19 Killed In Plane Crash Over Gaspe Canada
Twenty nine people died when a Rimouski Airlines Dakota crashed into fog near Cape Bon Ami while approaching Gaspe airport. Most bodies were unidentifiable. passengers included lumberjacks from Consolidated Paper Corp. and four other travelers. Crew were Pilot Emerson Mills and Co Pilot Ross Miles.
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Gaspe,’ Que
Rimouski Airlines
Cape Bon Ami
Canada
Vaira
Montreal
Gaspe
Cape
Consolidated Paper Corp., Ltd
Anticosti Island
Emmett .P. Maloney
Bert McCallum
Sandy Beach
Que
Emerson Mills
Rimouski
Ross Miles
Les Boules
Intruder fatally shot by Georgia divorcee
Mrs Beatrice Boyd a 27 year old divorcee who lives alone in Dalton Georgia shot and killed a man attempting to enter her home late Saturday night Sheriff L Vining said the man H E Galloway 31 of Homer Ga was visiting a brother in Dalton Boyd said she woke to knocks at the front door ordered him away then fired through the back door and again as he tried to raise a living room window a .25 caliber slug struck Galloway near the heart
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Dalton
Beatrice Boyd
L. Vining
Vining
H. E. Galloway
Homer
Galloway
Extradition Hearing Set for Revel and Allred in Georgia Murder Case
Extradition hearing in Montgomery Alabama for Clarence Revel and Joe Allred, sought by Georgia authorities for the 1944 slaying of John Frank Stringfellow, scheduled before Gov. James E. Folsom after four prior delays. The men, free on $5,000 bonds, were arrested in Phenix City, Alabama.
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Montgomery
Ala
Clarence Revel
Joe Allred
Georgia
James E. Folsom
John Frank Stringfellow
Phenix City
Wit and Wisdom From a Dinner Table Tale
An amused collection of quips and cartoons hitched to a Provocative banquet of humor. Jesters lampoon social scenes with clever lines about fame fortune and romance. The dialect humor pokes at manners and everyday foibles with a wink.
Amateur musicale eases loneliness with a joke
A kind hostess chats with a lonely guest at an amateur musicale. The small man admits he plays no instrument away from home and quips he plays second fiddle at home. The note closes with a humorous yarn and a digression about cooking time and a can opener.
No Reflections In A Glass Darkly
A court report notes an arrest for assault and battery with the prisoner named Sparks, an electrician, facing the judge who queries his details before confinement. A lighthearted aside contrasts married couples’ quiet harmony with a dance anecdote.
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Sparks
Order of Publication in Morgan County Court Case
Morgan County Alabama equity case involves complainant D C Collins versus defendants Mary E Collins and others. Affidavit states summons attempted August 1944 in Madison County but not served. defendants listed as Sam Collins Conner Campbell Cora Lee LaRuth, all stated as not residing in Madison County and over twenty one.
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Morgan County Court
Morgan County
Alabama
D. C. Collins
Mary E. Collins
Equity
Sam Collins
Conner Campbell
Cora Lee LaRuth
Madison County
Absentee defendants required to plead in Alabama case
In Morgan County Alabama the court orders publication for four weeks in Decatur Daily requiring Carl Collins and Ruther Collins to plead to the bill of complaint by August 7 1948 or the bill may be confessed. Both defendants are over twenty one and have been in the Armed Forces but are now discharged and non residents with unknown addresses.
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Alabama
Carl Collins
Ruther Collins
United States of America
United States
Register
Decatur Daily
Morgan County
Bryan McAfee
Brief Session Held by Court
The Alabama supreme court opened a week long special summer session in Montgomery with no arguments expected. It may rule this week on the state's appeal challenging a $3,516,600 REA loan to the Alabama Electric Cooperative. The Alabama Power Company contested the loan for a steam plant at Gantt.
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Montgomery
Alabama Supreme Court
Bill Drinkard
Alabama Electric Cooperative, Inc
Drinkard
John Shaffer
Division of Local Finance
Alabama Power Company
Gantt
Ala
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Cabinet Crisis Behind Marie in Paris Government
Socialist deputies who toppled Schuman’s government pressure Premier Andre Marie amid cabinet formation talks. They seek only two Socialist posts with Leon Blum as Vice Premier and Paul Ramadier as Minister of State. Marie’s proposed lineup places Schuman as foreign minister, while others discuss interior and commerce portfolios.
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Paris
Robert Schuman
Andre Marie
Marie
Leon Blum
Paul Ramadier
Ramadier
Blum
Inustry
France
Schuman
Georges Bidaul
Kilby Outfielder Missing After Game Found by Patrol
Kilby prison baseballers beat Shopton Club 8-3 then dispersed. Outfielder Jack Wilson disappeared into the woods after the final out and was recaptured six hours later at Union Springs, fifteen miles south. Wilson had entered Kilby ten years ago to serve two fifty year robbery terms from Tuscaloosa County.
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Shopton
Ala
Kilby Prison
Jack Wilson
Wilson
Union Springs
Here
Kirby
Tuscaloosa
Pioneer Anniston merchant J Berman dies after short illness
Anniston Alabama July 26 Pioneer merchant J Berman about 70 who operated a department store for 38 years died after a brief illness. Survived by widow a son and a daughter funeral services set for today
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Anniston
Ala
Mount Apo, Philippines Highest Peak at 9610 Feet
Mount Apo stands as the Philippines highest peak in Davao Region Southern Mindanao with an elevation of 9610 feet. The landmark dominates the landscape and is a notable reference for travelers and climbers.
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Philippines
Mount
Apo
Mindanao
Probe Opens On Sheriff Harpers Dentville Shooting
The Copiah county grand jury will hear evidence today about Sheriff Julius Harper's shooting in Dentville while he tried to arrest Ferman Fulgham and his father Johnny. Two negrées are jailed in Jackson for safekeeping amid tense searches by a large white posse and reports of armed groups in the woods.
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Hazlehurst
Miss
Julius Harper
Dentville
Copiah County Grand Jury
Sone
Hinds County
Jackson
Ferman -Fulghan
F. L Bishop
Copah County
Harper
Ferman
Ferman Fulgham
Troy Templeton
Templeton
Bishop
L. C. McClaren
William P. Jacobs Claimed by Death in Clinton
William Plumer Jacobs 54 president of the American Cotton Manufacturers Association died after a heart attack July 16 in Washington. Funeral services set for 3:30 p.m. tomorrow at First Presbyterian church Clinton with burial in the church cemetery. Jacobs led the association since 1935 and previously held posts at Presbyterian College Clinton and as executive director of the print cloth group.
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Clinton
S. C
William Plumer Jacobs
American Cotton Manufacturer’s Association
Doctor's Hospital
Washington
Jacobs
Association
Presbyterian College
Print Cloth Group of Cotton Manufacturers
Victim of Crash is Dead
Steve Lazar of Oliphant Pennsylvania dies in a bus truck collision that killed four Duluth Northern League players on a highway near St Paul. Six total deaths include Lazar and driver James E. Grealish with fourteen more injured.
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ST. Paul
George Treadwill
Superior
Wis
Gerald
Peanuts) Peterson
Proctor, Minn
Gilbert Krirdla
Duluth
Gilbert Trible
Donald Schuchman
St. Louis
James E. Grealish
Bernard Gerl
Joliet
Tll
Sam. Paitich Ok
Donald Gilmore
Columbus
Ohio
Donald Vanderwier
Muskegon
Mich
Bearded Sage Turns 92 in Quiet Celebration
AYOT ST LAWRENCE England July 26 George Bernard Shaw is said to be 92 today though he dismisses birthdays as rubbish. The bearded sage remains sharp minded and credits his health to a vegetarian teetotal lifestyle and strict habits.
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Ayot ST. Lawrence
England
George Bernard Shaw
Shaw
St. Patrick's Cathedral
Dublin
Dean Swift—Shaw
Black Man Held After Confrontation at Irwin County Jail
In Ocilla Georgia a crowd of about two hundred gathered outside the Irwin County jail demanding the release of a Black man known as Brother Colson who allegedly mistreated a white woman. Sheriff Tillman Paulk said Colson was held in a different jail and that state patrols guarded the scene until the crowd dispersed.
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Ocilla
Irwin County
Tillman Paulk
Colson
Octiia
Paulk
First Polio Case Reported in Calhoun County
The first case of poliomyelitis in Calhoun county this year is Veda Louise Stephenson five, daughter of Mr and Mrs T H Stephenson of Piedmont. She is hospitalized in Anniston for treatment, with physicians diagnosing polio after her illness emerged Saturday night.
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Anniston
Ala
Calhoun County
Veda Louise Stephenson
Not a single bird remains extinct in Africa
A fragment notes that no birds are extinct in Africa while only one or two species have vanished in Asia, South America, and Australia, highlighting regional extinction patterns.
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Africa
Asia
South America
Australia
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Bearded Sage
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