111 Year Old Ex Slave Dies in Talladega Honorary Pallbearers
Uncle Jack Riddle, 111, a former slave born in 1841 in Marietta Georgia, died on his Talladega farm. He lived with his wife Josie for 82 years and had 80 descendants. A battery radio from the Ku Klux Klan was among his gifts. He was buried with prominent locals as honorary pallbearers.
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Talladega
Jack Riddle
Jack
Ku Klux Klan
Uncle Jack
Marietta, Ga
Babe
Martha
Maria Bradley Riddle
Riddle
Josie
Record Pony Express Run Shortens to Seven Days
The usual ten day route from St. Joseph Missouri to the Pacific Coast was eclipsed by a record schedule lasting seven days and 17 hours.
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Pony Express
St. Joseph
Pacific Coast
Rites Today for Birmingham Accident Victim
Final rites for Jimmie McDonald 55 of Birmingham who died in a Birmingham auto crash Saturday will be held at Johnson Chapel Church today at 2 PM. Rev E M Barnes Jr will officiate with interment in the adjoining cemetery Peck directing survivors include widow Melba McDonald and stepson Bill Burrell both of Birmingham and parents Mr and Mrs Robert W McDonald Hartsville pallbearers listed.
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Jimmie McDonald
Birmingham
Johnson Chapel Church
E. M. Barnes, Jr
Peck
Melba McDonald
Bill Burrell
Robert W. McDonald
Hartselle
Bernice Long
Wesley Long
Clifton Long
Parks McDonald
Ernest McDonald
Lattie McDonald
Mass Vote Fraud Trials Resume in South Alabama
Chambers County mass vote fraud trials resume with 107 cases to hear. Eighty three ballot fraud convictions were entered last week with six months hard labor and probation hearings set for December nineteenth. Indictments allege illegal absentee ballot use in May and June Democratic primaries. Two pleaded guilty to selling votes, fined fifty dollars and lost voting rights. To date ninety one cases disposed of.
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South
Alabama
Lafayette
Ala
Chambers County
Three Times More Births Than Deaths In Alabama
Alabama records 59,681 births and 19,747 deaths in the first nine months. births outpace deaths by about three to one though the birth rate declines vs last year. The State Health Department released the figures for the period ending September.
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Montgomery
Alabama
State Health Department
Communists Order Citywide Street Cleaning in Hong Kong
Sing Tao Jih Pao reports an underground dispatch saying authorities require every resident in Canton to dedicate five days each month to city cleaning. Citizens must sweep streets dispose of garbage and flush drainage while inspectors enforce the rule with fines for noncompliance.
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Hong Kong
Canton
Sing Tao Jih Pao
Secret radar eye watches Pacific from Washington peak
Neah Bay report describes the 758th Aircraft Control and Warning Squadron guarding the northwest with a million dollar radar radome. More than 200 airmen monitor for enemy aircraft 78 miles from Port Angeles near Vancouver Island, under Maj. Albert Sporer.
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Neah Bay
Wash
United States
North Pacific Ocean
758Th Aircraft Control
Port Angeles
U. S. Coast Guard
Vancouver
B. C
Strait of Juan de Fuca
Pacific
Northwest
Missing Duck Hunter Returns After Short River Search
Relatives reported Leonard Moody a Decatur Coast Guard Auxiliary member went to Beulah Island to hunt Saturday and did not return. Harbor operators started a search and Moody then walked in the door minutes later, ending the incident.
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Leonard Moody
Decatur
Coast Guard Auxiliary
Beulah Island
French Parliament Asked to Recognize Foreign Decorations
The French Parliament is urged to approve foreign military decorations as equivalent to the Croix de Guerre so that French soldiers who earned them under non French command can automatically hold the Croix de Guerre. The Croix de Guerre influences promotion, while foreign awards do not.
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Paris
Fewer Vets in College Report Shows Decline
A survey by the Office of Education finds veterans enrolled in college this year are 40 percent below 1951. Seventeen percent of male students study under the WWII GI bill. Total enrollment in the 130 largest universities is down 1.7 percent from 1951. Women make up about 35 percent of all students.
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Washington
Office of Education
Temler Reports Gains in Malaya Anti-Guerrilla Fight
High Commissioner Sir Gerald Templer told resettled squatters at Temerloh in Pahang state that the battle against Communist guerrillas is turning better. He cited fewer civilian killings fewer arms captured more successfully and less railway disruption.
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Kuala Lumpur
Malaya
Gerald Templer
Temerloh
Pahang
Mail Trucks In Collisions.
Police reported two accidents involving mail trucks and damaged vehicles. Thomas H. Johnson was arrested on a DWI charge after his 1950 Mercury struck a parked 1951 Dodge on Vine Street near Bank Street at 6 45 p.m. Saturday. A 1948 International truck owned by the post office and driven by Robert Banks also hit a parked 1949 Packard on Railroad Street.
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Thomas H. Johnson
Vine Street
Bank Street
Mercury
J. T. Weatherly
James R. Guyse
William Paul Nichols
West Court Apartments
Post Office
U. S
Bank
Vine
Railroad Street
Robert Banks
Locust Street
Pack Self
Charles Smith
West Decatur PTA backs Dec 16 school bond vote
In a public forum dated December 8 1952 the West Decatur PTA endorses the proposed school bond to be voted December 16 citing past bond success and a need for adequate housing as Decatur grows. Mrs George Devine presides.
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West Decatur
Parent-Teachers Association
Decatur
Alabama
George Devine
West Decatur Pta
Draft Boards To Call 1 141 Men In January
Col J T Johnson Jr acting state director of Selective Service says Alabama draft boards will call in 1 141 men for Army service in January Jefferson County has the highest draft quota with 140 men.
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Montgomery
J. T. Johnson Jr
Selective Service
Alabama
Jefferson County
Southern Railway Official Succumbs
CINCINNATI John Wallace Payne 69 assistant general manager of transportation for the Southern Railway System died at Bethesda Hospital after a short illness. He moved to Cincinnati a decade ago from Louisville and previously lived in Birmingham and Tuscumbia. He is survived by his wife a daughter Mrs Berry Baugh Jr of Tuscumbia three brothers and two sisters all of Memphis and another brother of Jackson Mississippi. Services will be held today in Cincinnati and tomorrow in Tuscumbia with burial in Tuscumbia.
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Cincinnati
John Wallace Payne
Southern Railway System
Bethesda Hospital
Payne
Louisville
Birmingham
Tuscumbia
Ala
Berry Baugh Jr
Memphis
Tenn
Jackson
Miss
12 Alabamians Killed On Jobs
Accidents at work claimed 12 Alabama lives in September with three agricultural workers and two in mining and allied fields among the deceased. The report notes thirteen deaths occurred at work in August.
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Montgomery
State Health Department
TVA steam plant near completion at Widow's Bar
A fourth unit of TVA's $100 million steam plant at Widow's Bar will operate December 27. The 15 story plant, when all six units are finished, will generate 840000 kilowatts. Superintendent Frank P. Kerrigan announced the first unit began operation last June. The installation supplies much of the power for Oak Ridge atomic project in Tennessee.
Wallet Floats Out to Sea as Trucker Watches
Virginia trucker W. E. Conner, 47, Roanoke, watched his wallet containing 1508 dollars drift away from St. Simons Island while his family waited hoping for a wash ashore return. A swimmer neared the billfold but cramps drove him back. Coast Guard searched as the tide took the wallet. Conner offered any finder a reward.
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ST. Simons Island
Virginia
W. E. Conner
Roanoke
Conner
Coast Guard
Box 326 B
Psycho Killer Goes On Trial in Eutaw Alabama
Mattie Smarr a 27 year old Negro woman faces circuit court on charges of brutally killing three children of her brother, injuring another and abducting a fifth. The incident occurred near Eutaw on September 22 as deputies and witnesses recount the grim farmyard scene. The case includes the rescue of 3 month old Callan Mae Posey unharmed and the hospitalization of Lassey Posey Jr as trial proceeds before Judge Emmett Hildreth.
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Eutaw
Ala
Mattie Smarr
Frank Lee
Tiny Callan Mae Posey
Birmingham
Lassey Posey, Jr
Emmett Hildreth
Willie Posey
Lassey
Here
Taft Led First American President of English-Speaking Unit
William Howard Taft served as the first American president of the English-Speaking Union, an organization promoting cooperation between English speaking nations.
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William Howard Taft
Printing Facilities for the Syriac in This Area
A note describes local printing facilities established to produce Syriac language materials in the region. It highlights available presses, typesetting resources, and the potential impact on liturgical and scholarly work for Syriac communities.
Ancient language mimeographed weekly in Beirut paper
In Beirut Lebanon a historic language is used to spread Communist ideas across the Middle East until the 8th century AD. The mimeographed periodical titled the Eastern Times circulates among the Assyrian minority here, produced by mimeograph due to lack of...
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Beirut
Lebanon
Middle East
Eastern Times
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