Sweater Spurs Immigrant Dream from 1918 to 1954
Ibrahim Badra and his family arrive in New York aboard the Giulio Cesare after a decades long tale tied to a 1918 hand knit sweater. The garment, once worn by a New Rochelle knitters, connected Belmont Massachusetts sponsors to the family via church aid and World Council support.
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New York
Ibrahim Badra
Amman
Jordan
Giulio Cesare
America
France
Rose Badra
Badra
Marguerite Todd Beveridge
James Beveridge
First Baptist Church
Belmont
Mass
Beveridge
Red Cross
Tanas Badra
United States
Ibrahim
Graham Arrives In Australia For 16 Week Crusade
Graham arrived in Sydney after recovering in Honolulu from an eye ailment. He said Americans have sins too and will remind Australians of old truths. The 16 week crusade opens Sunday night at Melbourne Stadium, capacity 11 000.
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Era
Sydney
Australia
America
Graham
Honolulu
New Zealand
Melbourne Stadium
Britain Bars Dr Otto John From Entering country
Dr Otto John former West German security chief barred as undesirable alien after arriving in Dover from Belgium on a channel ferry. He was detained and slated for return with Bonn friends saying he wished to start a legal career in England. John had fled to East Germany in 1954, worked for the Communists, returned claiming kidnapping, and was jailed four years for treason, later pardoned in July.
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London
Otto John
Britain
John
Dover
Belgium
Bonn
England
East Germany
Supreme Court
Red China Hails Commune Program Growth in Public Welfare
The Peiping People's Daily reports two million public mess halls four million nurseries and 110000 homes for the aged have been set up in Red China under the people's commune program reflecting broad welfare expansion.
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Commune Program
Hong Kong
Peiping People’s Daily
Red China
People's Commune
Flood waters hit Midwest as Fremont declares emergency
The second wave of floods hits Ohio towns including Fremont Findlay and Ottawa with 1 000 residents evacuated and 200 to 500 homeless. The Sandusky and Blanchard rivers overflowed Crests exceeded nine feet in Findlay with one fourth of the city submerged. deaths include a canoeist missing near Tiffin and a man dying of a heart attack while bailing a basement.
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Fremont
Sandusky
Sandusky Bay
Findlay
Blanchard
van Wert
Ottawa
Putnam County
Tiffin
Kenneth Wolcott
Heidelberg College
Sandusky River
G. Clyde Wolfe
Weather Eases Up After Violent Winter Storms Hit Midwest
The most violent winter weather eased but floods and overflows persisted in the eastern half of the country. In St. Louis a killer tornado killed at least 21 people, left 7 missing, and 300 injured with 70 still in hospital. About 4,000 buildings damaged and 12 million dollars in losses were reported. Tornadoes also struck Missouri Illinois Indiana Ohio and Kentucky with damage and displacements widespread. Findlay and Van Wert Ohio declared emergencies as floods worsened in Ohio and Indiana.
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Associated Press
St. Louis
Insurance Board of St. Louis
Missouri
Illinois
Indiana
Ohio
Kentucky
Wabash Valley
Findlay
van Wert
Home Repairs badge tops Boy Scouts merit awards
The Home Repairs merit badge is the most earned by Boy Scouts in recent years. There are currently 7,589,183 scouts and leaders in 67 nations worldwide.
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Rogers
Insurance Agency
N. Main St
Arlo F. Newell
Providence Wesleyan Methodist Church
Midwest
Thomasville Store Company, Inc
Thomasville, N. C
Thomasville
Rufus W. Reynolds
Warren
Studebaker
Charles F. Lambeth, JR
Bankru
Thomasville, N
SEARS
B. Creestt
Merit Shoes
MAIN
Pazo
J. C. Higgins
Zilico
Eigin
High Point
Sears Craftsman
Rotary
North Main ST
Kenmore
Kenmore Sewing Machine
Maid
Martha Washington
Ward ST
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