Light Votes Seen Tuesday
Montgomery dispatch notes light turnout on off year election eve for nine constitutional amendments from the 1949 legislature. Amendments No 1 and No 3 affect the public hospital program with a potential total of 12 million dollars including federal matching. Absentee voting now requires in person marking before county chancery registers.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Uncle Sam
Levey Hospital
State Supreme Court
Govery County
Jefferson
Mobile
Two Madison Clubs Raided in Huntsville
Federal and local officers raided two Madison area night clubs near Huntsville late Saturday. Ed Quillan and S. E. McGee, operators of Marble Inn and Log Cabin, faced warrants. arrests included four negroes for weapons and drunkenness. a padlock injunction against Marble Inn continues, with a Wednesday hearing scheduled.
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Huntsville
Madison County
Jeff Smith
Ed Miller
Miller
Ed Quillan
S. E. McGee
Marble Inn
Rookie policeman uses artificial leg to subdue prisoner
North Little RockArk December reports a rookie officer, Robert Gwatney, leaped into a jail melee and knocked down an unruly prisoner with a powerful tackle. He later revealed the prisoner had an artificial leg, mistaken at first for a broken knee.
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North Little Rock
Ark
Robert Gwatney
Gwatney
Armed forces vote by mail under new law
The Secretary of State reported that only a small number of mail ballots have been received for tomorrow's election, noting very few from military voters and indicating slight interest in voting by mail.
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Secretary of State
Sherrill Rites to Be Held Tuesday
Final rites for Mrs Trainie Sherrill 34 will be Tuesday at 11 A M at Liberty Springs church. She died Sunday in Birmingham hospital at 12 15 P M Interment in Old Liberty cemetery Brown directing Surviving husband Price W Sherrill Town Creek five daughters Leonora Doris Leione Elease Barbara her parents Mr and Mrs S W Oliver Town Creek four brothers Thomas Town Creek Lawrence Leonard Spencer Hope and three sisters Mrs Birdie Halbrooks Leighton and Mrs Lizzie McCreless and Mrs Ola Thrasher Moulton
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Trainie Sherrill
Liberty Springs Church
Sherrill
Birmingham
Old Liberty Cemetery
Brown Directing
Price W. Sherrill
Town Creek
Leonora
Doris
Leione
Elease
Barbara
S. W. Oliver
Thomas
Lawrence
Leonard
Spencer
Hope
Birdie Halbrooks
Leighton
Lizzie McCreless
Ola Thrasher
Moulton
Clapp Plans Return To TVA Chairmanship
Cairo December 12 Gordon Clapp chairman of the United Nations economic mission to the Middle East said he intends to return to his post as chairman of the Tennessee Valley Authority as soon as the mission completes its work He hinted this would be shortly after December 19.
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Cairo
Gordon Clapp
United Nations Economic Mission
Middle East
Tennessee Valley Authority
Cheaper Gunpowder Method Reported by Agriculture Dept
The Agriculture Department announced a new method for producing gunpowder for large guns that saves about two thirds of the time required. Like the old process, it uses guncotton, made from the short fiber left on cottonseed after lint removal.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Girl Thankful For Prayers
Betty Lou Marbury of Brownsville Tennessee says she feels prayers will spare her body and hand after doctors warned amputation may be necessary for a malignant finger lesion. The 10 year old’s plea sparked thousands of letters and packages from churches and individuals nationwide. She asks friends to keep praying and attend church and Sunday school with faith.
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Memphis
Tenn
Betty Lou Marbury
Brownsville
Betty
Marbury
Parrot Peggy Hoisted In North Side Burglary
Burglars broke into a Chicago North Side furniture store and stole a portable bar a rug two lamps and a parrot named Peggy. Police report no talks from suspects but Peggy remains at large.
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Chicago
Peggy
New York Water Commissioner Warns of Prolonged Crisis
New York City water commissioner Stephen J. Carney warns reservoirs are low and consumption high. He predicts a new crisis could last until 1956 when the Delaware system is completed. City usage has fallen from 1.2 billion to about 1.117 billion gallons daily, but he says that is insufficient and urges keeping daily use under a billion gallons for three years.
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Stephen J. Carney
New York City
Delaware
Carney
Iowa coed murdered. senior charged in death
A University of Iowa student was found strangled in a men s rooming house. A senior student, Bednasek, who claimed he loved the victim, is charged with murder. Coroner called death murder by strangulation. Bednasek denied the crime in jail, saying he did not murder her. The victim s father said it was a one sided romance. Sorority sisters recalled she had been engaged to Bednasek last spring but returned his pin. The body was found in a strapless white evening gown.
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Iowa City
University of Iowa
William J. Jackson
Iowa Parole Board
Bednasek
Miss Jackson
Santa Visits Jimmy But He Cannot Bring Gift of Life
In Tarentum Pennsylvania five year old Jimmy Pochon battles chest cancer and faces a grim Christmas as doctors weigh betatron treatment options while his family pleads for relief. Jimmy, unaware of prognosis, plays with gifts and declares his father is his Santa Claus.
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Santa
Jimmy
Tarentum
Santa Claus
Jimmy Pochon
George Pochon
University of Ilinois
Illinois
Pennsylvania
James H. Duff
Adair Stevenson
Duff
Stevenson
Associated Press
Washington
Andrew C. Ivy
Illinois University
Chicago
Ivy
Pochon
New Coal Strike Predicted by Times
The New York Times predicts a possible unified coal strike by 400,000 soft coal miners starting January 1 if John L. Lewis does not act. Operators may seek to spur a strike or push production under Taft Hartley injunction while formal UMW negotiations remain suspended. Talks for hard coal miners, about 80,000 workers, resume today at 3 PM EST.
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New York
New York Times
United Mine Workers
John L. Lewis
the Times
UMW
Riverside Nursery pupils tour Union Station with rope guide
Mrs. Ruth Bell of Riverside Nursery School led 40 children through Chicago Union Station using a long rope to keep them together. The rope stringed line of tots moved through the terminal as a safety measure during the tour.
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Chicago
Ruth Bellow
Riverside
Train Clips Off His Thumb on Santa Fe Tracks
George Masnager, 67, sat on Santa Fe tracks when an electric switch snapped, catching his right thumb as a train approached. Unable to move, he crouched beside the rail and the wheels clipped his thumb, but he suffered no other serious injuries.
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Los. Angeles
George Masnager
Santa Fe Railway
Masnager
Mobile Merchant Burned in House Fire at Weatherby Home
Marion E. Weatherby Sr prominent Mobile merchant burned to death when fire destroyed his residence in a fashionable area near the Mobile Country Club. Coroner H S J Walker identified the body as Weatherby. building damage estimated at 35000 dollars. Surviving is son M E Weatherby Jr who runs the Weatherby Furniture Co Inc.
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Mobile
Ala
Marion E. Weatherby
H. S. J. Walker
M. E. Weatherby, Jr
Furniture Concern
Chinchillas Shipped to Southeast's First Large Ranch
A Muscogee county airport sighted a $85,000 chinchilla shipment drawing hundreds of spectators. The 102 animals, worth over $850 each, were sent by Evergreen Chinchilla Ranch operated by Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Cutler to their Southeast’s first large chinchilla ranch.
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Columbus
Muscogee County
C. A. Cutler
Evergreen Chinchilla Ranch
Chinchilla
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