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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 21, 1952
Page
3
A wind and rainstorm swept the Missouri State Fairgrounds in Sedalia killing one person and injuring 12. High winds toppled Ferris wheels and damaged rides and buildings during the early morning storm.
Nashville women formed the Ladies Hermitage Association 63 years ago to prevent converting Andrew Jacksons Hermitage into a Confederate home. They worked to restore and preserve the estate, ensuring it remains brick for brick like when Jackson rebuilt it after an 1835 fire. The site now attracts large crowds, with admission doubled to 50 cents, and stands as a premier presidential shrine after Mount Vernon.
The dispatch reports a world wide mobilization by Communist parties for a major peace congress in Vienna set for December 5 following the Moscow October meeting. A separate Asia centered meeting in September is planned for Communist China as part of a broader effort to avert a new world war.
In Detroit a drive in hamburger stand waitress Etta Peoples 22 restrained a robber by grabbing a .32 caliber pistol from under the counter. The intruder drew the gun back and fled with $50 from the cash register.
U S military authorities and Japanese police say they have arrested American servicemen and Japanese Chinese and Korean nationals in a $3 000 000 a year black market ring feeding dollars to Communists. Maj Jack Elliott says military payment certificates used by U S forces in Japan are spent illegally in bars and hotels.
In Brooklyn, nine year old Robert Cassidy fell into the Gowanus Canal while playing along the bank. His father John Cassidy rushed to the rescue and died of a heart attack.
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