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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 02, 1952
Page
7
The Air Force advises post clubs to boost profits without slot machines by offering bingo and simple services such as sandwiches beer taps and ice cream. A letter from Lt Gen Nathan F Twining to messes and clubs outlines self-supporting operations like bingo with card pricing and limited intermissions to stay financially viable.
Mrs Florence Bankhead widow of former Speaker William B Bankhead died yesterday in a Jasper hospital after a brief illness. Graveside services planned for tomorrow. She was born Florence Mac Guire in Jasper and married Bankhead in 1914 as his second wife. Survivors include her sister Mrs Everett Whitem of Chapel Hill North Carolina.
Alabama legislators may plug loopholes in the 1915 law restricting closed door meetings. Sen. J M Bonner plans a bill to narrow the good name clause and limit pre meeting actions by agencies. A new Freedom of Information Committee, chaired by James Mills, backs stronger public access.
Five Thomasville residents charged in a $900000 bank shortage were arraigned July 11. Bonds released them pending trial. Named defendants include J Moody Drinkard 47 former bank president his wife Ernestine H Drinkard Myrtie N McCrory 48 former cashier and W P Stutts 44 former president of Sutts Lumber Industries and his wife.
A collage of humorous quips and light satire on topics from water and smoking superstitions to college graduations and stage stabbings. The mix mentions jokes about a teacher and a student, a policeman and a chair, and a palm reader versus mind reader, ending with a glimpse of a library pride and a poet signoff.
Murder warrants against Mrs Swann and five men for Ed Baxley’s 1951 near Rehobeth killing were dismissed by Judge W Cowdery Farmer after a hearing. About 500 spectators cheered as hearsay evidence failed to justify grand jury action. Baxley died from blunt force blows.
Five Russell County citizens filed impeachment papers with the State Supreme Court calling for the removal of Sheriff H Ralph Mathews. They accuse him of wilful neglect for allowing open gambling in public places and list 25 specifications including betting on horses baseball dice and card games lotteries and devices of chance. A special session would be needed to hear the case as the court is in summer recess. Chief Justice J Ed Livingston was unavailable for comment.
Coroner M B Kirkpatrick ruled the death of Mrs Elvie Smith White about 40 of Columbus Georgia a suicide by strychnine after she collapsed Monday while hitchhiking to New Orleans with her husband Marvin Lee White who was cleared after autopsy showed no criminality.
A quoted line notes that from two thousand four hundred seventy four girls two thousand four hundred sixty eight will read this and six will be blind. The remark emphasizes literacy reach and disability.
One of the Bromley brothers Freeman was arrested in Marion County while officers pressed a hunt for the others who broke into Hodges jail to free Harold Bromley. Freeman Wesley Clyde and J T Bromley face charges of aiding escape and exchanged shots with Hodges police as they fled in a pickup. Hodges lies about twenty miles southwest of Russellville.
Wetumpka attorney Merrill C. Wall won the mayoral race over W. L. Glenn and Harvey K. Connor receiving 397 votes to 131 and 47. Wall succeeds Ellis Austin who did not seek another term and will assume office October 1.
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