Wind and Rain Buffet Decatur Area Cause Damage
Severe weather struck Decatur and Austinville with hail near Spring Ave and toppled two carnival trailers at Yegion Field. The Austinville outage prompted 16 electric workers to restore power as limbs and wind damaged trees and corn. Three wind bursts affected the city, with service partially restored by 10 p.m.
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Decatur
Austinville
Yegion Field
City Electric Department
Spring Ave
Athens
Hartselle
Moulton
L. J. Heth
Legion Field
Glimpse Fragments Prompt AU Tie Analysis
Fragmentary notes discuss an AU tie likely outcome and speculative scenarios. Key terms reference institutions and brief mentions of potential alliances but lack concrete details or outcomes. No clear participants or dates emerge from the readable text.
Mayor Knox McRae Returns After Hot Springs Trip
City notes include prison escape of John Rutherford serving 28 days for disorderly conduct. Building permits issued to A. W. Ramey Dan Lawrence Robert A. Allen and others. Reports of stolen bicycle and transistor radio. Court docket lists five overparking charges and a disorderly conduct case. Various residents travel, visits, and a letter regarding bootlegger noted. See DIARY On Page 2.
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John Rutherford
A. W. Ramey
Third Ave
Dan Lawrence
Pennylane
Robert A. Allen
16Th Ave
City Recorder’s Court
Four Killed as Shell Explodes During Army Demonstration
At Fort Sill Oklahoma an artillery shell exploded among attacking infantry during a public demonstration. Four soldiers died including Sgt Alonzo Cartlidge and 13 were wounded. Bystanders were unharmed. The incident occurred as the 522nd Infantry Battalion advanced on Adams Hill. Names of the other victims were withheld. The condition of the wounded varied from serious to minor. Helicopters evacuated the injured and blood plasma was rushed from Lawton. Investigations by military officials continued.
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FT. Sill
Okla
Alonzo Cartlidge
Robert E. Kren
Adams Hill
Kren
Lawton
Army Post
Wichita Mountains
Oklahoma
Joe W. Moore
Weir
Miss
Atlanta
C. Robert Anderson
James L. Beaty
Pfe. Riber
Hungary
U.S
Billy L. Loomis
Jasper
Fla
Albert L. Owoe
New Castle
Alton R. Sym
the Grove
Texas
Tom W. Yeats
Roaring Springs
Tex
Elijah McKnight
Columbus
S. C
Public Information Office
Terry Resigns Falkville Police Chief Post
Falkville police chief L. W. (Son) Terry resigned effective yesterday after nine months in the role. He plans to rest and possibly move back to Lawrence County, praising Mayor John Cloud and the council for their cooperation.
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Falkville
W. L
Terry
Lawrence County
Oakman
Ala
John Cloud
Town Creek
Courtland
Hillsboro
Committee Drops $1500 Medical Bill in Hooper Rescue Case
A medical committee ruled Benny Hooper’s $1500 doctor bill would not be paid by his financially strapped parents. Dr. Joseph H. Kris faced criticism over the fee but agreed the bill was fair only if the family could pay. Contributions already sent would go to the National Foundation for Infantile Paralysis.
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Hugh Mulligan
Bay Shore
N. Y
Benny Hooper
Benny
Joseph H. Kris
Long Island
U. S
Ben Hooper Sr
National Foundation For
Kris
Hooper
Manorville
Hoopers
Flurry Of Wrecks On Wet Streets
A rainstorm caused a chain of crashes Friday night including an ambulance colliding with a car that then crashed into a Cornelian Court apartment living room. In the first wreck in the 700 block of Somerville Road Billy Wayne Roberts 16 and Cherrie Townsend 15 were injured. The ambulance driver Elmer L. Wiggins 39 was slightly hurt. Townsend expected to be released from Decatur General Hospital with elbow lacerations and possible eye injury.
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Decatur
Buick
Somerville
Price Parker
Cullene Morgan
Cornelian Court Apt
Somerville Rd
Billy Wayne Roberts
9Th Ave. SE
Cherrie Townsend
Jackson St
Elmer L. Wiggins
6Th Ave
Miss Townsend
Decatur General Hospital
No Free Parking At Broken Meters in Decatur
Decatur police warn against parking at broken meters or leaving coins on out of order meters as unlawful. A city ordinance requires meters be put in operation and failure to do so constitutes a violation with a 50 cent overparking fine.
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Decatur
Inventor to stand trial for attorney’s death in Alabama
Emory O. White, 53, once an Albertville manufacturer, pleaded innocent by reason of insanity and will go on trial July 29 for the murder of Victor Falster, a 34 year old Nashville attorney and businessman. White’s wife, 26, also faces first degree murder charges with her trial postponed indefinitely.
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Guntersville
Ala
Emory 0. White
Albertville
White
Victor Falster
Nashville, Tenn
Ives Sees Rights Bill Doomed by Senate Filibuster
Sen. Ives predicts the civil rights bill will fail to pass after a Southern filibuster. Sen. Ellender pledges a prolonged fight while Knowland propels the measure to calendar but with no debate before July 8. Clerical maneuvers seek to bypass the Judiciary Committee as Case hopes to block the stall.
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John Chadwick
Washington
Sen
Ives
R-Ny
Ellender
D-La
Senate
House
Knowland
California
Senate Judiciary Committee
New York
Clifford Case
R-Nj
Congress
Airliner Falls Killing Three Pilots in Training Flight
A Capital Airlines DC3 on a training cruise from Washington, D C crashed near Clarksburg Maryland killing three pilots on board. Identified victims were Carl Ross Burke Robert Kenneth Thomas and Henry Andy Podgurski all airline employees. Local residents reported a frightening scene as the plane fell and splattered oil on a nearby house and caused panic among neighbors.
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Clarksburg
Capital Airlines
Washington, D.C
Frank J. Broschart
Montgomery County
Carl Ross Burke
Fairfax
Robert Kenneth Thomas
Berwyn
Henry Andy Podgurski
Manor
Burke
Daily Worker praises Justice Hugo Black in profile
London based Daily Worker lauds U.S. Supreme Court Justice Hugo Black in a week profile. The unsigned bio recalls Black defending victims of McCarthy era prejudice and cites his decisions favoring rights of unknown Black individuals, Rosenbergs, aliens, deportees, radicals, and Communist leaders.
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London
Communist Daily Worker
U.S. Supreme Court
Hugo Black
Black
McCarthy
America
Hugo Lafayette Black
Justice Black
Eee
Supreme Court
California
Study Group Urges Revision Of Loyalty Security Program
A bipartisan 12 member study group urged President Eisenhower and Congress to overhaul the loyalty security system. It calls for an independent central security office with trained examiners, a central review board, and kept final agency decisions, plus separation of loyalty from suitability cases.
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ED Creagh
Washington
Eisenhower
Congress
Commission On
Nickerson Charges Army Stacked Cards Against Him
Huntsville reports Col John C. Nickerson Jr. on trial for leaking secret U.S. missile program information. He accuses the Army of stacking the deck, citing limited defense access to documents and witnesses. The hearing began with key testimony tied to the Jupiter missile program and Air Force control.
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Huntsville
John C. Nickerson Jr
Army
U.S
Nickerson
Defense
Wilson
Air Force
Issiles
Redstone Arsenal
ABMA
General Motors Corp
43Rd Army
Faced With New American Arms In South Korea
North Korea urged talks for a peaceful Korean solution and urged withdrawal of foreign troops while denouncing U N armament moves. A top Allied source in Seoul said U N forces will receive their first new weapons in four years, including F100 fighters landing at Osan, with details still unclear.
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Seoul
North Korea
South Korea
Dicker
Radio
Pyongyang
Kim Il Sung
Korea
A. M. Puzanov
U. N
Communist Party
Rodong Shinmoon
Red China
U.N
U. S
Osan
Red Border
Far East
U. S. Far East Air Force
Tokyo
Cutback of U S Forces in Japan Indicates Global Pattern
Washington reports the decision to remove all combat ground forces from Japan as part of a worldwide defense review. Officials say the study aims to balance allied wishes with preserving free world defenses while meeting U S budget constraints. The article notes a broader trend of reducing overseas commitments.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
Japan
Free World
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