Senate seniority unlocks better offices on Capitol Hill
Longtime senators bid for enhanced quarters as vacancies open after the November elections. The process, headed by Senate Rules Committee Chair Hayden, ranks offices by seniority from three to four rooms with features like two lavatories and western exposure. Notables include McKellar and McMahon with prime sites, while Connally and others await new openings.
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Dillon Graham
Washington
Capitol Hill
Sen. McMahon
Dconn
Sen. McKellar
D Tenn
Sen. Connally
Dtex
Capitol
Senate Rules Committee
Hayden
Ariz
McKellar
Sen
George
D-Ga
McMahon
Senate
Capitol Building
Atomic Energy Committee
Episcopalians Open Meeting In Boston
The 57th triennial General Convention of the Protestant Episcopal Church opened in Boston with a sermon by Presiding Bishop Henry Knox Sherrill. He warned that in troubled times no church can stand alone and urged Episcopalians to join a wider Christian fellowship. The opening service drew about 14,000 church leaders and lay members from 244 million Episcopalians.
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Boston
Protestant Episcopal Church
United States
Henry Knox Sherrill
Boston Garden
Sherrill
Fellowship
The
Christian Church
Soviet Astronomer Links Flying Saucers to War Psychosis
Prof Boris Kukarkin, a Soviet delegate at the World Astronomical Congress, says flying saucers are an optical illusion born from war psychosis. He tells L Unita that the phenomenon is encouraged by war advocates and notes no saucers have been seen over Russia.
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Rome
Boris Kukarkin
L'Unita
Kukarkin
Russia
Candidates Support Need For Tolerance
NEW YORK The National Conference of Christians and Jews says Gen. Dwight D. Eisenhower and Gov. Adlai E. Stevenson agree on the need for understanding and cooperation among all racial and religious groups. Both stress unity and the destruction of myths fear and prejudice to avoid national disunity.
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New York
National Conference of Christians and Jew
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
Eisenhower
Stevenson
Niagara and Yosemite Falls Heights Compared
Niagara Falls rises 167 feet while Upper Yosemite Falls in California reaches about 1430 feet, illustrating a vast height difference between the two famed cascades.
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Niagara Falls
Yosemite Falls
California
Miss America Neva Langley Heads 1953 Tour
Neva Jane Langley 19 wins Miss America 1953 and begins a high speed personal appearance tour today. She stands 5 feet 6% inches, weighs 118 pounds with measurements 35 23 35 and earns a $5000 scholarship prize. Her first official appearance is at Reading State Fair. In Irvington Eve lyn Joyce Schenk is crowned Mrs America 1953 and fainted after the ceremony at Asbury Park.
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Atlantic City
N. J.P
Neva Jane Langley
Neva
Reading
Irvington
Here
Evelyn Joyce Schenk
Newark
Asbury Park
GOP Leaders To Confer With Taft
Senator Robert A. Taft of Ohio returns from Canada and plans talks with GOP leaders about his role in the presidential campaign. He will meet National Chairman Arthur Summerfield and Senator Frank Carlson to discuss the Eisenhower Nixon ticket and his future plans.
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Washington
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Canada
Taft
Senate
Republican Policy Committee
Quebec
GOP
Arthur Summerfield
Frank Carlson
Kansas
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Summerfield
Ohioan
Pravda Uncovers New Red Clislers
Pravda reports four local party officials ousted for illegal acts tied to collective farms in Kaskelen Kazakh SSR Central Asia. One accused is Comrade Kuamshaliev, secretary of the local party organization.
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Moscow
Pravda
Communist Party
Kaskelen
Kazakh S. S. R
Central Asia
Kuamshaliev
Freak Rabbits Aid Anti Disease Research
At a Cornell led AIBS meeting scientists described mutant New Zealand white rabbits from California that wobble like dachshunds due to shortened limbs and deformed joints. The recessive mutation alters cartilage growth and skull shape, aiding study of epilepsy ataxia and pituitary deficiencies.
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Frank Carey
Ithaca, N. Y
American Institute of Biological Sciences
AIBS
Cornell University
P. B. Lawin
D. D. Crary
Jenkson Memorial Laboratory
Bar Harbor, Mo
Bar Harbor Laboratory
New Zealand
California
Nixon campaigns in Democratic stronghold ward 1 Boston
Senator Nixon toured Boston Ward 1 addressing Italo American Voters League and attacking Adlai Stevenson Truman and Acheson. He warned that electing Stevenson would bring four more years of the Truman Acheson policy and claimed Eisenhower rejects appeasement.
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Boston
Richard M. Nixon
Nixon
Adlai Stevenson
Truman
Acheson
Airman Completes Basic Training and Starts Jet Mechanic School
Airman third class Everett Vanlanding ham completed basic training at Lackland AFB Texas and is transferred to Amarillo Texas for 16 weeks of jet mechanic schooling. He is a Carlisle High School 1952 graduate and enlisted June 24. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Clifford Vanlandingham Germantown Route 1. Solomon C Gray, pipe fitter third class, son of Mr and Mrs W H Gray of 1103 Grove St, arrived at San Diego aboard USS Cabildo. The Cabildo, a Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force unit, completed its first Korean duty tour under Task Force 90 and served as flagship for mine sweeping boats in North Korean waters. It was twice fired on by shore batteries near Wonsan and sustained a direct hit amidships in April, repaired without leaving the area.
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Everett Vanlandingham
Lackland Afb
San Antonio
Tex
Amarillo
Carlisle High School
Vanlandingham
Air Force
Clifford Vanlandingham
Germantown
Solomon C. Gray
W. H. Gray
Grove St
San Diego
Cabildo
Pacific Fleet Amphibious Force
Far Eastern
Wonsan
Strike ends at Homer Laughlin China Co plants
An 18 day strike by 46 kilnmen that halted 2,500 workers at Homer Laughlin China Co plants in Newell West Virginia and East Liverpool Ohio concluded. The workers, protesting an apprentice assignment, agreed to resume talks with James M. Duffy head of the AFL National Brotherhood of Operative Potters.
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East Liverpool
Homer Laughlin China Co
Newell
W. Va
James M. Duffy
AFL
Borhood of
Porgy And Bess Wins Praise In Vienna Debut
The American folk opera Porgy and Bess drew cheers in Vienna last night. President Theodor Koerner and Chancellor Leopold Figl were among the audience watching the all Negro cast perform Gershwin’s opera.
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Vienna
Austria
Porgy and Bess
Theodor Koerner
Leopold Figl
George Gershwin
Hodgers Hammerstein Lead Lawrence Mourners
New York obsequies will feature Oscar Hammerstein II delivering the eulogy and Richard Rodgers playing the organ for Gertrude Lawrence. The pair, creators of The King and I, led mourners at her funeral after her sudden death Saturday while starring in the musical.
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New York
Gertrude Lawrence
Oscar Hammerstein II
Richard Rodgers
Rodgers and Hammerstein
Miss Lawrence
Ford Foundation Awards $5 Million for School TV Study
The Ford Foundation announced a five million dollar grant to its adult education fund in Pasadena to study how television can aid education. The funds will support research on school fundraising for video stations and on producing quality TV programs for schools, said Paul H. Helms.
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Ford Foundation
Pasadena
Calif
Paul H. Helms
Adult Education Fund
Fire destroys Storm Master Corp plant in Youngstown
The Storm Master Corp factory and office building producing storm windows burned Sunday in Youngstown. The fire cause is unknown and the loss is estimated at $500,000. Local fire crews battled the blaze, with extensive damage to the plant and surrounding facilities.
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Youngstown, O
Storm Master Corp
Reds Uncover Superior Liar In Own Ranks
Moscow reports Komsomol Pravda says Rostov resident Revold Krylov used multiple deceptions to dodge the draft, marry three times without divorces, claim fake credentials, secure jobs as a critic and clock factory expert, and lead a pioneers group before being found out by Komsomol investigators.
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Moscow
Komsomo
Pravda
Rostov
Revold Krylov
Novorossisk Polytechnical Institute
Komsomol Pravda
Komsomol
Young Communist League
India's Commies Move Headquarters to New Delhi
India's Communist party shifts its headquarters to New Delhi after being ousted from Mumbai and blocked in Madras. The party has 10 MPs in the national Parliament.
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New Delhi
India
Communist Party
Bombay
Madras
Red
Log Cabins Helpels Beat Back Red Attacks
U S Second Division engineers in Korea build prefabricated log bunkers to withstand Chinese assaults near Old Baldy. They operate a logging camp 15 miles from the front, producing about eight bunkers daily and aiming for 900 total. Captain Morris Diamond praises the design as solid and weatherproof, noting a direct hit can still occur.
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Helpels
Korea
Doughboys
U. S
Morris Diamond
Savannah
German Bishops Condemn Communist Religious Pressure
In Fulda Germany Catholic bishops denounced Soviet zone pressure on religious freedom in East Germany comparing it with Nazi policies. The strong wartime indictment did not name the Soviet zone but conveyed the bishops’ clear stance against communist interference.
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Fulda
Germany
East Germany
Nazi Reich
Soviet Zone
Actress's Son Drowns in Family Pond at Home
Willard S. Doliver reports the drowning of Beatrice Whitney Straight’s son in a pond at the family residence in Bedford Village New York yesterday.
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Bedford Village
N. Y
Willard S. Doliver
Beatrice Whitney Straight
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