Governor Urges Regional Pact to Limit Federal Power
Florida Governor Millard Caldwell urged regional agreements among states at a Detroit assembly. He touted interstate universities to attract northern students, defended segregation, and warned that without regional cooperation the federal government would encroach on state matters in areas like education, pollution control, and juvenile care.
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Detroit
Dev
Millard F.caldwell
Florida
Neval Assembly
Caldwell
Tuskegee Institute
Ten Day Revival to Begin at Hartselle Church
A ten day revival will begin Sunday at the Hartselle Church of God. Evangelists are Rev. and Mrs. Elmer Powell from Pinehart Church of God Birmingham, both noted as musicians. Evenings start at seven with group prayer at 6 30.
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Hartselle Church
Hartselle Church of God
Elmer Powell
Pinehart Church of God
Birmingham
Transport Units Taxed by Crowd At Birmingham
First Auburn Alabama football meeting in 41 years draws record crowd. Attendance at Legion Field exceeds 46 000 as northbound trains sell out and rail and bus stations run crowded. Visitors thronged the city creating severe strain on transport facilities.
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Birmingham
Legion Field
Alabama
Bama Four to Sing in Beta Sigma Phi Musical
The Bama Four barbershop quartet will perform in the Beta Sigma Phi musicale Rapture In View produced by Jack Mc Culloch and Talmadge Meadows. They will appear in the South act and Gay 90s scenes along with other featured vocalists and dancers.
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Bama Four
Jack McCulloch
Talmadge Meadows
Society For the Preservation and Encouragement of
America
Fred Smith
Horace Sheats
Guy Jones
Leonard Carl
Frankie
Johnnie
Mabel Fair
Trinity
Louise Kelly
Mary Williams
Geraldine Craig
Nelly Bly
Mobilization of Force for Christ Planned at Central Baptist
Religious leaders announced a Mobilization of Force for Christ at Central Baptist Church Monday evening. Rev. Perry Claxton will speak, with representatives from Baptist and other area churches expected. Program begins at 7 15 PM.
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Central Baptist Church
Christ
Perry Claxton
Two Accidents on City Streets No One Injured
City police reported two nonfatal accidents on Saturday. A pickup driven by G C Gillespie collided with a ton and a half truck at Second Street and Ninth Avenue West at 2 PM, causing total loss to the pickup and minor damage to the truck. The other driver was B C Richardson of Austinville. At 10 40 AM Fred King backed into a parked Hoover Motor Express tractor trailer on W Church Street, tearing a hole in the car’s left side..Driver of the Hoover truck was J R Collum of Falkville. Sgt Jimmy Collier and Officer Horace Standridge investigated both incidents.
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Second Street
Ninth Avenue
G. C. Gillespie
Moulton
Hoover Motor Express
Hoover
J. R. Collum
Falkville
Jimmy Collier
Horace Standridge
Robot Ear Hears Phone Ring and Turns on Light
A device shown at the AMA meeting uses a box with a phone set inside. When the phone rings the bell vibrations trigger a salt crystal to emit electricity and light a lamp. The system can illuminate indoor or outdoor lights when the owner is away from home.
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Robot Ear
St.louis
American Medical Association
Governors May Hear Barkley At Southern Conference
Vice President elect Alben Barkley may address a Georgia dinner for visiting governors at the Southern Governor's Conference in Savannah on December 13. Governor Herman Talmadge, informed by Maryland Governor W Preston Lane, said an invitation was extended. The meeting will advance a regional education plan and consider asking legislatures in January to establish four regional schools of veterinary medicine. Presidents and administrators from 55 colleges and universities are expected.
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Atlanta
Alben Barkley
Georgia
Savannah
Herman Talmadge
W. Preston Lane
Maryland
Barkley
Talmadge
Regional Council For Education
John Ivey
Ivey
Wounded Negro Shot After Alleged Kiss Attempt
In Dalton Georgia on December 4 police report a white man Grady King shot Richard Bingham a Black cook after Bingham allegedly tried to kiss Kings wife. Bingham was critically wounded and taken to a Chattanooga hospital. King faces charges of assault and attempted murder and was released on bond.
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Dalton
J. C. Bramlett
Richard ‘Bingham
Nero
Cook
Bramlett
Bingham
Grady King
Chattanooga
King
Assa
Bramlett Sair
Expectant Mother Found Guilty in Slaying of Husband
In Philadelphia a 23 year old expectant mother, Cecilia L Atella, was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in her husband Ernest Atella s shooting after a quarrel. She testified her husband pressured her to stay, and she claimed the gun went off during a threat of self harm. She received an indeterminate sentence.
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Philadelphia
Cecillia L. Atella
Ernest
Atella
Probe Gang Angle In Florida Slaying
The death of 37 year old Robert H. Bacon, a Belle Glade small loan operator, is being probed for a possible gangland angle. A coroner's jury investigated the case while Belle Glade police called death possibly self inflicted but unlikely.
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Probe Gang
Florida
Belle Glade
Fla
Robert H. Bacon
Discovery of Bay of Rio de Janeiro Linked to Andre Goncalves
A late-20 discovery notes Andre Goncalves entering the Bay of Rio de Janeiro on January 1 and naming the great river feeding the bay as The River of January.
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Bay of
Rio de Janeiro
Andre Goncalves
Mother Freed in Kidnapping Case Involving Son
The Wichita County grand jury freed Mrs. Margaret Hodges of Atlanta, GA, on kidnapping charges related to her eight year old son Jackie. Cab driver Johnnie Carver of Atlanta was also no-billed. The case stemmed from the alleged removal of the boy from in front of a Wichita Falls elementary school on November 10.
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Wichita Falls
Texas
Wichita County
Margaret Hodges
Atlanta
Johnnie Carver
Hodges
Junior Red Cross to Aid Foreign Schools
The Junior Red Cross will fill school chests to re equip European classrooms as a gesture of friendship. American youngsters plan to pack and ship nearly one million gift boxes to junior Red Cross members overseas, with Decatur children among the local members.
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Red Cross
Raid on Plant Is Investigated
A dawn raid on two Shakespeare plants in Kalamazoo Michigan prompted a congressional sub committee and state officials to launch hearings. Rep Clare Hoffman and Michigan Attorney General Eugene Black testified while Gov Sigler ordered a one man state grand jury. About 300 raiders overturned cars destroyed a truck and injured seven people.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Shakespeare Companies
Clare Hoffman
Michigan
Hoffman
Black
John Simpson
Jackson
Sigler
Shakespeare
One Man Held in Socialite's Death
Beaufort South Carolina detectives report Victor F. Stronjny an island cattle raiser charged with murder in the death of Philadelphia socialite William Moseley Swain 36. Swain suffered a skull fracture after head injuries at his Belfair plantation last Thursday night and died the next day in a hospital.
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Beaufort
J. E. McTeer
Victor F. Stronjny
Philadelphia
William Moseley Swain
Swain
Belfair
Iyageland Hospital
Negro Arrested on Complaint of Patrol
Andrew Brackin, 35, a Black man, was jailed in Morgan County on a charge of leaving the scene of an accident. He was detained Friday night by the Highway Patrol, with officials noting a report on the crash had not yet been filed by Saturday night.
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Andrew Brackin
Morgan County
Highway Patrol
Boy Placed in School by Wichita Falls Dentist Father
A boy was placed in the school by his father Dr. Claude Hodges, a dentist from Wichita Falls.
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Claude Hodges
Wichita Falls
Two Executed In Alcatraz
SAN QUENTIN Calif Dec 4 The government executed two Alcatraz prison convicts in a rented gas chamber Friday. Sam Shockley 36 Oklahoma kid napper and bank robber and Miran Thompson 31 Texas kidnaper died together after being strapped in seats side by side for the murder of Guard William A Miller during the 1946 Alcatraz escape attempt. Thompson and Shockley had waited months in adjoining San Quentin cells as legal appeals wore out. They did not speak through the bars each saying the other was crazy. At 10 40 AM the gas was released and both men died by 10 52 AM Dr Leo L Stanley pronounced them dead Thompson was to be sent to Mobile Alabama and Shockley to Idabet Oklahoma relatives names were not released.
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San Quentin
Calif
Alcatraz
Sam Shockley
Oklahoma
Miran Thompson
Texas
Little Apple Green
William A. Miller
Shockley
Thompson
Leo L. Stanley
Mobile
Ala
Idabet
Oklo
Georgia Bulldogs Rout Furman in Southern Conference Win
In Athens Georgia Bob Schloss a towering sophomore center scored 15 points to lead Georgia to a 74 45 victory over Furman University. It marked a second straight win for the Bulldogs over a Southern Conference team after defeating Clemson College the night before.
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Athens
Bob Schloss
Georgia
Furman University
Bulldogs
Clemson College
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