Custody Fight Over Part White Part Negro Girl Hits Court
Five year old Mary Marshall faces a custody battle as white mother Marguerite Marshall and Negro father Emerson Marshall seek to regain Mary from the child’s grandparents in Buffalo New York. The case hinges on race and guardianship with Supreme Court Justice Alger A. Williams expected to rule in about a week.
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Buffalo
N. Y
Mary Marshall
Mary
Supreme Court
Alger A. Williams
Marguerite Marshall
Sherman L. Walker
Justice Williams
Source of a Name Scallion Traces to Ascalon’s Port
Scallion derives from the ancient Palestine port Ascalon where ships carried onions in the Mediterranean trade.
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Scallion
Ascalon
Palestine
Target year for international union discussion
A group of senators fixed 1950 as the target year for an international convention to discuss bringing North Atlantic democracies into a federal union. Kefauver aims for a convention call by President Truman with hearings planned in the next Congress.
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Washington
Kefauver
D-Tenn
Congress
Truman
United States
United Nations
Custodian of Lincoln Tomb Dies at Age 90
Herbert Fay, custodian of the Lincoln Tomb since 1921, died suddenly Tuesday night at his Springfield home near the tomb. A longtime figure for four million visitors, Fay was known for his Lincoln memorabilia collection, one of the rarest in existence.
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Lincoln
Springfield
Abraham Lincoln
Herbert Fay
Fay
French doctor says today's GI bigger problem for the military
Dr J Paraire reports at an international congress that modern soldiers face more complex mental disorders with higher incidence in World War II than World War I. He notes hysteria and amnesia have diminished while physical and sexual health issues rise, implying a shift in wartime psychology.
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Mexico City
J. Paraire
Val-de-Grace Hospital
Paris
France
Paraire
New Eye Disease Blinds Premature Infants Described
New eye disease retrolental fibroplasia blinds preschool children and affects about 650 premature infants each year. Described at the American Public Health Association meeting, it forms a membrane behind the lens and often blights both eyes. Vitamin E shows promise as a preventive measure in feedings for premature babies.
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New York
American Public Health Association
William C. Owens
Johns Hopkins University Medical School
Ella Ahler Owens
Owens
Throttle on Jap Trading Desired at ECAFE Conference
At the United Nations ECAFE meeting in Singapore Philippines delegate Cornelio Dalmaceda urged that Japan not be allowed to become a world peace menace while favoring broader regional trade. The conference endorsed surveys of industrial development and coal iron steel capacity and study of World Bank loan needs for Asia and the Far East.
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Singapore
Philippines
United Nations Economic Commission For Asia and the
Asia
Far East
Russia
ECAFE
World Bank
400 Attend Personnel Parley in Austin Sessions Begin
The conference features leaders from Johnson and Johnson, Westinghouse, Swift and Company and the University of Texas. Speakers include James E Newsome C G renn R H Thatch and Dr Wayne Orton with Gov Shivers delivering the Thursday address. Public sessions invite attendance and industry and education panels span Friday morning.
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Austin
James E. Newsome
Johnson and Johnson Company
Chicago
C. Grenn
University of Innesota
Carl B. Kreiner
Houston aSeEs Executive Club
J. Rector Allen
E. M. Scarbrough and Sons
E. W. Jackson
FE. L. Stock Company
R. H. Thatch
Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Houston
Gov. Shivers
Rwayne Orton
International Business Machines Corporation
New York
Ray Elliott
Orton
Paul H. Figg
Civil Service Region
Dallas
Gov
Shivers
Ed Truitt
Credit Bureau of Greater Houston
W. O. Harwell
Austin Chamber of Commerce
Frank W. Jessen
Austin Development Founda
Manila considers election period gun ban
Manila officials asked President Quirino to outlaw carrying firearms during a 20 day window around the November 8 national election. Police raided the Tondo slum in a bid to curb subversive activity, arresting a handful of suspects in the second raid in three days.
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Manila
Quirino
Tondo
Radio Jam Hams Dairen Report By U S Consuls
Two U S consular officials in the Port of Dairen report Soviet controlled radio jamming. Consul Paul E Paddock of Iowa and Vice Consul Culver Gleysteen of Pennsylvania said interference began four months ago and continued until they left Dairen last Friday. They arrived in Tokyo via Korea after extended mail delays from the United States.
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Tokyo
Manchurian
Dairen
Paul E. Paddock
Marshalltown
Iowa
Culver Gleysteen
Jenkintown
Korea
United States
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Heinz Baby Foods
Ozpie
Harriet
R. Edwards
Uitte
Cc. B. Smith
B. Kreiner
Hind Pantihione
Revell & Co
Dial
Partment
Newageons
College of Business Administration
Harold F. North
Swift and Company
Dudley K. Woodward
University Board of Regents
General
Austin Goodyear
Driskill Laundry
E. 19Th St
Fin
Pardin
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