Weather Outlook and Local Activities Highlight Alabama Life
The forecast calls for scattered thunderstorms in the southeast this afternoon with gentle to moderate winds on the coast. Local social news mentions returns home, visits to relatives, and attendance at university events. Police court saw twenty cases including drunkenness and gambling, while veterans and Legion meetings are planned for tonight and next Monday.
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The
American Legion
Legion Home
Bank Street
Opportunity Seen As Bright in Dixie
Governor Herman Talmadge of Georgia told about 70 Baylor School graduates in Chattanooga that the South offers greater opportunities for business and industry than any other region. He urged graduates to stay in the South and noted that other regions recognize the opportunities here and seek Southern leadership in business and industry.
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Chattanooga
Tenn
Herman Talmadge
Georgia
South
United States
Talmadge
Baylor School
Graduation set for Riverside High tonight
More than ninety graduates will receive their diplomas at Riverside High School commencement exercises at eight o clock. Dr Elbert B Norton longtime Decatur educator will deliver the address. Rev W W Glass will give the invocation and Walter M Jackson will introduce the speaker.
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Decatur
Riverside High School
Elbert B. Norton
Norton
Alabama
United States
Old Gordon School
Florence State Teachers College
U. S. Office of Education
Washington
W. W. Glass
First Presbyterian Church
Dr. Norton
Walter M. Jackson
Jones family tradition marks diploma night in Decatur
Arthur A. Jones Sr president of the Decatur school board will present diplomas at tonight's graduation continuing a family legacy. He first awarded degrees to his children Arthur Alvin Jones Jr and Mimi Jones and now to his grandson Barrett Shelton Jr marking a multi generational rite.
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Arthur A. Jones Sr
Decatur School Board
Decatur
Arthur Alvin Jones Jr
Mimi Jones
Jones
Barrett Shelton Jr
Graduates Listed for Riverside High School
W R Riley principal at Riverside will announce awards for seniors and diploma presentations will be made by Arthur A Jones Sr president of the Decatur school board. The graduate list includes Clarence Praston Aday Jr Rosa Mae Askenburg Mary Ann Bagley John Barlow Karl Barlow Irma Black Elette Blackwell Mary Ann Blackwell Thomas Bolding Joy Bolin Gene Brown Harry Brewer Mary Emily Barnum Clifford Campbell Etna Ree Carrol Betty Jean Case Marian Chandler Wilbur Lee Couch Jr Norman Douglas Daniel Mary Charles Delmore Betty Jane Douthitt Bobbie Nell Duggar Nancy Faye Eubank Sam Francis Evans Jr Thomas Houston Fitzpatrick Jr Benny Ray Flack F D Folette Percy Fennell Garnett Dalton Garrett Wyman Gibson Mary Glenn Green Jean Gregg Alberta Harvey Margie Harrison Martha Jean Higdon Julia Holesapple Cary Hotchkiss Charles Howard Shirley Jacob Nona Fort Jones Dean Jones Betty Faye Julian Robert Kennedy See DR on Page 2
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Clarence Praston Aday, Jr
Rosa Mae Askenburg
Mary Ann Bagley
John Barlow
Karl Barlow
Irma Black
Elette Blackwell
Mary Ann Blackwell
Thomas Bolding
Joy Bolin
Gene Brown
Harry Brewer
Mary Emily Barnum
Clifford Campbell
Etna Ree Carrol
Betty Jean Case
Marian Chandler
Wilbur
Lee Couch, Jr
Norman Douglas Daniel
Mary
Charles Delmore
Betty Jane Douthitt
Bobbie Nell Duggar
Nancy
Three Injured In Car Mishaps In Decatur Area
Three people were hospitalized after weekend highway crashes near Decatur. Allen Adcock of Decatur sustained a fractured leg and was listed in good condition at Hamil Clinic, after a rear end collision on Trinity Lane. Carl Shackelford and George Shackelford of Hillsboro were admitted to Decatur General with a compound leg fracture and a chest concussion respectively. Carl remained under care while George was later dismissed.
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Decatur
Allen Adcock
Decatur 1
Hamil Clinic
Carl Shackelford
George Shackelford
Hillsboro 2
Decatur General Hospital
Carl
George
Adcock
Trinity Lane
James Case
Trinity
Case
Studebaker
Elbert Scott
West Davis Street
Myrtle Point
Negro
Shackel
Man with dubious atomic clearance questioned in AEC scope
Senator Hickenlooper said an AEC employee who drafted top secret reports for Congress was once suspended after an FBI check found derogatory information. Chairman Lilienthal defended keeping some personnel with doubtful records on the payroll under wartime and security considerations.
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Washington
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Congress
FBI
Senate-House
Atomic Energy Commission
AEC
David E. Lilienthal
Lilienttal
Yeggs Crack Moody Plant Safe in Night Job
Thieves tried to break into Moody's bulk gas plant safe but failed after hours of effort. They ripped the steel outer cover, knocked off the combination, tramped asbestos lining, and dragged the safe into a back storage room. A kerosene lamp was left atop the safe. nothing appeared missing when questioned at seven this morning.
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Moody's
Yeggs
Geggs
Ardmore Man Buried Sunday After Fatal Ardmore Accident
Ardmore farmer David Joseph Dollaz 77 was killed in a Saturday night automobile crash on the Huntsville Pulaski road. He was buried Sunday at Gatlin cemetery after funeral services at Bethel Ala Willow Springs Baptist church. Rainey and Sons Ardmore directed burial. The driver was Joseph Pollitz of Ardmore.
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David—Joseph
Dollaz
Ardmore
Bethel
Ala
Willow Springs Baptist Church
Gatlin Cemetery
Rainey and Sons
Dollar
Joseph Pollitz
Huntsville-Pulaski
Signs Point to Head On Crash In Legislature
The Alabama legislature enters its sixth week with Gov. James E. Folsom and lawmakers facing a clash. The House will consider the governor's amendment to the clerk hire restriction bill, which Rep. Tom Johnston opposes. Senate actions target prison reforms and military department bills while the Ways and Means Committee schedules hearings on revenue measures including a proposed corporate income tax increase to 10 percent directed to education.
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Montgomery
Ala
James E. Folsom
Tom .Johnston
Mobile County
Folsom
Senate
Alabama
Special Prison Investigating Committee
State Military Department
House
Ways and Means Committee
Administration Revenue
Medical Staff Poised to Resign at Milledgeville Hospital
Milledgeville daily report states Dr. T G Peacock announced widespread resignations among 13 physicians and 75 to 90 percent of nurses and attendants at Milledgeville state hospital. The crisis followed a failed Sunday night truce after a call from Gov Herman Talmadge to Norman Peacock, a social security board member, who advised against firing the two.
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Milledgeville
T. G. Peacock
Milledgeville State Hospital
Peacock
Herman Talmadge
Contempt Fines for Lewis and Union Upheld by Court
The U S circuit court of appeals upheld contempt convictions of John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers for defying a court order to halt last year’s strike over miners pensions. Fines total 1 420 000 with Lewis at 20 000 and the union 1 400 000.
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Lewis and Union
District Court of Appeals
Washington
U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
UMW
T. Alan Goldsborough
Lewis
Goldsborough
Supreme Court
Appeals Court
Mrs. Clark Named 1st Woman Treasurer of United States
President Truman nominates Mrs. Georgia Neese Clark of Richland Kansas as the first woman treasurer of the United States. The 49 year old divorcee is supported by Mrs. India Edwards head of the DNC women's division.
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Washington
Truman
Georgia Neese Clark
Richland
Kans
United States
Clark
India Edwards
Democratic National Committee
Wounded man rests after jewelry store shooting
W. B. Stanford is recovering at Lavender clinic in Hartselle after being shot four times in an altercation at his uncle Ashford Stanford's jewelry store. Ashford Stanford is jailed on assault with intent to murder charges and posted a $1,000 bond. sheriff C. B. Humphrey arrested him after witnessing the incident.
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W.B. Stanford
Ashford Stanford
Hartselle
Morgan County
C. B. Humphrey
Stanford
Humphrey
Senate Debate On TH Begun
Senator Elbert D. Thomas opened a Senate debate on Taft Hartley labor law criticizing the 1947 act as a mistake. He spoke as chair of the labor committee as strategy talks stirred in Republican and Democratic pools before the session.
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Senate
Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Swashington
Elbert D.thomas
Dutah
Thomas
Senate Labor Committee
Republican Policy Committee
Democrats
Labor Committee
Five Years Ago America Prayed
Five years ago America prayed as millions listened to a White House prayer and Americans gathered in churches and public spaces. The mood turned tense and hopeful as the Normandy invasion began and leaders urged courage, unity, and sacrifice while blood donations and enlistment increased nationwide.
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America
White House
New York
Madison Square
LaGuardia
Philadelphia
Boston
Lexington and Concord
Omaha
Normandy
War Department
Office of War Information
Dunkerque
Detroit
Appeasement Aimed at Red Agent Revealed in Testimony
Joseph J. Franey a one armed rubber repairman testifies before the House Un American Activities Committee that an FBI agent said the State Department wanted to appease the Soviet operative identified as Andrej Schevchenko. Franey and his wife aided the spy by delivering film and documents under FBI supervision. Meetings were arranged via Empire State Building postcards with two deliveries postponed at the FBI's request.
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Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
FBI
State Department
Red
House
UN American Activities Committee
Joseph J. Franey
Niagara Falls
N.Y
Franey
Hookerlectro-Chemical Co
Bell Aircraft Company
Buffalo
Franeys
Andrei Schevchenko
Scevchenko
New York
Empire State Building
Big Four ministers fail to break East West deadlock on Berlin
Paris June 6 The Big Four foreign ministers end their third secret session on the Berlin unification problem without progress. French sources say no agreement was reached as they continued to study Western and Soviet proposals for reuniting Berlin under four power control. The communique notes study of both plans with no accord.
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Paris
Berlin
Commmunique
Senators consider espionage case at Buffalo Bell plant
The House committee faces a Russian espionage case at the Bell Aircraft plant in Buffalo, N Y as it prepares to present evidence that a Soviet wartime purchases official sought to obtain Airacobra secrets from Bell employees. Officials suggest high level intervention aimed at appeasing the Soviet agent and delaying surveillance while FBI agents traced the operation.
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Franey
FBI
State Department
Scevchenko
Department
House
American Activities Committee
Bell Aircraft
Buffalo
N. Y
Bell
Elizabeth T. Bentley
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Birmingham
Vienna Webster
Robert Broadway
Murfreesboro, Tenn
Guy Davidson
John A Caddell
University of Alabama
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Beverly Moyers
A. W. Moyers
Tanner
Borothy Dunnavent
Miller
West Moulton Street
Jo Ann Chaffin
Somerville
Edward Terry
Evelyn Robinson
Billy Robinson
Prospect, Tenn
John Shelton
Seldon and
Melburn
Bernice Osborne
Morris Cemetery
TVA
J. B. Patterson
W. E. Knight
Lacon
Mot Springs
Eugene Baker Henry
John Miller Bradley
Dalton Fowler
T. L. Baker
Paul O.baker
Collinsville, Tenn
Veterans of Jhe Wars
Second Avenue
Josh Collier
Athens
Johnny Aycock
Dixie
By Ken Reynolds
E. B. Norton
Riverside
Arthur A. Jones
W. R. Riley
Strong Box
Moody Bulk Plant
Gatlin
John L. Springer
AP News
Corporal Hitler
Reno
Red Cross
Grand Central Palace
National Maritime Union
Norfolk
Dee Day Edwards
Ces
Roosevelt
God
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