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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 18, 1955
Page
7
Paris reports France grants Sultan Mohamed Ben Moulay Arafa a few more days to form a Moroccan cabinet and curb violence. President Coty presides at a four hour cabinet session as Gen. Grandval prepares to report on the sultan s progress.
Officials report increasing violence in Morocco's protectorate. The Sultan was tasked with uniting political factions, but the Nationalist group refused to join his government. Casablanca saw at least four deaths and seven injuries, including a French doctor whose car was stoned.
A large delegation from towns along a proposed direct Birmingham to Columbus Mississippi road will visit Montgomery next week. Representatives from Parrish and Gorgas Alabama and Columbus join Walker Senator Reuben Newton to urge action. They meet at 10 30 a m August 25 with State Highway Director Harman Nelson. The plan would connect at Birminghamport and use an existing road into Ensley a Birmingham suburb.
Nine South Alabama students have been named the 1995 56 Walter O Parmer scholarship recipients. Funded by Parmer's education trust, the scholars will attend Alabama Polytechnic Institute the University of Alabama or Vanderbilt University.
At 11 30 am today Judge S A Lynne was charging a jury in a 50 000 dollar damage suit trial against the International Union stemming from a 1951 Wolverine Tube strike. Plaintiff N A Palmer. arguments by attorneys began yesterday and the defense concluded its testimony. Trial of another 50 000 suit is set to begin Monday before Judge Lynne.
In Framingham Massachusetts 50 inmates rioted at the women's reformatory breaking windows dishes and other breakables Iris Allen 26 of Fall River escaped by scaling a 10 foot barbed wire fence while three others attempting to flee were captured An inmate tipped authorities and others were beaten before state police restored order
In Saarbrucken a pro German rally turned violent as thousands attacked Premier Johannes Hoffmann during a campaign for the Europeanization plebiscite on October 23. Nine demonstrators and seven police were injured after tear gas and clubs dispersed the mob outside a Neuenkirchen hall. A five power commission will convene a conference tomorrow as tensions rise over the Saar statute and future negotiations between Paris and Bonn.
In Jerusalem David Ben-Gurion urged forming a new government within a week on a broad base. He aims to include religious Agudath Israel and left Labor parties while excluding Herut and the Communists, and to reinstate the General Zionist party.
Leonardo da Vinci sketched plans for heavier than air gliders and flying machines but did not build or test any of them. The designs showed his fascination with aerial motion and aerodynamics during the Renaissance, though no contemporary records confirm practical experiments.
Scholarships valued at 1000 dollars each were awarded in 1955 56 to Wiley Russell McKenzie Phillips Williams Leroy Hanks and William Cary Gates of Greenville Richard J Spurling of Opp James Pugh of Garland James R Sharp of Andalusia Robert Barlow Jr of Snow Hill and Shalton Hawsey of Evergreen.
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