Stocks Rise and Falter in Selective Trading as Volume Surges
New York stocks showed selective moves in mid afternoon trading with small gains around a point in some issues and equal sized losses in others. Total volume neared 1.8 million shares as motors and electrical equipment led advances while rails and oil shares lagged. notable gainers included U.S. Steel, General Motors, Chrysler, and IBM, with Goodyear and Radio Corp. among notable decliners.
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Coures
U.S. Steel
General Motors
Chrysler
Studebaker
Douglas Aircraft
General Electric
Westinghouse Electric
Phelps Dodge
ACF Industries
Food Machinery
United Fruit
Texas Pacific Railway
International Business Machines
Goodyear
A Radio Corp
Zenith
American Telephone
American Smelting
American Syanamid
Santa Fe
Southern Railway
Texas Co
American Tobacco
Admiral Corporation
Alleghany Corporation
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Celanese Corp
Champion Paper & File
Consolidated Edison
Continental Can
Continental Motor
Continental Oil
Curtis Wright
Delaware Lack & West
Eastern Airlines
General Foods
Goodrich Rubber
Goodyear Rubber
Ceseees
Great Northern Ry
Illinois Central
Nickel
Kennecott Copper
Kroger Company
Libby Owen Ford
Liggett & Myers
Lockheed Aircraft Loews
Lorillard & Company
Louisville & Nashville
Magnavox Radio
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Missouri
Kansas Texas
Montgomery Ward
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Motorola Radio
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National Cash Register
National Dairy Product
National Distillers
National Lead
Radio Corporation
Standard Brands
Eneene
Standard Oil Calif
Esses Standard Oil Ind
Standard Oil N.J. Stevens
J.P. Co
Studebaker Corp
Sylvania Elec Prod
Texas Company
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Tex Gulf Products
Texas Gulf
Eccessee
Textron Corporation
Union Carbide
United States Steel
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Vanadium Corporation
Virginia-Care Chemical
West Maryland
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Western Union
Western Electric
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Woolworth
China reports population over 600 million in 1953 tally
Peiping radio cites National Census Office figures showing 601,912,371 people as of midnight June 30, 1953. Formosa is included in the total, under Chiang Kai shek’s Nationalist forces’ control.
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London
Peiping Radio
China
Formosa
Chiang Kaishek
Peiping
Foreign Aid Budget Faces Early House Review
The House Foreign Affairs Committee opens debate on Eisenhower era foreign aid, routing $3.477 billion for July 1 start. It favors loans and surplus food over direct gifts, with $806 million for special military aid to India and potential shifts to Asia, and contemplates shifting $300–$400 million to loans and guarantees.
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Eisen R
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Indina
Asia
Indochina
Hensel Dismissed In Red Hunt Probe Hearings
In a party line 4 3 vote senators dismissed Hensel and Carr as principals in the Army McCarthy clash. The charges had named Secretary Stevens and John G Adams with Hensel as mastermind of accusations against McCarthy and aides over seeking favorable treatment for Pvt G David Schine.
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McCarthy
Subcommittee
Roy M. Cohn
Francis P. Carr
Schine
Hensel
Carr
Churchman Opposes Liquor Ads in Radio and TV
Methodist bishop Dr. Wilbur E. Hammaker testified before a Senate subcommittee that liquor, beer and wine advertising on radio and television intrudes into homes and broadcasts untruths. The bill by Senator Lecer would outlaw interstate ads across all media. 26 witnesses were to testify with 30 more to follow. The House Commerce Committee has not acted.
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Washington
Wilbur E. Hammaker
Senate
Hammaker
Sen
Lecer
Rep
Bryson
House Commerce Committee
House Committee
Weather Forecast Brief for Tonight and Tomorrow
Low temperature tonight to be 54 degrees with a high of 92 tomorrow. The high today was 87 and the low last night was 54. Sunset today is 7 40 p m and sunrise tomorrow is 5 03 a m.
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Wilmington
Convicts Seize Six Visitors in Kansas Prison Break
Six inmates used visitors as shields in the Kansas State Prison at Lansing. A guard supervisor Fred Kenaga was killed and six hostages were threatened as convicts rushed the administration building armed with improvised weapons. Warden Charles Edmondson led guards to retake the area, with several convicts and an innocent visitor wounded. The six attackers face first degree murder charges for the guard's death.
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Kansas State
Fred Kenaga
Andy Hollinshead
Charles Edmondson
Lawton Ray Collins
Kansas City
William Henry Parker
Gage
Okla
Donald E. Davis
Sturgis
Mich
Emmett May
Topeka
Robert Leroy Knight
Picher
James Tarr
Margaret Truman to perform at Pocono Playhouse
Margaret Truman will make her theater debut at the Pocono Playhouse in Mountainhome Pa tonight in Autumn Crocus. Producer Rowena Stevens said she chose to appear after consulting with her mother by phone about her father Harry S Truman recovering from emergency appendix and gall bladder operations.
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Margaret Truman
Pocono Playhouse
Rowena Stevens
Playhouse
Truman
Kansas City
First professional race track in America built near Wetumpka
The article notes a 1754 American racing track near Wetumpka Alabama, constructed as the nation’s first professional course and owned by Charles Weatherford.
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America
Wetumpka, Ala
Charles Weatherford
Maine Puts Vote On Line Today in Senate Fight
In a heated 1950 Senate exchange Jones and McCarthy deny McCarthy’s role in the Maine primary. Jones boasts no personal record while citing prior service to Sen. Potter and Sen. Brewster as experience. Analysts estimate Smith versus Jones total votes near 100000 to 110000, below 1952 Brewster race.
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Jones
McCarthy
Maine
Sen
Potter
Mich
Owen Brewster
Brewster
Frederick G. Payne
Bakers Assn of the Carolinas Holds Anniversary Convention
Myrtle Beach hosts the Bakers Assn of the Carolinas on its third day with about 450 bakers and guests. A Mardi Gras show by Carolina Showboat highlighted last night’s session. Mel J. Harder of Armour & Co. spoke on lost sales during a panel discussion yesterday.
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Myrtle Beach
S. C
Bakers Assn
Carolinas
Carolina
Mel J. Harder
Armour & Co
Chicago
Des Moines Flood Kills One As Iowa Braces For More Downpours
Des Moines and northern Iowa face renewed flood threats as a belt of storms drains across the region. One death is reported, with hundreds evacuated including 50 families along Four Mile Creek in Des Moines. Fort Dodge, Mason City, and Sioux City report new flood crests and road closures.
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Yuma Ariz
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Mason City
Alfred Anderson
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Four-Mile Creek
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Floyd Valley
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