Kefauver Heads Back For Florida Primary Push
Senator Estes Kefauver returns to Florida to campaign against Senator Richard B. Russell ahead of the May 6 Democratic presidential primary. Russell campaigns in West Palm Beach and Miami while Florida delegates are selected May 27. Georgia slate plans cited, with local and national figures engaging in a debate over FEPC and unity between North and South.
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Tampa
Fila
Estes Kefauver
Florida
Richard B. Russell
Kefauver
Gulf Coast
Russell
West Palm Beach
Miami
Georgia
Chester B. McMullen
Dfla
Lakeland
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Gordon Browning
Tennessee
Sen
Paul Douglas
Douglas
Dwight Eisenhower
United States
North Atlantic
Senate
House
Ser
George
Walter George
Dick Russell
Reds Take UN Proposal To Capitals
UN armistice negotiators delivered an overall solution proposal to North Korea and China and perhaps Moscow for decision. Vice Admiral Joy handed the document to Lt. Gen. Namil as the talks adjourned pending Communist reply. No reply had reached the UN by late hours, and the details remain secret amid three sticking points.
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Panmunjom
Korea
United Nations
Pyongyang
Reds
U. N
Joy
North Korea
China
U. N’s
Russia
Olive argues utilities commission reform saves Carolina telephone
In Raleigh Hubert E Olive claims public pressure on the State Utilities Commission reduced a rate increase for Southern Bell customers. He credits his stance with easing the burden on Carolina telephone subscribers and notes the commission now seems more reasonable than during the Duke Power case. Winston-Salem hosts the North Carolina and Virginia Retail Jewelers Association annual convention ending today with about 450 members attending and Leo Henebry addressing the closing session.
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Raleigh
Hubert E. Olive
Southern Bell Telephone Co
State Utilities Commission
Duke Power Co
Southern Bell
Carolina
Winston-Salem
North Carolina
Virginia
Sources say human error caused Hobson Wasp collision
Washington reports say preliminary evidence points to human error rather than mechanical failure in the mid Atlantic collision that sank the Hobson with 176 sailors missing. Navy officials vow a naval court of inquiry after the Wasp reaches New York to determine cause and assign responsibility.
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Washington
High Ney
Hobson
Wasp
Navy
Naval Court of Inquiry
Adm
Lynde B. McCormick
New York
White
Lynn
Sen
Annes Baie Ee
Sonia Hele
Wilen Te H. Bates
R-Mass
Avy Bates
Armed Services Committee
Acci
Herman J. Duke Sr
Richmond
William V. O'Regan
Atlantic
Charleston
S.C
Europe
Amvets in Burlington Push for State Veterans Bonus Referendum
Burlington North Carolina AMVETS plan a meeting to start circulating 400000 through 80 posts to back a state veterans bonus referendum. Director Andrew Del Vescovo says the campaign targets World War II veterans offering 15 per month of service and 20 for war service with a 750 cap.
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Burlington
North Carolina
Amvets
Andrew del Vescovo
Dealers hear closing talks at NC Automobile event
George Hicks and C H Collison spoke at the closing business session of the 17th annual North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association convention in Pinehurst. Ray Chamberlain and Dr W H Alexander addressed the final luncheon. Gordon Gray urged using television to aid teacher shortages in American schools.
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Pinehurst
George Hicks
New York
C. H. Collison
North Carolina Automobile Dealers Association
Ray Chamberlain
Washington
National Automobile Dealers Association
W. H. Alexander
Oklahoma City
Gordon Gray
Consolidated University of North Carolina
Cherokee tribe seeks federal loans for facility addition
The Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians adopted a resolution to apply for 160000 in federal loans to expand a tourist facility and obtain loan insurance for Cherokee individuals financing business ventures.
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Tribal Council of the
Eastern Band
Southern Convention opens 40th biennial meeting in Durham
The Southern Convention of Congregational Christian Churches began its 40th biennial gathering in Durham with about 200 delegates from Virginia and North Carolina. A noon executive board meeting preceded the event and a Laymen's Fellowship dinner with Walter Graham as principal speaker was planned for tonight.
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Durham
Southern Convention of Congregational Christian Churches
Virginia
North Carolina
Walter Graham
Congregational Christian Church
State completes large seed oyster beds in Brunswick County
Director George Ross of the State Department of Conservation and Development announced the completion of another large seed oyster bed in Brunswick County. About 3,800 bushels were planted in the Lockwood Folly River area near Supply after a prior planting of 3,986 bushels in the Shallotte River section. The oysters are expected to reach market readiness in about three years.
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Raleigh
State Department of Conservation and Development
Brunswick County
George Ross
Lockwood Folly River
Supply
Ross
Shallotte River
Duke Philosophy Professor Katharine Gilbert Dies at 65
Dr Katharine Everett Gilbert professor and chair of Duke University Department of Aesthetics Arts and Music died here yesterday at age 65. A renowned scholar and authority in aesthetics she helped shape art education in North Carolina during more than two decades on the Duke faculty.
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Durham
Katharine Everett Gilbert
Duke University
Duke
Gilbert
North Carolina
Stocks Decline Amid Narrow Open as Rail Slump Deepens
New York stocks fell after a weak start as railroad issues fueled the downturn. The industrial average slipped to 258.93, with rails down about 1 point and utilities down modestly. Key names moved lower including Texas Pacific Land Trust, Standard Oil (NJ), Standard Oil of California, Shell, Sinclair, and Continental Oil. Northern Pacific, Union Pacific, and Santa Fe also fell.
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New York
David A. Pine
Air France
Germany
Continental Oil
Northern Pacific
Union Pacific
Santa Fe
Massachusetts Votes In Hottest State Primary On Record
Massachusetts voters turn out amid a Taft versus Eisenhower battle for delegates in the hottest presidential primary in state history. Rain aside, turnout may top 270000, with 138 GOP delegates and 72 Democratic delegates contested across 14 districts and a statewide write in option drawing attention.
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Massachusetts
Boston
Taft
Eisenhower
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Alfred E. Smith
Shaw
D. Kling
Casman Taes
Bob
Ike
Mac
Lone Bandit Robs Angier Bank for 44500 in Cash
A lone bandit robbed the First Citizens Bank and Trust Co. in Angier North Carolina taking about 44500 in cash from the vault. Bank cashier Haywood Hall said the tall slim robber wearing a red cap and weather jacket forced employees to fill a sack with currency mainly 100s 20s 10s and fives and fled in a black Mercury after threatening to shoot. The theft occurred around 930 am as police began roadblocks on highways out of Angier, a farming town 21 miles south of Raleigh. The looted bank is a branch of a large Smithfield based bank.
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Angier
N. C
First Citizens Bank and Trust Co
Haywood Hall
Lock Hall
Hall
State Highway Patrol
Raleigh
Smithfield
North Carolina
Boone
Joe V. Kkeepers
Broone
Marie Roderick
UN Secret Plan May Lift Ban on Chinese Airfields
The UN Command urged the Communists to accept returning three of five prisoners in a new secret formula to break the Korean truce deadlock. Allies hint at lifting limits on airfield construction after a armistice while refusing to relax the repatriation stance. The plan, discussed at Panmunjom, aims for an overall settlement with Russia remaining outside the neutral-monitor role. About 173000 prisoners are involved, with fewer than half seeking repatriation.
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Washington
United Nations Command
Korea
U. N
Panmunjom
Surgeons Conclude 51st Southern Railway Meeting in Charleston
The 51st annual meeting of the Association of Surgeons of the Southern Railway System ended in Charleston today. Speakers included James D. Arrington editor and publisher of the Collins News-Commercial. The two day session adjourned after round table discussions and the election of officers.
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Surgeons
Charleston
Association of Surgeons of the Southern Railway System
James D. Arrington
Collins
Miss
Two 13-Year-Olds Rescued From Cherokee Cave Under River
Two 13-year-old boys were rescued after 12 hours in a waterlogged Cherokee Cave beneath the Tennessee River near Knoxville. Volunteers and police found Bob Marshall and Ronald Finger over 400 feet back in a four mile passage. neither was injured. A search found stolen garments from a suburban merchant. the boys had prior juvenile terms and paroled status.
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Knoxville, Tenn
Cherokee
Tennessee River
Bob Marshall
Ronald Finger
Knoxville
T.L. Fine
Fine
Blount County
Finger
Bob
Spot
Roy French
Ronald
Carrie Finger
Pilot Tells Of Attack Over Berlin City Air Corridor
A French Air France liner captain describes a four minute assault by two Soviet fighters above Berlin. Cannon fire wounded a passenger as the plane was driven to cloud cover near Tempelhof to escape. The co pilot searched the cabin for the injured while steering was damaged.
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Gilbert Schwalsanger
United Press Berlin
Berin
The
Robert le Paute
Ers
Tempelhof
Tempelwe
Airliner Overdue With 50 Aboard From Rio to Port of Spain
Pan American Stratocruiser El Presidente with 41 passengers and nine crew vanished after leaving Rio de Janeiro for Port of Spain. U S Navy and Brazilian air forces join Ramey base in Puerto Rico to coordinate search from Belem Brazil spanning Barreiras area deep in jungle.
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Matthew Kenny
United Press
San Juan
Puerto Rico
Pan American Airways
Barreiras
Hop Janeiro
Port of Spain
Trinidad
Ramey U. S. Air Force Base
Belem
Brazil
U. S. Navy
Rio
New York
Pan American
Amazon River
U. S. Air Force
el Presidente
Ramey
Little Liz Divorce Wins Fashioned Justice
Judges note that women now wear far less clothing than in the past. The remark frames a discussion on gender norms and evolving styles in society.
Berlin air raid wounds two German passengers on Air France flight
Two German passengers were wounded when two Russian jet fighters attacked an Air France airliner 90 miles southwest of Berlin over the Soviet Zone. The fuselage was riddled but no vital parts were hit as the plane reached Templehof.
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Berlin
Air France
Templehof
Allied High Commission
Bonn
Soviet Control Commission
Western
Ce Te Nv
Frankfurt
Cs 8
Western Germany
West Berlin
Th Seake
Atlantic Pace
Moscow
Irmgard Nebel
Fra
Kurth
Bad Walter
Nebel
Koennern
Eisleban
Elbe
Doctor Albert Eller, Wilkes County Health Officer, Dies
Dr Albert J Eller 84 former Wilkes County health officer died in North Wilkesboro funeral services were held He began practice after graduating from the College of Physicians and Surgeons Baltimore He served as health officer and was active in the North Carolina Medical Society as an honorary member
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North Wilkesboro
Albert J. Eller
Wilkes County
Eller
College of Physicians and Surgeons
Baltimore
North Carolina Medical Society
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