Morals Count Nets Sentence In Thomasville
Unemployed Thomasville man Sam Hancock was ordered to the roads for eight months after pleading mistreatment of a 9-year-old girl in a theater. Testimony from the girl and an off duty officer supported the accusation in Thom asville Recorder's Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Thomasville
Sam Hancock
Recorder's Court
W. H. Steed
Hancock
Jessie Wright
John
LePrad
Robert Gillespie
Gillespie
Jake Stone
George Davenport
Rachel Johnson
Harry Carroll
Carroll
Youth Bound To High Court For Theft
Guilford youth William Dale Henley 16 bound over to Superior Court on breaking and entering and larceny at a neighbor’s home. Nellie Gatlin reported seeing him leaving and discarding cigarettes. Case set for Greensboro grand jury. Separately two Negro defendants received sentences for prohibited liquor violations and a drunk driving case ended in a $100 fine and 12 month driving ban.
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Guilford
Superior Court
William Dale Henley
Sheriff's Deputies
Nellie Gatlin
Ray Nance
Greensboro
Buster Jones
Hulda Street
Josephine Gray
Harrison Street
Jones
Barney Wilson McKinney
High Point Hotel
Buried Civilization Being Sought
London reports a British expedition has left for Ile-Ife in Nigeria to dig beneath mud-built palaces and homes. The goal is to trace the origin of bronze heads and terra cotta reliefs first found there in 1910 by Leo Froenius, with additional finds near a palace in 1938.
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London
Ile-Ife
Nigeria
West Africa
British Museum
Ile- Ife
Leo Fronius
Presidents named Raleigh
P H C Scott of Kenly and M J Wood of Statesville were elected presidents of the North Carolina Crop Improvement Association and the North Carolina Foundation Seed Producers at North Carolina State College meetings over the weekend Scott succeeds John Wagoner and Wood replaces F S Pittman in those posts.
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Raleigh
Coal origins of Mercurochrome and sulfa drugs noted
The text states Mercurochrome comes from bituminous coal and sulfa drugs derive from coal chemicals. It highlights coal as the origin of these chemical products.
Tippler Pleads Mercy After Canine Arrest Clash
In Thomasville this weekend Fred Boyd and Evans respond to a man and a large dog pulling down Spring Street. Police quell the scene as the man resists with the dog until both are placed in a patrol wagon. The owner pleads for mercy for his dog insisting the animal acted only on instruction.
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Thomasville
Fred Boyd
Oe Evans
Spring Street
Weekend police activity in Thomasville leads to multiple arrests
Thomasville officers filed numerous weekend arrests including assault with a deadly weapon against Helen Phillips by Clyde Phillips 22. James A Hill with drunken driving on East Main Street. Lawrence Earnhardt 31 and Peggie Earnhardt reported in assault case. Larry Craver 19 faced drunkenness and prohibition violations after resisting arrest. Additional 10 to 12 arrests noted for drunkenness and motor vehicle violations.
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Thomasville
Clyde Phillips
Helen Phillips
James A. Hill
Route 3
East Main Street
Lawrence Earnhardt
Route 2
Asheboro
Peggie Earn
Larry Carlton Craver
Winston Road
New College Grads Getting Higher Pay
CHICAGO UP New college graduates command higher starting salaries with an average of 3040 per year across 176 major corporations. Despite wage gains about 75 percent of seniors face induction into the armed forces, yet 83 percent return to prior employers. Non technical demand rises eight percent mainly in sales and general business. some firms plan fewer non technical hires signaling a possible leveling off. Employers interview about 151 seniors per 10 hires and issue 24 offers for 10 acceptances.
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Chicago
Frank S. Endicott
Northwestern University
Endicott
Armed Services
Groundhog predicts six more weeks of winter in Quarryville
In Quarryville Pennsylvania a sunless groundhog ceremony reported by UP confirms six weeks more of winter after a woodchuck saw its shadow at 9 17 5 a m. Governor Hess of the Slumbering Lodge of Groundhogs notes Squad No 1 contacted the animal at 7 45 a m. The routine mirrors the weather bureau forecast of winter ending six weeks and four days from now.
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Quarryville
Weather Bureau
Charles F. Hess
Thief Breaks In and Steals $15 From Pinball Machines
In Portland a burglar hid inside a tavern until closing and then pried loose $15 in silver from the pinball machines, breaking out through the front door with the loot.
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Portland
Ore
Spence and Hepburn clash to start then steady banter
A tale of Cary Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn's rapport starts with a humorous misread of height. A Northern England church rebuild hinges on ten pounds, tricked by an electrician in a pulpit. The Bloomfield Iowa Chamber signs boastful misprint about population 320014.
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Atharine Hepburn
Spencer Tracy
la Hepburn
Spence
Northern England
Chamber of Commerce
Bloomfield
Iowa
Bennett Cerf
King Features Syndicate
Manila Police Outgunned by Private Gun Owners
In Manila private individuals hold about twice as many guns as police. Police report 10 020 firearms while 19 945 weapons are owned by duty licensed civilians, according to Daniel F Batacan presidential police adviser.
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Manila
Daniel F. Batacan
Burned Out Light Blamed For Wreck In Thomasville
A burned out traffic signal at East Guilford and Memorial Park Drive caused a two car crash in Thomasville. James Paul Russell 115 White Street drove a 1951 model car east on East Guilford through the faulty light and collided with Jack Edward Louga 503 Memorial Park Drive in a 1947 model car. Russell faced $500 damage, Louga $400, both men signed warrants for reckless driving but cases were dismissed in Recorder’s Court.
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Thomasville
East Guilford
Memorial Park Drive
James Paul Russell
White Street
East Guilford Street
Jack Edward Louga
R. L. Floyd
R. V. Evans
Russell
Louya
Recorder’s Court
Mrs A B Nelson Dies In Hospital
Mrs A B Nelson aged 67 died at High Point Memorial Hospital after a heart attack and three weeks of illness. Funeral services will be at Bunker Hill Primitive Baptist Church near Kernersville tomorrow at 2 pm. burial in the church cemetery. She leaves two daughters and four sons, plus her mother, siblings, and a brother.
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A. B. Nelson
Rene
Stokes County
High Point
Pence Sheppard
Edith Willyard
Route 4
J. Dewey
W. Clarence
Carl W
D. Clinton Nelson
J. H. Nelson
Danbury
Bob Stevens
Kernersville
Ellen Mabe
Carrie Taylor
Cash register recovered after theft last May
City detectives report the cash register stolen from Vall Street Grocery last May has been found by Randolph deputies in a ditch near the Guilford line. The machine is badly rusted and no suspects or clues have been identified.
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Vall Street
Randolph
Guilford Line
Japanese Real Estate Returned to Owners After Occupation
Far East Command reports 40 million dollars of Japanese real estate seized for occupation forces returned to original owners in 1952. An additional 10 million dollars is likely to be returned in the next three months. To date 102 major buildings and 381 private homes have been handed back to Japanese owners.
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Cupation
Far East Command
Dedication Set for Winston-Salem Research Lab
Final plans complete for Thursday ceremony dedicating the $2,000,000 R J Reynolds research laboratory in Winston-Salem. Dr. Ernest W. Reid of Corn Products Refining Co will be the principal speaker at the dedication event.
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Winston-Salem
R. J. Reynolds Toco. Co. Research Laboratory
Ernest W. Reid
Corn Products Refining Co. of
New York
Wigwam Shelters Dome Shaped House Tradition
A Wigwam is a dome shaped wooden dwelling of certain American Indian tribes, with skin coverings and conical or rounded exterior forms, contrasted with the tipi as a related shelter.
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High Court
Tippler
Mercy
Mered
Boyd
Tokyo
Lanolin
Mann’s Drug Store
Ford
F.D.A.P
English Motor CO
East
Washington ST
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