Roughest election campaign nears close in Virginia
Virginia faces the roughest Democratic primary in years as voters decide between United States Senator Harry F. Byrd and Francis Pickens Miller. The contest features mudslinging over voting records on farm and labor bills, foreign policy, and soldier pay, with both sides trading charges of falsehoods. Byrd backs Russell for president. Miller enjoyed Truman-era ties and a recent board appointment.
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Virginia
Frank H. Fuller
Richmond
Harry F. Byrd
Francis Pickens Miller
Bryd
Senate
Byrd
Miller
Truman
Richard Russell
Georgia
Russell
Byrd Forces
Roanoke
Republican Committee
Decatur court handles traffic and disorderly conduct cases
Tampa visitor Erlene Cole faces four traffic law violations and three charges of disorderly conduct. Other brief items note improv ements at Baugh Wiley clinic, travels to Jacksonville for a Navy brother in law, airman Holland’s arrival at Camp Stoneman, failed Eisenhower calls, hospital admissions and discharges, Auburn dean’s list member Alfred Matthews, births, lodge meeting, and a two week Bible school graduation at Pryor Chapel.
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Alfred Matthews
Arthur Matthews
Decatur 2
Auburn
Planes Collide Over Belloto Airport Killing Four
Two private planes collided and caught fire over Belloto airport in Valparaiso Chile on July 12 killing four people including Alfred Betteley a prominent Chilean importer who piloted one of the planes his wife and son were among the dead.
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Valparaiso
Chile
Belloto
Alfred Betteley
Princess Working Her Way Through College at Princess
Amusements today lists showings for Princess in Virginia Mayo Ronald Reagan and Gene Nelson at 1 00 3 05 5 10 7 20 9 25 plus other theaters in town with Wild Bill Elliott Pamela Blake Dane Clark Ben Johnson Peter Graves Audie Murphy Bill Mauldin and more screenings with times and locations across ROXY SUNSET STRAND MARS HATFIELD and LITE venues.
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Virginia Mayo
Ronald Reagan
Gene Neson
Fort Defiance
Dane Clark
Ben Johnson
Peter Graves
Hastings Harberdasher Raises Ike Neckties Price
A Hastings retailer announced today that his "I Like Ike" neckties, previously priced at $1.59, now cost three dollars. The move affects the promotional line, with the change noted during normal business hours.
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Hastings
Neb
Red claim of U S jets bombing Antung in Manchuria
Peiping radio alleges eight U S F-86 Sabres strafed Antung Manchuria killing 49 Friday in the same day Allied planes bombed Pyongyang. The broadcast cites Chinese foreign minister Ghou En-Lai protesting claiming American aggression to break truce talks. No Allied comment issued.
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Tokyo
Peiping Radio Today
Antung
Manchuria
Pyongyang
Yalu River
North Korea
Red China
Ghou En-Lai
America
Rites Sunday For Slain Girl
Funeral services for Verdie Carroll Cooper 24 year old Cullman native and Memorial hospital nurse in Houston will be held at her Cullman home at 4 P M. Rev Tweedy Foster will officiate and interment will follow in Cullman city cemetery. Survivors include her parents two sisters and four grandparents. The Tyler case notes that Capt Renard Haywood Ellington Air Base shot Cooper and two hospital guards before killing himself. Pallbearers listed.
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Cullman City Cemetery
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E. M. Carroll
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Memorial ‘Hospital
Ellington Air Base
Renard Haywood
Bill Thompson
Duard Edmondson
Jack Nesmith
Storky Lawson
Ted Owens
Bob Lommonce
TVA Appoints New Director Paty Emphasizes Nonpolitical Administration
Dr. Paty, named as TVA director, pledges non political oversight and continued practical flood control work. He highlights TVA as a model of administration free from partisan politics and notes extensive collaboration with Oak Ridge on research and energy issues. He avoids opinion on the St Lawrence Waterway and atomic energy's future role.
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Democrats Fight for Nomination as Convention Opens
Democrats prepare for a wide open convention in Chicago July 21 to pick a presidential nominee amid Civil Rights conflicts. Twenty candidates search for votes led by Kefauver with 252 and Harriman and Russell near the top. Truman stays out of the race while Stevenson Kerr and Barkley position on Civil Rights.
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Dwight D. Eisenhower
Chicago
Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
Adlai Stevenson
Illinois
Xxx
Truman
Frank E. McKinney
Abe Lincoln
Virginia
Associated Press
Kefauver
Russell
Mississippi
Texas
Harriman
Kerr
Alben W. Barkley
Brien McMahon
Connecticut
Sam Rayburn
Maine
Rayburn
Agian
FEPC
Stevenson
Barkley
Fur trade shaping early North American settlement
The fur trade emerged as a key driver in shaping exploration and settlement patterns across North America, drawing European powers and Indigenous nations into extensive exchange networks that defined colonial frontiers.
Madison vote charges filed against nine men in Alabama
Madison County Democratic Executive Committee member Claude C. Lawler and eight others were indicted on election law violations tied to the May and June Democratic primaries. Indictments cite irregularities at the Maysville precinct near Huntsville, with trials to begin Aug. 11 and penalties up to prison.
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Claude C. Lawler
Madison County
Democratic Executive Committee
Circuit
Glenn F. Manning
Maysville
Huntsville
Lawler
Manning
James
McLemore
Harold Sanders
Sanders
Shelby Hall
W. C. Quick
G. L. Steele
Dempsey Dunca
James Leemon Nash
James Lincoln Berry
Gulf Refining to test Tuscaloosa in Alabama fields
Gulf Refining Co plans a second test following the Pol lard field pattern. Corings from T R Miller No 2 between 5 905 and 5 935 feet show 30 feet of saturated oil sands. The test lies about a half mile west of T R Miller No 1, which produced 295 barrels daily. The next test will target about 6 400 feet and aim to be the field's seventh producer.
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Gulf Refining Co
Tuscaloosa
Gulf
T. R. Miller Mit Co
T. R. Miller
Russell Forces Take Over Space Republicans Left
In Chicago on July 12, forces loyal to Sen. Richard B. Russell of Georgia moved into the national campaign HQs, occupying space vacated by Eisenhower and Taft staffs. An advance agent for Sen. Robert Kerr of Oklahoma had been there a week, with Kerr to take over later.
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Chicago
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Eisenhower
Taft
Oklahoma
Conrad Hilton
Kerr
Sen
Robert A. Taft
Blackstone Theater
Elks open Grand Lodge convention in New York
Thousands of Elks gathered in New York for the 88th Grand Lodge convention opening tomorrow. By mid afternoon about 10,000 were present with an expected turnout of twenty thousand more.
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New York
Knoxville lawyers win big in Arlington Futurity
Two Knoxville attorneys Karl L. Martins and W. N. McKinney earned 81 575 as their horse Mr Good won the Arlington Futurity at Arlington Park before 24 716 spectators. Jockey Douglas Dodson rode the two year old Easy Man Grim and Gay colt to victory by three lengths over Mr Paradise owned by Ada Rice and ridden by Eddie Arcaro. The King Ranch entry Kamehameha finished third in a field of fifteen. Mr Good ran six furlongs in 1 11 45. The partners formed a racing venture this year after paying 7 500 for Mr Good at Keeneland.
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Knoxville
Tenn
Mr. Good
Arlington
King Ranch
Kamehameha
Karl L. Martins
W. N. McKinney
Mr.Good
Keeneland
Eisenhower and Nixon Rally for GOP Victory in Chicago
The article details Eisenhower and Nixon at the Republican gathering in Chicago with figures like George Bender and Richard M. Nixon acknowledging a broad campaign victory. Nixon expresses confidence about learning politics from the general and predicting a strong win against Communism at home and abroad. Taft plans to retire from presidential talks as Russell's aides prep for a possible Russell candidacy.
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Colorado
Homer Ferguson
Michigan
George Bender
Taft
Eisenhower
Beatle
Senate
House
Nixon
Richard M. Nixon
California
National Committee
Denver
Chicago
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Russell
Taft Avenue Renamed Ike Avenue After General's Victory
In Winthrop Massachusetts on July 12 a street sign appeared changed from Taft Avenue to Ike Avenue. Neighbors reported several boys with a paint pot in the area and the crude board was found covering the sign.
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Taft Avenue
Ike
Winthrop
Mass
Cars Collide On Decatur Street In City Intersection
A 1941 Mercury and a 1941 Plymouth sustained heavy damage in a collision at the Ninth Street and 10th Avenue SE corner about 8 PM Saturday. Plymouth driver Grady Knox. Mercury driver Joe Edd Magnusson, son of J F Magnusson, owned by his father. Officers Hyde and Landers investigated. Mercury westbound on Ninth Street, Plymouth south on 10th Avenue. Front of Plymouth damaged and Mercury’s right rear fender damaged.
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Plymouth
Ninth Street
10Th Avenue
Grady Knox, Hartseller
Joe Edd Magnusson
College Street
J. F. Magnusson
Richard J. Hyde
Louis L. Landers
At Least 83 Dead In Japanese Storms
Western Japan heavy rainstorms last week killed at least 83 people per Asahi with 92 missing and 94 injured. Widespread damage reported as a Osaka Prefecture village bore the worst blows. A reservoir dam breach drowned 52 and swept away 40 houses. Dozens more bodies unaccounted for.
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Japan
Asahi
Osaka
Horned Toad Defies Egg Laying by Giving Birth
The horned toad, a lizard native to the American desert, does not lay eggs but bears live young.
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American Desert
Market quotes from Decatur grain and livestock report
Cotton middling 40.00c strict low 38.50c. No 2 wheat new crop $1.95. No 2 oats new crop 80c. No 2 yellow ear corn $1.83. Hogs price paid in Decatur 20.50c. Also No 2 mile $3.10. Onion-free prices noted.
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Decatur
Wall Street ends week with strength after volatile trading
A volatile week on the New York Stock Exchange saw mixed turns as the steel strike and labor tensions weighed on prices. Chrysler and rail stocks led a sell off before Friday's late rally aided by Eisenhower's victory signals and hopes for steel talks. Top active shares on the NYSE included Glenn Martin, Kern County Land, E R Squibb, Union Oil of California, and Atlantic Refining.
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London
Wall Street
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Chrysler
Eisenhower
Pittsburgh
CIO Steelworkers Union
Steel Industry Management
New York Stock Exchange
Glenn Martin
Kern County Land
E. R. Squibb
Union Oil of California
Atlantic Refining
Curb Exchange
Webb & Knapp
Flying Tiger
Standard Power & Light
Great Lakes Oil & Chemical
Pancoastal Oil
Grain futures mixed as Chicago prices drift through July
Wheat closed lower while corn and soybeans saw varied moves in Chicago trading on July 12. July futures for wheat at 2.2712, corn around 1.82, oats steady, rye near 2.1034, soybeans between 3.27 and 3.28, and lard steady to eight cents lower per hundred pounds.
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Chicago
Defense Dept Lists 215 Korea Battle Casualties
Washington reports the Defense Department released list No 604 detailing 28 killed 156 wounded three missing and 28 injured in Korea as of July 12. The new tally expands prior casualty figures from ongoing combat operations.
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Washington
Defense Department
Korea
Train Hits Car Killing Farmer and Three Relatives in Alabama
A Fort Deposit area crash at a Butler Lowndes County crossing kills Walt Perdue 61 and his two sons Coleman 23 Melvin 14, and grandson Danny Jackson 7. The car was torn apart by a speeding L and N passenger train No. 4 around 4 30 pm, with Perdue’s body trapped for over an hour.
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Ala
Walt Perdue
Perdue
Coleman
Melvin
Danny Jackson
Montgomery
Butler-Lowndes County
Steel price talks loom in 41 day steel strike
The 41 day stoppage tightens as three U S Steel executives pressed for a price rise during secret talks with Mobilization Chief Steelman and CIO United Steelworkers leader Philip Murray. Officials offered no comment, but a price boost was cited as the central issue fueling negotiations and plant shutdowns. Iron ore miners joined in sympathy, threatening winter stockpiles as talks resume in Pittsburgh amid warnings the worst may be ahead.
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U.S. Steel Corp. Board
Roger S. Blough
C.S. Austin
Lewis Parson
John R. Steelman
Pittsburgh
Michigan
Minnesota
Wisconsin
CIO United Steelworkers
Washington
Philip Murray
Tempo
Murray
Joseph Larkin
Bethlehem Steel Corp
USW
1947 Ford for sale in excellent condition
Owner in service offers a 1947 Ford with modified V-8 motor and updated radio and heater. See at 906 Canal. best offer takes it. Phone 3685, L T Gif ford.
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Best Offer
Canal
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