Berlin Crisis Deepens as West Faces Economic Pressure
East German officials denounce Willy Brandt and warn West Berlin could become a free demilitarized city. Western diplomats say Soviet bargaining hinges on severing West Berlin from Western trade, threatening the $370 million yearly subsidy that sustains the city and risking East German economic dominance. Mayor Brandt vows continued ties with the West and stresses the role of economic factors alongside politics.
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Selemann
Eisler
West Berlin
Willy Branit
East Germany
Brandt
Brandt Farler
Berlin
Kremlin
Rusgia
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West Germany
Willy Brandt
Westermark
Explorers Dine On Exotic Foods At Annual Dinner
In New York the Explorers' Club held its annual dinner with a list of unusual delicacies. Menu items included roasted caterpillar, barbecue Japanese snake meat, fried Japanese grasshoppers, roasted Japanese ants, pickled African honey bees, Bombay duck, stuffed squid in its own ink, seal flipper, quail eggs, salted whale sian, reindeer steak bits, broiled Italian sparrows, fried agave worms, and Tan calves eyes Armenian style.
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New York
UPD
The
Explorers’ Club
Tavern Holdup Loot Is $9,500
Canton Ohio UPI reports two gunmen robbed the Louisville Road Tavern Friday, escaping with 39,500 after forcing the owner Frank Demeter and two others into a washroom and making them open the safe. Much of the loot was money used to cash checks for plant employees.
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Frank Demeter
Nasser attacks may force Soviet to side with Iraq
Western diplomats say Nasser’s anti Communist speeches could shift the Middle East, pressuring the Soviet Union to pick a side in the Egypt Iraq dispute and potentially jeopardize aid to the UAR as Moscow blames colonial imperialists for the Iraqi revolt.
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UPD
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Gamal Abdel Nasser
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Russia
Egypt
Iraq
U_AR
Abdel Karim Kassem
Moscow
Radia
Nasser
Middle East
Indicted Chief Denies Charge and Is Suspended
Police Chief Edward Prasek of Maple Heights denies charges of statutory rape involving a 15 year old girl. He was suspended by Mayor Maser after grand jury indictment and arraigned on bail set at 1000 dollars. The case follows reports of his drinking at a home linked to the girl and her procurer.
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UPI
Edward Prasek
Maple Heights
Prasek
Walter Maser
Common Pleas
Joseph Silbert
Maser
Western prestige at new low in Iraq
The Mosul mutiny failed and Western prestige sank further in Iraq. United Arab Republic President Gamal Abdel Nasser emerged as a major loser, his status here degraded to that of a traitor.
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Iraq
UPI
Mosul
United Arab Republic
Gamal Abdel Nasser
Low-Priced Liquor Hit Hardest By Hike
Student demonstrators who were called off the streets Wednesday returned to their studies. Baghdad newspapers advised readers to keep their fingers on the trigger, signaling heightened tensions following the price hike and protests targeting low-priced liquor.
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Baghdad
Ohio Liquor Price Hikes and Political Cartoons Rise
Local stock and securities page notes moves in Elyria and Lorain firms amid broader market chatter. A Baghdad cartoon targets Nasser amid Middle East tensions as UPI reports outline price increases and policy debates tied to Ohio liquor tax reforms and the governor’s financial plan.
Civil War Vet Fights For Life In Oxygen Tent
Old rebel John Salling nearly 113, one of two Civil War veterans left, lay in an oxygen tent at two local hospitals. Doctors said pneumonia followed a respiratory illness thought to be influenza or a severe cold and grimly warned the condition was touch and go.
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John Salling
Salling
Workers In Chains Protest GE Plant Closing
Seventeen members of the International Union of Electrical Workers AFL-CIO chained themselves together at the General Electric Co plant in Bloomfield New Jersey to protest the planned April 1 shutdown. GE stated the air conditioning plant would close due to lack of profit and said it would not interfere with the demonstration.
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UPI Telephoto
Bloomfield
N. J
UPI
General Electric Co
International Union of Electrical Workers Afl-Cio
General Electric
Henry W. Pierce
Four Missing After Fire Hits Home For Aged
A fire at Jennings Terrace in Aurora left ninety four residents escaped and ten injured. Firefighters search for four missing elderly residents believed to have fled to nearby homes. Union protests at Plant 442 TUB paused operations as workers demonstrated chains and sit ins on upper levels.
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Aurora
APD
Jennings Terrace
Ohio Publisher Marks 60 Years in News Career
Charles Ziegler of Local 442 notes the 60th anniversary of Rodders Rodgers in Tiffin journalism. Starting as a newsboy, he joined March 13 1899 as circulation manager of the Tiffin Daily Advertiser, rising to president and publisher of the Advertiser-Tribune after mergers.
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Tiffin
E. Tappan
Rodgers
Tiffin Daily Advertiser
The
Advertiser
Daly Tribune
Advertiser-Tribune Co
Macmillan Gains French and West German Support
Prime Minister Harold Macmillan’s visits to Paris and Bonn yielded French and West German backing for his proposals. He planned talks with President Eisenhower next week, though Eisenhower appeared less eager for summit discussions. Informants say basic agreement was reached with Charles de Gaulle and Konrad Adenauer despite some details still unsettled.
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UPI
Harold Macmillan
Paris
Bonn
Eisenhower
Macmillan
Charles de Gaulle
Konrad Adenauer
U.S
Tosday
Ottawa
Washington
Kremlin
Democrats Seek $1 Billion Cut In Ike's Aid Program
Democratic leaders press for cutting about one billion dollars from the foreign aid budget for the next fiscal year. They argue waste and inefficiency in the Eisenhower program should be trimmed through scrutiny by the House and Senate committees. Critics label the total outlay as too high amid Cold War economic aid efforts.
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Thomas Cratic
E. Morgan
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Frisenhower
J. William Fulday
Bright
D-Ark
Eisenhower
House Foreign Affairs
Senate Democratic
Stary
Mike Mansfield
Mont
Christian A. Herter
March Business Boom Forecast For 1959 Surge
UPI reports March shaping up as the best business month in years with strong auto and steel output. Forecasters expect a bright first half of 1959 as car makers plan new economy models. District Attorney Hogan says a grand jury probes bribery linked to labor officials, while railroad and trucking freight hit new highs and steel production sets records amid market optimism. Berlin tensions and nuclear war risks cloud the outlook as analysts weigh the possibility of a summer steel strike.
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New York
UPI
Frank S. Hogan
Railroad and Trucking Indus
Ttries
York
Ramifica
Toledo
Ohio
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Eversees
D.A
Walter Dicate
P. Reuther
United the Industrial Line
Recovery Auto
Wall Street
Steel Magazine
Joseph L. Block
Inland Steel Co
Chicago Federal Reserve Bank
Toledo Union Leaders Named In Probe
The spokesman said the questioned men cooperated and were not personally involved. Identified were Richard T. Gosser international vice president of the WAW, Ernest Love UAW international representative, Pete Zvara assistant director of the Doehler Jarvis department UAW, and Kenneth De Long executive secretary of the Textile Workers Union. Assistant District Attorney Thomas McBride and accountant Morris Marks studied their bank records and would photo stat union records.
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Toledo
Richard T. Gosser
WAW
Ernest Love
UAW International
Pete Zvara
Doehler Jarvis
UAW
Kenneth de Long
Textile Workers Union
Thomas McBride
Morris Marks
Bar Group Criticized for Court Rhetoric at ABA Meeting
UPI reports U S Solicitor J Lee Rankin rebuked the American Bar Association for criticizing Supreme Court rulings, warning such attacks threaten judicial independence and individual freedoms. He defended the court in a Pittsburgh regional address, stressing lawyers’ duty to safeguard an independent judiciary amid rapid national changes.
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UPI
U. S
J. Lee Rankin
American Bar Assn
United States Supreme Court
Naviete Indenandanra
Dankin
ABA
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House of Delegates
Congress
Supreme Court
Milk Producers Back Legislation To Curb Cutthroat Sales
Ohio Dairy Products Assn and the Ohio Milk Producers Federation back a bill to outlaw less than cost sales and curb cutthroat practices. The measure, introduced in the House by Rhoderic Mills and Ralph Fisher, is supported by 17 dairy farmer cooperatives and about 20 thousand members.
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Columbus
UPI
Ohio
Ohio Dairy Products Assn
Fred J. Greiner
Ohio Milk Producers Federation
Ohio House
Rhoderic Mills
D-Perry
Ralph Fisher
R-Wayne
Commissioner Cannot Hold Officer Posts in County Societies
Columbus reports that Attorney General Mark McElroy ruled a county commissioner cannot serve as a director or officer of a county or independent agricultural society. He overruled a 1934 opinion, stating incompatibility despite the law allowing land buying leasing and support for fairs under county societies.
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Mark McElroy
Robert M. Terhune
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