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Newspaper

Independent

Location

Long Beach, California, United States of America

Date

Apr 23, 1957

Page

5

Embargo Hits Rail Express Deliveries Across Seven Cities

Rail Express Motay imposed an embargo on rail and all express deliveries in seven cities as 4,000 express drivers went on strike. Teamsters walked off at midnight over a proposed wage increase in a three year contract. Picket lines surged at express agencies in Chicago Cleveland Cincinnati Philadelphia St Louis Newark and San Francisco.

Cincago Railway Express Motay International Timberhood of Teamsters Cikies Chicago Cleveland Cincinnati Philadelmia St. Louis Newark Nut San Francisco

Klan to Admit Catholics as Meeting Ends

A Ku Klux Klan officer said in Greenville that the organization voted to admit Catholics at a secret session of the Imperial Council. The council, meeting from 21 states, will announce a new chairman in June. The bishop of Charleston condemned the move as incompatible with Catholic beliefs and said no serious Catholic should join.

Greenville C. Upa Ku Klux Klan Hendrix Cleanwater Fla Imperial Knights of the Kkk Imperial Council John L. Manning South Carolina Anld Saf Charleston Ku Klux Khin

Bus Rams Truck Injuring 41 Aboard on U S Highway 50

A Greyhound bound for San Francisco collided with the end of a heavy truck on U S Highway 50 in Pleasanton California. The crash injured 41 passengers and the driver C L Watking 58 of Oakland glanced at a time schedule when the impact occurred.

Pleasanton Calif U.S. Highway 50 C. L. Watking Oakland Los Angeles

Whale feeds at Palos Verdes Oceanarium

A Marineland of the Pacific attendant discards squid as the lone captive whale is photographed feeding for the first time at the Palos Verdes oceanarium. Normally the mammal watches people through tank portholes, but at lunchtime she comes up for a handout.

Jonah Marineland of the

Knowland Says U S Peniled by Taxes and U N Response

Senator Knowland blasted federal taxes as an excessive burden at a $100 plate Hollywood fundraiser. He urged that rising expenditures threaten free enterprise, criticizing the UN's effectiveness during the Hungarian crisis and noting tax rate disparities and ongoing budget increases.

Hollywood Knowland United States Hollywood Palladium Shew United Nations

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