Penitentiary sentence for Union District justice of the peace
Judge Thompson tell Tyne grand jury of alleged extortion by JPs and constables as L. Smith of Dunbar receives one to five years with a stay of execution for appealing. Pete Chapman named in indictment as joint defendant. Cpl. Woodley praised for aiding the investigation.
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State Penitentiary
Tyne Grand Jury
Jps
Doc) Smith
Dunbar
Union District Justice of, the Peace
Pers Mit -Appeal
Thompson
James A. Woodley
West Virginia Faces Session Rules On Jobless Pay Bill
The Legislature will be adjourned until a special session after June 23 to allow action on the Eisenhower signed temporary jobless aid measure. Efforts to include a soft drinks tax amendment and a highway bond referendum seek funding for the medical school and road improvements, with trucking interests pushing a November vote.
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West Virginia
Eisenhower
Underwood
iVirginia ‘University ‘Medicall School
Nations Turn Down Cyprus Peace Plan Amid Tense Standoff
Cyprus awaited the British plan as Greece and Turkey rejected it in separate previews. British forces prepared for possible trouble with paratroopers airlifted in, while Athens and Ankara signaled opposition to any settlement short of partition.
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Cyprus
Greece
Turkey
Athens
Ankara
East Mediterranean
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Ifi
Radio-Tv
Hugh Foot
U S Cautions Against Travel to Lebanon
The State Department urged Americans to avoid travel to Lebanon unless imperative reasons exist. The notice stressed no overall travel ban is in place and passports are not being invalidated, as fighting in Beirut eased into sporadic rifle fire.
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Lebanon
Bierut
Rome
Ashington
State Department
Monlay
Eb Oe
Beirut
Page
Phone Co. Sued for Omitting Optometrist Name
Hershel Shapers, a Charleston optometrist, sues Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Co. claiming damages of 10,000 in Common Pleas Court. He alleges the mislisting caused him to lose about one client daily due to exclusion from the 1958 directory.
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Chesapeake ‘and Potomac Telephone Co
Hershel Shapers
Charleston Optometrist
Shapers
Common Pleas
Optometrists
Underwood visit sparks runaways at West Virginia Children's Home
Gov. Underwood visited the West Virginia Children's Home in Elkins with state officials after 11 of the 40 residents fled hours earlier. Police searched Beverly and Gilman for the missing youths while others were recovered in part. The open house for orphans and neglected children aged six to 21 proceeded amid the incident.
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Elkins
BewiHeredi
Virginia
Underwood
Harold Neely
Elizabeth ¥. Hallanan
Beverly
Randolph County
Gilman
Adams to Explain Goldfine Favors Adios to Hearings
Adams to appear before a House subcommittee to offer a personal explanation of his ties to Bernard Goldfine and discuss actions related to the Goldfine affair. The panel questions whether Adams favored Goldfine in FTC matters and notes hotel bill payments in 1954.
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Adams
Washington
Sherman Adams
House
Bernard Goldfine
Boston
Eisenhowler
Endowsor
Federal Trade
FTC
Goldfine
Harris
Plymouth
Mass
Nagy and rebels executed in Hungary 1956 revolt
Ex Premier Imre Nagy and three associates were executed in Hungary after a 1956 revolt against Soviet rule. Major General Pal Maleter and two Hungarian journalists were also executed. The sentences followed a Soviet announced trial and a Hungarian People's Court verdict. The incident drew shock in Washington and at the United Nations as tensions rose between the Soviet bloc and Yugoslavia.
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Nagy
Pal Maleter
Zoltan Tildy
Yugoslavia
Budapest
London
Imre Nagy
Hungary
Moscow
People’s Courts
N. General Assembly
Addefor
Maleter
Miklos ‘Gimes
Joszef. Szilagyi
Lin
Drowning Hero Saves Woman and Child in Milwaukee River
A 35 year old dock worker Carl Cramer drowned while rescuing 27 year old Joan Salwesky and her daughter Laura after the pair leaped from a bridge into the Menomonee River. Sailor Edward Shaw and city worker Lawrence Fopelier pulled them to safety as Cramer sank after urging them to grab on. Police report Mrs. Salwesky had left home and Cramer acted to prevent tragedy, with a life preserver tossed to aid the rescue.
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Milwaukee
Carl Cramer
Joan Salwesky
Laura
Menomonee River
Cramer
Shaw
Lawrence Fopelier
Great Lakes
George Katsekes
Soviet Summit Clash Sparks Washington Moscow Tensions
Washington and Moscow traded sharp exchanges over a planned summit as Khrushchev accused the West of stalling and the State Department released top secret Western proposals from May 28 and May 31. The documents map possible agenda topics and follow a tense press briefing in Washington.
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United States
Britain
France
State Department
Gromyko
Khrushchev
Soviet Union
Allc the West
the West
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