Subway Strikes Intensify as Transit Wages Crisis Deepens
Striking motormen and unionists widen their walkout crippling mayoral appeals and state penalties. Only 299 of 809 midnight to 7 am motormen reported for duty while 500 Brooklyn maintenance workers stayed away. Officials warn collapsed service harms 41 million daily fares.
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Subway
Brooklyn
New York Transit Authority
Robert F. Wagner
Averell Harriman
MBA
Michael J. Quill
Transport Workers Union
New York Central Railroad
Mount Vernon
Grand Central Terminal
Transit strike toll noted in Bronx and stalled talks
Motorists aided by auto pools eased a congested city during the strike as coaches logged 12 stops in the Bronx. Frank Zelano, leader of the striking motormen now jailed, rejects Quill's offer and accuses the Transit Authority of denying progress. Zelano says the authority must make the next move.
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Bronx
Frank Zelano
Quill
Transit Authority
Zelano
Cyprus Riots Enter Fifth Day Amid Unrest
In Nicosia Turkish riot police drove off stone throwing Greek Cypriot students with baton charges on the fifth day of disturbances sparked by the UN Cyprus debate. Students gathered near a school and dispersed after police baton actions. Greek high schools canceled classes to prevent further incidents.
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Nicosia
Cyprus
U.N. Cyprus
Higher Pay Debate Echoes Across Key Industries
Labor leaders reported thousands of workers already average far below full time as U S industry output sits 15 to 20 percent under capacity. Russians reportedly work 46 hours weekly, highlighting global wage pressures. Union chiefs favor wage safeguards with symmetric corporate disclosures, while opposing new picketing limits and boycott rules in Eisenhower’s labor plan.
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David McDonald
America
Labor Department
Iutile
Eisenhower
Pope Names Two Bishops for U S Dioceses
Arch bishop Cicog mani announced that Pope Pius XII named two new bishops in the United States. Msgr. Howard J. Carroll, 55, becomes bishop of Altoona Johnstown Pennsylvania, and Bishop Clarence G Issenman, 50, auxiliary to Archbishop Karl Alter of Cincinnati, is named bishop of Columbus Ohio.
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Washington
INS
Amleto Giovanni Cicogmani
U. S
Pope Pius XII
Altoona- Johnstown
Columbus
Ohio
Msgr
Howard J. Carroll
National Catholic Welfare Conference
Altoona-Johnstown
Clarence G. Issenman
Karl J. Alter
Cincinnati
Simpson bets on unraced filly Webria in Australia
Sydney reports racehorse owner Stanley Simpson has high hopes for his unraced ten year old filly Webria with the meaning win every bloomin race in Australia.
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Sydney
Australia
Stanley Simpson
Webria
Eisenhower to Attend Paris NATO Meeting Despite Stroke
President Eisenhower cleared to travel to Paris for the NATO summit next week. White House press secretary Hagerty said the President would fly Friday with Maj. Gen. Howard M. Snyder as physician and Maj. Gen. James R. Killian Jr. among aides. Dulles McElroy and Anderson join the American delegation as doctors plan to reassess in about a month.
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James C. Hagerty
White House
Eisenhower
NATO
Army
John Eisenhower
Howard M. Snyder
Hagerty
James R. Killian Jr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Killian
State Dulles
Defenses McElroy
the Treasury
Anderson
McElroy
Europe
Houston H. Merritt
Columbia University Medical School
New York
Francis M. Forster
Georgetown University Medical School
Roy E. Clausen Jr
Walter Reed Army Hospital
Sayler
Leonard D. Heaton
Walter Reed
Thomas W. Mattingly
Walter Reed Cardiological Service
Eight Warsaw Pact Nations to Meet for Economic Conference
The Czechoslovak radio announced that a conference of eight Warsaw Pact nations will open tomorrow at Melnik near Prague. The talks aim to further integrate the economies of Russia, Poland, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, Bulgaria and Albania.
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Czechoslovak Radio
Melnik
Prague
Russia
Poland
East Germany
Czechoslovakia
Hungary
Romania
Bulgaria
Albania
Blast Kills Four Miners in Arkansas Mine
Four Arkansas coal miners were killed by an underground explosion 306 feet deep in a horizontal tunnel about a mile from the shaft. The blast at the Peerless Coal Company mine in the Excelsior fields near Hackett and Greenwood left two coworkers alive. Victims were Joe Martin L D Sewell Gene Moore all of Paris and George Simmons of Greenwood.
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Fort Smith
Ark
Arkansas
Excelsior
Hackett
Greenwood
Peerless Coal Company
Bill Lewis
Joe Martin
L. D. Sewell
Gene Moore
Paris
George Simmons
Jailbreakers Escape Bid Ends in Federal Convictions
John Oley and Henry Crowley fled from penitentiary guards into a Syracuse escape plan. They hid in Burnet Avenue a flat basement and were smoked out by police. Geary hid in a parking lot shack opposite the Weighlock Building. All three stood trial in Binghamton Federal Court and were found guilty of escape and related kidnapping charges with sentences ranging from 28 to 60 years.
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Syracuse
Oley
Crowley
Burnet ‘Ave
Lon
Geary
Weigh
Optimist on Subway Tries to Board With Tuba
A man attempted to squeeze himself and a tuba onto a crowded New York subway car yesterday. He did not succeed and likely should have chosen the smaller instrument, the piccolo.
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New York
From Name to Number Mario Castelnve sentenced long term
In Chilliwack British Columbia police note the unnamed criminal Mario Castelnve was sentenced to 242 years in prison for breaking and entering and theft. The case marks a shift from identifying the criminal by name to a numerical designation in local records.
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Chilliwack
B.C
Mario Castelnve Andtedesca
Christmas Forecast From New Bedford Paper
The New Bedford Standard Times published a long range Christmas forecast with sunny dispositions and warm hearts in the morning, intermittent precipitation of tears of joy, scattered thunderous laughter, drifting clouds for happy children, and a calm, clear evening with memories of a wonderful day.
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New Bedford
Mass
New Bedford Standard- Times
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