Taft to go to Chicago to build convention control
Senate candidate Taft sails to Chicago to map his preconvention strategy by shaping the national committee and its credentials and resolutions panels. He aims to influence key delegates, counter Eisenhower, and push a foreign policy plank drafted with Dulles, while preparing for a second Chicago visit before the convention.
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Lyle C. Wilson Washington
ULP
Robert A. Taft
Ohio
Chicago
Tait
National Committee
Credentials
Resolutions Committee
Taft
Resolutions
Dwight D. Eisenhower
John Foster
Dulles
Eisenhower
Thomas E. Dewey
Truman
Washington
Dulles Caught In Taft Eisenhower Cross-Fire
Denver report on John Foster Dulles becoming a focal point in the GOP presidential nominating campaign as Eisenhower and Taft clash over foreign policy. Eisenhower seeks collective security while Taft advocates limiting American commitment. Dulles urged including a forward looking plank. Taft criticizes isolationist implications and stresses a Europe Asia arms balance.
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Taft
Eisenhower
Denver
Colo
John Foster Dulles
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
United States
Republican Foreign Party
Hershey
Pennsylvania
Sam
Russia
Air Force
Europe
Asia
Waxey Wexler dies last of prohibition beer barons
SAN FRANCISCO UP The last of the prohibition beer barons Irving Waxey Gordon Wexler died yesterday in Alcatraz hospital while awaiting narcotics trial. A 62 year old former public enemy, he had been serving a New York 25 year narcotics sentence and faced trial here as the principal source of 23 heroin sellers coast to coast. Judge Valente had predicted his fate with a remark that his life would end in crime. He once ran illegal beer through New York sewers and was captured Aug 2 with federal agents posing as buyers. He owed the U.S. government about 1 million dollars in back taxes from the 1930 31 period.
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San Francisco
Irving
Waxey Gordon
New York
Francis L. Valente
Wexler
Gordon
New York City
Wood door urged after boy injures arms at home
Eight year old Dallas Coats hurried outside and struck the front door glass, slashing his left arm. He then attempted a flying exit to school and cut his right arm on broken door glass. A doctor advised installing a solid wood door.
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Dallas Coats
Dallas
Chase To Be Sent To Korea
Fort Ord, Calif. Thean Chase a 24 year old soldier from Salt Lake City who was demoted and fined for disrespect to General Mark Clark has been assigned to duty in Korea. The Army says he will serve as a stenographer in the same unit as the general despite criticizing Clark in a letter describing the Kaje island prison affair as repugnant and disgraceful. Chase was reduced from sergeant to private first class and fined 450 dollars by a special court martial last Friday.
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Pfe
Thean Chase
Salt Lake City
Mark Clark
Korea
Chase
Clark
Kaje Island
Rioting Marks Anniversary of War in Japan
Rioting erupted in Tokyo as about 3000 North Korean sympathizers protested U S air bases in Japan and the Korean War. Police, using boards to block projectiles, faced stones and Molotov cocktails. five officers were injured and six rioters arrested. In Osaka 74 people were arrested and thirty Japanese police and two American MPs were injured.
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Tokyo
Sinjuku
United States
Japan
United Press
James Healy
Prisoners Choice Was Russ Policy in 1943
United Press analysis recounts a 1943 ultimatum to Germany by the Soviet Union offering prisoner repatriation to Germany or any country chosen by the prisoners. It notes protests by Communists, a bombing decision on North Korean power plants, and an inspection proposal of Koje camps. A bartender, Bill Harris, was hospitalized after a tear gas incident at closing.
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United Press
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North Korea
Germany
Russia
Friedrich von Paulus
Stalingrad
William K. Harrison
United Nations
Manchuria
Antung Mukden
Dairen
Japan
Korea
Mukden
India
Pakistan
Indonesia
Koje
Anna
Bill Harris
Harris
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