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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 09, 1951
Page
2
The Thomasville Jaycees host a non profit youth tournament at Hauss gymnasium with 26 teams and five games today led by Linville Clemmons. Defending champs Hasty High School compete as the event runs through March 19.
In a self prepared plea an inmate in the federal prison asked the attorney general to show cause why he cannot become a Communist and have his citizenship revoked to be transported to the Mexican border. Williams, born in Strayhorn Mississippi, was imprisoned for transporting stolen autos across state lines assaulting a federal officer and escaping from a U S marshal with prior convictions in Louisiana Connecticut Missouri and Arkansas. He cited the McCarran act as authority for deportation but officials noted it applies only to alien Communists.
The Senate debated the universal service measure as Senator Cain urged swift passage after news of Senator Chapman of Kentucky dying in a car crash. Cain spoke as a veteran father, arguing that better training saves lives and reduces battlefield folly in future wars.
Claude Elliott Chappell, 35, died at a local hospital shortly after 1 pm Thursday after two years of declining health. Born November 14, 1915 in Hertford, he came from Richmond with two years in High Point in construction work. Survived by his foster-mother Mrs. Thomas C. Chappell and several foster siblings and relatives. Body moved from Koonce Funeral home to Lynch Funeral home. funeral arrangements incomplete.
Funeral services were held for Maude Gilkey 64 widow of Adam L Gilkey in Marion with burial at Oak Grove Cemetery. She leaves a son Carlton Gilkey and two daughters and three sisters. Davis E Westmoreland 68 died suddenly at home in Lexington. He was born in Forsyth County and survived by his widow Mae Hiatt Westmoreland and a sister, with services in Pilgrim Holiness Church Erlanger and burial in Thomasville.
The Associated Press reports continued cold across northern midwest regions with subzero records in Great Falls Montana and Bismarck North Dakota. Temperatures slowly rise but more subzero readings forecast, while Seattle and western areas see snowfall and flurries in Michigan Ohio Pennsylvania and New York.
Friday schedule includes a Sunset Garden Club meeting at Mrs. P L White’s Archdale home and hospitality for Miss Alese Jones’s wedding plans. A brunch hosted by Mr and Mrs W B Britt at 11 am honors the bride elect. Martha Britt to wed Harry F Macrae in First Methodist chapel at 5 30 pm. Mrs E S Welborn Jr hosts a dessert bridge for Miss Alfre da Hardie at Norwood Court apartments.
The monthly session of the Thomasville Singing Convention will be held Sunday at 2 p.m. at Piney Wood Methodist Church on the Winston-Salem highway. People interested in taking part or listening are urged to attend. The pelican air feature described follows unrelated wildlife note.
The United Club schedules a meeting for tonight at 8 30 p.m. at the Elk Rest. A tent notice follows for the United Order of Tenté choir rehearsal at Mrs Laura Sarin 314 Taylor Street at eight. Mt Olive Gospel Singers perform Sunday at 8 p.m. at Friendship Baptist Church.
Abbe Lane, tied to bandleader Xavier Cugat, gains a chance to defend her honor in a separate maintenance suit filed by Cugat’s estranged partner Lorainne Allen. Allen claims an intimate affair and will appear in Superior Court with attorney S. S. Hahn present for the hearing. The case centers on alleged nude photos from a Chicago hotel raid dated January 23.
Coroner Christopher J. Murphy said a death certificate will likely be issued for Senator Virgil Chapman of Kentucky after an auto crash in Washington. He died at Bethesda Naval Hospital seven hours after a trailer truck collision on Connecticut Avenue. witnesses said Chapman's car swerved left before impact.
The Wake County grand jury states there is no evidence of organized gambling in Wake County after months of investigation prompted by reports of gambling. The panel delivered its findings as the inquiry concluded.
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