Two Unions Face Censure After Teamsters Suspension
The AFL CIO Executive Council votes 25 to 4 to suspend the 10 million member Teamsters Union over alleged corruption. Bakers and United Textile Workers also under pressure as reform efforts intensify. Hoffa declines comment as reforms are urged before December convention.
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Norman Walker
Washington
Bakers
United Textile Workers Anong
Afl-Cio
Teamsters
Federation
Teamsters Union
James R. Hoffa
George Meany
Labor
Hoffa
The
Bakery Workers
United Textile Workers
Senate Rackets Investigating Committee
Sen. McClellan
Bakers Group
UTW
Direc
McKellar Dies at 88. Longtime Tennessee Senator
Memphis mourns former U S senator Kenneth D McKellar who died at 88 in a nursing home after recent health decline. A bachelor and Democratic power in the Roosevelt and Truman eras, he sought a seventh term but lost the 1952 Tennessee primary to Rep Albert Gore.
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Memphis
Kenneth Douglas McKellar
Roosevelt
Truman
McKellar
Democratic
Senate
Tennessee
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Sears Executive Defends 1953 Boston Union Push
Sears vice president Wallace Tudor told the Senate Rackets Committee that alleged coercion and discrimination during the Boston Retail Clerks Union drive in 1953 were isolated and not representative of the company’s overall labor practices. He blamed Labor Relations Associates and certain Sears personnel, insisting workers enjoyed better wages and benefits than at competitors regardless of union status.
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Washington
Sears ‘Roebuck & Co
Natian Shefferman
Big
Lab Sor
Boston
Wallace Tudor
Presi
Shefferman
Retail
Sears
Tudor
Labor Relations Associate, Inc
Robert F
Sputnik Possibly Just Fake
Redlands California physicist participating in the Far Side Project questions Russia’s Sputnik launch as a possible balloon stunt. Charles E. Bartley says the propaganda appears superb but objective analysis suggests Sputnik could have been launched from a balloon without a large ICBM and cites a Soviet scientist’s Barcelona remark on the satellite’s weight.
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Redlands
Calif
Russia
Sputnik
U.S
Charles E. Bartley
Bartley
University of Redlands
Anna T. Masevich
Soviet Astronautical Council
Barcelona
Spain
Guatemala Junta Weighs Settlement Amid Riots
Guatemala's new military government sought an end to street protests by Ydigor as Fuentes supporters after a disputed election. Ydigoras demanded Congress name Guillermo Avendaño as acting president and call a new vote, while demonstrations pressed for constitutional government restoration.
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Richard G. Maslock
Guatemala
Miguel Ydigoras Fuentes
Miguel Ortiz Passarelli
Ydigoras
Congress
Guillermo Fiores Avendano
Ortiz
Guatemala City
Luis Arturo Gonzalez
Carlos Castillo Armas
Faubus Signals Mediation in Central High Crisis
Gov. Faubus indicates moves toward mediation of the federal state deadlock over Central High School integration in Little Rock. Army policy eases guards by allowing nine Negro students and six Negro girls to walk campus without escort as plans for a negotiated settlement surface within a week or ten days.
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Little Rock, Ark
Orval Faubus
Faubus
Army
Central High
Eisenhowser
Arkansas National Guard
U.s.district Court
Two Plane Bandits Captured
Two men robbed the First State Bank of Fort Meade for 26657 using fast planes and cars. Irvin Suits, 26, confessed and named Donald J. Thompson, 32, as his partner. Thompson denied involvement. Suits led police to the money’s location while Thompson was arrested at Tampa International Airport.
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Tampa
Fla
First State Bank
Fort Meade
Ed Blackburn
Irvin Suits
Donald J. Thompson
Thompson
Suits
Tampa International
National Strike Grips France Amid Political Crisis
A nationwide strike across France shuts down transport and disrupts heavy industry, with clashes at St Nazaire leaving one dead and about 100 injured. Despite protests, support from the MRP and radicals may bolster Guy Mollet's bid to become postwar premier as the National Assembly debates government formation.
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Atlantic
St. Nazaire
Todays Chuckle on Word Stocks and Turnover
A light quip notes women typically use fewer words than men but with faster turnover, suggesting brisk communication dynamics in social talk. The remark frames language use as a humorous contrast between quantity and speed in everyday exchanges.
President and Macmillan eyes joint Mideast aid plan
British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan nears the end of crucial talks with President Eisenhower over a potential joint economic aid program for the Middle East. He will meet Eisenhower again at the White House before heading to Ottawa to meet Canadian PM John Diefenbaker, with Spaak and Dulles joining for coffee. Officials say the talks aim to counter Soviet propaganda and gains from scientific advances, with missiles reportedly on the British agenda.
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Warren Rogers JR
Washington
Harold Macmillan
Eissenhower
Middle East
Macmillan
Eisenhower
iWhite House
Ottawa
John G. Dieffenbaker
London
Paul-Henri Spaak
Dulles
Selwyn
Lloyd
Spaak
4 000 Mile Launching Upheld In Project Far Side
Air Force officers backing Project Far Side said a balloon launched rocket may have exceeded 4000 miles in space by a few hundred miles. They noted data are not yet complete and exact heights cannot be stated. They suggested moon landing using a similar balloon-rocket could be possible technically within a year, but denied this was the project’s goal.
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Washington
Air Force
Pacific
Eugene C. la Vier
Eniwetok Atoll
la Vier
William H. Bowers
Missile test centers a Snark fired from Cape Canaveral
A 70 foot Snark missile appeared to be launched from Cape Canaveral today. The bomber like missile is pilotless with a 5000 mile range and travels near the speed of sound. Washington reports the AFL CIO council may suspend the United Textile Workers Union if it cancels a $100000 severance payout to resigned official Lloyd Klewert and removes president Anthony Valente.
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Missile Test Center
Cape Canaveral
Fla. i
Air Force
Washington
AFL
Hoffa Trial Date Set by Federal Judge
Federal Judge William B. Herlands tentatively schedules November 4 for the perjury trial of James R. Hoffa, president elect of the Teamsters Union, in New York.
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New York
Federal Dist
William B. Herlands
James R. Hoffa
Teamsters Union
Anastasia Shot In Barber Shop By Masked Men
Albert Anastasia gangland chief was fatally shot by two masked men in a Park Sheraton hotel barber shop in Manhattan. The killers fled west 55th street by car as police surrounded the scene. brother Anthony Anastasia identified the body.
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New York
Albert Anastasia
Anastasia
Park Sheraton
Manhattan
West 55Th Street
Anthony
Tony
Gangland
Brooklyn
Arnold Rothstein
Mafia
Aellow
Mideast Debate Resumed at United Nations Over Turkish Syrian Crisis
United Nations debate reopened as Russia and the United States accused each other of stirring the crisis. Syria charged five Turkish planes violated its airspace near Latakia and Rameshli. Damascus rejected mediation offers while Arab leaders discussed a U N inquiry commission and troop withdrawals. Turkey dispatched a delegation to Saudi Arabia.
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United Nations, N.Y
Russia
United States
U.N. Assembly
Syria
Damascus
Latakia
Rameshli
Saud
Turkey
82-Nation
Assembly
U.N
Farid Zeineddine
Saudi Arabia
Topples To Death In Cincinnati Scaffold Fall
Mort Baines age 51 a hod carrier died Thursday when a scaffold collapsed in Cincinnati. Fire department and police investigated the incident at the work site.
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Cincinnati
Mort Baines
Far Side rocket flight lasts 75 minutes in space test
Project Far Side rockets launched from balloon platforms over Eniwetok Island sent 75 minutes of radio data at speeds around 17 000 miles per hour before burning up on reentry. Air Force said two experimental craft reached up to 4000 miles. Dr. Morton Alperin described the instrument package as 3 1/2 pounds gathering cosmic radiation and magnetic field data.
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Los Angeles
Project Far Side
Morton Alperin
Air Force
Eniwetok Island
Air Forces Office of Scientific Research
Alperin
Eisenhower Declares World Backs Atoms for Peace
President Eisenhower asserts global support for using atomic power for peaceful ends during the first Atoms for Peace award presentation to Prof. Niels Bohr in Washington. Bohr receives a gold medal and citation alongside the $75,000 prize funded by Ford.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Niels Bohr
National Academy of Sciences
Bohr
Ford Motor Co
Geneva
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