Contempt Proceedings Set Against Teamsters Officials
Senate investigators move to hold AFL CIO Teamsters leaders in contempt over alleged use of union funds for a luxury home for Dave Beck and other personal uses. Chairman McClellan plans to subpoena Beck and reconvene hearings, as executives like Einar Mohn Frank Brewster and Nugent La Poma refuse to answer.
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Washington (P
Senate
Afl-Cio
Teamsters
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Teamster
Dave Beck
Jake
Macclellan
Beck
Einar O. Mohn
The
Frank W. Brewster
Nugent la Poma
Seattle
Wash
McClellan
Iowa Official Jailed Over 67 Cent Hair Cream Theft
Iowa Insurance Commissioner Oliver P. Bennett was arrested for petty larceny and resisting arrest after allegedly taking a 67-cent tube of hair cream from a Des Moines drugstore. Bennett denied the charge as fantastic and said arrest stemmed from mistaken identity. police intended to press charges.
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Des Moines
Iowa
U.P
Oliver P. Bennett
Bennett
Thehharge
Ray Couch
Howard Eide
Couch
Robert Buckroyd
Eide
United Press
Buckroyd
Senate probes unions for funds misuse and racketeering risk
The Senate Committee led by Senator McClellan asks unions to present evidence that they are not abusing funds or engaging in racketeering. It argues unions should disclose information similar to corporate stockholders rights, urging member access to such accountability. Continued on Page A-2.
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Senate Committee
McClellan
Senate
Fear Plot to Topple Gomulka
Washington officials warned that Poland ballots could trigger anti Communist uprisings across eastern Europe. They feared a rigged election might topple Gomulka and ignite protests resembling Hungary’s 1956 bloodshed, possibly spreading from local precincts to eastern Germany.
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Gomulka
Washington
Poland
Europe
United Workers (Communist) Party
Hungary
Germany
One Man on Jets Globe Hop Made Trip Backwards
Airman Eugene Priess, 21, tail gunner on a B 52 bomber, completed a round the world flight in 45 hours but flew the trip backwards. Maj. Salvador Felices, the pilot, said Priess refused frontward formation with tail gunners in the other planes. Priess hails from Ballwin Missouri.
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Merced
Eugene Priess
Priess
Maj
Salvador Felices
Ballwin
Young usher leads 600 children to safety as Huron theater burns
Six hundred youngsters evacuated a Huron theater after a fire broke out. A 17 year old usher Mike Bezenek signaled the crowd and led marching lines while projectionist Karl Horton helped carry children from the building. Manager Palmer Johnson was treated for shock and smoke inhalation. Firefighters fought the blaze. cause unknown.
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Horton
Huron
Johnson
Berenek
Death on Naval Plane at Sand Point in Snow
A Los Angeles area crew member helped prepare 50 aboard for a possible crash as a four engine R5D transport from the Sand Point Naval Air Station Seattle bounced, overturned, and burned on a snow covered runway during a third landing attempt. No serious injuries were reported.
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Los Alamitos
Seattle
Sand Point Naval Air Station
Puppy Found Alive in Debris After Navy Plane Crash
Hours after a Navy transport crash at Seattle Sand Point, 44 passengers and six crewmen were accounted for and unharmed. A five week old puppy was found under a seat in the wreckage, unharmed, sheltered by base personnel until its owner can claim it.
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Seattle
Sand Point Naval Air Station
Navy plane crash near Lake Washington narrowly avoided disaster
Waiting crash crews were credited by Navy officials with preventing a heavy loss of life. The aircraft twice approached the runway at the air station on Lake Washington in northeast Seattle. The first attempt did not touch down, the second bounced into the air, and on a third pass it skidded sideward causing damage.
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Navy
Lake Washington
Seattle
Eisenhower Begins Second Term With Quiet White House Oath
President Eisenhower takes a brief Sunday oath to begin his second term in a quiet White House ceremony. Public pomp awaits Monday with a Capitol ceremony, parade, and inaugural balls. Delegations and crowds converge on Washington for a lighter, humdrum inauguration atmosphere than four years ago.
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Eisenhower
White House
West Point
Washington
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Capitol
National Capital
Strike Ends in Torrance After 7-Week Walkout
A 7 week strike against National Supply Co in Torrance ends for 900 Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers Union Local 128 members. 87 percent ratified the 3 year contract reached last Tuesday. The agreement includes 15 cent per hour raise first year and automatic increases of 7 to 10 cents in years two and three.
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Torrance
Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers, Union
D. D. Brymer
Union International
Carson St
Border Ave
Why Car Insurance Rates Rose Here
Long Beach police data show 37 percent of 1956 accident participants were under 25, with 41 percent in the 26 to 45 group. Unmarried young men are cited as high risk, aided by servicemen and higher claim costs, prompting a 53 percent rate hike locally.
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James A. Allen
Long Beach
Police Record Bureau
Weygand Turns 90 Amid World War II Remembrance
General Maxime Weygand, commander of France during the 1940 defeat, celebrated his 90th birthday on a Saturday in Paris, marking a long life of wartime leadership and postwar reflections.
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Paris
Maxime Weygand
Wehrmacht
Inaugural Radio TV Timetable Broadcast Schedule
Schedule lists radio and television broadcasts for President Eisenhower's inauguration. Radio channels include KABC KFI KNX and KHJI at 8 9 and 9:30 a m. TV coverage on CBS NBC and ABC channels 2 4 and 7 beginning at 8 a m.
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Eisenhower
Hungarian rebels Dudas and Szabo executed in crackdown
Vienna report says Jozsef Dudas and Janos Szabo, top leaders of the Hungarian uprising, were hanged after a six day trial by a military tribunal. The court found they sought to overthrow the Hungarian Peoples Democracy by armed uprising.
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Vienna
Budapest
Jozsef Dudas
All- Hungary Revolutionary Council
Janos Szabo
Hungarian Peoples Democracy
Hungarian Supreme Court
Dudas
All- Hungarian Revolution Committee
Counterrevolutionaries
Communist Party
Romani
Szabo
Janos Kadar
Hungary
Seven Long Beach Charter Changes Move to Senate for Ratification
In Sacramento on Saturday the Assembly ratified seven Long Beach City Charter amendments from the November ballot with no dissent. Assemblymen Klockstein and Grant led the measure, with Bruce Allen requesting two attorneys' opinions on Prop BB. The charter amendment allows negotiation of oil production contracts not on tidelands and prior to the March 5, 1954, effective date of the bidding rule.
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Sacramento
Long Beach
Senate
Herbert R. Klockstein
Assembly
W. S. Grant
Bruce Allen
San Jose
Assembly Journal
Tidelands
Journal
Allen
City Aftor
Elvis discovery story linked to carnival figure on B-7
A note points readers to Page B-7 for how a former carnival pitchman uncovered Elvis Presley as a major find. The paper also flags inauguration features across Pages A-3 to A-5 and a spread of regular sections and menus listed by page.
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Carnival
Elvis Presley
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NBC
ABC
Channel 7
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L.B. OK
Malcolm Epley
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