High Court Rules Against Passport Bar
The Supreme Court ruled 5 to 4 that the State Department lacked authority to probe beliefs and associations in passport rulings. It denied passports to Rockwell Kent and Dr. Walter Briehl for refusing to sign non Communist affidavits, and to Weldon Bruce Dayton who said he would go abroad to engage in Communist aims. Justice Douglas led the majority.
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Washington
Supreme Court
State Department
High Court
Department
Rockwell Kent
Walter Briehl
Los Angeles
Weldon Bruce Dayton
Kent
Briehl
Dayton
Corning
N.Y
California
India
Tata Institute of Fundamental Research
Douglas
Brichl
Secretary of State
Congress
Europe
Brieh
Geneva
Istanbul
Communist Party
Evidence Links Adams Goldfine Prosecution Refused
House investigators found evidence that FTC higher-ups vetoed a government expert’s recommendation for criminal prosecution of Bernard Goldfine, benefactor of Eisenhower aide Sherman Adams. Records show Goldfine paid Adams and Mrs Adams hotel bills totaling $267.05 at the Waldorf Astoria in early 1954, amid related mislabeling cases.
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Washington
House
Federal Trade Commission
FTC
Bernard Goldfine
Sherman Adams
Eisenhower
Socdonetatin
Waldorf- Astoria
New York
Goldfine
Adams
Northfield Mills
Adams-Goldfine
Mrs. Adams
Mayflower Hotel
Plymouth
Mass
Enraged suitor kills deputy sheriff in Pensacola
Ed Golden age 25 captured in a highway telephone booth after fatally shooting Deputy Burt Adams age 44 and wounding another deputy and the girlfriend's parents following a confrontation with the girl's father. The suspect claimed he was calling to surrender and the girlfriend Wesse Jernigan age 19 fled to the woods during the incident.
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Pensacola
Fla
Ed Golden
Burt Adams
John Rowley
Golden
Wesse Jernigan
Crest Expected Today As 1500 Flee Flooded West Terre Haute
About 1,500 West Terre Haute families evacuated after Sugar Creek breached an earth levee up river from its confluence with the Wabash. A 28 foot crest was forecast with floods surging 40 percent of town water. Civil defense reported no fatalities, while National Guard, police, and volunteers aided evacuations. Roads U.S. 40 and U.S. 150 closed as crews and military assets assisted, prisoners from a nearby penal farm added to levee works under state emergency. Terre Haute remained relatively safe on higher ground.
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Terre Haute
Ind
West
Sugar Creek
Wabash
National Guard
U.S. 40
U.S. 150
Civil Air Patrol
Army
Coast Guard
Indiana National Guard
National
State Penal Farm
Harold W. Handley
Illinois seeks 13 week unemployment aid extension
Gov. Stratton urged a specially convened Illinois legislature to extend exhausted unemployment benefits for up to 13 weeks, funding a 15 million dollar poor relief boost through June 1959. He projected 100000 claimants would exhaust benefits this year while stressing a generally favorable economic outlook.
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Larry Kramp
Associated Press
Springfield
Stratton
Illinois
Celler Urges Resignation of Chicago U S Attorney Tieken
Rep Emanuel Celler demanded the immediate resignation of U S Attorney Robert Tieken of Chicago amid a conflict of interest probe. The House Judiciary subcommittee questioned Tieken’s actions as it investigates alleged pressure on Illinois officials over toll road land deals linked to a Post-Dispatch reporter.
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Washington
Emanuel Celler
D-Ny
U.S
Robert Tieken
Chicago
Tieken
Celler
House Judiciary
House
Libertyville
Ill
Post-Dispatch
Subcommittee
Baldwin
Mostly Cloudy Forecast for Southern Illinois
Mostly cloudy with scattered showers or thundershowers tonight. Partly cloudy Tuesday with a chance of a few showers. Little temperature change with lows near 60 and highs in the 70s. Observed temps include 64 at 7 am today and 72 at noon. yesterday's high 80. Crab Orchard Lake 2 inches above spillway and Little Grassy Lake at spillway.
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Illinois
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Stratton Sees End To Bias in Government
Governor William G Stratton told a SIU graduation class that there are no second class citizens and bias is fading in government nationwide. He spoke at the cornerstone ceremony for a $3 million home economics building and noted rising college enrollment and birth rates driving state education costs. He urged parties to welcome all viewpoints and praised SIU President D W Morris for leadership.
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William G. Stratton
Southern Illinois University
Stratton
Shryock Auditorium
SIU
Spencer T. Olin
Olin Mathieson Chemical Corp
Irving Dilliard
STU
D. W. Morris
Morris
Stratton Seeks Bond Vote as Illinois Plans 248 Million Issue
Governor William Stratton told crowds in Carbondale he sees strong interest in Illinois 248 million bond issue to finance construction at state colleges universities and welfare facilities with about 41 million for Southern Illinois University He noted the plan mirrors methods used by New York and Missouri and would address rising enrollments while updating outmoded mental hospital facilities He expects no trouble securing legislative action at a forthcoming special session and called it a measure to catch up and prepare for the future He also outlined unemployment compensation expansion funding and ruled out a large rise in benefits citing a liberal plan and a cautious stance on federal aid He discussed efforts to curb slot machines and suggested state legal questions be resolved by attorneys general and local officials with state support where needed
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Stratton
Ohio
William Stratton
Carbondale
Southern Illinois University
New York
Missouri
Ilinois
Benjamin Adamowski
Two Die in Peotone Crash Fire
Peotone Illinois June 16 two persons in a Ford truck were killed and burned beyond recognition after a collision with a light truck driven by Wallace Payne 21 of Bloomington Indiana plates on the wrecked vehicle Indiana truck toppled into a ditch and burst into flames Payne survived with no injuries
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Peotone
Ill
Indiana
Wallace Payne
Bloomington
Payne
More Talks Seen Soviets Call Envoys Home
Soviet ambassadors to the United States Britain and France were summoned to Moscow for consultations on East West summit talks and nuclear arms negotiations. Sergei Vinogradov left Paris for Moscow after conferring with French premier De Gaulle. Jacob Malik left London and Mikhail Menshikov departed Washington for the Soviet capital amid unspecified official duties. Menshikov is to return within days to weeks.
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London
United States
Britain
France
Moscow
Sergei Vinogradov
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
Nikita Khrushchev
Jacob Malik
Mikhail Menshikov
Washington
Menshikov
New York
Em- Co
State Department
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Fay Flynn
Charles W. Flynn
Laredo
Tex
Rio Grande Valley
Fay
Father
Delaware
Hebronville
FIC
Oren Harris
White House
James C. Hagerty
Sarah McLendon
Miss McLendon
Manchester
N.H
Hagerty
Harris
West Terre Haute
Mrs. Stratton
SIU Pres
Com
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