GOP outlines 1952 strategy to attack New Deal
The Republican board of strategy plans midwest campaign offices to win beyond the Mississippi. Hoover and MacArthur, major platform speakers, provided the opening on party techniques. The plan targets present social and economic reforms from 1932 to 1952, aiming at the Democrats weakest points while acknowledging Roosevelt era gains.
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Chicago
Republican Board of Strategy
Midwest
Mississippi River
Hoover
Douglas MacArthur
Mr. Hoover
General MacArthur
New York
GOP
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Skyrocket plane flies beyond sound speed at 1300 mph
Moffett Field California AP report confirms the Skyrocket research airplane reached speeds over 1,300 miles per hour during record flights over the Mojave Desert near Edwards Air Force Base last August. Officials note the craft uses a turbo jet and rocket engine and features 79,000 foot altitude potential.
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Vern Haugland
Douglas
Bill Bridgeman
Mojave Desert
Edwards Air Force Base
Calif
Edwards
National Advisory Committee For Aeronautics
NACA
Aeronautical Laboratory
Pegasus
Florida Klan Leader Forms Armed Wing to Protect Rights
Florida Ku Klux Klan figure Bill Hendrix announced the creation of The American Confederate Army at an Orlando meeting. The group aims to unite anti Communist groups and restrict membership to white Christians, while promising action if the Supreme Court bans segregation. Hendrix warned supporters to hold hate groups accountable for any disorder.
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Tallahassee
Fla
Ku Klux Klan
Supreme Court
Bill Hendrix
Southern Knights of the
Orlando
U. S. Supreme Court
Hendrix
Florida
Southern Knights of the Klan
Pub. and Org
American Confederate Army
Anti-Defamation League
National Association For the Advancement of Colored People
News Star World Want Ads Offer Low Rent House Options
Daily calls report NEWS STAR WORLD WANT ADS fill vacant rentals at low cost. Listings include a furnished two room cottage for adults only at 609 Grommont, a first day two room furnished apartment for couples at 1404 N Seventh with garage and yard amenities, and a small room cot available in Orange. Contact numbers provided with stated hours and multiple locations.
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News-Star— World
Airman Held In Woman's Murder
In Washington a nude intruder incident led to the strangulation of 39 year old Codie A. Whitman. Police charged Airman 3c Harry Clifford Porter, 24, of Casper Wyoming, attached to the 1025th Air Force Squadron, with her death. Whitman had come to Washington from Cumberland Maryland six years ago.
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Washington
Pentagon
Codie A. Whitman
Cumberland
Harry Clifford Porter
1025Th Air Force
Casper
Wyo
Delegates Set for Democratic National Convention
Washington reports 1574 delegates expected to cast 1230 votes at the Democratic National Convention with 90 additional potential spectators. Six states exceeded their delegate allotment by 90, to be reviewed by the Credentials Committee amid contest cases between Texas and Mississippi and possible gallery attendance.
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Chicago
Washington
Texas
Mississippi
Democrats eye wide open race for presidential nomination
At a New York news conference Senator Richard B. Russell said several men hold lightning rods for the Democratic nomination as the party weighs a crowded field. Russell cited at least half a dozen declared candidates and more hopefuls eyeing the convention open in the fall.
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Associated Press
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Sen
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Russell
New York
Helicopters Begin Atlantic Flight Test From Westover Air Force Base
Two large MATS helicopters named Hop-A-Long and the Whirl-O-Way launched from Westover Mass for a test flight toward Europe. Maj Igor Sikorsky and other veterans watched as the craft with gasoline loads attempted a ground-taxi takeoff en route to Weisbaden Germany. The route includes six refueling stops from Presque Isle to Manston England, Iceland, Greenland, and Scotland.
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Westover Air Force Base
Mass
Europe
Atlantic
Military Transport Service
MATS
Igor Sikorsky
New England
Arctic Circle
Weisbaden
Germany
Presque Isle
Goose Bay
Labrador
Narsarssuak
Greenland
Keflavik
Iceland
Preswick
Scotland
Manston
England
Air Force
Vincent McGovern
General Collins vows tougher bombing of North Korea
Tokyo reported General J Lawton Collins says U N warplanes have already targeted North Korean power plants and military sites. He warns of further strikes and atomic artillery on the battlefield if the war prolongs. Collins says new weapons would be used only if Reds threaten U N forces and that the Eighth Army could be pushed out only with outside power support.
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Tokyo
J. Lawton Collins
U.S. Army
U.N
Korea
Collins
Yalu River
U.S. Eighth Army
North Korea
Hoover Trial Postponed Indefinitely in Bristol Murder Case
New Orleans The re trial of Louis Eugene Hoover 26 year old Louisville man convicted of the 1949 Bristol Virginia slaying of James A Mahoney has been postponed indefinitely due to the absence of Dr Hubert Smith co counsel. The state Supreme Court granted a new trial after ruling statements by an assistant district attorney infringed on Hoover's rights.
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New Orleans
Louis Eugene Hoover
Hoover
Louisville
James A. Mahoney
Bristol
State Supreme Court
Sam Monk Zelden
Hubert Smith
Tulane University
Smith
United States
Zelden
Fred Oser
New Manager Takes Over At Hotel Frances
Shelby Meek assumes management of Hotel Frances Monroe after E C Gibson transfers duties after more than ten years. Gibson plans retirement and will live with Mrs Gibson on For sythe avenue by August 1. Meek previously ran the Lotus Club in the Quachita Bank Building and is a prominent local figure. Hotel Frances is owned by a stock company with C H McHenry as a major stockholder currently abroad on a European summer tour.
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American Legion Department
Legion
R. D. Farr
L. B. Faulk Post
Duvalle Decorating Company
New Orleans
Monroe
Duvalle Decorating
R. O. Long
Hotel Frances
E. C. Gibson
Shelby Meek
Gibson
Forsythe Avenue
Mrs. Gibson
Mr. Meek
Lotus Club
Quachita Bank
C. H. McHenry
Mr. McHenry
Europe
British Isles
Continent
Amerika Will Also Be Suspended In Russia
The State Department ordered the Russian Embassy to stop publishing and distributing pamphlets in the United States and suspended the Russian language magazine Amerika. The action follows Soviet obstruction of Amerika in the USSR, ending the last wedge into the Iron Curtain. The magazine was popular in Russia, selling out quickly where allowed, with second-hand copies trading at high prices.
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Amerika
Russia
Washington
State Department
United States
U. S
Soviet Union
Iron Curtain
United States Queen of the Seas Returns to New York
The superliner United States arrives in New York after a record setting Atlantic crossing. Fireboats spray arches of water as planes roar overhead and crowds greet the ship at the Hudson River pier. The vessel completed the 3,000 mile east west run in 3 days 12 hours 12 minutes.
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New York
United States
Atlantic
Hudson River
Big
46Th Street Pier
Statue of Liberty
Battery
Manhattan
Red Dean Irks MPS In Britain
Prime Minister Churchill defended the Red Dean of Canterbury before the House of Commons saying free speech permits even venomous statements. He rejected calls for a tribunal to probe Dr Hewlett Johnson 78 a noted Dean with Communist sympathies who stirs controversy in Britain.
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London
Churchill
House of Commons
Canterbury
Hewlett Johnson
Dean
Britain
Jurors Probe Two Killings in Ouachita Parish
The Ouachita parish Grand Jury convened in special session to investigate the killings of Dudley McMillian and Mrs. Katie Leola Shea. McMillian was shot by his wife during a July 7 domestic dispute. she says she acted to protect a son. Shea was stabbed to death last Thursday night. her husband says he blacked out and cannot recall the stabbing.
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Ouachita Parish
Dudley McMillian
Katie Leola Shea
Fourth District Court
David I. Garrett
Jesse Heard
MecMillian
Zael McMillian
McMillian
Hot Weather Returns to Monroe Area
Officials report a high of 97 on Monday with heat persisting overnight. At 8 28 a m the Selmanfield weather recorder logged 84 degrees as a warm day continued. Monday night dropped to 73 with hotter days seen elsewhere reaching 107 to 116. Monroe has not hit 100 officially yet.
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Monroe
Civil Aeronautics Administration
Selmanfield
State Department probes 23 China Lobby cables
Justice Department investigates 23 cablegrams on efforts by Chinese Nationalist diplomats to influence U S Far Eastern policy. The cables allegedly named Chen Chi mai and Brig Gen Peter T K Pee and linked contacts with Sen Robert A Taft and others.
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State Department
China
Washington
United States
Justice Department
Sen. Morse
R-Ore
Chiang Kai-shek
Chen Chi-mai
Peter T. K. Pee
Chiang
Formosa
P. T. Mow
Morse
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Dean Acheson
Acheson
Chen
Pee
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