Green And Luce Lead G O P Keynote At Philadelphia Convention
The 24th national convention opened with a noisy positive mood as Republicans debated the field for November. Senator Arthur Vandenberg and Minnesota’s Harold Stassen drew bets, while George Dewey supporters celebrated a Georgia credentials ruling. Dwight Green delivered the keynote and Clare Booth Luce spoke as the party began its work.
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Philadelphia
GOP
Arthur H. Vandenberg
Michigan
Aslegates
Taft-Stassen
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Taft
Stassen
McCormick
Thomas EF
New York
Dewer
Georgia
Dewey
Conves Credentials Committee
New Yorker
Dwight H. Green
Minis
Clare Booth Luce
Green
United States
Republicans and Democrats clash over platform and figures
A political exchange recounts Governor remarks and party leaders trading charges. Mrs. Luce criticizes secret treaties with Russia while Green attacks Roosevelt Truman pollical record. GOP platform drafting prompts Congress members to seek firmer anti communism and broader internationalism limits.
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Carrol Reece
Green
Central
Europe
Alr ‘Iruman
White House
Hank Wallace
Democratic Party
Wallace
Congress
Watered-Down Housing Bill Passes Congress
Congress approves a limited housing bill in its closing hours. The Government says the measure allows the VA and FHA to guarantee mortgages from banks to prevent credit flood and lets FHA insure up to 95 percent of loans for non profit veterans cooperatives. It does not revive wartime Title VI mortgage insurance.
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Washington
Congress
Housing and Home Finance Agency
Veterans Administration
Federal Housing Administration
FHA
Veterans’ Cooperative
Bridge Across Bay State Plan
State Highway Advisory Council and State Roads Commission urged building a bridge across Chesapeake Bay over a tunnel. Greiner report cites 10 months faster construction and $66 000 yearly savings in operation, with total bridge cost around 35 000 000 and tunnel at 44 430 000. Bridge would allow full bay access for small craft and shorten bond retirement. Governor Lane approved the bridge plan as plans for a 29 700 foot span between Sandy Point and Kent Island were drafted. Falcons strike prey with closed talons and dive as they plummet earthward.
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Baltimore
State Highway Advisory Council
State Roads Commission
Chesapeake Bay
Congress
J. E. Greiner Company
Boy Ole, Singstad
New York
Palmer and Backer, Inc
Mobile
Ala
Greiner
Maintgin
Csses
War Department
Robert M. Reindollar
Council
Chester P. Hockley
Lane
Sandy Point
Kent Island
Police Court Deals Large Drunken Driving Fines
Magistrate Alton Y Bennett presided over a busy Police Court session with multiple drunken driving cases. Douglas Eugene Dixon paid 109 dollars and costs after a citation by Officer Denver Shook. Richard C. Ture forfeited 1014 dollars for drunken driving on arrest by Trooper Ralph E Carpenter. Two Baltimore men and a Lancaster woman paid over 200 dollars for drunken disturbances delaying court proceedings. Betty Lutz of Lancaster forfeited 25.80 dollars and W Dufford of Baltimore stood trial with attorney Wilbur F Sheffield.
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Alton Y. Bennett
Douglas Eugene Dixon
West
Patrick Street
E. Austin James
Denver Shook
Richard C. Ture
Hazel Street
Baltimore
Ralph E Carpenter
Sherman Boone
Robert Chapman
Sal
Imore
Betty Lutz
Lancaster
W Dufford, Ao
Balimore
Torney
Wilbur F. Sheffield
Guilty Plea and Fines in Local Traffic Court
Clifford was fined seventy three dollars and costs and lectured against repeating his conduct here. Howard H. Gifford and Allen K R Hull each forfeited six hundred forty five dollars for exceeding thirty miles per hour. Norman J Shoes paid one thousand seven five dollars for passing at an intersection. Lloyd T Bell Foote and Dickerson paid six hundred forty five dollars. Two cases were taken under advisement by the magistrate.
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Clifford
Howard H. Gifford
Spencersport
Alenn KR
Hull
Montgomery
Norman J Shoes
Oxon Hill
Dietz and
Boone
James Richard Harris
Mstong
Lloyd
Harry Phillips
Sheftif
Obstruction and bail cases surface in city magistrate court
A municipal code question arises over whether a blocked street is public. A Jewish rabbi paid a parking fine without a hearing. The later case was taken under advisement. A separate assault case ends with the magistrate remanding the husband to jail and weighing a complainant’s rights to seek separation. Several city collateral forfeitures are listed.
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Charles Weeden
Weeden
Alice Hallian
Ch A Smuth
Wi Boghiwell
Henry Swiecka
Fireman Injured by Power Wire in Delaware Incident
Leslie C Harne, 54, formerly of Frederick, seriously burned while working on a power line south of Wilmington Delaware. He suffered a left hand burn and right leg burn after contact with a charged wire at about 38 miles from Wilmington. Harne is employed by Delaware Power and Light Co and was previously with Potomac Edison Co. in Frederick.
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Leslie C Harne
Willington
Delaware
Delaware Hospital
Wilmington del
Nex
Agay
Wilmington
Delaware Power and Light Co
Potomac Edison Co
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