Nixon Reports On GOP Prospects In National Campaign
Vice President Nixon, campaigning for Republican gains in Congress, arrived in Denver and voiced guarded optimism about the 84th Congress. He and Eisenhower planned a joint TV radio address and a strategy session to boost GOP candidates while Democrats attack Nixon’s Senate record and Nevada succession issues head to court.
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Nixon
Congress
Eisenhower
Denver
Sol
GOP House
Senate
Democratic National Committee
Democratic Committee
Sen
Losles
Land
Blicans
Pat McCarran
McCarran
Molotov pushes four power talks meet German Socialists
Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov wins support from German Socialists in Parliament for four power talks on German unification. Adenauer’s coalition rejects the plan. Eden criticizes Moscow at a Blackpool conference. Menon urges East and West to discuss unification to secure peace.
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V. M. Molotov
East Berlin
East German
Walter Ulbricht
Coat
East Germany
Red Party
Otto Nischke
Molotov
Berlin
BOM
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
Anthony Eden
France
United States
Britain
United Nations
U. K
Menon
Soviet Union
Showdown On Power Is Pressed
Washington nears a pre election move on the Dixon Yates power contract with Tennessee Valley Authority. AEC review requested amid protests of skullduggery and scandal. Senate antimonopoly subcommittee seeks midafternoon update on contract status as hearings continue.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Tennessee Valley
Auty
Emegy Atomic Energy Committee
Et Sachse Cai
Sen. Fulbright
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
White House
Denver
Murray Snyder
Ren. Haan
R-Nd
Senate
Denth Lettes
ABC
Lewis L. Strauss
Tnre
Langer
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Dixon-Yates
W. Sterling Cole
R-Ny
Absentee Ballot Scandal Alleged in Graham County
North Carolina Secretary of State Thad Eure denounced absentee ballot sales in Graham County where ballots reportedly fetch up to 85 dollars. Eure cited wholesale abuse of a local law, with more than 100 ballots turned over at the County Board of Elections and a Rocky Mount aide noting street corner sales.
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Gastonia
N.C
Thad Eure
Graham County
North Carolna
Eure
County Board of Elections
Ben Roney
Rocky Mount
U.S
W. Kerr Scott
Graham Democrats
Spade Work Begins on Ike's Highway Plans
Washington reports the start of spade work on Eisenhower's grand plan to modernize the nation's highway system at an estimated 50 billion dollar cost over ten years. A five member advisory committee begins two days of hearings with witnesses from 22 organizations. General Lucius D. Clay heads the panel to report to Congress in January.
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Washington
Eisenhower
Lucius D. Clay
Congress
Lutheran Proposal Clears First Hurdle
TORONTO reports a 118 point plan to tighten supervision over United Lutheran Church in America agencies advances past the first convention hurdle. Critics push to return the plan for two more years of study while supporters urge completion of debate to avoid stalling progress for America’s largest Lutheran body. Dr. Franklin Clark Fry begins his sixth two year term as president amid the ongoing biennial meeting.
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Toronto
United Lutheran Church In America
J. J. Scherer
Richmond
W. Carl Satre
Toledo
Stymie
The
Satre
United States
Canada
America
Franklin Clark Fry
New York
Lattimore Faces New Indictments on Perjury Charges
The federal grand jury indicted Owen Lattimore on two counts of perjury for allegedly denying he was a follower of the Communist line. A prior 1952 indictment was partially dismissed. prosecutors seek consolidation with the earlier case.
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Washington
Owen Lattimore
U.S
Edward A. Tamm
Leo A. Rover
Lattimore
Senate Internal Security
United States
Balti
Sen. McCarthy
Internal Security Mittee
D-New
McCarran
Luther W. Youngdahil
U.S. Court of Appeals
Satoy Yada Eanu
Justice Department
Planned Exhibition Defended as Solemn Veterans Day Convocation
Rabbi Benjamin Schultz defends a Washington demonstration on Veterans Day as a solemn convocation with no picketing or marching. He leads a 13 member Joint Committee Against Communism in New York State amid protests from Rufus H. Wilson of the American Veterans of World War II. Schultz says the event is nonpartisan and urges attendees to visit senators, meet at a downtown hotel at night.
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New York
Benjamin Schultz
Washington
Rabbi Schultz
Joint Committee Against Communism
New York State
Rufus H. Wilson
Wilson
McCarthy
America
Baltimore
Schultz
Cotton Field Day draws 500 growers to Rocky Mount
In Rocky Mount North Carolina the second annual Cotton Field Day at the Upper Coastal Plain Experiment Station drew about 500 farmers. Chairman David S Weaver urged united cotton promotion efforts to overcome competition from other crops and synthetic fibers. Demonstrations included mechanical harvesters and experts discussed new weed control chemicals and practices to boost production.
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Rocky Mount
N.C
United
David S. Weaver
State Cotton Promotion Committee
Weaver
Upper Coastal Plain Experiment Station
Here
Liz Whats Wee Peonie Dreads About Parallel Parking
A lighthearted note notes that parallel parking brings a noisy crash and an aversion to the maneuver. It highlights a dislike of the loud impact and the stress of finding space in tight spots.
Weather reconnaissance B50 crashes near Willows Calif
A United States Air Force B50 weather reconnaissance plane crashed and exploded near Willows California killing 11 of the 17 crew. Four enlisted men survived. two crew members are missing feared dead. The Biggs AFB from El Paso Texas operated the mission. Parachutes saved three men and one man was found near the wreck.
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J. Frank Imely
Joseph F. Wittene
J.C. John B. Patton
Naturdad Vasquez
Biggs
Air Force
Vasuez
Illows General Hospital
Wittene
Patton
Imely
Willows
Sacramento Valley
California
Bandit Robs Hickory Supermarket Manager for 2600
Hickory police report a bandit robbed Dixie Home Store manager Boyd Baker of 2600 dollars after he withdrew funds at First National Bank. Baker was forced to drive to a secluded road near Granite Falls before the bandit escaped in a white car.
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Boyd Baker
Dixie Home
First National Bank
Hickory
Mac Little
Baker
Granite Falls
Port of New York returns to work after 25 000 strike
Normal waterfront operations resume as ILA after 48 hour strike brings back 25 000 dockers. Liners America Mauretania tied up at North River front as cargo piles cleared, retroactive eight cent pay raise and 45 day no strike pledge agreed with New York Shipping In. Expected back pay totals over four million dollars.
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New York
America
Mauretania
North River
International Longshoremen’s Assn
New York Shipping In
ILA
Collector Gives Views to Committee on Windfall Taxes
The Internal Commissioner T Coleman Andrews told the Senate Banking Committee the government has a better than fighting chance to collect taxes on windfall profits from postwar building. He warned loopholes are limited while noting possible income tax issues for some builders involved with FHA insured loans. Frankin D Richards is cited regarding Ian Woodner amid a renewed probe into housing financing and related bribery concerns.
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John Chadwick
Washington
T. Coleman Andrews
Andrews
Uus
Senate Banking Committee
Capehart
R-Ind
William Simon
Ian Woodner
New York
Franklin BD
Richards
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Woodner
Clyde L. Powell
Powell
Atty
Gen
Three Cities Hit by Heavy New Mexico Rains
Heavy rains in the Sacramento Mountains sent flash floods into Roswell Artesia and Hagerman in New Mexico. National Guard evacuations were under way with trucks moving families as authorities warned the crest could worsen.
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Roswell
N.M
Pecos Valley
National Guard
Artesia
Hagerman
Sacramento Mountains
New Mexico River Valley
Sacramentos
al Schmuck
National
Eight Mile Draw
New Mexico
Wreck Probe After Fort Bragg Flying Boxcar Crash
An Air Force board investigates a Boxcar crash that struck a barracks under construction at Fort Bragg killing the pilot and co pilot. Fourteen were injured including seven airmen and four workers. The plane from Pope AFB was on a flight to Olmstead AFB when it crashed into the brick barracks area.
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FT. Bragg
N.C
Atr
S2nd Airborne Division
W. L. Wiatt
Re Bragg
W. A. Wiatt
Emporia
S. N. Fulton
Southern Pines
On Pope Air Force Base
Olmstead Afb
Edward H. Alene
18Th A
Afb, Sieece
Troy W. Crawford
Glenne M. Jones
J. L. Adkins
Oscar B. Adkins
Chatham
G. A. Sawyer
Jessie J. Sawyer
E. Edwards St
Shawnee
Okla
Rs. Iver G. Hardy
E. Wilshire St
Fullerton
Calif
Aoven
L. W. Morse
Accused Rapist Kills Self After Dawn Standoff in York County
York County officers traced a rape warrant to a barn near Gastonia. At dawn they found James Eugene Bridges, 36, of Cramerton, dead from a shotgun wound beside a gun. Authorities had pursued him after a reported car-key point robbery connected to a year-old in Gastonia. Coroner Pink Nichols said a formal holding decision would be set later.
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York
S.C
York County
James Eugene Bridges
Cramerton
N.C
Gastonia
Five Points
Pink Nichols
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E. R. Sanders
504Th Airborne Infantry
Z. Mamske
Angeles
J. H. Jackmond
Sas Airborne Division
Eugenia Jackmond
Ville
E. Seales i
Mabel Dakine
Fayetteville
G. V. Snuffer
32Nd Infantry Regiment
Ft. Jackson
G. E. Wilson
Borne Infantry
Mt. Joy
C. D. Dubberly
Fremont
Ralph S. Cole
Chapel Hill
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