Barkley Casts Doubt On GOP Ticket Won’t Win
Vice President Barkley said the Republican Eisenhower Nixon ticket cannot win the presidency and praised Eisenhower as a leader. He noted the Democrats have backed the South’s welfare and indicated his own nomination chances are fair. Barkley plans to return to Paducah then Chicago to set up campaign HQ. He stressed he seeks the presidency, not a secondary spot, despite claims.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Barkley
Eisenhower
Kentuckian
Dwight Eisenhower
Richard Nixon
California
South
Chicago
Truman
Paducah
Conrad Hilton
Taft Jr Declines Support for Nixon Despite Shared Roots
Hoover Taft Jr says he cannot back his old classmate Senator Richard Nixon, despite a cordial past at Duke University in 1936. Taft emphasizes strong Democratic allegiance while recalling Nixon as genteel and energetic, noting their law school dances and movie outings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Greenville
N. C
Hoover Taft Jr
Richard M. Nixon
Taft
National
Young Democrat Clubs
YDC
Duke University
Sen
Robert A. Taft
North Carolina
Massachusetts
Ohio
Teen-Age Girl Held In $5,000 Ransom Plot
FBI agents and police trapped a 13 year old girl identified as Louise Sirignano at Roosevelt Junior High School as she retrieved a ransom note. The letter demanded 5000 dollars and offered grim alternatives including kidnapping and arson. She was held at the County Juvenile Home while investigators pursued extortion charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Kland
Calif
FBI
Hubert Murray
Louise Sirignano
Phillip L. Evans
Roosevelt Junior High School
Blood Donors Wounded on Way to Hospital
Two Plainview men en route to Norfolk to donate blood for an auto accident victim became patients themselves after their car collided with a truck near Norfolk. Fred Ristow aged 50 and Loring Jenkins aged 28 were injured, not critically, and were hospitalized alongside the victim they intended to help.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norfolk
Neb
Plainview
Fred Ristow
Loring Jenkins
Donald Jenkinson
Tuesay
Utah Banker Eccles Candidate For Senate
Salt Lake City Utah July 12 Marriner S Eccles longtime Utah banker who chaired the Federal Reserve Board under FDR and Truman announced his candidacy for U S senator from Utah as a Republican.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Salt Lake City
Utah
Marriner S. Eccles
Frankline D. Roosevelt
Harry&. Truman
Federal Reserve Board
Presidential bids by socialist candidates
Norman Thomas holds the record with six presidential attempts on the Socialist ticket. Eugene V. Debs made five attempts to win the presidency on the same ticket.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Norman Thomas
Eugene V. Debs
Britain Orders Soviet Out Of Country
London reports Britain demands Pavel Kuznetsov leave the country within a week after William Marshall was convicted of passing secret information to Kuznetsov. Marshall, aged 24, served as a radio operator for the Soviet Embassy in Moscow and met Kuznetsov several times this spring. Government agents arrested them in a suburban park on June 13. Kuznetsov claimed diplomatic immunity and was released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Britain
Pavel Kuznetsov
Foreign Office
William Marshall
Kuznetsov
Marshall
Moscow
Russia
Cutback In OPS Personnel In Four States Announced
OPS officials said a 50 percent payroll cut will hit four state offices including North Carolina. The regional office in Richmond and the Raleigh and Charlotte offices, each with 73 employees, are affected by the budget reduction.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richmond
North Carolina
OPS
Raleigh
Charlotte
Rhonda Fleming Marries Los Angeles Doctor in Private Ceremony
Film star Rhonda Fleming and Dr. Lewis V Morrill of Los Angeles wed in a private ceremony in Kanab Utah last night. The event marked Fleming’s marriage to the physician as reported from Utah on July 12.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rhonda Fleming
Kanab
Utah
Dr. Lewis V. Morrill
Los Angeles
New Owner Defies Neighbors After Eviction Fight
Richard Newman, a 26-year-old fireman turned farmer, occupies the home of widowed mother Elizabeth Stevens after a court eviction. Neighbors warn him to leave as deputies guard the property. Stevens and daughter were hospitalized after the confrontation. Several of Stevens' sons were jailed on charges of obstructing justice.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lapeer
Mich
Richard Newman
Flint
Elizabeth Stevens
Newman
Clark Gregory
Grace White
Stevens
Lapeer County Farmers Mutual Fire Protective Assa
Dorothy
Advisory Budget Commission Begins Hearings Monday
The Advisory Budget Commission opens a month long fact finding tour of North Carolina state institutions. It visits Wil son East North Carolina Sanatorium and East Carolina Training School Rocky Mount and continues to Georgetown stops through August visiting schools hospitals and state facilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Advisory Budget Commission
Raleigh
North Carolina
Wilson
East Carolina Training School
Rocky Mount
Elizabeth City
Eisenhower Wife Confirms Husbands Cooking Skill
Mamie Eisenhower shared at a Chicago news conference that her husband Ike outcooks her and paints better portraits. She described his oil paintings as generally good though not successful of her own portrait. She noted Ike broils steak over charcoal with a garlic butter sauce and plans to rest after returning to Denver while handling heavy mail.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Mamie Eisenhower
Ike
Eisenhower
Britain
Winston Churchill
Churchill
Denver
John Doud
Scott Praises New Deal And Fair Deal At Guard Review
Gov Kerr Scott praised the New and Fair Deals to the South during a National Guard 30th Division review at Fort McClellan in Anniston Alabama. Officers protested using the ceremony for political speech as the Eisenhower Trophy was awarded to the 112th Artillery of Lenoir North Carolina and the 181st Field Artillery of Chattanooga Tennessee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anniston
Ala
Kerr Scott
South
National Guard
Scott
Fort McClellan
North Carolina
John H. Manning
Sam T. Wallace
Tennessee
112Th Artillery
Lenoir
N. C
181St Field Artillery
Chattanooga
Tenn
Americans Stumbling Into Soviet Zone Prompt Diplomatic Plea
Berlin July 12 Maj Gen Lemuel B Mathewson urged the Russians to view instances of Americans stumbling into the Soviet border zone as mere incidents not plots. Mathewson replied after Sergei Dengin accused rising American presence in forbidden zones suggested significance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
Lemuel B. Mathewson
Sergei Dengin
Dengin
Mathews
Also Mentioned on This Page
Veep
Hoover Taft
Eccles
Senate
Bride
San Antonio
Tex
Robert Bledsoe
Samuel Blanton
Jayne Bledsoe
Blanton
Bledsoe
Ziegenhardt Brothers
White
Zie
Ziegenhardt Farm
State Ports Authority
Morehead City
Wilmington
Pembroke State College
Fayetteville
Ium
McCain
Morrison
Hoffman
State Home and Industrial School
Eagle Springs
Stonewall Jackson
Concord
Hamilton
Soviet Zone
Harllee
Goodf Year Service Stores
North Main Street
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!