Nurse Takes Mercy Stand in High Profile Trial
Seven more witnesses are expected before the prosecution rests. The state may finish its case by week two. Prospective witnesses include Dr Robert E ron, medical referee, Dr Milton Helpern, NYC deputy medical examiner, and Dr Ralph I Miller, state pathologist. Reginald Borreto, husband of the deceased, is not yet called but is expected to testify. He previously said he believed Doctor Sander was wonderful and not responsible for his wife's death.
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Milton Helpern
New York City
Ralph I. Miller
Reginald Borreto
Nation Sees Coal Shortage Roil Communities and Prices Surge
Widespread coal shortages fuel strikes by 16 000 miners and push prices up from six dollars fifty a ton to fourteen in Pittsburgh. Railroads suffer burnability issues as fuel scarce, utilities, orphanages and veterans homes feel pressure while relief groups and unions vie for aid amid Communist warnings and Salvation Army involvement.
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Pittsburgh
Fayette County
Pennsylvania
Uniontown
Loyal Order of Moose Lodge
Communist Party
Salvation Army
Cumberland
Elmer Wall
Amnesia Victim in Detroit Identified as Scientist
A man treated at Receiving hospital in Detroit is an amnesia patient. He carried papers identifying him as Gordon F. 37 of Jackson Heights Long Island New York who is described as an atomic scientist.
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Detroit
Hosal
Gordon F
Jackson Heights
Long Island
N. Y
Wallace Seeks Respectability in Cold War Policy Debate
Wallace and Rogge addressed charges of communist influence in the progressive movement. They defended a non communist stance, urged human rights focus, and urged ADA members and others to join the progressives to dispel fears of Soviet control.
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United States
Soviet Union
Wallace
Russia
Americans For Democratic Action
ADA
Progressives
Fromt
Rogge
Naming Wake Forest President Delayed Until March 9
Greensboro report states a Wake Forest president selection is postponed to March 9 as a fifteen member committee studies the church state separation issue. Dr. Thurmond D. Kitchin has requested relief from duties and a Baptist general board panel appointed the fact finding group.
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Greensboro
Wake Forest College
Thurmond D. Kitchin
General Board
The
Batist Convention
Kitchin
One Time Coal Miner Becomes British Baron Jack Lawson
A former coal miner from Beamish County Durham with a wife who worked as a housemaid to fund his Oxford education has been named a peer. Jack Lawson, 68, served 30 years in parliament before leaving his seat to chair the national parks commission. He plans to live in his terrace home and continues speaking of modest roots.
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London
Jack Lawson
House of Commons
National Parks Commission
Beamish
County Durham
Lawson
Labor
Francis Campbell Ross Douglas
Malta
Oxford
Jack
Reward Offered for Clues in Alabama Mine Bombing
Alabama Power offers a $500 reward for clues in the dynamiting of a small non union coal mine and a power sub station near Birmingham. Three explosions hit the mine 30 miles south of the city injuring none, but cutting area power and damaging two transformers and a 4400 volt line. The mine operated by Thomas L Colley employed eight men and produced about 35 tons daily amid a union miners strike.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama Power Company
Power Company
Thomas L. Colley
Cooley
United Mine Workers
Thirteen Die Violent Deaths Across North Carolina
A weekend of violence in North Carolina left at least 13 dead. Incidents included a head on collision near Southern Pines killing two drivers, a Tarboro freight train boiler explosion killing three railroad workers, a truck accident fatality near Rockingham, a fatal stove explosion in Charlotte injuring a baby, and multiple suicides and accidents across several counties. Notable victims include Robert Whiteside 23 a teacher from Aberdeen L W Allgood 43 of Laurinburg and Berry Robert Brown 69 a Nash county farmer.
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Associated Press
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Southern Pines
Robert Whiteside
Aberdeen
L. W. Allgood
Laurinburg
Atlantic Coast Line
Tarboro
E. E. Boyette
J. H. Carson
Bud Tillman
Rocky Mount
Rockingham
John F. Ledbetter
Norton
Charlotte
Annie Bell Cunningham
Frank Smithey
North Wilkesboro
Iola Fowler
Wilmington
New Hanover County
Gordon Doran
William Preston Bonham
Warsaw
Duplin
Wayne Bone
Arthur Bone
Nash County
van B. Matthews
Berry Robert Brown
Autry to Play Two Shows in Greensboro
Gene Autry and his Melody Ranch stars visit the Sports Arena in Greensboro for two performances March 1. A matinee at 4 and an 8 o’clock show feature Champion and Little Champ with the Pinafores Pat Buttram Johnny Bond and others. Tickets on sale at Wilkerson McFalls Drug Store. Doors open 90 minutes before each show.
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Gene Autry
Melody Ranch
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Little Champ
Pat Buttram
Johnny Bond
Carl Conner
Frankie Marvin
Rafe Davis
Cass County Boys
Wilkerson McFalls Drug Store
Airline stewardess blown partly through window during ferry flight
Pan American Airways could have a scare as stewardess Josephine Pou suffered minor cuts after a window blew out on a Lockheed Constellation at 20 000 feet. She was sleeping when the suction pulled her toward the opening and was treated at Coral Gables hospital. The flight from New York to Miami carried 22 Pan American employees.
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Fila
Pan American Airways
New York
Josephine Pou
Michael Mann
South Carolina
Pan American
Pou
Coral Gables
New York State
Tampa Bay
Warburg to Discuss Foreign Policies
Greensboro seeps Warburg economist and commentator on United States foreign policy will speak at Woman's College at 8 p.m. Tuesday on American Foreign Policy Last Call For Common Sense. The lecture is part of the college lecture entertainment series. Warburg, German born and Harvard educated, has served as bank and corporate executive and in government roles from a World War I naval flier to adviser at the London Economic Conference.
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James P. Warburg
United States
Woman's College
Warburg
Harvard
Europe
School Building Bonds for Davig County Set for Sale
Raleigh Feb 27 The local government commission will sell tomorrow 300000 dollars in school building bonds for Davig county.
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Naleigh
Local Government Commission
Davig County
January Tax Take Falls From Year Earlier
The Internal Revenue Bureau reported January tax collections at 3.464 billion, down 214.9 million from January 1949. Individual income tax receipts fell by 198.0 million, corporate incomes dropped 263.6 million, while liquor, tobacco, manufacturers’ excise, and miscellaneous taxes rose. Retail sales taxes declined about seven percent.
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Washington
Internal Revenue Bureau
Truman
Russia creates a separate navy ministry in Moscow
Russia establishes a dedicated navy ministry free from the armed forces ministry. Adm. Ivan Yumashev will head the new body, created by a decree of the Supreme Soviet presidium. Observers say the move signals progress in expanding sea power alongside Russia’s land strength.
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Russia
Armed Forces
Presidium
Supreme Soviet Adm
Ivan Stepanovich Yumashev
Yumashev
Arctic Ocean
European
Pacific
Navy Attache Eugene Karpe Death Remains Unsolved
Paris dispatch reports US Naval Captain Eugene Karpe, attaché in Bucharest, killed in a Salzburg tunnel after a train fall or push. Officials stop short of murder verdict, noting no missing papers or money and no suicide. Vienna probes followed questioning a car porter and an American student who dined with Karpe before his death. The student, Milburn McKichan of Forest Grove Oregon, provided a timeline of events and returned to the United States aboard the Queen Mary.
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Paris
U. S. Naval
Eugene S. Karpe
Karpe
Bucharest
Romania
Salburg
Austria
Vienna
Army
U.S
Robert A. Vogeler
Milburn Russel McKichan
Forest Grove
Ore
McKichan
How to Catch Leopards
A humorous guide quotes animal trainers Clyde Beatty and Danno Chotre on methods to trap leopards using meat or a live goat, cages, and ropes. The piece playfully imagines trainers envisioning easy spots, livestock distractions, and a final twist when reader Mr. Conard enters to read his clippings.
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Clyde Beatty
Beatty
Danno Chotre
Ringlin Brothers
Barnum
Peanuts In Shell Yield Oil From Heavy Crop
An estimate states that a ton of peanuts in the shell will yield from 480 to 580 pounds of peanut oil, with oil content ranging from 45 to 50 percent of each peanut.
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