UN Shelves Red China Issue For Another Year
United Nations General Assembly will again postpone seating Red China, voting 42 to 12 to shelve the question until 1956. The session opened with Chile's Jose Maza elected president and warnings from Molotov that Peiping deserves a seat, while the United States urged postponement.
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China
United Nations
N.Y
U.N. General Assembly
Russia
V. M. Molotov
U.S
Chile
Jose Maza
Molotov
Peiping
Henry Cabot Lodge Jr
United States
Dulles
Anthony Nutting
Lodge
Britain
Indonesia
Burma
Czechoslovakia
Denmark
George Yeh
Soviet Union
Hill Gets Reprieve Sanity Test in Death Penalty Case
Harold E. Hill, 24, of Sumter DC, awaiting execution for the murder of Augusta grocer Frederick W. Noegel, receives a 30 day reprieve and a mental competency exam ordered by the Georgia Pardon and Parole Board. Gov. Marvin Griffin will sign the reprieve and appoint three physicians for the psychiatric evaluation.
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Atlantap
Harold E. Hill
Augusta
Pardon and Parole Board
Hill
Marvin Griffin
Sumter
D.C
Frederick W. Noegel
Air Force
Sanity Commission
Air Force contract probe sparks congressional clash
The House opened an inquiry into a $2.4 billion Air Force deal with AT&T and Western Electric to convert the defense comms system to a semi automatic Sage network. Critics say the project lacked authorization and could trigger penalties, while the Air Force cites prior reporting and ongoing work at eight combat centers and 32 direction centers.
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Washington
House
McCormack
Massachusetts
Air Force
Congress
American Telephone and Telegraph Co
Western Electric Co
Cannon
D-Mo
Appropriations Committee
Joseph Campbell
Asst
Lyle Garlock
Campbell
Cambell
Dixon-Yates
At&t
The
Western Electric
New York
Defense Department
Nike plant chief indicted for attempting to obtain bribe
Carl M. Woelfel, chief engineer at the Charlotte Ordnance Missile plant, was indicted by a Western District of North Carolina grand jury for seeking a gratuity from L. R. Potter of Southern Wood Freneries Co. in a bid related to plant coverings. Woelfel, vacationing in Pompano Beach, Fla., has a warrant issued for his arrest and is to be brought to Statesville.
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Statesville
N.C
Charlotte
North Carolina Faces 100 Million Damage Rebuild After Ione
The Associated Press reports eastern North Carolina confronts extensive rebuilding refurnishing and rehabilitation after Hurricane Ione, the third major storm to hit the state in 45 days, creating broad devastation and lengthy recovery ahead.
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Associated Press
Ione
Luther Hodges
New Bern
Civil Defense
Red Cross
Tar Heel
Edward Griffin
North Carolina Civil Defense
Connie
Diane
Hodges
Air National Guard
Gen. Griffin
W. W. Jefferson
Atlanta
K. C. Lattimer
Red Cross Services
North Carolina
Joe Warner
Washington
Eisenhower
Fraser
Colo
Noel Yancey
Oriental
Pamlico County
Pamlico
Robert Horton
Vandemere
Mexican Hurricane Hilda Death Toll Reaches 166
Unofficial figures from Mexico show 166 dead from Hurricane Hilda and the Panuco River floods with about 100 missing. Tampico and nearby towns face widespread devastation as floodwaters surge, electricity and communications collapse, and thousands are homeless. Officials estimate damage near 100 million dollars with continued risk of epidemics.
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Mexico City
Mexico
Panuco
Gulf Coast
Tampico
Gulf
Villa Cuauhtemoc
Ciudad Madero
Yucatan Peninsula
Ciudad Victoria
de Lobos
San Luis Potosi
Eight Die In Coney Island Fire
Wind driven flames swept through four frame rooming houses near Coney Island. Eight people died and fifteen were injured, with victims aged 33 to 80. Firefighters battled the blaze two hours after a bath house fire nearby, as winds from Hurricane Tone challenged containment. The Mermaid Avenue and 15th Street fire, in a mixed residential area, was brought under control around 7:45 a.m.
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New York
Coney Island Amusement Park
Coney Island Boardwalk
Mermaid Avenue
15Th Street
Tone
Brooklyn
TVA Says Power Rates Were Lower for Consumers
TVA announced that during the last fiscal year power customers saved about 76.4 million dollars compared with how much they would have paid at national average rates. Savings were reported for cities including Chattanooga Memphis Nashville Knoxville and others with amounts ranging from hundreds of thousands to several million dollars.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Chattanooga
Memphis
Nashville
Huntsville
Ala
Decatur
Johnson City
Bowling Green
Bristol
Cleveland
Jackson
Greeneville
Hopkinsville
Maryville
Lonardi Named President After Apparent Full Loyalist Surrender
Lonardi is named provisional president of Argentina after loyalist forces surrender, ending four days of revolt against Juan Peron. Reports say Peron may be aboard a Paraguayan gunboat in Buenos Aires harbor as rebels claim complete accord and Lonardi to take charge. The junta says Peron’s foes accept rebel terms and Lonardi will assume leadership tomorrow.
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Buenos Aires
Argentina
Juan D. Peron
Eduardo Lonardi
Perona
Lonardi
Peron
Alianza Nacionalista
Alianza
Cordoba
Eduardo A. Lonardi
Lst
Chile
Celanese Workers Return Amid Plant Walkout
In Rock Hill South Carolina Celanese Corp workers returned to morning shifts at the Delliver plant after a large scale walkout Monday An estimated 750 workers stayed off the day shift The CIO Textile Workers Union of America says the stoppage was unauthorized and seeks to restore full operation Pickets protested outside the synthetic yarn plant during the dispute Union and management say a workload grievance was under negotiation before the stoppage.
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Rock Hill
S.C.P
Delriver
Celanese Corp. of America
Louis Amato
CIO Textile Workers Union of America
Delliver
Charlotte
Maintain Lead Until 1960 in U S Atomic Supremacy Study
Washington reports military chiefs believe the United States holds a sound lead over Russia in atomic arms and can keep it until 1960. A Killian MIT report on mobilizing scientific resources for emergencies is under review by Eisenhower advisers. The document addresses intercontinental missiles and research mobilization amid fears of a Soviet breakthrough after 1960.
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Washington
United States
Russia
White House
State and Defense Departments
Eisenhower
James R. Killian Jr
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Eir
Joint Chiefs of Staff
National Security Council
Witness Identifies Abductors Of Youth
In Sumner Mississippi Mose Milam and Roy Bryant are identified as suspects in the abduction and death of Emmett Till. Witness Mose Wright testifies that Bryant and Milam were at the door when the boy was taken from the shack, with Wright naming Bryant as the man on the porch. Mamie Till, Emmett’s mother, enters the Mississippi courtroom flanked by relatives as white and Negro reporters watch closely.
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Mamie
Mose
Mamie Bradley
Emmett L. Till
Chicago
Mose Wright
Sumner
Miss
Till
J. W. Milam
Roy Bryant
Emmett Louis Till
Bryant
Milam
Chatham
Wright
Ile
Tallahatchie
Milampoe
Mississippi
H. C. Strider
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Coney Island
Hilda
Pemex
Oily
Lone
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Kenneth Norquest
Norquest
Weather Bureau
Canadian
Pennsylvania
Virinia Beach
Hazel
Marvin Hunter
Carol
New England
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