Publishers Face Anti-Trust Suit
The Justice Department filed an anti trust suit in New York City naming six major publishing and advertising association defendants. It claims a 15 percent uniform agency commission and concerted actions to deny non recognized agencies access, restraining interstate commerce and harming direct ad placements. The suit seeks to abolish the recognition system and let publishers set own commissions.
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Washington
Justice Department Today
Atty
Brownell
U. S. District Court
New York City
Eney Assn
Advertising Cles
The
American News Lishers Assn
Cme Ae Assn
New Yorkty
Associated Business Publications, Inc
Periodical Publishers Assn
American Assn
New York Court
Justice Department
USW to Bargain With Six Steel Firms Simultaneously
The United Steelworkers map a six-firm strategy to push a substantial wage increase for about 600000 steel workers, with talks starting June 7 at U S Steel and others including Bethlehem Republic Inland and Youngstown Sheet. A two year contract allows wage reopeners this year and a June 30 strike deadline looms.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
USW
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Steel Corp
U.S. Steel
Big Steel
Bethlehem Steel Corp
Republic Steel Corp
Jones & Laughlin Steel Corp
Inland Steel Co
Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co
New Trial Ordered For Lifelong Prisoner In NYC Case
A federal court ordered a new trial for Santo Camanito, a lifer jailed since 1942 for a hold up murder in Brooklyn. The U S Court of Appeals found police psychological coercion violated due process and granted a writ of habeas corpus. Judge Jerome N Frank cited hours of interrogation, incommunicado confinement, and deceptive acts posing as eyewitnesses.
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New York
New York City
Santo Camanito
Brooklyn
Coney Island
Camanito
U. S. Court of Appeals
Jerome N. Frank
Frank
Faces in the Big Four talks face tough bargaining
President Eisenhower may confront harder talks with Soviet Premier Bulganin in planned Big Four disarmament talks. Senate Foreign Relations Chair George warns against defeatism and urges the administration to take the initiative for a possible top level conference.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Nikolai Bulganin
Bulganin
Moscow
George
Dga
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Britain
France
Russia
Officials Meet To Hammer Out Indochina Policy
French Premier Edgar Faure and U S Secretary of State Dulles reached a complete agreement on Indochina policy. British Foreign Secretary Harold Macmillan attended the conference. Bao Dai was said to be getting a short lease on his job. Faure announced the accord after the meeting. Diem’s backing by the United States was pressed, with France agreeing to support him.
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Parist
U. S
Indochina
Viet Nam
Ngo Dinh Diem
Edgar Faure
State Dulles
Britain
Harold Macmillan
Bao Dai
Diem
Faure
Dulles
Radical
Socialist Party
United States
France
Paris
Vienna
Austria
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Antoine Pinay
Eisenhower
Nikolai Bulganin
Eden
Congress weighs standby vaccine controls for polio
Lawmakers push to grant President Eisenhower broad standby powers to regulate distribution and pricing of Salk polio vaccine amid rising support for such controls. The Public Health Service conducts plant by plant vaccine inspections, and Parke, Davis reports a new slower absorption vaccine variant under test in Illinois. Surgeon General Scheele will brief the Banking Committee as criticism of Mrs. Hobby grows.
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Washington
Congress
Eisenhower
Rep
Wolcott
R-Mich
House Banking Committee
Spence
Dky
Davidson
Public Health Service
Parke, Davis and Co. Laboratories
Detroit
Leonard Scheele
Scheele
Banking Committee
House
Oveta Culp Hobby
Eduation and Welfare
Parke, Davis and Co
de Witt
Multer
D-Ny
Hobby
Vienna pact advances as Big Four eyes Sunday signing
The Vienna accord on Austria’s independence pact advances with aim to sign the treaty this weekend. Dulles signals possible travel to Vienna if a break emerges. Britain’s Macmillan and France’s Pinay plan to depart, while talks touch on a top level summit contingent on treaty signing.
Fire destroys Gibsonville restaurant causes heavy loss
A Gibsonville blaze totaled $50 000 in damage to a restaurant and damaged a grocery and a beer tavern. Firemen said the fire started from grease on a griddle and spread beyond staff control before an extinguisher arrived. Damage included vacant apartments above the shops and a warehouse wall breached by flames. Firefighters from Gibsonville and Burlington stopped the blaze before it reached stored paint and turpentine.
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Gibsonville
N.C
Burlington
Graham faces Wembley doubts before seven day revival
Billy Graham opened a week long revival at Wembley Stadium drawing 150 British press as he questioned whether Londoners will attend the massive service. He noted the Wembley choice was an act of faith by London church leaders and said royal or communist questions require further reflection.
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London
Wembley Stadium
Billy Graham
Wembley
Graham
Glasgow
Paris
London Arrangements Committee
Highway bids sought for 99.71 miles across 16 counties
The Highway Commission advertised bids on 21 projects totaling 99.71 miles of road work in 16 counties. Bids open May 24 with low bids reviewed June 2. Major items include 4.56 miles for the U. S. 301 bypass at Wilson and a new bridge over Banks Channel at Wrightsville Beach.
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Raleigh
The
Highway Commission
Marine Corps Champions Fight To Restore Cuts In Forces
The House faces votes on amendments to boost military funding as Rep. Flood seeks to increase Marine Corps size and overall force levels. While Army and Navy gains are proposed, Mahon predicts most amendments will fail though Marine Corps relief has the best chance.
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Marine Corps
Washington
House
Eisenhower
Defense Department
House Appropriations Committee
Flood
D-Pa
Army
Navy
Air Force
Rep. Mahon
D-Tex
Mahon
Polio Case Tabulation Issued By Public Health Service
The Public Health Service reports 149 new polio cases last week, up from the prior week and year. For the year to May 7 total polio cases reach 1,601, with 64 cases among vaccine recipients, 59 paralytic, including a second Pennsylvania case after Wyeth vaccine shots. Other cases: 52 from Cutter Laboratories vaccine and 10 from Eli Lilly vaccine.
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Public Health Service Today
Pennsylvania
The
Health Service
Wyeth Laboratories
Marietta
Cutter Laboratories
Berkeley
Calif
Eli Lilly Co
Indianapolis
House to Act Today on Finances
Raleigh reports the House prepares to vote on a finance bill raising 9.751 million annually with a 25 percent privilege license tax. The Senate considers 9.815 million annually including a 2 cent beer tax. the House adds 3 percent newspaper circulation tax. A conference, readings, and potential adjournment loom.
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Raleigh
House
W. B. Rodman
Beaufort
Senate
Senate Finance Committee
Eisenhower May Retire After 1956 Says Party Figures
President Eisenhower reportedly keeps friends in the dark about 1956 plans. Roy Roberts and Senator Margaret Chase Smith suggest retirement could be likely, while aides decline to comment. Attorney General Brownell hedges, saying only the President can answer.
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Washington
Eisenhower
White House
Thesident
Roy Roberts
The
Kansas City Star
Ser
Margaret Chase Smith
Maine
Oberts
the Star
Roberts
James C. Hagerty
Eiisenhower
Japs Protest Artillery Practice Near Mt Fuji
Japanese villagers and about 100 Communist party members protested artillery firing on Mt Fuji slopes amid rain and wind. Police kept crowds from positions as firing began at 12 35 p m. The dispute has become a national issue with coverage in major papers and concerns over shells passing over pilgrim trails.
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Mt. Fuji
Stand Is Taken At Warsaw Conference
Peng Teh-huai of Communist China pledged today that Peiping would fight alongside the Soviet bloc if war comes to Europe. Addressing a Warsaw conference to form an Eastern defense system, he said China stands for peaceful co existence and is willing to negotiate differences but warned against imperialist adventurers. The eight nations, led by the USSR and including Poland Bulgaria and East Germany, seek a military counter to West Germany joining NATO.
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Warsaw
Poland
China
Soviet Union
Europe
Peng Teh-huai
Red
Peng
Peiping
Formosa
U.S.S.R
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Bulgaria
Romania
Albania
East Germany
West Germany
Study Of Changes Is Approved In Senate Panel
A Senate committee approved a resolution to study redistricting senatorial districts and reallocating House seats in light of population shifts. The plan would form a nine member commission with three senators, three representatives, and three appointed members to study representation and the possibility of an outside agency implementing changes. The measure follows the Legislature’s failure to reapportion since the 1950 census.
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Raleigh
Legisla
Senate
Senate Committee On
C. V. Henkel
Iredell
House
Swan
Erouth
Warren Grants Bail To Scales
Chief Justice Warren granted bail of 35000 for Junius I. Scales, chairman of the Communist party's Carolinas District, convicted under the Smith Act. Scales, sentenced in Greensboro, N C, April 22 to six years, awaits appeal before the U S Circuit Court in Richmond.
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Warren
Junius I. Scales
Communist Party
Carolinas
Scales
U.S. District Court
Greensboro
N.C
Justice Department
Supreme Court
Courts of Appeal
U.S. Circuit Court
Richmond
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