Dixie rebels shift as Georgia and South Carolina back Stevenson
South Carolina and Georgia Democratic leaders endorsed Stevenson and Sparkman, dampening a Dixie revolt. Mississippi, Texas, Virginia, Louisiana plan conventions or meetings to map a course, with governors Byrnes Talmadge White backing Stevenson and Sparkman.
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William M. Bates
Janta
South Carobed
Georgia
Dixie
Ghligans
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Virginia
Texas
Florida
Tennessee
North Carolina
South Carolina
Adlai E. Stevenson
John J. Sparkman
Mississippi
Louisiana
Democratic Central Committee
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Herman Talmadge
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Hugh White
Stevenson
Springfield
Eight-year-old boy drowns after Devers canal accident
An eight-year-old, Kenneth Obbie Norris, fell from a bridge into the swift Devers canal near Liberty while retrieving a dangling fishing pole. Despite a large rescue effort by Sheriff Rose and 30 volunteers, the body was found at the canal bottom 2 hours later, as water pumps were lowered to aid the search. The Norris family had recently moved to Baytown for work with a pipeline construction firm.
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Kenneth Obbie Norris
C. O. Norris
West Sterling
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Benjamin
Kenneth
W. P
Red) Rose
Emergency Corps
Liber Volunteer Fire Department
Devers Canal Co
tysJustice
W. G
Dub) Woods
Norris
Baytown
2 Pipeline Company
Granery Calls Nals For Wave Prosecutions
In INTON Aug 9 17 General James P McGranery said progress toward department reorganization is very fine. He cited inquiries into job selling payoffs bribes and irregularities across agencies and noted grand jury investigations into misconduct at the St Aver shipyard and other government surplus actions. He warned of cases involving immigration misrepresentation by Canadians and other officials.
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St. Aver
Jackson- 3
Techee Attorney General & Clark
Supreme Fothe
McGranery
U. S
Windsor
Ont
La Porte Councilmen Defend De Annexation Action
La Porte city council members Saturday defended actions to de annex more than 40 square miles of territory. Robert A. White and L R Rigby said the move had been considered seriously. The mayor opposed the resolution in its present form. Rigby claimed the mayor opposed losing Bayshore control. White noted the action was an adjustment of boundaries not a de annexation and can be accomplished under state statute. He said the city boundaries were adjusted to exclude outer districts. White commented on a charter clause about authenticating ordinances by the mayor and city clerk.
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la Porte City
la Porte
Robert A. White
L. R. Rigby
Rigby
Bayshore
White
Burgin
Tn Pur
City Dads
Quintuplets Born After Frantic City Hospital Call
In New York Roosevelt hospital Friday night a patient entered in labor after a public address system summoned doctors and equipment. The birth produced triplets first, then twins, totaling five infants. The Greek cat and her five kittens Alpha Beta Gamma Della and Kappa were reportedly in good health in observation.
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New York
Roosevelt Hospital
Della
Heavy Fighting Rages In Korea One MIG Downed
Seoul Korea Aug 9 Heavy fighting flared in two sectors of the Korean ground front while American Sabrejets downed a MIG 15 for the sixth straight day of aerial victories. UN and Communist troops battled for eight hours to control a hill east of Panmunjom as Red artillery shelling rained on the position. West of the Pukhan river Chinese and South Korean forces fought over Capitol Hill, which changed hands six times in a week.
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Seoul
Korea
United Nations
Panmunjor
Herbert M. Butler
Garland
Utah
Pukhan River
Capitol Hill
Collin Resigns Highlands Fire Chief Post for Texas City
Highlands Fire Chief James Collin will move to Texas City on August 15 to assume combined duties as fire marshal and chief of the Texas City department. Appointed by resolution of the Texas City council, Collin has led Highlands since 1950 after joining in 1947. He rose from assistant chief to chief and cites prior Navy service and leadership as Gulf Coast Fireman's Association president.
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James Collin
Texas City
Texas City Department
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Texas City Council
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Central Station
Texas City Heights
Highlands Fire Department
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Gulf Coast Fireman's Association
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Help On Way To Drouth Areas Emergency Hay Supplies
The Agriculture Department said emergency hay supplies will begin flowing to drought areas of Kentucky and Tennessee early next week at prices from 28 to 36 dollars a ton. Government will buy and ship the hay using 233-million emergency funds. farmers will pay low rates to maintain herds. Brannan cites over 1 billion dollars in drought costs. no rail rate cut reply yet.
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Patricia Wiggins
Washington
Agriculture Department
Kentucky
Tennessee
Truman
Jucky
Charles. F. Brannan
Brannan
Baytown junior high to resume band practice and meeting
Announced by band director Mann that the Baytown Junior High band will resume practice. Seventh grade students are to attend Monday session at the Quack Practice FARRER facility with GOURLAY and Mrs L Gourlay noted among attendees.
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Zes
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Quack
Practice Farrer
Mann Junior High
Afon
Alam
Billy Rose Admits Tightwad Image In Divorce Tangle
New York August 9 showman Billy Rose heaps satire on his divorce battle with Eleanor Holm Rose accusing him of penuriousness. He mocks his own frugality detailing lavish but oddball fixtures of their life and claims he gave her only meager 317000 yearly allowance amid a lavish lifestyle. He says she grew penniless after the split and notes their Christmas coal was wrapped in bonds and cash. Thorpe Is Better HENDERSON Nev August 9 Thorpe shows slight sensory after grand beret attack.
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New York
Billy Rose
Eleanor Holm Rose
Broadway
Eleanor
Rembrandt
Hals
Velasquez
Renoir
Mount Kisco
Hattie Carnegie
Valentina
Thorpe
Henderson
Nev
Fim Thorpe
Gran Beret
Latva Narrowly Escapes Deportation After Communist Link
Karl Latva a 49 year old loomfixer living in Wendell New Hampshire expressed relief after U S Attorney General James P McGranery pledged to use discretionary powers to prevent his deportation for unwittingly joining the Communist party in 1933 Latva said he believed the union like group would aid a strike and his sons Carl and Paul praised the quick government action Rep Francis E Walter a co author of the Walter McCarran Immigration Act also welcomed the development
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N. H
Karl Assar Latva
Justice Department
FBI
Communist Party
U. S
James P. McGranery
Laiva
Finland
Latta
Carl
Paul
McGranery
Assur
Eisenhower studies farm problems with GOP leaders
Ike invited Republican members of the House and Senate Agriculture committees to confer on farm problems, with a separate meeting for 19 Republican leaders from nine southern states. He plans a mid day luncheon and a trip to Gallup New Mexico for the 30th annual inter tribal Indian ceremonial before returning. Dulles said Truman policy risks the nation’s greatest peril, reflecting on foreign policy with Eisenhower and Nixon.
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Denver
Dwight D. Eisenhower
House
Senate Agriculture Committees
Eisenhower
South
Gallup
N.M
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Dulles
Richard M. Nixon
California
Truman
Nixon
Houston Reports No Polio Cases Yet in Houston Hospitals
Houston health officials reported no definite polio cases by Saturday noon though three possible cases remained at Jefferson Davis hospital and Hedgecroft Clinic. Total diagnosed cases for the year reached 742 as the polio epidemic continued to challenge health services.
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Houston
Houston Health ‘Department
Jefferson Davis Hospital
Hedgecroft Clinic
Mont Belvieu Man Dies In Hospital
C N Brummett 69 longtime Mont Belvieu resident and retired Texas Gulf Production Co employee died at 10 a m Saturday in a Baytown hospital after a long illness. Funeral services Sunday at Mont Belvieu Methodist Church with Masonic rites Cedar Bayou lodge burial at Cedar Bayou Cemetery under Paul A Lee direction. Survivors include widow Alma Brummett two daughters Marguerite Brummett Freeport and Mrs Clyde Massey Conroe two sons J E Brummett La Porte and A E Brummett Houma.
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C.N. Brummett
Mont Belvieu
Baytown
Brummett
Texas Gulf Production Co
Mont Belvieu Methodist Church
H. A. Springfield
Cedar Bayou
W. W. Hunt to retire after fifty years in telephone work
W. W. Hunt district manager for General Telephone in Baytown will retire next year after a half century in the telephone business. He began in June 1903, came to Baytown in 1927 to manage Goose Creek exchange, and remains in that post with the firm through its evolution from Southwestern Associated Telephone to General Telephone. Born December 30, 1888 in Page Texas, Hunt helped support a seven member family after his father died. He and his wife live at 623 Gresham. two grown sons work in oil and refinery jobs in El Dorado and Trinity Bay.
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Theeneral — Telephone Co
Hunt
General Telephone
W Hunt
Baytown
Goose Creek
Texas Associated _ Telephone Co
Southywestern Associat Telephone Co
Boubre
Page
Texas
Bell System
Waco
Mexia
Oklahoma City
Palestine
Georgetown
Gresham
H. W. Hunt
Pan American Oil
el Dorado
W. T. Hunt
Trinity Bay
Counterfeit Artist Operated on Okinawa Base
Army authorities reported the world's worst counterfeiter was active on Okinawa defense base. They described bogus $10 military script bills with errors: Pluribus Unum misspelled, backward E, omitted P, words run together, blurred front figure, regulatons for regulations, certificate misspelled, and etablishments for establishment.
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U.S. Army Hdaqs
Okinawa
Anderson Probable Successor to Constable Role
Constable Jack Golden resigns effective August 31 and names Paul Anderson as his interim successor for the remainder of Golden's term. Golden, elected two years ago for Precinct 3, had considered resigning for industrial work but stayed. He confirms resignation and notes a shipyard job offer beginning September 1.
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Jack Golden
Paul Anderson
Golden
Boke
Galden
Precinct
Theicé
Wa 1
Stephen Mitchell Picked To Head Demo Committee
SPRINGFIELD Illinois August 90P A Democratic informant says Adlai Stevenson chose Stephen A Mitchell 43 Chicago attorney and House Judiciary subcommittee counsel to head the Democratic National Committee Stevenson aims for an independent stance against Republican charges of Truman era corruption Kefauver Tennessee senator to visit Springfield for meetings with Stevenson during the search for a running mate and party response to the campaignوتر
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Raymond -Lahr
Springfield
Goy
Adlai E
Stevenson
Truman
Stephen
A. Mitchell
Democratic National Committee
Mitchell
Chicago
House, Judiciary
Justice Department
Sen
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
Binion Fights Extradition Over Tax Charge
Las Vegas gambler Benny Binion and his lawyers head to court in Reno to block his extradition to Texas on a 1948 income tax charge. They call the federal indictment a political move while Texas presses for his return to face a state gambling case. Binion disputes owing any taxes and argues deductions and business expenses.
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Reno
Las Vegas
L. 3B
Benny) Binion
Texas
Binion
Dallas
Fort Worth
Carson City
Nev
Nolo
U.S
Mossadegh Balked In Bid For Power
Tehran dispatch reports the Iranian senate refused granting dictatorial powers to Prime Minister Mossadegh. In a closed session, the senate decided to send a nine member delegation to Mossadegh Saturday night to seek reasons for his demand for full powers.
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Tehran
Iran
Sato
Mohammed Mossadegh
Senate
Mossadegh
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