Curse of Hexed Castle Reaches Malaya Kills Heir
A 700 year old curse on the male heirs of Fyvie Castle in Aberdeenshire is linked to the death of 21 year old Lt. John Alexander Forbes Leith in Malaya. Reports say he was killed by a Malayan bandit’s thrown weapon amid legend of the castle’s doomed lineage. The line of direct male inheritance has repeatedly failed.
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London
INS
Malaya
John Alexander Forbes- Leith
Ian Forbes-Leith
Fyvie
Aberdeenshire
Bourbon Price Drop Seen by Turkey Day
Four year old bourbon expected to sell at pre war prices by Thanksgiving. Kinsey Distilling's T A DuBois: straight bourbons and blends at four dollars a fifth and bonded bourbon about four dollars seventy five. Remarks were at the National Retail Liquor Package Stores Association annual convention.
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Atlantic City
N. J
T. A. DuBois
Philadelphia
Kinsey Distilling Corporation
DuBois
National Retail Liquor Package Stores Association
Patched Up Marriage Fails After Court Plea
In Baltimore on September 28 Judge J Howard Murray offered a renewed chance to a troubled couple. They left the court together but the husband soon departed with another girl, ending the reconciliation attempt.
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Baltimore
J. Howard Murray
Business Chiefs Urged To Accept Federal Service
General Omar Bradley urged business and industrial leaders to join government service for two years or advisory posts, arguing the government needs capable citizens to run the nation. He spoke at a National Security Industrial Association meeting in New York, noting salary gaps with private sector and Senate consideration of executive pay boosts.
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New York
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
National Security Industrial Association
America
Truman
Senate
Military Stressing Quick Mobilization
Atlantic City New Jersey September 28 The armed services plan to lose as few days as possible in a bitter emergency Assistant Secretary of the Army Archibald S Alexander said at the New Jersey State Federation of Labor meeting He stressed a coordinated program of weapons research development and planning to mobilize and supply raw materials facilities and manpower while noting labor miracles in past wars.
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Atlantic City
N. J
Armed Services
Archibald S. Alexander
Alexander
New Jersey
Funeral Rites Slated Tomorrow For Young Mother And Quadruplets
In Chicago, Bernice Ecker, 33, died after delivering quadruplets without prenatal care. Her husband Vernon, 29, a truck driver, faced raising three children from a previous marriage. The two boys and two girls were born after a period of hemorrhaging and anemia, with the first boy stillborn.
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Bernice Ecker
Chicago
Holy Cross Hospital
Vernon
Ecker
Mrs. Ecker
Head Thief Seeks Prize Exhibit at St Louis Museum
Police hunt a mysterious intruder who stole a shrunken Peruvian head from the Museum of Science. The head, prized as a trophy, was described as a human relic reduced to the size of an apple by an ancient secret process.
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ST. Louis
Museum of Science
Seminole children fall ill force move from swamp reserve
In Clewiston Florida Seminole tribesmen consider leaving their swamp reservation after 24 children near the Sugarlands Hospital were stricken with a rare streptococcal infection. Hospital officials say most are improved though several remain ill. Chief Johnny Cypress questions staying in the Cypress reserve. He notes the rocky swampland is hard to sustain, estimating 20 acres needed per cow.
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Clewiston
Fla
Everglades
Sugarlands
Johnny Cypress
Cypress Reservation
Cypress
Sloppy Actors Make 10 List Sloppy Dressers on Screen
Hollywood insiders publish a list naming ten male film stars as the worst dressed on screen. Howard Duff MacDonald Carey Frank Sinatra Robert Cummings Vic Mature Adolphe Menjou Bing Crosby Van Heflin Jimmy Stewart Rudy Vallee are cited with humorous jabs as the fashion lapses. The list vows to become an annual feature.
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Hollywood
Howard Duff
MacDonald Carey
Marine Corps
Frank Sinatra
Robert Cummings
Vic
Adolphe Menjou
Bing Crosby
van Heflin
Philadelphia Story
Jimmy Stewart
Rudy Vallee
Truman May Run To Keep A Job In 1952
Al Jolson said President Truman may run for re election in 1952 because he might need the job. Jolson, a Washington native, asked for a chat and reported Truman’s reply that he would run if the people want him but he wasn’t sure.
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Washington
al Jolson
Truman
Jolson
Monument Unveiled at Hack Wilson Grave
Martinsburg West Virginia friends gathered in a graveyard corner to unveil a small stone monument over the grave of baseball star Hack Wilson on Tuesday.
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Martinsburg
W. Va
Hack Wilson
Big
Dayton man finds $126 stolen from box with note
In Dayton, Julian Tangeman discovered $126 missing from a small metal box holding valuables. A note left by the thief said he would repay as soon as possible, while $98 remained untouched.
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Dayton
Ohio
Julian Tangeman
China Reds Take Sinkiang In Coup Across Vast Province
Sept 28 reports say Chinese Communists seized Sinkiang, amid radio confirmation from Peiping. Nationalists warn heavy fighting near Canton and Amoy as reinforcements move to counter Red advances in central coastal areas.
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Canton
China
Sinkiang
Russia
Kashmir
Afghanistan
Peiping
Reds’ Political Consultative Council
Kwangtung
Kukong
Amoy
Tihwa
Chang Chih-Chung
Chang
San Francisco
Associated Press
Tao Chih-Yueh
Northwest
Mao Tze-Tung
Ma Pu-Fang
Kansu
Lanchow
Chihing
Canton- Hankow
Taipei
Southeast China Command
Kingmen
Chusan Islands
Chekiang
Formosa
Fukien
Funeral Rites Held For Victim of Fire
In San Antonio on September 28 funeral services were held for Mrs. Ruth F. Donnell 55 who died after a gas ignition explosion at her home while flooring was refinished Police linked the blast to gasoline fumes from a water heater She is survived by her husband Bert E Donnell sisters Hattie Malone Pearsall and Ola Malone Devine and brothers Henry Skinner Devine and Jim Skinner Hebronville
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San Antonio
Pearsall
Ruth F. Donnell
Henry Skinner
Devine
Jim Skinner
Hebronville
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