U S Accepts Lewis Wage Scale for Soft Coal Miners
The Labor Department sets a minimum hourly wage for soft coal mined under government contracts. Rates range from 1.40 in Iowa to 2.34 in Montana, with Illinois and eight other states producing most coal. The order takes effect 30 days after Aug 6, and objections are due by then.
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Washington
Illinois
Mitchell
Iowa
Montana
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Federal Register
Pennsylvania
Maryland
Virginia
West Virginia
Kentucky
Tennessee
Ohio
UMW
Lewis
Tennessee Valley Authority
French Cabinet Accepts Moscow Invitation for Faure and Pinay
Paris August 4 The French Cabinet authorized Premier Edgar Faure and Foreign Minister Antoine Pinay to accept an invitation to visit Moscow. No date has been set.
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Paris
Edgar Faure
Antoine Pinay
Moscow
Weather outlook for Southern Illinois shows heat and isolated storms
The forecast calls for fair to humid conditions in Southern Illinois with hot daytime highs in the mid 90s and lows around mid 70s. Scattered thundershowers are possible after noon or in the evening, with Crab Orchard Lake at spillway today and Little Grassy Lake 1 inch below spillway.
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Southern
Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Bikini-ed Doll Myrtle Held In Bessemer Jail
In Bessemer Alabama on August 4 a pasteboard bikini doll named Myrtle is held in jail after a domestic row. A jealous wife demanded arrest for alienation of affections and improper exposure. Police note Myrtle was used by a beer distributor for photos of customers.
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Bessemer
Ala
Myrtle
C. T. Mullen
Mullen
Lawton Grimes
Bonding Firm To File Briefs
U S District Judge Charles G Briggle orders briefs in the government suit for 11500 against Robert Grant of Pekin and Fidelity and Deposit Co of Maryland. The government says Grant collected salary while on fund raising trips and absent from duty. Judge holds ruling on default judgment in abeyance. Fidelity must file by Aug 12.
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Springfield
U. S. Dist
Charles G. Briggle
Robert Grant
Pekin
U. S
Grant
Fidelity and Deposit Co
Maryland
Robert L. Knetzer
Six WACS discharged at Ft. Jackson for immoral conduct
At Fort Jackson South Carolina six WACs were discharged for the good of the service after an investigation into moral conduct among part of the detachment. Officials provided little comment on the investigation or the Tribune report of a WAC death linked to alleged solicitations. The detachment contains about 100 members.
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Ft. Jackson
S. C
WACS
Public Information Office
Chicago Tribune
WAC
Forgery Ring Frees Louisiana Convicts Early
Angola La Aug 4 AP Louisianas penitentiary officials began examining five years or more of records as part of evidence gathering on a forgery ring that freed at least a dozen inmates ahead of time. For payments of 200 to 300 dollars convict clerks erased records and created new ones to shorten sentences and alter crimes. In one case a man sentenced to 10 years for armed robbery had his term cut to two years and the offense changed to burglary.
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Angola
Louisiana
Polio Cases Rise 27 Percent Nationwide
Public Health Service notes 1,037 new polio cases for the week ended Saturday, up 225 from the prior week. The total includes 6 paralytic and 22 non paralytic new cases, bringing the vaccine era totals to 247 paralytic and 109 non paralytic. About 60 million schoolchildren have received one shot.
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Washington
Public Health Service
Two Captured In $160000 Brink's Theft
Three armed men ambushed a Brink's armored car in Buffalo, wounding guard Eugene Clohessy and stealing $160,000 in Fort Erie race track receipts. Two suspects, Anthony Pettinato and Sylvester Mazella, were captured after a gun battle. the third fled and was later sought as James Sheridan alias Jim Salomerio.
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Brink’s
Brink’s, Inc
Fort Erie
Niagara River
Canada
Eugene Clohessy
Clohessy
Anthony Pettinato
Baltimore
Sylvester Mazella
Bronx
James Sheridan
Jim Salomerio
New York City
Pettinato
Mazella
Stanley J. Klodzinski
Kenneth A. Kemp
Edward J. Thompson
Kemp
Clohésy
Thompson
Klodzinski
Edward Craven
Ruth
Eileen
Buffalo
Lower West Side
Sheridan
Ex-Red Prisoners Freed Airmen Return to U S
Eleven U S airmen freed from Communist China after two and a half years of captivity cross into Hong Kong in good shape. They are flown to Manila to meet officials then plan onward to Tokyo and the U S West Coast. Col John Knox Arnold Jr denounces Peiping’s claim of espionage as false.
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Hong Kong
U. S
China
Manila
William L. Lee
U. S. 13Th Air Force
Homer Ferguson
Tokyo
U.S. West
John Knox Arnold Jr
Silver Spring
Peiping
United States
Geneva
Arnold
Yalu River
North Korea
William H. Baumer
Lewisburg
Hong
Union and EEI Fail On Joppa Plant Contract
Union Local 314 and Electric Energy Inc. failed to reach a new contract at the Joppa electric plant, prompting a threatened strike if no agreement by September 3. About 212 workers operate and maintain the facility as the final unit undergoes tests before power is sent to the atomic plants near Paducah. Negotiations to continue were indicated by EEI Vice President Turner White and union agent Norman Barnes.
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EEI
Joppa Plant
Joppa Team
International ‘Union of Operating Engineers
Electric Energy, Inc
Turner White
Norman Barnes
Ohio River
Paducah
Atomic Energy Commission
White
German miners killed in Ruhr mine blast and fire
A deadly fire and explosion at the Dalbusch coal mine in Gelsenkirchen Germany left 41 miners believed dead and 44 injured. Fire halted rescues as officials said 25 workers were still missing and presumed dead after rescuers recovered 16 bodies before the blaze worsened.
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Gelsenkirchen
Germany
Dalbusch
Ruhr
Ozark Air Lines Announces Sioux City Route Start
Ozark Air Lines will begin service August 9 on a 482 mile route linking Chicago and Sioux City Iowa with five additional cities. Two round trips daily connect Sioux City with Fort Dodge Mason City Waterloo Dubuque Rockford and Chicago after the Civil Aeronautics Board awarded the route June 10 following years of litigation.
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St. Louis
Ozark Air Limes
Chicago
Sioux City
Iowa
Fort Dodge
Mason City
Waterloo
Dubuque
Rockford
Ill
Ozark
Civil Aeronautics Board
Soviets resume testing nuclear weapons AEC says
The Atomic Energy Commission announced that the Soviets have resumed testing of nuclear weapons within the past few days. The notice offered no details on weapon type or test series and followed earlier Soviet tests claimed in 1953 and 1954. Defense officials previously asserted U S lead in atomic and hydrogen weapons.
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Washington
The
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
Lawsuit Challenges Peabody Sinclair Merger
Two Peabody Coal stockholders Edward Lee and Elane Lee sue in U S District Court seeking to dissolve Peabody and void the merger with the Sinclair group alleging a fraudulently marketed sale, undervalued Peabody stock, and overvalued Sinclair stock harming shareholders. The suit names Peabody, Sinclair group firms, officers including Otto Gressens, and seeks a receiver and court judgment for stockholders.
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Chicago
Peabody Coal Co
Sinclair Group
U.S. District Court
Edward Lee
Elane L. Lee
New York
Peabody
Peabody Company
Peabody Co
Otto Gressens
Lees
Illinois Business Corporation
New York Stock Exchange
Peabody's
Gressens
Premier Bulganin Rejects Eisenhower Disarmament Plan
Moscow Aug 4 Premier Bulganin called Eisenhowers plan for a swap of military blueprints and mutual air inspection unrealistic. He argued both nations have unlimited territory to hide anything and touted a more realistic Soviet plan for arms control and inspection. He spoke to a 1500 member Supreme Soviet session endorsing Geneva outcomes and urging continued talks.
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Moscow
Bulganin
Supreme Soviet
Kremlin
Bulgsnin
Geneva
United States
Washington
White House
James Hagerty
State Department
Russia
U.S
U.S.S.R
Eisenhower
London
Bulgari
Soviet Union
Cshapee
East
West Germany
Maabiing
Soviet Russia
Communist
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Atomic Bomb Casualty Commission
Army
Buffalo, N.Y
Ike
Kong
Eugene John Vandi
Clayton
N. Y
Daniel C. Schmidt
Redding
Calif
Russ
Wilson
Midwest Stock Exchange
Sinclair
Plan of Reorganization and Stock Exchange
Sinclair II
Stock Exchange
Peabody of
Homestead Coal Co
Sinclair Mines ,Inc
Missouri
Alston Coal Co
Delaware
Broken Arc Coal Co
Oklahoma
Key Coal Co
Power Coal Co
Sentry Royalty Co
Nevada
Sinclair Coal Co
O. Gressens
Tors
L. Russell Kelce
Pea- Body
Merle C
Pea
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