Skeleton Found In Sawdust Blotches Murder Tale
In Statesville North Carolina a skeleton was found buried under four feet of sawdust in a sawdust pile. A Negro woman said her husband killed 32 year old Albert Columbus Mills on December 30 1955 and hid the body. She claimed she and her son witnessed the slaying and the husband threatened them to stay silent. Authorities expected an arrest soon.
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Statesville
N.C
Charlie Rumple
Albert Columbus Mills
No Nagging Backache Means a Good Night's Sleep
Ad claims Dean's Pills relieve backache and improve sleep by addressing restlessness and irritation. Warns readers to get Dean's Pills for relief and savings, suggesting a quick health fix from a medicinal product.
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yDean
Dean
Leopold Request Considered for Sentence Commutation
The 85 year sentence of Leopold for part in a teen slaying in Chicago was reviewed for mediate release or parole via commutation to four years. His death sentence was presented to the board yesterday but he did not appear. He offered no new facts and asked for mercy, recalling his 19 year old status at the time. The hearing included Jere Meyer Levin of New York and Dr. John B. Rice of New York who led malaria experiments in which Leopold participated.
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Leopold
Chicago
Jere Meyer Levin
New York City
John B. Rice
Leopold Parti
Blaze Brings Out Fire Trucks In Paterson Apt Fire
In Paterson New Jersey a ten ant? burning the midnight oil woke to three fire engines. The tenant Crista Capote told firefighters he was reading by candlelight near the window after a passerby reported a blaze in the Cepeda apartment.
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Paterson
N. J
Crista Capote
Cepeda
Joint study committee begins Haw River survey
A Wilmington NC meeting formed a joint study committee on Haw River Basin land and water resources. Representatives from the Soil Conservation Service Army Corps of Engineers and the state named E B Garrett Col H C Rowland Jr and Col Harry Brown to the panel. The group will map resources and seek authorization for projects. A report on the New Hope Reservoir was deferred pending partial study completion.
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Wilmington
N.C
Haw River
Soil Conservation Service
SCS
Army Corps of Engineers
North Carolina
Gineers
New Hope Reservoir
E. B. Garrett
Raleigh
H. C. Rowland Jr
Corps of Engineers
Harry Brown
Tax Men Claim Money In Safe In Smithfield Store Raid
IRS agents filed a claim on cash found in a safe after a raid on a Smithfield store. The safe reportedly held 50000 to 100000 dollars. The government also claims Flowers owes 285357 dollars in back taxes for 1944 through 1950.
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Smithfield
N.C
Internal Revenue Service
Jack Hooks
Flowers
Former Game Warden Faces Trial in North Carolina
J Walt Ellis former Mitchell County game warden is slated for trial Monday on a manslaughter charge stemming from a 1955 Bakersville case. The case moved to Newland from Mitchell County where Ellis was convicted in December 1955 and sentenced to 4 to 7 years.
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Newland
N.C
J. Walt Ellis
Mitchell County
Voters to decide five-cent library tax in Gastonia area
Gaston County voters face a Saturday ballot on a five-cent tax to fund five branch libraries in Belmont Bessemer City Mount Holly Dallas and Cherryville with $250,000 for branches and expansion of Gastonia central library. The measure follows a North Carolina Supreme Court ruling restricting ad valorem library funding without public approval.
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Gastonia
N.C
Gaston County
Gaston
Belmont
Bessemer City
Mount
Holly
Dallas
Cherryville
North Carolina Supreme Court
North Carolina Crops Need Rain, Report Says
North Carolina crop report notes the central and western parts remain very dry while progress continues in cultivation and harvest. Corn and tobacco are nearly laid by in several counties as rain is still needed to sustain yields.
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Raleigh
North Carolina
Molotov Becomes Poor Insurance Risk
The article profiles Vyacheslav Molotov as a fading Soviet statesman and longtime Stalin loyalist. It traces his rise from Bolshevik youth to premier and foreign minister, his wife’s downfall, and his eventual downgrade under Khrushchev, labeling him a poor insurance risk today.
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Nikita Khrushchev
Methodist Women Hear Peace Hope Denied in 20th Century
LAKE JUNALUSKA N C Dr G Ernest Thomas of Nashville Tenn, director of the annual School of Missions for the Southeastern Jurisdiction Women’s Society of Christian Service told delegates that the idea war could be outlawed is the heart break ing development of the century. The school began July 4 and ends tomorrow.
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Lake Junaluska
N.C
G. Ernest Thomas
Nashville, Tenn
School of Missions
Southeastern Jurisdiction
Women's Society of Christian Service
Man Faces Racket Charges In Baby Shoe Scam
George Edger Duggan of Clyde faced charges in wood Superior Court for falsely obtaining money in a $2,000 baby shoe racket. He pleaded guilty to obtaining money under false pretenses after accepting down payments averaging $10 with a promise to bronze babies' shoes. Duggan said he did business in five states and planned to repay once he found a regular job.
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Waynesville
George Edger Duggan
Clyde
Wood Superior Court
Duggan
Justice of the Peace
J. J. Ferguson
Haywood
Fred Y. Campbell
Spartanburg
D.C
Campbell
North Carolina
South Carolina
West Virginia
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Greensboro
Davis Patrol & Detective Agency
Eisrteti
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Jack S
DAVIS
Youll
Ait Tel
WEBTV
Charlotte
Channel
Wednesdat Ie Se
Dayton Tires
Hughes Tire Service, Inc
North Main
Wsoc-Tv
Brooke Lindsay
Roanoke
Uncle Looney
Wsjs-Tv
Winston-Salem
Wunc-Tyv
Chapel Hill
Channel 4
America Abroad
Carolina Bankers
High Point Enterprise
Fobeeee Hooks
Sheriff's Office
Superior Court
Clawson L. Williams
Worthington
L. A. Dickens CO
William L. Ryan
Vyacheslav — Kailovich
Cyclopedia
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Lenin
Molotov
Ia Sal
Scriabin
Vyatka
Bolsheviks
Stalin
Paras
Paulina Zemchushchina-Karpovsky
Molotovs
Svetlana
Sead
Georg Malev
Ism
Tito
Vv. M. Molotov
Plymouth
Dan Daly
Ginger Rogers
David Niven
PTT
Paul Douglas
THE
Gamma People
Wen Today
Richard Widmark
Donka Reed
Arthur Kennedy
Karl Carroll
Eli Malden
BAKER + WALLACH
Anthony Quinn
Maureen O'Hara
Kartoon
Warner Bros
Fariey
Ruth Rowan
Robert Walker
Small’s
N. HamIlton
Paramoun
Argidale
Berry Nelson
Orie
le Trane
Persie
Jim Moore
U.S. Marines
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Fred MacMurray
Jeffrey Hunter
Chill Wills
LUM & Abner
Thomasville
Caney
Western Action
Bill Boyd
Sundown Trail
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