Taft demands Eisenhower stance before campaign stand
Cleveland News reports Sen. Taft will back Dwight Eisenhower only if the general clearly agrees with Taft on major issues. Taft, vacationing in Murray Bay, Canada, worries about repudiation on the Taft Hartley labor law and a $60 billion federal budget.
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Cleveland News
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Jack Kennon
Taft
Murray Bay
Canada
Eisenhower
Cnnon
Eisenhower Campaign Focus and Third-Party Calls Stir Debate
The story describes Shi vers withholding personal support for Stevenson while Texas Democrats decide. Vincent Hallinan urges a Korea cease fire, accusing both major parties of Big Business capture. Nevada Senator McCarran hints at a conservative third party if Stevenson and Eisenhower falter, while Robert McCormick calls for a new American party.
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Progressive Party
Korea
San Francisco
Hallinan
Harry Bridges
Pat McCarran
Nevada
Democrats
Rey
Stevenson
Eisenhower
McCarran
Legion Parade Highlights Unity Over Division At Convention
President urged delegates to remember national strength lies in unity over party lines. The Legion pressed ahead with efforts to enact UMT, while yesterday’s 40 and 8 Society parade showcased motorized replicas amid bands and fireworks. The procession passed St Patrick’s Cathedral and two Fifth Avenue churches, marking the 40 and 8’s first Sunday parade on the avenue with church approval.
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Legion
U.M.T
Legionnaires
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Bombers strike Red supply area amid storm over Korea
U S bombers penetrated heavy weather to hit a 40 acre supply complex in Northwest Korea and attacked behind front line depots. Navy operations slowed by weather but carriers strafed Red targets around Hungnam and Wonsan as Air Force pilots engaged lingering night fighters and raided the Sundung rail intersection near Pyongyang.
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Bunker Hill
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Wonsan
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Dongyang
Supung
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Fifth Air Force
Sundung
Pyongyang
Filipino pilot finally flies with U S 45th Division in Korea
Lt. Adelio Cruz, 21, the youngest Philippine Air Force pilot, earns flying status with the 45th Division Light Aviation Section after arranging air strikes while based at division HQ. He now spends mornings at a desk and afternoons piloting an L19 observation plane.
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U.S
Korea
Adelio Cruz
Philippine Air Force
45Th
Cruz
No Major Price Changes Seen
Secretary of Commerce Sawyer says consumer goods prices likely won’t rise much for the rest of the year though long term trends may be upward. A survey on the steel strike effects shows many businessmen plan to absorb higher metal costs rather than pass them to consumers even after a $5.20 per ton steel price increase.
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Washington
Sawyer
Department
Machine Gunners Receive 300 Letters from Small Towns
Three machine gunners in Company D 14th Infantry Regiment, Korea, have received 300 letters in ten days. Cpl. Melvin Bodner of Bronx NY Pfc Joe Bridges Wilson of New York and Pvt Robert English of Tucson AZ wrote to small town papers asking for mail from young ladies. Letters came from diverse readers including a 215 pound strip teaser and a forward on a women's basketball team.
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Korea
Melvin F. Bodner
Bronx
N. Y
Joe Bridges Wilson
Robert English
Tucson
Ariz
Charlottesville Man Dies in Electric Chair After Clemency Bid Fails
Albert Jackson Jr., 24, a Charlottesville Black man convicted of raping a 40 year old white woman, died in Virginia State Penitentiary’s electric chair at 7 39 a m after attorneys failed to obtain a reprieve. A stay of execution was denied by local and federal judges and Governor Battle. Jackson was convicted in Charlottesville Corporation Court last year for the May 5 1951 crime.
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Albert Jackson Jr
Charlottesville
W. Frank Smyth, Jr
Jackson
Ju B. Watson Sadler
Charlottesville Corporation Court
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Albert Jackson
M. Ray Doubles
Hastings Court Part II
Leon M. Batile
Fifteenth Circuit
Carwile
Governor Battle
Sterling Hutcheson
Spottswood Robinson III
8S. W. Tucker
Commonwealth
Charlottesville Corporation
British Cargo Plane Crashes Near Berlin in Soviet Zone
A four engine British York cargo plane crashed six miles west of Berlin in the Soviet zone. The flight engineer died, the pilot and navigator survived and returned to West Berlin. Russians allowed recovery of wreckage, likely today. The plane had been chartered by Berlin city government and carried exports to Hamburg.
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Soviet Zone
West Berlin
York
Hamburg
Immigration status of native-born children and deportation
The INS states that any person born in the United States is a citizen and cannot be deported, regardless of parental citizenship. A native-born citizen would have to renounce or lose citizenship before deportation could occur.
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Immigration and Naturalization Service
United States
Trapped Explorers Escape From Cave
Four weary explorers pulled from Hell's Hole cave in Switzerland survived nine and a half days after high water trapped them. their group included professor Alfred Boegl and two 20 year olds. Rescue teams in Wales pulled out two 17 year old Boy Scouts and their injured scoutmaster from a cave after nine feet of rock collapsed.
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Switzerland
Hell’s Hole
Breconshire
Wales
Tyson
Ifven
Pierre St Martin
Yrennes
Casaha Ah
Alfred Boegl
Europe
Boegli
Chinese Villagers Move to Detention Over Red Gang
In Permatang Tinggi Malaya villagers refused to inform on a Communist killer gang. High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer gave four days to provide names. At 9 am in drizzle, villagers exited in trucks under heavy police guard, destination undisclosed.
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Permatang Tinggi
Malaya
Gerald Templer
Kuala Lumthimetim
State Democrats Await Big Three Action Thursday
Virginia Democrats watch the State Democratic Central Committee meeting in Richmond for a signal on supporting Stevenson Sparkman. Major leaders Byrd Battle and Tuck stay silent while many district and state figures align with Stevenson.
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General Assembly
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Hardy
Robeson
Gary
Norfolk
National Party
Sen
Byrd
Battle
Tuck
Central Committee
Chicago
Stevenson-Sparkman
Central
Grisae
Vvvenson
Planes to fly 1164 British troops home by Christmas
Twenty giant aircraft will transport 1 164 British soldiers sailors and airmen who have completed their Malaya tour to Britain by Christmas. The chartered planes Airwork Hermes Eagle Yorks and Aquila Solent flying boats will operate without replacements on each outbound trip.
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Malaya
Britain
Airwork Hermes
Eagle Yorks
Aquilla Solent
Eisenhower Stevenson May Mobilize Eight Midwest States
Sixteen states including eight in the Midwest likely to receive full campaign effort from Gen Dwight D Eisenhower and Gov Adlai E Stevenson of Illinois. Midwest seen as top battleground with Illinois Indiana Iowa Michigan Minnesota Missouri Ohio and Wisconsin totaling 131 electoral votes. East battles centered on Connecticut Massachusetts New Jersey New York and Pennsylvania with 117 electoral votes.
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Midwest
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Adlai E. Stevenson
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California
East
Eisenhower
Indiana
Iowa
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Missouri
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Wisconsin
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Carrier Pigeon Joe Returns to 1st Corps Signal Battalion
An Army carrier pigeon named Joe returned in a box to the 1st Corps signal battalion after missing ten days following a training flight. Soldiers at a forward division found him grounded and exhausted and sent him back to the unit for care and transport.
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1St Corps
Korea
1St Corps Signal Battalion
Joe
House Burns In Isolated West Haven Neighborhood
Leonard Alogna returned from Boston to find his house burned to the cellar and still smoldering. Police and firemen arrived to wet down the ruins, but no one could be found who smelled smoke. The Alogna home, in an isolated area, had been unoccupied during remodeling.
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Conn
Leonard Alogna
Alogna
Boston
Alagna
Commonwealth Names New Secretary to State Office
Richt way a year old lawyer is named Secretary of the Commonwealth after Gov. Battle appoints her to succeed Mrs. ma Young Gordon who retires. Conway, a native of Al eigh N.C., practiced law 13 years and is a University of Richmond law graduate. The secretary handles proclamations pardons extraditions and other official state procedures.
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Richtway
Commonwealth
Battle
Ma Young Gordon
M.iss Conway
Aleigh N.C
University of Richmond Law School
Proclamatis Wealth
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Threat Renewed Against Ralph Kiner at Forbes Field
A threat to the life of Pittsburgh Pirates outfielder Ralph Kiner was renewed at Forbes Field yesterday as the Boston Braves doubleheader loomed. The incident highlights heightened security concerns surrounding Kiner.
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Ralph Kiner
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