Local grocers attend Birmingham food show today
Lawrence Buzbee of Dadeville will visit the Kiwanis club Thursday noon. Mrs. Bob Simmons of Florence is improving at Coffee hospital. Several births announced at Decatur General and Hamill Clinic hospitals. Dismissals and admissions listed. Temperature reports and court pleadings noted. Lawrence County Day observed at Belle Mine experiment station. See DIARY on Page 2.
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Lawrence Buzbee
Dadeville
Kiwanis Club
Bob Simmons
Florence
Coffee Hospital
Lawrence County
Belle Miné Experiment Station
Administration Stalls Road Bond Bills in Alabama House
The Alabama House Ways and Means Committee again stalled Governor Folsom's $80 million road bond plan. Two measures to authorize the bonds and fund them with a one cent tax were postponed amid disagreements over combining them. A constitutional amendment path was discussed, while education funding of $2.75 million was approved.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
House Ways and Means
James E. Folsom
House
Snodgrass
John Snodgrass
Jackson County
No One Injured in Canal and Bank Street Crash
Police report light damage from a 1 V. I. A. truck driven by J B Walker colliding with a 1940 Hudson owned by W B Taylor at Canal and Bank Street around 1 p m Monday. The truck was gone when officers arrived. no injuries reported.
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Canal and
Bank Street
J. B. Walker
Hudson
W B. Taylor
Sixth Avenue West
Alex Ibn Charles Kennedy
J. B. Whitmire
Youths Held On Liquor Charges In Morgan County
Two Moulton youths, Nokomis Gillespie and Sherman Terry Jr., were arrested on West Walnut Street in a 1949 pickup with five gallons of wildcat whiskey. Sheriff C B Humphrey's force also jailed Sam Toney James Fletcher Jr and Trillian Johnson on transporting charges with bonds set at 650 and 1000 dollars respectively.
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Moulton
Morgan County
C. B. Humphrey
Nokomis Gillespie
Sherman Terry Jr
West Walnut Street
W. H. Kirkpatrick
Deppty James Barnes
Sam Toney
James Ed Fletcher Jr
Trillian Johnson
Toney
Fletcher
Johnson
James H. Crow Jr
Sherman Powell
Tribute Paid For Late Justice Murphy
Detroit mourns U S Supreme Court Justice Frank Murphy who died of a heart attack at 59. Flags fly at half staff across Michigan as the renowned Democrat and former Detroit mayor governor and U S official receives funeral rites and a black-draped portrait at recorder's court pending Friday services.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
U.S. Supreme Court
Frank Murphy
Michigan
Justice Murphy
Recorder’s Court
George
United States
Gradual Lifting Of Segregation In Capital Plan
The Interior Department revised by laws of the district recreation board to end segregation at facilities. Under the plan pools would be operated with two for negroes and four for whites if the board runs them, and Anacostia pool would serve whites only. Nonsegregation on golf courses tennis courts and boating is expected.
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Washington
Capital
Interior Department
District Recreation Board
Anacostia
Groveland Journal Reports Bayonet Backed Peace After Mob Violence
In Groveland Florida an uneasy peace returned as bayonet backed guards and a National Guard presence restrained violence after a weekend of mob actions. Shots were fired by guardsmen and warnings given to armed crowds including white robed figures amid tensions over alleged crimes. Police and guardsmen moved crowds away and ensured no more incursions into the town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Florida
Henry Shepherd
Groveland
Fla
Fila
Stanley Gaylord
National Guard
Gaylord
W. V. McCall
Willie Padgett
Sheriff's
Sheriff McCall
Truman Backs Sales Probes
Washington officials report President Truman wants a deep probe into five percenters who help win Army contracts. A White House source said Defense and Army secretaries should investigate regardless of embarrassment. Senator Mundt pressed Maj. Gen. Vaughan to confirm his knowledge of the group, amid a Senate subcommittee inquiry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Truman
Defense
Johnson
Army
Gray
Mr. Truman
Senator Mundt
R-Sd
Harry H. Vaughan
Vaughan
Senate Investigations Subcommittee
Dr Parker to Join Hamil Hospital Staff
Dr Mervel V. Parker will join Hamil Clinic Hospital alongside founder Dr J Y Hamil and Dr Bert Ellis. A native of Adamsville Alabama he graduated from the University of Alabama and trained at Jefferson and St Vincent's in Birmingham. Parker is married with one child and his wife a Auburn graduate and lab technician. The couple will arrive this weekend and reside in Thomas Terrace apartments.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mervel V. Parker
Hamil Clinic
J. Y. Hamil
Bert Ellis
Parker
Adamsville
Ala
University of Alabama
Jefferson Hospital
Birmingham
St. Vincent's Hospital
Dr. Parker
Auburn
Chinese Reds Rolling Again Amid Civil War Fears
The Chinese Communist forces push southward from Kiangsi in three directions toward Human threatening South China’s rice bowl. The outcome hinges on the Human battle as the war’s most decisive phase unfolds. reports from Canton and Prague outline rival claims and church-state tensions. Britain’s labor government denounces the dock board for threatening benefits to London’s 15,000 dock workers who are urged to return to work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Canton
Kiangsi
China
South China
Nationalist
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Catholic Action Organization
Britain
National Dock Labor Board
London
Pastor Denies lie With Klan in Birmingham Slayings
In Birmingham Alabama a special grand jury was ordered to hear new evidence in a wave of cross burnings and floggings. Rev R C Lyons 46 denies any wrongdoing after being arrested on burglary charges sworn by victim Jack Alexander. The case involves entry to a home on May 20 and a later flogging.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Assembly of God
R. C. Lyons
Jack Alexander
Lyons
Alexander
West Jefferson
Federal Tax Receipts Drew
The Treasury Department reports total tax collections for the year ending June 30 at 40,448,498,370, down from 41,864,542,295 last year. New York led states with 7,367,802,790, though that was 607,711,007 less than 1948’s total. Individual income tax brought in 18,029,745,504 versus 20,997,780,699 last year.
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Washington
Treasury Department
New York
Alabama
Florida
Georgia
Kentucky
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
President Truman pledges U S leadership to keep world peace
President Truman told a Shrine dinner in Chicago that the United States must provide enough force to maintain peace as he cited broken Russian promises and the collapse of Japan after the United Nations charter. He warned democracies to act now or risk destruction. The remarks followed his Soldier Field address and a later talk to Nobles at the Stevens hotel.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Chicago
Truman
United States
Japan
Stevens Hotel
Soldier Field
Big
Lake Front
United Nations
Pan
Gambling Czar Mickey Cohen Shot In Sunset Strip Party
Gangsters fired on a party leaving a Sunset Strip gathering wounding Gambling Czar Mickey Cohen and three others. Special bodyguard Harry Cooper is in critical condition, with Miss Dee David and Cohen henchman Edward Herbert among the injured.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Mickey Cohen
Sunset Strip
Harry Cooper
Cohen
California
Dee David
Edward
Neddie) Herbert
Herbert
Fred Howser
Proponents push for House approval of Brannan farm aid plan
Washington July 20 strong bipartisan forces moved to secure House approval for a trial run of the Brannan farm subsidy program Administration leaders faced stiff opposition from Democrats and Republicans Sabath urged party unity warning against the Dixiecrat and farm group coalition The administration bill promises relief from high food prices while protecting farmers income Acheson rejected a Russian protest over Italy’s NATO membership and Congress prepared to hear critics under the Lucas bill in a joint atomic committee session
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Brannan
Rep
Sabath
D-fl
Truman
Gore
D-Tenn
Senate
Joint
Congressional Atomic Committee
Atomic Commission
Britain
Canada
Acheson
Italy
Edward A. Condon
National Bureau of Standards
Senate Rules Committee
Senate-House Atomic Committee
Blair House
Woodard Seeks New Trial In 1946 Cullman Shooting
A motion for a new trial for 45 year old former Cullman taxi driver Robert Woodard will be heard before Circuit Judge James H Crow Jr on July 29. Woodard was sentenced to life for the murder of Wallace Clyde Dean who was shot near Holly Pond in Cullman County in 1946 alongside an alleged accomplice Horace V Pope.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Woodard
Cullman
James H Crow Jr
W. Td
Wallace Clyde Dean
Dean
Holly Pond
Cullman County
Woodard
Horace V. Pope
Six Bodies Are Removed From Debris in Homes
A Seattle takeoff crash at Boeing Field of a C 46 bound for Chicago left six bodies found among wreckage and damaged houses. The crash injured many aboard and residents. authorities sought missing persons as power lines caused outages. witnesses described engine failure and rapid descent before impact.
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Seattle
Boeing Field
Air Transport Associates Inc
Georgetown
Chicago
Amos E. Heacock
Heacock
Dent
George Cordes
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T. E. Putnam
Marquette Dunn
Decature
Baught Wiley Clinic
Cecil E. McCarver
East Moulton Street
Decatur General Hospital
Paul Smith
Seventh Avenue West
Detur General Hospital
Pearl Blevens
Somerville
H. B. Peete
Athens
Neil Stephenson
Decatur
Lola Dent
Sheffield
J. B. Drake
Hartselle
Thomas Pruitt
Jasper Kelly
Ernest Hutto
Crossville
Troy Nunley
Hamil Clinic Hospital
G. M. Davenport
Central Methodist Church
God Built
Calvin Blizzard
Fourth Avenue South
T.V
Lawrence
Newton B. Powell
Second Avenue East
Decatur Fire Department
Billy Stephenson
Trinity Baptist Church
Hollis McGregor
Fifth Avenue South
Five Points
Hendon
Juanita
Legeita
O'Lita
Arley
R. S. Hendon
Georgia Baptist Hospital
Atlanta
By Ken Reynolds
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