Decatur Local News and Community Notes
Weather outlook cloudy with scattered thundershowers. Local visitor from Athens in town. Traffic accident on Sixth Avenue East caused minor damage to two older cars with no injuries. Local residents returning from Florida trip. Hospital admissions list several patients. Moose official elected vice president of state association. Local library to close for Independence Day. Church group members head to camp in Tennessee. Recorders court sees several cases. See diary on Page 2.
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Decatur
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Grant Says Snatch May Be Hoax in Thai Crisis
Former U S minister to Thailand Hugh G. Grant says the Thai kidnaping of Prime Minister Pisulsonggram may be a hoax and links the rebellion to a Russian-proposed Korea truce. Grant served as American legation head in Thailand in 1940–41 and as Albania minister before that.
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Augusta
United States
Thailand
Pisulsonggram
Korea
Hugh G. Grant
Albania
Asia
Crops Show Mixed Outlook Across Tennessee Valley
County agents report unseasonal rains and drought strain cotton corn and pasture. Limestone Limestone 70 percent of normal yield possible with late fall. Weevils remain but winter killed 90 percent. Morgan County cotton stands irregular and fragile with uncertain fate for 50 000 acres.
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Tennessee Valley
Morgan
L. T. Wagnon
Morgan County
Lawrence County
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F. K. Agee
Limestone County
Cullman
H. G. Pinkston
Agee
Agree
Cullman County
Wagnon
Federal Agencies Not Broke Congress Passes Money Bills
Congress approved an emergency monthly funding bill allowing the federal government to operate in July. President Truman would receive restored funds after a Senate House conference, aiding foreign aid and Eisenhower’s Western European anti-communist efforts amid ongoing fiscal year provisions.
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Washington
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House
Williamsburg
House Appropriations Committee
Eisenhower
Cannon
Decatur Moulton road work set to begin soon
State Highway Department says Decatur Moulton road work likely starts within a week or ten days. Georgia Alabama Construction submits 71041 for Florette Woodland Mills road. bids opened Friday. Contracts awarded for Morgan and Lawrence county sections with Moss Thorntons and Floyd Milford, plus gravel contract to Waters Construction.
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State Highway Department
Montgomery
Highway Department
Georgia-Alabama Construction Company
Florette
Woodland Mills
S. W. Harbin
Morgan County
Moss-Thornton Construction Company
Leeds
Floyd Milford
Birmingham
Lawrence County
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Elizabethtown
Harbin
McWaters
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Sim Howell
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Decatur-Arab
Priceville
Tuscumbia Man Gets Life Term
A man identified as Scottsboro Roberson alias James Bivens 40 was arrested in Champaign Illinois on June 29 for an Alabama escape. He had fled Kilby Prison near Montgomery 11 years ago while serving a 25 year murder sentence. Roberson is held for Alabama authorities after fingerprint records linked him to the crime.
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Scottsboro
Roberson
James Bivens
Alabama
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Tuscumbia
Elderly Couple Found Slain In Florida Home
In Pensacola area near Murat Florida an elderly couple Julian Clifford Edwards Sr. 73 and Gwendolyn Edwards 73 were found shot to death by their son Ernest B. Edwards. Law rence W. Cormack 23 is wanted for questioning related to the slayings. Edwards was shot five times. his wife once.
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Milton
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Santa A
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Ernest B. Edwards
Lawrence W. Cormack
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Reds Still Ignore Offer Of Armistice Talks
News from Tokyo reports the Reds again ignored the United Nations armistice proposal for Korea while Ridgway urged talks aboard the Danish hospital ship Jutlandia near Wonsan. Frontline actions remained light with minor probes and continued Allied air operations.
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Front
The Daily Announces Increase of Five Cents
The Daily will raise the price of home delivery by five cents a week starting July 1 due to steadily rising costs. The announcement notes the change affects all home delivered copies.
Britain Sends Reinforcements Near Abadan Amid Iran Oil Dispute
Iranian spokesman Hussein Maki warned Britain would start World War III if it seizes Iranian territory over oil nationalization. London denied movements as Britain dispatched a frigate and a tank landing ship to support the Mauritius off Abadan while reports spoke of a troop carrier in the Shatt El Arab.
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Abadan
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Maki
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Shatt-El-Arab
Iraq
Bahrein Island
Pas Abadan
Hunt Narrowly Traps Notorious Fugitive Near Flemington
A massive manhunt for Warren Lee Irwin 27 intensified as search crews including FBI agents and state troopers converged on acres of woods and farmland eight miles southwest of Flemington New Jersey. Residents feared a final shootout while authorities used 50 portable searchlights and chased a tip of a man armed with a pistol and a cloth hat like Irwin’s near the Delaware River.
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Flemington
N. J
Warren Lee Irwin
Irwin
Here
Carolyn Baker
Washington
FBI
Delaware River
Charles Lindbergh
Augusta Cracker Party Director Shot Wife Held
John B. Kennedy, longtime Augusta political director for the Cracker Party, was shot and wounded by his wife who was charged with murder. Kennedy, 63, was hospitalized after a 22 caliber gun incident as the Cracker Party's influence waned and later resurged amid local politics.
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Augusta
John B. Kennedy
F. B. Green
Kennedy
Green
Colonel Effingham
Berry Flemming
DiSalle Tries New Curb After Rollback Ban
President Truman balked at rolling back prices in July and OPS froze manufacturers prices at current levels for many goods including cotton textiles shoes apparel and home appliances. The stopgap law limits price controls for 31 days but bans new ceilings or rollbacks.
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Congress
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Truman
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Michael Exile
OFS Odin
Iag
Williamsburg
Naval Gun Factory
Potomac
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Taft
Ohio
Rebels Reinstall Thai Premier Pisulsonggram
The United States State Department reports Premier Pisulsonggram has been released by Thai rebels and is back in government control. The embassy in Bangkok advised the release was unconditional.
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Pisulsonggram
Thailand
State Department
Department
U. S
Bangkok
Rebels Battle in Bangkok Streets Amid Feud
Rebel sailors and marines clashed with loyal troops and airmen in Bangkok in a bloody street battle. Officials said the fighting stemmed from an army navy feud rather than a wider East West struggle over communism.
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Alex MacDonald
Bangkok
Thailand
Gram
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