Postwar Juvenile Crime Plagues Soviet Youth
The Associated Press reports a surge of juvenile crime in the Soviet Union after World War II. Gangs beat schoolmates, snatch hats, steal books, and mock authority in cities like Moscow and Leningrad, with youths adopting American styles and facing parental neglect and peer coercion.
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Associated Press
Communist Party
United States
Gerngrad
Komsainalskaya Pravda
Young Communists
Gol
I. Khrysalov
Leningrad
Jane
John
Rocketfeller
George
Papa
Leningrad Pravda
Komsomolskaya Pravda
Moscow
Igor G
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Biscuit
Beer Hells
The
Young Communist League
King Idriss of Libya remarries in Egypt honeymoon planned
The 66 year old Libyan monarch Idriss wed Alia Abdel Kader, daughter of a wealthy Egyptian cotton planter, after a dowry of 10000 pounds. Queen Fatima, age 40, was reported sulking as the new union aims to produce an heir. The ceremony followed Moslem rites amid tensions and a prior opposition by Fatima and her family.
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Egypt
Libya
Idriss
Fatima
Alia Abdel Kader
Statistical Evidence Links Smoking to Lung Cancer
Atlantic City June 5 Two researchers reported that lung cancer deaths rise with daily cigarette consumption. Hammond and Horn of the American Cancer Society presented at the AMA meeting, showing very heavy smokers twice as deadly as non-smokers and even light smokers markedly higher, while cigar smoking showed no clear link. They cautioned the data limitations and noted quitting reduces risk but not to zero, based on a 180,000 male survey aged 50 to 70.
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Edwin Diamond
Atlantic City
N. J
INS
E. Cuyler Hammond
Daniel Horn
American Cancer Society
American Medical Association
AMA
San Francisco
Hammond
Horn
Jung
Yien
AGS
New York
Timothy V. Hartnett
Tobacco Industry Research Committee
Jiy
Nuink
Ten Die On State Highways In Weekend Toll
Tennessee motor traffic claimed 18 lives between Friday 6 p.m. and Sunday midnight, lifting the weekly toll to 17. Victims include Donald Crocker 13 in a Nashville auto motorbike collision. Robert McClurkan 21 near Dickson in a car crash. Clarence Shepard 24 and Lawrence Beaver 24 drowned near Taudapa Lake. Mrs Louis Surlès and son Louis Ban 10 in a rear end auto crash near Winchester. Shelby Irene Crabtree 17 in a crash near Clinton. Joe Reagan 16 in a one car accident in Cookeville. Richard Warren 17 in a Nashville crash. Mrs James Brown 39 struck by a truck in Wilson County. Metropolitan weekly totals shown for Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis, Nashville and counties.
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Associated Press
Tennessee
Donald Crocker
Nastiville
Robert McClurkan
Dickson
iGlarence Shepard
Lawrence Beaver
Taudapa Lake
Knoxville
Louis Surlés
Louis Ban
Shelby- Irene
Crabtree
Clinton
Joe Reagan
Cookeville
Richard’ Warren
Nashville
James Brown
Willson County
Chattanooga
Memphis
Davidson
Hamilton
Shelby
Jewelry Theft At Emerson College Graduation Ceremony
Boston reports Mrs Helen V Rose a Newton resident and Emerson College graduate had $3000 worth of jewelry and a handbag stolen from a cloakroom after receiving a Master of Arts degree. The incident occurred during the graduation events as she wore the jewelry earlier per custom. Police were notified and begun an investigation into the theft.
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Boston
Helen
V. Rose
Emerson Col- Tope
Newton
Gradi Wate
Emerson
Girls State Opens At Murfreesboro Tennessee
The Volunteer Girls State opened at Middle Tennessee State College in Murfreesboro with citizens from six mythical cities Crockett Davis Forrest Houston Robertson and Seyler. Girls ran on Federalist and Nationalist party tickets for city offices and state leadership. City elections were scheduled for today.
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Murfreesboro
Tenn
June
Volunteer
Girls State
Middle Tennessee State College
Crockett, Davis
Forrest
Houston
Discoverer Of Oil Fields Dies At 92
SAN ANTONIO Tex An obituary notes the death of Pattilia Higgins at age 92 from a heart attack. Higgins discovered and spurred interest in the Spindletop oil field near Beaumont. He reportedly lived penniless during early exploration from 1292 to 1901, later selling holdings for over three million dollars. He was one-armed from a youth accident and left school in fourth grade to study geology.
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Tex
Pattilia Higgins
Beaumont
Higgins
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