Mirror Trial Opens Tomorrow in Virginia Anti-trust Cases
Roanoke Virginia reports the upcoming federal trial over antitrust charges involving Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co and six Southern mirror firms. Indicted defendants include W A Gordon Ed F Gardner J A Messer Sr and executives of Galax Mount Airy and Weaver Mirror Co as the case potentially becomes Virginia's longest jury trial since 1807.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Roanoke
Virginia
Pittsburgh Plate Glass Co
John Paul
Aaron Burr
Richmond
Thomasville Firm
W. A. Gordon
Pittsburgh
Pittsburgh Plate Glass
Ed F. Gardner
North Wilkesboro
N.C
Carolina Mirror Corp
J. A. Messer Sr
Galax
Galax Mirror Co
Mount Airy Mirror Co
Mount Airy
Wetzel hunt without any new clues in NC patrol killings
Raleigh police press on as 12 day search for the highway patrol men slayings continues. Frank Edward Wetzel 36 is charged with murder in two warrants. His brother William sits under death sentence for a separate prison slaying in Mississippi. A hitchhiker witness described a 1957 tan and white Ford with Kentucky plates seen after the November 5 incident.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Frank Edward Wetzel
New York State
Mississippi
William
Parchman
Miss
Lemna
Pfe
Wister Lee Reece
Pfe J. T. Brown
North Carolina Patrol
Robert Terry
Norman
Ant
Chattanooga
Kentucky
Snow blankets Rocky Mountain states disrupts travel
A winter storm spread heavy snow across the Rocky Mountain region causing traffic delays and numerous accidents. The Weather Bureau logged six inches in Las Vegas New Mexico five inches in Raton and Alamosa with four inches or more forecast for western Nebraska and Kansas. Wyoming saw heavy mountain snowfall and Pueblo Airport closed due to poor visibility.
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Associated Press
Rocky Mountain
Weather Bureau
Las Vegas
N. M
Raton N. M
Alamosa
Colo
Nebraska
Kansas
Wyoming
Pueblo
Colorado
Colorado Springs
Denver
Michigan
Mississippi Valley
New York
Florida
Rally by Klan Wizard Draws Crowd Near Idol's Crossroads
About 1,000 people gathered at a dim field near Idol's Crossroads for a Ku Klux Klan rally led by the Grand Wizard. The event opened with ten white robed Klansmen handing out literature and ended with a cross burning as the crowd listened to a firebrand sermon attacking newspapers politicians and integration. Deputies maintained order with no incidents reported.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James W. Klann
Jamestown
Posban Cole
Marion
S. C
Bill Jackson
Forrest
Idol's Crossroads
KKK
James
Sheriff's Deputies
North Carolina
Eisenhower
Benedict Arnold
Hodges
Greensboro
Montgomery to retire as allied commander in Europe
Field Marshal Viscount Montgomery will retire as deputy allied commander in Europe next September 20, 1958. SHAPE head Lauris Norstad praised his vast prestige and contributions to European military buildup, and a 300-strong multinational party will honor him at SHAPE near Paris.
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Paris
Viscount Montgomery
Europe
Supreme Headquarters
Allied Powers
Montgomery
Lauris Norstad
Atlantic Alliance
Bom
Norstad
Ee Ee
Serdle
North
Africa
Wees Beene
Egypt
Dwight D. Eisenhower
SHAPE
Space Age Has Volunteers For First Manned Flight
Americans nationwide send offers to join orbit project Vanguard despite official denials and forecasts of years before space travel. Volunteers include a diverse mix from Maine to California with motives ranging from patriotic to personal.
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Washington
America
Maine
California
Vanguard
Project Vanguard
U. S
Democratic Advisory Council urges missile speedup
The Democratic Advisory Council urged faster national effort to outpace the Soviet space push. A special Congress session may be called to fund sped up military and research programs and end inter-service rivalry. The statement, approved by Stevenson and Truman, criticizes Eisenhower broadcasts for lacking a space battle plan.
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Washington
Democratic Advisory Council
Russia
Congress
Council
Adlai Stevenson
Harry S. Truman
Democratic National Committee
Sam Brightman
Stevenson
United States
Denseadle Caanentaka
Department of Defense
Eisenhower
Outer Space
Ike and McElroy to discuss defense cost hike
President Eisenhower and Defense Secretary McElroy will meet in Augusta to decide the size of a defense spending increase needed against the Soviet space era threat. Wilfred J. McNeil will accompany McElroy as a fiscal expert. Dulles discussed French protests over arms shipments to Tunisia by telephone with the president.
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Augusta
Eisenhower
Secretary of Defense
McElroy
Washington
Pentagon
Wilfred J. McNeil
Secretary of State
Dulles
Tunisia
James C. Hagerty
White House
Permanent Council
Fire destroys tenement killing fourteen children in Niagara Falls
A early morning blaze in a three story frame building in Niagara Falls claimed seventeen lives including fourteen children and a 25 year old mother. Investigators tentatively blamed an oil fired steam furnace explosion as the cause while police noted eviction notices for the two families involved. Firefighters found the interior engulfed in flames and prevented access to the upstairs where most victims were found. The injured include several Reid and Ewing family members and Fireman Fred Hurst treated for smoke inhalation.
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Niagara Falls
N. Y
Herbert Reid
Mary Ewing
Howard
Horace Jr
Arline
Gloria Jean
Terry and
Jerry
Bonnie Patricia
Sanford Reid
Walter
Carson
Harvey
William
Sanford Jr
Mary Louise
Horace Ewing Sr
Reid
Louise
Lucille
Leila
Clodine
Lois
Fred Hurst
John J. Dietz
James Bell
Dietz
Frances Haynes
Capt. Dietz
William Dietz
Hunter's Luck in Youngstown Rabbit Hunt
Henry T. Downey shot a rabbit on opening day in Youngstown Ohio and found a $20 bill in the rabbit's mouth. The incident funded his hunting trip as he claimed the prize.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Youngstown
Ohio
Henry T. Downey
White House Social Season Shrinks 1957 58
The White House announces a shorter 1957 58 social season from December 3 1957 to January 30 1958 with two receptions and three state dinners plus a combined diplomatic and military reception. The schedule includes dinners for the Vice President Cabinet Speaker of the House and the Supreme Court. Royal visits and NATO talks cited as reasons for the cutback while dates for Rayburn dinner remain tentative.
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Washington
White House
Morocco
Dee
Eisenhower
House
Supreme Court
Europe
NATO
Sam Rayburn
Texas Democrat
France Britons clash over Tunisian arms dispute
Paris reports a NATO council session failed to settle the Tunisian arms dispute with Britain and the United States. Delegates aim for a conciliation meeting next week while France pushes for exclusive arms supply to Tunisia and warns of impact on Algeria. Italy seeks mediation amid rising NATO concern.
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Paris
France
Britain
United States
NATO
Permanent Council
Christian Pineau
Dulles
Washington
Tunisia
Algeria
U.N
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Arosoniseesla Ae Tani
Frank Roberts
Italy
Stevenson Dulles NATO Talks Slated
Secretary of State Dulles will ask Adlai Stevenson to join in formulating an Allied political and military program to restore confidence in U S leadership amid the Tunisia crisis and missiles race. Discussion aims to win support for basing intermediate range missiles on allied soil and a broader nuclear arms plan. Stevenson, the Democratic nominee, arrives for a Monday meeting.
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Washington
Dulles
Adlai Stevenson
United States
France
Tunisia
Russia
North Atlantic
North Pacific
Stevenson
Eisenhower
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Normandy
Space Age
Massachusetts
Texas
Akron
Wernher von Braun
David G. Simons
Air Force
John P. Stapp
Tunis
Ike
Jack Thomas
John Johnson
England
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