Baker Defends Harriman Amid Senate Rackets Hearing
Baker taunted Senate investigators claiming smear aims at Gov. Averell Harriman as testimony by his ex wife linked Harriman to Baker. He described Harriman as a man he once honored while witnesses described Baker’s fugitive past and ties to mob figures. The hearings also covered missing Greenlease funds and a St Louis taxi operator tied to the case.
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Washington
Robert Barney Baker
Exconvict and
Teamsters Union
Senate
Averell Harriman
New York
Baker
Ruth Brougher
Hamer
Harriman
Mollie Baker
Committee
Brougher
Florida
New York City
Anthony Hintz
Eddie
Dunn
Hintz
Fr . Baker
James R. Hoffa
Greenlease
Joseph Costello
St. Louis
John Doherty
Senate Rackets Committee
God on the job and the call to daily prayer
The piece notes that human days begin and end with work and habits, yet God’s day is perpetual. It urges daily prayer and gratitude, stressing God’s readiness to help and the need to worship within our limited days. It ends with a call to make time to worship.
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R. L. Dieffenbacher
NEA
Miss
Faubus To Meet School Board On Integration Crisis
Governor Orval Faubus and three Arkansas legislative leaders will meet Little Rock School Board to discuss September plans amid federal integration tensions. Blossom and Faubus clash over using Supreme Court actions. a possible extraordinary legislative session may follow if board action delays or blocks reforms. The group may travel to a Southern Regional Education Board workshop before returning.
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Little Rock, Ark
Orval E. Faubus
Arkansas
Little Rock
Eisenhower
Faubus
Virgil Blossom
Nathan Gordon
State Senate
Glen F.T Walther
House
Lee Bearden
Senate
Blossom
U.S. Supreme Court
St. Louis
Circuit Court
Supreme Court
Russian Vacationers Reach N Y
A 14 member Soviet tourist group arrived at Idlewild on an Air France flight the first unofficial Soviet visitors to tour the United States. They seek an all round view of America and plan sightseeing and possible shopping. Each paid 5 000 rubles for a 14 day tour including travel and expenses.
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New York
Russia
Air France
Idlewild
United States
Vladimir I. Bapkin
Paul Armus
Commerce and Public Events Department
Anna S. Butenkow
Kharkov
Bapkin
Intourist
Congress Steps Up Tempo With Debates In Washington
In Washington the Senate takes up a bill to curb Supreme Court powers while the House debates minerals legislation. Leaders plan an early test vote on the Jenner-Butler bill and push for foreign aid and debt limit measures as President Eisenhower seeks funds for potential Middle East commitments. Opponents failed to kill the minerals bill which would extend subsidies to the mining sector with administration backing.
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Washington
Congress
Senate
Supreme Court
House
Lyndon B. Johnson
Texas
Eisenhower
United States
Middle East
Senate Appropriations Committee
President reads statement curb on integration orders
President reads a solemn statement on federal orders about integration at home as James Hagerty, the White House press secretary, stands nearby in an AP Wirephoto.
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James Hagerty
House
Scientists Agree On System To Detect Nuclear Tests
President Eisenhower hailed tentative East West scientist agreement on a monitoring system for a nuclear test ban. The plan calls for nearly 200 monitoring stations worldwide with ships and land sites to record blasts, but funding, governance, and inspector authority remain unresolved.
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Eisenhower
Dulles
United States
State Department
United Nations
Operation Deep Freeze Opened From Donaldson Air Force Base
A C124 Globemaster departed Donaldson Air Force Base with 56 Air Force personnel 9 Navy members and a 12 member crew under Capt. Theodore A Cousins to Christchurch New Zealand. The flight will stop at Travis Hickam Canton Island Fiji before reaching Weedons base for Antarctica operations. The main party is slated for September arrival.
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Greenville
Donaldson Air Force Base
South Pole
Air Force
Theodore A. Cousins
Christchurch
New Zealand
Antarctica
Travis Air Force Base
Calif
Hickam Field
Hawaii
Canton Island
Fiji
Weedons Base
Donaldson
North Carolina Employment Dips Slightly in July
Non agricultural payrolls in North Carolina totaled 1,059,000 in mid July, a 0.3 percent drop from June and 1.8 percent from July last year. Labor Commissioner Frank Crane says overall employment was near normal after seasonal declines with gains in furniture tobacco and trade and declines in textiles apparel and government. Weekly factory earnings rose to 1.30 with a 39 hour average work week. hourly pay remained at 1.45.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Frank Crane
Crane
France Backs UN Plan on Middle East Crisis
Foreign Minister Maurice Couve de Murville announced France’s full support for a Western plan to hand the Middle East issue to Dag Hammarskjold. He urged the UN General Assembly to back the secretary general as nations debate rival plans and troop withdrawal.
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United Nations, N.Y
Maurice Couve de Murville
France
Middle East
Dag Hammarskjold
U.N. General Assembly
Couve de Murville
Norway
India
Ceylon
U.S
Lebanon
Jordan
U.N
Hammarskjold
Dulles
Deaf Mute Knight Jr. Sentenced in Bailey Slaying Trial
In Nashville North Carolina Johnny D. Knight Jr. the 90 year old deaf mute Negro was sentenced to 15 years for attempted rape 60 years for kidnapping and life for murder of Mrs Myra Manning in Bailey. Manning's body was found with throat cut after he attacked her at her home and drove to a wooded area. The state Supreme Court had ordered a retrial after an earlier death sentence.
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Nashville
N.C
Chester R. Morris
Johnny D.knight Jr
Bailey
Iife
Myra B. Manning
Manning
Knight
State Supreme Court
Eisenhower Calls States to Uphold Court Orders on Integration
President Eisenhower issued a firm appeal to state governments to suppress unlawful forces in the school integration dispute and to enforce federal court orders with federal troops if needed. He warned that defying courts leads to anarchy and urged responsibility to support federal rulings without commenting on the Little Rock case or merits of integration.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Orval Faubus
Arkansas
Faubus
Little Rock
Ark
Cleveland Polio Rash Is Probed in North Carolina
Cleveland County reports 11 polio like illnesses, one fourth of the state total, prompting on site review by Dr. William P. Glezen of Raleigh. The 11th case involves a 17 year old Kings Mountain youth vaccinated for polio. Evidence suggests up to half may be ECHO Virus Type 9, not polio, with similar symptoms. A spinal fluid test difference may require state equipment. results possible in two weeks.
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Shelby
N.C
Cleveland County
William P. Glezen
Raleigh
Kings Mountain
Glezen
East Boston Co files late annual report with SEC
Bernard Goldfine's East Boston Co faces no penalty despite filing its annual Securities and Exchange Commission report 17 days late. A court order from 1955 required timely filings, tied to years of missing statements from 1948 to 1954.
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N.Y
Kremlin
Roy DuPuis
Augusta
Philadelphia
Roy
Temple University Hospital
Little Liz
Cleveland
Goldfine
Subcommittee
Oren Harris
D-Ark
East Boston
Adams
Rom Goldfine
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