AFL-CIO Committee Backs Expulsion of Teamsters
The AFL-CIO Appeals Committee recommended expelling the Teamsters Union amid corruption charges. The report cites domination by corrupt influences and notes a two thirds vote needed for expulsion. Hoffa resisted stepping aside as fallout from Senate Rackets Committee disclosures fuels union tensions.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Afl-Cio Appeals Committee
Teamsters Union
I. Z
Lesreude
John J. Murphy
Bricklayers Union
Afl-Cio
Teamsters
Senate
James R. Hoffa
Laundry
Bakery
Distillery
United Textile Workers
Sus
Santa’s Mechanical Santa Provokes Noise Complaint
A caller to police headquarters complained that a life size mechanical Santa at an 8 Main Street auto dealership is too loud. The showroom display uses a tape recorded message linked to the figure and officers sought to install a partial damper after prior noise complaints.
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Santa Claus
Saint Nick
Santa
Indonesia Begins Expelling Dutch Residents Over West New Guinea Clash
Indonesia moves to expel Dutch nationals amid pressure to yield West New Guinea. Officials say about 46,000 Dutch residents, including 100 KLM employees and families, face evacuation within days with skilled technicians possibly spared. Eviction targets Eurasians born in Indonesia as tensions rise with the Netherlands.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
West New Guinea
Subidjo
KLM
Negkom
Netherlands
East Indies
Wetzel Bound For Raleigh In Murder Case
Frank Edward Wetzel 36 faces murder charges in two North Carolina patrolmen deaths. He traveled from Los Angeles to Raleigh in custody, with extradition to Rockingham for Monday arraignment before returning to State Prison for trial.
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Raleigh
Frank Edward Wetzel
North Carolina
Los Angeles
Wetzel
Southern Pacific
New Orleans
Atlanta
Louisville
Nashville
Seaboard Air Line
Wister Lee Reece
J. T. Brown
Rockingham
N.C
Frank E. Wetzel
R. W. Goodman
Dexter Stell
Senators Hear New Witness In Labor Violence Inquiry
The Senate committee probes terrorist acts linked to Teamsters and Barber unions in labor disputes. Chairman McClellan charges goon squads, asserts some law enforcers failed to act. Witnesses include a Knoxville Local 621 bookkeeper and Paul L. Andrews of Nashville based B&S Motor Lines recount past violence from 1954 to 1955.
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Special Investigating Committee
Tennessee
Teamsters
Barbers
McClellan
D-Ark
Teamsters Union
Knoxville
Paul L. Andrews
B&s Motor Lines
Nashville
Thurston Motor Lines
B&s
Churches Urge Push To Disarm Worldwide
A national Christian gathering urged stronger action toward worldwide disarmament amid rockets and nuclear threats. Church leaders from major Protestant and Orthodox groups called for redoubling efforts within the United Nations framework and renewed dedication to compassion and justice.
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ST. Louis
National Council of Churches
United Nations
Hammarskjold Returns From Middle East Talks
Dag Hammarskjold headed back to the United Nations in New York after negotiations in Jordan Israel and Syria aimed at easing Arab Israeli tensions. A communique with Syria's Salah Bitar noted boosting UN truce and Mixed Armistice Commission authority, with specifics to be disclosed later. tensions over border incidents and relief convoys.
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Damascus
Syria
Dag Hammarskjold
U.N
New York
Middle East
Jordan
Israel
David Ben-Gurion
Salah Bitar
Hammarskjold
Bitar
U.N. Palestine Truce Observation Organization
Mixed Armistice Commission
Newark
Tel Azaziat
Shaar
Yaahov
Mt. Scopus
Egypt
Nasser
Truck Demolished By Freight Train Near High Point
Atlas Block Co driver Harry Lee Farmer escaped serious injury when his flatbed loaded with 250 concrete blocks was struck by a Carolina and Northwestern freight train south of High Point at 10:50 a.m. He was treated and released from High Point Memorial Hospital. The collision damaged the train, track, and surrounding equipment as engine M. H. Harmon and crew reported warning as the truck entered the crossing.
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Harry Lee Farmer
S. Hamilton St
High Point
Farmer
Atlas Block Co
High Point Memorial Hospital
Carolina and Northwestern
Asheboro
Block Company
Old Trinity Road
Northwestern
M. H. Harmon
Spencer
Harmon
W. M. Boylan
Eisenhower Confirms NATO Council Trip Decision
President Eisenhower weighs attending the December NATO Council meeting in Paris amid his recent stroke. Doctors will decide mid next week if he is fit to sit in on the talks, while White House aides say he wants to go and will follow medical guidance.
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Gettysburg
Eisenhower
NATO Council
Paris
White House
Jerry Beswick
State Responsibility Proposal Approved
A committee recommends states take more control of jointly funded programs in exchange for federal tax credits. The plan includes vocational education, waste treatment funding, public facility repairs after disasters, peacetime atomic energy use, urban development and housing, with 40 percent of local telephone tax allocated to state financing.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Governors’ Conference
Rep. Fountain
D-Nc
House
Fountain
Rep
Hoffman
Michigan
Ior Republican
Rocket Explosion Halts First Satellite Launch Attempt
CAPE CANAVERAL Fla The first American satellite launcher exploded on its stand after two seconds causing a loss of chamber pressure. The Vanguard vehicle fell toward the water and burst into flame with two casualties reported. A new launch may not occur for about 30 days per Defense Department.
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Cape Canaveral
Fla
America
Pentagon
Washington
Vanguard
Defense Department
Department
Naval Research Lab
Drugs Cause Carelessness Says Surgeon
Philadelphia surgeon Dr. H. Taylor Caswell warned that wonder drugs have made doctors less vigilant about germ precautions. He urged a return to strict sterilization to combat antibiotic resistant staphylococci and cited infections in wounds newborns skin conditions and postoperative patients as evidence of ongoing risk.
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Philadelphia
H. Taylor Caswell
Temple University Hospital
American Medical Assn
Chang
Caswell
Khrushchev Claims Sputnik Carrier Fell in U S
Khrushchev charged that part of the first Sputnik's carrier rocket fell in the United States last Sunday and said Americans refuse to return it. He told correspondents at a Finnish Embassy reception that the Soviets would return any American Sputnik found on Soviet soil if the situation were reversed.
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United States
Stevenson Offer to Paris Ignored by Eisenhower Aides
Adlai E. Stevenson offered to go to Paris last month to push a new American cold war strategy as a missionary, but the Eisenhower administration ignored his bid and kept him as a Democratic consultant on NATO plans. He believes the NATO proposal will be ready for the Paris conference on December 16, though he is pessimistic about the outcome.
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Washington
Adlai E. Stevenson
Paris
Eisenhower
Stevenson
NATO
Asia
Africa
Illinois
Lisenhower
Dulles
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Secret Service
James J. Rowley
Rowley
Army Signal Corps
Beswick
Signal Corps
President's Farm
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Khrushchev
Sputnik
U.S
Adlai
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