Communist Advance on Capital Deepens Gloom in Chungking
News from CHUNGKING, CHINA, reports new Communist advances toward the Nationalist capital deepening anxiety. Rumors of moving the capital toward Kunming arise as Patung and Enshih fall further under Reds. Lin Piao reportedly massing 40,000 troops toward Chihkiang while Yuanling stockpiles. Internal warlord resistance in Szechwan adds to the risk of isolation for Chungking. The Burma Road repairs begin small scale. railway restoration to Indochina remains in blueprint.
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Enshih
Szechwan
Burma
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Indochina
Moscow Sobering Institution Shocks Royalist Readers
London reports from the British Medical Journal that Moscow police detain inebriated pedestrians in a veetresvee tele punkt or sobering institution. Dr M T Gillies notes a 25 ruble overnight charge, about a fifth of a Russian weekly wage, before release.
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England
Oklahoma Holds Rites in Memory Of Will Rogers
Ten thousand mourners gathered in Claremore on November 4 to mark the 70th birthday of Will Rogers. Will Rogers Jr. attended, with Donald Day, editors, and a parade featuring 16 bands and clubs from Oklahoma Kansas and Arkansas. A wreath was laid at the tomb and a noon barbecue followed at the state park beside the Will Rogers Memorial Museum.
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Will Rogers Memorial Museum
Strong Quake Rocks San Diego and Southern California
A strong earthquake struck San Diego at 12 43 p m Friday shaking 10 000 square miles of Southern California. The tremor, felt from Los Angeles to El Centro, registered about four on the intensity scale with no damage reported and the strongest movement here since 1941.
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el Centro
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San Bernardino
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Fred Robinson
Tearful Tot Taper Swears Off Wine
A 3-year-old Fort Worth girl found drunk near her home vowed she would never drink wine again at City-County Hospital. Neighbors complained and police took her there. Jurisdiction granted temporary custody to County Juvenile Officer Lynn Ross. A 5-year-old brother said she climbed an old record player, drank part of the wine, and the mother said she did so without her knowledge.
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Lynn Ross
Hot Pepper Farming Proves Profitable for Barber
HEREFORD November 4. An Amarillo barber turned irrigation farmer reports a strong start with hot peppers in Deaf Smith County. Bill Helton says his first pepper crop grossed 1140 dollars per acre and produced more than 1.5 dollars per pepper stalk.
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Houston Couple Adopts Irish Tot
Houston wife Margaret Petre and husband Harold Petre adopt six month old Mary Ryan from Tipperary Ireland. The infant arrived in New York via Shannon Airport and was handed to Mrs Petre by a stewardess. Mary’s name will be changed to Mary Margaret Petre. The Rev J D Connolly, pastor of St Vincent De Paul Houston, had connected the couple with the orphan, who had been in an Irish asylum. The Petres, married 11 years with no children, plan to return to Houston by plane.
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Ireland
Houston
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Aged Dallas Woman Strangled by Pastry
Miss Maggie Axe, 78, died in Dallas Friday after a cupcake piece lodged in her throat, causing strangulation per physicians.
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INS
Maggie Axe
Convicted Bank Robber Freed On $22,500 Bail
Ollie Otto Prince 44, former Corsicana used car dealer turned bank robber, was freed on bonds totaling 22,500. Ethel Ollinger signed for the bonds as Prince faced appeals from the 1948 Rice Bank robbery and a 1946 Mount Calm bank burglary charge.
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Ollie Otto Prince
Corsicana
Ethel Ollinger
First States Bank of Rice
Waco
First National Bank
Mount Calm
Texas
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Prince
Malone State
Federal Bureau of Investigation
Legless Otis Stewart jailed for drunk wheelchair driving
Danville Virginia reports Otis Stewart was jailed Friday on charges of driving his motorized wheelchair while intoxicated. The incident occurred in the city with Stewart charged by police authorities.
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Danville
Otis Stewart
Stabbing Deaths of UN Clerk and VOA Worker in Broadway Hotel
An attractive Voice of America employee and a Chinese United Nations clerk were found stabbed to death in a hotel room at the Hotel Alamac in New York. Nathan Ludwig, assistant medical examiner, ruled death as by suicide. The Bulgarian-born Marhane Balkanska Zolyak, 33, and Wei Huan Kuo, 28, were found with multiple stab wounds, a hunting knife between the bodies, and the pair had reportedly seen Sleeping Beauty earlier that day. Zolyak was a Barnard graduate naturalized in 1947. Kuo held a Peking University BA and worked as UN guard in Palestine before becoming a New York clerk earning 2360 annually.
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Voice of America
United Nations
Nathan Ludwig
Marhane Balkanska Zolyak
Wei Huan Kuo
UN Documents and Sales Division
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Hotel Alamac
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Port Arthur Backs Education Basis for University
Port Arthur officials say a university is acceptable only if it provides proper education in the true American tradition. Mayor James W. Long cites George W. Armstrong as promoting a school built on that basis. Armstrong, 84, proposed a university to embody white supremacy but later said he would not build and would retain his mineral estate.
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James W. Long
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Texas Oil and Steel
Fort Worth
Jefferson Military College
Mississippi
Houston Gem Thieves Grab $750 in Loot
Houston police report thieves shattered a display window at Gordon's Jewelry Store and stole wrist watches valued at 750 dollars. The heist occurred early Friday, and investigators pursue leads to identify suspects and recover the items.
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