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Newspaper
News
Location
Frederick, Maryland, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1959
Page
12
Senate Commerce Committee hearings on the Commerce secretary nominee face delays amid partisan clashes over foreign aid and policy. Senator Fulbright pressed for a long range Middle East strategy, while others questioned the nominee’s qualifications and potential conflicts with the administration’s foreign aid approach.
After a 14 hour siege convicts barricaded a dormitory at Fort Pillow State Prison Farm in Tennessee. Two guards were unharmed. State officials planned a conference with prison leaders as guards and hostages were removed to maximum security Nashville facilities.
Convicts wrecked dormitory in a riot at the prison farm with shattered windows and debris. About 333 inmates remained housed as officers cleaned and regrouped. Nearby, home economics awards were given at Grange Sewing Contest with medals to Mrs Clyde Adams and others, plus a fashion show and May meeting plans.
HAGERSTOWN Md AP Huan Brown 52 international representative the AFL CIO Taulers America was convicted Tuesday of sugar in the case belonging to an official plant. Magistrate fined Brown 269 and gave a suspended 6 day sentence with the comment labor unions are doing a grand job.
Brown of Arlington Va sought to fuel a car during a the Potomac Dye and Finishing Co strike. Paul Piccione a supervisor testified he caught Browne at the gas tank on April 71. He said Brown ran when spotted and found sugar in the tank neck. The strike ended last Sunday.
The Court of Appeals on Tuesday postponed its review of Claxton Edward Breeding’s first degree murder conviction. Arguments were delayed until Thursday due to Deputy Arm. Gen. Stedman Pres cote’s late return from a New Orleans law officials conference. Breeding was convicted last October after a strangulation murder heard by three Caroline County judges.
Mrs Ruth Ellen Cannon a 1 year old newlywed from Burrs ville Md was beaten and strangled by a cloth strip torn from her blouse Her body was found in woods near her home last June 38 Firefighters were called to 224 Broad way but not needed as occupants were fumigating the premises Breeding an ex convict from Hickman Del was hunted for three weeks before capture in New ark Del He denied the killing and said he had never seen Mrs Cannon In written briefs Tuesday defense attorney Marsin H Somb elairped Breecing was convicted on insufficient circumstantial evidence The state’s efforts were countered by multiple appellate orders upholding murder convictions founded largely on circumstantial evidence Raab resigns Vienna Austria Chancellor Julmus Raab announced resignation of his coalition government Schaerf accepted and cabinet to stay on until a new government forms likely Conservatie Socialist equation
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