Straw Voting Highlights Taft Lead in Daily Telegraph Poll
Yesterday's straw poll in the Daily Telegraph shows Taft strengthening his position as the leading Republican candidate. MacArthur remains second, Truman third with 56 more votes than Eisenhower, and a write-in entry for John L. Lewis appears. 1,504 votes cast overall.
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Robert A. Taft
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers of America
Taft
MacArthur
Eisenhower
Warren
Stassen
Kefauver
Byrd
Stevenson
Vinson
Democratic Ballot Mix-Up Is Foreseen
Richmond Virginia General Assembly passes a bill that might keep the Democratic party nominee off the fall Virginia ballot if the party bolts. Delegate Robert Whitehead asserts the bill would do this. Delegate Broaddus questions the intent and says he will seek a veto if needed.
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Richmond
Virginia General Assembly
National Democratic Party
Virginia
Robert Whitehead
Nelson
House of Delegates
W. R. Broaddus Jr
Henry
Senate
House
Battle
Whitehead
Despicable Marconi Accused by Moscow Radio
Moscow Radio in London charges Italian inventor Guglielmo Marconi with stealing the idea of radio from Russian Ivan Popov. The broadcast cites an alleged aged Professor Chatelain claim of Popov's 1900 invention and says Marconi copied the concept to launch receivers and a firm, noting Russia’s longer disputed history.
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Moscow Radio Today
Popov
Guglielmo Marconi
Moscow
Chatelain
Marconi
Russia
Ivan Popoverg
Woman Jewel Thief Nabbed in Palm Beach Heist
Palm Beach police nabbed Nora Baglio, 41, of Miami Beach after she and two men stole six jewelry pieces valued at 151000 from Hartleys Jewelry Store on Worth Avenue. A clerk pursued her into the street while patrolmen cornered her nearby. two men escaped in a car. Pieces included three rings, two necklaces, and a bracelet with values ranging from 24500 to 33500 each.
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Palm Beach
Fla
Eddie Longo
Nora Baglio
Miami Beach
Longo
Hartley
Worth Avenue
Trudi Orlander
Oscar Senecal J
Wesley Eckholm
85 000 U S Troops Coming Home Soon
HEIDELBERG Germany Feb 27 Army authorities say about 85 000 of the United States quarter million ground troops in Germany will be replaced and sent home for discharge in the next 10 months. The exodus begins in March at 3000 to 14000 men a month with new troops trained in the United States filling six combat divisions. The Seventh Army shifts toward a higher proportion of draftees as more National Guard and Organized Reserve units in Germany prepare to depart between March and September.
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Atong
U. S
Eddy
National Guard
Pennsylvania
New England
Organized Reserve
Reds In Korea Hit By Disease?
Report from Tokyo on Feb 28 says Communist sources imply bubonic plague cholera and smallpox sweep North Korea. Claim includes alleged inoculation drive and U.N. denial. Burchett cites insects spreading disease while Peiping and Radio Peiping push epidemic narrative amid armistice tensions.
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Romania
Poland
Hungary
Germany
US To Keep Gls In Japan After Occupation Ends
Tokyo reports the United States and Japan signed terms allowing American armed forces to remain in Japan after the occupation ends, marking a postwar military arrangement and continued alliance between the two nations.
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Japan
Tokyo
United States
Wallet Found On Roof Of Fire Damaged Hotel
A $75,000 blaze at Jimmy's Restaurant and the Commercial Hotel revealed a retiree's lost billfold on the roof. Lucsuady Shelton, a 53 year printer, recovered the papers inside while two pension checks were missing but canceled, and the purse was returned by Larry Dunn, an Appalachian Electric Power Co. electrician.
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Obutmecame
Lucsuady
Shelton
Fourth St
Daily Telegraph
Larry Dunn
Appalach
Ian Electric Power Co
Dunn
Eleven More Ex Klansmen Are Arrested
Police in Whiteville North Carolina arrested eleven former Ku Klux Klan members in a roundup linked to floggings of both Whites and Negroes across Columbus and Horry counties. Eight were charged with kidnapping and assault in the Esther Lee Floyd case, with three more taken later. arrests followed a February 16 roundup with Lindbergh law violations.
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Whiteville
N. C
Fair Bluff
Columbs County
FBI
Fayetteville
James Powell
State Bureau of Investigation
Hugh Nance
Esther Lee Floyd
Columbus
Horry County
S. C
Fast Bucks McKinney Under Probe at Bankruptcy Hearing
Philadelphia report details testimony by Frank Cohen, Empire Tractor director chair, claiming Empire was solvent and stock worth about one million dollars when Frank McKinney and Frank McHale sold shares for roughly 68 dollars each. He disputed later tax and accounting figures, linking the bankruptcy to Argentina’s contract fate and delayed payments to stockholders.
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Philadelphia
Frank Cohen
Empire Tractor Co
Frank McKinney
Cohen
McKinney
Frank McHale
Indiana
Empire
McHale
Mabel McHale
Empire South American Industries, Inc
Frank Rosen
Empire Tractor
Rosen
Brain Of Alcatraz figure jailed on shotgun charge
Cecil Wright a 44 year old law book student once dubbed brain of Alcatraz is jailed in Vermilion County Illinois on a charge of possessing a sawed off shotgun. He was bound over to the federal grand jury and held on 4000 bond after a Cissna Park arrest in Iroquois County. Wright says the shotgun was in a car he owned and he also carried a revolver authorities said.
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Ill
Cecil Wright
Alcatraz
Wright
Charleston
Vermilion County
U.S
Ray Foreman
Cissna Park
Iroquis County
Conduct Of War In Korea Flayed
Rep. Barden of North Carolina, leading Southern opposition to universal military training, urged the House to declare war or withdraw from Korea. He attacked military spending as wasteful and questioned sending more funds and draftees, claiming broad public opposition to UMT. The debate continued with votes planned next Tuesday.
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Rep
Barden
North Carolina
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House
Korea
Armed Services
UMT
Potomac
Pentagon
Virginia
Education Official Cites Equal School Facilities
Richmond Virginia February 27 a State Education Department official testified that high school facilities for Negro students are equal to those for white students in 28 counties and five cities. Arthur E Chapman Jr state supervisor of buildings said in 17 counties and eight cities Negro facilities are better than those for whites. The remarks came during the third day of Prince Edward County Negroes suit challenging Virginia segregation laws.
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State Education Department
Virginia
Arthur E. Chapman Jr
Chapman
Prince Edward County
Harman Motorist Held On Manslaughter Charge In Van Sant Death
A 25 year old Harman Virginia man was charged with involuntary manslaughter after his car struck and killed 70 year old Mrs Sie Yates of Van Sant on US Route 460 four miles east of Grundy. Ira Napier was treated for a head wound and later released on 2000 dollar bond. The driver of a second vehicle, 28 year old William Burham of Bluefield was unhurt. Mrs Yates left home to obtain a truck for moving household goods and is survived by three sons Tom Milton and David and two daughters Lydia and another of Van Sant. The body lies at Grundy Funeral Home.
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van Sant, Va
Grundy
U. S. Route 460
Ira Napier
Buchanan County
Ishmael Fletcher
Grundy Hospital
C. H. Combs
Napier
Chrissie Yates
Virginia
Yates
William Burham
Bluefield
Tom
Milton
David
VanSant
Lydia Yates
Grundy Funeral Home
Faure Fights For Program
Paris reports Premier Edouard Faure pressing for approval of his four billion dollar defense plan and cabinet life. He threatened to resign if the National Assembly rejects the budget, as talks hinge on Friday’s vote after his return from Lisbon with new aid pledges and tax saving proposals.
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Paris
Edgar Faure
National Assembly
Faure
North Atlantic Council
Lisbon
Assembly
Pierre Meunier
Tax claims target five World War II tankers profits
Senate inquiry reveals U S Treasury seeks about 1 436 000 in income taxes from five war surplus ships profits totaling about 2 8 million. Casey led group bought ships from Maritime Commission then chartered under Panamanian flag to avoid taxes, with Niarchos owning later. Tax avoidance claims center on depreciation and repairs deductions disputed with the Treasury.
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Nixon
Calif
U. S. Treasury
Joseph E. Casey
House
Massachusetts
Old Maritime Commission
Casey
Sen. Hoey
D-Nc
Inquiry Group
M. Daniel Franz
Casey Group
Treasury
Edward R. Stettinius Jr
Julius C. Holmes
U. S
London
Adm
William F. Halsey
E. Stanley Klein
New York
W. N. Westerlund
Marine Transport Lines
Franz
Greenwich Marine
Klein
Metropolitan Life Insurance Company
Greenwich
France Negotiating For Russian Trade
PARIS Feb 27 France is negotiating a trade agreement with Russia, a French official said today. The Russians seek strategic goods France has agreed not to send behind the Iron Curtain.
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Paris
France
Russia
$50 Million Airbase Waste Scrutinized by Army Auditor
An Army auditor estimated 50 million dollars were lost to waste and conspiracies in air base construction. Cassidy testified of irregular purchases, lack of advertising, and missing discounts under a crash program using Atlas Contractors on a cost-plus-fixed-fee plan. Senate hearings opened amid probes into North African base project practices.
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Army
Congress
Senate
Sen
Johnson
D-Tex
North African Air Base
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Cassidy
Leonard Haseman
Haseman
Atlas Contractors
Eight Children Born By Caesarian Section
Cleveland report notes Mrs. Thomas Murray, 37, delivered eight children by Caesarian operations. The latest arrival, Catherine, born February 6 at Saint Ann's Hospital, weighed 8 pounds 14 ounces.
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Thomas Murray
Saint Ann’s Hospital
Catherine
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