Pay Goal Of $1.50 is Set
AFL-CIO chiefs set $1.50 an hour as the new goal for federal minimum wages and urged immediate $1.25 hikes. The resolution backed extending coverage to 16 million more workers and reducing the 40 hour week through legislation and contracts. Internal unions split over a peace formula, with Meany alleged to back the building trades against Reuther.
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Bal Harbor
Fla.Pi
Afl-Cio
Organized Labor
Resolutions Committee
Congress
Kennedy
America
Building Trades
Walter Reuther
George Meany
Reuther
A. Philip
Ultra-rightist plot to assassinate Ikeda foiled in Japan
Police said they smashed an ultr a rightist conspiracy to kill Prime Minister Hayato Ikeda and other pro American government leaders. Thirteen men were arrested as predawn raids recovered safety gear and uniforms. An industrialist financed the plan amid fears of a Communist revolution. Arrests said 90 percent complete and investigators sought possible backers behind the scenes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Hayato Ikeda
Japan
Ikeda
Daikichi Imoto
Public Safety
Seoul
Sokyo Labor Union
Communist Party
Eichmann Judgment Declared Guilty on All Counts in Jerusalem
The special Israeli court concluded its reading of Adolf Eichmann's judgment with a blanket verdict of guilty on all 15 counts. It found his role in the extermination of six million Jews and other crimes as part of the Nazi conspiracy, with the death penalty as the maximum under Israeli law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jerusalem
Adolf Eichmann
Gestapo
Eichmann
Europe
Poland
Lidice
Reinhard Heydrich
Hitler
Allies Question U S Leadership in Berlin Unity
Western foreign ministers pursued tighter unity on Berlin as European Allies questioned the leadership role of the United States in the Western alliance amid signs of strained cohesion.
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Paris
Berlin
United States
Factory Earnings Set Record
Average earnings of factory workers rose to a record in November and the work week reached 40 hours 36 minutes the longest in two years. Payroll employment at 55.1 million matched the prior month’s peak as the unemployment rate stood at 6.1 percent with projected jobless totals and rising seasonal factors. Average hourly earnings climbed to 2.36 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Labor Department
Seymour Wolfbein
Wolfbein
Wife insists on jail with husband in tax case
Mrs. John F. Byrne pleaded guilty to evading 5670 in income taxes for 1956 57 saying she would not let her husband go to jail alone. Byrne also pleaded guilty and faces up to 10000 fine and five years in prison while Judge Richard M Duncan set sentencing for Jan 5. The couple discussed the matter at home with their four children Bill Jan Ellen and Eddie present.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kansas City
John F. Byrne
Byrne
Calvin Hamilton
U.S
Bill
Jan
Ellen
Eddie
Jerusalem Dawn Draws Mary and Joseph Toward Bethlehem
The journey to Jerusalem unfolds at dawn as Mary and Joseph travel with an ass through Jericho and toward Bethany and Bethlehem. They glimpse the white walled city and Herod's palace, pondering God’s presence and Solomon’s temple, while recalling David’s lineage and temple plans.
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Jerusalem
Joseph
Egypt
Jericho
Salt Sea
Mt. Nebo
Mary
the Ass
Bethany
Paradise
Bethlehem
God
Judea
Temple
Herod
Golgotha
David
Solomon
Hiram
Tyre
Rivers Spill Over Banks In West N C
The Weather Bureau warned of severe thunderstorms with hail and damaging winds across a broad NC area as rains flood western rivers. The French Broad rose to near 22 feet, with slides on highways and Marshall High School in Madison County closed as floodwaters reached building sides.
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North Carolina
Weather Bureau
Columbus
Florence
S.C
Union
Anson
Richmond
Scotland
Hoke
Robeson
Asheville
B. S. Connally
State Highway Department
Madison County
Marshall
Real Children's Tree Shines at White House Yuletide
President Kennedy and Caroline tour the White House display as an 18 foot balsam fir centers the Blue Room. The tree mirrors Tchaikovsky Nutcracker themes with candle shaped lights and a blue ribbon, trimmed by William Storm and Paul Leonard.
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Washington
Caroline Kennedy
White House
Kennedy
Caroline
William Storm
Paul Leonard
New York
Goldwater Criticizes Complaining Reservists in Spain
In Madrid Senator Barry Goldwater of Arizona lambasted U S Army Reservists who complained about being called to active duty during the Berlin crisis. He called them a freeloading group while noting their Reserve pay was tied to drills. Goldwater toured bases with fellow reservists Sen Howard W Cannon and Jack R Miller and met Spanish officials and students.
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Madrid
Spain
Barry Goldwater
Washington
U.S. Army
Berlin
Arizona Republican
Goldwater
Air Force Reserve
Howard W. Cannon
D-Nev
Jack R. Miller
Iowa
U.S
Agustin Munoz Grandes
Arizona
Goldwater For President Club
Virginia Student Committee
United States
Midwest Snowstorm Drops Heavy Drench Across Region
A major snowstorm blankets the Midwest from Iowa to Michigan with five inches or more, eight to ten inches in spots like Dubuque Omaha Baraboo Rhinelander and Madison, while strong winds and -35 to -3 degree cold grip the west. Blowing snow disrupts travel as Milwaukee deploys 280 plows, and flooding rains hit the South sparking evacuations in Birmingham and nearby areas. One injury reported in Marion Alabama amid tornadoes in Jacksonville and Marianna.
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Associated Press
Midwest
Iowa
Wisconsin
Michigan
Upper Peninsula
Dubuque
Omaha
Neb
Baraboo
Antigo
Rhinelander
Madison
Milwaukee
Havre
Mont
Bozeman
Bismarck
N.C
Denver
Casper
Wyo
Rapid City
S.C
Amarillo
Tex
Salt Lake City
Duluth
Minn
Illinois
Indiana
South
Birmingham
Ala
Chattanooga
Tenn
Jackson
Miss
Bomb raid on Elisabethville Airport and UN HQ reported
Unidentified aircraft dropped 26 bombs on Elisabethville Airport in four attacks before dawn. UN headquarters in Katanga came under heavy fire from mortar batteries. Two Indian Gurkha troops died, 37 wounded, 13 missing, and Katangan casualties are estimated high. UN claims a secret Katangan plan to dynamite Union Miniere copper complex. Tshombe condemned the raid and disputed UN framing.
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Leopoldville
The
Congo
Elisabethville
U.N
U. N
Katanga
Brussels
United Nations
Moise Tshombe
Sean McKeown
New York
J.J. Rikhye
U Thant
Union Miniere
Rikhye
Indochina
Algeria
Bousque
Maj. Faulque
Tshombe
Soviets Claim West German General a War Criminal
The Soviet government demanded the United States hand over West German Gen. Adolf Heusinger, NATO military committee chairman, for trial in Moscow for war crimes. Bonn rejected the charge as false and said Heusinger would not be handed over.
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Khrushchev
Soviet Union
United States
Adolf Heusinger
Heusinger
North Atlantic, Treaty Organization
Washington
Soviets
Moscow
Permanent
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
U.S
Foreign Ministry
Bonn
West Germany
Missing hunter Cecil Cornette walks from Laurel Mountain woods
A deer hunter missing since Monday afternoon in the Laurel Mountain area northwest of Lenoir walked out at 9 50 this morning. Cecil Cornette 20 of Lenoir Rt 2 was found in good condition but wet and cold after an overnight search.
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Gideon Hausner
Argentina
U.n.s
London
Dean Rusk
Quai D'Orsay
Gerhard Schroeder
Charles de Gaulle
West Berlin
U.S. District Attorney's Office
Mrs. Byrne
West
W. B. Ragsdale JR
Jacksonville
Mario, Ala
Marion
Michael Kharlamov
Pentagon
Hunter
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