Jefferson Military College rejects 50 million endowment offer
ATCH E Z M IS A Oct 29 AP Jefferson Military College declared its finances desperate and rejected George Armstrong's 50 million endowment while severing ties with the Texas financier. Trustees met briefly, accepted Armstrong's withdrawal conditioned on white supremacy, and stated the policies are not theirs. They also declined Armstrong's unconditional funding for the school's 5000 bank note and year-end support.
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Britain Presents WLX Jet Engine To Smithsonian
In Southampton England on October 2 a British jet engine, the WLX, was flown to the United States marking one of the world s first jet engine demonstrations. The engine will be presented to the American people in a ceremony on November 8 at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington where it will be housed.
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Washington forecast: food prices to ease next year
The Agriculture Department predicts prices for retail foods will ease amid fairly high economic activity. Americans will eat at similar or higher levels as supplies grow abundant. Lard pork eggs butter cheese and canned dry beans frozen foods and some vegetables should be more available. declines may occur in ice cream, canned citrus juices lamb and mutton. Grain crops remain large with ample cereal production and exports. milk butter poultry and eggs are rising from the previous year.
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Fire Delays Train Near Redding
The Southern Pacific Cascade Limited was delayed southbound near Redding today when a fire broke out in the diesel engine. Train crew reported the damage as nominal.
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Long Beach Declares Civic Crisis Over Community Chest
Mayor Burton W. Chace and the Long Beach City Council announce a civic crisis as the Community Chest fails to reach the $464,612 goal. The proclamation urges immediate citizen action to prevent the collapse of churches, schools, hospitals, and welfare groups, warning of widespread demoralization and economic impact.
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Denfeld weighs new Navy post or retirement
Washington October 29 Adm Louis Denfeld deposed chief of naval operations left for the Navy Notre Dame game in Baltimore to decide by early next week whether to take Matthews offered duty or retire. Matthews faces a weekend decision on Denfeld’s successor with a presidential appointment and Senate confirmation likely. Rumors place Forrest Sherman or Blandy or Conolly as possible choices amid the jockeying in Washington.
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Baseball Manager Veeck Divorced
UM Mrs. Eleanor Veeck was granted a divorce from William Veeck Jr., president of the Cleveland Indians, in Tucson on October 29. She was awarded custody of three children, William 12, Peter 7, and Ellen 5. A divorce decree signed by Judge Lee Garrett. They were married December 5, 1935, in Evansville, Indiana, and later bought the Lazy V Ranch near Tucson.
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Cotten Keeps Working Along in Diverse Roles
Beavers aside, Joseph Cotten stays busy starring in RKO Radio's Weep No More and producing and acting in radio dramas. He writes a screenplay, reads plays for summer stock, and serves as an executive in a firm producing television films with Alicia Vallis.
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Czechs Free 127 Repentant Priests in Amnesties
Czechoslovakia reports that 127 imprisoned Catholic priests who repented opposition to the new church control laws were released. Officials said many had opposed the laws due to pressure from church hierarchy but vowed loyalty to the republic. About 300 priests remained under arrest for defying the measures.
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Abandoned One Day Old Girl Battling for Life
A day-old infant found in a trash can in a San Pedro housing district was reported doing well in an incubator at Harbor General Hospital. Police sought the unknown mother after the newborn, weighing six pounds, was abandoned and wrapped in a towel.
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Funeral Plane Sent for 48
Ponta Delgada Azores Oct 20 UP The bodies of Marcel Cerdan the French boxer and 47 others killed in an Air France Constellation crash in the Azores will be flown to Paris. A special plane will depart Santa Maria to collect the bodies and return to Paris by Monday. Rescue workers gathered the charred remains and possessions scattered over yards. Miss Ginette Neveu, 26, a French violinist, was found with her case holding her violin, reportedly a Stradivarius. Ceran's body identified by jewelry. The copilot was found with his arm over his face.
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Cancer ops televised in color at New York clinic
New York October 29 four delicate cancer operations were televised in color for the first time at Memorial Hospital. The demonstrations, part of the American Cancer Society meeting, used closed circuit signals to a hotel room 25 blocks away where physicians watched. Surgeons narrated each procedure on neck, stomach, bone and cervix cases with clinical footage of other cancer care.
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Judge and son killed in Charlottesville plane crash
Circuit Judge Thames FE Welch and his son J Chandler Curd were killed along with Chandler’s secretary Elizabeth Ellen Hicks when their plane crashed near Charlottesville while en route to the West Virginia Virginia football game. Identifications were confirmed by Welch Daily News.
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Striking Hod Carriers Return to Work in Los Angeles
Hod carriers will resume work Monday on hundreds of residential tracts under an agreement ratified today between them and the Lathing and Plastering Contractors' Council. The strike began last Monday when workers demanded two carriers for every three plasterers, instead of one for two.
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