Union Boss Brewster On Trial For Contempt
West Coast Teamsters leader Frank F. Brewster faces an 81 count indictment for contempt of Congress. He refused to produce union records or answer questions before the Senate Investigations Subcommittee on January 19. His team argues the panel lacked authority to compel testimony.
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Washington
Frank W. Brewster
Teamsters Union
Congress
Brewster
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
John K. Pickens
Federal Dist
John J. Sirican
Pickens
Senate Rackets Committee
Rackets Committee
Vice
Portland
Ore
Ellises Hit Bay State In Hildy Feud
Mr and Mrs Melvin Ellis claim Massachusetts officials aim to block their Florida adoption of Hildy McCoy. Florida and Massachusetts agencies exchange letters as Florida weighs best interests of the child. The couple, who fled Massachusetts, seek to finalize the adoption by early July.
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Miami Beach
Melvin Ellis
Massachusetts
Hildy McCoy
Florida
Massachusetts Department of Public Welfare
Frances Davis
Jacksonville
Florida Child Welfare Division
Massachusetts Welfare
Patrick Tomkins
Ellises
Hildy
Florida Supreme Court Opens New Term with 585 Disposed
The Florida Supreme Court began a new term in Tallahassee disposing of 585 cases from the January 14 start to yesterday. The term opened with 1,268 cases on its docket, reduced to 683 with 132 under consideration and 154 set for oral argument. Much of the work involved equity actions and common law appeals.
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Tallahassee
Florida Supreme Court
Auto Kills Child Visiting In Tampa
Six year old Victor Cordero Jr visiting relatives in Tampa was struck by a car and killed. Police reported he darted into the path of the vehicle in a residential area. The boy was the son of Mr and Mrs Victor Cordero Sr of New York City.
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Tampa
Victor Cordero Jr
Victor Cordero Sr
New York City
Circus Buff Collects Hairs From Pachyderms
Gil Conlinn of Hartford heads the National Circus Fans of America with 2500 members who collect elephant hairs, circus lithographs, route cards, and price ledgers. Charles E. Davis of Hartford is the principal hair collector able to biograph nearly every U S elephant.
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Hollywood
Gil Conlinn
Hartford
Joseph Cotten
Conlinn
Visur
Jimmy Durante
Joe Cook
Cornelia Otis Skinner
Cedric Hardwicke
Dwight H. Murray
The
American Medical Assn
United States
Charles E. Davis
Conn
Stork Club Owner Billingsley Surrenders After Gun Incident
Sherman Billingsley, Stork Club proprietor, turned himself in on a felonious assault charge with a gun. Attorney Roy Cohn represented him as police required three guns from Billingsley’s home. A house painter testified Billingsley threatened workers on his residence stoop near the club.
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New York
Sherman Billingsley
5Th Avenue
Billingsley
Roy Cohn
Cohn
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
Joseph R. McCarthy
Stork Club
Murray Beskin
Beskin
East 69Th Street
Dulles curbs Stassen power over disarmament talks
Secretary of State John Foster Dulles reportedly limited diplomat Harold E. Stassen's negotiating scope and admonished him for privately outlining U.S. disarmament proposals to the Soviet delegation. Washington warned Stassen to follow instructions and avoid actions that could split the U.S. from Britain and France.
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Joseph H. Singer
Washington
INS
John Foster Dulles
Harold E. Stassen
Stassen
Dulles
London
Zalerian A. Zorin
Permanent Council
North Atlantic Treaty Organization
Britain
France
Canada
U.S
Moscow
Banker's Grandson Among 3 Held in Kidnap Plot
Three men are in custody in Columbia for conspiring to kidnap the 4 year old son of a Clinton banker and demand 350000 dollars. Suspects Thomas D Jacobs 59 Jobie Shelton 28 and William T Hill 60 were arrested after a ransom note and materials for tying the child were found. Jacobs is the grandson of Thomas P Jacobs founder of Presbyterian College in Clinton.
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Columbia
S.C
Carolina
Clinton
8.C
Thomas D. Jacobs
Jobie Shelton
William T. Hill
Jacobs
Thomas P. Jacobs
Presbyterian College
Shelton
Hill
J. P. Strom
State Law Enforcement Division
Strom
Robert M. Vance Jr
Vance
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Florida High Court
Circus
Beltone
Tipoff
W"h Wood
Sarasota
Leslie Fay
Dacron
Reguiestere
Las Vegas
Caribbean
Elgin
National Airline OF the Stars
Jane Lee
Fran Pollock
Montgomery Roberts
Pineapple Street
Manhattan
N. Tamiami Trail
India
Saucer's Ruc
Father
Seaforth
Highlander
Harmon's
Aes
Rolf
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