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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Oct 29, 1952
Page
2
Idaho Governor Jordan advocates tree farming as a major future prosperi ty booster. He notes Idaho has a million acres of forest funding schools and government. He urges continued expansion to prevent a timber famine and supports tree crops as practical.
Kearny New Jersey police search for Claus Eischen 16 suspected of patricide and matricide in the shooting deaths of his parents. A Dutch woman Bridgette Kurwitz, 31, is held as a witness amid a broader scene involving a planned marriage to Hans Eischen the chemist.
A Newton firm Shakespeare Ceramics, with the unusually grand name, operates with a single employee. The company makes synchrotron vacuum tube envelopes used in atom smashing machines.
Morality squad raided an Omaha establishment after customers used a telephone wager line and a strange voice answered. They shut down the phone and took the device as evidence. A whale incident was reported near Port Clyde Maine where a four ton blackfish towed a 50 foot dragging vessel for about ten miles. Hatch and crew battled the whale for five hours.
Dixie Lee Crosby wife of Bing Crosby lay in a coma in Hollywood highly critical after a relapse from an abdominal operation. Her four sons were summoned home as family and friends kept vigil including Bing Crosby and Larry Crosby.
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A Clare Michigan story reports an eight room bird house at the Doherty Hotel hosting three pairs of purple martins one pair of starlings and four pairs of fish sparrows in a busy tenants scene.
Louis Eugene Hoover convicted for the second time in the 1949 Mardi Gras murder of James Mahoney a Bristol Virginia millionaire. Jury sentenced him to life in prison with hard labor after a prior death penalty conviction was overturned. Hoover faces potential parole after about ten years and six months.
Rep. L Mendel Rivers said he would join Eisenhower campaign forces with a 25 station radio hookup address at 7:45 p.m. The First District congressman will broadcast from an unspecified origin. Meanwhile Robert J Meyer of the Young Democrats resigns to back Eisenhower in Columbia signaling a shift within South Carolina Democrats ahead of the election.
GRIENSBORO The work of refunding Federal tax rebates due North Carolina for overpayments between 1943 and 194? is explained by Edwin Gill state Revenue Director. He cites two main delays: processing across three offices in Raleigh Richmond and Washington and insufficient information from some taxpayers.
Detroit UP reports Police Chief Ralph Moxley of Birmingham declared there would be no gambling in Birmingham while he serves as chief. Minutes later his name was drawn in a lottery to win an expensive hat, and he clarified he meant bingo parties and the like.
In Lincoln a man asked a stranger to buy him a drink and the stranger turned out to be County Sheriff Merle Karnopp. The man subsequently ended up jailed after the encounter.
In New York the government opens its case in U S District Court against former Army Sgt John David Provoo 35 a one time bank employee charged with 12 acts of treason for his alleged collaboration with Japanese forces after Corregidor fell. Prosecution seeks witnesses to prove he wore Buddhist robes and served the enemy while his defense contends imprisonment drove him to irrational acts.
Republicans and Democrats restated their positions on international, national and state issues during a statewide radio TV program sponsored by the North Carolina League of Women Voters. The show featured Rep Thurmond Chatham and Mrs B B Everett for Democrats and GOP leaders J Mey Jr Mrs Ann Hickman with moderator Mrs John Gilling. The discussion covered budget balance military preparedness federal aid labor Farm and school issues with time limits preventing detailed solutions.
Horace Crutchfield, 52, fined 15 dollars after punching a collie in the face in Detroit. He admitted drinking and was charged with cruelty to animals.
In Vermont Edward D. Blackwell celebrated his 100th birthday then packed for Florida to spend the winter. He quips that he would need a doctor if he felt any better. The article notes there were around 13,000 men named John Smith on VA rolls.
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