Republican platform panel nears tentative approval on planks
In Chicago GOP platform writers tentatively approve foreign policy and defense planks while civil rights debates threaten a floor fight. Sen Millikin leads a locked committee session with a full panel to decide a rights plank and possible FEPC language amid deep divisions.
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Chicago
Resolutions Committee
Millikin
Eugene D. Millikin
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Commission
Val Washington
GOP
Illinois
Furniture Buyers Push New Orders At Southern Exhibit
Buyers filled the Southern Furniture Exposition to assess wares with 2615 registered by noon and 725 the day before. Manufacturers report rising orders as inventories shrink and dealers prepare fall restocks, while buyers place smaller individual orders but more frequently in the 14 floor show.
How Delegates Are Lined Up
Chicago report shows the UP tally of first ballot Republican delegates with Taft 537 Eisenhower 468 Warren 76 Stassen 25 MacArthur 5 Wedemeyer 1 and 95 uncommitted or unknown. The tally reflects contested delegates as decided to date by the GOP national committee and the convention credentials committee. A nomination requires a majority.
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United Press
GOP National Committee
Convention Credentals Committee
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Dwight Eisenhower
Earl Warren
Harold BE. Stassen
Douglas MacArthur
Albert C. Wedemeyer
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Herbert B. Warburton
Delaware
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New Mexico
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
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Convention Drag Turns Into Saturday for GOP Nominating Fight
The Republican convention faces delays as the Taft Eisenhower proxy battle stalls credentials in Chicago. Delegates remain unseated delaying platform adoption and a presidential candidate vote while leaders eye a Saturday session and a possible adjournment late Friday or Saturday.
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Credentials Committee
GOP
Guy George Gabrielson
Walter
Hallanan
Police Fight Hand-To-Hand With Reds at Airport Arrival
In London, police clashed with about 30 Communist demonstrators at an airfield as Gen. Matthew Ridgway arrived for a two day visit. Seven were arrested, no serious injuries reported, and leaflets proclaimed Ridgway go home Britons never shall be slaves.
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London
Matthew B. Ridgway
Ridgway
Korea Truce Talks End After 26 Minute Prisoner Exchange Debate
In Panmunjom Korea, United Nations and Communist truce teams completed a year of talks with a 26 minute session over prisoner exchange. The U N seeks the right for all prisoners to refuse repatriation, while the Communists would limit that right to South Koreans. No progress details were released. The U N described the session as businesslike. Radio Peiping pressed for return of all war prisoners and noted interest in 15000 Chinese volunteers who oppose repatriation, saying the armistice rests on resolving the prisoner issue.
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Korea
United Nations
U. N
Peiping
Bankers Meet At Carolinas Conference In Chapel Hill
Economics and Southern industry dominate discussion at the Carolinas Bankers Conference in Chapel Hill as participants note economic stability in coming years regardless of the November election outcome. A sailor, Francis Alfred Selenius, 22, attached to the U S S Leyte, died near Murfreesboro when his car left Highway 258 and struck a pine tree.
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Carolinas
United States
Murfreesboro
U. S. 258
Here
W. G. O'Neal
Francis Alfred Selenius
U. S. S. Leyte
Police Officers Open NC SC Law Enforcers Convention
About 2500 officers attended the opening in Charlotte and heard speeches. FBI Inspector James S. Rogers of Washington delivered the principal address as the annual North Carolina and South Carolina Law Enforcement Officers Association session began.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Jet Squadron to Activate at Morris Field Charlotte
The North Carolina Air National Guard will activate a new jet fighter squadron at Morris Field tomorrow. The 156th squadron will include 40 officers and 402 enlisted men with Lt. Col. William J. Payne, former World War II commander, as its head.
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Charlotte
North Carolina Air National Guard
Morris Field
John H. Manning
William J. Payne
156Th
Union seeks recognition at Cone Mills Mineola Plant Gibsonville
The AFL United Textile Workers Union was set to present its case at a National Labor Relations Board hearing for recognition as the bargaining agent for workers at the Cone Mills Mineola Plant in Gibsonville. Petitions for recognition at two Fieldcrest mills were filed with the NLRB yesterday.
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AFL
United Textile Workers Union
National Labor Relations Board
Cone Mills
Mineola
Gibsonville
Fieldcrest Mills
NLRB
Prisons Chief Fires Assistant Director in Raleigh
Assistant Prisons Director H. H. Honeycutt was relieved by Prisons Director Walter Anderson. Honeycutt will retire September 22 and leave immediately on vacation. The firing clears room for two new assistant directors under Anderson’s reorganization plan.
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Raleigh
H. H. Honeyecutt
Walter Anderson
Honeycutt
Anderson
Steel shortages hit Carolinas as strike drains inventories
Carolinas face dwindling steel stocks with the national strike emptying dealer reserves in Charlotte, the region’s main steel hub. Projects stall with 35 highway bridges and 65 of 125 road jobs delayed. auto and farm equipment production slows. refrigerators and fans scarce as demand remains strong and deliveries lag.
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Associated Press
Charlotte
Carolinas
North Carolina Highway
North Carolina
Civil defense chief urges four hour emergency stockpile
Raleigh state civil defense chief E. Z. Jones said every city and town should stockpile enough emergency supplies to last at least four hours after an enemy attack. Federal officials estimate aid from state and federal supply services may take that long to reach a stricken community.
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Raleigh
E. Z. Jones
Red troops recapture hill after brutal two day assault
Chinese forces armed with flamethrowers, artillery and mortar renewed a two day fight to retake a hill east-southeast of Kumsong on the central front. After initial losses, U N troops temporarily retreated but later held and prepared counterattacks as reinforcements arrived.
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Korea
Kumsong
U. N
U.N
Reds
Farewells for Three North Carolina Congress Members
Republicans and Democrats in the House join in tributes to retiring North Carolina lawmakers Reps. Robert Lee Doughton John Kerr and Monroe Redden after long years in public service.
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Congress
House
Robert Lee Doughton
John Kerr
Monroe Redden
Greensboro closes last city grade school over low enrollment
The city closed its special first and second grade school today to avoid children crossing busy streets. Enrollment had fallen to just 13 students, prompting the shutdown of Greens boro's last city elementary facility.
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Greensboro
Taft Backers Yield 13 Louisiana Delegates to Eisenhower
At the Republican convention in Chicago Taft supporters on the Credentials Committee moved to award Louisiana's 13 votes to Eisenhower. The decision sparked a floor fight plan on contested delegates as Eisenhower campaign managers pledged no deals. Louisiana shift lifts Eisenhower while Taft retains enough pledged votes to stay in the running.
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Chicago
Robert A. Taft
Louisiana
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Taft
Eisenhower
Hoover Attacks Democrats at GOP Convention Address
At Chicago's 25th Republican national convention Hoover urged ending Democratic rule and salvaging lost statesmanship abroad. He praised Air Force strength, warned against Mussolini Marx Keynes influences, and received a standing ovation with a gold medal from Guy Gabrielson as delegates roared.
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Herbert Hoover
Hoover
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Ohio
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Mussolini
Karl Marx
Lord Keynes
GOP
Guy Gabrielson
Douglas MacArthur
Candidates Claim New Dixie Votes
Southern delegation contests show Taft and Eisenhower camps claiming additional delegates from Arkansas Florida Virginia Alabama and South Carolina while Arkansas shifts. Eisenhower backers cite three Florida votes and Taft asserts gains in Virginia South Carolina and Alabama amid unpledged totals. Virginia delegation split and Tennessee Mississippi North Carolina solid support affect the fight for the first ballot.
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Taft
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Robert A. Taft
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Ted Dalton
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Leon McCabbe
Adkins
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Mostellar
Tennessee
Mississippi
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Wallace Townsend
Gen
Douglas MacArthur
Weather rounding forecast note unclear
The report gives a low tonight of 68 and a high tomorrow of 4 percent. Today’s high was 83 and last night’s low was 69.
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