Tibet Turmoil as China Aims to Invade in 1950
London dispatch reports two Chinese Communist armies marching toward Tibet amid W Tibet frontier tensions. General Liu Po-Cheng leads 20,000 troops from Sikang, while General Peng Teh Huai commands 40,000 from Sining, aiming at Jyekundo and Lhasa. Tibet’s 10,000 strong Dalai Lama army is poorly equipped, and international aid appears unlikely. Britain questions legal autonomy. India avoids intervention. US and France cautious on aid.
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India
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France
Tiger and Woman Trainer Star in Clyde Beatty Circus
Harriet Beatty, wife of Clyde Beatty, performs with a Royal Bengal tiger and a giant elephant, including a tiger jumping through a flaming hoop. The Clyde Beatty Circus comes to High Point Welch Field with afternoon and evening shows, featuring 256 performers and diverse acts, highlighting new attractions and animal displays.
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Clyde Beatty
Spangleland
Barton
Frank Doyle
America
Dawn redwood reborn in California in Joshua Tree
In Joshua Tree California Mr and Mrs Robert Fields nurture a dawn redwood Metasequoia glyptostroboides planted from seeds brought from China by the Save the Redwoods League. The plant, tiny now, is monitored for shade drainage and summer watering with hopes it and others will mature and seed to restore dawn redwood forests in America.
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Weldon D. Woodson
Central Press
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Desert
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Alaska
Save-the-Redwoods League
Ralph W. Chaney
University of California
League
Central
China
California
America
Peace group president arrested in Boston for assault charge
An executive of a world peace campaigning organization was arrested in Boston on a charge of assault and battery. Separately, farm flocks produced 4.6 billion eggs in July, highlighting large-scale poultry output.
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Boston
GOP Leaders To Campaign Over State
STATESVILLE N C Sept 14 The state Republican Party executive committee set plans for three regional rallies in Asheville Catawba Burke and Burlington Asheboro areas and elected Clyde Greene Boone secretary William I Ward Statesville assistant secretary and Dr J W Davis Statesville treasurer Invitations will be sent to U S Senators Knowland McCarthy and Mundt to address the rallies The note also mentions WWII liberty ships named after fallen American seamen and civilians.
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Boone
William I. Ward
J. W. Davis
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Burlington-Asheboro
U. S
William F. Knowland
Calif
Joseph R. McCarthy
The Cynic as a Man of Shadow and Irony
A Beecher quote defines the cynic as one who never praises in people and always detects flaw. He compares the cynic to a vigilant owl in darkness, judging all actions as openly or secretly bad. The reflection emphasizes distrust and moral skepticism.
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Henry Ward Beecher
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