Southern Californians Push Rivals for Attorney General
Early results from Southern California show tight races for attorney general with figures from 26,363 precincts reporting. Key contenders include Democratic candidates Hilings and McCarthy and Republican Weinberger, Mosk, and Planteen, as counts narrow the gap toward a likely outcome.
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Dixiecrats Seize Alabama Control in Runoff Returns
In Birmingham, States' rights Democrats regained control of Alabama party affairs, boosting prospects for a 1960 bolt. Complete runoff returns show 39 seats on the 72-member executive committee, enabling repeal of the loyalty oath. Atty Gen John Patterson won a landslide governor’s nomination with 812,457 votes to 247,509. Albert Boutwell was named lieutenant governor and Bettye Frink secretary of state, marking a rare female statewide winner in Alabama.
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Cohen Lie Test Finds No Takers
Los Angeles reports that Mickey Cohen declined a private lie detector test in his bid to dispute narcotics allegations. U.S. Attorney Laughlin Waters called the test imperfect science, while U.S. District Judge Thurmond Clarke cautioned against accepting lie detectors in court. The first witness, Yara W. Chappell, head of the Federal Narcotics Bureau, testified Cohen punched him in March during a dispute over a frame charge, saying there was insufficient evidence linking Cohen to narcotics.
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Gale, Interstate Petroleum Ex Leader Dead in Chicago
Phillip J. Gale once president of Interstate Petroleum Co died of a heart attack in the bathroom of his Gold Coast apartment in Chicago. He had a prior heart attack at his Miami Beach home seven weeks earlier. burglars looted his Florida home of about $40,000 in jewels on May 13 while he was convalescing, and he returned to Chicago only Tuesday after retiring when he sold the firm to Standard Oil due to illness.
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