Iced Wings Force Flier Down on U.S.-Rome Hop
An American pilot trying to set a new nonstop distance record for light planes ditched his ice-coated Mooney Mark 20 in the Atlantic off Spain while en route from Galveston to Rome. William Wyatt, 2 year-old ex Marine from Dallas, was rescued by a Spanish fishing vessel and unharmed. He planned a 5,693 mile flight but bad winds and wing ice caused the crash 850 miles from Rome. his backers questioned if a record was achieved.
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Coruna
Spain
Atlantic Ocean
Galveston
Tex
Rome
William Wyatt
Dallas
Wyatt
U.S
Willam P. Odom
Honolulu
Teterboro
Atlante
Bordeaux
France
A de Compostela
Ex-Labor Czar William De Koning Sr Dies in Hospital
William C. De Koning Sr., 59, once a Long Island labor czar who was jailed for extortion in 1954, died today at Nassau County Hospital after five weeks of liver illness.
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Mineola
N. Y
William C. de Koning Sr
Long Island
Nassau County Hospital
Quarrel Over Home Sale Ends in Gunfire in Chicago Suburb
Chicago police said a quarrel over selling a family Oak Park home led to gunfire. Frank Kane aged 64 wounded his son Joseph Kane 31 five times. the son was in fair condition at an Oak Park hospital. The dispute involved a pre divorce settlement with Mary Kane.
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Chicago
Frank Kane
Joseph Kane
Oak Park
Kane
Mary
Recorded Talk Critical Of Reuther UAW Ruled Unacceptable
Herbert V. Kohler of Kohler Co recorded a Kohler Forum speech critical of Walter Reuther and the UAW which Mutual Broadcasting System attorneys ruled unacceptable for broadcast due to potential defamation risks. The program aired on about 120 stations, with Kohler presenting the management view of the Wisconsin plant strike ongoing since April 1954.
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South Bend
Ind
Walter Reuther
United Auto Workers
Mutual Broadcasting System
Herbert V. Kohler
Kohler Co
Kohler
Wis
Clarence F. Manion
Notre Dame University
Manion Forum
Manion
Mutual
Mutual Law
Yers
Opinon
UAW
Wisconsin
Fourth Portage County Slaying Victim Found
In Ravenna Ohio a man with a crushed skull was found in a pasture near Rockwell East road three miles northwest of town. Charles F Lester 38 of Canton identified. he had recent prison record and was released from Mansfield Reformatory. Coroner says death likely occurred near 4 am with body dumped in field.
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Ravenna
Ohio
Here
Portage County
Rockwell East Road
Charles F. Lester
Canton
Mansfield Reform
Trainmen vote on health security plan for 1958
CHICAGO General chairmen of the Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen and Enginemen voted to establish a health security program in 1958. H E Gilbert international president announced a 7 cent an hour wage boost to be paid Nov 1 1957 and a 7 cent an hour increase on health and medical plan Nov 1 1958 as part of a three year contract signed in 1956 with the railroads.
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Chicago
Brotherhood of Locomotive
H.E. Gilbert
International
Gilbert
Kennedy outlines antiunion tactics in typical case
Kennedy described a sequence where a company learns employees may form a union and hires a lawyer to seed a spurious antiunion committee. A plant survey, firings of pro union workers, pay raises for organizers, and a staged election would lead to a rejected union. If needed a rival union could be recognized and sign a sweetheart contract.
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Kennedy
Shefferman
Farmers To Pay Fines For Benson Briggers
Farmers in Parma Missouri raise funds to cover fines for five South Dakota farmers who threw eggs at Ezra Benson during a October 10 visit to a corn picking contest. A spokesman said the act was not condoned but the sentiment behind it. Parma lies in New Madrid County, a Democratic stronghold.
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Parma
Missouri
Secy
Ezra Benson
South Dakota
Benson
New Madrid County
NAACP Denies Paying Children to Attend Central High School
The NAACP denied rumors that nine Negro students were paid to attend Central High School and rejected reports that their parents might withdraw them. Clarence A. Laws, southwest field secretary, issued a lengthy statement in Little Rock to answer questions about the past week. The claim that the students were imported from the North was dismissed.
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Little Rock
Ark
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Central High School
Clarence A. Laws
NAACP
Southwest
Laws
North
Hamiltonians Die In River Crash
Four men died when their motorboat collided with an oil barge on the Ohio River at Lawrenceburg Indiana. The coroner listed Neal Erbs Frank G Bloomgren George Gilb and Curtis Hartwell as the deceased with Hartwell recovered downstream. Police said the boat turned abruptly for unknown reasons and struck the barge trailing from Louisiana. The fate of all four beyond drowning is not immediately clear.
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Lawrenceburg
Ind
Ohio River
Lyndon Moon
Dearborn County
Neal Erbs
Lane St
Hamilton
Ohio
Frank G. Bloomgren
Park St
George Gilb
Curtis Hartwell
Laverne Lafollette
Harry J. Barber
Hartwell
Mmore
University Board Orders Plans for New Science Building
Youngstown Ohio Youngstown University Board of Trustees on Saturday ordered plans drawn for a new one million dollar four story science building.
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Youngstown
Ohio
Youngstown University Board of Trustees
Dad Of Six Man Slain by Wife in Ohio Stabbing
PORTSMOUTH Ohio Mrs Jennie Mae Johnson 30 was held on a first degree manslaughter charge after stabbing her husband Charles C Johnson 34 in a home dispute over new furniture Police said the couple parents of six children were present at the time Johnson did not enter a plea in Municipal Court calling the act self defense and is held on a $1000 bond
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Douglas
U.S
Britain
Bullock
Pilgrims
United States
Coleman
Burroughs Corp
U.S. Chamber of Commerce
Francis Evans
New York
Order of the
Edgard Whitehead
St. Michael and
St.George
Selina Anthony
Ghana
Elizabeth
White House
Royal Household
John Rowsey
Arlington
John
Boy Scouts of America
Prince Charles
Princess Anne
Portsmouth
Ohio
Jennie Mae Johnson
Charles C. Johnson
Johnsons
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Norman Brown
Donn Hackett
Reuther
Atory
Minnie M. Lester
Lester
J. R. Turner
Harold Miller
Costa
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