CIO Seeks Power To Fight Reds
Atlantic City sources say CIO United Auto Workers will push to amend its constitution at the 1,300,000 member union convention. The change would allow international officers to review cases where locals or members are charged but found innocent of advocating Communist policies. President Walter Reuther urged unity talks with the AFL and called for removing racketeering from waterfront unions as a condition for any merger.
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N. J
CIO
United Auto Workers
Walter Reuther
American Federation of Jr
AFL International Longshoremen's Association
Reuther
AFL Cio
AFL
Americans Seek British Help for Yacht Captive Release
American officials prepared to request British help through Peiping to free three Americans aboard the yacht Kert seized by Chinese Communists. Richard Applegate, DON Dixon, and Captain Ben Krasner were reported among those aboard the 42 foot boat captured near Hong Kong while en route to Macao.
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Oit
Julian F. Harrington
U. S
Peiping
Red
State Department
United Press War
Richard Applegate
Lap Sap Mei Island
Applegate
Don Dixon
International News Service
Korea
Ben Krasner
Macao
S. Coote
Coote
Los Angeles
South China Sea
Amvets Crisis Sparks Resignations Amid Split in NC Branch
In Charlotte state Amvets commander Paul Hester faced demands to resign as 18 of 95 state executive committee members met to resolve a growing rift. A previous meeting in Statesville led to firing of Andrew Del Vescovo, with Clarence Suggs and Tom Sawyer supporting a unanimous resolution for Hester and other officers to quit.
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Charlotte
Amvets
Paul Hester
Dunn
Concord
Veterans’ Group
Statesville
Andrew del Vescovo
Clarence Suggs
Tom Sawyer
Durham
Sawyer
Hester
Suggs
del Vescovo
Jamestown High School Student's List of Classroom Boners
Ruth D. Anderson of Jamestown High School submits these for those who like to collect classroom boners a caucus is a dead animal the Age of Pericles was about 40 degrees of bad are bad very sick and dead.
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Jamestown
N.Y
Ruth D. Anderson
Jamestown High School
Pericles
First standardized quart milk bottle credited to 1884
A Pottsdam New York man is credited with introducing the first standardized quart milk bottle in 1884. Jaseel the milkman poured milk directly into customers pitchers. In U S history twelve federal officials have faced impeachment trials, four found guilty on one or more counts.
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Pottsdam
N. Y
Jaseel
United States
Peace moves in Soviet stance seen as delaying tactic
The piece argues Moscow’s conciliatory gestures are a tactic to buy time, noting Malenkov’s role, potential UN talks, and a predicted 1960 target to surpass Western Europe in key industries. It cautions that Soviet satellites lag in heavy industry and agriculture and that postwar treaties limited Western leverage.
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United Nations
Europe
Malenkov
Communist Party
Stalin
Russia
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Dairymen Urged to Fix Problems Without Government Supports
Secretary Ezra Benson urged the dairy industry in Chicago to solve its issues without relying on price supports, warning that continued surplus and high taxpayer costs threaten prices like butter. He pressed for reform of farm price supports and said dairymen must show they can operate without rigid subsidies. The Agriculture Department holds about 330 million pounds of dairy products bought at 90 percent parity.
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Chicago
Ezra T. Benson
American Dairy Association
Benson
Agriculture Department
Tito Says Soviets Seek Cold War Truce to Solidify Rule
London reporting quoted Yugoslav leader Tito telling Churchill and British officials that new Kremlin rulers want a truce to stabilize their power. He described Malenkov Beria and Molotov as a balanced trio with Stalin using them as tools, and said they need each other for now.
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London
Tito
Yugoslavia
Winston Churchill
Kremlin
Josef Stalin
Georgi M. Malenkov
Lavrenti Beria
Vyacheslav Mo
West
Rift Leaves Church Minus Officers
Chapel Hill Presbyterians faced the ouster of Pastor Charles M. Jones after a three and a half hour commission meeting. The commission dissolved the church elders and deacons boards for the church's welfare, leaving the church without officers and delaying any new minister until new officers are elected and ordained.
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Chapel Hill
Z. T. Piephoff
Greensboro
Commission
Judicial Commission
Robert J. McMullen
Orphan Family Welcomes Huge Birthday for David Hess
In Chicago six year old David Hess the youngest of five orphans celebrated with a Sunday party for hundreds of well wishers. Donated gifts included a 25 inch diameter chocolate cake and toys such as a tractor and building set. The Hess children Carol 18 Wilma 16 Walter 16 and Agnes 15 cared for the siblings after their mother’s death.
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David
Chicago
Carol Hess
Agnes Hess
Wilma
Walter
Agnes
Carol
Hess
Is Life
Brutal clubbing death shocks Newberry County
Newberry County Sheriff Tom Fellers arrested Frank Penny of Prosperity in a brutal murder of Rosalee De Walt 35 and her daughters Fannie 12 and Carrie 10. The victims were found inside their farm tenant cabin near Newberry. A three foot stovewood and clothing were identified at Penny’s home where he slept when taken into custody. The motive remains unknown.
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Newberry
S. C.P
Rosalee de Walt
Fannie
Carrie
Horace de Walt
Newberry County
Tom Fellers
Frank Penny
Prosperity
Fellers
Maine Revival Shows New Industry Ventures
In Freeport Casco Laces Inc plans a community owned lace making plant to start a new industry. In Buckport talks arise of reopening a Verona Island mine that yields arsenic bearing mineral mispickel.
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Maine
Portland
Freeport
Casco Laces Inc
Buckport
Verona Island
Battle Calls for Tough Campaign to Cut Off Material Exports
Rep. Battle says the Communist bloc still receives strategic materials from the West and urges a vigorous, comprehensive effort to stop it. He criticizes current enforcement as weak, notes over 300 embargoed items, and urges centralized economic defense. He cites transshipment through neutral ports and legal actions against suspect ships.
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Battle
D-Ala
West
U. S
House
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Sweden
Transbay Richmond
Calif
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