Oklahoma Boom Seen For Leading Nixon Nominee
Oklahoma GOP leaders expect a Nixon surge if Eisenhower does not seek re election. Richard Nixon is called the leading contender for the nomination and Oklahoma plans its early convention dates to choose 22 national delegates. State GOP chair Douglass McKeever says Eisenhower’s illness prevents commitment and that Oklahoma may set the pace for the nation with early delegate selections.
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Oklahoma City
Richard Nixon
Eisenhower
Oklahoma
Nixon
Douglass McKeever
GOP
McKeever
San Francisco
Durant
Taft
Germans Wheel Possible Heirs If Adenauer Steps Down
Bonn based report notes Chancellor Konrad Adenauer ill with bronchial pneumonia raising talk of his successor. Finance Minister Fritz Schaeffer, Economics Minister Ludwig Erhard, and Foreign Minister Heinrich von Brentano top the unofficial list.
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Bluecher
Free Democratic Party
Adenauer
Christian Democratic Union
Fritz Schaeffer
Ludwig Erhard
Heinrich von Brentano
Schaeffer
Erhard
West Germany
von Brentano
Picke von Brentano
Kamin Contempt Trial Starts Over
The trial of former Harvard psychologist Leon Kamin on contempt of Congress charges restarts without a jury after McCarthy supporters caused a scene. Judge Bailey Aldrich halted jury proceedings. Kamin waived the jury trial. Witnesses include McCarthy, Roy Cohn, and Senator Charles Porter. Kamin, a former Communist Party member, is charged with refusing to name Communist associates at Harvard between 1945 and 1950. He left the party in 1950.
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Harvard
Atempt of Congress
Joseph McCarthy
Rwis
Bailey Aldrich
Leon J. Kamin
Toronto
Ont
Kamin
McCarthy
Roy Cohn
McCarthy Subcommittee
Charles Porter
R-Mich
Aldrich
Wisconsin
Queen’s College
Senate
Communist Party
US Lumber Output Suppresses Global Supply Share
United States produces about 36 percent of the world's total lumber, highlighting its dominant role in global timber markets and influencing prices, trade dynamics, and industry planning across North America.
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United States
Bayes Says Reds Forced Cooperation in POW Camp
Cpl. Thomas Bayes Jr. testified at his Korea era court martial that he made three propaganda recordings for Chinese Communists after being warned he would be disposed of. He refused to appear in a propaganda film, was placed in solitary and given a year of hard labor. He joined a POW camp peace committee but refused to film an air raid aftermath. He said fellow prisoners elected him due to his anti communist stance.
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Bonn
Germany
Konrad Adenauer
West Germany
Eden
Winston Churchill
Adenauer
Franz Bluecher
San Francisco
Cpl
Thomas Bayes Jr
Reds
Flat Lick
Korea
Bayes
Post Office Officials Defend Johnston Criticism
Detroit officials from the Post Office press case defend Senator Johnston against claims of illegal postmaster removals. Postmaster General Summerfield calls the charges irresponsible while Norman Abrams cites a small share of firings for embezzlement and urges a Justice Department inquiry for any alleged improprieties. Johnston vows Senate inquiry into Michigan cases as the committee gathers facts from Spartanburg.
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Post Office Department
Olin D. Johnston
D-S.c
Arthur E. Summerfield
Johnston
Norman R. Abrams
Bureau of Operations
Abrams
National Association of Postmasters of the United States
Sen. Johnston
Postal Department
Department of Justice
Summerfield
Spartanburg
S. C
Senate Post Office and Civil Service Committee
Michigan
State Welfare Rolls Decrease Slightly
Oklahoma City's welfare rolls edged downward this month with the aid-to-dependent children group showing the largest decline. Total children on the rolls were 38,855, down 361. caretakers 11,718 and families 15,254, both lower. A-D-C payments fell to 1,162,420 dollars, down 10,345. aid to blind dropped slightly to 2,003 recipients with 148,205 dollars in payments. Aged recipients reached 94,596, up 1, payments totaling 5,804,770 dollars, down 9,793 overall. disabled payments rose to 6,025 recipients, with checks totaling 348,730 dollars, up 305.
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Oklahoma City
Lloyd F. Rader
Rader
Freight Collision In Texas Hurts Six
Six crewmen were injured when two Louisiana and Arkansas freight trains collided head on five miles east of Sulphur Springs Texas. Firemen fought flames for hours as wrecker crews from Greenville and Shreveport arrived. Injured were Greenville men engineer A G King fireman J C Mullins Jr brakeman B A Robinson engineer J C Long fireman E R Prather and brakeman J Woods.
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Tex
Louisiana & Arkansas
Texas City
Greenville
Shreveport
Kansas City Southern
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J. C. Mullins Jr
B. A. Robinson
J. C. Long
E. R. Prather
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Bald Eagle Rapidly Dying Says U S Expert
Hal Boyle reports from Lancaster that Benjamin Franklin favored the turkey as a symbol but the bald eagle became the emblem. Herbert Beck, Franklin and Marshall College, warns the bald eagle may be extinct by 2025 with the great seal living only in memory unless action is taken.
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Benjamin Franklin
Franklin
Ben
D. C
Beck
Charles Broley
Tampa
Fla
Tomorrow at the World’s Only Eagle Refuge
A rare eagle refuge reports no eagles present, leaving officials to reassess habitat conditions and conservation plans while awaiting future arrivals or reintroduction efforts.
Grantham Returns from China Visit to Communist China
Sir Alexander Grantham governor general of Hong Kong arrived back Wednesday after a purely social visit to Communist China. He had traveled to the country as part of a diplomatic goodwill tour and resumed official duties upon his return to the colony.
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Grantham
China
Hong Kong
Sir Alexander Grantham
British Steamroller Smuggler Is Caught
London witnesses for the customs service said John McKenna was fined 3150 pounds for smuggling steamrollers out of Britain. He allegedly sold old machines as working debris for road work in Belgium, with the export ban on scrap metal in force. A Ghent junkyard sighting by British tourists led to exposure.
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London
John McKenna
Britain
Customs Service
McKenna
Belgium
Ghent
Dean Death Ruled Accident in Auto Crash
A coroner's jury in Paso Robles California has ruled that actor James Dean's death in an automobile crash was accidental.
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Paso Robles
Calif
James Dean
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