Political News Campaigns Accelerate Ahead of Primary
Campaigns tighten as the primary nears with Long Beach events at University by the Sea listing speakers O T Satre Rolland Truman Clyde Doyle Pat Brown Craig Hosmer Helen G Douglas and others. Women split over Helen Gahagan Douglas opinions while a Democrats for Nixon group forms in Long Beach with Havelock Fraser and Howard Patrick leading.
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Congress
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Pat Brown
Craig Hos ‘Mer
Helen G. Douglas
U. S. Senate
Douglas
Helen Gahagan Douglas
U. S
Soviet
Russia
Women For Douglas
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Paxton Lytie
Women's Committee For Good Government
Cal
Vito Marcantonio
New
York City
United States
House
UN American Activities Committee
Greece
Turkey
Eleanor Wilson McAdoo
Wilson
Nixon
Richard Nixon
U.S. Senate
Havelock Fraser
Howard Patrick
Fraser
Texas
Rep
Doyle
Tidelands
Truman
Nixon Attacks Rivals on Brannan Plan in California
Sacramento May 13 Congressman Richard Nixon denounces the Brannan farm aid plan in a sharp statement aimed at two main opponents. He argues the plan raises grocery costs, imposes taxes on all, and gives heavy government control with enforcement. Nixon offers a six point alternative focusing on parity price flexibility, surplus distribution, trade, conservation, and California water resources.
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Sacramento
Richard Nixon
Brannan
Nixon
California
Chick Industry Faces Disaster in Zee land Area
Zeelan d Mich May 13 The railroad strike disrupts baby chick and poult hatchings in the Holland Zeeland region. Producers cannot deliver chicks fast enough and hatching eggs in process cannot be halted, risking three weeks or more of production. Jacob Geerlings of Zeeland Holland Hatchery Association warns of a very bad outlook and potential higher egg and poultry prices next fall.
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Zeeland
Mich
Holland-Zeeland
Jacob Geerlings
Zeeland-Holland Hatchery Association
Dr Rutledge Freed on Bond in Slaying Case
Dr. Robert C. Rutledge Jr. the 29 year old St. Louis pediatrician, freed on a 40000 bond from Iowa State Penitentiary pending appeal of his 70 year murder conviction for killing Byron Hartman. His wife Sydney accompanied him in Fort Madison as the couple awaited the appeal date.
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Fort Madison
Iowa
Robert C. Rutledge Jr
Iowa State
Lon
St. Louis
State Supreme Court
Rutledge
State Penitentiary
Byron C. Hartman
Dr. Rutledge
Cedar Rapids
Rail Strike Parley Reaches No Accord
The strike involves 18,000 firemen on Pennsylvania New York Central Santa Fe and Southern lines with 4000 to 5000 workers in the Omaha area facing layoffs as Union Pacific assists Santa Fe trains. UP disputes claims of running Santa Fe trains on its tracks and plans consolidation of routes, with limited impact expected in Omaha.
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Brotherhood of Locomotive Firemen
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Santa Fe
U. P
Walton
Lynch
Omaha J
Los Angeels
Chicago
Salt Lake
Points East
Southern Pacific
Los Angeles Union
Pennsylvania
New York Central
Southern Rail
Western Pennsylvania
Conductors Leader H. W. Fraser Dies at 65 in Chicago
H W Fraser longtime president of the Order of Railway Conductors of America since 1941 died at Illinois Masonic Hospital after a heart attack. He chaired the Railway Labor Executives Association and served as a delegate adviser to IL0 conventions in 1947 and 1948 under presidents Roosevelt and Truman. He also sat on the National War Manpower Commission during 1943 to 1945 and held roles with the National Planning Association.
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H.W. Fraser
Order of
Railway Conductors of America
Illinois Masonic Hospital
Fraser
Railway Labor Executives Association of
Washington, D. C
Roosevelt
International Labor Organization
Philadelphia
ILQ
Geneva
Switzerland
San Francisco
Truman
National War Manpower Commission
Board of
National Planning Association
Argentina Loan Believed Assured In Washington Visit
Ramon Cereijo, Argentina's treasury minister, returned from Washington where he sought U S financial aid. It is believed he negotiated a loan of at least 100 million dollars with the Export-Import Bank to pay Argentine importer debts to U S banks and resume American goods imports halted by a dollar shortage.
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Buenos Aihes
Ramon Cereijo
the Treasury
Washington
United States
Argentina
Winnipeg Flood Rises as Squalls Loose Deluge
Flood waters driven by heavy rainfall cresting in Manitoba sweeping across Greater Winnipeg and surrounding farms. The Red River rose to 12 feet, inundating 540 square miles of farmland and forcing mass evacuations while CKRC transmitter site fell to floodwaters. Workers ferried radio gear by boat as desolation spread among farmers who lost barns and livestock.
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Winnipeg
North Dakota
Minnesota
Manitoba
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M. S.evens
Red River
Emerson
Man
Canada
CKRC
St. Vital
Bert Hooper
Hooper
Freak Weather Kills Two Men in Texas Louisiana
Severe storms across Texas and Louisiana bring tornadoes hail and winds. A Gulf of Mexico seaman drowned near Texas coast and a Louisiana man was killed by lightning. Abilene saw a late twister while farms near Alexandria suffered a tornado. Damage reported in Alto Lufkin Waco Sweetwater and Lubbock Texas with downed lines and ruined crops.
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Galveston
Texas
Louisiana
Gulf of Mexico
Abilene
Alexandria
Alto and
Lufkin
Du Pont Chief Given Divorce
Emile F du Pont a 51 year old board member of E I du Pont de Nemours Co. was granted a divorce from Mrs. Sarah Townsend du Pont in Reno on May 13. He cited extreme mental cruelty as grounds after 25 years of marriage. He moved to Nevada in April to settle residence rights and support for their three children.
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Reno
Emile F du Pont
E. I. du Pont de Nemours Co
Delaware
Sarah Townsend du Port
Chemical Company
William McKnight
du Pont
Nevada
Sheriff halts race news relay by cutting wires
EL PASO Texas May 18 a sheriff ordered a pole climb cut Western Union wires interrupting Continental Press relay of racing views to the West Coast Mexico and Las Vegas and Reno The action aimed to curb betting and gambling and could be repeated if wires are restored, says Sheriff Joe Campbell. County Attorney Er nest Guinn said the act did not violate laws.
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Texas
New Mexico
Western Union
Joe Campbell
West Coast
Mexico
Ernest Guinn
Campbell
Continental Press Service
Las Vegas
Reno
New
Federal Communications Commission
Silver State
Anapra
Here
Monaco Cracks Down on Communist Party in Monaco
In Monaco on May 18 police raided the Communist party center after a government order, sealing the building and removing party literature. The action underscores the principality’s crackdown on the party along the French Riviera.
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Monte Carlo
Principality of
Monaco
Ion
French Riviera
Communist Party
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