Steel clash over new government report on strike impact
Washington officials released a 4000 word background study arguing for a hands off stance as the 37 day steel strike continues. Mitchell cautioned no conclusions and urged effort toward settlement while noting potential national emergency if unresolved by September. Industry and union leaders claimed the report supports their positions and highlighted rising wages and profits along with productivity gains.
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Washington
James P. Slicnell
Mitchell
Conrad Cooper
Lst
Cooper
David J. McDonald
United Steelworkers
Tape Recording Reveals Wasp Blast Cribbage Scene
Navy investigators study a tape made by a cribbage enthusiasts during the Wasp helicopter test explosion. Lt (jg) Jim Frank Hagen of Marianna died. Aviation Apprentice Donald H. Trask of Keene NH was found later. 28 injured, damage over five million dollars.
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Quonset Point
Ium
Wasp
Navy
Sas Am
Jim Frank Hagen
Marianna
Wasp Aviation
Donald H. Trask
Keene
Naval
Robert Stroh
Corner Division 14
Patrick Harney
Robinsdale
Minn
Islands Are New Home for Batista
Former Cuban dictator Fulgencio Batista arrives in Lisbon en route to exile in Madeira with 17 associates. Officials say Portugal granted political asylum. Batista fled Cuba at the start of 1959 to escape Fidel Castro's revolutionary forces.
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Portugal
Fulgencio Batista
Dominican Republic
Madeira Islands
Silva Martins
Marcello Mathias
Batista
Martins
Cuba
Fidel Castro
Batista Party
Madeira
Morocco
Ciudad Trujillo
Nahant Gang Attempt to Free Prisoner Ends in Riot
Fifteen men attacked the Nahant police station in an effort to free Donald Stinson 27 of Swampscott on drunkenness charges. Patrolman Albert Badger fired a warning shot after being backed against a wall. Three attackers fled. seven later surrendered on riot and assault charges. Four captured at a roadblock and three at a hospital for bruises.
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Nahant Mass. UP
Nahant
Lann
Benjamin Lamphier
Donald Stinson
Swampscott
Albert Badger
Stinson
Flynn
Badger
African women defy alcohol restrictions in Natal clash
In Durban region Southern Africa, African women faced government limits on home brew. Between 30 and 40 women were jailed at Escourt after attacking a municipal beer hall manager, as protests targeted laws banning creation and sale of home brewed liquor.
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Durban
South Africa
Natal
Escourt
Pietermaritzburg
Flying Team Tries to Get Capsule Back
At Vandenberg a Hawaii based Air Force team prepared to recover a Discoverer VI capsule after its parachute descent over the Pacific. The capsule, part of an early space effort, carried a radio beacon that failed, leaving the recovery squad to sight and catch it with nets from C 119 planes as it tumbles toward the ocean.
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Vandenberg Air Force Base
Cal Uh
Hawaii
Air Force
Hawai
Earth
Army Science Feud Threatens to Boil Over at Edgewood
About 400 enlisted scientific and professional personnel at the Army chemical center in Edgewood Md were ordered to fall out in civilian clothes at 1 pm to help civilian witnesses identify some of the 60 men who attended a beer party last Thursday night. Military officials cited obscene songs and comments about the Arms from the fete. A prior incident 31 months earlier led to 11 court martialed graduates with degrees in engineering mathematics or the natural sciences. The dispute centers on lack of recognition for lab work and assignment to KP and trainee duties.
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Edgewood
vPi
Army
Army Chemical Center
Simlar
Fumbling Thief Down on Luck
A failed payroll heist at a millinery plant ends in farce when the gun misfires and bullets drop out. The robber is beaten with a bag of feathers until it bursts, showering him with bright green plumes as he flees. Police pursue the feathered thief.
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New York
Lous Charatz
Meat Packers Threaten To Go on Strike
Forest Park, Pa. AFL-CIO resolves to back steel strikers and mobilize unions for action as 200000 meat workers threaten a walkout next month over wage freezes and profit sharing. Unions pledge broad support and plan a national observance tied to labor unrest.
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Forest Park
Afl-Cio
Ers
International Union of Electrical Workers
Song
Big Business General
Packer
San Francisco
Afl-Cios
Congressman Hit By Sulphuric Acid
Police say sulphuric acid was squirted at Rep Frank Thompson in Washington as he drove to his office. A man in a truck fired the liquid from a syringe at a traffic light, burning a hole in Thompson’s shirt and scarring his arm. He calls it the act of a crank and unrelated to his labor legislative work.
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Washington UP
Frank Thompson
D-Nj
Thompson
Mad elephant charges crowd at Perahera festival
A temple elephant in Kandytown Kandy Ceylon charged into a crowd during a Buddhist Perahera killing twenty, injuring thousands, and leaving many missing. Police shot the animal after it smashed shops and trampled obstacles near the Temple of the Holy Tooth.
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Kandy
Ceylon
Kands Lake
Perahera
Kandha
Weather pattern holds steady across the nation
The Associated Press reports a return to a familiar weather pattern with cool air moving from the Northwest into the Dakotas and western Nebraska bringing relief from 100 plus degree heat. Warm humid conditions persist east of the cool air with pleasant 60s in New England to Pennsylvania and West Virginia and scattered thundershowers foreseen in other regions.
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Associated Press
The
Nations
Dakota
Dakotas
Nebraska
New England
Pennsylvania
West Virgina
Atlantic Coast
Alfred Dean Takes Rhode Island Job
Alfred Dean, current dean of the liberal arts at Alfred University, has been named dean of the University of Rhode Island summer session. He will begin duties on September 1 in Kingston.
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Alfred Dean
Rhode Island
Kingston, RT
Nelson Marshall
Alfred University
Alfred
University of Rhode Island
Plans Made To Let Khrushchev Talk at Lenath
Soviet Premier Khrushchev may stop in Washington twice during a 12 day U S visit and possibly meet President Eisenhower at Camp David. Talks on East West issues would follow ceremonial duties with limited travel and a view of the United States restricted by Soviet rules.
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Lewis Gulick
Washington Pi
Nikita
Khrushche
Washington
United States
Eisenhower
Camp David
Maryland
Catoctin Mountains
Khrushches
America
Ihrusheries
Iwhrushchev
U.S
Khrushchev
New York
Los Angeles
San Francisco
Iowa
Pittsburgh
Fish Hook Removed From Eye on Beach in New Jersey
Herbert Martin, a school teacher from Hyde Park New York, had a heavy fish hook removed from his eye on Sand Lass Beach in Sea Bright New Jersey. Two doctors used only a pen knife and razor blade with a flashlight to perform the beachside removal to avoid eye damage. Doctors James F Chark and Merrit Lendon of Red Bank said no eye damage was expected after the ordeal.
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Sea Bright
James F Chark
Merrit Lendon
Red Bank
Esswan Dies at Lake Placid Former Can Corp President
Pi Carlo C Conway 8) former president and chairman of the board of Continental Can Corp died Wednesday in Lake Placid New York. He held leadership roles and influenced the company’s strategic direction during his tenure.
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Esswan
Lake Placid
Carlo C Conway
Continental Can Corp
Quake Search Narrowing For Victims In Montana
In Montana near West Yellowstone search teams from Civil Defense forest service and volunteers struggle to locate possible quake victims after a major Monday quake and landslides. Eight bodies have been recovered with more feared as divers probe Hebgen Lake and the Madison River while survivors are evacuated and roads cleared.
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Slide Area
Madison River
West Yellowstone
Mont
Bozeman
Montana
Yellowstone
Shilliers
Hepgen Dam
Nrom
Civil Defense Organization
Slucrts Oline, Ll
Forest Service
Hebgen Dam
Oour Vivers
Sherui Deonasa Skett
Grace Miller
Charles E Kaper
Thomas Stowe
Sandy
Utah
Hebgen Lake
Yellowstone Natonal Park
Happy Gunman Flees With Garage Cash
A friendly gunman robbed a New York garage forcing James Reeves to open a cash register and hand over 35 dollars. After a tense exchange he returned ten dollars to Reeves and fled as two policemen passed by.
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New York
James Reeves
Reeves
Spot Reeves
Fae
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Ine Meeis
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Roy
Kent Daun
Jols
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