Dionne quints steal show at Alfred E. Smith dinner
Canada’s Dionne quintuplets wowed 2,500 guests at the Memorial Foundation dinner in New York, singing six songs in French and English. They wore blue taffeta gowns as Cardinal Spellman introduced them. The event, also attended by Vice President Barkley and Gov. Dewey, raised $1.5 million for charity. Cardinal Spellman announced a $10,000 Beth Israel Hospital gift from the foundation. Barkley spoke on postwar U.S. stance without naming the Soviet Union.
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New York
Canada
Dionne Quintuplets
St. Patrick’s Cathedral
Francis Cardinal Spellman
Alfred E. Smith
al Smith
Annette
Cecile
Emilie
Marie
Yvonne
Barkley
Cardinal Spellman
Thomas E. Dewey
Herbert H. Lehman
Mexico
William O'Dwyer
Warren Austin
United Nations
Oliva
Smith
Beth Israel Hospital
Hitler
Parma hosts unique food canning and packing fair
Organizers of the annual preserved foods and packing exhibition in Parma Italy claim the event is the only specialized fair displaying raw materials finished products and machinery used in food canning and preserving.
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Parma
Italy
Red China Evades Ban On Heavy Truck Imports
Hong Kong reports reveal Communist China is receiving some US heavy trucks despite a US export ban. Chinese papers claim 3,000 trucks were blocked, but US authorities deny the report. They note earlier shipments reached China via Hong Kong before the ban and small-scale evasion continues through Macao or South America.
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Hong Kong
China
Hongkong
Macao
South America
Three in Family Killed by Gun in Oklahoma
Earl Rogers found his wife Lillie 46, their 4 year old daughter Janie, and his stepmother Rosa Rogers 59 dead in one family triple shooting. Officers ruled a double slaying and self-inflicted death by Mrs Lillie Rogers using a 22 caliber pistol after the trio was harmed in Connerville Oklahoma yesterday.
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Connerville
Okla
Earl Rogers
Tishomingo
Lillie
Janie
Rosa Rogers
Johnston County
Everett
Lillie Rogers
Stewart
Rogers
Central State Hospital
Norman
Zebra Escape Fails to Find Friend in Huntsville
A circus zebra escaped and wandered through Huntsville pastures where a herd of horses broke a fence and fled. Patrolman Jerry Breedlove chased the zigzagged zebra into a cattle chute and lassoed it. The animal submitted meekly as the crowd closed in.
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Huntsville
Ala
Jerry Breedlove
Model Tower Recreation From Plastic Pieces
British manufacturers built a model of Blackpool Tower from 3000 plastic pieces. The structure stands nearly six feet tall and features 660 windows and 30 doors, including revolving doors.
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Blackpool Tower
Boxoffice opens Monday for Symphony and Traubel recital
Amarillo Symphony boxoffice opens Monday at 10 am in the Southwestern Public Service Company foyer for single tickets and season passes. Season prices cover 12 concerts from $7.50 to $20, Traubel recital seats range from $1.30 to $38.90, and guest artists include Templeton Revelers Hildegard and MacDonald with A Clyde Roller conducting for his third season.
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Amarilo Symphony
Traubel
Southwestern Public Service Company
Fifth and Pork
Helen Traubel
Miss Traubel
Alec Templeton
Hildegard
Jeanette MacDonald
A. Clyde Roller
Fox Trapped in Apartment House in Atlanta
Janitor Walter Ford turned trapper on the second floor of an apartment house and captured a full grown grey fox. He initially mistook it for a cat while it slept in a corridor yesterday. Ford rigged a trap from an old box and caught the fox. its origin remains unknown.
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Atlanta
Walter Ford
Ford
Gun Hijack Ends Savings Loan Heist in Clifton
In Clifton New Jersey a man walked into Lakeview Savings and Loan Association and asked about a GI loan. He returned with a gun, robbed the bank of 3085 dollars, and forced three employees into the vault, ending the quick plot within a day.
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Clifton
Lakeview Savings and Loan Association
Black sex offender struck by posse near Calera Alabama
In central Alabama near Calera a Black man Cooper Drake 28 and a white farm wife Kathleen Holley 37 were injured as a large posse attacked. Drake remained in critical condition after a heavy buckshot assault and Holley reported injuries during a three hour ordeal while her 4 year old son Dale died.
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Birmingham
Ala
Cooper Drake
Kathleen Holley
Jefferson-Hillman
Hos
Alabama
C. H. Fore
Drake
Holley
Dale
Canberra designed by American architect, capital city
Canberra, the capital city of Australia, was designed by an American architect. The project shaped the urban layout and national institutions, reflecting early 20th century planning ideas.
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Canberra
Australia
Poet Edna Millay Dies at 58 in Austerlitz
Austerlitz New York October 20 Edna St Vincent Millay Pulitzer Prize poet died at 58 likely from a heart attack after working overnight on proofs of new poems. Her body was found at the foot of a staircase in her East Hill house by caretaker James Pinnie.
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Austerlitz
Edna St. Vincent Millay
Eugen Jan Boissevain
Miss Millay
White House
East Hill
Oscar Wilcox
James Pinnie
Chatham
Berkshire Hill
Sweet Adelines Meet in Chicago for World Champion Quartet
About 1,000 women barbershop harmonizers will gather in Chicago for the fourth annual Sweet Adelines national convention. Delegates from 50 chapters will compete to crown the world champion women's quartet for 1950 51 with elimination rounds starting tomorrow and finals Saturday night.
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Chicago
Sweet Adelines, Inc
Twins Killed in Auto Collision in Garden City
Nineteen year old twin sisters Maxine and Christine Floyde of Birmingham, both telephone operators, died in an auto collision on wet pavement yesterday in Garden City Alabama. Their sister Mrs Albert Jones 25 and her two small children were injured in the crash.
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Garden City
Ala
Maxine
Christine Floyde
Birmingham
Albert Jones
Shivers Plans Weekend Stay at Woodville Home
Gov Allan Shivers and his family were to spend the weekend at the Shivers residence near Woodville, according to an Austin spokesman.
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Shivers
Woodville
U.P
Allan Shivers
Here
Austin
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