Negro Girl Quits White School in North Carolina
The report recounts Dorothy Brace, a Negro student, withdrawing from Harding School amid hostile acts by white students. She describes taunts, milk and ice thrown, spitting, and an incident where a tin piece struck her head. Her father and school board officials respond with cautious support and concern.
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Harding
Fry
Dorothy
Thurst
J. P. Hotson
The
City School Board
Birmingham
Ozshk
Ark
Ozark High School
Expert Says By Living Clean Life You Can Be 104
104 year old Newton Wyoming resident Philetus Luce credits longevity to regular church attendance early bedtime and a good clean life He dismisses superstition about Friday the 28th and jokes about avoiding bad luck with cats noting his simple daily prescription for a long life.
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Newton
WY. J
A. Philetus Luce
Luce
Sussex
Fire devastates Gardena market in early morning blaze
Fire at Gardena Farmers Market on Rosecrans and Normandie destroyed the market and caused an estimated 75 000 to 100 000 in losses. Owner Les Archenberg valued meat stock at over 40 000. Fire units from the city and LA County battled the flames for over 30 minutes. Origin labeled suspicious but officials offered no incendiary determination.
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Gardena
Gardena Farmers’ Market
Rosecrans Ave
Normandie Blvd
Les Archenberg
Los Angeles
Eggs Go First or Chickens Steal Tilt in Detroit
Mrs Floyd McDeavitt told Detroit police that while she and her husband were away, someone stole all the eggs from the hen house. She added that a day later 12 New Hampshire hens disappeared.
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Detroit
Floyd McDeavitt
Best Suspect Held in Police Slayings
Police name a 47 year old man as the best suspect in a series of slayings and a rape. The suspect, once a junk dealer convicted in 1953, is said to be on parole after release in 1855. His alibi weak, witnesses tie him to a southern drawl similar to the killer.
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Hazel Weaver
Sun
Jaymead
Leonard
Foo
Léconards
Partlow
Arrests in L A Swindle Case Involving Marketowners
Los Angeles district attorney prepares for indictments next Tuesday over a 13 year chain market swindle. Fifty three small market owners and nineteen truck drivers were arrested starting Thursday on suspicion of conspiracy to commit petty theft. The scheme used meat bones and screws from big chains to a tallow rendering firm, with the difference credited to small markets and shared with drivers. Peterson Manufacturing Co was named as an innocent party. The retirement bookkeeper Frederick Robertson, 70, was arrested earlier and faces conspiracy to commit grand theft.
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Los Angeles
Dist
William B. McKesson
Jnne
McKesson
Peterson Manufacturing Co
Peterson Books
Frederick Robertson
Plane found in Venezuelan jungle nine dead
Ground parties reached the Avensa liner wreckage 35 miles northwest of Barinas after a 15 hour trek through jungle. The DC3 vanished September 3 en route from Maiquetia to the Socony Mobil camp with nine aboard, including five U S oil officials. Victims include Horace L Denson Sr Arthur L Clark John T Marin Benjamin Ormond and Roy J Tribbey.
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Caracas
Venezuela
U.S. Oil Company
Maiquetia
Socony- Mobiles] Co
Barinas
Horace L. Denson Sr
Los Angeles
Eastern Division
Arthur L. Clark
Buffalo
WN. C
Dohin T Marin
Cleveland
Benjamin ©. Ormond
Forrest
Miss
Roy J. Tribbey
Vanderbilt
Tex
Feld
Ike Summons Top Aids to Meeting With Faubus
National figures gather as the FBI assists local authorities in a bombed Hattie Cotton School incident. Kasper jailed, federal injunction halts anti segregation protests. Nashville school work resumes while Ozark and Charlotte witness integration friction and protests continue.
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Ike
Faubus
Seom Brownell
FBI
Department of Justice
Brownell
John Kasper
William E. Mile
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