Maine Returns GOP Triumph in First Postwar Test
Maine voted Republicans to a ninth straight election win, with Gov. Frederick G. Payne capturing Owen's senate seat at 59 percent from about 230000 votes. Democrat Roger P. Dube had 35 percent and Earl Grant 6. Cross won the governor’s race with 52 percent. Oliver 32.8 percent. Four-way race boosted GOP share to 67.2 percent. Payne urged vigilance for Eisenhower’s White House bid amid liquor probe indictments against Bernard Zahn. Payne, 52, completes second term. he is a longtime businessman and former army officer.
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Portland
Maine
Frederick G. Payne
Owen
Senate
Roger P. Dube
Earl Grant
Margaret Chase Smith
Burton M. Cross
Henry W. Boyker
Neil S. Bishop
Payne
James C. Oliver
Lewiston
Dube
Grant
Cross
Olired
Boyker
Bishop
Dwight D. Eisenhower
White House
Democratic National Committee
Eisenhower
Bernard T. Zahn
Liquor Commission
Boston
Episcopal Women Press for Equal Rights at 57th Triennial
In Boston the house of deputies the house of bishops and the women s auxiliary opened the first joint session of the 57th triennial convention. Proposals for world relief church cooperation more missionaries and expanded chaplaincy and outreach to American Indians and Negroes were discussed under Rt Rev Henry Knox Sherrill presiding bishop.
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Boston
U.P
House of Deputies
House of Bishops and Women
Henry Knox Sherrill
Episcopal Church
United States
House of Bishops
Dr Hjalmar Schacht Visits Iran to Discuss Economic Questions
Dr Hjalmar Schacht, Germany's financial wizard, arrived by plane in Tehran to look into Iran's economic questions. He said the visit was at the invitation of Premier Mohammad Mossadegh and that he would stay several days.
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Tehran
Iran
Hijalmar Schacht
Germany
Schacht
Mohammed Mossadegh
End One Day Strike Returns to Mines Led by John L. Lewis
More than 26,000 miners in 31 western Pennsylvania coal mines ended a one day wildcat walkout today and streamed back to the pits under orders of their boss John L. Lewis.
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Pittsburgh
U.P
Pennsylvania
John L. Lewis
Milk Prices Rise Again in Local Market
The price stabilization board authorized a half cent increase for milk, raising quarts to 22 ½ cents and half gallons to 43 cents. Prices paid to farmers are set by the federal milk administrator, with ongoing rises since 1950 in this Chicago market area.
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Price Stabilization Board
Chicago
Mississippi Democrats Back Stevenson Sparkman Ticket
The Mississippi state Democratic executive committee voted 12 to 4 to actively back the Stevenson Sparkman ticket, rejecting a neutral stance to avoid widening the split with Eisenhower supporters. Bidwell Adlam of Biloxi declared the die is cast and urged confronting the Eisencrats with full force.
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Jackson
Miss
U.P
Democratic Executive Committee
Mississippi
Eisenhower
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Bidwell Adlam
Biloxi
Danube Boat Sinking Kills 90 in Sudden Storm
Belgrade police report a passenger boat sank in the Danube during a sudden storm killing 90 people. Authorities investigated the disaster and issued casualty tallies as rescue efforts continued on the river.
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Danube
Belgrade
Yugoslavia
U.P
Price Chief Faces Women on Price Controls in Fresno
In Fresno California federal price boss Tighe E Woods held a two hour session with about 400 housewives to hear views on price controls. The meeting showed sharply divided opinion with some supporting controls as the housewives last stand against inflation while others urged free market forces and criticized administrative costs. Mrs Thomas la Faut urged keeping controls arguing inflation could raise defense costs and taxes.
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Fresno
Calif
Tighe E. Woods
Woods
Infla
Tion
OPS
Thomas la Faut
Weather in Kenosha Provides Quiet Pre-Election Forecast
Yesterday in Kenosha the day featured pleasant, fair conditions with a forecast of little temperature change into Wednesday. Highs were expected near 85 to 90, lows around 53, while today reached 77 at noon and 88 at Nash Motors with 77 downtown.
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Kenosha
Nash Motors
Allied leaders clash over Rose Bush maneuvers in West Germany
In Frankfurt Germany Lt Gen Manton S Eddy and Maj Gen George Read clash over Exercise Rose Bush length scope and realism as 75000 American and French troops wrap three days of maneuvers. Juin defends realism race and Cherriere defend defense posture while Eddy says maneuvers not tests of current emergencies.
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Frankfurt
Germany
U.P
West
Rosebush
Manton S. Eddy
U. S
Europe
Eddy
George W. Read, Jr
Alphonse Juin
Paul Raymond Philippe Cherriere
Juin
Elephant tender vows to quit sleep walking with circus herd
Delmar Teel, 17, a Tucson boy who tends elephants at a Clarinda circus, walked in his sleep and was lifted and slammed to the ground by a sleeping elephant that noticed he lacked his stick. He woke with injuries described as a broken leg.
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Clarinda
Delmar Teel
Teel
Tucson
Ariz
Eisenhower
Taft
Sen
Record Primary Turnout Spurs Voters in Fine Weather
Warm, sunny turnout across Wisconsin and nearby states sparked by key races. Taft backers vow full support for Eisenhower while Taft weighs role. Milwaukee and Dane county report heavy morning voting as McCarthy race and Republican primary draw broad participation.
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Cleveland
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Eisenhower
Indianapolis
Midwest
Taft
Washington
B. A. Herrmann
Joseph McCarthy
Senate
Wisconsin
Walter H. Gaedke
Milwaukee City Election Commission
Milwaukee
Leonard Schmitt
McCarthy
Egypt’s Naguib orders big land seizures and party shakeup
Egypt’s cabinet under Maj. Gen. Mohammed Naguib approves a land reform capping ownership at 200 acres and a reorganization of political parties. Expropriated landowners receive pensions, with jail terms for noncompliance and royal decree naming Naguib as governor under martial law after the Cairo riots.
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Cairo
Egypt
Mohammed Nabuib
Naguib
Aly Maher
Fuad II
Farouk
Regional rural electric meeting to convene in Madison
Delegates from 112 rural electric cooperatives in Illinois Iowa and Wisconsin plan a regional convention of the National Rural Electric Cooperative Association in Madison Wisconsin on Thursday and Friday with attendees from three states.
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Madison
Wis
U.P
Shivers Urges Texas Democrats to Back Eisenhower Over Stevenson
Texas Governor Allan Shivers told the Democratic state convention to oppose Adlai Stevenson and endorse Dwight D. Eisenhower. He urged Texans to vote their legally free choice and criticized national Democratic leadership, pledging to run against Stevenson on the Democratic ballot. He denounced Trumanism and warned of corruption and a weak foreign policy.
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Amarillo
Tex
U.P
Allan Shivers
Adlai Stevenson
Texas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Shivers
Stevenson
National Democratic Party
Mexico Seismologists Report Strong Quake Timing Details
Mexican seismologists recorded a strong earthquake at 6:58:52 a m CST. A spokesman said if southward origin it would shake a wide area of Costa Rica. if northward origin it could be felt from lower California to Arizona.
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Mexico City
U.P
Costa Rica
California
Arizona
Stevenson in California on western political tour
Democratic presidential hopeful Adlai Stevenson pushed a broad western swing through Minnesota Colorado Wyoming Montana Idaho Oregon and Washington while aiming at California's 32 electoral votes. He told a Portland crowd the campaign is going beautifully and planned a San Francisco address on foreign policy via national radio and TV hookup.
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Seattle
Adhai Stevenson
California
Stevenson
Portland
Ore
New York
Pacific Coast
Minnesota
Colorado
Wyoming
Montana
Idaho
Oregon
Washington
California National Guard
Korea
San Francisco
Truman
Orient
Europe
Embargo Lifted on Kansas City Hogs Shipments
The embargo on outgoing hog shipments from the Kansas City yards was lifted today by the Bureau of Animal Industry in Washington.
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Kansas City
U.P
Bureau of Animal Industry
Washington
Fall enrollment surge foreshadows crowded schools
A public service message from the Write Committee for the Public Schools in New York warns that fall will bring nearly two million more children to classrooms. It urges preparing adequate funding and resources over the next four years to ensure quality education.
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Public Schools
New York
N. Y
Bandit Calls Bank Loot A Loan In Winslow Robbery
Police hunted a gunman who robbed the Winslow State Bank of 7872 dollars and told officers he would return the money sometime. He forced a vice president and two tellers to fill the vault and cages then asked to count the sum. The motive described as a loan drew local speculation about repayment through harvests.
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Winslow
Ill
U.P
Winslow State
L. M. Coe
Coe
State Highway Chief Charles Bainbridge Dies on Job
Hollandale Wisconsin Charles M Bainbridge 71 longtime county superintendent of state trunk highways died of a heart attack while directing a road crew near Hollandale Monday His career spanned 25 years with the state highway system in Mifflin Iowa and nearby areas
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Hollandale
Wis
Charles M. Bainbridge
Mifflin
Here
America First Party Barred from Ballot in Illinois
Illinois Supreme Court declined to hear a suit by the America First party to place MacArthur for president and Byrd for vice president on the November ballot. The state electoral board had ruled Aug. 18 that the petitions failed to meet minority party requirements.
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Springfield
Illinois Supreme Court
America First Party
Douglas MacArthur
Sen
Harry F. Byrd
Virginia
State Electoral Board
America First
All-Weather Jet Crashes Near McChord Base
An all weather jet interceptor crashed on a farm five miles south of McChord Air Force Base Washington yesterday killing two air force men.
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McChord Air Force Base
Wash
Air Force
U S Turns Over Equipment to Philippines
The United States handed over thousands of tons of military gear to the Philippines army including 400 jeeps weapons carriers and scout cars. The transfer fulfills mutual defense pact pledges and strengthens allied defense.
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U. S
Philippines
Manila
United States
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