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Newspaper
The Chronicle Telegram
Location
Elyria, Ohio, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1959
Page
12
A brisk survey of the 1950s notes space age birth and interplanetary aims, tied to fears of nuclear war and global tensions. It highlights leaders, crises from Hungary to Korea, NATO unity, UN efforts, and pivotal events shaping the era.
Chicago homicide detectives sift through vast underworld files and scour a basement hideout linked to mobster Roger Touhy’s shooting. They weigh mob retaliation versus a personal grudge as motive while far more clues surface about a lookout near Touhy’s sister Ethel Alesia’s home and the ambush that wounded Touhy and his bodyguard Walter Hitler.
Chicago era of gangland murders continues with high profile figures named and linked to the Mafia. The piece lists unsolved killings from New York and Boston to Chicago, notes key figures like Albert Anastasia, Anthony Little, Augie Pisano, and Jo seph Bronge, and ties rackets to organized crime networks. It also places these events amid a broader postwar crime and political backdrop.
President Eisenhower may travel to Tokyo and Seoul in late June or early July to press Japan and Korea toward resolving their feud. The plan follows his Latin American tour and a White House meeting with Japanese Prime Minister Kishi amid a new defense pact, aiming to boost East-West diplomacy and trade.
Washington United Press International reports Sen. John F Kennedy believes he can win the Democratic presidential nomination and then the presidency. A Kennedy staff letter, dated December 28, outlines plans to announce candidacy January 2 and urges Democratic support. Kennedy was traveling to Jamaica and would be abroad until after year’s start.
In Dayton Ohio UPI mechanical fault blamed as an elevator serving the Miami Hotel plunged eleven floors with Fairmont High School chorus members aboard. One student, Connie Kepler, 17, received a fractured ankle while others were treated. a safety cable and bumper prevented a worse disaster.
World Health Organization reports bats caused three of the United States rabies deaths in the past two years. The note appears in a 1959 Lorain County printing imprint listing pricing and mailing details.
Jay W. Collins, administrator of Euclide Glenville Hospital, called Ohio’s mental hospital recruitment efforts mediocre and apathetic in a progress report to Gov. Michael V. DiSalle. He warned many illnesses go undetected and only a fraction of patients receive physical exams, while citing notable progress in volunteer recruitment, staff training, funding for equipment, and new nursing and safety measures.
President Eisenhower lands at Toulon aboard the Des Moines after a three day Mediterranean cruise from Athens. He heads to Paris for talks starting Saturday, greeted by De Gaulle and French officials as security precautions, harbor patrols, and pilot trains deter sabotage.
Speaking before 5900 Gary Indiana workers McDonald said the union will overwhelmingly reject the latest steel offer but hinted at a tri partite agreement like that with Kaiser steel. He warned that a strike resumption is not automatic after the cooling off period ends January 26 and signaled a near settlement with aluminum firms.
Ohio State University graduates heard archaeologist Nel son Glueck declare communism will fall, likening past empires to today. He urged that security, dominion, power, and lasting freedom rely on probity and decency, warning tyranny thrives where freedom is divided. Glueck noted his work on Solomon’s copper mines and leads Hebrew Union College.
Washington officials ordered Santa Claus to ride upright in a District traffic safety float after protests from youngsters and parents about a sleeping Santa beneath a warning sign. The float, sponsored by the District Traffic Safety Committee, drew complaints in downtown and shopping areas.
A federal jury in New York deliberated nearly nine hours over the Apalachin gathering case. Twenty men of Italian ancestry face charges of conspiring to obscure the meeting’s purpose and were unable to reach a verdict.
Two masked bandits abducted New York jewelry salesman Sueder Silverberg and robbed him of 600 in cash and 90 000 in uncut diamonds before releasing him in a park. He said he had just finished a car sale when the hijack occurred and they forced him to drive to a nearby street then pushed him into a stolen car. Police were summoned after he flagged down motorists.
A High Street store in Southend England specializing in rain boats suffered a flood when a large water pipe burst, soaking most of its stock on Thursday. Local responders contained the water as customers watched.
Sister Mary Benjamin former Antoinette Galati of St. Louis died a Roman Catholic nun several hours after receiving final vows before cancer surgery. Funeral services were set for Saturday in Hamden. Her mother Mrs Frank Gesian witnessed the vow taking moments before the operation.
Pontiac police say two construction workers, Herbert Holsworth and James C Dunn, will be tried in January on charges of using obscene language after a boy reported hearing them insult Santa. The case stems from an incident witnessed by the boy's mother.
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