Second Term Petition Planned GOP Drive to Press Ike
GOP leaders push for an early Eisenhower announcement for a 1956 second term. New Jersey chairman Samuel Bodine heads a campus school petition drive while 48 state chairs plan a breakfast with the President in Denver. Indiana and Virginia officials back Ike, hoping southern wins and new inroads in Congress.
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Samuel L. Bodine
New Jersey
Eisenhow Bodine
Senhower
GOP
National Committee
Denver
Colo
Murray Snyder
White House
al Cast
Indiana
Eisenhower
Cast
South
Dixie States
Leonard W.hall
Hall
Florida
Texas
North Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Joyd S. Landreth
Defense Spending Cuts Denied by Defense Dept Official
Acting Secretary Reuben B. Robertson Jr. said there is no basis for reports of further defense cuts. He reaffirmed the department expects to spend about 34 billion dollars this year, with no drastic reductions to defense programs or military readiness.
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Washington
Defense Department
Reuben B. Robertson Jr
Robertson
Wilson
A As
D-Va
Douglas Urges More Exchanges
U S Supreme Court Justice William O Douglas urged broader exchanges between the Soviet Union and the United States during a Moscow radio broadcast cited by a Russian magazine. He said interactions with judges, ministers, teachers, physicians, engineers, farmers, and others could foster mutual understanding and that wide tourist and professional exchanges should be expanded.
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London
U.S. Supreme Court
William O. Douglas
Moscow Radio Today
Russia
America
Moscow Radio
Douglas
Literary Gazette
United
U. S
Viet Union
United Reg
United States
U.S
Soviet Union
Injunction Sought To Halt New York Dock Walkout
The New York New Jersey Waterfront Commission seeks a court order to end a longshoremen strike crippling the port of New York. The walkout spreads to Baltimore and threatens Philadelphia and Boston as ILA leaders push for talks with governors Harriman and Meyner.
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N.Y
Baltimore
New York
New York-New Jersey
New York Shipping Assn
State Supreme Court
William V. Bradley
International Longshoremens Assn
Bradley
Robert Meyner
New Jersey
Trenton
Meyner
Waterfront Commission
Joseph Weintraub
Commission
Weintraub
Harriman
ILA
Albany
Anthony
Tough Tony) Anastasia
Brooklyn
U.N. approves plan to separate Israeli and Egyptian forces
The Security Council unanimously backs a Western proposal to create a demilitarized zone along the Gaza frontier with physical barriers like barbed wire. If accepted by Israel and Egypt, the measure aims to prevent clashes as Burns proposes truce terms and negotiators prepare refined talks.
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N. Y
U.N. Security Council
Gaza
Israel
Egypt
E. L. M. Burns
U. N
United States
Britain
France
Abba Eban
Omar Loutfi
Arkady A. Sobolev
Sir Pierson Dixon
Labor union militia proposal supports Peron regime
In Buenos Aires the CGT with six million members floated as a civil militia to defend law and authorities, boosting Peron’s grip after a call for tougher measures. The army has suppressed the revolt, while the Radical party seeks peace, and two Catholic educators were arrested by federal police amid tensions with the church.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
General Confederation of Labor
CGT
Peron
Radical Party
Pedro Moyano
Colegio Maximo de San Miguel
Niceforo
Marista Order
Colegio Champagnat
Church
McLean Drivers Vote On Six Year Contract Raising Wages
Winston Salem drivers for McLean Trucking Co vote on a six year pact offering the largest wage raise for southern drivers. The settlement ends a strike involving three other Winston Salem firms and includes raises, mileage scales, paid vacations, and health and pension fund contributions.
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McLean
Winston-Salem
N.C
McLean Trucking Co
Winston- Salem
International Brotherhood of Teamsters
AFL
James R. Hoffa
Detroit
IBT
Roadway Express
Hoffa
Associated Transport
Central Motor Lines
Fell Lines
Bell
Adenauer Arrives in Moscow for West German Talks
West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer lands in Moscow to meet Soviet leaders as top officials greet him on the Soviet air strip. Khrushchev is absent from the welcome, while Molotov and Pervukhin participate amid a crowd of diplomats including U.S. Ambassador Bohlen.
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Adenauer
Moscow
Konrad Adenauer
Bonn
Germany
Bulganin
V. M. Molotov
Kurt Georg Kiesinger
Ieee
Lonon
West Germany
Kremlin
Nikolai Bulganin
Nikita S. Khrushchev
Communist Party
Mikhail Pervuhkin
Heinrich von Brentano
Molotov
U.S
Charles E. Bohlen
Brentano
Cotton Forecast Increased to 12.873 Million Bales
The Agriculture Department forecasts this year’s government restricted cotton at 12,873,000 bales gross weight as of Sept 1, up 145,000 from a month earlier. It reflects acreage limits and marketing quotas aimed at cutting production and reducing surpluses, with reserves near record levels around 11.1 million bales.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
South Carolina
Georgia
Tennessee
Census Bureau
Gulf Coast Night Clubs Raided by Mississippi National Guard
Gulfport Mississippi guardsmen raid night clubs along the tourist strip arresting 12 owners and operators on gambling equipment and liquor charges. Maj. Gen. Pat Wilson says gambling wiped out as Gov. White ordered action ahead of the August 23 runoff. Guardsmen seize roulette wheels dice tables card tables and about 100 cases of liquor across six clubs. one club yielded no evidence.
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Miss
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Pat Wilson
Hugh
J. P. Coleman
Mississippi
Rakene
Pater
NATO Council Meets as Greece Turkey Dispute Intensifies
NATO members held a closed session amid rising Greece Turkey tensions over Cyprus. Turkey pledged measures to curb anti Greek violence after clashes in Istanbul and Izmir. Greek tables pledged peaceful efforts for Cyprian self determination as Archbishop Makarios urged perseverance.
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Paris
Turkey
North Atlantic
Athens
Greece
NATO
Istanbul
Izmir
Cyprus
Lord Ismay
NATO Council
Western Defense Organization
Mehmet Ali Tiney
Council
Georges Extinaris
Southeast Command
London
Stephen Stephanopoulos
Makarios
Enosis
Union With Greece
Middle Belt Tobacco Prices Reported by Associated Press
Early sales across Middle Belt markets show average prices from 48 to 50 dollars per hundred pounds, with overall ranges 38 to 66 and top 69 for low lemon cutters. About 10 to 25 percent of sales go to the Stabilization Corp, with several markets opening today and heavy volume noted.
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Associated Press
Middle Belt
Federal State Market News Service
Stabilization Corp
Sandhills
Durham
Henderson
Louisburg
Oxford
Warrenton
Foncorttenen
Carthage
Obee
Sanford
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