Chicago Group Buys Keller Motor Corp in Bankruptcy Auction
A Chicago group led by Arthur Cooksey bought the bankrupt Keller Motor Corp property and trade name for 65000 at a bankruptcy auction in Birmingham. The deal, tied to a 10 year contract with Keller Export official Roger Delbecq, excludes the Hartzell wood plant in Hartzell Alabama. About 300 dealers attended the creditors meeting led by U S referee Stephen B Coleman.
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Birmingham
Ala
Keller Motor Corp
Chicago
Arthur Cooksey
Loran Transue
Kansas City
Keller Car Franchise Corp
Keller Woodworking
Hart- Selle
Roger Delbecq
Belgium
Keller Motor Export Corp
Cooksey
Delbecq
Russia and satellites boycott UN organ in Red push
Wackenzie's column notes the Soviet bloc boycotted a UN conference on technical aid to backward areas to push out the Chinese nationalists. The piece argues this is the thirtieth instance of obstruction, widening East West divisions and signaling two rival blocs. It cites Truman warning of Soviet aggression and calls for a stronger Western defense. It concludes democracy will keep trying to act rightly while the Soviets use the UN as a battleground and propaganda forum.
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Russia
United Nations
Conference On
Peace Organization
Soviet Bloc
Chiang Kai-Shek
U.N
Lie
Marshal Stalin
Moscow
Reds
U. N
Truman
U. N. Gilead
Atlantic Pact Group
Stalin
The Brandon Small House Plan 26 by 42 Feet
A single family layout shows three bedrooms futures with a vestibule front entry. The plan includes kitchen dining area amidship and a shared bathroom and laundry beneath. It emphasizes frame construction hip roof wide siding and storage spaces across a 26 by 42 foot footprint.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Brandon
Small
St. Cloud
Minn
VFW encampment names officers in Mobile Alabama
Alabama Veterans of Foreign Wars closed its encampment naming officers and warning of pressure to cut veterans preference in federal civil service. Omar Ketchum accused the administration of limiting admissions to VA hospitals to service-incurred disabled veterans. Rainbow Division Veterans elected officers and invited the national reunion to Birmingham in 1951.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
Alabama Veterans of Foreign Wars
VFW
Omar Ketchum
Ketchum
Truman
Fort Benning
Alabama State Association of
Rainbow Division
William S. Armour
Birmingham
Asa J. Coggin
S. M. Unger
John H. Winningham
Ernest Pritchett
Montgomery
Beekeepers in Corry Must Hold Public Liability Policy
Tenants of public housing in Corry England must obtain a 2800 dollar policy to cover any injuries from stinging bees. The council requires this insurance as a condition for keeping bees, while a broader note mentions the Soviet leadership and a persistent Cold War stance.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Corry
England
Young Boy Vanishes After Winter Aid Prize Money
In Charleroi Belgium a wartime Winter Aid raffle prize of 200000 francs drew a 12 year old boy to claim the 4000 dollar award. The boy returned with no guardian and fled the office. despite inquiries and police searches the youngster has not been seen for seven years.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charleroi
Belgium
Charleroi Exchange
Tuscaloosa Man Will Head State Florists
Alabama nurserymen and florists meet in Birmingham for a state convention. Paul Guthrie of Tuscaloosa is named president for the coming year and will be installed at a banquet, with Marvin Woodward Jr and Tom Dodd Jr among new officers and Demeranville and others appointed to the executive committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Julie Thomas
Lake Worth
Fla
Paul Guthrie
Tuscaloosa
Guthrie
Hardy Demeranville Jr
Mobile
Marvin Woodward
Democratic signs replace Russian district labels in Berlin
In Berlin the Russian sector adopts the label democratic while American British and French zones are mocked as gangster or terror sectors. Signs declaring the democratic sector were attacked at night and repainted with oppressed. Communist authorities then ordered patrols by their people’s police to guard the signs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
People’s Police
Five-Pound Monterey Spanish Mackerel Returns to Slow Comeback
A five-pound Monterey Spanish mackerel was landed at Terminal Island California after a tough fight. The species, once a major west coast commercial fish, vanished in 1890 and reappeared in 1927, with only seven others recorded since. The newest catch was the latest sign of its gradual return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Terminal Island
Calif
P— A
Monterey
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Chicago Group
Keller
Ray Childs
W. Church
Evans
2Nd Ave
Hlaininas
Grant St
Wackenzie
Moulton St
Decatur
Supreme Soviet
Asia
Europe
Tata Ae
Willo Ree
Ist
Ave
Call
Perry Electric CO
E. Moulton St. Decatur
Decatur Ready Mixed Concrete CO
Moulton and Mapkest
Bondex
Weshible
Per Sallon
J. B. Sheats CO
E. Moulton St
Neal Stephenson
Decatur, Rt. 1
Austinville
General Contractors
Ave. N
Stone Lumber CO
Nat Aeal 12 Ave. E
Market ST
He Throse
Blackwell Motors
Lee Street
Decatur, Ala
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