Wildest In History Cabbies Storm NLRB Hearing
Five hundred shouting taxicab drivers packed an NLRB hearing for a bid to oust Glimco as head of Local 777 Chicago cab drivers. Insurgents led by Abata accuse him of corruption and shamelessly clashed with police. the session moved to a hotel ballroom and then a U S courthouse as chaos continued.
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Chicago
National Labor Relations Board
Joey Glimco
NLRB
Glimco
Democratic Union Organizing Committee
Senate Rackets Committee
Union
Gerald Patterson
Midland Hotel
Starkweather Dies in Nebraska Electric Chair
Charles Starkweather, 20, known for a 1958 killing spree in Nebraska, was executed by electric chair at the Nebraska State Penitentiary after a day of legal efforts to halt the sentence. The prison physician died of a heart attack before the procedure. The killer gave no last words and appeared with a final smile as he was strapped in.
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Lincoln
Neb
Charles Starkweather
Starkweather
B. A. Finkel
Nev
Nebraska State Penitentiary
John Greenholtz
Washington
Guy Starkweather
Phothers
Cari] Ann Fugate
Wyoming
Ike And Queen Begin Seaway Tour To Open Locks
President Eisenhower and Queen Elizabeth will board the Britannia and cruise 31 miles of the St. Lawrence Seaway from the entrance at St Lambert to Beauharnois. They meet in Montreal to formally open the joint U S Canadian project that will link ships to America's heartland. The voyage includes the first two locks lifting the Britannia 224 feet from river to Lake Ontario.
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Eisenhower
U. S
St. Lawrence Seaway
Chiefs of State
Montreal
U.S
St. Lawrence River
Lake Ontario
Britannia In Montreal After Scrape At Trois Rivieres
The royal yacht Britannia sustains scratches on its starboard stern area while Prince Philip the helm at Trois Rivieres. The vessel is berthed in Montreal with minor hull damage deemed unimportant.
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Philip
Montreal
Britannia
Prince Philip
Trois Rivieres
Royal Navy
Senate Votes to Repeal Passenger Travel Tax and Communications Tax
Washington reports the Senate approved repeal of the 10 percent passenger travel tax and the 10 percent communications tax, effective 1960 for travel July 1 and August 1 for travel. The move accompanies a broader revenue bill extending other taxes and funds highway construction, while House action remains uncertain.
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Washington
Senate
House
Senate Finance Committee
Rails
Joseph S. Clark
D-Pa
Paul H. Douglas
D-Ill
Eugene J. McCarthy
D-Minn
William Proxmire
D-Wis
Satchmo Gravely Ill in Spoleto Italy
Louis Armstrong known as Satchmo lies gravely ill in a coma in Spoleto Italy after heart disturbances complicated pneumonia. American physician Dr Alexander Schiff says the trumpeter never had a heart attack but exhausted his heart by years of wind instrument playing.
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Spoleto
Italy
Louis
Satchmo) Armstrong
Satchmo
Alexander Schiff
Pinball bill advances after backroom call sparks debate
Illinois House Executive Committee moved the Bally pinball machine bill toward a floor vote after a dramatic hearing. Bally Mfg Co. officials argued the measure targets gambling devices, while opponents warned of legal chaos and potential litigation for the industry.
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O. T. Banton
Southern Illinois
Springfield
United States Supreme Court
House
Senate
Robert McClory
Lake Bluff
House Executive Committee
Nelson
D. Gottlieb Co
Chicago
Pfeffer
McClory
U. S
Lake County
Grand Jury
Illinois
Robert Breither
Bally Co
Breither
Weather outlook for Southern Illinois warms to midweek showers
Warm humid conditions persist in Southern Illinois with partial clouds and scattered thundershowers mainly in the afternoons. Tonight lows in the lower 70s, Friday highs in the low 90s, and Friday night lows in the 70s. Temperature readings include 73 at 7 am and 79 at 6 pm yesterday. Precipitation totals show trace since yesterday. Crab Orchard Lake and Little Grassy Lake levels near spillways by inches below.
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Illinois
Fight Delayed Until Friday at Yankee Stadium
Heavyweight title bout between Floyd Patterson and Ingemar Johansson postponed to 9:30 p.m. Friday at Yankee Stadium due to bad weather. New York dispatch confirms the delay and notes page 11 coverage.
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New York
Floyd Patterson
Sweden
Ingemar Johansson
Yankee Stadium
Bardot Baby Question Delays French Film Plans
Brigitte Bardot, 24, wife of Jacques Charrier, faces pregnancy rumors amid delaying two Bar dot films. Charrier denies pregnancy. Bardot’s mother adds to the confusion as producers revise schedules and a Moscow premiere for Babette Goes to War may proceed without her.
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St. Tropz
France
Brigitte Bardot
Bardot
Jacques Charrier
Dot
Har
Brigitte
Roger Vadim
Moscow
St. Louis Strike Ends as Stereotypers Accept Settlement
Stereotypers Local 8 voted 48 to 5 to end a 15 day strike against St. Louis newspapers. The pact preserves base material handling by workers with stockpiling and a $10 weekly raise first year and $5 second year, retroactive to January 1, bringing weekly base to $129.
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St. Louis
Post-Dispatch
Globe-Demorat
Post
Globe
Stereotypers Local 8
Leroy Selby
Local 8
Selby
Stereotypers
Detroit
Revised Franchise Tax Bill Advances In Illinois House
The Illinois House passed a revised bill to raise corporation franchise taxes to one eighth of one percent, from the current one twelfth of one percent, with one vote to spare and sent the measure to the Senate. Sponsored by Democratic whip Clyde Choate of Anna, the bill targets corporate taxation.
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Springfield
Illinois House
Senate
Clyde Choate
Anna
Baton Rouge Governor Earl Long Predicts Release From Mental Hospital
Earl Long declared on a radio interview from a hospital ward that he is sane and should win his habeas corpus case Friday in Covington. Atty Gen Jack Gremillion challenged trial jurisdiction while Judge Robert Jones reserved judgment. Long blamed relatives for undermining him as he criticized his wife and others in a restless political week.
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Baton Rouge
Earl K. Long
Louisiana
Long
Jack Gremillion
Covington Court
Robert D. Jones
Covington
22Nd Judicial District Court
Sims
New Orleans
WNOE
Russell B. Long
D-La
Arthur Long
Galveston
Tex
Lether Frazar
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Adams Street
Lations Board
Local 777
Tony Glimco
Dominic Abata
Patterson
Abata
John L. McClellan
D-Ark
McClellan
Camly
Greenholtz
Robert Klein
Ike and Queen
Pinball Bankins
Highway Trust Fund
Albert Gore
D-Tenn
Congress
Gore
Special Highway Trust Fund
Treasury
General Fund
Louis Armstrong
Bally Mfg. Co
Herbert D. Jones
Leo Pfeffer
D-Seymour
Thomas Curran
Jones
Martin M. Nelson
Fouss
Crab Orchard Lake
Little Grassy Lake
Joe Arthur Sims
Hammond
Germillion
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