Flooding and Cold Snap Hit Midwest Region
Rain and rising waters batter Illinois and Indiana as levees are bolstered and Wabash river recedes. Army engineers expect the flood to ease while cold winds up to 50 mph whip snow and drive temperatures below zero from Montana to Minnesota and the Dakotas.
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Illinois
Indiana
Weather Bureau
Spr
Vincennes
Ind
Wabash
Montana
Dakotas
Minnesota
Willmar
Minn
Wisconsin
Iowa
Mason City
Wood for coffins drains Chinese forests heavily
A report notes that coffin wood imposes a major strain on China’s forestry resources. The piece highlights the scale of demand and potential environmental impact within the sector.
Junior High Examinations Schedule and Prep Days
The Decatur junior high will start mid term exams on Thursday January 19 and run through Friday January 27 with one exam per day in period one. Special prep days are set. teachers and students should arrange extra help as needed.
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Decatur Junior High
Messrs Fowler
Valides
Pettey
Miss Russell
Peurifoy
Hanson
Bibb
McCall
Rhinehart
Parker
Hodgins
Fuller
Troup
Isbell
Silly Season in Alabama Politics Warps Rumor Core
A Montgomery columnist notes the 1950 Alabama governor race is in the rumor stage with gossip spreading among candidates and supporters. He explains how whispers travel, how governors and campaigns seed stories, and how qualifying money and health or strategy excuses shape the cycle until the voters decide.
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Rex Thomas
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
No. 1
No. 2
Youth charged in Birmingham manslaughter of 1950 trolley victim
A 20 year old, Henry C. Eubanks of Newcastle, was arrested and released on $500 bond after being charged with manslaughter in the death of Birmingham's first 1950 traffic victim Reubin Cates. The pair were occupants of a car that collided with a trolley January 5, Eubanks was injured.
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Birmingham
Reubin Cates
Henry C. Eubanks
Newcastle
Cates
Eubanks
Governor Folsom No Regular Office Hours During Session
In Montgomery a circuit court hears a declaratory judgment suit by the state Building Commission challenging whether Alabama’s governor must keep regular office hours during legislative sessions. The dispute centers on a bill to consolidate building agencies, status of secretary Finney’s acceptance, and a veto sent two minutes before adjournment. Senator Albert Boutwell filed the suit, with commission members agreeing to cover court costs.
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Montgomery
Alabama
State Building Commission
James. E. Folsom
Folsom
O. H. Finney
Senate
Finney
Albert Boutwell
Jefferson County
Commission
Charges Dropped in Stringfellow Slaying Case at Fitzgerald
In Fitzgerald Georgia the murder charges against Godwin Davidson C O T Head Revel and Joe Allred of Phenix City were dropped and bonds totaling 25000 released. Judge O T Gower did not press indictments and the case was dead docketed after co‑conspirators were sentenced in 1948.
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Fitzgerald
Ben -Hill County
Godwin Davidson
C. O. T Head
Revel
Joe Allred
Phenix City
Ala
Johnny Frank Stringfellow
Columbus
O. T. Gower
Cordeley
Harvey L. ‘Jay
Johnn McVeigh
LaGrange
Dave Walden
Abilene
Tex
Davis
Allred
Stringfellow
Jay
Unclear confession battles in Florida murder case
The article cites McVeigh and Walden disputing earlier confessions and notes Stringfellow’s body found in 1948 in a limestone pit in North Florida. The murder allegedly occurred in Fitzgerald in 1944, with McVeigh and Walden later sentenced to life terms in the death of Walden’s wife Patricia Ann Foster Walden of Columbus who was killed in Brunswick for knowing too much.
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McVeigh
Walden
Stringfellow
Florida
Fitzgerald
Patricia
Ann Foster Walden
Columbus
Brunswick
Divorce By Can Opener Hollywood Chef Says It Begins In Kitchen
Hollywood chef Mick Lucich, with 46 years in the trade, asserts that divorces often start when the wife reaches for a can opener. He argues home making and cooking are the core of marriage and laments that young girls are trained for everything but that part.
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Hollywood
Mick Lucich
Kabul Rebuilds Under Military Band Echoes
Kabul, Afghanistan, undergoes a vast rebuilding boom as Modern civilization and a rising birthrate drive construction. Mayor Ghulam Mohammed energizes the project with night lighting and a stationed military band to boost worker morale.
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Kabul
Afghanistan
Ghulam Mohammed
Bids Opened For Large Downtown Post Office Site
Birmingham January 10 bids opened for a proposed post office site. Postmaster A H Allbright says an entire city block downtown is needed for the $6,500,000 building. Congress has appropriated 40,000,000 for site purchases nationwide but not for construction yet.
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Birmingham
A. H. Allbright
Congress
Asbestos Trade Ties Deepen Between US and Canada
The article notes that roughly ninety percent of the asbestos used domestically comes from Canada, highlighting strong cross border trade links and reliance on Canadian supplies for United States industry.
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Canada
United States
Powell Moves Law Office to Decatur
Veteran attorney J. N. Powell relocates from Hartselle to Decatur and now operates at 115 1-2 Street in the Breck building. He began practicing in 1917 and is completing his third year of office service in county and circuit courts. The note about New Guinea appears unrelated.
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J. N. Powell
Hartselle
Decatur
Breck
Powell
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