Tony Ducks Linked To Hoffa In Wiretap Probe
The Senate Rackets Investigation Committee aired a secretly tapped call in which racketeer Tony Corallo urged contact with Jimmy Hoffa over a Teamsters labor dispute. Corallo invoked the Fifth Amendment, while the NYPD identified his voice, detailing efforts to prevent Local 522 from splitting into two locals.
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Senate
Tony
Ducks
Corallo
Alfred Reger
Jimmy Hoffa
Teamsters
New York
Police Department
Natale Laurendi
Roger
Jimmy
New Jersey Teamsters Council
Hoffa
Detroit
Dave Ey
Teamstess National
Reger
Harold Gibbons
St. Louis
Einar Mohn
Robert Kennedy
Kennedy
Freddie
Gardener learns balance of flowers and weeds
A lighthearted note suggests true gardening requires both love for blooms and disdain for weeds. The quip frames gardening as a discipline balancing beauty with removal of intruders.
NYC Freight Derailment Rips Tracks Near Armco Steel
Ten loaded coal cars derailed along the New York Central main line near Yankee Road gate Armco Steel tearing four track sets and 75 feet of rails. Conductor R. J. Gary from Sharonville. truck bolster on car 65 blamed. About 50 workers and three large hooks responded. freight traffic northbound from Cincinnati canceled and passenger trains rerouted via B&O lines. Officials warned heavy traffic as perishables resume movement north from Cincinnati later today.
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New York Central Railroad
Yankee Road
Armco Steel Corp
R. J.gary
Sharonville
New York Central
Bellefontaine
Robert W Fishbaugh
Nyc
Cincinnati
Baltimore & Ohio
Winton Place
Dayton
Middletown
Franklin Junction
Hutchins
Dayston Power & Light Co
Mire
Fishbaugh
23 Die In Red Plane Disaster
Copenhagen authorities reported 23 dead in a Soviet twin engine airliner crash near the harbor. Sixteen bodies were recovered and 16 survivors were taken from the scene as rescue teams prepared to raise the wreck from 18 feet of water. Victims include three West Germans, two Britons, a Norwegian and an American.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Hanging Clouds
Eas
Copenhagen Fire and Rescue Service
Typhoon Agnes Nears Okinawa
A powerful typhoon named Agnes sweeps past the Philippines and heads toward Okinawa. The Manila Weather Bureau reports center winds of 100 mph, located about 780 miles east of northern Luzon, moving northwest at 10 mph.
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Manila
Agnes
Philippines
Okinawa
Senseless Maplesville Raid by Klansmen Shocks Town
In Maplesville Alabama four fifths white town, Klansmen beat six Black residents on a bench and in the street, forced four to run, fired pistol shots, and burned robes parading through town. Victims include Virgil Brewster and Will Brown, with fear of exodus and local officials debating response.
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Maplesville
Ala
Ku Klux Klan
Tmen
Raymond Stremming
Earnest Goree
Will Brown
Goree
Henry Clay Nix
Davidson Hargis
Virgil Brewster
Brewster
Enterprising shop hosts crowd. floor collapses in Japan
In Nakanojo a bicycle shop owner set up a television on the second floor inviting customers to watch a wrestling show. About eighty people gathered. midway through the first bout the floor gave way injuring one person and smashing the TV set.
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Nakanojo
Japan
House Slashes Foreign Aid By 809 Million Dollars
The Full House Appropriations Committee cut 809 650 000 from foreign aid funds despite Eisenhower pleas. The move leaves 2 524 760 000 in new overseas spending for the year with a 667 050 000 carryover, far below the president's requested needs and prompting warnings of a possible special session.
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Washington
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
White House
Congress
U. S
Martin
Massachusetts
Subcommittee
Weather Outlook for Miami Valley Turns Hot and Humid
The Miami Valley is forecast for hot sticky conditions with scattered afternoon and evening thunder squalls. Expect partly cloudy skies with showers, a high near 95 and low about 70, then Friday similar warmth and another shower risk with a 93 degree high. Middletown's high yesterday reached hot levels with a 2 30 p m reading and 69 degree low at 6 am.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
Vaccine Price Fixing Seen In Salk Program
Washington AP A House subcommittee says the government acted without economy or efficiency in its handling of the 50 million dollar Salk polio vaccine program and found possible price fixing in vaccine sales. It cites identical bids and lack of cost discovery, urges Justice to broaden its inquiry to other drugs and hospital supplies. Six manufacturers produce the vaccine under license.
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House
Justice Department
Rep
Fountain
D-Nc
Public Health
The
Health Service
National Foundation For
Subcommittee
Welfare Department
Public Health Service
Greek boy dies aboard ship blamed on Asiatic flu
A 17 year old Greek exchange student, Nicholas Memmos, died after landing in New York aboard the Arosa Sky. An autopsy cited bronchial pneumonia in fluenzal type, while officials warned autopsy alone cannot define flu type and await laboratory confirmation.
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New York
Nicholas Memmos
Arosa
Benjamin M. Vance
Memmos
Orient
Vance
United States
Memmes
Kefauver Flags Steel Price Increases Raising Costs
Sen Kefauver reported that steel price hikes in the last 12 months boosted industry profits and lifted U S Steel's annual gross revenue by about 300 million dollars. He noted buyers will pay roughly half a billion more each year for steel and questioned the combined cost impact amid wage rises and price increases.
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Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
U.S. Steel Corp
Senate Antitrust Subcommittee
Roger M. Blough
Us, Steel
U.S
United Steelworkers
U.S. Steel
Nehru Presses Unity Amid India's Independence Day
Prime Minister Nehru marks ten years of independence with a call for national unity to face political and economic challenges. He says India must be a friend to all nations and that war with Pakistan over Kashmir or any issue is unthinkable.
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New Delhi
Nehru
India
Pakistan
Kashmir
Rescuer Also Saved Mattress Keeps Grandma Afloat
A 70 year old grandmother Ruth Nelson of Bradenton Florida was carried overboard when the Janeen capsized off Miragoane Haiti. Bill Dozier 17 of Sarasota swam to reach Mrs Nelson then stayed with her on a soaking mattress while they prayed until dawn. A fishing boat rescued them and later rescued Dozier.
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Bernardport AU Prince
Haiti
Caribbean
Ruth Nelson
Bradenton
Fla
Nelson
Janeen
Miragoane
John Shuler
First Methodist Church
Paris
Tex
Bill Dozier
Sarasota
Mrs. Nelson
Bill
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