Subpoena Served in Contempt Probe of Goldfine
House investigators pressed Bernard Goldfine over nonresponse to 23 questions about his East Boston Co. and Boston Port Development Co. ties to Sherman Adams and SEC filings. Goldfine argued the inquiry oversteps company affairs while the panel pursued why notes totaling 305 684 46 owed to the Port Development Co. were issued and whether board direction or bookkeeper actions governed the loans.
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Washington
House
Bernard Goldfine
Boston
Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Oren Harris
D-Ark
East Boston Co
Boston Port Development Co
Securities and Exchange Commission
Eastestes Co
SEC
Adams
Lishman
Storms Bring Wide Damage Across Northeastern Kansas
A hurricane force storm with hail and heavy rain struck northeastern Kansas causing Topeka damage and Atchison flash flood. A 12 year old girl Helen East drowned in a flooding creek while two others reportedly died. A funnel tornado damaged Bill Foster's farm west of Topeka as water and power failures disrupted the city. National Guardsmen and highway patrols were deployed.
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Kansas
Topeka
Kan
Atchison
Helen East
Chison
Bill Foster
William Yerkees
Yerkees
National
Garden Park
East Topeka
Accardo Refuses To Answer Questions Before Senate Panel
Gangster Tony Accardo invoked the Fifth Amendment more than 140 times at a Senate Rackets Committee hearing. He declined to say if he directed killings or had any role in mob violence tied to labor rackets, answering only his name and address.
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Washington
Tony Accardo
Senate
Accardo
Vice
Chicago
West Side Chicago
Sam Battaglia
Capone
Battaglia
Estelle Carey
Abraham Teitelbaum
al Capone
Committee
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
FBI
Underworld Infiltraton of Labor and Management
McClellan
Detroit
Teitelbaum
Let Your Light Shine Before Men
A devotional reflection warns that even a small cloud of temptation can obscure the light of God. It urges individuals to maintain visible good works so that others are directed toward spiritual light and the Father in heaven.
N C Holds Gab Title Once More
Greenville nurse Mrs. Alton Clapp set a new talkathon record by talking 93 hours and 37 minutes to win the contest in Greenville. The 46-year-old declared she would sleep long after finishing and hinted at plans to keep competing if allowed.
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Greenville
Alton Clapp
Topeka
Kan
Clapp
Applicance
Nose Cone Sought in Atlantic Recovery Effort
Cape Canaveral report says three Air Force planes skimmed the Atlantic in a last resort search for a vital nose cone and its mouse passenger Mia after a Thor-Able missile test. Recovery efforts faced weak signals from a faulty transmitter as ships and planes scoured the 1,000 mile offshore impact area.
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Fila
Atlantic
Ascension Island
U.S
Ile
Air Force
U. S
London
The
Royal Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
Tennessee Senate Convicts Judge Raulston Schoolfield
In a special session the Tennessee Senate convict ed Judge Raulston Schoolfield of Chattanooga on one of 22 impeachment charges by a 24 to 7 vote. The charge cited accepting a 1950 car from known criminals, part of the charges arising from a U. S. Labor Management hearing.
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Nashville, Tenn
Tennessee Senate
Raulston Schoolfield
Chattanooga
Senate
Schoolfield
U.S. Senate Labor Management Investigating Committee
Washington
Glenn Smith
Chattanooga Teamsters Union
Julia
Bearded Recluse Routed From Camp in New Mexico
Bearded recluse Foose was wounded and captured after a dawn siege by about a hundred officers led by Sgt. Milton Matteson near Regina Sandoval County New Mexico. Foose had shot a posse member in Cuba and killed two children on the street, triggering the manhunt and standoff.
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Pete Cebada
Cuba
New Mexico
Ada
Regina
N.M
Ahildean
Chumusch
Milton Matteson
Santa Fe
Matteson
Foose
Sandoval County
Albuquerque
Sam Hill
Joe Roach
Gane
Talks Success President Wings Back To Capital Ottawa
President Eisenhower and Canadian Prime Minister John G. Diefenbaker concluded informal talks in Ottawa with three agreements. A joint cabinet committee on continental defense will be created, plans for safeguards against surprise Arctic attacks will be pursued, and discussions on trade with Communist China by U.S. corporate subsidiaries in Canada will be held at lower levels. White House aides called the outcomes important and worthwhile for both nations.
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John G. Diefenbaker
Arctic
China
U.S
White House
James C. Hagerty
Levan t Leaves After Domestic Fracas in Beverly Hills
Oscar Levant, the pianist and actor, fled a Beverly Hills home after a quarrel with wife June over an unidentified woman. He claimed she struck him with a shoe. she says he exaggerated. The couple, married 18 years, dispute ongoing tensions and rumors of separation.
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Calif
Oscar Levant
Oscar
June
Fortissimo
Levant
Singing
Gale Sisters
Kelly
Youth Held In Bank Robbery Near Raleigh
FBI identified 17 year old John Johnson of Centreville Virginia as the suspected bank robber. He was captured two hours after the heist at Farmers Market Branch of Security National Bank with bills and a toy pistol. He faced arraignment before US Commissioner H A Bland.
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Raleigh
FBI
John Johnson
Centerville
U.S
H. A. Bland
Farmers Market
Security National Bank
See Sane Se
National Guard
Juanita Lee
Johnson
Deaton
L. Deaton
Farmers’ Market
Denton
Latvia Flight Story Drives Durham Beauty Contestant
Velta Spunde 19 year old Miss Durham told of Latvia's 1944 flight from Russian troops. The tale of a doctor on the dock and two torpedoed ships drew applause during Miss North Carolina talent judging. She came to the United States in 1949, attends Duke, and hopes to be a dental hygienist or lab tech.
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Frankie Sharp
Charlotte
Velta Spunde
Durham
Russia
Latvia
Baltic
Germany
Spunde
Velta
Duke University
Duke
Vesta
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Eisenhower
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