Slayer Is Given 25 Year Sentence
Merle Rothgeb, 42, convicted of the murder of Olin Dinges, was sentenced by Judge Hamilton Haas to 25 years in the State Penitentiary in Page County Circuit Court. The jury, which convicted Rothgeb on July 31, followed the verdict with a 25 year recommendation. Dinges was shot at a carnival ground near Stanley on June 17 and died June 18 at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville.
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Charlottesville
Lattimore Seeks seating for Communist China at UN
Peterborough New Hampshire report quotes Owen Lattimore urging the United Nations to seat Communist China as a first step toward making Asiatic nations our willing associates He agrees with Nehru that China should be admitted to the UN to halt the Korean War but says it must be a concession to friends, not appeasement of Soviet Russia.
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China
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Drake Prayer Read in English Churches in 1941
The text of Sir Francis Drake's prayer is cited: O Lord God, when Thou givest to Thy servants to endeavour any great matter, grant us also to know that it is not the beginning, but the continuing of the same until it be thoroughly finished, which yieldeth the true glory, through Him that for the finishing of Thy work laid down His life. Amen. The second item notes government action on war plants in World War II, citing 1,595 built and 472 disposed of to private industry.
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Cadiz Harbor
England
Reds Promised Manchurian Area by Red Korea
A Korean refugee from Seoul said Russia promised Red Korea two Manchurian provinces. Captain Kenneth R. Cornell cited testimony from a Seoul escapee schoolteacher on July 27. The refugee claimed about 3,000 people were killed in Seoul air raids by that date. Two North Korean refugee girls, 18, said they were forced into the Red Army with fifth column spy roles.
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Red China shells Hong Kong harbor ships shelled near harbor
Hong Kong reports Chinese Reds fired on but missed a Norwegian freighter Pleasantville carrying cargo to Japan as five shells landed about 15 miles south of the harbor. This marks the third straight day of shelling in sea approaches near Hong Kong with allied ships the target.
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Wanshan Islands
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