Look Rape Case Reaches N C High Court
RALEIGH North Carolina ANP The U S Supreme Court may decide if a Negro looking at a white woman is a crime Mack Ingram a 45 year old sharecropper was convicted of assault by leer and by chase of 17 year old Willa Jean Boswell An all white jury convicted him after a hung jury in Yanceyville first trial The case has drawn NAACP help to seek a new hearing and the state supreme court ruling is being appealed if needed.
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Raleigh
N.C
ANP
U. S. Supreme Court
Mack Ingram
North Carolina Supreme Court
High Court
State Supreme Court
Ingram
Leer
Chase
Willa Jean Boswell
Eisenhower Promises Unity in Labor and Nation
Critics from both parties tire of waiting as Democrats and Republicans labor toward consensus. Taft Meany talks, Durkin meets CIO and AFL. Eisenhower quietly builds an administration ready to move. He seeks deeds over words, aiming for citizenship progress for all groups and a united national effort. Good luck, Ike.
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New York
Global
General Eisenhower
Republican Party
Repu
Robert A. Taft
George Meany
American Federation of Labor
Labor
Martin Durkin
CIO
AFL
Exis
Eisenhower
Big
Mr. Little
Ike
Korea
Bunche rules out Washington role amid UN praise
Dr. Ralph J. Bunche, head of the United Nations trusteeship division, said he has not been offered any job by President-elect Eisenhower and intends to remain with the UN. Speaking at the Pigskin Club banquet near National Airport, he called the UN the world’s only hope for peace and said most Americans want the U.S. to stay in the UN and support its success.
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Washington
ANP
Ralph J. Bunche
United Nations Division of Trusteeship
Eisenhower
United Nations
National Airport
Gen
Dr. Bunche
United States
Bunche
Liberian Government Pays 150000 On Lend Lease
The Liberian Government paid 150000 to the United States for lend lease expenditures on the Free Port of Monrovia. The port, opened in 1948, cost 20000000 to build and is expected to be repaid from port operations. The main wharf is 2000 feet, accommodating four freighters or tank ships, with cargo capacity about 200000 tons yearly.
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United States
Monrovia
Clarence L. Simpson
Africa
Tte
Richmond to Have Modern 11-Story Hospital
Plans for a five million dollar tuberculosis and general hospital for Negroes in Virginia emerge after approval by the State Art Commission. Jointly funded by the state health department and the Medical College of Virginia, the 11 story building will sit north of Marshall Street near the Viau duct and St Philip hospital, with two three story wings and a sun deck for TB patients.
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Richmond
Virginia
State Art Commission
State Health Department
Medical College of Virginia
St. Philip Hospital
St. Philip
Medical College of Virginia Hospital
Marshall Street
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Grand Ave
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Mary Elizabeth Flamingo Room
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R. Brown
W. O. Perry
W. Parks
Chas. Ross
Arthur King
Willie Davie
E. F. Aldrich
Dennis Smith
Arnold Troy
Shaddie Ward Social Comm
L. Richardson
A. Brown
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