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Newspaper
Press Telegram
Location
Long Beach, California, United States of America
Date
Feb 17, 1959
Page
2
A two year contract between Hawaiian canneries and the ILWU offers 7000 workers options to join and pay dues or to stay out but fund charity through payroll deductions. The union called the arrangement a dues shop amid a dispute over a union shop provision.
Two men pretending to be FBI agents robbed financier Alexander Guterma at the Hotel Lombardy on Manhattan's East Side, tying his wife Anita and their 14 year old daughter Carole and fleeing with jewelry valued at $60,000. Police identified suspects from photos and a taxi driver linked to past robberies. Guterma, 44, was not in the suite, and he is currently free on bail on securities charges.
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Vice President Nixon told 1,100 cheering Republican workers in Los Angeles that the party should stay conservative and be proud of its beliefs. He spoke at a luncheon honoring retiring county executive Orville J. Evans, urged daily steps to elect Nixon, and was introduced by George Murphy. He plans to meet leaders and visit his mother before a Los Angeles Press Club address.
Powell Johnson, 27, of The Bronx, fired into a Madison Avenue office lobby wounding Lorraine Rosenberg of The Bronx and Elaine Fallik of Brooklyn before three men restrained him. Johnson had been fired from Marvin Fabrics Co earlier that day for unsatisfactory service.
Rival factions blamed each other for street clashes in Poto Pate and Hancongo in the French Congo. Seven people were killed and 35 injured. A curfew from 8 p.m. to 5 a.m. was imposed in the riot zone.
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