Youth killer gets 50 years for Palmer murder
In Chicago a teen killer, Joseph Schwartz, 18, was sentenced to 50 years for the hammer attack that killed Alvin Palmer, 17, a high school honor student. The court heard conflicting tales as Schwartz admitted striking Palmer after a gang confrontation while witnesses testified the attack was racially motivated.
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Jamin Adamowski
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Wilbert Crowley
Eisenhower Rules Out Wage Price Controls
President Eisenhower on Wednesday rejected wage price controls as an inflation remedy. He warned such measures would echo socialist predictions and said inflation must be tackled by private business and labor with government policies guiding sound economics. He urged restraint by employers and unions, noted no immediate manpower cuts beyond possible Japan changes, and denied plans to seek nuclear weapon nuclear aid to Britain.
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Eisenhower
Nikita Khrushchev
Japan
London
Congress
Britain
Chou En-lai Admits Blood Bath in China
Chinese Premier Chou En-lai acknowledged in a Congress report that a years long blood bath occurred after 1949 with executions of anti-Communists. He stated 16.8 percent of arrested anti-Communists were executed and warned the dictatorship must stay firm due to US and Nationalist threats amid natural calamities and floods.
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Tokyo
Chou En-lai
China
Chou
Thel
Yellow River
Xangtze
Warsaw
Mao Tse-tung
Peoples Republic
United States
U S Plan to mothball arms gains Soviet support
The United States proposed that the five major nations store substantial amounts of conventional arms in mothballs as a first step toward disarmament. Soviet Deputy Foreign Minister Zorin welcomed the idea in principle, calling it a basis for rapprochement, while Stassen urged lists of weapons to be placed in internationally inspected depots before conversion to peaceful use.
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London
United States
Valerian Zorin
U.S
Stassen
Russia
Britain
France
Zorin
A Loaf of Bread and Hidden Taxes Debate
The piece argues that federal spending spawns many hidden taxes exceeding direct taxes, noting bread bears no sales tax yet incurs thousands in hidden levies. Economists cite over 150 taxes on a loaf in Indiana, with higher hidden costs as goods travel farther from grain states.
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Detroit
Brewster Convicted of Contempt in Senate Inquiry
Federal Judge John J. Sirica found Frank W. Brewster, vice president of the Teamsters Union, guilty on 31 counts of contempt for refusing to testify before the Senate Investigations Subcommittee. Brewster plans to appeal, faces up to a year in jail and $1000 fine, and remains free on $1,000 bond.
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Supreme Court
John J. Sirica
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Government Operations Committee
Sirica
Gulf Gale Crowns 9 in Wreck
Weather reports warned Gulf coast residents as Audrey neared landfall. Nine fishermen were confirmed drowned after the Keturah sank near Galveston while being towed for engine trouble. Coast Guard units fought heavy seas and rising tides as Bolivar Peninsula residents fled inland and Texas shoreline faced flooding. The storm, roughly 235 miles south of Lake Charles, was on a northward track toward Morgan City and High Island with potential landfall by sunset.
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Weather Bureau
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Galveston Island
Rainier Bans Pictures of Pregnant Grace on Forrestal Visit
Prince Rainier of Monaco censored all photographs showing Princess Grace pregnant during a recent visit aboard the U S carrier Forrestal, a decision announced Wednesday as the voyage drew attention to the couple and their public appearances.
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Forrestal
Prince Rainier
Monaco
Grace
California Legion Sees Girard Case Guiding Policy
California American Legion leaders foresee the Girard case influencing national policy. State Commander Leo W Crawford said action at the 39th annual California convention may shape debate for the September national meeting in Atlantic City. Crawford noted California’s large role and its stance on military vs civil court jurisdiction in the Girard killing, a topic tied to broader Legion policy.
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American Legion
Leo W. Crawford
Redwood City
Ann Holtzclaw
California
Girard
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Crawford
Legion
William Girard
Double Electrocution Leaves 10 Fatherless
Ten children were left fatherless after two ranch workers were electrocuted in the San Pasqual Valley, 20 miles northeast of San Diego. William M. Foster, 44, and Carl T. Burkhard, 47, were killed when an irrigation pipe they were moving touched a 12,000 volt power line. Each man left five children. widows survive.
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San Pasqual Valley
Here
William M. Foster
Carl T. Burkhard
Five miners freed from hillside tunnel collapse in Fernwood
In Steubenville area Betsy mine No 3, five veteran coal miners emerged after 14 hours trapped by rock and dirt. Rescue teams using a 200 foot bore, two score workers, and a heavy auger freed them. All were checked and released, with some expressing faith in rescue. The operation unfolded at Powhatan Mining Co’s Fernwood site, a 600 ton per day punch mine.
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Ohio
Fred Sabol
Harrisville
Hank Horvath
Glenn’ Robbins
Martin Bovalske
Mount Pleasant
Betsymine No
Powhatan Mining Co
Fernwood
WM in Kilts for ICWF Swoot Mon
WM Excited for 1958 International Conver tation of Weather Forecasters in Glasgow plans include haggis nets and sporran though wary of flying Weather writer Ehrenburg reports sparking debate as Soviet Russia rebukes his praise of Lydia Seifulina saying truthfulness is rare and hard to find
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Moscow
Ilya Ehren
Easteburg
Soviet Union
Soviet Russia
Ehrenburg
Lydia Seifulina
Clergymen Misfits, Supermen Expectation Cited
A former Methodist minister complains that many clergymen are misfits and that congregations demand pastors to be supermen. The piece appears on page A-14. The British Medical Association plans no action against a doctor who said on TV he deliberately let two patients die, per page A-12.
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British Medical Assn
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