Three-hour Parade Marks Lions International Convention
New York hosts the Lions International 31st annual convention with 15 000 marchers on Fifth Avenue and 300 000 spectators. Delegates from 50 states and 23 foreign countries hear Lt Gen George Stratemeyer speak on Our United States Air Force at Madison Square Garden.
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Fifth Ave
Lions International
George E. Stratemeyer
United States Air Force
Madison Square Garden
Former British Ships Due at Hong Kong
Former British cruisers Aurora and Mendip, handed to the Chinese government, are due in Hong Kong tomorrow. They will be renamed Chunking and Lingfu, undergo minor repairs, and sail on August 4.
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Hong Kong
Aurora
Chunking
Lingfu
Solon to Back Session Notices
Washington July 27 Rep Jack Z Anderson wants a law requiring special notice to Congress when a special session is called He would require the President to inform all 435 House members and 96 Senators and place leaders to ensure notice The current system relies on a proclamation in the Federal Register and many members missed the opening roll call yesterday but were aware of the session
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Washington
Jack Z. Anderson
R.-Calif
Congress
Anderson
House
White House
Federal Register
Railroads Accused in Segregation Suit Los Angeles July 27
An antisegregation suit for 180000 damages was filed against Southern Pacific and Texas and Pacific railroads. Nine California Negroes claim willful misconduct for forcing them to leave reserved chair car seats for another coach at El Paso. They seek 10000 actual damages and 10000 punitive damages each for loss of comfort humiliation and discontent.
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Los Angeles
California
Southern Pacific
Texas and Pacific
el Paso
Dallas
Youth for Wallace Plan March on Washington
In Philadelphia the Young Progressives of America approve a resolution for a March on Washington as a prelude to a mass pressure move on Congress by the Progressive party. Rep. Leo Isacson urges joint action against adjournment of the special session before reforms are enacted. The group adjourned without a platform, using Convention Hall for free only until 5 pm.
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Young Progressives of America
Washington
Congress
Progressive Party
Leo Isacson
A.S.P
N. Y
Youth
Wallace
The
New Yorker
Puerto Rico
National Committee
Chinese Reds Are Pushed Back
Government troops report driving Communists farther from Taiyuan the Shansi capital. Reds five miles south of Taiyuan were pressed back three miles and forced to yield ground west of the Fen River. Thirteen spies reported executed at Shansi city as Taiyuan nears collapse.
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Peiping
Taiyuan
Shansi
Fen River
Fen
Espionage Charges Against Britons in Jerusalem Spy Case
Five Britons arrested in a Jerusalem spy hunt face general charges of espionage and security violation filed by an Israeli police prosecutor. Magistrate Eliezer Malchi ordered 15 days detention with release possible August 10 if more specific charges are not filed.
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Tel Aviv
Israel
Jerusalem
Eliezer Malchi
Army to temporarily halt universal military training unit
At Fort Knox Kentucky the UMT unit is discontinued for now to free facilities and personnel for inductee training under the new draft law. The program will resume about November 1 and to date trained about 650 men per six month cycle across three cycles since January 1947.
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Knox
Army
Omar Bradley
Jacob L. Devers
Harold Bull
Army Chaplains
Bryant Moore
Leonard T. Gerow
Second Army
San Diego Transport Firms Sold to San Francisco Interests
The San Diego electric railway and the San Diego Coronado ferry companies were sold to San Francisco San Diego interests led by J. L. Haugh of Oakland. Haugh, a transportation executive, becomes CEO for both firms and previously led the Key System Transit Lines in San Francisco from 1946 to 1947.
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San Francisco
San Diego Electric Railway
San Diego-Coronado
Third Armored Train Division Procedures Studied
The Third Armored Train Division here has put its procedures into use and will be studied by the conferees as part of ongoing evaluations.
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Third Armored
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