Democrats Plan Campaign Strategy Across Parties
Adlai Stevenson and Estes Kefauver map Democratic campaign strategy as Vice President Nixon begins planning for a Republican push. Kefauver heads to conference with 34 state Democratic leaders while Nixon plans intensive campaigning from Sept. 17 and makes early stops. Eisenhower rests at Cypress Point, focusing on golf as his return to Washington nears.
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Associated Press
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Estes Kefauver
Nixon
Kefauver
Stevenson
Sen
Los Angeles
Whittier
Washington
Chicago
Frank
Cypress Point Club
California
Monterey Peninsula
James C. Hagerty
Daniel Ahead in Texas Governor Runoff Battle
In Dallas on August 25, U S Senator Price Daniel and Ralph Yarborough faced a tight runoff for the Democratic nomination for Texas governor. Daniel had previously switched to back Eisenhower in 1952 while Yarborough ran as a party loyalist. Yarborough briefly led as results counted.
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U.S
Price Daniel
Eisenhower
Ralph Yarborough
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Yarborough
Man Threatens Telecommunication Leaders In Baton Rouge Incident
Minel Bourgeois 29, a Western Electric installer, shot a telephone company door after a failed call to President Eisenhower and AT&T president. He warned a switchboard operator and was arrested on aggravated assault charges amid a labor dispute involving Western Electric workers.
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Minel Bourgeois
Eisenhower Collect
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Western Electric
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Collect
At&t
Eisenhower
Felice
Hane Bourgeois
Teller Was Too Kind To Friends
Miss Bessie Roth, a 49 year old bookkeeping supervisor in Chicago, was released on $1,000 bond after arraignment on mis applying a $3,756 check drawn on the Lawndale National Bank. Federal officials say the total involved exceeds $467,000 as she allegedly approved and held out postdated checks for customers. Seven West Side businessmen who were overdrawn may face embezzlement charges.
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Chicago
Bessie Roth
U.S
C. 8
Bentley Pike
Miss Roth
Lawndale National Bank
Frank J. McGarr
McGarr
Death in Car Bomb Kills Bandleader Vivian Chaudet
Paducah Kentucky August 25 a home made bomb hidden under the seat of Vivian Chaudet 41 killed him in his car a week after his third marriage Police call it a grudge killing Fire officials link two earlier blazes to the same case The funeral details and other personal notes are included with police still investigating motive and method.
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Vivian Chaudet
Chaudet
Sheme
J. H. Chaudet
Dorothy
Lone Oak
Tilghman Tade
Joe Hal Stann
Alton Rogers
Noi Old Ch de
Violence Strikes Across Nation Killing 43 People
Across the country fires wrecks and blasts killed at least 43 including children. Hyannis Mass saw two sightseeing planes collide with three aboard dying. A fatal high speed crash near Wall South Carolina killed four adults and a family of five. Residential blazes claimed fourteen lives in Houston Jersey City and Baltimore. A Paducah Kentucky bombing killed bandleader Vivian Chaudet.
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Wall
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Tex
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Paducah
Vivian Chaudet
On the Bowery Wins Prize at World Documentary Exhibit
The American film On the Bowery won the grade prize at the seventh World Documentary Movie Exhibit in Venice. It was produced and directed by Lionel Rigosin from the Puerto Rico short films division.
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Venice
Italy
Strike Ends After 25 Days at Reynolds Plants
Charles J. Smith of United Steelworkers and Frank Weikel of Reynolds say workers may return Monday as plants ready. New three year pact gives 45.6 cent hourly raise, includes cost of living escalator, higher pensions, unemployment insurance, vacation, and night shift pay. Affected Reynolds sites include Troutdale Oregon Phoenix Arizona McCook Illinois La Grange Illinois Jones Mill Arkansas Arkadelphia Arkansas Hurricane Creek Arkansas Bauxite Arkansas Corpus Christi Texas.
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Troutdale
Ore
Phoeniix
Ariz
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la Grange
Iil
Jones Mill
Ark
Arkadelphia
Hurricane Creek
Bauxite
Corpus Christi
Tex
Dulles Urges Egypt to Help Peaceful Suez Canal Solution
Secretary of State Dulles, returning from London, urged Egypt to make its indispensable contribution to a peaceful solution for the Suez Canal crisis. He cited that 18 of 22 London nations backed future canal operation ensuring free use by all, and said Egypt should respect these views and cooperate. He planned to brief President Eisenhower on return.
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Africa
Police pressure on LaMarca in Weinberger kidnapping case
Nassau County detectives pushed leads as Angelo LaMarca faces questions over the July 4 baby kidnapping. A Brooklyn man, Joseph Parisi, was cleared after being detained. A waitress missing from West Hempstead is sought for questioning, and a psychiatric test is ordered for LaMarca.
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N. Y
Angelo John LaMarca
Peter Weinberger
Brooklyn
Nassau County
Stuyvesant Pinnell
Joseph Parisi
LaMarca
Weinberger
Nassau
West Hempstead
Aida Chernisthovsky
Pinnell
Ernani D'Angelo
Jamaica
Ammonia Plant Blaze Strikes Louisiana Town
Fire swept the Commercial Solvents Corp ammonia plant at Sterlington Louisiana around 9 30 p m sending flames heat and fumes over a wide area There were no reports of injuries or trapped workers Fire crews from Monroe and Bastrop rushed to the scene The plant makes fertilizer ammonia and anti freeze Sterlington has no local fire department
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Monroe
Here
Bastrop
Arkansas
Louisiana
Kinsey Dies at 62 Expert on People Sex Behavior
Dr. Alfred C. Kinsey 62 renowned for his books on human sex behavior died in Bloomington Indiana from a heart ailment and pneumonia after six months of illness. He founded the Institute for Sex Research on the Indiana University campus which grew into a major operation producing controversial works and ongoing studies on sex life.
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