Church Schools Are Doomed Under New South African Law
Pretoria reports say church mission schools in South Africa face extinction under a centralized education bill that shifts native schooling to the Department of Native Affairs. Opponents warn of second class citizens and reduced religious subsidies as mission groups protest the plan, while officials frame it as democratic progress and equal access based on need.
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Pretoria
South Africa
Daniel F. Malan
Malan
Department of Native Affairs
Spencer Hall
Anglican
The
Johannesburg
J. B. Webb
Methodist Church
Transvaal
C. W. Prinsloo
Native Affairs Department
Prinsloa
Water Ghosts Plague Chinese Island Sentries
Nationalist guards on Quemoy report raids by eight to ten “water ghosts” who swim ashore under cover of darkness to abduct soldiers for intelligence. The United States calls them frog men. One raid last month prompted sensational propaganda, though the raiders fired no shots and casualties were uncertain.
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Taipeh
Formosa
United States
Quemoy
New Safe All-in-One Capsule Promises Easy Weight Loss
An advertisement touts a new tiny capsule that supposedly helps readers lose fat and inches without dieting, hunger, drugs, or exercise. It claims to combine vitamins minerals and vegetable cellulose to curb hunger and mimic a full feeling, with weight loss appearing in a week to a month and a cost only if slim and healthy results occur.
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G. E
Hammer Killer Escapes from Fulton State Hospital
A 23 year old mental patient Stuart Allen who killed John F. Frank 58 at Christ Episcopal Church St Joseph Mo seven years ago has escaped from Fulton State Hospital for the criminal insane. An inmate Lawrence Lamey 235 fled with him. Allen adopted son of an Episcopal minister said he developed the urge to kill while playing the church organ. The body was mutilated with an electric drill.
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Fulton, Mo
State Hospital
Stuart Allen
Lawrence Lamey
Allen
John F. Frank
Christ Episcopal Church
St. Joseph
Lake Webster vs long Indian place names in Boston mail
A Boston Post Office piece notes summer mail headaches from Native American lake names. Clerks say locals prefer the English resort names like Lake Webster, as longer indigenous names are often altered or omitted in correspondence.
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Boston
Chemquasabamticook
Ronkonkoma
Minnewaska
Passadumkeag
New England
Lake Chargoggagogmanchangagogchaubunagungamaug
Train Hits Truck In Mattoon Killing 1 and Injuring 28
A New York Central streamliner crashed into a gravel truck at a Mattoon crossing, killing Cary Bryant 24, and injuring 28 others, as the Southwestern Limited derailed nine cars and left two on the rails. The train was en route to New York with about 95 passengers.
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Mattoon
New York Central
Cary Bryant
Third Division to Return To U S in October
Seoul The U S 3rd Division known as the Rock of the Marne is scheduled to return to the United States in October. The 8th Army says it will be the fifth American division to leave Korea this year with a sixth to follow, reducing the number of U S divisions on the peninsula. The 3rd landed November 10, 1950 and fought on all Korean fronts, to be trimmed to 1,000 men for rotation home.
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Seoul
U.S
United States
U.S. 8Th Army
Korea
Far East
Driver’s license test felt familiar to ex‑director
DES MOINES Don Hughes allowed his license to lapse and retook the written examination. He said the test was not tough, noting it was one he himself had written years ago during his tenure as director of the state drivers license division.
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Des Moines
Don Hughes
Tough Lulu tests naval hulls in underwater explosions
Lulu the test barge of the Underwater Explosions Research Division in Norfolk Virginia shows how its reinforced hull endures blasts. From the gawky barge, the division has sunk the atomic submarine Nautilus raised her and sunk her again all in miniature.
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Norfolk
Lulu
United States Navy
Underwater Explosions Research Division
Curtain Nations Invited to Join Day of Prayer
President Eisenhower appealed to Russians and other Iron Curtain nations to join Americans in a Day of Prayer for world peace. The message aired via Voice of America, urging an act of faith to break artificial barriers. Eisenhower will attend chapel services at Lowry AFB to pray for peace.
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Day of Prayer
Denver
Eisenhower
Russia
Soviet Union
Voice of America
Iron Curtain
United States
Congress
Lowry Air Force Base
Birthday Secret: Durban Man Turns 100 Despite Fun Claim
Charles Francis Fleming believed a man is as old as he feels and told people he was 96. An accident led to hospitalization where his daughter revealed he was actually 100. Fleming welcomed the truth with a small birthday celebration and said it’s nice being 100.
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Durban
South Africa
Charles Francis Fleming
Fleming
Laborites Clash Over German Rearmament Policy
Britain faces a Labor party revolt over arming West Germany as part of the Western defense plan. Former Prime Minister Clement Attlee leads pro rearma ment sentiment, while Bevanites push for opposition, with unions split after the TUC vote. The Scarborough conference opens Sept 27 amid a party debate and international pressure.
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London
Britain
West Germany
Churchill
Labor Party
Labor
Clement R. Attlee
Red China
Attlee
Anthony Eden
West Europe
Scarborough
Germany
Trades Union Congress
TUC
Ament
Moscow Radio
Laborite Conference
Berlin
Herbert Morrison
Ambulances Install 22 Taxi Meters In Los Angeles
A local fleet owner in Los Angeles borrowed a taxi idea and fitted 22 meters to ambulances to meter patient trips. The move aims to measure service usage and charges more accurately, reflecting a shift toward standardized billing in emergent transport.
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Los Angeles
Forgotten shopper forgets child in grocery basket
McAlester Oklahoma story recalls Mrs Albert Norman who after loading groceries into her car dashed back inside the store to retrieve what she forgot. In the upper basket berth lay her child William Albert contentedly gurgling, completing the mislaid shopping episode.
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Mcalester
Okla
Albert Norman
William Albert
Bevan presses bid to reshape party over German policy
Bevan, 54, mounts a two-pronged assault to gain ultimate control of the party. He attacks German rearmament while contesting the treasurer post against Hugh Gaitskell, who enjoys Attlee's backing. Gaitskell is favored, but Bevan could tilt policy toward his pattern if he wins influence on the German issue.
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Attleen
Bevan
Hugh Gaitskell
Attlee
Gaitskell
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