Norfolk Pier Hassle Ends Strike Settlement Near
Norfolk and Newport News longshoremen reach a tentative contract ending a labor dispute that shut 45,000 ports from Maine to Virginia. The agreement includes a three week vacation, 32 cent hourly wage rise over three years, and preserves seniority with extra paid holidays. Workers in New York Philadelphia and Boston faced orders to return as the coastwide deal neared ratification.
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Newport News
Warden recounts escape attempt by Connecticut prisoner Walter Gordon
Walter Gordon a 48 year old Bridgeport man in Connecticut State Prison devised a six month plan to flee using a four inch file to saw hinge pins and scale cell door, but was spotted by a guard and placed in solitary. He faces extra sentence atop the 70 years already served for rape habitual criminal status and a brief escape last year.
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Washington Day Observances Across Capital and Nation
Washington's birthday was celebrated with ceremonies and a parade in Alexandria Virginia expected to draw about a quarter of a million people. The day gave federal workers a three day weekend and included wreath-laying and naturalization ceremonies. A judge urged obedience in remarks at a naturalization hearing as new citizens from Japan and England nodded. In other brief items, a Tampa salesman reported 160 maternity dresses stolen from a car, and Detroit youth David James saw Detroit Judge Vernon Hines lend his coat to the defendant to help him start anew.
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Pojtomac River
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Japan
Barbarass Mae Teagie
England
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Fla
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Nashville
AML
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Vernon Hines
Detroit
David Clifford James
Jones
Pat
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Woman Dies After Suspected Poisoning At Home
From Redwood City, a 37 year old mother Mary Valenti was dead on arrival at Sequoia Hospital after a suspected poisoning incident at home. Her 12 year old daughter Joanne Velenti and son Steven were found unconscious. Steven is a cancer patient and underwent surgery without success. Sheriff's deputies named Albert Valenti, the husband, a drug store owner in Milbrae and San Bruno, as the family member.
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Sequoia Hospital
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