Harrison Named State Minister for Coronation of Nina Warren
The Honourable Burr Powell Harrison, U S Congressman from the 7th Virginia District, will serve as Minister of State at the coronation of Miss Nina Warren as Queen Shenandoah XXV. The event is at Handley Bowl at 2:30 p m tomorrow, with Massanutten Academy buglers, Handley High School band, and a large Queen Court procession.
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Burr Powell Harrison
Virginia
Nina Warren
Virginia Cover Russell
Herald-buglers
Massanutten Military Academy
Woodstock
Handley High School
Massanutten Academy
Eisenhower emerges as Republican front runner on ballots
The roll call shows Taft leading early on the first ballot then yields to Eisenhower after successive ballots. California abstains before a simulated Warren telegram shifts 70 California votes to Eisenhower. Warren wins the vice presidential nomination on the first ballot with 613 votes as ballot totals resume past Tennessee.
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Taft
Eisenhower
Warren
Douglas MacArthur
Harold E. Stassen
Maryland
Theodore McKeldin
Vermont
Warren Austin
McKeldin
MacArthur
California
Tennessee
Missouri
James Kern
Maine
Margaret Chase Smith
New Jersey
Alfred Driscoll
Wisconsin
Joseph McCarthy
Congress backs Pine ruling in steel stoppage crisis
The government considers Taft Hartley options as President Truman faces a steel strike. Murray criticizes steel firms as negotiations stall while the Wage Stabilization Board pushes a 26 cent wage rise and union shop acceptance. Local leaders vow indefinite walkout if demands aren’t met.
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Pine
Murray
Pittsburgh
Walter Klis
Steelworkers Local 1227
Wage Stabilization Board
Congress
Eisenhower gains support amid Massachusetts primary debate
Sen Lodge asserts the nomination clinches for Eisenhower while Basil Brewer accuses Democratic help tainting the Republican primary. Eisenhower is said to have won major industrial cities in Massachusetts amid the campaign discourse. Charles Lawrence Long 85 of Middletown died suddenly after a residence illness, survived by widow Rachel Huff and several relatives. funeral plans set at Stover Funeral Home with burial in Mount Carmel Cemetery.
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Taft
Basil Brewer
New Bedford
Massachusetts
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Charles Lawrence Long
Middletown
Benjamin Franklin
Martha Funkhouser Long
Page County
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Frederick County
E. U B
Rachel Anne Huff
Edwin Haines
Essie Jenkins
Stanley
William F. Long
Marlboro
Stover
Strasburg
Mount Carmen
Planes Scan Brazilian Jungles For Missing Pan Am Clipper
Search planes comb vast Brazilian jungles and plateaus for the Clipper Good Hope, a Pan American stratocruiser with 50 aboard on the Rio de Janeiro to Port of Spain leg. Ninety Americans among crew and passengers, last radio contact reported all well near Barreiras, Bahia.
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Brazil
New York
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Argentina
United States
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Barreiras
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Rio
Wilson Favored Wage and Price Controls Say Wilson
Former defense mobilizer Charles E Wilson is quoted supporting extension of wage and price controls but urging better coordination. Senator Sparkman said Wilson voiced this at a closed Senate Banking Committee meeting weighing extending the controls law.
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Washington
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Sen. Sparkman
D-Ala
Wilson
Senate Banking Committee
UN Warplanes Claim Six MIGs Shot Down on May Day Eve
U N warplanes report shooting down six Communist MIG-15 fighters and damaging four in North Korea while U S Sabres downed three more near the Yalu River area and a Marine corps plane damaged a MIG in a separate clash. Allied ground forces face a brisk but contained front with Eastern sector actions near dawn.
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Korea
United Nations
North Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Eighth Army
Crosby backs Winchester festival with personal support
Hal Boyle notes a telephone call from Bing Crosby in California expressing interest and affection for the Winchester Festival. Crosby is praised as a longtime friend, having served as Grand Marshal in 1948. The event featured Reverend Hankel, Marvin Hutchinson leading song, Pilomena Larue at piano, and a benediction by Dr Ronald Wilson. Civic clubs received apple pies from the queen.
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Bing Crosby
California
Byrd
Winchester
Crosby
William H. Hankel
Marvin Hutchinson
Pilomena Larue
Ronald
Wil
Is Salt Harmful to Soil Findings
Soil experts say salt injures soil when concentrations exceed 2 to 10 percent. High salt application damages soil for a long time and can seriously injure soil health wherever used in large quantities.
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D. C A
Post Office Hours Altered for Apple Blossom Festival
Local post office officials announce noon closure of windows on Thursday and Friday during the Apple Blossom Festival. Lobby hours run 6 am to 10 pm with stamps from the vending machine. Regular mail and deliveries continue, while rural routes adjust earlier departures to avoid congestion.
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Carl L. Campbell
Highway Post Office
Harrisburg
Goss to serve as Grand Marshal at city parade
Goss will be interviewed on a broadcast arranged by WMBG from the George Washington Hotel. At 6 30 he will be Grand Marshal of the Firemen parade and Mrs Goss will ride with her husband. They will close the day by attending the Queen's ball at the Armory.
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Goss
Richmond
WMBG
George Washington
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