Vatican Relations in Italy Tense After Bishop Trial
Rome newspapers urge moderation after a Florence court convicted a Roman Catholic bishop in a landmark case tied to the Lateran pact era. The Vatican warned of potential excommunication for judges while Catholic leaders call for calm amid national controversy.
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Rome
Italy
Pius XII
Vatican
Tl Tempo
Florence
Messagero
Prato
Milan
Il Giorno
Yugoslavia
Hungary
Mussolini
L’osservatore Romano
ILGWU Calls 105000 Garment Workers to Strike
The International Ladies Garment Workers Union orders 105000 workers across seven eastern states to strike the dress industry tomorrow morning. The walkout targets Easter season production as talks stalled after a wage demand of 15 percent and a 35 hour week for piece workers.
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New York
International Ladies Garment Workers Union
Kis
ILGWU
UAW Wins 40 Hour Week, Unemployment Benefits In Chrysler Pact
Detroit UAW and Chrysler reach a settlement allowing 18,000 top-seniority workers at four Detroit plants to be laid off for the rest of the week while others receive a 40 hour schedule and unemployment benefits. Chrysler and UAW leaders L. L. Colbert and Walter Reuther brokered the deal ending a production standards dispute.
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Detroit
United Auto Workers
Chrysler Corp
Chrysler
L. L. Colbert
Walter Reuther
UAW
Detroit-area
God’s Peace Through Suffering and Faith
In comforting reflections, R L Dieffenbacher writes that physical ailment may cripple the body while the soul remains whole. Pain can deepen faith, but believers are urged to seek God’s presence without suffering as a prerequisite for divine love.
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R. L. Dieffenbacher
D.D
NEA
Nutty Buddies Toasted in Capitol Peanut Luncheon
Washington luncheon in the speaker's dining room featured a peanut heavy menu including soup butter and crackers ham with biscuits peanut rolled sweet potatoes peanut cake coffee salted and roasted peanuts and peanut candy. Congress members from Virginia North Carolina Georgia Florida Alabama Texas and Oklahoma attended. Luncheon sponsors were Reps Abbitt Forrester and Poage.
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Washington
Capitol
Congress
Virginia
North Carolina
Georgia
Forida
Alabama
Texas
Oklahoma
Abbitt
Dva
Forrester
Dga
Poage
D-Tex
National Peanut Council
Dulles Rejects Soviet Terms For Foreign Ministers Meet
Secretary of State Dulles rejected Moscow terms for a presummit foreign ministers meeting. He backed a summit plan but warned against fraud and hoax and said no major issues now justify a summit. He added U.S. talks remain flexible yet limited by Soviet positions and June as a summit date.
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Dulles
Washington
Russia
United States
U. S
Apa
U.S
Eisenhower
Bulganin
Tar Heel Lad Seeks Daddy
Walter Reynolds aged nine from Crouse North Carolina wrote the Princeton Florida farm town police chief asking to locate his missing father Joe Floyd Reynolds known as J F. He describes his father as about 30 with black hair brown eyes and a missing left hand. Farm Bureau records found no match and Princeton has no chief of police. the letter was given to Charles Tracy at Homestead.
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Princeton
Fla
Walter Reynolds
Crouse
N.C
Walter
Mommie
Joe Floyd Reynolds
J. F
Farm Bureau
The
Florida Employment Service
Charles Tracy
Homestead
Recession in American Industrial Centers Trouble Spots
A nationwide AP survey highlights key U.S. economic trouble spots along the West Coast Great Lakes and Atlantic coastal regions. Despite hardship, business remains resilient in many areas with economists warning of the need for stronger government stimulus while buyers show cautious optimism about 1959. In Chattanooga January sales prove brisk amid tough winter conditions.
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Norman Walker
Washington
America
West
Great Lakes
Atlantic
Maine
Carolinas
Lee Miller
Citizens Fidelity Bank and Trust Co
Louisville
Associated Press
Chattanooga
Tenn
L. B. Jackson
Probers undecided on calling senators in FCC inquiry
House investigators weighed whether to seek testimony from senators and Col. Gordon Moore in the FCC inquiry. A closed session was set for 2:30 p.m. to decide how to proceed as Rep. Wolverton urged inviting witnesses and Rep. O Hara queried avenues for Moore. Mack’s resignation to President Eisenhower was accepted. he had been named to the FCC in 1955.
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Washington
House
Richard A. Mack
FCC
Gordon Moore
Eisenhower
Harris
D-Ark
Special Commerce
Wolverton
R-Nj
Joseph O'Hara
R-Minn
Col. Moore
Moore
Congress
Mack
Florida
Rep
Hospital Escapees Nabbed After Cab Ride to Fayetteville
Three teenage patients from the state hospital escaped and headed to Fayetteville in a taxi. Joanne Hammond, 16, slugged the cab driver with a pop bottle during the trip, then the three were later captured in a woods area. Dr. Walter Sikes said Hammond had previously claimed frequent night outings, a pattern he questioned, and Cumberland authorities would decide on charges.
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Raleigh
State Hospital
Fayetteville
Walter Sikes
Joanne Hammond
Concord
Sikes
Cumberland Sheriff's Office
Cumberland
Eight Jurors Selected For Wetzel Trial
In Sanford North Carolina three more jurors joined the murder trial of Frank Edward Wetzel the former prison quarterback charged with fatally shooting Patrolman J T Brown near Lee County. Prosecutor Jack Hooks aims to complete the panel this day with four regular jurors and two alternates while seeking the death penalty.
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Wetzel
Reece
Brown
Page
Harold W. Gavin
Sanford
George Fountain
Fountain
Baptist Church
Carpenter Says He Wrote Bad Checks To Feed Kids
In Greensboro a 41 year old carpenter S A Long told Judge Susie Sharp he forged five bad checks totaling about 400 dollars as his family faced hunger with his Army AWOL record and unemployment. He described no violence beyond threats and was sentenced to 23 years with five years suspended and ordered to repay ten dollars weekly.
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Carpenter
Greensboro
S. A. Long
Susie Sharp
Sharp
Long
Decision on Ex-GI Harmon Could Bring Arlington Honor
John Henry Harmon III, a former Army cook, may receive an honorable discharge replacing his general one. If requested by him or his widow, he could be buried at Arlington National Cemetery. The Supreme Court decision also allows him to apply for a permanent Post Office job.
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Washington
John Henry Harmon III
Harmon
Arlington National Cemetery
U.S. Supreme Court
Bucknell University
Crackers the mutt wins certificate of merit at Tryon Dog Show
Crackers, a brown and white part cocker, received a merit certificate from Col. Hart Foster for actions beyond the normal. The dog’s rescue attempt occurred after he was found Feb 24 lying beside a dead dog along Highway 176 north of Tryon. Owner Robert Erskine of Tryon named the dog Crackers after trying to locate a rightful owner.
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Tryon
N.C
Hart Foster
Polk Animal Protective Assn
Robert Erskine
Erskine
Highway 176
Here
Beautiful Widow Found Dead In Car In Fairfax
A 34 year old widow Mrs Frances Ann Sykes was found dead in her car in front of a Fairfax tourist inn. Police call it death by own action with exhaust hose into the car. She had come from Akron Ohio to be near Arlington National Cemetery where her husband Maj Edmond Perry Sykes is buried. An Air Force spokesman said he died in a Korea crash on June 18 at Osan Air Base.
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Fairfax
Frances Ann Sykes
Dail Resigns From Eastern Carolina Housing Board
Raleigh member of the Eastern Carolina Regional Housing Authority, Roland O. Dail of Goldsboro, resigned after a talk with Gov. Hodges. The board weighs a special committee report that urged removing executive director H. Emmett Powell and assistant director N. E. Mohn Jr for alleged conflict of interest over land deals for Seymour Johnson Homes in Goldsboro.
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Raleigh
Eastern Carolina Regional Housing Authority Board
Roland O. Dail
Hodges
Dail
Goldsboro
I. E. Pittman
Morehead City
Authority Board
Pittman
H. Emmett Powell
Authority
N. E. Mohn Jr
Powell and Mohn
Seymour Johnson
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Julius Hochman
New York Dress Joint Board
David Dubinsky
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Tar Heel Lad
American
Fool's Paradise
Holmes Whittemore
Jones & Lamson Machine Co
Springfield
Probers
Proud Mutt
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David
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