Two Marines Charged with Murder in Police Slaying
Two Marines Sgt. Frederick L. Porcelli 20 and Cpl. Herman J. Socie Jr. 19 face murder charges in the Aug. 16 shooting of Patrolman Jesse Mills. They confessed to the slaying after being arrested near Camp Lejeune. authorities say they also admitted robbing a dry cleaning plant for 225 dollars as they traveled from Fulton New York toward New Jersey.
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Greenville
N. C
Guy Langston
Frederick L. Porcelli
Herman J. Socie Jr
Langston
Camp Lejeune
Jesse Eilis
Porcelli
Jersey City
N. J
Mills
Jacksonville
Central Prison
Raleigh
Socie
Fulton, N. Y
New York
H. G. Lilley
Hollywood War Era Notes and Society Headlines
The item surveys press pages and gossip from Newsweek amid WW2 Hollywood themes. It mentions Runyon Fund seats, a March of Time reissue with stars John Garfield and Carole Landis, draft-dodger Serge Rubinstein buying a Fifth Avenue mansion, and landlords evicting war veterans. It notes Joe Louis threatening Confidential, Patti Wilson wedding, car industry optimism for 1953, a major police shakeup, a G-Man arrest in Brooklyn, Clooney and Ferrer marriage plans, and district attorney prosecutions for vice and price gouging.
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Hollywood
John Garfield
Bob Benchley
Carole Landis
Jolson
Serge Rubinstein
5Th Avenue
Joe Louis
New Mag
Mark Finley
Allionaire
Chicago
Patti Wilson
Fort Worth
Prakillg
G-Man
Bklyn
Sands and
Pearl Streets
Rosemary Clooney
Jose Ferrer
Paris
Costly Drivel in Congressional Record Post Adjournment
The Washington public health and housing notes, plus St. Lawrence seaway items, miss 13 major issues. The 82nd Congress final statistics are printed with extended remarks by lawmakers. Over 500 pages have been issued since adjournment at 250 dollars per page, totaling about 125000 dollars.
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St. Lawrence Seaway
Congress
Washington
Congressional Record
Jury Probes Gold Smuggling Ring Indicts 65
A federal grand jury in New York probes a gold smuggling racket valued at about 500 million dollars annually. Sixty five defendants, many of them alleged gold refiners, were indicted on varied charges as the panel criticizes lax gold law enforcement and the legal price of 35 dollars per ounce used to move gold to black market channels at higher prices.
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New York
U. S
Louis Kaplan
Greeny
Humidity Drives Discomfort In Summer Heat
Army research shows humidity, not just heat, triggers discomfort when temperatures reach the 90s. Volunteers sweat at four to five quarts per hour as internal temps rise and fatigue sets in.
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U. S. Army
Miscellaneous Humorous Snippets From the Era
A collection of light anecdotes and quips about Americans and Boston, larks and voices, Harlem demographics, barbershop habits, and old policing times. Observations mix wit and social commentary with dated humor and regional quirks.
Bonham Fire Deparment Marks New Three Alarm System
Bonham Texas volunteers adopt a three alarm scheme for fires two alarm four alarm and give the siren hell Grass and automobile fires trigger two alarms while residences barns garages and small businesses go four and large businesses factories and oil warehouses go all out The text also notes a generic comparison about hair length between men and women.
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Bonham, Tex
Bonham
Smith Trial Indicated in Guilford October Term
Indications point to former Greensboro lottery figure F D George Smith facing trial in October at Guilford Superior Court on hit and run and manslaughter charges. True bills were returned. preliminary hearings found probable cause on two felonies and bound over on two misdemeanors. Smith is free on $40,000 bond and faces a $100,000 civil suit by the Rainey family over the Pomona boy George Henry Rainey.
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Greensboro
F. D
George) Smith
Guilford Superior Court
Smith
Municipal County Court
Pomona
George Henry Rainey
Virgil Rainey
Firemen Use 900-Man Training to Test Fire Fuels
In College Station Texas a training school drawn about 900 firemen set burning large stocks of gasoline butane propane crude oil and diesel to study the latest firefighting techniques. The blast and heat were intense at the test site as temperatures reached 102 degrees elsewhere in the city.
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College Station
Tex
Cow Traps Man Into Mowing Machine in Gilead
C Daniel Way, 84, of Gilead Connecticut is in hospital with a fractured leg after a cow rose up for a better view and nudged him into a mowing machine he was repairing. Way is being treated for his injuries at the local hospital.
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Gilead, Conn
C. Daniel Way
Luck and Strategy in a Four-Handed Canasta Hand
An Evansville correspondent asks how to play a tense four handed Canasta hand with no money involved. The adviser weighs discarding a jack or a ten to balance risk and luck, emphasizing temperament and the risk of giving away clues as the partner aids decisions.
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NEA
Evansville
Eisenhower faces task of offering his own foreign plan
Gen Eisenhower, unhappy with Truman policy, told Midwestern Republicans he would propose a substitute and must spell how his approach would differ. He urged the Kremlin to allow Eastern Europe and Asia to choose their destiny, while Harriman and Dulles debated containment and a dynamic policy to roll back Communism.
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James Marlow
Washington
Gen
Eisenhower
Truman
American Legion
New York
United States
Kremlin
Europe
Asia
John
Foster Dulles
Dulles
Mutual Security
Averell Harriman
Republican Party
Harriman
Oklahoma Bar Leader Charged Over Bus Fare Dispute
John Hellme Halley, 65, president of the Oklahoma Bar Association, says the bus driver did not stop at his buzzer request for a free ride under city zoning rules. Halley refused to pay a dime when the driver tried to collect beyond the official free limit, prompting police involvement after the dispute at Third Street.
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Oklahoma City
Oklahoma Bar Association
John Hellme Halley
Northwest Second Street
Third Street
O. M. Rankin
Halley
Canasta strategy tips from Mr Jacoby column
The columnist notes safer discards in Canasta, suggesting kings and jacks wait one round. The best discard is a jack or a ten, jack being slightly safer, though outcomes vary if the tea is nicked. Mr Jacoby cannot answer individual readers but will publish the most frequent questions.
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Jacoby
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