Two Bills Stall Final Dash Of Congress
The 82nd Congress adjournment plans stalled by a deadlock over two money bills. Both the House and Senate failed to finalize a $10 billion supplemental appropriation and a $584 million rivers and harbors bill, delaying adjournment into next week.
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Washington
82Nd Congress
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House
Chicago
Truman
Barkley
Rayburn
Hartwell
South Carolina
Georgia
Maybank
D-Sc
Olin Johnston
Barkley Set To Put Steam Into Drive
Vice President Alben Barkley announces he will actively seek the Democratic presidential nomination challenging the GOP convention in Chicago. The 74 year old veteran had said he would accept the No 1 spot but now runs at the urging of friends nationwide.
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Chicago
Alben Barkley
Barkley
All Star Game Adds Raschi and Simmons as Starters
Vic Raschi will start for the American League and Curt Simmons for the National League in the 19th annual All Star game at Shibe Park Tuesday.
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Philadelphia
Curt Simmions
Vic Raschi
Shide Park
Wanted Six Motor Bikes For Sale Ad Prospects
Steve Kantner planned a four day Mes Senger ads sale for six motorbikes. He cancelled after one insertion noting he sold the bike and could have sold six more. A Messenger Classified Ad line urges readers to call 31242 to place ads at once.
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Steve Kantner
Emotionally Torn Delegates Begin Tortuous Job of Choosing
More than 12 000 Republicans gathered at Convention Hall to begin nominating a candidate for president amid anger anxiety and indecision. The piece contrasts the lively scene around the Hilton with the hidden crowd psychology and the mounting fight over convention rules between Eisenhower and Taft.
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Relman Morin
Chicago
Conrad Hilton
Dwight Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Patient Drowns While Fishing at Gallipolis Institute
A 41 year old patient, Russell Neubauer of Dayton, drowned Sunday at 9 25 p m while fishing in a pond on the Gallipolis State Institute grounds. He had been admitted July 12 1947. A companion, also a patient, alerted staff and emergency crews failed to revive him after about 20 minutes in the water. Funeral services will be in Dayton.
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Gallipolis State Institute
Russell Neubauer
Dayton
Poets
State Highway Patrol
Neubauer
Charles Neubauer
Minnie Neuman
Walter
New Agency To Aid FBI Considered By Attorney General
Washington Atty Gen McGranery said he is considering creating a new Justice Department agency to aid the FBI in fighting subversive activities. He described the division as an intensive, ongoing unit to study save activities and new methods of operation, though he warned it could prove duplicative.
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Washington
Atty
Gen McGranery
Justice Department
FBI
McGranery
Gene
Douglas MacArthur
Ohio records 25 dead on Fourth as national toll hits 600
Ohio tally shows 25 accidental deaths in the Independence Day weekend up to Sunday midnight. Traffic losses totaled 12, drownings seven, and miscellaneous six, with Columbus resident Brigitta Sperber, 30, killed when a car overturned near Nelsonville Saturday.
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Ohio
Associated Press
National Safety Council
Brigitta Sperber
Columbus
Nelsonville
Pennsylvania Delegation Backs Eisenhower Rule Change
Pennsylvania's 11 against 57 in a heated 90 minute caucus backed the Eisenhower plan to amend Republican convention credential rules. Gov. John S. Fine led the drive, two members abstained, Taft supporters were among the dissenters.
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Chicago
Pennsylvania
John S. Fine
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Tiny Home To House Newly Born Quads In Portland
In Standish a 35 year old wife of a carpenter gave birth to quadruplets. Dr Duncan Morse said the mother Elizabeth Pinkham was in excellent condition and the quadruplets were delivered unassisted and very good. The couple previously had a 9 year old daughter.
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Portland
Duncan Morse
Elizabeth Pinkham
Security Pay Bill Passes
Congress completed action Saturday on a bill increasing social security insurance and public assistance payments by about 540 million dollars annually. About eight million people would benefit immediately, including 2,685,000 seniors who would receive an extra five dollars a month under old age assistance.
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Washington
Congress
Sleek New Superliner Cracks Record for Atlantic Crossing
The United States completed its maiden Atlantic crossing in a record three days 10 hours 40 minutes beating the Queen Mary’s 14 year old record by 10 hours 2 minutes. The 53,000 ton liner averaged 35.59 knots on the 2938 mile run as gale winds buffeted her off the English coast. Passengers cheered at sunrise while the ship headed for Le Havre and Southampton before returning to America. Commodore Hagey Manning, age 55, called it a no-hit like feat.
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United States
America
Cunard
Bishop’s Rock
English
Hagey Manning
Triangular Planks Set In Platform As GOP Drafts
The Republican platform committee nears completion with a six sided plan addressing foreign policy labor civil rights and corruption. A civil rights plank faces debate with options for a voluntary federal counsel to investigate state and local conditions. Millikin backs Taft and Eisenhower support broad unity ahead of the convention.
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Chicago
Dwight Dpd. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Eugene D. Millikin
Colorado
Platform Committee
Mildred Younger
California
Younger
Millikin
Eiisenhower
Taft
GOP
Eisenhower
Danes Declare Delivery of Russian Tanker Will Stand
Danish Foreign Minister Ole Bjoern Kraft said Denmark will deliver a 13,000-ton tanker to Russia despite U S protests. He argued the ship was built under an old contract and that there is no legal basis to stop the delivery. The American note threatened cutting military and economic aid if the tanker goes to Russia.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
Ole Bjoern Kraft
United States
Russia
U. S
U.S
Gov Driscoll's Son Feared Polio Victim
New Jersey Governor Alfred E. Driscoll hurries to Chicago to be with his son Peter aged 14 as doctors fear polio after the boy was rushed to a hospital Sunday night The governor left convention duties to stay by his son's side amid reports of polio epidemics in Texas during the Governors Conference and Republican National Convention visit.
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Chicago
New Jersey
Alfred E. Driscoll
Peter
Driscoll
Houston
Texas
Secret Truce Talks Open Quietly in Korea
United Nations and Communist negotiators held their fourth secret meeting in Munsan Korea on a single issue exchange of prisoners of war. The UN spokesman said proceedings were businesslike and that the Reds avoided propaganda blasts today. Brig Gen William P Nuckols noted the talks focused on prisoners of war.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
William P. Nuckols
Eisenhower Braces for Taft Clash at Republican Meet
Eisenhower executes a flurry of talks ahead of the Republican convention. He aims to win the nomination as a self styled amateur while Taft counters with a large pledged vote lead. A key goal is changing convention rules to allow disputed delegates to vote. Taft says he will oppose the rule change at the convention.
U S Friend Leads Mexico Vote Amid Fragmentary Returns
Early unofficial results show Adolfto Ruiz Cortines leading with 24 299 votes as Mexico's general election begins to reveal ballots. Miguel Henriquez Guzman trails with 3 491, while Efrain Gonzalez Luna and Vicente Lombardo Toledano receive 1 179 and 689 votes respectively.
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Mexico City
United States
Mexico
Adolf
Ruiz Cortines
Party of Revolutionary Institutions
PRI
Miguel Henriquez Guzman
Confederation of People’s Parties
Efrain Gonzalez Luna
PAN
Vicente Lombardo Toledano
Communista
Reds Repulse UN Assaults Near Panmunjom
U N raiders supported by tanks and flamethrowers were repulsed by Chinese forces two miles east of the Panmunjom talks site. APs Sam Summerlin reports U N infantry attacked three Red outposts at 10 p m under a bright moon but were pinned by mortar fire and grenades. Two squads reached the Chinese hill outpost but flamethrowers and rockets failed to dislodge the Reds.
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Seoul
Korea
Panmunjom
Associated Press
Sam Summerlin
Western Front
U.N
Summerlin
Dayton Prison Break Fugitives Sought After Jail Escape
Dayton police hunt six prisoners who escaped Montgomery County jail after stealing tail guns. Led by John Cornette the group overpowered two deputies, freed five inmates and fled in two cars. One car found abandoned. another missing as officers suspect an outside accomplice aided Cornette with a handgun.
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Dayton
Cornette
Weyland Promoted to Full General in Far East Air Forces
Otto P. Weyland commander of the Far East Air Forces was promoted to full general today. The ceremony formalizes his rank amid ongoing postwar air power realignments in Tokyo.
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Tokyo
Otto P. Weyland
Far East Air Forces
PUC Rejects B&O Plan to End Marietta Passenger Trains
The Ohio Public Utilities Commission denied the Balt more & Ohio Railroad request to discontinue the only passenger service into Marietta, ruling the public's need outweighs the line's losses. Trains 955 and 956 between Zanesville and Parkersburg via Marietta would have ended. The panel overruled a railroad examiner and noted other towns along the Muskingum River would lose rail access.
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Utities Commission
Baltmore & Ohio Railroad
Marietta
Zanesville
Parkersburg
W. Va
James L. Fullin
Muskingum River
Philo
Stockport
Lowell
Belpre
GOP Unity at Stake in Opening Convention Clash
At the start of the 1952 Republican National Convention in Chicago leaders scramble for a compromise over contested Southern delegates. Taft backers push against a Knowland plan to let delegations decide seating while Eisenhower aides back a rule change. The issue could signal the nomination fight’s tempo and cast a shadow on Taft’s bid.
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Texas
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Gen
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Conrad Hilton Hotel
Republican National
Chicago
GOP
Taft
William Knowland
California
Cone
Eisenhower
Taft Ise
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Georgia
Oo Taft
Ohio
Guy G. Gabrielson
Earl Warerens
Arthur Summerfield
Michigan
John 8. Fine
Pennsylvania
Knowland
Tom Coleman
Wisconsin
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
Massachusetts
Eisenhowers
Arthur B. Langlie
Washington
Credentials Committee
National Committee
Florida
Mississippi
Kansas
Missouri
Summerfield
Davis
Ingalls
Clarence Brown
Soldiers Return From Far East On Navy Transport
Cpl. Harold F. Sheets of Logan Route 4 is among 1306 Army troops rotated home from the Far East aboard the Navy transport Sadao S. Munroe.
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Harold F. Sheets
Logan
Far East
Navy
Sadao S. Muneori
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