet readers to liberate satellite nations from captivity to prove anti Stalin policy sincerity. He warned that only real democratic institutions can block despotism and said the world would watch Moscow for policy shifts. He noted hope for transformative international change within a decade.
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Washington
Dulles
Stalin
Moscow
Russia
Post Office On The Move Across West Virginia Roads
The U S Post Office Department travels the highways and byways of West Virginia and nearby states in a feature by Bayard I. in the Sunday State Magazine section. The article profiles the highway post offices and their route network.
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U. S. Post Office Dept
West Virginia
States
Union
Bayard I
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