Georgia Town Outlaws Klan Mask Wearing
IRON CITY Ga Sept 5 Wearing of masks and hoods in public was outlawed by ordinance Monday night in this town where the one armed mayor has reported shooting encounters with the Ku Klux Klan. The five man council adopted the measure unanimously. No Klansmen protested. Bill Hendrix of Tallahassee Fla spokesman for a Klan group said he was not opposed to the ordinance. The council also revoked Mayor Drake's authority to hire special policemen. Three men Drake hired as special officers face bonds on charges of shooting at Klansmen during a midnight parade. Superior Court Judge Geer issued warrants during a hearing on assault charges filed by the mayor against Hendrix. Police chief testified Drake aides did not work under him. Drake had reported he drove away with an automatic shotgun after a group hooded men tried to kidnap him. Hendrix denied Klansmen involvement. He identified his outfit as Southern and Northern Knights of the KKK and named two anonymous higher ups. He announced a nation wide week of cross burning in protest of Paul Robeson and Communism.
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Bill Hendrix
Tallahassee
Fla
C. L. Drake
Hubert Miller
Drake
Hendrix
Knights
KKK
Emperor Samuel II
Troubled Family Heads for Texas
An Indiana family of five traveled by train toward Texas seeking a new life. William E. Whitehead planned a westward move by wagon but money ran short. After a wagon crash near Waverly, Alabama, a relative funded train fare to Houston, hoping to escape their troubles.
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Dickson, Tenn
Indiana
Texas
Adcock
Houston
Whitehead
Hitch Hiker Robbed on Texas Highway Drive
Walter Black, 54, of Amarillo said three men beat him and robbed him of 50 dollars and clothing near Harrold Sunday night after giving him a ride in a car with Arizona plates as he traveled toward Dallas. He reported to police Monday.
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Walter Black
Amarillo
Harrold
Arizona
Dallas
Firemen Hurt as Royse City Fire Destroys Four Buildings
A Monday night blaze in Royse City, Texas destroyed four business buildings and damaged a fifth including the Clockwise dress factory and Polar Bear Ice Cream plant. Two firefighters were injured in an ice cream plant explosion. crews from nearby towns battled the flames into the night.
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North Texas
R. M
Bob) Robison
Rouse City American
Robison
Wise Dress Factory
Polar Bear Ice Cream Company
Rouse City State Bank
Cap Dismore
Welby Sherrill
Dismore
Dallas
Sherrill
Clarence Noel Jr
Suspect leads cops to woman's grave in Montana
A swarthy man, Ray Dempsey Gardner, 29, took police to a rock–covered grave near Gregson along the Butte to Dillon highway, where Sue Horn, 39, was found murdered. He claimed he killed her after she rejected his offer to work as a ranch cook and described a lengthy car ride with the body. Gardner, questioned by J Frank Sullivan, said he dumped shell casings and stole value from Horn’s luggage before pawn actions in Ogden. He faces further questioning linked to a separate Ogden sex slaying.
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Ray Dempsey Gardner
Butte- Dillon
Gregson Hot Springs
Gardner
Miss Horn
Gregson
Dillon
J. Frank Sullivan
Silver Bow
Ogden
Utah
Sullivan
Divide
Mac M. Wade
August Nussbaum
Montana
Wade
Shirley Gretzinger
Gretzinger
CBS Color Demonstration Set for FCC Hearings
CBS announced a series of color television demonstrations to persuade the FCC to approve a color system. The tests in Washington around Sept. 26 precede FCC hearings on color TV as RCA competes with its all electronic system.
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Columbia Broadcasting System
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CBS
Frank Stanton
Commission
Radio Corporation of America
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D-Colo
Senate Commerce Committee
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Horse Outruns Moose On Moonlit Maine Road
Mrs. Virgil Morse of Port Clyde Maine says her horse outran a chasing bull moose on Glenmere Road Sunday night. The mother of six, returning from a canter, watched the moose surge from brush and snap at the horse before the animal broke off the pursuit about 10 feet from the pair.
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Tenant's Harbor
Maine
Virgil Morse
Glenmere Road
Height Over Girl Cited in Killing
An Army doctor contends Helmstetter was struck with a hard force by a rubber hose in the killing as police and Army investigators work to solve the case. Helmstetter was found dead in the driveway with blood pooling and signs of a violent attack. The scene included untouched clothing and modest personal effects, while investigators remain mystified.
Texarkana Engineer Implicated After Bar Boasts About Unsolved Slayings
A 50 year old Texarkana man, claiming to be a civil engineer, boasted at a Houston bar that he knew details of a string of unsolved Texarkana murders. Detective Lt. Brown said the drinking suspect gave evasive answers and will be questioned further. The man said he had been in Houston two weeks.
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Texarkana
W. P. Brown
Brown
Texarkanan
One Killed One Hurt In Fort Worth Wreck
Fort Worth reports a Convair aeronautical engineer killed and his Carswell Air Base companion hurt when their car overturned in a ditch. H. T. Gill Jr. aged 28, son of Dr and Mrs H T Gill of Elkton Kentucky, former Nashville resident, died in the crash. Private First Class Robert L Morton, 19, suffered facial and arm cuts.
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Convair Aeronautical
Carswell Air Base
Here
H. T. Gill Jr
H. T. Gill
Elkton
Gill
Nashville
Goats Barred From Vermont Community Return Hopeful Woman
Mrs. Arthur Lamear returned to Vermont in a 3600 mile prairie schooner journey with goats. She faced a Royalton ultimatum blocking entry to a 60 acre farm, and headed toward Camp Brook seeking refuge with a nephew. Her husband’s injuries had prompted the Arkansas move and slow wagon trek back north.
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Lamear
Royalton
Eugene Fisher
Gowanda
N. Y
Camp Brook
Green Mountains
Hunt
Ark
Arkansas
Vermont
Bryant
Alice Judge Undergoes Operation in Houston
District Judge Lorenz Broeter of Alice underwent a major operation at Herman Hospital in Houston on Saturday. His condition was reported good afterward.
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Houston
Lorenz Broeter
Alice
Herman Hospital
Reduced Price Lincoln Cars Offer Sport Sedan and Club Coupe
A 1949 Lincoln Cosmopolitan Sport Sedan with radio heater and overdrive is reduced to 2795 dollars while a 1946 Lincoln Club Coupe in gray with radio heater and overdrive is reduced to 1195 dollars. The ad highlights lower prices for both models.
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15Th
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