Navy Hunts For Bodies After Pacific Stratocruiser Vanishes
Sixty four people aboard the Pan American Stratocruiser Romance of the Skies are missing after vanishing near Honolulu. Navy and Coast Guard units recovered seventeen bodies from debris in an 11 by 3 mile search area 955 miles northeast of Honolulu. Investigators in San Francisco review plane records as crews seek why the four engine airliner vanished at 10 000 feet over calm seas with modern radios active.
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Honolulu
Navy
Pacific
Philippine Sea
Epperson
Renishaw
Coast Guard
Bering Strait
San Francisco
Pan American and
Civil Aeronautics Board
Abel Gets 30 Years For Spying
Rus sian Col Rudolf Abel, the highest ranking Soviet spy ever caught in the United States, was sentenced in Brooklyn to 30 years in prison and an $8,000 fine. He faced the possibility of the death penalty but received a long prison term after his conviction on three counts including conspiracy to transmit national defense information.
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New York
Rudolf I. Abel
Mortimer W. Byers
Brooklyn
U.S. Atty
William Tompkins
Byers
Abel
James Donovan
U.S
Russia
Donovan
Weather forecast for Miami Valley and Middletown
The forecast calls for showers tonight and a cold weekend with dry air lowering temperatures by Saturday night. Today will be partly cloudy and mild with a high near 64. Tonight clouds bring some rain, a low around 41. Saturday remains cloudy with rain, cooler late day, and continued cold through Sunday. Middletown reports a high of 62 and a 35 low with .15 inches of rain yesterday and 1.37 inches over the past two days.
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Miami Valley
Middletown
A Girl Needs Expense Money in Hartford
A first grade girl asked a shopkeeper for a five cent candy and was told no. The bill brought her school principal and later her mother to resolve the misunderstanding. The money was discovered in a home drawer where the mother had planned to deposit it later.
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Hartford
Conn
Water Turns Booze Into Colorful Mix
Utah official notes unknown cause for a wife’s report that adding well water to her husband’s whisky turned the drink black and resembled crankcase drippings. The state analyst found bacterial content but says chemical causes fall outside his agency’s scope. He jokes abstinence or martinis as possible solutions.
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Salt Lake City
Lynn M. Thatcher
Utah State Health Department
Bureau of Sanitation
Thatcher
Army Sees January Readiness for Space Travelers
Maj. Gen. John B. Medaris, head of the Army Ballistic Missile Agency, said the Army may launch space travelers by January after revamping Jupiter-C vehicles. He noted three to nine Jupiter-C test units exist at Redstone Arsenal, but added the launcher must be equipped with four or more engines. Army satellites are being built at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California.
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Washington
John B. Medaris
Army Ballistic Missile Agency
Medaris
Army
Redstone Arsenal
Huntsville
Ala
Jet Prussion Laboratory
California
Mobster Convention at Apalachin Draws Uninvited Guests
State police and U S Treasury agents broke up a convention said to be held by mobster Vito Genovese and 64 associates at a hilltop retreat near Apalachin New York. Sixty five men from several states and territories were detained then released after identification. The group, described as the hierarchy of the eastern criminal world, included DeMarco Cannone Civello Osticco DeSimone Bonanno and Coletti among others. Authorities said the gathering appeared for an unlawful purpose and set roadblocks to surround the site.
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Apalachin
N.Y
U.S Treasury
Vito Genovese
New York
Edgar Croswell
State Police Bureau of Criminal Investigation
New Jersey
Ohio
California
Texas
Colorado
Pennsylvania
Puerto Rico
Cuba
Croswell
Ffield
Genovese
Atlantic Highlands
N.J
Thomas E. Dewey
Albert Anastasia
John Antthony DeMarco
Shaker Heights
Ovie Scozzari
San Gavriel Calif
Joseph F. Civello
Dallas
Tex
Jamesa. Osticco
Pittston
Frank DeSimone
Downey
Calif
Joseph Bonanno
Brooklyn
Ignatius Cannone
Endicott
Roy Carlisi
Buffalo
James Coletti
Pueblo
Colo
Eastern Seaboard
Treasury Department
Binghamton
France protests British and American arms to Tunisia
Paris protests to London and Washington over Western arms shipments to Tunisia accusing allies of behind the scenes decision making. France withdraws from NATO assembly after the walkout and warns about Atlantic solidarity.
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Paris
France
Britain
Tunisia
Herve Alphand
Washington
U.S
North Africa
London
Jean Chauvel
Chauvel
Selwyn Lloyd
NATO Parliamentary Assembly
Egypt
United States
NATO
Pierre Schneiter
Charman
Sen. Kefauver
D-Tenn
U.N. Assembly
Suez Canal Zone
Christian Pineau
Kansas City Star to Divest Radio TV Holdings
A consent decree signed in Federal District Court requires the Kansas City Star to divest its radio and television properties and end certain business practices the government charged as monopolistic.
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Kansas City
Federal District Court
Kansas City Star
Bowling outing ends without lost balls
Two women return from their first bowling attempt. The husband of one, an avid golfer, asks how it went. She replies that at least they did not lose any balls.
Budget Cuts Hard To Find As Eisenhower Seeks Savings
Washington reports budget writers face a December 15 deadline to draft a 1959-60 plan. Officials say no firm cuts yet, with targets including agricultural programs and postal rates to save hundreds of millions. Defense may shift emphasis but overall foreign aid stays protected. The four weeks ahead will probe cuts in natural resources housing labor and welfare.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Oklahoma City
Congress
Defense Department
Wilfred J. McNeil
Senate probes Squillante on New York garbage rackets
Vincent Squillante faces the Senate Rackets Committee to answer questions on mob control of New York garbage collection. Testimony cites protection by Teamsters Local 813 and mentions Albert Anastasia as a key underworld figure. Local stores report forced switches to unionized haulers and higher costs. Nunzio Squillante invokes the Fifth Amendment amid broader racketeering allegations.
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Nunzio Squillante
Senate
Rackets Committee
New York
Squillante
Washington
Vincent
Jimmy) Squillante
Senate Rackets Committee
McuUleland+ ATK
Albert Anastasia
Murder, Inc
Teamsters
Nunzio
Long Island
Squillantes
Mafia
Miracle Mile
Anderson
Bakers Are Kicked Out of AFL-CIO
Washington report says the Bakery Workers Union was suspended from the AFL-CIO after the Executive Council order that it clean house and curb corrupt influences. The union’s leadership refusals to bar James G. Cross from running and to reinstate Curtis R. Sims led to the action with Sims saying he would seek the secretary-treasurer post amid prior Senate scrutiny.
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Washington
AFL Cio
Bakery Workers Union
Afl-Cio
George Meany
Bakery Workers Executive Board
Afl-Cio Executive Council
Meany
James G. Cross
Curtis R. Sims
Cross
Senate Backets Committee
Bakery Workers’ Board
Sims
Fed Cuts Discount Rates to Boost Economy
The Federal Reserve Board lowered discount rates in four regions from 3.25 percent to 3 percent, signaling a shift toward easier credit. The move aims to aid banks in lending to business and consumers while denying a looming recession, with similar cuts expected across other districts.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Tate
Federal Reserve
Atlanta
New York
Richmond
St. Louis
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Tunis
Bulletin
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Probers
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