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Newspaper
Charleston Gazette
Location
Charleston, West Virginia, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1951
Page
3
Peiping radio reported that two foreign Catholic nuns were sentenced to prison and five others ordered deported for gross maltreatment of Chinese children at a banking orphanage. The broadcast, heard in San Francisco, named Marie as one of the nuns.
Joseph Baroy, a French national, and Maria Angelica da Libra, a Portuguese national, were sentenced to ten years imprisonment. The pair ran the Sacred Heart orphanage and hospital at Nanking, according to court records.
Walter M. Lynch of Charleston announced the 19th Roane County Homecoming will be held September 2 at the Roane 4-H Camp near Gandeeville. The event marks a long standing county tradition with community members gathering for the weekend.
A Detroit wife, married ten months, obtained a divorce after claiming her husband woke her nightly to play gin rummy. Mrs Ann Norman testified Samuel, formerly of Hartford, Connecticut, played the card game morning, noon and night. The couple wed September 2 and separated November 15.
Jackson Welch of New Zion Kentucky, an Army veteran of the Eighth Engineer Combat Battalion in Korea, was killed in a crash near Camp Drake in Japan after a May 22 to June 5 duty period. He had planned to ship home on the Army rotation.
A vintage ad promotes mothproofed carpets from Woodums with a three year warranty against moth or carpet beetle damage at no extra charge. It highlights color, patterns, quality, and moderate prices, urging customers to visit Lees Carpets soon.
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