Dies Sought Re election in Democratic Primary
Rep. Martin Dies of Lufkin announces re nomination in the Texas congressman at large race despite Sen. Price Daniel’s possible gubernatorial plan. The article covers possible Senate vacancy timing, payment implications, and the governor’s options for interim appointments amid Daniel’s potential departure.
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Tex Easley Washington
Martin Dies
Lufkin
Texas
Price Daniel
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House
Congress
Vernon McDaniel
Jack Brooks
Beaumont
McDaniel
Lamar Tech
Polished Pair Admit Passing Bad Checks On Six-State Spree
Joplin Missouri reports two well dressed men, Robert Henry Ford and Vernon L Homesley, admitted cashing about 80 bad checks in six states since February. They described minor profits and a meticulous plan to avoid federal law, using blank checks from local banks and dispersing after purchases. Detectives identified the suspects from grocer descriptions and arrested them after the Saturday admission.
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Hyattsville
Vernon L. Homesley
Silver Springs
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Birmingham
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Galveston
Tex
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Lake Charles
Shreveport
Little Rock
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Japanese Eye Bank Plans Discussed
In Tokyo a group of thirty Japanese scientists civic leaders and two members of Parliament formed Japan's first eye bank association to urge cornea donations for the blind. Pfc Joel Steinberger a chaplain's assistant from North Hollywood California spoke of the need after meeting Japanese officials and schoolchildren in Yokohama.
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U. S. Army
Japan
Eye Bank Association
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Joel Steinberger
North Hollywood
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Yokohama
Corea
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Texas Colleges Admit Negro Students Across State
Texas reports 17 of 45 tax supported colleges and 65 public school districts admitting Negro students to formerly all white institutions. Leon R. Graham of the Texas Education Agency announced the figures at the District 1 Texas State Teachers Association convention as about 5,000 teachers attended.
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South Senator Warns Against Violence Over Integration
Sen. Ellender of Louisiana urged calm in the South during the integration dispute saying violence would invite a Reconstruction era return and carpetbagger rule. He spoke in Washington on a manifesto against integration and warned against outside agitation and lawlessness. London schedules a September 1956 congress on high speed photography.
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Youth Sought Better Life in U S Ended in Chains Aboard Yugoslavia
A 19 year old Yugoslav boy Anton Baraka stowed away on the freighter Yugoslavia to seek a better life in the United States. He was found chained to his bunk two days at sea and told of routine aboard the ship. With no landing facilities at Westport the captain faces a fine if he escapes and Anton expects to be jailed when returned home.
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U.S
Anreay
Anton Baraka
Zara
Yugoslavia
United States
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Fone
Westport
Owens
Nine condemned killers stage a brief death row riot
In Cook County Jail Chicago nine condemned inmates started a small fire in the death row day room. Warden Jack Johnson extinguished it with a fire hose as flames burned a table benches and trash. Leader Vincent Ciucci 29 faced conviction for slaying his wife and three children with an appeal pending. The disturbance ended when the men returned to their cells. Fox Stripling pioneer real estate man and longtime Texas leader died at 83 in Big Spring Texas Friday.
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Cook County
Jack Johnson
Johnson
Vincent Ciucci
Iheir
Rites Slated For W. M. Caldwell Today
Funeral services for W. M. Caldwell age 65 of 2710 Second St. will be held at 2 30 p m today in Ellwood Texas. He died at his home in Lubbock Thursday night after a three year illness. Survivors include his wife Clio Caldwell of Ellwood two sons I M of 1706 Ave T and Bert D of Denver Colorado one daughter Mrs Ural Moore of Walters Oklahoma and a grandson
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Bert D
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Walters
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