Final Minute Chinese Barrage Claims Last Yank in Korea
Sgt. Harold R. Cross of Junction City Kansas died in the final minutes of the Korean War after a Chinese mortar barrage. He was among the last Americans killed, praised as a fine soldier who worried about his buddies. Cross died after being wounded in the ruins of a bunker in K Company 5th Regimental Combat Team.
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Seoul
Sum
Harold R. Cross
8Th Army
Cross
Junction City
Kan
Eant
K Company
5Th Regimental Combat Team
John C. McCrimmon
Lincolnton
McCrimmon
North Rocky Mount Church votes on pastor stay
The North Rocky Mount Baptist Church will vote next Sunday on whether to remain in the Southern Baptist Convention after Pastor Samuel H. W. Johnston delivered his resignation ultimatum. He criticized the convention and Wake Forest College and the University of Richmond and was backed by Howard Wallace who alleged whisky shipments into Wake Forest dormitories.
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Rocky Mount
North Rocky Mount
Wake Forest
Wallace
Aon
University of Richmond
Polio Serum Promised for Avery County Children
The State Health Department announced a supply of gamma globulin serum to help fight a polio outbreak in Avery County. Dr Charles N Cameron of the communicable disease division said the Office of Defense Mobilization in Washington indicated enough anti polio serum for mass immunization of about 3000 county children would be available immediately. Children under 10 will receive the shots.
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Newland
State Health Department
Avery County
Charles N. Cameron
Department
Office of Defense Mobilization
Washington
North Carolina appoints James Larkin Pearson poet laureate
Gov Umstead announced James Larkin Pearson of Wilkes County as North Carolina’s new poet laureate under the 1935 Assembly resolution. Pearson, 73, a Guilford College alumnus, succeeds Arthur Abernethy of Rutherford College. The State Literary and Historical Association backed the choice, and Pearson will receive his commission at a House ceremony Tuesday at 11:30 a.m.
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Raleigh
Umstead
James Larkin Pearson
Guilford College
North Carolina
Pearson
Wilkes County
Arthur Talmage Abernethy
Rutherford College
General Assembly
State Literary and Historical Association
Free Book on Arthritis and Rheumatism
A enlarged 44 page booklet titled Rheumatism explains why drugs offer only temporary relief and details a non surgical non medical treatment proven for 33 years. Free with no obligation. Send for it to The Ball Clinic 4612 Excelsior Springs.
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Ball Clinic
Excelsior Springs
No Quick Cuts Foreseen in Military Buying Amid Korean Truce
Defense budget chief Wilfred J. McNeil told reporters the Korean armistice will slow ammunition purchases first but will not trigger sharp postwar cuts. He said the 1954 budget remains 43.2 billion dollars with potential small reductions if the truce holds, and that current procurement plans for aircraft ships and Army equipment show no major changes.
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Washington
Defense Department
Wilfred J. McNeil
McNeil
Armed Forces
Air Force
Naval Aviation
Kaiser
Army
Park Street man charged with stabbing another
Police report Charles Banks of 910 Park Street charged with cutting Ben McGraw of 735 Washington Street after a knife assault. McGraw’s wound not serious and hospital reports show no treatment. Banks remains jailed on 300 bond. Richard McPherson 30 of 713 Willowbrook Street charged with simple assault. bond set at 100.
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Charles Banks
Park Street
Ben McGraw
East
Washington Street
McGraw
Banks
Richard McPherson
Willowbrook Street
Nannie Mae McPherson
McPherson
William S. Blair
Clover Drive
Blair
Fay Parker
Tate Street
L. A
Atomic Spy Takes Bride In Britain
Cambridge England August 1 Dr Alan Nunn May 42 year old British scientist jailed in 1946 as an atom spy married Viennese born Dr Hildegarde Pauline Ruth Broda 42 deputy medical officer for schools in the Cambridge area The ceremony took place at Shire Hall The couple were aged against two men a woman The balding bespectacled scientist pleaded guilty at Old Bailey in May 1946 to passing atomic secrets to an unknown person actually a Russian contact Nunn May the Wests first atomic spy was captured after Canadian police acting on a Soviet Embassy code clerk in Ottawa provided tip A little more than two years were knocked from his sentence for good behavior
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Cambridge
England
Alan Nunn May
Hildegarde Pauline Ruth Broda
Nunn May
Shire Hall
Womn
Old Bailey Central Criminal Court
Ottawa
Car Radios and Parts Stolen From Auto Lot
The manager of a used car lot reported to City police that thieves stole two car radios and other auto parts from cars on the lot. W. D. Reynolds of High Point Severe at 501 North Wrenn Street said two radios, valued at $25 each, were taken and that additional parts were missing though the exact amount is unknown.
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W. D. Reynolds
High Point Severe
North Wrenn Street
Taft's Body To Lie In Capitol
Taft will lie in state in the Capitol rotunda and receive a state funeral at noon in Washington. President Eisenhower Vice President Nixon and top officials will attend. Taft will be buried in Cincinnati after services at Indian Hill Church with gifts to charity requested in lieu of flowers.
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Nixon
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Cabinet
United States
Supreme Court
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Diplomatic Corps
Senate
Tait
Capitol Rotunda
John J. Pershing
Taft
New York
Rotunda
Capitol Dome
Cincinnati
Indian Hill Episcopalian Church
Horace
William Howard Taft
Sherman Adams
White House
Forest A. Harness
Sen
Knowland
California
New York Hospital
Frederick Brown Harris
Harris
Governors To Hear Ike On Public Power Ideas
President Eisenhower is due to address the national governors conference in Seattle about public vs private power. The meeting follows Taft’s Washington funeral and includes debate over Idaho Power Co. dam sites on the Snake River and federal state tax relations.
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Ihe
Seattle
Wash
Eisenhower
Ress
Washington
Robert A. Taft
Rohio
Allan Ivers
Texas
McKay
Idaho Power Co
Snake River
Eus Canyon
Chapman
Northwest
Contoversy
Dan Thornton
Colorado
West
Inton
Shivers
Humphrey
Evansville grenade blast leaves one dead in bar fight
In Evansville Indiana a hand grenade exploded during a brawl outside Ted Coles restaurant killing Jesse Triggs 38 and wounding at least 17 others. Cpl James B Madison 23 a Korea veteran is held for grand jury. eyewitnesses say he threw the grenade from a car. Camp Breckinridge soldiers aided police in rounding up participants.
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Evansville
Ind
James B. Madison
Vanderburgh County
Grand Jury
Jesse Triggs
Frank McDonald
Camp Breckie
Kenneth King
Cpl
Madison
McDonald
Bennett Kellams
Ted Cole
Kentucky
Lawrence Terry
Frank Cough
Camp Breckinridge
Korea
Co. A
65Th Tank Battalion
101St Airborne Division
Scientists count nearly 1300 atom types changing element view
Scientists report there are about 1300 distinct atom kinds, redefining the long held belief that each element exists in a single form. The finding reshapes understanding of chemical elements and their variations.
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High Point
N. C
Enterprise
Boys Admit Plot To Slay Father In West Virginia
In Martinsburg West Virginia a 13 year old boy and his nine year old brother admitted plotting to kill their father with a homemade dynamite device. The older boy Eugene Hess was sent to the Boys Industrial School at Grafton until age 21 and the younger boy was placed on probation under county child welfare supervision.
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Martinsburg
W.va
Eugene Hess
Jin
Decatur Rogers
Grafton
Skeley County Child Welfare Committee
Gilbert Hess
Hess
Demonna
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