Stone of Scone tale and Long Beach kidnap scare
Scotland Yard confirmed the Stone of Scone was in Scottish nationalist hands while a separate Long Beach kidnapping hoax ended with Wallace Hardy’s arrest after he collected a $300 ransom from Los Angeles police. The Stone search followed a Glasgow petition claiming the relic would stay in Scotland.
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Scone
Freed Stone
Ondon
Scotland Yard
Glasgow
Westmin
Ster Abbey
Glas¢ Pow
Scotland
Glashi Pow
Hyden
Los Angeles
Wallace Randolph Hardy
San Francisco
Alberta McDonald
McDonald
Hardy
Call to prayer as New Year arrives amid war worries
Americans bid farewell to 1950 with somber tone as prayer and sober reflection replace revelry. Church groups mobilize for a day of prayer while Catholics attend Mass. Many cities limit or regulate liquor sales due to Sunday observances, and Times Square expects crowds despite the solemn mood.
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Associated Proag
Korea
Liechtenstein Prince Arrested as Smuggler
Liechtenstein Prince Hans Zu Liechtenstein is held by German authorities in Loerrach Baden for smuggling about 20 000 Swiss watches into Germany. The public prosecutor announced the arrest stating the prince confessed to smuggling thousands of watches.
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Loerrach
Germany
Hans Zu Liechtenstein
Principality of
Loerrac
Baden
Case closes after ransom payment in Hardy case
The AP reported that Hardy was released last night by most principals in the case. McDonald recovered the ransom money and chose not to prosecute Hardy.
Advisers Urge Truman to Set Clear Defense Goals
President Truman's council of economic advisers urged a definite target for military production, calling for higher taxes and a pay-as-you-go budget, with broader price and wage controls and possible rationing. They warned mobilization requires clear national aims and predicted long defense spending.
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Sterlin F. Green
Washington
Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
Council
Sean Keyserling
Congress
Advisory Council
Sawyer
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Gas burn victim dies in Los Angeles hospital
Raymond Owens aged 25 from Whittier died at French Hospital on December 30 from burns suffered December 22 when a gas pocket exploded as he worked on a pipeline. More than seven percent of his body was burned.
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Los Angeles
Raymond Owens
Whittier
French
Aj Eas
Princess Seeks Aid for Thigh Injury in U S Flight
Princess Mary 68 wife of Prince George of Greece leaves by plane for the United States for treatment of a fractured thigh suffered when she stumbled and fell Dec 18. She is an aunt of King Paul.
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Athens
Mary
Prince George
Greece
United States
Paul
Cerebral Palsy Uses Old Christmas Cards for Therapy
United Cerebral Palsy Associations in New York asks for old Christmas cards to aid occupational therapy. Executive Director Karl K. Van Meter notes colors and images brighten patients and help with activities such as cutting figures and pasting on paper. Cards should be mailed to 50 West 7th St, New York 19, N. Y.
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New York
United Cerebral Palsy Associations
Karl K. van Meter
United Cerebral Palsy
West 7Th St
France to Increase Armed Force Power
Paris reports France will raise continental duty divisions from seven to ten by year end 1931 as part of broader rearmament amid East threats. Total rearmament funds approached 740 billion francs with plans to boost manpower, aircraft production, and ship and jet engine procurement.
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France
West
Europe
National Defense Ministry
National Assembly
Indo -China
Germany
Austria
Defense Ministry
United States
Britain
Possemen Shoot Placer County Escapee to Death
Auburn Calif Dec 30 Jarvis Batman Walk 32 escaped prisoner and rapist was shot to death today after wounding a posse member in a mountain cabin near Weimer Calif Deputies said every man in the area with a gun joined the posse Jailer Jack Elder who had helped Walk escape three days earlier urged him to surrender Walk fired then fled shooting himself as he ran inside the cabin He dropped his .28 revolver and collapsed Walk had escaped from Placer County jail Wednesday night after beating Elder and two trusties It was his second escape and he had slugged a deputy three weeks earlier in transit. He was identified by a 14 year old Applegate girl as the man who violated her after the escape.
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Gene Leone
Manhattan
National Councell of
Churches of Christ
New York
Auburn
Calif
Jarvis Batman Walk
Walk
Sierra Mother Lode
Weimer
Fosseman Howard Newell
Colfax
Highland Hospital
Jack Elder
Placer County
Elder
Lincoln
Sacramento
Applegate
Plr
Glider claims world record flight to 42000 feet
William S Ivans Jr of La Mesa Calif reportedly set a world record sailplane flight reaching 42000 feet above the Sierra Nevada after release from a B-13. Flying a Schweizer 1.23 glider he ascended from 12000 feet and peaked about 244 hours later, pending Federation Aeronautique Internationale approval and eclipsing the prior 33000 foot mark set by Jack Robinson.
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Bishop
William S. Ivans Jr
la Mesa
Calif
Sierra Nevada
Ivans
Federation Aeronautique Internationale
Paris
Jack Robinson
Arcadia
Copper ban worries bra makers in wartime gear
In Washington on December 30 a National Production Authority copper ban affects snaps hooks and eyes used in bras and corsets. A corset and brassiere trade member said substitutions like steel are not yet secured. Officials expect a solution before the March 1 effective date.
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Ashington
Priest Shot by Red Using Yankee Gun
Oakland dispatch reports Catholic chaplain Cornelius J. Griffin a Korean war casualty treated at Oakland Naval Hospital recalled being wounded when Communist forces fired on an American ambulance near the Chosin Reservoir on December 6. Griffin said the enemy used American-made Thompson submachine guns and that the driver and one litter case were killed. the priest remembered the driver asking for communion moments before the attack and learning his baby would arrive around December 14.
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Cornelius J. Griffin
Oakland Naval Hospital
Griffin
Worthington
Ohio
Tuscon, Ariz
Chosin Reservoir
Precautions Taken Against Raid Scare in Bridgeport
Bridgeport police urged local factories to refrain from sounding whistles or sirens at midnight as New Year approaches to prevent misidentification of air raid alarms. Police Supt John A Lyddy warned that the noise could be mistaken for an air raid warning.
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Conn
Dec
John A. Lyddy
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