Car Buying Linked to Fund Probe in Senate Hearings
Senate investigators testified that Teamsters funds were used to buy a car for an organizer’s girlfriend in June 1954 for 3115 dollars. Frank Brewster, Western Conference chair, faced questions as Terry McNulty and Gordon Lindey figures emerged, with Beck promising records next Tuesday under constitutional reservations.
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Senate
Teamsters
Pierre Salinger
Senate Rackets
Frank Brewster
Western Conference of
Mary James
Bothell
Wash
Salinger
Miss James
Terry McNulty
McNulty
Brewster
Gordon Lindey
Senators
McClellan
D-Ark
Dave Beck
Teamsters Union
Beck
Bomb scare disrupts Adams murder trial at Old Bailey
London police searched a court room for a bomb during the Dr. John Bodkin Adams murder for profit trial at the Old Bailey. It was the second bomb scare in a week and the only excitement in the session this morning.
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London
John Bodkin Adams
Old Bailey Criminal Court
Workman Killed In Fox Point Sewer Trench Collapse
Milwaukee reports a laborer named John Trezbiatowski about 50 died when clay walls of a five foot trench collapsed in Fox Point. In Madison the Senate rejected a bill to add two legislators to the state radio council after Assembly approval, 71-28, failed 24-8.
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Milwaukee
Fox Point
John Trezbiatowski
Madison
Senate
State Radio Council
Assembly
Radio Council
Suez Canal Clear Possible by April Wheeler Says
Lt General Raymond A Wheeler told UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold that the canal could be cleared by April but traffic decisions would rest with Egypt.
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Cairo
Raymond A. Wheeler
Dag Hammarskjold
Suez Canal
Egypt
Plane crash near Moline claims three lives
Air officials report a twin engine aircraft and a lighter plane, both owned by John Deere and Co, collided on a road near Moline, killing three people. The incident involved a collision between two planes, one of which crashed onto the road.
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Moline
Here
Air
John Deere and Co
Stronger UN Holds Key to Peace
George C. Holt of the United World Federalists spoke in Kenosha on a stronger United Nations as the path to world peace. He urged a UN with power to act, a world police force, disarmament inspections, and a stronger world court, arguing such reforms could curb war and boost global development.
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United World Federalists
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Racine
Rodney Shaw
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Arthur Brodey
Ethel Schwalbe
Richard Lindgren
Joseph Sagat
Enoch House
Roger Merriam
Hermena Hoehn
House Committee Proposes Major Budget Cuts to Labor Welfare
The House Appropriations Committee recommends $2.862 billion for next fiscal year, cutting $118.8 million from the President’s request and trimming public assistance grants to states by $79.4 million to 1.6 billion. The unemployment and employment service grant stands at 262 million, down 8 million from request but up 12 million from this year. Senate has not acted.
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House Appropriations Committee
Labor and Welfare
House
Eisenhower
Senate
Labor Department
Employment Service Administration
Libya to get more aid under Eisenhower Middle East plan
A joint U S Libyan communique announced Libya will receive additional American economic aid under the Eisenhower Middle East doctrine.
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Libya
Tripoli
Birmingham Bus Segregation Test Yields 22 Guilty
Judge Ralph Parker found 22 African Americans guilty of violating Birmingham Alabama bus segregation ordinances. Each defendant was fined 55 dollars plus court costs. The decision followed arrests on December 26 during a deliberate test of the city's segregation rules. Attorney Arthur Shores asked for a week to consider an appeal.
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Birmingham
Ala
Ip— Recorders Court
Ralph Parker
Parker
Arthur Shores
Dag Hammarskjold Opens Talks With Egypt on Suez Crisis
UN Secretary General Dag Hammarskjold arrived in Cairo to press for an Arab Israeli non belligerency pledge and a framework for operating the Suez Canal. He planned meetings with Egyptian leaders including Foreign Minister Mahmoud Fawzi and President Nasser amid ongoing tensions and a boycott by Arab states.
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Dag Hammarskjold
Suez Canal
Middle East
Hammarskjold
Mahmoud Fawzi
Nasser
Egypt
Israel
Gulf of Aqaba
Canal Area
Gaza Strip
Mediterranean
Mighty Mouse Halts 56-Car Freight Train Alone
A field mouse ran onto a Pennsylvania Railroad freight line four miles from Potomac yards and halted a 56 car train by wedging itself between two electrical contacts. The engineman could not throw the switch and the mouse apparently unintentionally stopped the train. Technicians traced the fault fifty six minutes later finding the mouse between the contacts.
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Washington
Pennsylvania Railroad
Potomac Railroad
Assembly votes teachers pension bill amid bitter floor fight
The Wisconsin State Assembly approved a bill 97 to 0 to raise teachers pensions about 20 percent by adding social security coverage for most teachers outside Milwaukee. The measure, already passed by the Senate, faces a retroactive start January 1, 1955, and would cost about $1.1 million annually in state contributions.
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Madison —Sp
State Assembly
Senate
Vernon Thomson
Governor’s Retirement Study Commission
Milwaukee County
Retirement Commission
Wisconsin
Assemblymen
Stockholm Commander Gets Newest Ship Gripsholm
Captain Gun nar Nordenson will command the Swedish America Lines’ newest vessel, the Gripsholm. Nordenson previously led the Stockholm, which collided with the Italian liner Andrea Doria last summer.
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Stockholm
Gunnar Nordenson
Swedish America Lines
Gripsholm
Nordenson
Chamber chief urges postal rate hike for self support
John S. Coleman president of the U S Chamber of Commerce urged today an increase in postal rates to make the post office self supporting.
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Washington
John S. Coleman
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Global flurry of earthquakes defies quiet period
Seismologists note a three year lull in major quakes but report a recent burst across Jamaica, San Francisco Bay, Greece and the Aleutians. A March 9 offshore quake near the Aleutians spawned a seven foot wave and aftershocks that threaten Hawaii. Experts say total annual energy remains steady and next big quake timing is unpredictable.
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Jamaica
San Francisco Bay Area
Adak
Umnak
Hawaii
Ing
California
Ventura
Oxnard
Los Angeles
Santa Barbara
Don Tocher
University of California
Farmers Clash Over Air Bong Base Land Prices
A meeting is set this afternoon to discuss land acquisition for the Bong air base. Rep. Lawrence Smith and Col J B W Corey Jr will join Brighton township farmers and the engineers to recheck appraisals. Farmers north of Highway 43 have until fall to vacate. those south must leave by July 1.
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Bong Air Base
Lawrence Smith
Racine
Brighton Township
Corps of Engineer
Smith
Eugene Sheahan
Col
J. B. W. Corey Jr
Chicago
Corps of Engineers
Lloyd R. Shaid
Engineers
Sales Tax Hearing Date Set in Wisconsin 1957
Madison announces the first public hearing on a two percent sales tax proposal before the state legislature. Sen. Trinke chairing the committee said the hearing Wednesday March 27 will focus on a bill by Sen. Hendee. the plan also envisions a three percent sales tax and income tax elimination with later hearings planned.
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Madison
Wisconsin
Trinke
Lake Geneva
Senate Committee On Labor, Taxation, Insurance and Banking
Hendee
Shorewood
British offer to free Makarios tied to Cyprus violence stance
British officials withheld comment on Archbishop Makarios in Seychelles about London’s proposal to release him from exile if he condemns underground violence in Cyprus.
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Seychelles
Makarios
Britain
Cyprus
Spring Day Temps Dropped Snow Pack Across Kenosha
Temperatures in Kenosha rose to 46 at American Motors 44 downtown and 41 at the sewage plant as snow cover receded. The first day of spring saw 37 in Milwaukee and 44 in Madison with yesterday's high 38 and low 20. Cloudy with possible rain and late snow mixed in south areas tonight into Friday. tonight's low near 30 and Friday's high about 40. Sunrise 5 53 a.m. set 6 04 p.m.
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Kenosha
American Motors
Milwaukee
Madison
Wolfson Romney in Full Accord on AMC Expansion Plans
Detroit reports American Motors Corporation will expand into automotive, appliances, and defense, with George Romney and Louis E. Wolfson in full agreement after a Miami conference. They outlined growth for Kelvinator Appliance, continued Nash and Hudson lines, and a fully planned 1958 program aimed at profitability by early 1958.
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Detroit
American Motors Corporation
George Romney
Romney
Louis E. Wolfson
AMC
Miami
Fla
Wolfson
American Motors
Eisenhower Macmillan Open Talks On Middle East Crisis
President Eisenhower and Prime Minister Macmillan opened formal negotiations in Bermuda focusing on the Middle East crisis including Suez and Egyptian Israeli issues. They met at the Mid Ocean Club with advisers and held a three hour dinner to review world affairs and defense commitments.
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Bermuda
Eisenhower
Macmillan
Middle East
Suez
Mid-Ocean Club
Britain
United States
Free World
Nixon Returns to U S From African Tour
Vice President Nixon flies home after a 22 day African tour with recommendations for increased U S economic and technical aid to countries on the continent.
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Nixon
U. S
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