Steel Talks At Impasse In Steel Contract Clash
New York AP United Steelworkers Union convened its 33 member executive board to address an impasse in steel contract talks with industry leaders. With a potential strike four days away, union chief Mc Donald demanded higher wages and benefits while industry officials, led by R. Conrad Cooper, refused wage concessions.
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New York
United Steelworkers Union
David J. McDonald
McDonald
Eisenhower
Steelworkers
Hoffa vows to act after probe ends in Senate clash
Hoffa tells Senate Labor Committee he has power to clean up the Teamsters now but will act only after the panel ends its investigation. Kennedy calls the promise hopeless while McClellan cites mob ties. Hoffa notes $58,636 invested in an anti racketeering panel led by ex senator Bender, who has found no hoodlums to oust.
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Washington
Senate Labor Management Committee
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Hoffa
John F. Kennedy
D-Mass
Kennedy
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
Senator Kennedy
Teamster
George H. Bender
Ohio
Bender
Goldstein
Satchmo Wants Out Of Hospital
SPOLETO Italy AP Louis Armstrong's condition improved after pneumonia. Satchmo told a hospital attendant I want to blow this joint as he slept. His nurse said his temperature stayed normal, and he sat up with visitors, tapping a pretend trumpet and humming The Sunny Side of the Street.
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Spoleto
Italy
Louis Armstrong
Satchmo
King of
Arias Awaits Wife In Rio
Roberto Arias, once Panama’s ambassador to London, arrives in Rio de Janeiro as a political exile awaiting his wife, Dame Margot Fonteyn. Fonteyn travels from London after learning he left Panama safely, following two months in refuge at the Brazilian embassy.
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Rio DE Janeiro
Brazil
Roberto Arias
Panama
Margot Fonteyn
Arias
London
Miss Fonteyn
Leaders Talk It Over At Seaway Dedication Ride
Queen Elizabeth listens as President Eisenhower chats with her aboard a car departing St Hubert Air Force Base for St Lambert Quebec during the official dedication of the St Lawrence Seaway. AP wirephoto.
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Queen Elizabeth
Eisenhower
St. Hubert Air Force Base
St. Lambert
Quebec
St. Lawrence Seaway
Queen Elizabeth II Visits St Lawrence Power Project
Queen Elizabeth II arrives in Cornwall Ontario aboard Britannia to mark the St Lawrence power project with a ceremony at Eisenhower Lock and Moses-Saunders Dam. Vice President Nixon and Gov. Rockefeller plan to greet the royals and speak as potential 196 Republican presidential contenders.
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Cornwall
Ont
Elizabeth II
Britannia
St. Lawrence Seaway
Eisenhower
Massena
N.Y
St. Lawrence
Washington
Richard M. Nixson
New York
Nelson A. Rockefeller
Prince Philip
Eisenhower Lock
Moses-Saunders Dam
Nixon
Rockefeller
Elizabeth
Jets Crash In Texas Four Killed In Dual Mishaps
SAN ANTONIO AP two jet planes crashed on opposite sides of San Antonio within 40 minutes Friday night killing four men. An RB66 reconnaissance bomber crashed atop a steep rocky hill about 20 miles northwest of the city. A T33 trainer burned after crashing one mile north of Lavernia, 26 miles southeast of San Antonio. First Lt Roy B Owings Jr identified as T33 pilot. He left a widow Linda and two childrenAnna 3 and Roy D I.
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San Antonio
Tex
Here
Lavernia
Homestead Air Force Base
Miami
Fla
Roy B. Owings Jr
Homestead
Oakland
Calif
Owings
Linda
Anna
Roy D. I
Great Falls
S.C
Seaway Stamps On Sale Today
Washington AP reports a joint issue by the United States and Canada of Seaway stamps. The stamps mark the first identical design issued by both nations and go on sale today at American post offices and Dominion offices after a Friday launch in Massena New York and Ottawa during the Seaway dedication.
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Washington
United States
Canada
Massena
N.Y
Ottawa
Seaway
U.S
Dominion
Exhausted Mrs. Klumpp Faces More Questioning
In Cincinnati facing a first degree murder trial, 41-year-old Edythe Klumpp endures lengthy cross examination over the death of Louise Bergen. She claims Bergen was accidentally shot during a struggle for a gun in the Klumpp car and denies harming Bergen. The state alleges Klumpp killed Bergen to wed Bergen’s husband.
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Cincinnati
Edythe Klumpp
Louise Bergen
Hamilton County
Harry C. Schoettmer
Electric power project highlights cross border cooperation
Festivities celebrate an electric power generating complex built jointly by Americans and Canadians. Unlike the seaway, this project was realized by New York and Ontario authorities, not federal governments. Canadian reporters cover Elizabeth’s Canadian tour with about seventy correspondents abroad.
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Seaway
State of
New York
Ontario
St Lawrence power project hailed as great engineering feat
The St Lawrence power project ranks among the world’s top hydroelectric schemes, with more than one billion kilowatts generated. Former President Herbert Hoover called it the greatest engineering project, as 32 generators spin from the 92 foot drop along the border at Ogdensburg and Cornwall. A marker at the Canadian U.S. border atop the dam awaits unveiling by Elizabeth.
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St. Lawrence
Canada
Herbert Hoover
Grand Coulee
Columbia River
Washington State
St. Lawrence River
Ogdensburg
N.Y
Cornwall
Unt
Steelworkers Union to resume talks with regular bargaining team
Bulletin from New York reports the Steelworkers Union agreed to restart contract negotiations with the industry's standard bargaining team, aiming to press forward toward a settlement.
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New York
Steelworkers Union
Flying bank robber Sprenz sent to Alcatraz Pr ison
Cincinnati AP reports Frank Lawrence Sprenz the 29 year old fugitive who evaded the FBI for almost a year is in Alcatraz Prison today. He was sentenced to 25 years for the $25 995 robbery of the First National Bank Hamilton last March 2.
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Sprenz
Alcatraz
Cincinnati
Frank Lawrence Sprenz
FBI
Altman
First National Bank Hamilton
Air Crash Scene In Italy Is Sealed Off
A three mile zone around the Milan crash site was sealed by an armored car regiment and police as an inquiry began into the Trans World Airlines Constellation disaster that killed 68 aboard. Investigators from the US and Italy, aided by TWA, reviewed lightning and mechanical failure theories while relatives were kept away from the wreckage.
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Italy
Milan
U.S
TWA
Salvatore Petrucci
Akron Strikers Ordered Back
About 40 workers at General Tire and Rubber Co in Akron were ordered back to work by United Rubber Workers Local 9. The wildcat strike shut down the truck tire department from Thursday midnight over production rates, and the company refused to discuss the grievance until workers return.
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Akron, Ohio
General Tire and Rubber Co
United Rubber Workers Local 9
Wildcat
Thempany
Governor Earl K Long to rest after release from mental hospitals
In Covington Louisiana Governor Earl K Long, fresh from 27 days in two mental hospitals, agrees to a week of rest at a country motel under a doctors ordered regimen. A medical team will control his routine, ban press contact, and limit visitors as he plans to resume campaigning with about 100 speeches.
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Covington
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Long
State Hospital Board
Jesse Bankston
Charles Belcher
Southeast Louisiana
Mandeville
Russell
Bankston and Belcher
John Nick Brown
Brown
E.P. Roy
Mote
Cuba Breaks Diplomatic Ties With Trujillo Regime
Havana reports a severed diplomatic relationship as Fidel Castro accuses the Dominican Republic of suppressing its people and massacring prisoners while Trujillo’s regime claims Cuba aided a subversive invasion. Both sides blame the other for the clash.
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Havana
Fidel Castro
Rafael Trujillo
Dominican Republic
Castro
Trujillo
Cuba
Ciudad Trujillo
Porfirio Herera Baez
Embattled Briton Not Licked Yet
Briton Bill Wheal defied a coastal eviction by declaring his Shoreham home an independent state within the Commonwealth. He posted five armored cars, erected a six foot wall, and refused to surrender, prompting a High Court injunction. He then relocated to Devon to continue his campaign.
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London
Bill Wheal
Shoreham
Sussex
Wheal
County Council
Devon
Lightning Fire Destroys Utica Grain Elevator
Firemen said a bolt of lightning started a blaze that gutted the interior of a 75 foot grain elevator in Utica last Friday night. Assistant Fire Chief Don Myers estimated damage at $100,000 with no injuries reported.
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Newark, Ohio
Utica
Don Myers
Helen Keller Turns 79 Amid Quiet Birthday in Easton
EASTON, Conn. AP Helen Keller who has been deaf and blind most of her life is 79 today. She planned a low key day filled with reading and writing. Born in Tuscumbia, Alabama she lost her sight and hearing after an illness before age two and learned through braille a touch system and her companion Polly Thompson who is 74. Thompson has been ill since December so Keller canceled any celebration.
Tax Cuts Postponed Till 1960 Compromise Reaches Congress
Washington AP reports a compromise tax bill would delay cuts in the 10 percent federal tax on phone charges and taxes on passenger transport until 1960. Conferees propose continuing wartime rates for a year, with June 30 1960 as a new review point, while repealing local phone taxes and parts of passenger transport taxes only on that date. President’s budget remains balanced. Rayburn rejects higher gasoline taxes to fund highways.
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Hoffa
Sam Goldstein
New York Local 239
Washington
Senate
House
Congress
Senate House
Sam Rayburn
Dtex
Eisenhower
Rayburn
Ohio VFW Raps Court’s Supreme Decision Influence
Delegates to the Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars convention in Columbus vote on a resolution tied to a 1952 contempt of the Ohio Un-American Activities Commission case. Anna Morgan, a Columbus woman fined $500, challenged questions on alleged Communist activity after a 1952 conviction. The VFW cites Supreme Court rulings that it says favor ideologies aimed at overthrowing the U.S. government, arguing they hinder suppression of communism.
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Columbus
Ohio
Ohio Veterans of Foreign Wars Convention
U.S. Supreme Court
Anna Morgan
Morgan
Ohio Un-American Activities Commission
VFW
Supreme Court
United States
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