Mobile taxicab driver slain and robberies linked
A Mobile taxicab driver was killed and robbed early Sunday and a female dispatcher for the same company was beaten and robbed about 22 hours later. Police pursued two suspects described as Negro males after the incidents, with the driver bludgeoned and valuables taken. The dispatcher, Bernice Bufkin, fought her attacker and identified a suspect to officers while receiving treatment for injuries.
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Mobile
Ala
Bernice Bufkin
City Hospital
Yellow Cab Company
Marriages Decline Anew in Alabama Vital Stats
Alabama’s latest vital statistics report shows fewer marriages this year with a nationwide trend noted by Health Department official Ralph W. Roberts. The first quarter also indicates a declining birth rate and rising death rate across the state.
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Montgomery
Ala
Upa
Alabama
Ralph W. Roberts
Health Department
U N Security Council urged to act in Palestine crisis
DeWitt Mackenzie notes Secretary Marshall says UN Security Council must determine blame for hostilities in Palestine though Arabs are said to have taken the initiative. He argues for immediate firm action including sanctions if Arabs are found guilty, with Britain aligned to back the U S. effort.
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U.’S
George Marshall
Holy Land
Security Council
United Nations
Ir i
U. N
Palestine
Peliyer
Marshall
United States
Britain
Golden Voice Fades as Democrats Grapple at Convention
HAL BOYLE reports the Democratic National Convention opens amid fractures over civil rights and leadership, with no unifying figure since Roosevelt. Delegates foresee Truman as nominee but battle internal discord more than external prospects, likening the gathering to a wake.
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Hal Boyle
Philadelphia
Golden Voice
Democratic Party
Brotherhood of Political Loyalty
Franklin D. Roosevelt
Harry Truman
G.O.P
Dewey
Taft
Stassen
Truman
Roosevelt
Town Creek Soldier Now Serves In Japan
Technician Fifth Grade Joseph M. Flannagin of Town Creek Alabama serves as a clerk in a construction unit at the northern tip of Honshu Island Japan. He previously served with the 82nd Airborne in the European theater during the war and sailed for his overseas tour on May 1947.
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Joseph M. Flannagin
Town Creek
Ala
Honshu Island
Flannagin
82Nd Airborne Division
Japan
Students to visit Birmingham on international tour
Twenty nine students from nine foreign countries are scheduled to arrive in Birmingham tomorrow for a brief visit as part of a 5 500 mile scholarship tour across the country. The tour, in behalf of international understanding, is sponsored by the American Field Service, an organization of U S citizens who served as volunteer ambulance drivers with Allied forces during both wars.
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Birmingham
Ala
Birmingam
The
American Field Service
U. S
Publication Order in Morgan County Equity Case 1948
In Morgan County Alabama a public notice orders defendants to plead answer or demur by August 7 1948 in a 1944 equity suit begun by D Q Collins against Mary E Collins Sam Lee LaRuth Carl Collins and Ruth er Collins previously unserved in Madison County due to unknown addresses. The Register directs weekly notices for four weeks in Decatur Daily.
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Morgan County Court
Morgan County
Alabama
D. Q. Collins
Mary E. Collins
Gan County
Sam Collins
Conner Campbell
Cora Lee LaRuth
Madison County
Affiant
Carl Collins
Ruther Collins
United States of America
United States
Register
Decatur Daily
Daily Crossword Across and Down Puzzle Clues
A large presented word puzzle with Across and Down clues covering thrash to ocean terms and cryptogram style sample. It lists multiple numbered entries with definitions, plus a Cryptoquote puzzle using a substitution cipher and a sample plaintext line for the day.
Tuscaloosa Officer Killed in German Flight Crash
First Lt. George B. Smith, 29, died in a crash of a food supply plane near Frankfurt, Germany. He left a wife and two young daughters in Tuscaloosa and had previously served in the Canadian air force before joining the U S air force, with stints at Maxwell Field Alabama.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
George B. Smith
Frankfurt
Germany
Smith
U. S. Air Force
Maxwell Field
Harriet Gibbons Smith
Office Cat delivers a playful math joke in Eden’s Fall
Junius recounts a comic riddle about Eve and Adam eating apples with escalating numeric errors. The piece shifts to a control tower gag where a flying officer jokes about wiggle your wings and the tower responds with a sly quip about wiggle your tower.
Thoughtful Mindfulness: Avoid Stirring Prejudices
The remark urges careful thinking to prevent acting from bias. It highlights self awareness in decision making and stresses questioning assumptions before forming judgments. It frames prejudice as a barrier to clear reasoning and ethical conduct.
Fragmentary Speech Snippets and Quips Circulate
A jumble of quotes and dialogue unfolds with witticisms about optimism and pessimism. A sailor vanishes briefly then returns to a tense scene as an officer questions a failed disruption. The text ends with a quip about waking famous after sleeping.
Fragmented Readings From a News Page
A collection of brief witty exchanges and anecdotes from a historical page. It features a mother defending her husband’s habits, a child clinging to a dialect, and a mountain school moment about correct speech.
Meteorites: Tiny Rock Stores Swept Up by Earth
A concise explanation describes meteors as small rocky bodies that enter Earth's orbit along with the planet's journey around the sun. The definition emphasizes their size and the process by which they intersect Earth's path.
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4Th Ave
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Outboard
Kennedy
Motor & Recapping CO
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Granny
Sadie
Pathettic
Tom
Molly
Patty
Willin
TVE
Leminade
Bank St
Belk’s
Bell Hudon Co
Bryan McCafee
Western Union
Decatur Delivery Service
Daily Crossword
Self
Soon
Network
Tibet
Switz
City N
Nurse
Orient
Ent
Ocean
A Cheer
Steamship
Longfellow
XVN
JVC
King Featurge Syndicate, Inc
Don’s Floor
Don Williams
Universal Concrete Pipe Co
Junius
Adam
Eve
Yessum
Tin Gr “Tor Hire
Grace G. . Fisher
Mr. Smith
S. H. Dewhurst
Studebaker
DODGE
GMC
Knox McRae
JIN Stationers Office Outfitters
Bank
Jones Coal Co
Quick Persona Service Direct
Torgether
J. R. Daniels
Insurance and Financing
Walnut
Deester
H. Ryan
East Manitor
North
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Grant St
Russell
Polhill
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