Taft Wins Cigar Prize From Long Memory Bet
Sen Taft Ohio used a "little black book" to win a humidor of cigars after predicting silver would not reach 1.29 an ounce by year end 1950. Millikin of Colorado conceded Taft won the bet as New York silver traded near 90 cents. Taft, who does not smoke, shared the cigars with other senators.
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Ashington
Sen. Taft
R.ohio
Taft
Sen. Millikin
R.cole
Congress
Millikin
Senate
New York
Physicist Compton Defines Communism in Talk
Dr Arthur H Compton Nobel laureate and Washington University chancellor defined communism versus democracy at the American Convention of World Brotherhood. He argued communism measures a person by usefulness to the state while democracy values freedom and justice for all. The event in Los Angeles promotes interfaith harmony and global cooperation.
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OS Angeles
Arthur H. Compton
Compton
Washington University
St. Louis
World Brotherhood
National Conference of Christians and Jews
World Brotherhood Organization
Paris
Missing Mother and 2 Daughters Found Shot in Car
In Vansville Indiana a mother Betty Hart 32 and her two daughters Margaret Ann 11 and May 8 were found shot to death in a rented car after the father James N Hart 41, too drunk to be questioned, drove the vehicle into a neighbor's garage. Betty was in the trunk and the girls in the rear seat.
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Vansville
Ind
Paul Bonham
James N., Hart
Betty
Margaret Ann
May
Harl
Five Men Freed in Floggings Case at Conway Court
In Conway South Carolina on March 15 five men charged with conspiracy and assault in a flogging of a crippled farmer and his nephew were acquitted. A jury found three innocent and directed not guilty verdicts for two others. one defendant was not tried. The Gores reported being dragged from their home January 17 and beaten in a school yard after prayers. One remaining indicted defendant was not tried.
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Conway
S.C
General Sessions
Sam Gore
J. C. Gore
J.C. Gore
Gores
Gore
J. C. Creel
Harvey Johnson
Jack Causey
A. J. Gore
D. C. Guyton
Death takes wife of Henry J Kaiser in Oakland
Mrs. Bess Fosburgh Kaiser, wife of industrialist Henry J Kaiser, died last night at her Oakland home. She was 64 and had been ill 18 months. At her bedside were her husband and two sons Edgar F Kaiser and Henry J Kaiser Jr. A Cadillac, Michigan native, she married in Boston in 1907.
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Oakland
Bess Fosburgh Kaiser
Henry J. Kaiser
Edgar F
Kaiser J. Frazer Corp
Henry J, Jr
Kaiser
Hey Kids Sign Up for Free YMCA Learn to Swim Week
Applications are open for free swimming lessons at the downtown YMCA pool during Learn to Swim Week March 1 to 23 during Easter vacation. Cooperation from Press-Telegram Board of Education Recreation Commission and YMCA. Lessons target nonswimmers aged 9 to 14. registration forms must be turned in at the downtown Y or North Long Beach Y. only 50 per class. do not sign up if you can swim. Parents bring blanks to them by March 16. signups at North Long Beach YMCA for areas north of UP tracks. Do not phone reservations.
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YMCA
Press-Telegram
Board of Education, Recreation Commis
Sion
Long Beach
American Ave
North Long Beach
61St
California Ave
Jobs for Youth on Air Tonight Panel Details
Tonight's KGER program on Savion Long Beach presents the Jobs for Youth panel chaired by A Fickling lumber dealer. Sanders, director of juvenile programs, will discuss campaign advantages and youth hiring through a 15 minute segment as part of the Police Department sponsorship.
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A. E. Fickling
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