Baylor Students Rally for Stricken Baby Eddie Franks
Eddie Wayne Franks aged 15 months suffers abdominal cancer with his parents Wayne and Anna Ruth Franks by his bedside in Waco. Baylor University GI students and local groups raise funds to cover medical bills and discuss sending him to a national center, though the parents decline.
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Waco
Eddie Wayne Franks
Wayne
Anna Ruth Franks
Nts
Baylor University
Eddie
Cr. G. Schellenberger
Baylor
Franks
Bryan
Newcastle
Dallas Zoo offers attic swap for exotic animals
The Dallas zoo seeks trade items including several monkeys and other exotic animals in exchange for a female diana monkey, pigtail macaques, Debrazis monkeys, a hamadryas baboon, sacred langur monkeys, a llama, an eland, Palagonian cavies, a black leopard youngster, and penguins. Take a look around the attic.
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Dallas
Stephen
Grandstaff seeks Tennessee pardon for life in jail
Frank Grandstaff, a mild man who mixed petty crime with composing, petitions the Tennessee Pardons and Parole Board for a pardon while serving a life sentence under the habitual criminal act. He contends a Texas centennial cantata and a taste of freedom showed him a path to reform, with a Nov. 3 hearing set.
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Nashville
Tenn
Tennessee
Frank Grandstaff
Pardons and Parole Board
Texas
Grandstaff
Big Spring
Gordon Browning
Memphis
Michigan
Looking at Birdie Costs His Freedom
Chicago police arrest 22 year old Richard Beavers formerly of Mattoon on charges he staged more than one robbery totaling around 50 dollars. Beavers allegedly spent 15 dollars on a picture session for matchbook covers and carried a key to a railroad station luggage box containing a pistol small rifle watches rings and jewelry. He claimed his parents are divorced and he is a wandering bandit for over two years.
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Chicago
Mattoon
Richard Beavers
Beavers
Boston
Toledo
Detroit
Albany
N. Y
Los Angeles
Cleveland
Michigan City
Ind
South Shore
Men Work ing Slow Sign Surprises Railroad Crew
L. L. Wallace paused as he passed a group of men painting a railroad underpass and glimpsed a humorous sign reading Men work ing slow. The moment captures local labor daily life and workplace humor.
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Memphis
L. L. Wallace
Indicted for murder Louie Bird free on bond after arrest
Louie Bird, 47, indicted for murder by the Dallas grand jury. He remained free Tuesday on a $750 bond. A hearing for an after-indictment bond had not been set. The killing occurred Sept 12 when Marie Webb was fatally stabbed at a residence southeast of Ilmer.
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Dallas
Louie Bird
Liberty
Bird
Marie Webb
Ilmer
Painless dentistry aims to end drill danger with CO2 blast
Dr. R B Black of Corpus Christi develops a carbon dioxide jet at 75 psi to cut teeth with aluminum oxide embedded in the stream. The system, tested by dental schools and the Navy, avoids vibration heat and gum tissue damage while enabling precise cuts. The American Dental Association meets in San Francisco as leaders forecast public health insurance debates.
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San Francisco
American Dental Association
R. B. Black
Corpus Christi
Texas
White Dental Manufacturing Company
Philadelia
Navy Dental Center
Cost Mounts Up For Teacher’s Pet in New York Town
Six year old Carolyn White is labeled the teacher’s pet in Trout River New York a one room school with 13 pupils last year now only Carolyn attends. Taxpayers pay about 2400 dollars annually or 48 per person for her education with 2000 for the teacher’s salary and 400 for books paper and wood. Trustee James Dibble calls it a little expensive for one pupil while Carolyn enjoys being the center of attention and misses a playmate on the teeter totter.
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Carolyn White
Carolyn
James Dibble
Vets Build Affordable Homes From Brains and Brawn
A group of 25 veterans who fought in the last war are constructing nine houses on South Midland Avenue in KEARNY New Jersey with a plan to add 15 more. Each five room home features a tiled bath and modern kitchen with an average cost of 6500 dollars. The cooperative uses a mortgage on land for 24 lots and all 25 members contribute 400 dollars each and must provide 72 hours of work every four weeks until all houses are finished.
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South Midland Avenue
Houstonians Hear NCCJ Leader Warn Communism Failing
Dr. Everett R. Clinchy, president of the NCCJ, told Houstonians sales talks for communism are failing as it loses customers and territory. He detailed European efforts to foster brotherhood through religion and noted Pope Pius XII encouraged the effort.
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Houston
Europe
Everett R. Clinchy
National Conference of Christians and Jews
Dr. Clinchy
American Council
Lucius Clay
Glinchy
Italy
Switzerland
Clinchy
NCC
Doctor Clinchy
United States
Pope Pius XII
Thomas E. Braniff
Catholic Cochairman
Council
Braniff
Shaw Protest with Church Ban on His Play
George Bernard Shaw protested to the Roman Catholic archbishop of Klagenfurt against church censure of his play St. Joan. Shaw’s letter, published in Volkesstimme, followed a pastoral warning to Austrians not to attend the Klagenfurt performance.
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Vienna
George Bernard Shaw
Klagenfurt
Shaw
Volkesstimme
Christ
St. Joan
Joan of Arc
Life in Jail for 11 Convicted Reds
The 11 Communist Party leaders convicted of conspiring to overthrow the U S government await sentencing in the Federal House of Detention. Mrs John Gates wife of Daily Worker editor described his harsh conditions and the jumbled line of sight through a glass panel as they visit. The board of elections found no legal route to remove Benjamin J Davis Jr from the ballot and he seeks reelection in the 21st Senatorial District on party lines.
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New York
Communist Party
Federal House of Detention
John Gates
The
Daily Worker
Harold R. Medina
Mrs. Gates
Board of Elections
Benjamin J. Davis Jr
Davis
American Labor Party
Earl Brown
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Houseo Ey
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Kirk Douglas
Ring Lardner
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Pigskin
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Austin
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Shannon
Eire
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Weisbaden
Mary Jane Hinckley
Fred Henschel
Anya
Trout River, N. Y
Hegman
RITZ
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John Carradine
Evelyn Ankers
Clyde Beatty
Tex Ritter
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Lloyd Nolan
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SMU
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Sunset Tavern
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Burnet Road
Curly” Meyers and the
Cherokee Lawson
Blackie
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His Boys
Walt
Dallas Highway
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Congress 21St
Wichita
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Ezra Rachlin
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Reed
William Charles A.T
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Play Boys
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Dean Washman
Lamar
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Tonight
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