Southern Leaders Tackle Problems Of Segregation
Georgia Governor Hermann Talmadge led a swift response to the Supreme Court ruling on segregation while NAACP leaders hailed the decision as vindication. Governors plan immediate committees to study implications with Talmadge pushing a constitutional amendment to preserve public school segregation. Thurgood Marshall cautioned Georgia cannot private manage schools and pledged court action if plans proceed.
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Atlanta
U. S. Supreme Court
South
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
State Commission On Education
Talmadge
High Tribunal
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Thurgood Marshall
NAACP
New York
Tar Heel Leaders Divided Over Special Session on School Ruling
North Carolina leaders split on calling a special legislative session after the U S Supreme Court ruling against segregation. Gov. Umstead voiced disappointment, while several lawmakers urged caution and noted the January session is upcoming.
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Raleigh
U. S. Supreme Court
Umstead
W. Kerr Scott
U. S. Senate
Supreme Court
Scott
North Carolina
U. S
Alton Lennon
E. T. Bost Jr
Cabarrus
House
W. B. Rodman
Beaufort
House Finance Committee
Rodman
Larry I. Moore
Wilson
John D. Larkins
Jones
Edwin Pate
Scotland
Senate
H. C. West
State Board of Education
West
Charles F. Carroll
Luther Hodges
State Senate
Board of Education
Hodges
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Committee backs 35000 annual housing units plan
Washington The Senate Banking Committee voted 13 3 to continue public housing at the rate of 35000 units annually as Eisenhower urged. The panel ordered staff to draft a clause to block windfall profits for FHA insured builders. Capehart Bricker and Bennett opposed public housing.
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Washington
Senate Banking Committee
Eisenhower
Capehart
R-Ind
Bricker
Rohio
Bennett
Utah
Indochina Air Attacks Reopened to Vietminh Front
Air strikes resumed along the Dien Bien Phu to Son La highway as French planes hit the Vietminh lines. A French three-man mission flew to Dien Bien Phu to press for acceptance of a six point evacuation plan offering treatment and return of gravely wounded troops.
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Hanoi
Indochina
High Command
Dien Bien Phu
Red River
Dien Bien Fhu
Son la
Delta
Union Bargaining Power in 1954 Steel Talks Open
In Pittsburgh the United Steelworkers and U S Steel Corp begin the first major labor negotiations of 1954. About 190,000 workers idle, 257,000 part time, and mills at 70 percent capacity. Key aims include guaranteed annual wages, wage increases, better health and pension plans, and overtime and holiday terms.
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Pittsburgh
U. S. Steel Corp
CIO
United Steelworkers
USW
U. S. Steel
David J. McDonald
Benjamin F. Fairless
White House signals little chance of changing order suspending hearings
White House says President Eisenhower unlikely to alter an order that halted testimony by government officials on talks during the McCarthy Pentagon controversy. Senate Investigations subcommittee suspended hearings, Mundt to consult Atty. Gen. Brownell on precedents. Hagerty confirms the letter stopping the hearings.
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Aluly
sAmily Callus
Eisenhower
Administration
Sen
McCarthy
Pentagon
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Mundt
R-Sd
Atty
Gen
Brownell
Secretary of Defense
White House
James C. Hagerty
Agerty
Viet Minh Charges French Sabotaged Dien Bien Phu Evacuation
Vietminh ambassador Hoang Van Hoan accused France of sabotaging an agreed evac plan for seriously wounded prisoners from Dien Bien Phu. He said 15 French POWs were killed by bombers as rebels moved wounded toward a highway to Hanoi. He denied Vietnamese discrimination claims and urged neutral supervision of the convoy.
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Geneva
Indochina
Dien Bien Phu
Hoang van Hoan
Vietminh
Red China
Hanoi
Red River
Hoang
Alf
Genevieve de Galard Terraube
Ho Chi Minh
White Expects South To Accept Supreme Court Ruling
Walter White of the NAACP predicts the South will quietly accept the Supreme Court ruling ending school segregation. He told CBS Today there may be some discrimination but no major violence, noting no friction in graduate admissions for 20 years and calling the decision a major step toward narrowing white and colored hostilities.
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Washington
Walter White
Supreme Court
White
The
National Assn. For the Advancement of Colored People
Cbs-Tv
South
NAACP
Eisenhower Visits Charlotte for Freedom Day Parade
President Eisenhower flies to Charlotte aboard Columbine for a Freedom Day celebration honoring Mecklenburg County’s 179th Independence Declaration anniversary. Government leaders, Moore Snyder and Gen. staff attend as 15,000 spectators watch flyovers by F86 jets and transport planes.
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Eisenhower
Columbine
Washington
Freedom Park
Robert T. Stevens
Fredee
Charles R. Jonas
North Carolina
Congress
Howard Mo. Snyder
James C Hagerty
Robert L. Schulz
Edward L. Beach
William G. Draper
Air Force
Sam P. Deweese
Norman Vincent Peale
New York
Army
Navy
Armed Forces
President's Honor Guard
82Nd Airborne Division
Ft. Bragg
Gov
Umstead
Charlotte
Phil van Every
Stevens
Sec
Fred Waring
Warren Hull
Reds Seek To Stir Up Latins
Washington officials say Moscow has unleashed Communist agitators to inflame Central America. Movements across Costa Rica Nicaragua and Honduras culminate in arms shipments from a Swedish-flagged ship to Guatemala at Puerto Barrios. Officials link recent assassinations and strikes to a Moscow-directed effort, with key Guatemalan leaders visiting Moscow last year and the Global unions backing the movement.
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Washington
Moscow
Central America
U. S
Costa Rica
Nicaragua
Honduras
Guatemala
Stettin
Red Poland
State Department
Puerto Barrios
Department of State
United States
America
Censtral
Anastasio Somoza
Somoza
Pacific
Sitc
Dulles
General Labor Confederation of
World Federation of Trade Unions
U.S
Perjury Prosecution Dropped Over Phone Recording
A federal judge ruled a telephone recording of Warren Stephenson and Robert Parsons cannot be used as evidence, dropping the perjury case temporarily. The government may resume only after appeals on evidentiary legality, with proceedings paused pending higher court rulings.
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Washington
Warren Stephenson
Eisenhower
David A. Pine
Stephenson
Robert Q Parsons
Burbank
Calif
Century Engineers
House
Edward Troxell
Money Recovered in Fletcher Trust Co Robbery Case
FBI agent William A. Murphy announced $3,433 of $3,597.50 stolen from the Fletcher Branch of the State Trust Co. of Hendersonville was recovered. Houston Ward, linked to the May 5 armed robbery, led officers to the cache after bond. Ward was jailed again and faces trial here Tuesday. The money was found near Ward's home at Fanning Bridge.
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Fletcher
FBI
William A. Murphy
Fletcher Branch
State Trust Co
Hendersonville
Murphy
Anch
Carolinas
Houston Ward
Ward
Fanning Bridge
Here
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