Holy War Call From Cairo Stirring Up North Africa
United Press reports Moroccan underground presses issue pamphlets urging a jenad holy war against France. The message, issued from Cairo by Mohammed Hassenein Makhluf, calls Arabs to back the North African protectorates and avenge French alleged atrocities. The piece links riots to Communist influence and warns of a religious uprising amid the Korean stalemate.
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Casablanca
United Press
France
Cairo
Mohammed Hassenein Makhluf
Grand Mufti
Egypt
Sherman
Middle East
Quaker Corner to Quaker Lane Hosts New Meeting House
After 50 years at the corner of South Main and Commerce Streets the High Point Friends plan a modern meeting house on a 12 acre Quaker Lane site. The drive motto Lets Dig prompts fund raising to start construction in 1953, with parking and elbow room for future needs and strong community pride in the Friends' fellowship and equality.
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High Point Friends
South Main and
Commerce Streets
Quaker Corner
Quaker Woods
Friends
Quaker Lane
Supreme Court to rule on school segregation amid calm public stance
The case arc spans South Carolina Virginia Kansas Delaware and DC challenging constitutionality of racial segregation in public schools. Experts urge calm temperaments as communities brace for the decision and its vast social educational and political impact. North Carolina’s mixed progress in Negro education underscores the stakes.
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United States Supreme Court
South Carolina
Virginia
Kansas
Delaware
District of Columbia
Congress
Legislatures
Dred Scott
Lincoln
Cal
North Carolina
Supreme Court
Three way pill promises eight hour sleep wake cycle
A UK Christmas gift craze offers a three way sleeping pill that induces sleep for eight hours then wakes the user, while a Tennessee paper wonders if it will lower the windows in rain. Toy blackjacks listed as gifts provoke American concern over children and weapons.
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Nashville
Investigations to Shape the 83rd Congress
The 83rd Congress is seen as an investigative body to explain past events and guide future laws. Focus areas include Truman era actions in Korea, constitutional questions on United Nations Charter effects, Bricker’s proposed amendment, and Ferguson’s renewed look at Pearl Harbor after a report critics call incomplete and whitewashed.
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83Rd Congress
Congress
Truman
Russell Committee
United Nations
Korea
Bricker
Homer Ferguson
Pearl Harbor
The Silent Man Returns to Congress in 1952 Deeds
Mike Di Salle returns to Washington as special assistant to Roger Putnam amid nostalgia for the Office of Price Stabilization. The piece highlights Rep William R Williams known as Potato Bill for his quiet tenure as Oneida Oswego congressman and recalls past clashes over subsidies and policy. It notes Rockefeller and Sloan Foundation funding tied to historical works, and suggests Congress remains a check against official secrecy amid debates over Teheran Yalta and Korea.
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Washington
Mike di Salle
John Bricker
Ohio
Roger Putnam
Office of
OPS
Mike
Stein
William R. Williams
Cassville
N. Y
Oneida
Oswego
Sloan Foundation
Pearl Harbor
Charles A. Beard
Rockefeller) Foundation
The
Council (On Foreign Relations
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Woodrow Wilson
United States
Congressional Committee
Wiley
Teheran
Yalta
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Japan
China
Korea
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King Features Syndicate, Inc
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Kssk
Weight gain tale at Boston nightclub dancer episode
In Boston a nightclub dancer reportedly gained 15 pounds in two hours while eating a large sequence of foods including two filets mignon, four sirloins, turkey dinner, peas and mashed potatoes, cauliflower, consommé, many rolls and butter, fruit cups, ice cream pie and puff, apple pie, and coffee.
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Boston
Ex Ma Bad On Army Come-ons In New York
Walter Winchell notes in New York columns the holiday rush and social ironies as civilians cope with shopping pressures and media satire. He cites RKO and theater figures while poking fun at ex actors and Broadway life, signaling a bustling pre Christmas mood.
Demagogues and America First in Oldham column
W A Bivins reviews historical High Point figures, praising Dr J R Brown and recalling a 1892 accidental death. The piece examines demagoguery with examples from Alcibiades to Eisenhower and Truman, ends with a call to America First and a note on foreign attitudes toward the U.S. A humorous aside ends with a Grand Coulee pun about misunderstandings.
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High Point
John Riley Brown
Greensboro
J. R. Brown
Fred Flagler, Sr
Tomlinson
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