Girl Hero Receives Dream House For Bravery
Roberta Lee, 14, who rescued four siblings from a blaze on February 15, was presented with a blue ribbon home in Chicago. Mayor Kennelly and Michael Sexton attended as she cut the blue ribbon, receiving a gold key and a $10,000 cash fund. The house, built by carpenters and unions, is carpeted but unfurnished and she may leave the hospital in two weeks.
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Chicago
Roberta Lee
Michael Sexton
Chicago District Council of Carpenters
Martin H. Kennelly
Roberta
Graham Given Sendoff At Chapel Hill
More than 1500 people gathered at the University president's home in Chapel Hill to bid farewell to Dr. Frank Porter Graham who will take his seat as a U S Senator on Tuesday. He thanked Governor Scott, his wife spoke beside him, and he said the place and people have been a deep part of his life for over 40 years. He promised to return and asked for understanding and prayers in his new task.
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Chapel Hill
U?p
Frank” Godspeed
Frank Porter Graham
U. S
State University
Scott
J. Melville Broughton
Graham
Dean of UNC Law School to Retire This June
Robert H. Wettach will retire as dean of the University of North Carolina Law School in June after serving since 1941. Henry L. Brandis will succeed him, having joined the faculty in 1940. Wettach will remain on the faculty for teaching duties.
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Chapel Hill
N. C
Robert H. Wettach
University of North Carolina Law School
Henry L. Brandis
Law School
Wettach
Executor's Notice for Halstead Tomlinson Estate Greensboro NC
Security National Bank of Greensboro as Executor calls all creditors to present claims by March 25, 1950 or be barred. Debts owed to the estate should be paid promptly. Notice dated March 25, 1949.
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Security National Bank of Greensboro
Halstead Tomlinson
Guilford County
North Carolina
Vancouver musician denounces U S immigration methods
John Goss, a Toronto born Vancouver musician, says U S immigration interrogations at the New York world peace conference echoed Nazi tactics of 1933. He arrived in Vancouver after being ordered to leave the United States and says the probe focused on his links to Canada’s Labor-Progressive party. Goss defended the conference as non communist and aimed at preventing another war.
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Vancouver
B. C
John Goss
New York
United States
Goss
Bleing
U. S
Harvard University
Harlow Sharpley
Canada
Labor-Progressive Party
LPP
Seattle
Family Doctors Hold Meeting In Charlotte
North Carolina family doctors gathered in Charlotte for the North Carolina Academy of General Practice assembly. Dr. John R. Bender of Winston-Salem opened with the presidential address, with Dr. Roscoe D. McMillan of Red Springs presenting the secretaryTreasurer report.
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Charlotte
North Carolina
Johnny
North Carolina Academy of General Practice
John R. Bender
Winston- Salem
Roscoe D. McMillan
Red Springs
Academy
Samuel R. Ravenell
Greensboro
Amos N. Johnson
Garlana
R. L. Sanders
Memphis
Tenns
George T. Harrell
Winston-Salem
Maurice H. Greenhill
Bayard Carter
Durham
Negro Woman Held After Shot Husband Slain in Quarrel
In Kenansville on March 28 Vinette Tyler, 22, said to have shot her husband John Tyler, 27, during a quarrel when he threatened her with a knife. Coroner C B Sitterson said she is held for the shotgun death.
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Kenansville
C. B. Sitterson
Vinette Tyler
John Tyler
Tyler
Belgrade Watch: Tito Plays Cat and Mouse With West and Moscow
Belgrade becomes a central stage in a month long diplomacy game as Yugoslavia weighs aligning with the West or staying under Moscow. Tito maintains control of army and secret police while Washington and London eye whether to permit Yugoslav purchases of machinery for a planned steel industry.
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Sigrid Arne
DeWitt MacKenzie
Washington
Yugoslavia
Belgrade
Marshall Tito
Moscow
Sofia
Prague
Warsaw
Tito
Middle Europe
Cominform
Soviet Bloc
Russia
Soviet Union
Yugoslav Communist Party
Yugoslava
London
Hector McNeil
House of Commons
Kremlin
Princess Fawzia Weds Egypt Royal Family Relative
Princess Fawzia former empress of Iran marries Ismail Shirine Bey a distant relative of Egypt's royal family. The private Moslem ceremony at Kouba Palace was attended by King Farouk acting for his sister. The wedding was finalized with a signed marriage contract.
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Cairo
Fawzia
Iran
Ismail Shirine Bey
Egypt
Farouk
Shah
Rian
Allah
Kouba Palace
Mamoun el- Shinawa
al Azhar University
Scientists Find Way To Make Wonder Drug
Detroit March 28 A report says chloromycetin can be produced synthetically by a new method faster than natural production Parke Davis notes the synthetic drug will meet medical needs An army team tests its effectiveness in Malaya against scrub typhus typhoid fever and related diseases endured by soldiers in the Pacific war
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Detroit
United States Army
Malaya
Parke, Davis and Co
Parke Davis
Leonard A. Sweet
Pacific
Seven Airmen Rescued From Arctic Crash
Seven American airmen rescued after a U S Air Force C 82 cargo plane crash landed on Ellesmere Island within the Arctic circle. The flight from Brobo bish er Bay to Resolute Bay went 700 miles off course and ran low on fuel. Six identified are 1st Lt Harold Murray 1st Lt Gerland McCrea 1st Lt Walter Kemp Sgt Edward Blatz Sgt Alvin Griffith and S/Sgt Samuel Lilly all with the 75th troop carrier squadron. The identity of the seventh remained unavailable. Evacuation reported successful by Royal Canadian Air Force officials.
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Edmonton
Alta
U. Air Force Dakota
Ellesmere Island
Arctic Circle
Brobisher Bay
Baffin Island
Resolute Bay
Cornwallis Island
Greenville
S. C
Harold B. Murray
Gerland D. McCrea
Walter L. Kemp
Edward L. Blatz
Alvin H. Griffeth
Samuel C. Lilly
75Th Troop Carrier Squadron
Martin Costello
Royal Canadian Air Force
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