Floor Fight Over Six World Council Presidents Vote
Evanston Ill. delegates debated including a layman in the six president nominees for the World Council of Churches. Dr J Earl Moreland sought a six name slate. Dr Martin Niemoller proposed delaying the vote twenty four hours to allow a lay candidate. The slate listed bishops Sherrill Barbieri Dibelius and others with Archbi Michael and Mar Thoma Juhanon among the candidates.
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Ill
World Council of Churches
J. Earl Moreland
Martin Niemeller
Franklin Clark Fry
United Lutheran Church In America
Moreland
Henry Knox Sherrill
Greenwich
Conn
United States
Santo Uberto Barbieri
Eastland Wins Renomination in Mississippi Primary
U S Senator James Eastland won renomination in Mississippi with about 50,000 vote margin over Lt. Gov. Carroll Gartin as Democratic nomination is tantamount to election. Colmer captured a 12th House term in the 6th District, while Gartin conceded shortly after polls closed.
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Jackson
Miss
U.S
Martin
William Colmer
Mississippi
Colmer
Clem Britton
Laurel
Walter Lowry
Pascagoula
James White
Durant
Eastland
Gartin
Senate
Senate Agriculture and
83rd Congress Faces Farm Program Debate Same as 80th
The GOP led 83rd Congress bargains with a flexible price support plan for key crops, arguing it shifts away from wartime high floors to prevent overproduction. Democrats fear lower prices and farm income, while Eisenhower aides defend the measure as market stabilizing and adaptable to postwar demand. The article notes parallel strains with 1948 politics and outlines related farm and tax provisions.
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GOP
Washington
Congress
Truman
Dewey
Agriculture Department of Ty
Eisenhower
Ezra Taft Benson
Adminceencoet
Mao Asks Attlee for Help Against United States
Mao Tsetung reportedly asked former British Prime Minister Clement Attlee and his Labour delegation for help in shifting U S policy toward China. The talks covered withdrawal of the U S Seventh Fleet from Formosa straits disarmament in Japan and Western Germany, and persuading America toward a more conciliatory stance. Attlee’s party visited Peiping for a three hour interview with Mao and Chou En-lai, with formal dinners at the British Embassy and expectations of future London representation for China.
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John Ridley
Daily Telegraph
London
Pei Ping Mao Tve-tung
Mao
Attlee
USS
Formosa
Japan
Germany
Britain
America
China
Labor Party
Morgan Phillips
Sum Parey Stevelyan
Shou En-lai
Kuo ‘Mo-jo
Trevelyan
Chou
Peiping
Anthony Eden
Geneva
Boxcar of 105 Shells Explodes in Missouri
In Springfield a boxcar loaded with 105 mm howitzer shells exploded shortly before a St. Louis San Francisco Railway freight was to depart. Firemen kept smouldering debris under watch overnight. One man suffered a heart attack and a girl was hit by falling plaster. Several houses and cars were damaged by shell fragments. nearby residents were told to evacuate. Fire detached the burning car and moved it to a safe area. flames and explosions were visible for miles.
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Springfield
St. Louis
San Francisco
Pola Negri's Mother Dies at 93 in Beverly Hills
Mme. Eleanora Chalupec, 93, mother of silent film star Pola Negri, died yesterday at her daughter's Beverly Hills home after living in Southern California for 12 years. Both were born in Poland. Negri retired from acting in the early 1930s.
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Pola Negri
Beverly Hills
Calif
Eleanora Chalupec
California
Poland
Miss Negri
Watermelon Thieves Beat Rap Easily
Spectators watched as a case against alleged watermelon thieves collapsed with dismissal of charges. The fragment mentions patrolmen and Australian elements, but the readable facts show no clear outcome beyond the case dismissal and unclear surrounding details.
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