Hero of True Story Admits It's All Hoax
In New York publishers plan to sell the book as a novel and offer refunds to about 10 000 buyers after the hoax was exposed. Quentin Reynolds wrote of Calgary’s George Dupre who claimed Nazi torture in the French underground as a British spy. Dupre confessed he never served in France and recanted the tale amid media scrutiny.
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Smugglers Of Tickets Face Trial In Wilmington
In Wilmington North Carolina three men J E Merrick 32 H M Taylor 43 and Myrtle Cates 31 were charged in federal court with smuggling and conspiracy in a two million dollar Irish Sweepstakes ticket ring. They were convicted in a local court last year with Merrick and Cates receiving three months and fines. Cates had sentence suspended on good behavior. The case centers on unloading 20 cases of lottery tickets stored for a pickup man from New York.
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New York
Democrats Back Truman on TV Program Amid Brownell Charges
Democrats in Congress defended Truman as the Brownell White case stirred Capitol Hill debate. Some lawmakers questioned whether more charges would follow and warned against using the issue to derail Democratic votes. Senator Ellender urged Republicans to stop the tactics, while Senator Monroney blamed McCarthyized campaigning. Christianity is noted as dominant among about 780 million people.
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Georgia
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Louisiana
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Phone Rate Hearing Set Today in Edgecombe Court
In Raleigh area, Judge Walter J. Bone will hear two CT&T rate appeal cases. CT&T seeks higher exchange rates after a July utilities order allowing annual increases of 537,210. Attorney general and user groups argue the rise is excessive.
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Weather Fair And Mild Today Across Nation
The Associated Press reports fair and mild conditions for most of the nation with cloudiness in the North Atlantic states and rain in parts of Washington Oregon and Idaho. Rain totals up to .76 inch were noted at North Ore. Overnight lows ranged from the 20s to 30s in the Ohio Valley and Upper Great Lakes with 40s and 50s elsewhere. Chicago reached 71 and Minneapolis 60.
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Upper Great Lakes
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Minneapolis
Books Eligible For Award Listed
Twenty two fiction titles are eligible for the 1953 Flower Cup to be awarded December 4 at the State Literary and Historical Association meeting in Raleigh. Dr. Christopher Crittenden announces the Mayflower and four other awards to be named, with sixty five volumes on the Sir Walter Raleigh list for Tar Heel fiction between September 1, 1950 and August 31, 1953.
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Richmond P. Bond
Care
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and Cameron Cooke
Silversmiths
Virginia
George Burton Cutten
B. W. Sm
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BYC
Sylvester Green
Floyd Hunter
Raymond J. Jeffreys
Louis
Wright Brothers Memorial Granite Pylon at Kill Devil Hill
A granite pylon on Kill Devil Hill in North Carolina honors the Wright brothers commemorating their first powered flight in 1903.
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North Carolina
Wright Brothers
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