World Congress of Peoples for Peace Opens in Vienna
Russian occupation authorities block hotel registration checks for delegates to the Kremlin backed World Congress of Peoples for Peace in Vienna while police briefly question 30 Catholic youths protesting the event. Austria brands the congress as communist and urges public abstention amid Western fears of Kremlin divisions and weakened rearmament.
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Vienna
Congress of Peoples For Peace
Kremlin
Family feud ends in fatal gunfight at store
In a Huntsville area shop a gunfight erupted when Kennemer and the elder Payne fired at each other. The younger Payne and his father exchanged shots. both Kennemer and the elder Payne fell. X rays showed the elder Payne hit by two of his son’s bullets. Kennemer had just lost a circuit court appeal over a January fish fry shooting near Cloud's Cove. Judge Parson denied the appeal of a six month sentence.
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Kennemer
Payne
Huntsville
Cloud’s Cove
Elbert H. Parsons
Another Yank Fired By Lie
UN Secretary General Trygve Lie dismissed Irving Schiller an archivist at the Geneva U N branch for security reasons and about a dozen cases remain under review State Department adverse comments were deemed flimsy by Lie Hickerson told a Senate subcommittee the department had supplied adverse comments on 40 Americans since 1949 with all but about a dozen fired.
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United Nations
N. Y
U.N
Trygve Lie
Irving Schiller
U. N
Geneva
Switzerland
McCarran
Lie
U. S. State Department
U. S
John Hickerson
U. S. Senate
Internal Security
State Department
Hickerson
State Building Bond Bids Rejected as Too High
Montgomery officials rejected the sole bid of 3.625 percent on the 3,250,000 state office building bond issue. Finance Director D W Hode said Sterne Agee and Leach led the bidding syndicate. A lower bid is to be filed by noon today, while the Ray M Lee Co of Atlanta remains the low construction bidder at 2,682,812.
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Montgomery
D. W. Hode
Sterne, Agee
Leach
Ray M. Lee Co
Atlanta
Birmingham Opens Negro Golf Course
Mayor Cooper Green and officials opened Birmingham's first municipal golf course for Negroes in Powderly Hills. The nine hole layout cost 90000 dollars and will be expanded to eighteen holes. segregation bars Negroes from white municipal courses.
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Birmingham
Cooper Green
Powderly Hills
Heuss Withdraws Case on Treaties Constitutional Question
German President Theodor Heuss withdraws his request for an advisory opinion on West German treaties. The move clears the way for Adenauer government coalition suit before a single chamber of the two chamber court. The suit seeks a ruling on whether the treaties require more than a simple parliamentary majority and are constitutional.
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Theodor Heuss
Supreme Court
West
Adenaur
Adenauer
Mule Rescued From 25-Foot Well in Alabama
CAMP HILL Alabama a tractor with a block and tackle pulled a mule from a 25 foot well after it had been missing for 16 days. The mule was said to be in good shape aside from a light case of pneumonia and had been munching kudzu at the bottom of the cistern while waiting to be found.
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Camp Hill
Ala
W. D
Bill) Ray
Polio Cases Rise in Alabama with 1952 Total at 289
Three more polio cases were reported in Alabama last week bringing the 1952 total to 289. The prior year’s total for the same period was 683. The recent cases occurred in Dallas, Mobile and Talladega counties, with six cases reported the week before.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Dallas
Mobile
Talladega
Army finds Sikhs can wear long hair in uniform
Pvt Walter Israel Ne Halsingh a Boston raised Sikh requests permission from President Truman to wear his hair 37 inches long as required by his religion while undergoing training at Aberdeen Proving Grounds Md The Army states the practice is legal under military policy.
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Pvt
Walter Israel
Ne- Halsingh
India
Boston
Harvard
NeHalsingh
Truman
Aberdeen Proving Grounds
Statue Proposed Here Honors General MacArthur
President Elpidio Quirino approved the erection of a statue of General Douglas MacArthur in Manila. A government press release said the statue would be a gift from the American people but offered no further details.
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Manila
Elpidio Quirino
Douglas MacArthur
Fernstream Sinks After Frisco Bay Collision
In fog and drizzle off Alcatraz Island the Norwegian freighter Fernstream sank after a collision with the Hawaiian Rancher. All 42 crew members escaped in lifeboats with one wrist injury reported. Coast Guard sent three rescue boats and reported a minor injury.
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San Francisco
Alcatraz Island
Coast Guard
Fernstream
Maid of Cotton finalists chosen for 1953 crown
MEMPHIS twenty one finalists from twelve cotton belt states were named by the National Cotton Council. They will gather December 29 30 for final judging to select the winner who will tour internationally as a good will and fashion emissary for six months. Automatic finalists include Alice Carr Selma Alabama Emily Coxe Montclare South Carolina and Christelle Lois Taylor Alma Georgia. The report notes the New York Giants hit 151 home runs in 1952 with 102 at the Polo Grounds.
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Memphis
National Cotton Council
Alice Carr
Selma
Ala
Emily Coxe
Montclare
S. C
Christelle Lois
Taylor
Alma
New York Giants
Polo Grounds
Saucer Scare Is Explained
The CAA says wind eddies bend radar beams causing ground objects to appear as high flying blips. The explanation aligns with an Air Force finding that temperature inversions deflect radar waves creating false saucer images. Secondary reflections from bent beams account for many sightings.
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Washington
Civil Aeronautics Administration
CAA
Air Force
Former Chief Pierce Denies Conspiracy as Nine-Hour Hearing Closes
At a nine hour witness stand Pierce fought off allegations of conspiring to remove Marcus Hancock, who was demoted to captain earlier and later retired on disability. The hearing wrapped amid charges of a kangaroo court from attorney John A. Jenkins, as detectives testified against Pierce. He admitted receiving about six gifts from McMahan and Cain in 1951 and said he made a mistake taking the money but denied any conspiracy.
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Marcus Hancock
Hancock
Howard Yeilding
John A. Jenkins
Pierce
Jenkins
Henry Darnell
Paul McMahan
Darnell
McMahan
Harold Cain
Plant to Extract Oils From Mill Waste Planned at Bay Minette
New port Industries will build a plant in Bay Minette Alabama to extract oils from kraft paper mill waste. Superintendent D E Bushnell of Newport Bay Minette operations says the plant will employ about 25 workers and is scheduled for completion by spring 1954.
Debate Over School Segregation in Virginia Public Education
Dixie Virginia and Almond along with state attorneys defend 1896 doctrine upholding dual school systems as constitutional if equal. Marshall and allies challenge segregation citing the 14th amendment equal protection clause. Davis argues Congress did not intend to outlaw segregation. Moore and Robinson III clash on equality and Virginia’s race in education.
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Virginia
Almond
Marshall
Davis
Congress
Moore
Spottswood Robinson III
South
Robinson
Truman fires MacArthur in 1951 amid war end claims
The record notes President Truman dismissed General MacArthur on April 11 1951 after MacArthur asserted the war was over and referenced a Korean peace plan. Truman dismissed Eisenhowers trip as demagoguery while reporters pressed for details and welcomed potential positive outcomes from the trip. Everest is nicknamed Chomo Jungma by Tibetans.
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MacArthur
Truman
New York
Aged Woman Held In Death in Kingsport
In Kingsport Tennessee a 79 year old woman was jailed on a murder charge after the death of her granddaughter in law, Andre Rutherford. The elderly woman claimed the younger woman shot herself and admitted owning the revolver used. The shooting occurred on the eighth wedding anniversary of the victim who left two children.
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Kingsport
Tenn
Ollie Rutherford
State Patrol
John Beeler
Andre M. Rutherford
Beeler
Talladega Man Dies After Sudden Highway Crash
A Demopolis man named Arian Greer, about 48, was killed near Talladega when he stepped into the path of a car along U S Highway 241 seven miles north of the city. The Highway Patrol reported the fatal incident occurred yesterday. Patrolman J E Williamson provided details on the wreck and Greer's actions prior to the collision.
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Talladega
Ala
Arian Greer
Highway Patrol
J. E. Williamson
Greer
U. S. Highway 241
6 Feared Lost On Transport In Nevada Utah Border
A C 47 transport with five crew and one passenger is missing in the Reno area near the Nevada Utah line. Stead AFB officials express optimism of an emergency landing. Search planes comb snow for the plane and rancher Ivan Hart missing in the same region after a storm disrupted a Peterson Field to Reno flight.
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Reno
Nevada-Utah
Stead Air Force Base
Rimitrios Stampados
Stead Afb
Air Force
Civil Air Patrol
Government set to enforce new minimum on federal contracts
The 1936 act empowers the Secretary of Labor to fix minimum wages for government contracts over 10000 based on nationwide prevailing rates. South industry spokesmen challenged the secretary’s authority and planned court action to block broad wage patterns. The proposal lists covered items such as cotton and yarn with exemptions for bags gauze rope and bed spreads and contracts under 10000 remain exempt.
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Secretary of Labor
South
Tobin
Walsh-Healey
Civitan Club Plans Christmas Baskets and Scholarships
The Decatur Civitan Club will distribute Christmas baskets to underprivileged families in the area. At a Lyons hotel meeting they also discussed Civitan oratorical and essay contests and formed committees. Two four year and two two year Birmingham Southern College scholarships will be awarded to state winners.
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Decatur Civitan Club
Lyons Hotel
Civitan
Birmingham Southern College
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