Intellectual Prodigy Faces Murder Charge in Park Cab Slaying
Atlanta October reports an intellectual prodigy Hal Irwin Jr. arrested for murder after cab driver Monty Whitmire was found dead in a city park. Irwin, a licensed attorney at 18, was described by his mother as brilliant yet troubled and volatile, with prior mental hospital treatment. Deputy and sheriff officials say Irwin confessed to the killing though motive remains unclear.
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Atlanta
Harry
Hal) Irwin, Jr
Lois T. Irwin
Monty Jack Whitmire
Hugh Cramer
Hal
Irwin
Ani
Ecara
A. B. Foster
J. W. Ellington
Moybe
11 Year Old Interviewer Learns Baseball From Barkley
An 11 year old reporter from Wilson Grammar School collects notes at a Barkley press conference after a trip from Spokane. He asks about Russia North Korea and Europe then chats about baseball with Vice President Barkley who jokes about fishing all day if he gets a bite.
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Interviews
Wilson Grammar School
John Kine
Darkley
John
Wilson
Barkley
Washington
President Truman
Mr. Barkley
Haze
Auto Sales Slowing Down As Dealers Report Dip
Detroit reports car sales dipping after months of records. Analysts cite new credit controls and buyers delaying purchases for upcoming models. Deliveries remain delayed for popular makes including Ford Mercury Studebaker General Motors.
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Detroit
Aucurt
Ford
Mercury
Studebaker
Obituaries Continued For Silver Spring Area Figures
Obituary notices list Charles I of Silver Spring with daughters Jessie L and Mary, ten grandchildren, five great grandchildren. Clarence Ki Miller of 1108 Potomac Avenue dies aged 81, survived by daughter and five grandchildren. Claude L Dolan of Hancock funeral planned with services at St Thomas Episcopal Church. Interments at local cemeteries.
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Charles I
Silver Spring
Jessie L
Mary &. Tsageant
Washington
Charles
East Funeral Home
Hancock
Amaranth
Buck Valley Lutheran Church
David JM Heover
Church Cemetery
Clarence Ki. Miller
Potomear Avenue
St. Paul's E.wb
Standard Qi Co
1.C.C.F
First Howe Fire Co
John
Frances F Arthury Miller
Kenneth L. Adame
Tite
FL Berry Plummer
Gerald D. Kauffman
Maven Cemetery
Claude L. Dolan
Charles T. Waat
Hancock Wnt
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
Alister
Atternon
St. Thomas Cemetery
Truman MacArthur meet to map Korea and world peace
President Truman and General MacArthur will meet face to face in Hawaii with a team including Gen Omar Bradley Secretary Frank Pace and aides. They will discuss policy to shape Korea reconstruction and a path to world peace before addressing the U N and San Francisco talks.
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Truman
Omar Bradley
Tall
Frank Pace
Ambasasdor
Phillip C. Jessup
W. Averell Harriman
Dean Rusk
Far East
Charles O S. Murphy
General MacArthur
U. S
Korea
John J. Muccio
Courtney Whitney
MacArthur
Hickam Field
Sam
Iron Curtain
Tam
San Francisco
U. N
New York
Tie
U.N
Prussia
Actor Denies Paternity Claim Amid Divorce
James Brian Davis known as Urlan denies being the father of seven year old Michael. He identifies San Francisco businessman Robert C. Sherman as the father in a Superior Court counteraction. Davis states he and his wife Hotta B. Davis separated and were divorced in 1949 and that Sherman should support the child while custody and support are resolved.
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Los Angeles
Liavid Helan
Axon Hort
San Francisco
Robert C. Sherman
Superior J
Urlan
James Brian Davis
Hotta
Davis
Khe Iy
Michael
T O
Adrian Booth
Sherman
Bite
KKK Blamed For Stoning Judge Waring Home
In Savannah on October 14 a mortar blast shattered the window at Judge Judas J. Waites Waring and wife in Charleston. FBI probes the attack blamed by Judge Waring on the Ku Klux Klan as officials guard the jurist’s residence amid debates on race and segregation in the South Carolina Democratic primaries.
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Savannah
FBI
US 8
Judas J. Waites Waring
Charleston
S.C
M. W. McFarlin
Washington
U. S
Waring
South
Tie
South Carolina
Opr
Marr
Taxpayers’ anger over no relief in county taxes
In Gander Newfoundland editor notes critics rail at four years of tax increases while commissioners oppose tax relief. A Williamsport district seeks relief with special counsel Kenneth MecLaughlin hired to represent protesting taxpayers and a looming reckoning day.
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TaiRera
Board of County Commissioners
Williamsport Dire Rtriet
Hagerstown
Williams
Kenneth MecLaughlin
Wil Hamsport
McLaughlin
Shank
Eldridge
Hoffman
No Attempt To Obtain Warrant In Garage Case
The case reports a verdict for Stotler and details a magistrate's hesitation on issuing a warrant after a City Hall conference aimed at a friendly settlement over a West End garage. Mayor Mills and officials sought to halt construction near Winter Street School due to traffic hazards, while work on the garage continued.
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Stotler
Bostetter
Circuit Court
Captainfier
West End
Stot‘ier
Winter Street School
Noob
Milly
18 Wounded In Shotgun Ambush In Savannah
Savannah, Ga. oct 14 18 wounded in a shotgun ambush on a truck carrying black workers to a lumber plant. Doctos say two may lose eyes as more assailants may have fired from ambush. Police round up suspects and unions dispute involvement in the violent incident.
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Savannah
Strick Lumber
Frank Smith
John McCarthy
Nearo
J.T. Mooney
United Mill, Ming and Smelter Workers Union
Independent Union
Reynolds and Manley Lumber Company
Hobart Manley
The
CIO
Fe Jeanings
Toynbee warns Western tech edge fades as faith may guide world
British historian Arnold J. Toynbee told 490 Friends of the Colleges in Claremont that Western dominance based on technology will be short lived. He urged Westerners to offer Christianity rather than just bread as they lose influence, framing the era as a contest between Western modernity and Russia for mankind’s votes.
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Ton Angeles
Arnold J. Toynbee
Claremont
Toynbee
Christianity Instead of Technology —Not A Stone, But Bread?” Toynbee
The
Universsity of London
Russia
Los Angeles Sizzles as Heat Wave Tops Records
Los Angeles hits 104 amid a six day hot spell sparked by a Florida heat cloud. Glendale reaches a record 110 while North Hollywood and Pasadena log 108 and 106. Santa Ana tragedy: two children suffocated in a car at El Toro Marine Base.
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Los Angeles
Florida
A. K. Showalter
Boureau
California
Miami
Grady Norton
North Hollywood
Pasadens
Fontana
San Bernardino County
Santa Ana
Dale Rath Clifford
Judith Anne Haffer
el Toro Marine Base
Fiendish attacks terrify city area residents
Aokerw case of six brutal assaults within two hours shook a Detroit area district bounded by McNichols Fight Mile Southfield and Livernols Roads. Victims include Dorothy Julian 47 her son Robert 12 and her mother Viola Brezeski 63. Norma Friedman 10 was beaten. Katherine Clacher 31 and Blanche Cameron 65 slugged. Suspect described as well dressed 30s to 40s with light brown curly hair and striped tie driving a dark coupe. Police report the first home invasion occurred while a husband was away. the assailant ordered children to stay calm then attacked Norma.
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McNichols
Fight Mile
Southfield
Livernots
Mt. Carmel Marcy Hospital
Dorothy Julian
Robert
Viola Brezeski
Julian
Norma Friedman
Katherine Clacher
Blanche Cameron
Northwestern Hospital
Mt. Carmel Mercy
Harold
Norma
Peter
France Assured Of Getting Aid In Rearmament
France is assured of substantial U S military aid but may receive less than requested. France seeks 8.1 to 9.0 billion dollars in aid through 1951 to rearm and integrate forces with Indo-Chinese operations. U S officials report that aid may attach to native training and support to counter Communist forces in Indo China.
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France
Washington
Indo-China
Jules
Europe
Acheson
Defense
Marshall
Ithe
Treasury Snyder
Churches Call For Strengthening Of Spiritual And Moral Defenses
The Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America urged bolstering spiritual and moral defenses as military power grows. It released its World Order Day message noting 27 member churches with about 29 million members and warned against pagan ideologies. The statement lauds United Nations Korea actions and urges postwar steps to secure Korean peoples' freedom.
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New York
Churches of
United Nations Action
Korea
United Nations
Maryland Baptists to Meet in Salisbury October 18 20
The 115th Maryland Baptists annual meeting will be in Salisbury from October 18 to 20 with First Baptist Hagerstown and Virginia Avenue Baptist represented. Special events include a October 17 training union rally at Asbury Methodist and a Teen banquet with limited reservations. Reverend Roger Berghauser directs Sunday School and student work, with speakers Dr J B Lawrence Dr Arnold Ohrn and Dr J O William. Dr Vernon B Richardson will preach the annual sermon. Clifton C Thomas is general secretary and FE Garland is Maryland Baptist Union president.
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Hagerstown
First Baptist
Virginia Avenue
Maryland Baptists
Salisbury
Baltimore
Éuch
Baptist Training Union of Maryland
Asbury Methodisl
Women's Missionary Society of Maryland
Roger I. Berghauser
J. 0. Wil- Nama
Nashville
Training Union
J. B. Lawrence
Southern Baptist Home Mission Board
Atlanta
Arnold T. Ohrn
the Baptist World Alliance
Washington, D. C
J. O. William
Nashville, Tenn. Dr. Vernon B. Richardson of University Baptist Church
Clifton C. Thomas
FE. E. Garland
Crisfeld
Maryland Baptist Union
Association names church leaders and officers
Dr. Joseph T. Watta is named general pacretary emeritus and local delegations will be headed by Rev. Paul B. Watlington of First Baptist and Rev. Jane R. Hite of Virginia Avenue church.
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Joseph T. Watta
Paul B. Watlington
First Baptist
Jane R. Hite
Virginia Avenue Church
Dancer Denies Affairs in Paternity Claim
British dancer Brenda Juliet testifies she had no affairs with other men during a visit to the United States three years ago. Her attorney reads letters naming several men nicknamed Stinky and Batty, but Juliet says they were only friends. She recalls Sabu paid her travel costs in 1947 from London to California. no uranium extraction efforts are noted.
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Los Angeles
Brenda Juliet
Sabu
Stinky
Mise
Juliet
London
California
South Africa
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Tith & M
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Samuel M. Hoffman
Orphan's Court
Fairfield-Suigan Air Force Base
Douglas MacArthur
Pacific
Rrumen
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F Center
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Omar Hradiey
Clarence E. Miller
President
KKK
General Electric
Wolf and Son
Franklin Street
William M. Chaney
Pan American Airlines
Bente Land
Pac
Robert Lindsey
Canada
Madman
Kenneth Apsel
Akron
Rudy
Rexall Pharmacy
N. Jonathan Street
Hagerstown Gas Co
Von
Leister Coal Co
West Lee Street
E. Freakin Street
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Startzman's Liquor Store
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