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...operaters' position, as stated by Seabury Stanton, head of the Cotton Manufacturers Association for the New Bedford-Fall River area, is that "New England mills cannot survive in the face of unequal competition from Southern mills." Stanton's group refuses to compromise with the union despite the efforts of a special mediation board appointed by Governor Herter. The union has announced that its members are willing to go back at the present wage rates, but cotton manufacturers have issued an ultimatum, threatening to move out of the state if their demands are not satisfied...
...three legs, the Ithacan's Larry Lattomus, Andy Dadegian, and Dick Stanton had maintained a five-yard lead over the Crimson's Zeb Warren, Dick Wharton, and Renny Little. On the final hand-off John Morris took off for Cornell and Dave Alpers for Harvard. Alpers, in his first race of the year, could not cut the deficit, and the Big Red won the race in 3:18 flat. Harvard's 3:18.9 was third best behind Princeton. Yale failed to place...
...witnesses who streamed in and out of Stanton's improvised HQ all identified Booth as the assassin. In a belated roundup of stablekeepers, army troops found a man who had kept Booth's horse for him till late afternoon...
...until five hours after the shooting did Stanton name the actor in his communiques, and most U.S. newspapers went to press that morning without naming the assassin...
Finally, someone remembered a month-old tip that a plot was being hatched in a boardinghouse run by Mrs. Mary Surratt.* Authorities hurried to the address, found documents and clues that persuaded Stanton that Actor Booth was responsible. As day broke, Stanton ordered all exits from the capital checked again, and decided that Booth had probably got away into southern Maryland. Then, as troopers rode out along the Potomac (it took twelve days to corner and kill Booth), Stanton and Mrs. Lincoln entered the little bedroom where Lincoln lay on a cornhusk mattress. Outside, a throng of weeping people, mainly...