Tennessee GOP Feud Over Final Delegates At Convention
In Nashville April 1 the Tennessee GOP weighs whether 20 delegates go to the national convention or 19. A Shelby County split pits old guard Taft backers against a Taft Eisenhower faction. The winner enters the state convention with 13 Taft delegates already approved. four at large are to be named, Eisenhower supporters concede none. The 20th delegate will be decided May 2 in the eighth district, where Taft is favored.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Eisenhower
Shelby
Eighth Congressional District
Taft
GOP
Guy L. Smith
Knoxville
John Pritchett
Tennessee Committee
Herbert Hoover
April Fool atomic spy scare shocks London youths
London April 1 a supposed A bomb research center scare proved an April Fool joke. Teenagers Harry Sibley and Neville Thompson surrendered documents marked Harwell and Burn After Reading. Police and Scotland Yard sought experts to verify the materials, while reporters traced the boys to a youth club and Victor Meh ta connected to the hoax.
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London
VFI
Harry Sibley
Neville Thompson
Highgate
Harwell Atomic Research Establishment
Scotland Yard
Supply Ministry
Atomic Establishment
Harwell
Young Sibley
Victor Mehta
Victor
Indonesia Names Wilopo As New Premier After Cabinet Crisis
President Soekarno announced Dr Wilopo leader of the Nationalist party as the new premier ending a one month crisis. The cabinet of 18 ministers was approved after foreign minister Soebjardjo accepted U S aid under the Mutual Security Administration.
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Jakarta
Indonesia
Wilopo
Soekarno
Achmad Soebjardjo
U. S
Mutual Security Administration
Churchill hints at American to lead NATO after Eisenhower
London April 1 Prime Minister Churchill told the House of Commons he could accept an American successor when Eisenhower leaves as supreme commander of NATO forces in Western Europe. He said he had no warning of when Eisenhower might campaign for the Republican nomination, and denied receiving government representations about a replacement. Gruenther, NATO deputy commander, is mentioned as a likely candidate, while Churchill warned against telegraphing plans.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Eisenhower
Europe
United States
House
Emanuel Shinwell
Shinwell
U. S
Gen.Gruenther
Alfred M. Gruenther
NATO
Scientists Grow Human Cancers On Sponges
Dr Joseph Leighton of the National Cancer Institute develops a method to grow living cancer fragments on fine mesh cellulose sponge skeletons. Fragments stick to the sponge with plasma and growth factors, enabling direct observation of drug or X-ray effects and the spread into healthy tissue.
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Washington
Joseph Leighton
National Cancer Institute
Leighton
American Cancer Society
Easter Broadcast From Vatican City For Japan
A Vatican City Easter program intended for the Japanese radio network NNR includes a message by the Pope to the people of Japan. The broadcast, requested by Japanese radio, will feature an Easter significance commentary and religious hymns.
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Vatican City
Japan
Japanese Radio
NNR
Elevator Outdoors Skyscraper Window Wash
New York April 1 designers of Lever Brothers glass and stainless steel Park Ave build an outdoor elevator that moves horizontally and vertically to wash a 24 story air conditioned building. Two men operate it from a suspended car and can clean the entire exterior in six days, faster than window climbers.
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New York
Lever Brothers
Park Ave
Hori
Perils in Arctic rescue of nine men near North Pole
Barrow Alaska April 1 The Navy recounts two near disasters during a four day marooning of nine scientists and crew on Arctic ice from an R-4D flying lab and a Neptune rescue plane. All survived with no injuries and the operation was completed as a successful rescue.
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Barrow
Alaska
Navy
North Pole
Comdr. V. 5
Coley
Oakland
Calif
E. M. Ward
Philadelphia
Ward
Attlee Sees Faith of Free Nations Prevailing
Attlee, former British prime minister, tells Philadelphia audience that free nations can beat Russian communism if war is avoided. He argues the Iron Curtain is not impermeable and that ideas cannot be contained. Brig. Gen. Romulo adds Asia Africa ferment drives the global power struggle.
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Philadelphia
Clement R. Attlee
Britain
Labor Party
Philadelphia Fellowship Commission
Russia
Free Countries
Attlee
Free World
Fellowship Commission
Carlos P. Romulo
U. S
United Nations
Asia
Africa
Melting Snow Kills Baby In English Street Incident
In E Frmnu England, April 1, a 40 month old boy named Jack Watling died after melting snow slid from a house roof and covered his buggy. The mother found him suffocated beneath the snow pile in the courtyarded area outside their home.
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England
Jack Watling
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F.T.D. Florists
Florists’ Telegraph Delivery Association
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House of Flowers
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Long Beach Boulevard
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