Ridgway Denounces Red Falsehoods in Talks
General Ridgway charged Communist claims of Allied germ warfare and epidemics were fabrications. He said Pyongyang asserts such plots to cover failures and to push for their own bioweapon use, while Libby warned North Korea’s leaders against presenting unfounded “facts.”
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Red Korea
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Libby
Lee Sang Cho
Lee
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Tax Shakeup Debate To Open Today
Senate debate on President Truman's plan to reform the Internal Revenue Bureau opens today amid party opposition. Rep. Cecil King argues for civil service protection for tax collectors, while critics warn against reduced accountability and potential taxpayer rights jeopardy. The plan would cut politically appointed collectors and shift them to civil service.
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Internal Revenue Bureau
Cecil R. King
D-Calif
House
Ing
Grek
WTOP
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Civil Service Sion
Internal Revenue
Robert L. Johnson
Citizens Committee For the
Hoover Report
Sena
South Africa Faces Severe Social Strife and Riots
A U Nineteenforty era report describes Johannesburg native riots with 37 killed and 600 injured. It notes apartheid tensions among Europeans, Africans, and Indians, citing Durban clashes in 1949 and Capetown rioting amid Malan policy. It mentions Gandhi's Durban resistance roots.
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Malan
Lides
South Africa
Mohandas Ghandi
Things a Man Learns From Reading His Mail
A light survey of daily life tips and curiosities for men over 65 includes grooming signals that trigger retirement chatter, boxing history and modern sport as big business, presidential era curiosities, and simple home remedies like heated billiard balls to deter mosquitoes.
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George the Third
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David Garrick
Police nab housekeeper with $7500
Police said they stopped Mrs. Margaret Welch 45 from fleeing with cash stolen from the home of Dr and Mrs Walter Hotchkiss in Miami Beach. Det. Capt. L C Williams said $7500 of the $20000 theft was recovered and Welch admitted taking a packet from the hiding place. She denied the full amount and waived extradition, held on $5000 bond.
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Miami Beach
L. C. Williams
Margaret Welch
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Hotchkiss
Florida
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Steed continues case against driver in Thomasville court
J W H Steed kept the case active in Recorder's Court as Clarence Ray Johnson of Route 1 had judgment continued for 90 days with surrender of his license and a 60 day driving ban plus court costs. Clyde Aim faced prohibition violation and Van Buren Shuler of High Point was cited for a stop sign and ordered to pay costs.
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W. H. Steed
Recorder's Court
Clarence Ray Johnson
Route 1
Clyde Aim
van Buren Shuler
High Point
Champion Kentucky matriarch Dora Meade noted for large family
Dora Meade, 79, of Whitesburg Kentucky, is described as the border region's champion grandmother. She has 16 children, 82 grandchildren, 41 great grandchildren, and one great great grandchild.
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Whitesburg
Kentucky-Virginia Border
Dora Meade
Needs More Blood After 110 Transfusions
Twenty six year old George Bieniasz in Chicago has received 110 blood transfusions after sustaining third degree burns from a November 1950 fire. Doctors at St Mary of Nazareth Hospital plea for more blood donations to save him noting his family may not donate further without risking their health.
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Chicago
George Bieniasz
Bieniasz
St. Mary of Nazareth
Run Epidemic Strikes Nylon Stockings in Midtown New York
Women shoppers and office workers in midtown New York report a sudden hosiery crisis as nylon stockings run en masse. Several attribute the phenomenon to atmospheric conditions.
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New York
Midtown
Requiem Mass Held For South Carolina Great Steve Wadiak
A requiem mass was held in Columbia for Steve Wadiak revered as the greatest back to play for South Carolina. Wadiak died in a Sunday morning automobile accident near aacho.
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Columbia
D.C
Steve Wadiak
South Carolina
Wadiak
Supreme Court to hear Speller rape case on appeal
Raleigh officials react as the U S Supreme Court agrees to schedule arguments in the case of convicted rapist Raleigh Speller. Speller was sentenced to death in 1947 for raping a woman near Williamston after his attorneys argued jury exclusion of Black jurors. The high court will issue an opinion later.
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Harry McMullan
U.S. Supreme Court
Raleigh Speller
Speller
Williamston
McMullan
High Court
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