Kefauver enters 1956 race amid Eisenhower health questions
The piece follows Kefauver's formal entry into the Democratic presidential race as Stevenson welcomes him with a playful remark. It notes Kefauver's limited funds and time affecting campaign vigor, outlines planned primaries in Minnesota Illinois Pennsylvania Florida and California, and mentions Ohio and New Hampshire battle lines. The article also covers Bricker's standby bid for Eisenhower in Ohio and labor politics clashes involving Walter Reuther and Hiestand.
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Illinois
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Florida
California
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Hiestand
Walter Reuther
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Reuther
Los Angeles
Russia
United Auto Workers
UAW
Detroit
Republican Party
Typhoon Ruth Misses Iwo Jima In Narrow Path
Typhoon Ruth narrowly missed Iwo Jima and moved northeast across the Pacific. The storm, located 140 miles east of Iwo Jima, packed winds to 115 mph and was advancing at about 40 mph, expected to be several hundred miles away by tomorrow afternoon.
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Ruth
Iwo Jima
Pacific
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Air Force
Railroads Seek 7 Percent Freight Rate Increase
Chicago report states railroads will seek an immediate seven percent rise in freight rates to offset wage and material cost hikes totaling over a half billion dollars. A presidential committee urged wage boosts and health benefits for 750,000 non operating employees, with typical gains around 14 1/2 cents an hour plus 2 cents for health and welfare.
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Chicago
Interstate Commerce Commission
Westinghouse Offers Strikers Holiday Loan
Westinghouse Electric Corp proposes a loan program to help strikers and furloughed workers during Christmas. The offer of up to 100 per worker drew mixed reactions from union leaders who question motives while some see it as a gesture. About 50,000 union members are on strike at 40 plants and 44,000 are furloughed or partially employed as wage and time study disputes persist.
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Pittsburgh
Westinghouse Electric Corp
Gwilym A. Price
Westinghouse
al Hartnett
International Union of Electrical Workers
Daniel Marguriet
Dist. 6
United Electrical Workers (Independent
Price
Robert Nellis
IUE Westinghouse Conference Board
Job Suspended After Refusal to Testify
CHICAGO A man who refused to testify about communism but would accept immunity to testify has been suspended from his $8 500 a year job as an official of the Chicago Land Clearance Commission. Ellis Olim 44 was the second Chicagoan removed for refusing to testify before the House Un American Activities Committee. Olim invoked the Fifth Amendment but then accepted immunity and agreed to testify. The committee's three day Chicago hearing was continued to March after the immunity offer.
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Chicago
Ellis Olim
Chicago Land Clearance Commission
Olim
McCarthy Attacks Anti-Red Loyalty Hearings
Senator McCarthy charged two Senate subcommittees with trying to discredit anti-Communist security hearings by ridicule and misrepresentation. He named subcommittees led by Senators Hennings and Johnston as pursuing companion inquiries into the government’s employee loyalty-security program.
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Sen
McCarthy
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Senate
Sens. Hennings
D-Mo
Olin D. Johnston
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McClellan
D-Ark
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Wisconsin
Hennings
Johnston
Civil Service
Congress
Minister's Son Held in Miami Extortion Plot
In Miami a 20 year old son of a Negro minister was arrested on extortion charges involving 600000 against John S Knight editor of the Miami Herald and other papers. FBI said Williams would face charges after a dummy package was opened by him behind houses. Knight’s letter warned of tapped wires and family harm. money to be delivered in Chicago and Miami. The case follows Williams’ psychiatric treatment and no known prior record.
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Miami
Fla
John S. Knight
Miami Herald
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Peter Napoleon Williams Jr
Charles E. Weeks
FBI
Williams
Weeks
Knight
Chicago
Extortioners, Inc
Herald
Chicago Daily News
Detroit Free Press
Akron
Ohio
Beacon-Journal
U S Accuses Reds of Cruel Treatment of Americans
The State Department plans a white paper on cruel and inhuman treatment of Americans held by Communist China and protests by Ambassador A Alexis Johnson to Wang Ping nan at Geneva. Fourteen Americans remain imprisoned, with 27 having left since Sept 6 1949, while returns and appeals face red tape as Washington demands freedom to depart under the Sept 10 agreement.
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Washington
State Department
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China
U. S
A. Alexis Johnson
Wang Ping-nan
Geneva
Johnson
Wang
Reds
United States
Department
Red China
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