Churchmen Push Experiments On Life After Death Fellowship Grows
London reporters reveal The Churches Fellowship for Psychical Study aims to prove survival after death through tests and contacts with the other side. Clergy including the dean of St Pauls and the bishop of Ripon back the work, while critics warn of Scriptural bans on contacting spirits. Meanwhile in Havana two blasts hit a Cuban army powder dump, injuring one and destroying a warehouse.
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Robert Musel
London
Churches Fellowship
Reginald M. Lester
St. Paul's
Ripon
H.H. Price
Oxford
Lesle Weatherhead
Loneer Life For Americans Men Now Spend More Years On Job
The article analyzes shifts in American men’s life pattern from 1900 to 1950, noting longer preparation periods, extended working years, and longer retirements due to higher life expectancy and prosperity. It cites 17.7 years of pre-work for a 1950 birth, 5.9 years of retirement, and a rise in total lifetime work time alongside a reduced weekly hours norm.
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Uals
Crash Kills Navy Pilot Near Abilene Texas
A Navy F9F6P fighter crashed on a rocky hilltop about 15 miles northeast of Abilene while en route from Point Mugu California to Hensley Naval Air Dallas. The pilot was killed and the identification withheld pending kin notification. Witnesses heard a rumbling noise before the crash and fragments spread over a half mile. Funeral services will be held in Harlingen for 23 year old nurse Phyllis Rae Morris who died after being struck by a car in San Antonio.
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Abilene
Tex
California
Dallas
Hensley Naval Air
Point Manga
Lake Fort Phantom Hill
Harlingen
Hrlingen
Phyllis Rae Morris
San Antonio
Non-Union Thief Strikes Pasadena Labor Office
A non-union thief cracked a Pasadena labor temple safe and stole about 400 dollars. Police found a note on the shattered safe reading This job is non-union Please dont patronize. The incident occurred Monday at the Pasadena office.
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Pasadena
Calif
Pasadena Labor Temple
Rites Set Tomorrow For Promising Actor
Funeral services will be held at noon Wednesday for actor Robert Francis, 25, killed with two others in a light plane crash in Burbank. Francis, hailed as Hollywood's rising lead, starred in The Caine Mutiny. Also dead were actress Audrey Ann Dasch, 24, and George Irving Meyer, 38, a business partner of Joe Kirkwood.
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Hollywood
Robert Francis
Francis
Burbank
Audrey Ann Dasch
George Irving Meyer
Joe Kirkwood
Blind Singer Missing Since 1951 Disappears After Carnegie Hall Debut
NEW YORK UP A blind concert singer who walked streets with a cane vanished four years ago. Joy Cole, who debuted at Carnegie Hall in 1947, attracted friends at the New York lighthouse for the blind. Seen last in August 1951, she is in her mid thirties, brown hair, dark cane. Parents in Altus Oklahoma seek help from Tracers Company of America to locate her, hoping she will respond to music and possibly join a Presbyterian choir. She sings in German, French and Italian and is Braille literate.
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New York
Joy Cole
Carnegie Hall
New York Lighthouse For
Manhattan
B. Earle Cote
Altus
Okla
Tracers Company of America
Tracers
Ana
McCarthy Says Eisenhower Betrayed Trust At Geneva
Sen Joseph McCarthy in a final Senate speech accused President Eisenhower of a sellout of Nationalist China and of betraying the people. He called for the people to learn the truth as Congress prepared to adjourn in a pointed rebuke of the White House and its foreign policy.
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Washington
Joseph R. McCarthy
R-Wis
Eisenhower
Geneva
Senate
Congress
China
White House
Fragmented Denture Tips From a Scribbled Note
A garbled OCR fragment discusses false teeth and dental care. It mentions upper plates, improving fit, uneasy wording about alkaline denture cleaners, and unclear references to movement or placement. The legible items are dental in nature but lack coherent details or a clear event.
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