Victim Reveals Mother of Five Given Lashing
In Birmingham on June 20 robed terrorists added three floggings to a growing tally. One victim, a widowed mother of five, Mrs Irene Burton of Dora, Ala, disclosed details to newsmen. Her daughters Billie Faye and Sally were forced to accompany her as she was struck thrice with a rope on June 3. Two men abducted at the Burton home were also flogged and threatened with hanging. a crippled man was released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Irene Burton
Dora
Billie Faye
Sally
Burton
Man Drowns Demonstrating Boat on Fish River
In Silverhill Alabama a 28 year old Mobile man drowned while demonstrating an outboard moorboat on Fish River. Rudy Hiner, 27, rode with a friend who watched from the bank as he sped off then tried a sharp turn and was thrown into the river. He swam to shore but disappeared, and his body was recovered last night.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Silverhill
Ala
Coast Guard
Rudy Hiner
Fish River
Hiner
Charles Vasut
Vasut
Cross Burnings Reported Near Anniston
Two crosses were burned on the outskirts of Anniston last night. Police Capt. N. M. Owens called it likely a prank. Lawrence Morgan, 23, of Oxford, found the crosses burning by a roadside and notified Capt. Owens and Mayor E. D. Banks.
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Anniston
Ala
N. M. Owens
Lawrence Morgan
Oxford
Night riders blamed as Alabama hones effort to outlaw masked bands
Dora, a mining hamlet near Birmingham, reports cross burnings by masked riders blamed on the Ku Klux Klan. Victim Mrs. Burton describes robes with small cross circles and hoods. Gov Folsom backs a bill to outlaw masked riders, already passing the state senate. Mrs. Burton and her daughter re enacted the scene for newsmen before authorities.
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Dora
Birmingham
Walker County
Jefferson
Burton
Ku Klux Klan
Alabama
Montgomery
Two suits filed in Morgan circuit court
Two suits seeking 8000 total damages were filed today against W F Jacob and Velma Jacobs in Morgan circuit court. Mattie Sue Pepper seeks 5000 for injury to health from a miscarriage alleged after vulgar language and a hoe was shaken in her face on May 20. Russell T Pepper seeks 3000 for defamation of character after being cursed in front of others. J W Sherrill Jr. represents both plaintiffs.
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W. F. Jacob
Velma Jacobs
H. Harrison Hill
Morgan
Mattie Sue Pepper
Russell T. Pepper
J. W. Sherrill Jr
Judith Coplon Romance Trial Highlights espionage case
The Washington spy trial of Judith Coplon reopened after a weekend recess with a romance angle. Coplon, a former DOJ analyst, said her relationship with Russian engineer Valentin Gubitchev was strictly platonic and not about stealing secrets. Also resuming were cases against Alger Hiss and Gilbert Green, with witnesses and denials about government secrets and communist actions.
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Associated Press
Washington
Judith Coplon
Miss Coplon
Department of Justice
New York
Harry O. Hawkins
State Department
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Gilbert Green
U. S
Valentine A. Gubitchev
United Nations
FBI
Upper Manhattan
Gubitchev
Judith
Robeson Praises Reds at Son’s Wedding Eve
Paul Robeson addressed a Harlem rally praising the Soviet Union and declaring Americanism, on the eve of his son Robeson Jr. marrying Marilyn Paula Greenberg at Cornell. The crowd booed as the couple left, and Robeson condemned the press while defending his stance amid subversive label.
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Singer
Son
New York
Paul Robeson
Harlem
Robeson
Soviet Union
Europe
America
Marilyn Paula Greenberg
Cornell
Young Robeson
Cornell University
Rutgers University
Ppe
Hassell Named New Head of Decatur VA Office
Uel H. Hassell named officer in charge of the Decatur Veterans Administration office succeeding Haywood I. Reams who resigns. Effective June 25 Hassell, veteran of World War I, previously led advisement and guidance in Decatur and has long served as a vocational advisor. Reams to become principal of Morgan County High School at Hartselle.
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Uel H. Hassell
Decature Veterans Administration
Haywood I. Reams
Harley A. Smith
Montgomery
Alabama
Smith
Hassell
Decatur VA
Decatur
USO
Eglin Field
Florida
Veterans Administration
Cullman
Holly Pond
Cullman County
University of Alabama
Opelika
Ashland
Adjutant’s General Department
Civilian Conservation Corps
First Baptist Church of
Reams
Morgan County
Hartselle
Defense Costs To Be Trimmed
Secretary of Defense Johnson told senators that defense spending could be cut by 750 million dollars in the coming year by shrinking Air Force forces from 70 groups proposed in Congress to 48 urged by President Truman. Senate leaders aim to trim at least 1 billion from the armed forces bill, with ongoing closed door testimony.
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Washington
Johnson
Senators
Senate Appropriations Committee
Congress
Truman
House
Elmer Thomas
Dokla
Tydings
Senate Armed Services Committee
Defense
Official resigns from Textron Inc in New York
June 3 Charles H. Dyson executive vice president and director of Text ron Inc a large textile manufacturer announces his resignation from the company today with brief remarks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Charles H. Dyson
Textron Inc
Truman seeks new Welfare department and road control
President Truman asked Congress to create a tenth cabinet rank department named Welfare and move public roads to the Commerce Department. The seven reform plans, tied to Hoover Commission ideas, would reshape the federal government within 60 days subject to Congress vetoes.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Department of Welfare
Commerce Department
Capitol Hill
Public Roads Administration
Federal Works Agency
Federal Security Agency
Commission On Government Organization
Herbert Hoover
Bureau of Employment Security
Jodless
Labor Department
Post Office Department
Civil Service Commission
Maritime Commission
White House
Hoover Commission
House
Senate
Welfare Department
Federal Security
Oscar Ewing
Ewing
Surveys Agree Idle Total Rising But Groups Split On What Will Happen Next
Howard Dobson reports two national surveys project rising unemployment with 5 to 8 million jobless, but differ on policy. The Public Affairs Institute warns of continued declines and calls for tax cuts and public works, while the AFL foresees stabilization and urges wage growth tied to productivity. Senator O'Mahoney says Congress will study employment and investment as figures show change.
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Howard Dobson Washington
American Federation of Labor
O'Mahoney
D-Wye
Congress
Public Affairs Institute
Institute
Civilian Conservation Corps
AFL
Labor
O’mdhoney
Senate-House Economic Committee
Agreement In Principle Made For Austrians
The Big Four foreign ministers announced their failure to agree on German unity but reached in principle on an Austrian independence treaty. They set Jan 1 1938 borders, protect Slovene and Croat minorities, deny Yugoslav reparations, and have Austria pay the Soviet Union 150 million in convertible currency. The ministers adjourned to meet in New York next September. A second item notes a Prague church clash as Arch bishop Beran faces potential cardinalate. Russia favors resuming POW repatriation to Japan, requesting ships to Nakhodka.
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Paris
Germany
United States
Soviet Union
France
Britain
United Nations Assembly
Council
Berlin
Austria
Russia
Yugoslavia
New York
Ernest Bevin
America
Deen Acheson
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Robert Lehu- Manh
Pink
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
St. Vitus
Prague
Vatican
Beran
Tokyo
Nakhodka
Siberian
Senate Delay Move Planned
MONTGOMERY June 20 Senate returns to work with talk of another lazy man's filibuster to delay passage of economy bills. Friday's session stretched four hours as the journal was read. The chamber, though slowed, advanced more than half the special order calendar with more spending bills due tomorrow. A bridge bill by Senator Robin Swift would fund about 100 bridges at 15 million dollars. Senator Guy Hardwick criticized the measure as pork.
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Montgomery
C. B. Harvey
Blount County
Senate
Robin Swift
Escambia
Guy Hardwick
Houseconomy Projects
Coal Walkout Ends Today Amid New Contract Talks
A weeklong walkout by John L. Lewis led United Mine Workers to halt its stabilization action. About 480,000 miners receive 10 days of paid vacation starting Saturday as talks loom on a new contract to replace the expiring June 30. Current pay averages 14.05 dollars daily, with possible reductions in work hours under pressure from operators and steel and auto industries.
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Associated Press
John L. Lewis
Steel Industry
Ford Motor Company
Lewis
United Mine Workers
U. S. Steel Corporation
See
COAL
Pleas For New Trials Filed In Local Court
Motions for new trials filed by Kenneth McLemore and the Hubbard brothers Robert and Charlie will be heard Friday at 9 A.M. in Moulton court before Circuit Judge James H. Crow Jr. McLemore is serving five years for first degree manslaughter in an April Lawrence circuit case. He was convicted of the knife slaying of Billy Burch during a basketball game at Speake's school in November 1946. The Hubbard brothers faced grand larceny charges for stealing and butchering a calf belonging to C. C. Nance Jr.
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Kenneth McLemore
Robert
Charlie Hubbard
Moulton Court
James H. Crow Jr
McLemore
Lawrence
Billy Burch
Speake’s School
Hubbard
C. C. Nance Jr
Health Officials Move Into Flood Area to Halt Disease
Health authorities moved into flood stricken Shenandoah and Potomac valleys to avert typhoid from polluted water after floods in Petersburg Moorefield and Bridgewater killed at least nine. Officials said about a dozen still unaccounted for and likely alive but unreachable. Red Cross reports 300 depend on food kitchens. inoculation program to begin with 1400 vaccine units ready. Water from Keyser brought in, central boiling station set up. Red Cross providing cots in local facilities.
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Robert Farrington
Petersburg
W. Va
Shennandoah
Potomac River
Moorefield
Bridgewater
Prattesid Damaca
Claude A. Thomas
Dr. Thomas
Keyser
Biape
Red Cross
Memorial Church of the Brethren
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Charles Bryan
Conrad Strickland
Hot Springs
Ark
Joe McRae
Rinkydinks
Messrs Strickland
McRae
Optimist Club
Mary Charles Delmore
the Daily
Miss Delmore
Riverside High School
M. E. Edwards
The
American Optometric Association
Hotel Statler
Boston
Mass
J. B. Wiley
Margaret
Patty
Camp Dunreamin
Hamil Clinic
Charles Sandlin
Seventh Avenue East
Edd Garrett
Eighth Avenue West
R. L. Furst
Oak Street
Evan Breeding
Peggy Barclay
Rogersville
W. S. Massey
1604
Fifth Avenue South
Ballugh- Wiley Clinic
Brown's Ambulance
Sadie Gillespie
Washington, D. C
Champlain
N. Y
Southside Baptist Church Singing School
W. R
Billy) Wallace
Decatur General Hospital
H. M. Bedingfield
Fourth Avenue South
Echols Cross
Courtland
J. H. Lorenzo
Third Avenue South
Howard Belser
Johnston Street
Inklan Row
C. A
Brownie
Lollar
Sheriff's Office
Holt McDowell
Mobile
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Communist Party
Green
Illinois State Communist Party
Council of African Affairs
Tom Clark
By Edwin B. Harkinson
Bureau of Employments Security
FSA
Department of Labor
Veterans Placement Service Board
Walter Dawson
New Orleans
William F. Johnson
St. Louis
Frankfurt
Dawson
Wiesbaden
Arthur Gavshon
James Breathed
Red Cross Disaster
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