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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
May 12, 1952
Page
2
Phoenix reports Governor Howard Pyle commuted the death sentence of Winnie Ruth Judd to life imprisonment for the 1931 trunk murder. Judd, 48, had been declared insane and confined to a state mental hospital, with potential transfer to the penitentiary if sanity returns.
In Miami, about 4,000 ministers joined the Southern Baptist pastors conference. Meanwhile a U S senator urged modernization of training and argued for a military focus to curb aggression and oppression as church members nationwide total over 7 million.
The account describes an interview cut short at 3:15 p.m. when about 20 leaders rushed the general, detained him in a compound, and removed his possessions. Later meetings with other compounds led to a formal demand to organize.
A 19 year old Air Force serviceman stayed in Thomasville hospital for a knee injury from a motorcycle wreck near the by pass south of Thomasville Saturday afternoon. State highway patrol reports say his bike swerved across the island and struck the kneecap, with the patient treated for the knee wound.
Judge J Will Pleas Jr of Marion opened a two week civil term docket for an uncontested annulment case. Dorothy McD and Elmer Wyrick faced issues over marriage validity with Wyrick alleged to have been already married. The session continued to the next term and included Casard Furniture Manufacturing versus High Point Paper Ocean over a $57 000 fire related suit.
Fragmentary report notes weather interfering with a planned release for Dodd. However, arrangements shifted to Sunday or Saturday night with leaders negotiating terms and a later release time.
Weekend storm in the Carolinas brought hurricane force winds up to 100 mph, killing two people Curtis Luke and another man, snapping trees and tearing storefront glass. Debris blocked roads, damaged roofs and disrupted utilities from Spartanburg to Clinton, as forecasts called for calmer, mild weather next days.
Gen. Ridgway handed Far East command to Gen. Mark W. Clark and departed for Paris to assume supreme commander for Europe. He will headline the North Atlantic Pact armed forces in succession to Gen. Eisenhower, amid large farewell scenes in Tokyo with allied officials and family aboard.
Norfolk readers report odd poultry from Mrs Eisner McCollough with Rhode Island Red hens producing oversized eggs after feeding changes. A giant egg measured 24 inches long with 7 percent in length and 6 percent in circumference and weighed 100 grams. The note mentions major construction of the Great Wall of China beginning in 228 B C.
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