Eviction Sparks Violence as Widow Is Removed on Farm
Deputies forcibly evict 60 year old widow Elizabeth Stevens from her 80 acre Lapeer County farm after a 17 year dispute tied to the Lapeer Farmers Mutual Insurance. Three hospitalized, two jailed, as neighbors threaten reprisals and a new tenant takes over.
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Elizabeth Stevens
Lapeer County
Lapeer Farmers Mutual , Fire Insurance Association
Stevens
Kendrick
Richard Newman
Flint
Newman
Grace White
Insurance Association
Association
Researchers report cannibal spiders spotted near Everest ice crevasses
Scientists returning from Mt Everest describe seeing cannibalistic spiders hopping on ice crevices at 23 000 feet, about 4 000 feet above the limit of plant life.
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Mt. Everest
Alabama Shifts in 1952 Vote Trends Highlight Civil Rights Debate
Data shows Alabama voting patterns from 1900 to 1948 with spikes for Hoover and Dewey, and a 1948 switch to States Rights. The piece notes how Eisenhower’s Civil Rights stance may draw ex Democrats, depending on the 1952 Democratic platform and upcoming November ballots.
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Alabama
McKinley
Roosevelt
Taft
Hughes
Harding
Coolidge
Hoover
London
Willkie
Dewey
Eisenhower
Alabama Press Association meets for summer session in Panama City
About 70 APA members gathered for a summer session in Panama City Florida after a banquet honoring 22 past presidents. Governor Gordon Persons pledged state support for full information on public affairs and promised corrective action if a department head withholds legitimate news.
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Panama City
Fla
Alabama Press Association
Gordon Persons
Alabama
APA
Freedom of Information Action Committee
George M. Cox
Mobile Press Register
State Department
James E. Mills
Birmingham Post-Herald
Two Fishermen Rescue Four as Boat Sinks with Ten Aboard
Kinney and James B. Terry were returning from fishing when eight children asked for a ride. The frail twelve foot craft sank after a wave swept the front. four occupants survived and six drowned.
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Kinney
James B. Terry
First Stage Of Polio Experiment Ends In Houston
The first stage of a major polio experiment ends in Houston as clinics close after inoculating 31,446 children aged 1 to 6. The test aimed to see if a blood serum could prevent paralysis from poliomyelitis, with results not expected for months.
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Houston
Tex
Service Today for Howard O. Hunter
Funeral services for Howard Os car Hunter 27 of Double Springs will be held at 2 PM at the Fairview Baptist church with Rev L L Vancaster officiating Interment will be in Fairview cemetery Double Springs Brown's of Decatur in charge He died at 430 AM Saturday at the District 1 Tuberculosis hospital Flint He had been ill for three weeks He was a member of the Church of Christ and is survived by his wife Pamalia Mae daughter Paul Howard Hunter mother Mrs Lillie Swain and other relatives
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Howard Oscar Hunter
Double Springs
Fairview —Baptist Church
L. L. Vancaster
Fairview Cemetery
Brown's
Decatur
Charlie Lee Hunter
Pamalia -Mae Hunter
Paul Howard Hunter
Lillie Swain
One Time Collector of Taxes Succumbs
Fayet te Alabama July 12 Funeral services were held today for S T Wright 78 one time collector of internal revenue for Alabama and Mississippi Wright died yesterday in a hospital after a long illness He practiced law from 1907 until his retirement in 1949 and served in the Alabama legislature in 1911 He was a internal revenue collector for Alabama and Mississippi during the administration of President William H Taft Surviving are the widow a son S T Wright Jr Fayette and a daughter Mrs Sarah Wright Beck Decatur Ga
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Fayette
Ala
S. T. Wright
Internal Revenue
Alabama
Mississippi
Wright
William H. Taft
S. T. Wright Jr
Sarah Wright Beck
Decatur, Ga
Republicans vow to end neglect of the Far East
Three India. The Republicans said Asia had been considered subordinate and pledged to "end neglect of the Far East." Congress slashed funds for Europe from 25 per cent to 29.5 per cent and those for Asia from 21.4 per cent to 55 per cent with India a particular target. Both Houses balked at proposed further cuts affecting Formosa.
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Asia
Far East
Congress
Europe
Formosa
Creal Springs grocer rides horse to church near Centralia
W H Holmes of Creal Springs Illinois says he rides his horse to church in Centralia area because he feels more at home and his wife and children prefer using the cars. He owns two automobiles but chooses the horse for Sundays.
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Centralia
Ill
Creal Springs
W. H. Holmes
Thirteen Feared Dead After Brazilian Air Force Plane Crash
A Brazilian Air Force plane with 33 aboard including six children crashed into the sea near Marau in Bahia State. Thirteen persons are missing and believed dead, while twenty were rescued.
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Salvador
Brazil
Marau
Bahia State
Fiancée Plunges After Lover Tosses Her From Bridge
In Groton Connecticut a man who had argued with his fiancée threw her from a vehicular bridge into the Thames River and then leapt to his death. The woman, Mrs Helen Bystrzak Failes, was later found by a fishing crew. Police search for the man Tadeusz Banasiak, an immigrant from Poland, who also died. The couple, both 26, planned to marry this fall after a party they attended.
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Groton
Conn
Thames
Helen Bystrzak Failes
Navy
Tadeusz Banasiak
Poland
New
London
OPS to cut Alabama staff under national reductions
The Office of Price Stabilization will reduce staff in Alabama though exact numbers are undetermined among about 150 employees. North Alabama OPS director Dr. A R Meadows said roughly 15 may be let go, including Montgomery working staff for South Alabama. Nationally, 5 450 of 9 500 field office employees and 70 of 2 500 Washington headquarters staff face dismissal by Sept 1 due to reduced operating funds.
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Birmingham
Office of Price Stabilization
Alabama
A. R. Meadows
North Alabama
Montgomery
South Alabama
Ellis Arnall
Washington
Arnall
National
Ice floats with small portion above surface
The fact notes that about one ninth of ice’s bulk is above water when floating. It adds a population figure for Uruguay around 2,353,000.
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Uruguay
Birmingham News backs Eisenhower for president
The Birmingham News endorsed Gen Dwight D Eisenhower for president becoming the first Republican favored by the paper a Democratic daily in Alabama says the choice stems from deep conviction that the nation needs a straightforward able leader Eisenhower is praised as outstandingly the man for the nation's need while the paper notes it will continue to support the Democratic Party in many endeavors and candidates.
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Birmingham
Birmingham News Today
Dwight D. Eisenhower
the News
Alabama
Eisenhower
Democratic Party
F A Glover Final Rites Here Today
F A Glover, 73, former Decatur man, died in Birmingham Friday morning after months of ill health. He is survived by his wife two sons Leslie and Norris a daughter Marie and relatives here. Funeral services in Birmingham at 9 30 this morning with Brown's directing then remains sent to Decatur by train for burial at the city cemetery about 3 this afternoon.
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Decatur City Cemetery
Birmingham
Decatur
F. A. Glover
Leslie
Norris
Marie
Brown
Jura Department and Range Describe Distinct Regions
The word Jura refers to a French department, a European mountain range, and an island off Scotland, each a separate geographic entity. The term also appears in diverse contexts including geology and cartography.
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Jura
France
Scotland
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