Virginia Democrats Question Russell Rift at Chicago Nomination
Virginia Democrats debated backing Richard Russell of Georgia after his Taft Hartley stance as their 28 vote delegation remained uncommitted. Sen Harry Byrd backed Russell yet withheld firm support while Tuck snubbed Russell at the state convention and talk of Eisenhower surfaced as a potential alternative.
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Roanoke
Virginia
Richard Russell
Georgia
Chicago
Russell
William M. Tuck
Sen
Harry F. Byrd
Democratic
Byrd
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Democratic Convention
Eisenhower
Tank backed Reds attack through rain on Old Baldy hill
In heavy rain, about 700 Chinese attackers assaulted the ridge west of Chorwon on the Korean front. UN forces repelled the drive with tank and artillery fire, reporting roughly 100 Chinese killed and 150 wounded, while Allied casualties were adduced as heavy in a tense night engagement.
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Korea
Old Baldy
Chorwon
U. S. Eighth Army
United Nations
Hantan
Kumsong
Red Iron Triangle
Government Seeks to End Oil Industry Monopoly
Justice Department moves to break up an alleged international oil cartel involving seven firms. A federal grand jury will probe nine companies including Standard Oil of New Jersey and California, Texas Oil, Socony Vacuum, Gulf Oil, and two British dom inated firms. Civil anti trust action planned in DC courts to prevent future offenses. Standard Oil of California pledges its record is clean.
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Jack Adams
Washington
Justice Department
James P. McGranery
International Oil Cartel
McGranery
District of Columbia
Standard Oil of
New Jersey
California
Texas Oil Company
Socony-Vacuum
Gulf Oil
U. S
Royal Dutch Shell
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
Standard Oil of California
San Francisco
United States
Sparkman
Congress
Girl Slayer Will Get Mental Test
Bayard Peakes 29 year old self described scientist was arraigned on homicide charges for killing a Columbia University stenographer. He was sent to Bellevue Hospital for a mental examination after objecting to court appointed counsel. He claimed the American Physical Society rejected his theories on immortality and uttered cryptic comments before being led away in handcuffs. Meanwhile a drought grimly tightens in the South with farmers fearing large losses as forecasts warn of limited relief and crop damage reaching into the millions.
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Bayard Peakes
Boston
New York
Eileen Fahey
Columbia University
Louis Behrens
Bellevue Hospital
Peakes
Columbia Uniqeo
American Physical Society
Society
Benjamin Schmier
Thomas H. Cullen
Carl Grebow
Grebow
Bellevue
Weather Bureau
South
Georgia
Tennessee
Arkansas
Alabama
North Carolina
University of Tennessee Crop Reporting Service
Bill Bridgeman
Los Angeles
Navy
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Four Lincoln County prison riot ringleaders face action
In Raleigh the State Prisons Classification Board will decide Monday whether to press criminal charges against four ringleaders of a Lincoln County prison camp riot. Prisons Director Walter Anderson said they may be ordered into isolation at Central Prison or placed in solitary confinement or tried on undetermined charges.
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Raleigh
State Prisons Classification Board
Lincoln County Prison
Walter Anderson
Central Prison
Durham Telephone Co Gets OK to Issue 400000 in Stock
The State Utilities Commission approved the Durham Telephone Co. plan to issue 400000 stock to boost working capital while continuing hearings on Shelby's request to operate a natural gas distribution system.
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Raleigh
Durham Telephone Co
State Utilities Commission
Shelby
Probation Officers Conclude Asheville Conference
North Carolina probation workers end their annual conference in Asheville after a banquet. About 50 Tar Heel officers and clerks spent the day in round table discussions of problems in their field.
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Asheville
North Carolina
Civil rights clash looms at Democratic convention
New Deal Democrats push civil rights as a top issue for the upcoming convention while Dixie Democrats retreat. Labor and liberal groups demand a 1948 style civil rights plank and an end to Senate filibusters. subcommittee hearings continue with varied topics before a final platform is sent to the convention.
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Chicago
Senate
Russell
Virginia
Sen
Lister Hill
Ala
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
Talmadge
South
Hubert H. Humphrey
Minnesota
United Press
Resolutions Committee
Kefauver
Deacons Retreat Opens For North Carolina Baptists
Nearly 600 Baptist laymen from across North Carolina gather at Fruitland assembly grounds for a Deacons Retreat. Judge Grover H. Jones of High Point leads a list of speakers including Edwin Echerd Jr of Charlotte M A Huggins of Raleigh Dr Phil Elliot Gardner Webb College J Marie Grant Charity and Children J J Tarlton Rutherfordton Tom Pruitt Hickory A C Craven Mooresville and Dr A C Current president of the state Dental Society.
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Hendersonville
North Carolina
Fruitland
Baptist Assembly
Grover H. Jones
High Point
Edwin Echerd, Jr
Charlotte
M. A. Huggins
Raleigh
Phil Elliot
Gardner-Webb College
J. Marie Grant
Charity and Children
J. J. Tarlton
Rutherfordton
Tom Pruitt
Hickory
A. C. Craven
Mooresville
A. C. Current
The
State Dental Society
State Utilities hearing recessed on Shelby and Kings Mountain gas petitions
After three days of arguments the State Utilities Commission recessed a hearing on natural gas petitions from Shelby and Kings Mountain. The parties seek authority to operate municipal gas systems while Public Service Co. of North Carolina opposes, saying it should serve the towns.
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Raleigh
State Utilities Commission
Shelby
Kings Mountain
Public Service Co
North Carolina
Auction openings in Roxboro delayed on old belt
Hopes for an earlier opening of flue cured tobacco auctions in Roxboro were crushed by Aster of Henderson, president of the Bright Belt Warehouse Association, who said there was no probability of markets on the Old Belt or Middle Belt opening before the scheduled dates.
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Roxboro
Aster
Henderson
Bright Belt Warehouse Association
Old Belt
Middle Belt
Highway 301 relocation plans released by commission
The State Highway Commission announced a new alignment for a long stretch of U S 301. The route would run east of Kenly Micro Selma Smithfield Four Oaks Benson and Dunn. Chairman Henry Jordan and chief locating engineer R Getty Browning briefed a Johnston County delegation.
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Raleigh
State Highway Commission
Kenly
Micro
Selma
Smithfield
Four Oaks
Benson and Dunn
Henry Jordan
R. Getty Browning
Johnston County
UTWA to charter joint boards in Rockingham and Danville
Lewis Conn Greensboro state UTWA director says the United Textile Workers will charter joint boards in Rockingham North Carolina and Danville Virginia tomorrow. National president Anthony Valenta will officiate and may attend Greensboro Burlington joint board meeting in the afternoon.
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Greensboro
United Textile Workers of America Afl
Rockingham
Danville
Lewis Conn
UTWA
Anthony Valenta
Valente
Russell Wins Support Of Two More NC Delegates
Senator Richard B. Russell of Georgia gained the backing of two additional North Carolina delegates to the Democratic national convention. J. H. Hill Jr of Hickory and Mrs. Harry B. Caldwell of Greensboro, previously uncommitted, announced Russell would be their choice on the first ballot. Hill holds a full vote and Caldwell a half vote.
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Russell
Raleigh
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
North Carolina
J. H. Hill, Jr
Hickory
Harry B. Caldwell
Greensboro
Hill
Caldwell
Secrecy Shrouds Resumption of Korea Talks at Panmunjom
Negotiators met at Panmunjom in 41 minutes as a secrecy pact barred disclosure of whether the Reds offered a plan to solve the prisoner exchange deadlock. The meeting followed a four day recess and was described as businesslike with no immediate acceptance of any proposal. Officials noted no details would be released until further notice while London Washington and New York reportedly weighed possible prisoner screening ideas and mediation possibilities.
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Panmunjom
Korea
William P. Nuckols
United Nations
London
Washington
New York
Red China
Jacob Malik
Russia
U. N
Malik
State Department
India
China
New Delhi
North Korea
Qavam Seeks To Settle Oil Dispute With Britain
Iran's new premier Ahmed Qavam vows to settle the Anglo Iranian oil dispute with Britain or renegotiate. He succeeds Mossadegh, who resigned amid protests and a shaken economy as Abadan refinery halts output. Tehran tensions mount with tanks in streets and emergency measures planned.
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Joseph Mazandite
Iran
Tiran
Ahmed Qavam
Qavam
Mohammed Mossadegh
Britain
Shah Mohammed Reza Pahlavi
Mossadegh
Anglo- Iranian Oil Co
Abadan
London
Russia
Tehran
Mossadgh
Azerbaijan
United Nations Security Council
Middle-of-Road Politicos Seek Compromise At Democratic Convention
As the Democratic Party heads toward its national convention in the South era, middle of the road leaders push for a compromise platform and presidential ticket. Key figures debate civil rights planks and seating debates while Kefauver, Russell, Harriman, Stevenson, Kerr, and others jockey for votes and influence.
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Chicago
Seating Fight Begins Over 70 Convention Seats
A credentials subcommittee of the Democratic national convention opened in the Conrad Hilton Hotel Chicago to resolve seat contests from Texas and Mississippi. The Texas fight involves 52 votes with Gov Allan Shivers backing Sen Richard Russell against a Loyalist faction led by Mayra Maverick.
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Chicago
North Ball Room
Conrad Hilton Hotel
Calvin Rawlings
Utah
Texas
Reguelar
Allan Shivers
Richard B. Russell
Mayra Maverick
Truman Signs Support Price Measure
President Truman signed a law to keep meat and other basic crop supports at 90 percent of parity through 1955. The act ends the sliding scale, locking in high prices for corn wheat cotton peanuts rice and tobacco, directing future policy for two years with Brannan administering price supports.
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Washington
LLP
Truman
Charles F. Branenan
Brannan
Congress
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