Eisenhower Faces Months of Speculation on Re election
Washington reports President Eisenhower’s operation sparks a new round of speculation about a 1956 bid for a second term. Some Republicans say the illness changes nothing while Democrats hope he runs. doctors foresee a four to six week convalescence and a final decision after recovery. Hagerty stresses the aim is to get him out of the hospital.
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Morgan County Reports Dog Bites and Local Notices
Police logged two dog bite reports in a week with advice to pen the animals for 21 days. The column also notes arrests for liquor violations, a vagrancy case, civic meetings, travel updates, a measles case, and an Eastern Star election. Clifford Vaughan joins Alabama Farm Bureau Insurance.
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Eisenhower's Condition Reported Excellent After Surgery
Doctors said President Eisenhower had a comfortable night at Walter Reed Hospital with a temperature of 99.2 and vital signs near normal. He walked about 30 feet with aides yesterday and a new bulletin said his general condition is excellent despite a recent abdominal operation.
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French Reports DC Rebel Dead In Algeria Operations
French forces reported rebel deaths reaching 250 over the weekend from operations across Algeria from Algiers to Tlemcen. Casualty figures for French troops were not released. Rebel attacks occurred in several towns and ululations noted fatalities among Muslims allied with the French.
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Bids Announced for Decatur Mooresville Road Project
Low bids on four lining the Decatur Mooresville road were announced. J W Gwin Contracting Co Birmingham bid 202582 for roadwork and Goodwyn and Murphee Troy bid 63799 for two bridges. Federal review not required. state to approve bids and awards by week end.
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View in U S presses says Ike should quit
London newspapers report American skepticism over Eisenhower's fitness and calls for early retirement. Conservative Daily Mail notes disquiet while Daily Mirror cites shaken public confidence in medical opinions. Times cites political implications and News Chronicle warns against urging him to work beyond endurance.
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Write Your Best Dad Letter For Cash Prize
A Decatur Alabama contest offers $50 to the best letter praising a dad, $25 for second, and twenty five $1 honorable mentions. Letters must be under 200 words and mailed to Father's Day Editor by midnight tomorrow. Entries become property of The Daily. winners announced in the Father’s Day edition.
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Argentina Hunt for Revolt Leaders Deepens After Weekend Uprising
Argentina's regime pursued leaders of a weekend revolt linked to ex-dictator Peron. Firing squads executed 38 rebels as martial law expanded. clashes erupted in Buenos Aires and in La Plata Santa Rosa and Rosario. Loyalist forces led by Adm. Isaac Rojas crushed holdouts. two generals and 22 civilians were shot on the spot with seven more executed later.
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Eisenhower rebuffs Russian bid on Joint Chiefs visit
Eisenhower rejected today a Russian offer for all members of the U S Joint Chiefs of Staff to visit the Soviet Union. The decision followed a conference with Sherman Adams in Walter Reed Hospital where the President recovers from last Saturday's operation. The Supreme Court also upheld military trials for civilians with overseas postings, ruling in two cases involving wives who killed their abroad husbands and were sentenced to life in prison. Justice Clark filed separate opinions. Chief Justice Warren dissented with Douglas and Black. Frankfurter did not vote.
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Weather and River Forecast for Decatur and Vicinity
Tennessee River near Keller Memorial Bridge morning stage 21.43 feet with a 24 hour rise of 0.03 feet. Temperature around 95 degrees with a partly cloudy outlook tonight and Tuesday. Highs near 94. Forecast calls for widely scattered afternoon and evening showers or activity.
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Courtland Negro minister jailed for shotgun killing of two farmers
R Robinson, 39, a Courtland pastor of Red Bank Negro Baptist Church near Wheeler Dam, is jailed on first degree murder charges for the shotgun slayings of John Easter Johnson, 42, and Carter Body, 25, at a Courtland area home. A neighbor witness and Lizzie Body describe the killings and Robinson’s threat to kill the victims.
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Rogersville
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Lawless elements may take over St. Clair County preacher says
Rev. Paul Mabe, a former Jefferson County deputy now Baptist minister, warned a rural Odenvville church that lawlessness could seize St. Clair County within two years. He urged Sheriff R E Bowlin to crack down on bootleggers and gamblers as about 400 hearers pressed for action.
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American GI runs amok in German ferry slaying
In Kreuz-Wertheim Germany a 21 year old American soldier attacked on a ferry killing a German housemaid and injuring a 22 year old woman named Hildrun Wagner. Police say he was stationed at Wertheim and he was handed to U S military police for questioning.
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Socialists Nominate 52 Candidates for President
At the Socialist National Convention in Chicago Darlington Hoopes and Samuel H. Friedman were renominated as the party ticket. The pair failed to gain traction in the 1952 election against Eisenhower and Stevenson.
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Unseasonably Warm Weather Sweeps Across Nation
The Associated Press reports widespread warmth across the United States. Temperatures reached the 70s in many areas from the Rocky Mountains to the Mississippi River Valley and into the mid Atlantic states, with overnight lows from 8 to 90 degrees in scattered localities.
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Truman's Loire Tour Blown Tire Delays Lunch
Paris Dispatch reports former President Harry S. Truman traveled in a limousine with a chauffeur when a tire blowout at high speed halted the trip through Loire Valley chateaus. Truman quipped about lunch being held up while noting the crew's luck overall.
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Escapees Sought as Two Jefferson Jail Trusties Escape
Bloodhounds hunted late last night for two prison trusties from Jefferson County who fled the barracks and disappeared, prompting a manhunt.
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Redstone Arsenal Hailed as Hottest Base in Army Eyes
Washington reports Redstone Arsenal described as the hottest base in the continental United States. Congress heard the Army seeks 25 million for Redstone facilities to support Jupiter missile development and testing, building on the Redstone missile program with ranges up to 200-300 miles.
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Tito And Khrushchev Mobbed By Well-Wishers In Stalingrad Tour
President Tito of Yugoslavia with Nikita Khrushchev and A I Mikoyan faced a massive 200000 strong crowd at the Stalingrad rail station. An American reporter Betty Mase of Bronxville New York was swept into Deputy Premier Mikoyan's car during the incident. The event followed similar scenes in Moscow and Leningrad on Tito's Soviet tour as the party proceeded to Marmayev Hill.
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House Advances Ike Era Foreign Aid Bill With Cuts
The House passed a foreign aid bill totaling 3.8 billion dollars, cut by more than a billion from President Eisenhower’s request. The measure limits Europe focus and favors loans and private enterprise while giving the president flexibility in aid decisions including Yugoslavia amid opposition to a full stop on aid.
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Stalin Rumors Reported On Harem Allegations In Paris
France Soir cites Khrushchev claiming Stalin kept a harem of young girls in later years. The dispatch from Vienna says Khrushchev described Stalin as sexually obsessed and notes Lavrenty Beria supposedly recruited the harem and confessed before his death as a traitor.
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