Subway strike creates citywide transit crunch
The strike by the Motormen’s Brotherhood disrupts buses, ferries, and LIRR service. MBA and TWU clash over bargaining rights while 317 motormen refuse to operate trains. Police patrols, crowded ferries, and gridlocked roads characterize a chaotic midtown rush hour.
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Order of Justice
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Nixon urges proportion in missile build up at Cape Canaveral
Scientists quote President Nixon urging Americans to keep proportion while pursuing missile programs to outpace the Russians. At Cape Canaveral observers noted a flurry of activity suggesting launches of Jupiter, Atlas, Redstone, Thor, and possible satellite tests by Jupiter-C or Navy efforts.
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Cape Canaveral
Air Force
King to Address U N Assembly Parade in New York
Moroccan King Mohamed V arrived in New York for a week of duties including a ticker tape parade and a speech to the General Assembly. He was to be greeted by Mayor Wagner at City Hall after the parade and address the Assembly at 3 p.m.
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Mohamed V
U.N. Assembly
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City Hall
Robert F. Wagner
Broadway
Mohamed
General Assembly
Wetzel Escapes Willard Inmate Linked To Car Theft Trail
Willard New York hospital officials say Wetzel, an escapee from the Willard asylum, boasted of fleeing to Mississippi to free his brother awaiting execution. He has a long crime record. A highway car theft trail tied him to Tennessee Kentucky Pennsylvania and California where he was arrested on vagrancy before extradition.
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Tennessee
Kentucky
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Bomb Salvager Dies in Desert Blast
In El Centro California H S Reed age 59 of Brawley was killed while salvaging a 500 pound bomb from a Navy target range in the desert He built a fire around the dud bomb to burn out the powder then moved back about 40 yards and a fragment struck him in the back authorities said the weapon exploded.
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Union Leaders Decry Hearings On Labor and Business
The McClellan committee hearings are urged by AFL-CIO leaders to expose corruption in labor and business alike. They condemn a one sided probe and note 10 cases of business corruption for every labor case. Internal Revenue agents are reviewing union expense accounts for possible tax violations, with no parallel business inquiry.
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James R. Hoffa
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