Taft Sees Only One Hurdle for GOP Nomination
Senator Robert Taft said the sole remaining hurdle to his presidential nomination is delegates believing he cannot win in November. He asserted he has disposed of other arguments and will enter the Chicago convention with a strong delegate lead, claiming about half of the 1,206 delegates.
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Robert A. Taft
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Chicago
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Earl Warren
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
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Yalta
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Virginia
City Workers to Receive Small Pay Increases
City manager Donald Wolfer announced increases for hourly workers and salary staff based on rising living costs. Hourly employees gain four cents per hour while salaried workers receive eight dollars per month. The changes take effect July 1 and follow a council ordinance. A subsequent wage review is planned in three to four months after a wage survey concludes.
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Donald Wolfer
Wolfer
Senate approves compromise wage price controls bill
Senate action by voice vote approved a ten month extension of wage price controls. The measure advances to the House as midnights deadline nears and a conference committee had merged Senate and House versions, rejecting a House plan to lift controls on nonrationed commodities.
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Senate
House
Senate-House
Rep
Talle
Iowa
Houston Parents Volunteer for First Gamma Globulin Polio Test
Houston doctors announced 35,000 children in Harris County will join eight clinics next Wednesday in the first large scale gamma globulin test for polio. The outbreak is labeled an epidemic with twelve new cases reported yesterday and sixteen deaths statewide, though doctors caution gamma globulin does not halt polio.
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Tex
U.P
Fred Laurentz
Houston City
Harris County
D M Housing Trimmed in Budget Drives Air Base Funding
The House approved 1.2 billion dollars in special appropriations for American air bases and cut 568 million from air base construction requests. Military public works total 2.19 billion, part of a 10.28 billion military package, with roll call votes to follow. Foreign aid next year totals 6.28 billion as efforts to shrink Truman programs continue. Rep. Taber forecasts further cuts to mutual security totaling about 200 million.
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Washington
House
Appropriations Committee
Truman
Rep. Taber
Davis-Monthan housing plan cut by one million
A house watchdog committee said the Air Force will cancel plans for nearly 100 million dollars of barracks at bases after a study of 105 bases. Davis-Monthan was among the cuts totaling about 1.0 million. Spokesmen said bids will determine how much housing can be built with the savings and that overplanning caused the overestimate of available housing and married airmen.
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Associated Press
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D-M
Rhee Backers Riot as 80 Assemblymen Freed in Pusan
National police liberated 80 Korean National assemblymen from a meeting hall after a 5 hour confrontation with a mob outside Pusan. About 600 demonstrators demanded the assembly bow to President Syngman Rhee or dissolve. Police lines kept exits blocked while some protesters breached decorum.
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Pusan
Korea
Syngman Rhee
Lee Bum Suk
Rhee
Tucson Plane Hit In Flight
A Dallas Love Field collision between a large American Airlines four engine airliner and a two passenger Swift plane killed two Swift passengers Paul Winfield Brower and Don Edward Walker. The airliner landed safely and the Swift plane smashed mid street with one wing torn off. The crash caused a dent in a propeller and antenna damage on the No 4 engine. The American Airlines flight 910 carried 55 passengers including five soldiers from Fort Huachuca and a go show passenger who replaced a no show. The captain reported no sight of the Swift plane before impact.
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Love Field
Paul Winfield Brower
Golden Hoof Ranch
Denton
Tex
Don Edward
Walker
Texas State College
American Airlines
San Francisco
Tucson
el Paso
American
Ft. Huachuca
Washington, D.C
G. H. Woolweaver
Grapevine
Steel Company Signs Pact Ends Pittsburgh Strike Standoff
The CIO United Steelworkers reached an interim pact with Pittsburgh Steel Co to grant a 12 cent hourly raise for 10,500 workers. Philip Murray negotiated the deal, which modifies the union shop and follows Wage Stabilization Board recommendations to avert the 26 day strike. John A. Stephens of U S Steel would not comment. Murray’s associate called the move a breakthrough in the steel industry. About 48,000 of the 650,000 striking workers have been covered by interim agreements so far.
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Pittsburgh
CIO
United Steelworkers
Pittsburgh Steel Co
Philip Murray
Wage Stabilization Board
Murray
Pittsburgh Steel
Powever
John A. Stephens
U. S. Steel
Hawaii Volcano Comes Alive
Mt Ki lauea on Hawaii Island erupted for the first time since 1934 sending flames and smoke about 2000 feet high. Eyewitnesses reported the eruption in the Halemaumau fire pit inside the 15 mile Kilauea crater complex.
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Halemaumau
Kilaueau
Fighters Bomb Red Korea In Fourth Allied Raid
U S fighter bombers pounded troop concentrations and a large truck yard in North Korea. Ships from USS Bataan reported 1000 enemy troops in the open and 300 killed. Chosen power plant hit for a fourth raid as Thunderjet sorties destroyed hundreds of trucks and fuel drums. Ground forces held Chorwon as Reds lost about 75 killed and 150 wounded in tank-supported attacks.
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Korea
U. S
Chosen Reservoir
Bataan
Pyongyang
Fifth Air Force
Wonsan
North Korea
United Nations
Chorwon
U N Demands POW Location in Korea Talks
In MUNSAN Korea United Nations and Communist negotiators exchanged notes through liaison officers. The Reds accused the U N of prolonging the war while the U N sought verification of the location of four Red prisoner camps. North Korean Gen Nam II condemned a three day recess in armistice talks as delaying the negotiations and prolonging the conflict.
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Munsan
Korea
United Nations
U.N
William K. Harrison
Nam II
Communists Denounce U.N. Raids on Power Plants
Peiping’s People's Daily brands the Yalu river power plant bombings an atrocity and vows severe punishment for American criminals as raids near Manchuria escalate tensions between Communist China and the United States.
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China
Yalu River
Peiping People’s Daily
U. N
Manchuria
Peiping Radio
North Korea
Ta Kung Pao
Hong Kong
Peiping
Suihe
Korea
U.N
Pieping
People’s Daily
Asia
Red
Defense
Lovett
United Nations urged to reconvene over Korean war
British leader Emmanuel Shinwell urged an immediate U N conference to re examine the Korean position to prevent a wider war. He faulted the United States for not consulting Britain before the Yalu air strikes and urged renewed U N talks. French leaders also pressed restraint and warned against expanding the conflict, while Peiping Radio blamed the U N raids as provocations.
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Wellingborough
Eng
Emanuel Shinwell
United Nations
Far East
Labor Party
Shinwell
United States
Britain
Yalu River
North Korea
U. N
U. S
Paris
Guy Mollet
Korea
MacArthur
Antoine Pinay
Yalu
Manchuria
Douglas
More Heat Here Is Predicted
The weather forecast predicts higher temperatures with possible cloud cover and increased humidity tonight and tomorrow afternoon. Readings from several cities show high temps ranging from the mid 80s to the 90s with varying overnight lows. Mt Lemmon recorded a 69 degree high yesterday.
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Flagstaff
Prescott
Phoenix
Tucson
Mt. Lemmon
Tucson Airport to Receive Wartime Damages
In a telegram to City Manager Donald P. Wolfer Senator Ernest W. McFarland said the Tucson airport has been allotted 25 544 for wartime damages and will be certified. Airport manager R F W Schmidt noted the sum is far below the original request of about 80 000 for runway wear and edge damage caused by Army Air Force planes.
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Tucson
Donald P. Wolfer
Senate
Ernest W. McFarland
D-Ariz
CAA
Bob) Schmidt
Army Air Force
Unemployment Pay Raised Tuesday
The state's new law extends unemployment compensation from 12 to 20 weeks and takes effect on Tuesday July 1. Bruce Parkinson, director, explains workers who have exhausted previous benefits may now apply for additional payments if still qualified under the expanded period. The extension was enacted by the state legislature.
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Phoenix
Bruce Parkinson
State Social Security Deadline Extended
President Truman signed a bill giving states until January 1, 1954 to sign voluntary social security agreements for state employees. The deadline was January 1, 1953 previously, with a retroactive provision back to January 1, 1951 for prior service.
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Washington
Truman
Tucson Weekend Events Stir Community Fun
A relaxed summer weekend in Tucson features softball exhibition jalopy time trials and races at Rodeo Oval and a public square dance at Catalina guest ranch. Public dances at Oddfellows Hall and a community sing at Armory Park follow with free square dancing at Old Tucson.
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Tucson
Himmel Park Pool
Rodeo Oval
Nogales Highway
Catalina Guest Ranch
Campbell Ave
Grand Central Aircraft
Coolidge Signal Oilers
Santa Rita Park
Oddfellows Hall
S. Sixth Ave
Eduardo Caso
Armory Park
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