Watermelon gifts lift dying girl in Sidney
Eight year old Gwendolyn Reiners, in an incurable bone disease, ate watermelons sent from Utah, Wyoming, Ohio and even Havana via air. Her parents quit their jobs to care for her as doctors give weeks, not months, of life. A relief fund reached 3800 as crowds rallied.
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Naemine
Gwendolyn
Paul Reiners
Utah
Wyoming
Ohio
Sidney
Cuba
Havana
Reiners
Azusa Park Allows Play On City Grass
In Azusa on May 7 the Park and Recreation Commission ruled that grassy areas in city parks are for use not mere appearance. Children will be permitted to play on park grass, with vigilant signs conspicuously absent.
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Azusa
Park and Recreation Commission
Ex Pasadena Vicar Dies in Bay State
Reverend Hervey Coke Parke, age 17, Amherst Massachusetts, former vicar of Christ of the Angel Episcopal Church Pasadena California, died in a Northampton hospital. A Detroit native and Yale graduate, he authored The Marriage Service and After, a widely used book for Protestant clergy.
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Snorthampton
Mass
Hervey Coke Parke
Amherst
Christ of the Angell Episcopal Church
Pasadena
Calif
Detroit
Yale
Virginia Husbands Slay Estranged Mates End Lives
Two Virginia husbands killed their estranged teenage wives and then died by suicide in separate incidents a day apart. Deputy sheriff witness near Lebannon saw Irvin Johnson shoot his wife May Edwards Johnson on a porch, then kill himself. In Warren County Lee Riley Franklin shot his 19 year-old wife Frances Marie Derflinger Franklin and then killed himself.
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Richmond
Virginia
Conley Fields
Lebanon
May Edwards Johnson
Lawrence
Ind
Fields
Warren vetoes oath exemption bill in California
Sacramento May 7 Gov Earl Warren vetoed a bill by Assemblyman Charles Meyers to exempt certain employees of the office of the superintendent of banks from the constitutional oath. Warren said the superceding civil defense oath does not justify the exemption on legal grounds.
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Sacramento
Earl Warren
Warren
Charles Meyers
San Francisco
British Police Face Reds in Hong Kong
In Hong Kong the British police and Chinese Communist soldiers patrol a tense border. The AP report notes new defenses including jet air fields, gun placements, observation posts, and a steel fence with barbed wire. Traffic is greatly reduced from 10,000 daily to about 1,000.
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Hong Kong
Stanley Rich Tong
Frank H. King
Dallas
Associated Press
Roderick MacKenzie
Lown
Canton
Stalin
Mac Tzetune
MacKenzie
Shataukok
Reds' Hollywood Drive Failure Highlighted by Senator
Washington May 7 Senator Edward Martin says the Communist bid to seize control of the American film industry has failed completely. He traces the push to the 1920s and 1930s claiming Reds once controlled the Screen Writers Guild and held influence in Hollywood labor unions with the danger now diminished.
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Washington
Edward Martin
R.pa
Martin
Hollywood
Screen Writers Guild
Eros
Uni
Ion
British Trading With Foe Stirs Republicans Ire
Two Republican Congressmen accused Great Britain of trading with the enemy by shipping strategic materials to Red China. They cited a British report showing 120000 tons of natural rubber moved from Malaya to Red China in nine months ending March 31, comparing with 27500 tons all of last year. Patterson urged a Congressional investigation and condemned policy as aiding the Reds in Manchuria and undermining the blockade of Formosa.
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Washington
Great Britain
Red China
British Colonial Office
Malaya
Connecticut
Patterson
Manchuria
Formosa
Motion picture industry on guard against Communist taint
Martin said in a transcribed broadcast prepared for Pennsylvania radio stations that the film industry is on alert to prevent any Communist taint.
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Martin
Pennsylvania
DiSalle Defends Beef Price Rollback Amid Criticism
Price Stabilizer Michael V. DiSalle challenged beef producers and lawmakers who warned the rollback would curb output and trigger rationing. He argued prices are too high and parity remains fair, insisting no broad production collapse or rationing will occur. He faced questions about incentives for producers and the potential impact on meat supply from Senate and House members.
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DiSalle
William 8. Hill
R.cole
Capitol
Burnet R. Maybank
D.-S.c
Senate Banking Committee
Woman Dies From Blaze of Her Robe in Los Angeles
Mildred Burris, 46, died at General Hospital after a robe engulfed in flames from a gas heater while she leaned from a window to speak with a neighbor. The accident occurred a week earlier at her home in Los Angeles.
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Los Angeles
Mildred Burris
General Hospital
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