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Newspaper

Decatur Daily

Location

Decatur, Alabama, United States of America

Date

Jul 18, 1948

Page

14

CIO Voting Guide Rates 80th Congress by Record of Votes

The CIO published a voting guide listing how members of the 80th Congress voted on 16 issues and urged a heavy November ballot. It lauds some Democratic leaders as 100 percent rights and criticizes others, calling the guide a voter aid rather than a purge list.

CIO Congress Norman Walker Washington CIO Today Labor Organization Truman Philip Murray People's Congress Ing House Senate Barkley Kentucky Murray Montana O’mahoney Wyoming Green McGrath Rhode Island O'Daniel Tex Butler Neb Williams Del Missouri Norton New Jersey Celler Délaney The Supreme Court

Girl is Hurled From Viaduct

Cincinnati reports Harry Robert Gaunt a 33 year old itinerant ex convict facing a murder charge in the death of Patricia Jackson eight year old girl thrown from a 60 foot viaduct. Witnesses captured Gaunt minutes after the child fell lifeless. Detective Chief Clem Merz said Gaunt hears voices and calls himself yellow. Robert a World War Two veteran served three years in Virginia for housebreaking.

Cincinnati Harry Robertson Patricia Jackson Clem Merz Merz Virginia Robert

Miss Havener Visits Home From Caribbean

Miss Doris Havener arrived to visit her parents in Hartselle Alabama after serving as assistant director of the Dominican American Cultural Institute in Ciudad Trujillo The Dominican Republic She plans to stay until month end before returning to the Caribbean The report also notes a homicide case involving a suspect Robertson with alleged radio voice commands and a viaduct fatality near Indianapolis

Doris Havener John Ray Havener Hartselle Alabama Miss Havener Jiudad Trujillo Dominican Republic States New York Washington Chapel Hill North Carolina Caribbean

Alabama Guardsmen to Enter Two-Week Summer Training

Adjutant General James S. Saliba says Alabama National Guard units will undergo a stricter two week summer training session next month, with crews preparing for enhanced exercises and readiness.

Montgomery Alabama James S. Saliba

Camp at Fort Benning Dates Noted

An incomplete notice lists a camp at Fort Benning in Georgia from August 1 to 15. The fragment provides limited procedural details and participants.

Mer Fort Benning, Ga

Astor Villa Sells At Auction In Newport Bid

Antonio F Rotelli liquor and ice dealer won the high bid of 72000 for John Jacob Astor's 14 room French villa Chetwode in Newport Rhode Island. The unoccupied three story stone mansion once hosted Astor and Ellen Tuck French and cost 150000. Rotelli plans for the property are undecided and the bid stands subject to Astor's approval.

Newport Antonio F Rotelli Jook Poees John Jacob Astor Chetwode Astor Ellen Tuck French Providence R. L Narragansett Pier Whitehall

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