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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 23, 1947
Page
23
Rodney Borum, a senior, won first in the world peace contest with an oration arguing for a single world system. He warned that isolation fails, wars spread, and atomic threats demand a universal legal order to prevent future conflicts.
The text argues for a strengthened UN and a world government to prevent war and ensure lasting peace. It cites Wilson, WWII lessons, and the atomic age, urging constitutional amendment, a world legislature, world courts, and a global police to disarm, outlaw war, and secure universal law. It frames America’s role as leading toward a federal world order.
The city endures a spree of four female murder victims in two months. Police struggle with manned patrols and confessions that proved unfounded while linking the cases remains unclear. Officials blame post war nerves amid a nationwide rise in violent crime.
Elinor Williams counsels high school readers on whether to give graduation or birthday gifts to boyfriends. If he has never given a gift, a card or group celebration is wiser. if he has, a personal but modest present is fine. Suggestions include accessories, a pen, a tie clip, or a name-bracelet and non fiction books aligned with his interests.
New York gossip notes report Marilyn Maxwell desires a return to brunette hair to broaden her range. The 24-year-old star explains blondes are limited to blonde roles, seeks a Jean Harlow style edge, and credits her mother Mary Pickford and Ted Weems for career help while on the Abbott-Costello radio show.
Lieut. Gen. George E. Stratemeyer, commander of the air defense command, said Omaha newsmen the headquarters at Mitchell Field New York could move west within five years. He denied a report that the relocation might be immediate.
A Japanese woman whose husband faces war crimes charges in Yokohama sent a letter of gratitude to Major Burton K. Philips of St. Louis for defending him. Marya, leader of Yokohama’s war crimes defense section, conveyed the thanks.
Dr. Thomas D. Dublin, a preventive medicine professor from Long Island College of Medicine, Brooklyn, argues that social and economic conditions are increasingly underlying causes of neuroses. His remarks were reported from Biloxi, Mississippi.
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