Gun Battle Shakes Pell City Store. Father Killed
In Pell City Alabama an unmasked gun gang shot and killed Charlie Hurst 42 and wounded his son Howard 21. The elder warned of Ku Klux activity before leaving and a car chase ensued as the attackers fled the scene. Police opened an investigation. Pell City lies about 38 miles east of Birmingham.
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Pell City
Ala
Vicar
Charlie Hurst
Howard
Tollie Lockridge
Howard Hurst
Hurst
Ira Davis
Stoae
Birmingham
Alabama
Hunger Threatens 300 in Isolated Canadian Villages
An urgent appeal reports more than 300 residents in Re nata Deer Park and Broadwater near Lower Arrow Lake facing starvation. With no telephone, no electricity, limited mail by plane, and ice-bound lake transport, communities may butcher fodderless cattle for meat as supplies dwindle.
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Canadian Pacific
Body of Bergstrom Flier Found on Island Shore
The body of First Lieutenant John J. Anderson a 28 year old Bergstrom flier killed in a Gulf of Mexico crash February 17 was found at Mata gorda Island by the island shore patrol. Memorial services were held at Bergstrom Air Force Base. Also killed was Staff Sergeant Olin Zack Smith whose body was found and sent to Crestview Florida.
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John J. Anderson
Bergstrom
Gulf of Mexico
Matagorda Island
John Lasko
Anderson
Bergstrom Air Force Base
27Th
Olin Zack Smith
Smith
Crestview, Fla
No First For Columbus Belief On Earth’s Shape
The text notes that Columbus was not the first to doubt the earth’s roundness. It contrasts common beliefs of the uneducated with earlier scholarly views that the earth was not flat, indicating a long history of debate about the planet’s shape.
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Columbus Columbus
Navy Accepts Snorkel U Boat Hunter Plane
Lockheed announced Navy acceptance of a P2V Neptune variant the P2V4 designed to locate snorkel submarines. The craft uses magnetic gear and a radio sonobuoy to pinpoint submerged subs and coordinate attacks. The Neptune is linked to the Truculent Turtle longest nonrefueled flight record and has made numerous carrier takeoffs.
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Burbank
Calif
Navy
Lockheed Aircraft Corporation
Neptunes
Vitamin C in Whole Oranges vs Grapefruits Compared
The article notes that whole sections of oranges and grapefruits contain more vitamin C than juice or strained juice. It emphasizes that consuming whole fruit preserves higher vitamin content.
McCloy Probes West German Underground Military
West Germany faces an American inquiry into the underground Bruderschaft or brotherhood a potential new general staff. Centered in Frankfurt with leaders including ex General Hasso Eccard Manteuffel the group reportedly includes former staff officers and Nazi leaders. An related probe in Stuttgart notes an Emergency Union of Career Soldiers formed by about 40 ex senior officers.
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Berlin
Bruderschaft
Brotherhood
John J. McCloy
Frankfurt
United States
Britain
France
People’s Police
East Germany
Georg Dertinger
East Zone
Volkskammer
People’s Chamber
Germany
Yalta
McCloy
Neuepresse
Hasso-Eccard Manteuffel
Stuttgart
Eberhard von Donath
Street Cars Sold to El Paso Firm in San Diego
Seventeen streamlined San Diego street cars, retired nine months earlier, are to run again between El Paso Texas and Juarez Mexico. The sale to El Paso City Lines was disclosed by the San Diego Transit System which now operates buses and holds eleven streamlined cars and fifty older models.
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San Diego
Calif
el Paso
Texas
Juarez
Mexico
el Paso City Lines
Fren mint laxative chew promises quick relief
An advertisement touts Fren A Mint laxative chews that melt in the stomach and release medicine when reaching the lower digestive tract. It claims quick relief from discomfort and credit to chewing for faster, gentler action, offered at a small price in drug stores.
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Guadalupe
Hillcrest Farms
NTAL
Parly
Eave
Pilus
U. S
Leo McFarland
Route 1
Forney, Texas
Conoco Super Motor
Conoco
Conoco Super Motor Oil
Vex Conoco
Ojo, Continental Oil Company
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