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Newspaper
The Daily Mail
Location
Hagerstown, Maryland, United States of America
Date
Dec 20, 1948
Page
2
A neighbor recounts conversation about global communism spreading across Europe and Asia and its impact on Western democracy. The speaker notes peril from both sides and hopes to value Christmas more by keeping these concerns in mind.
Authorities sought the identities of two of 18 killed in a western Utah bus crash near Salt Lake City. A Burlington Trailways collision on U S Highway 40 involved two east and westbound buses. Forty-three were injured, many military personnel en route home for Christmas.
Thomas H. Johnson, 19, of Thomaston, Ga., a Navy radioman, said the accident happened so quickly they did not know what occurred. Flames shot up immediately, they broke a window and escaped as best they could. Brussels sprouts are described as cookable whole or quartered in holiday meal notes.
In Ellisville Mississippi a young Navy veteran married to a white woman was convicted of miscegenation and sentenced to up to ten years. District Attorney Paul Swartz revealed the Knights filed an appeal after a 1946 ceremony performed by the mayor. The trial focused on the ancestor Rachel and whether she was Negro or Cherokee Indian, with defense witnesses contesting her race. The white wife faces no charges, as the law targets white persons and those with any Negro or Mongoloid blood.
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