Charges Dropped on Alabama Officers in Auto Chase Case
In Montgomery Judge Leon McCord dismissed murder assault charges against former Alabama attorney general investigators C C Sealey and G C Cargile. Both pleaded guilty to simple assault and paid $10 fines. The assault to murder counts were dropped after a pre trial conference with Solicitor Temple Seibels. The charges stemmed from a midnight auto chase in which multiple shots were exchanged.
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Montgomery
Ala
C.C. Sealey
G. C. Cargile
Attorney General of
Alabama
Leon McCord
Temple Seibels
Reed Heads Employees Club at Tennessee Valley Bank
C O Reed of Scottsboro was elected leader of the bank's Employees club for the coming term at a Sheffield meeting. J L Griffin of Huntsville became vice president and Miss Hazel Morrow of Decatur was named secretary. Local members reported a fine entertainment program ahead in Sheffield.
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C. O. Reed
Scottsboro
Tennessee Valley Bank
Sheffield
J. L. Griffin
Huntsville
Hazel Morrow
Decatur
Williams Considers Insurance Supervisory Post
H. E. Williams principal of Central High may enter the insurance field in a supervisory role during the summer vacation. He plans to discuss the business proposition in Birmingham, leaving Wednesday for the trip.
Poker game and dark secrets frame Torridity murder tale
Jerry Ogden recounts his father Alex Peterson turning into Andrew Ogden after a fateful poker game in 1896 Torridity. Lundy’s extortion, a near murder, and a tense night at the Two Brothers property culminate as Jerry reveals the precipitating event that changed the town and set Ogden on the path to his fate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle John
Jerry
Andrew
Deacon
Captain Deacon
Alex Peterson
Andrew Ogden
John
Dad
Henry
Two Brothers
Lundy
Lundy’s
Alex
Prodigals Return After Headquarters Visit
Uncle John greets Henry and Jerry who arrive with Deacon, fresh from headquarters. Mrs Lufidy is en route to headquarters with news as Jerry confesses guilt and Lucy consoles him amid the tense reunion.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Uncle Johns
Deacon
Henry
John
Jerry
Andrew Ogden
Peterson
Lucy
Nitrogen Issue Attracts Congress With Muscle Shoals Plans
Washington reports on shifts in nitrogen supply as Congress reconsiders disposal of war property at Muscle Shoals Alabama. Private producers would supply 65 percent of nitrogen this year and 80 percent next year, with plants capable of 10 million tons annually. a $60 million plant is planned at Monroe Louisiana by I G Farben to boost domestic output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Frank I. Weller
Associated Press
Washington
Muscle Shoals
Ala
Congress
United States
Monroe
I. G. Parteninnd
Trie Aktiengesellschaft
Prankfort
Germany
National City Bank of New York
St. Louis Aims to Be Aviation Capital of Nation
St. Louis seeks national leadership as the aviation capital. An intensive ad campaign by the Industrial Club ad committee follows a two year survey of local advantages. Copies go to bankers and aeronautical manufacturers nationwide, with a broad newspaper push planned this summer. The city hosts four flying fields, five aviation schools, four airplane factories, an engine plant, transcontinental airways HQ, and four passenger and air mail lines.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Louis
Industrial Club of
Transcontinental Airways
Muscle Shoals nitrogen plans face new legislation
The article notes a new board of directors for a nitrogen project including Walter Teagle Edsel Ford Charles Mitchell and Paul Warburg. It cites US organic nitrogen output near 275000 tons surpassing wartime Mus ile Shoals hopes and outlines congressional debates to keep Muscle Shoals as a government controlled or leased fertilizer production project amid rising synthetic nitrogen supply and falling prices.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Walter Teagle
Standard Oil Company of
New Jersey
Edsel Ford
Ford Motor Company
Charles E. Mitchell
National City Bank
Paul Warburg
International Acceptance Bank
United States
Muscle Shoals
Congress
Talley Protege Kansas City Winner Named
Red haired John Mull the first girl to win the Marion Talley scholarship a soprano from Great Bend Kans. She beat 32 hopefuls from Missouri Kansas and Oklahoma and will study in New York with no financial suit attached.
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Kansas
City
New York
John Mull
Marion Talley
Talley
Missouri
Oklahoma
Mull
Great Bend
Kans
Chicago
Kansas City
Former clerk becomes famous slack wire dancer Herberta Beeson
Chicago report tells how Herbert Beeson a Sumitsville Indiana clerk turned slack wire dancer after joining a vaudeville troupe. He wore skirts and wigs to perform disguising as a woman and later married the girl who had fallen from the wire in Texas.
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Chicago
Ill
Herberta Beeson
Herbert
Beeson
Sumitsville
Ind
Texas
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Employees Club
Peebles
Dylan
Ogden
Joe Lundy
Jerry Ogden
Henry Deacon
Wm. Morrow Co
Uncle Jerry
Kree
Battle Creek
Saturday Evening Post
Church St
Gulf Refining Company
Air
Talley Protege
Iona Mull
Thompson's Drug Store
Greer
W. Lafayette
Tyler
Second Ave
Prunes
Brock & Spight Co
Farmers Fertilizer Co
Decatur, Alabama
Pasco
Standard Oil
Standard
CROWN
Standard Oil Company
Ine
Standard Oil Touring Service
W. Blooms St
Louisville, Ky
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