Butler Confident South In The Bag For Dems In 1956
Democratic National Chairman Paul M. Butler returns from a southern trip confident the party will win the Solid South in the 1956 election. He predicts Texas Tennessee Florida and Virginia will go for the Democrats and favors an open convention. He notes a proposed rule to drop loyalty oath talk and comments on Republican prospects led by Harold Stassen and ADA head Joseph Rauh Jr urging retreat from Nixon.
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Washington
Paul M. Butler
Butler
Texas
Tennessee
Florida
Virginia
Eisenhower
Hale Boggs
D-La
Ann Carrick
New Orleans
White House
Adlai E. Stevenson
Averell Harriman
New York
Sen
Estes Kefauver
D-Tenn
Harold E. Stassen
GOP
Joseph L. Rauh Jr
Americans For Democratic Action
Richard Nixon
Nixon
Rauh
Southern Governors Plot Strategy For 1956 Conference
POINT CLEAR Alabama UP Southern governors at the 21st regional conference begin three days of talks on highway construction and regional problems while keeping a political pot brewing. The consensus rejects 1952 switch to Republicans as a third party option, with only Gov. George Bell Timmerman of South Carolina leaning third party.
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Point Clear
Ala
Dixie
George Bell Timmerman
South Carolina
Russian Antarctic ship nearly finished for 1000 scientists
London dispatch reports Radio Moscow saying Russia nearly completed an Antarctic exploration ship described as huge and five stories tall. The vessel, docked in Riga, is expected to carry about 1,000 scientists to the Knox coast to establish a Soviet base camp.
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London
Radio
Moscow
Russia
Riga
Baltic
Knox
Antarctica
Westinghouse Employees Strike at 28 Plants Worldwide
About 44 000 CIO Westinghouse Electric Corp employees walked out after failed wage time study and contract talks. IUE president James B Carey charged bad faith bargaining while the company denied the claim as a repeat mass walkout following a prior sympathy strike. The company warned of severe wage losses totaling millions weekly.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
Westinghouse Electric Corp
International Union of Electrical Workers
International Union
James B. Carey
Westinghouse
Carey
East Pittsburgh
World population estimated at 2.62 billion last July 1
Rand McNally and Co. reported the world population at 2.62 billion as of July 1, stating the figure in a brief incidental intelligence note.
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Chicago
Rand McNally and Co
Air Force to Lose Strength Amid New Look Plan
The Air Force will reduce its manpower next year as part of a four year effort to steady training loads rather than due to recruitment issues. Civilians will be hired under Operation Home Front to compensate, with authorized strength set at 975000 and wings objective at 137 awaiting mid-1959 attainment.
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Washington
Air Force
Reuther presses 30 hour week and welfare plan
CIO president Walter Reuther urged a eight point program to meet the second industrial revolution. He proposed a 30 hour week with cushions for automation, a quicker rise in consumer buying power, earlier retirement, and stronger social welfare services.
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Reuther
Washington
CIO
Walter Reuther
First aerial policewoman in the United States
Cora Sterling became the first aerial policewoman in the United States when she was commissioned in Seattle Washington in 1934 marking a milestone in law enforcement aviation.
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United States
Cora Sterling
Seattle
Wash
Otto Loel Faces Sanity Hearing
Otto A Loel a 44 year old man faces a sanity hearing to determine mental responsibility for the January 10 1954 killing of Mrs Elizabeth Henderson a Compton California housewife. State psychiatrists call him sane though an odd ball. Defence argues insanity noting his FBI notoriety and lengthy self made life story.
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Oklahoma City
Otto A. Loel
Californiia
Loel
FBI
Sanford
Fla
Elizabeth Jenne Henderson
Compton
Calif
Junket
China
Navy
Oregon
Cause Of Oil Well Blast Still Unsolved
In Wilson Oklahoma a blast at the Sullivan Well Servicing Co site killed three men and injured six others. The cause remains unknown with interviewee Duke Anderson calling it purely a guess. One hundred quarts of nitrogly cerin exploded four miles southeast of town Saturday night. The dead were Russell G Sullivan and two Sullivan firm employees, all from Oklahoma City. The six injured were rushed to Ardmore hospitals and expected to recover.
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Wilson
Okla
Duke Anderson
Sullivan Well Servicing Co
Here
Oklahoma City
Russell G. Sullivan
Ardmore
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ADA
U.S. Weather Bureau
Weather Bureau
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Central Plains
Southern Dem
Philco
D Ave
IUE
Roach
C Ave
Pittsburgh Paints
Oscar Cox
Pontiac
Westinghouse Laundromat
Oni T
McNeal
C Avenue
Otto Loel
Sanity
Eugene L. Bowman
THE
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M‘coys
Crosley
Downtown Appliance Company
Washer Service
D Avenue
Peller Insurance
Robert Shaw
International Harvester
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