Market rises on rails and oil gains in slow New York session
Stocks edged higher in early trading led by railroad and oil shares despite restricted dealings. Texas Pacific Land Trust and Standard Oil of California posted notable advances while Atlantic Coast Line and Northern Pacific also gained.
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New York
Texas Pacific Land Trust
Standard Oil
California
Phillips Petroleum
Seaboard Oil
Atlantic Coast Line
Northern Pacific
Deaths and Funerals Thomasville Mrs Alice J Myers Beck
Mrs Alice Jenette Myers Beck 66 wife of Henry Walter Beck died at home Route 2 Thomasville after an extended illness. Born August 15 1886 in Davidson County she lived her life in the area and belonged to Emmanuel Evangelical and Re formed Church. Survived by nine sons two daughters two sisters and two brothers plus 15 grandchildren and three great grandchildren. Funeral Saturday at 3 pm at Emmanuel Evangelical and Reformed Church conducted by Rev Lawrence Leonard and Rev A Odell Leonard. Burial in church cemetery.
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Thomasville
Alice Jenette Myers Beck
Henry Walter Beck
Davidson County
Jacob Myers
Almedia Myers
Howard V
Walter C
Grady C. Beck
Route 2
H. Lloyd Beck
High Point
Clyde E
James Lamont
Connie Lee
J. Wilson
Melvin P. Beck
M. S. Murphy
Capel Bevan
Mya
Funeral services for Mrs Georgie Wayne Bailey
Funeral services for Mrs Georgie Wayne Bailey 50 of 403 Council Street will be held Friday at 4 30 p m at Unity Chapel Methodist Church with Rev D G Bridger and Rev Byron Nifong officiating. The body will lie in state 30 minutes before the service. Burial is in Floral Garden Park Cemetery High Point.
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Thomasville
Georgie Wayne Bailey
Council Street
City Memorial Hospital
Unity Chapel Methodist Church
D. G. Bridger
Byron Nifong
Fair Grove Methodist Church
Walker Funeral Home
Floral Garden Park
High Point
Klan Fighting Editor W Horace Carter elected mayor
TABOR CITY North Carolina W Horace Carter editor known for anti Klan work was chosen mayor by 393 votes to 73 for F N Spivey in a hometown election. Carter becomes local chief amid wartime era tension and community support for his reporting.
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Tabor City
N. C
W. Horace Carter
Carter
F. N. Spivey
Congress Debates Cotton Acreage Shift Between East and West
In Washington a Western push to overhaul the cotton acreage program faces opposition from Deep South growers. Legislation would base 1954 allotments on 1950–1952 plantings, limit cuts to 25 percent from 1952 levels, and shift shares to western states. Supporters argue fairness due to westward production growth. opponents warn of surpluses and production disruptions.
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Washington
Congress
Missippi
Allan Oakley Hunter
Rcal
West
Thomas ©. Abernethy
D-Miss
Deep South
Tion
Abernethy
Agriculture Department
Hunter
California
Texas
New Mexico
Arizona
Florida
Mayor Covington Faces TV Milking Contest Tomorrow
High Point mayor George Covington a veteran dairyman competes on WFMY-TV at 12 15 pm against mayors from Greensboro Burlington and Winston Salem in a milk extraction contest to promote Dairy oath. He expects temperamental cows and brings a pint sized pail and a large milk pail for possible milk givers.
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High Point
George Covington
Wfmy-Tv
Ayor Covington
Greensboro
Burlington
Winston - Salem
Eisenhower rallies GOP leaders in North Dakota Minot stop
President Eisenhower toured the upper Midwest with a five day state trip after urging North Dakota GOP leaders to attract top talent and stressing a corruption free government. He spoke in Minneapolis about unity against communism and previewed a Mt. Rushmore address to Young Republicans. His Minneapolis speech drew 7,500 in a 10,000 seat hall as aides framed the trip as a prelude to boosting the GOP's 1954 election prospects. The president defended a five billion dollar Air Force budget cut arguing for efficiency and newer, cheaper planes.
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Eisenhower
Minot
Mt. Rushmore National Memorial
Rapid City
National Federation of Young Republicans
Dulles
Treasury
Humphrey
Durkin
Health
North Dakota
Mt. Rushmore
Congress
Washington
Minnesota
South Dakota
New Hampshire
New York
White House
Minneapolis
National Junior Chamber of Commerce
Vanden
Spe
Lottery Case Defendant To Appeal
A %-year-old Negro woman named Reba Belcher was sentenced in Municipal Court to 24 months for operating a lottery and appealed to Superior Court. An appearance bond of $1,000 was set. Belcher, of 1203 West Street, also faced an 18 month sentence on a related lottery count, and a six month suspended term from October 1951 was invoked. She reportedly suffered a heart attack when sentence was passed and was assisted home. Officers raided her home May 7 and confiscated six butter and egg lottery tickets and four books.
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Reba Belcher
West Street
Aes Ous
J. A. Myatt
Belcher
Hitchhiker Loses Suitcase After Ride in Salisbury
A local man known as Chapman's sought a ride from a red headed driver with South Carolina plates. He got a ride to the Bus Station, then found the driver left with his suitcase. Police were notified yesterday.
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Achitchhiker
L. L. Chapman
South
Hamilton Street
South Carolina
Chapman
Salisbury
Anold
Governor outlines staff appointments and prison figures
The governor said George Cherry may keep his post at public buildings and that the Buildings and Grounds post remains under the governor’s approval. He plans to announce Conservation Board members and department director by June, weighs the revenue commission head, and says no prison system changes yet while he studies the school bond delay.
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State Board of Convervation and Development
Umstead
George Cherry
Rct
Cherry
Conservation Board
Tornado Death Toll Reaches 89 in New England
Official tallies rise as Worcester death toll hits 89 and region faces $75 million in damage. President Eisenhower weighs a weekend visit to the disaster zone amid calls for federal aid to Massachusetts.
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Worces
Mass
Eisenhower
New England
Worcester
Minot
N.C
Fisenhower
Massachusetts
White House
North Dakota
Washington
Midwest
Touring German Fur Trade Delegation Visits High Point
A German touring party visited High Point as part of a broader survey of furniture production. Nine German retailers and manufacturers inspected the Southern Furniture Exposition Building and learned about operations from Leo J. Heer and James T. Ryan, touching on the industry’s scope and outlook. The tour included stops in Lenoir Salem Roanoke and other U.S. centers.
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Furciate Manomers
Reuters Point
Cen
Rencaenn
Furniture Iions
Lenoir
Northacorn
Salem
Roanoke
Umnevil Chiccago
Grand Rapide
Niagara Falls
Detroit
High Point
Southern Furniture Exposition
Leo J. Heer
Imanager
Tulldine
Mammoth
James T. Ryan
Southern Furniture Manufacturer’s Association
Johnson
State College Fur ‘Niture Division
Realty Transfers High Point and vicinity
Real estate transfers listed include R A Stratton purchasing a lot in Mary E Worth subdivision, Enos Blair and wife to R F Saunders and wife for two lots in Mayers Sneye, R Springer and wife to Run W Remarant for three wood Acres, Charles Hayworth and others to Myrtle H Barthmaier for lots in Hayworth city, James F Upton and wife to B C Davis and others two lots in Anderson Heights subdivision, G H Bradsher and wife to Charlie C Hughes four lots on Forestdale Drive.
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High Point
R. A. Stratton
Mary E. Worth
Enos Blair
R .F. Saunders
Mavens Seneye
R. Springer
W. Remarant Ote
Thoree Wood Acres
Charles Hayworth
Myrtle Hi. Barthmaier
Hayworth
James F. Upton
B. C. Davis
Anderson Heights
Jamestown
G. H. Bradsher
Charlies C. Hughes
Forestdale Drive
Generally Fair Mild Weather In Prospect Across Nation
Overall outlook favors generally fair and mild conditions with no widespread storms. Light rain fell in parts of ton a New Mexico and along the South Atlantic coast while the Great Lakes stayed clear. Temperatures surged above 100 degrees in parts of Kansas Texas Oklahoma Colorado and the border area.
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Tona
New Mexico
South Atlantic
Great Lakes
Great Plains
Kansas
Texas
Oklahoma
Man
Rhode Island Seeks Gutenberg Seal Among State House Seals
Rhode Island officials in the state house library seek to identify which of 16 seals embedded in the ceiling is Gutenberg's. Researchers trace relics to English, German, Belgian printers and Harvard replicas as they search through archives and historic files.
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Providence
R. 1
State House
Johann Guten
Alfred Pateira
Gutenberg
Pateira
Grace M. Sherwood
Shretn
Sherwood
G. Jackson
Jackson
Rhode Island Historical Society
Providence Journal - Bulletin
Harvard University
Cambridge
Mass
Thomas Woodcock
Rman
Johann Froben
Christopher Platin
Mabel G. Johnson
Legislative Reference Bureau
Lawmakers Split Over School Bond Vote Timing
Legislators divided on whether to proceed with a school bond election despite a pending Supreme Court ruling. Some call for immediate action, others urge delaying until court guidance is clear, citing the need for school buildings and constitutional questions.
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Roy A. Taylor
Buncombe Sala
Joseph M. Hunt Jr
Walter Crisaman
Guilford
Hunt
Thomas Turof Guilford
Ian
Fred Royster
Vance
Supreme Court
Royster
J. W. Copeland
Hertford
Ig Ogg Ag
Last holdover Lasseter to resign Farmers Home post
Washington reports that Dillard Lasseter, the last Democratic holdover in the Agriculture Department, will resign as administrator of the Farmers Home Administration. President Truman appointed Lasseter in 1945. the post pays $15,000 yearly.
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Washington
Dillard Lasseter
Farmers’ Home Administration
Lasseter
Elsen
Claude R.wickard
White House
Wickard
Roosevelt
Truman
Ivy W. Duggan
Farm Credit Administration
Lassseter
Department
Duggan
Farmers’ Administration
Farmers Home Administration
Act Ofice
Judge Hand Sings Folk Songs in Library of Congress Album
Washington notices Library of Congress releases a long playing record featuring Judge Learned Hand singing two folk ballads. He learned Iron Merrimac in Elizabethtown New York and Phil Sherman at Harvard Law School around 1895. The collection includes sea songs cowboy songs and Mormon tunes.
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Washington
U. S. Circuit Court
Library of Congress
Phil Sheridan
Iron Merrimac
Presists
Elizabethtown
N. Y
Phil Sherman
Harvard Law School
Texas
Leighton
Money
Cal
Bidault Rejected as Premier in Tight Assembly Vote
In Paris the National Assembly rejected Georges Bidault by one vote, 313 to 314, leaving France without a government for a fourth week. Bidault failed to win the absolute majority as Catholic Popular Republican leader, while 228 voted against him and 8 abstained. The crisis delays the Bermuda conference and may lead President Auriol to ask ex-Premier Antoine Pinay to form a cabinet.
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Paris
National Assembly
Georges Bidault
France
Assembly
Bidault
Vincent Auriol
Rene Mayer
Bermuda
Auriol
Antoine Pinay
Economics In Guatemala Market Scene Reflects Survival
In a Guatemalan municipal market an Indian stallholder earns quickly from a tourist photo at 50 cents. The exchange highlights a stark contrast between quick cash from visitors and the longer day’s work, raising questions about economic motivations and life quality.
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Guatemala
School Tie Rivals Share Georgetown Law Heritage
Washington report notes Democratic National Chairman Stephen A Mitchell and Republican counterpart Leonard Hall, both Georgetown University Law Center alumni. Hall graduated in 1920 and Mitchell in 1928, showing a surprising cross party agreement on shared education.
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Washington
Stephen A. Mitchell
Leonard All
Georgetown University
School of Law
Hall
Mitchell
Blue Bonnet Margarine Ad Claims Flavor Nutrition Value
An advertisement touts Blue Bonnet Margarine emphasizing sunny flavor benefits for bread rolls and vegetables. It highlights vitamins A and D year round and promotes high value and economical use for the shopper.
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National Red Cross
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U.S
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Prospect
Associated Press
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International Soundphoto
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