Truman GOP Row Rises In Presidential Campaign Debate
National political furor erupts as Republicans denounce President Truman over Teapot Dome symbols of greed and privilege. Senate clashes. Bridges and Ferguson accuse Truman allies, while Lucas defends him. tour notes and fund-raising clashes color the tense scene.
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Associated Press
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Mr. Truman
Casper
Wyo
Harding
Truman
Kansas City
Bridges
Rn.h
Movie Continues From Page One Stock Divestment Fails
The article notes continued discussion of construction and the failure to divest stock as required by a judgment. Gs0n says he has assigned attorneys to study compliance with anti trust judgments and vows to vigorously prosecute any violations, with contempt penalties at the court’s discretion.
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Gs0n
Rail Strike Expands as 18 000 Firemen Picket Key Points
The nationwide rail strike begins at 8 A M Central Time with a staged walkout across time zones. The Chesapeake and Ohio and Boston and Albany report cancellations due to shared tracks with struck lines. Pickets surface at major points as 18 000 firemen participate.
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Boston and Albany
Postmaster Announces Emergency Truck Service During Rail Strike
Postmaster R T Sheppard said emergency truck service will replace rail traffic between Decatur and Memphis and Decatur and Chattanooga during the Southern strike. Daily round trips will run by truck from Decatur to Chattanooga and Memphis.
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Decatur
Memphis
Chattanooga
Southern
Election results by district and statewide offices
Official tallies list candidates and votes for Congress districts six and nine, lieutenant governor, attorney general, secretary of state, state auditor, state treasurer, state superintendent of education, commissioner of agriculture, public service commission, and associate justice of the supreme court with vote totals for each candidate.
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Tom King
Congress
Edward DeGraffenried
Walter Gus Woods
H. F. Wheat
Laurie Battle
John S. Tucker Jr
James Allen
Guy Hardwick
A. L. Patterson
E. L. Roberts
David A. Patton
W. D. Frinks
R. E. (Buster) Hogan
Si___ Garrett
Lee Porter
Agnes Baggett
Mary J. Thompson
Ben A. Hudson
William A. Stone
Dan J. Baker
Public Service Commission
Jimmy Hitchcock
O. P. Lee
C. C
Jack) Owen
Howell Turner
Supreme Court
Joel B. Brown
M. B. Grace
Baylor Students Back State Rights Drive For Campaign
Group One of their chief pegs in a grass roots organizing plan outlined by Baylor University students from Waco Texas. Bob Slimp said his group had more than 200 state rights members and recruits on every Texas college campus. Committee approved using college students as shock troops for house to house work in the intensive campaign. Deficit spending socialized medicine United Nations genocide ban and civil rights bill are targets, with no mention of the Brouhbnian farm price plan.
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Waco
Tex
Bob Slimp
Baylor
Texas
Slimp
United Nations
Letha Lundy Dies in Hartselle at Age Eight
Services will be held Thursday at two o clock in Hartselle for Let ha Lundy an eight year old resident of the city She was born at Gandy s Cove and died Saturday in Hart Seven children 22 grandchildren 18 great grandchildren and 1 great grandchild listed as survivors
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Letha Lundy
Gandy'’s Cove
Hart
MARKETS REPORT FROM DECATUR AND ATLANTA
North Georgia live poultry market remains steady with demand fair to good and adequate supplies. Broilers and fryers sold 24 to 26 1 2 cents per pound, mostly 24 1 2 to 25 cents. cotton and grain prices listed for Decatur and Atlanta including cotton 28.00 and corn 1.42 to 1.48 per bushel. hatching eggs 80 cents per dozen.
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Atlanta
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North Georgia
Deaths: Mrs Florence Dodson Funeral set at Bethel Hartselle
Funeral services for Mrs Florence Dodson will be held Thursday at 4 P M at Bethel church Hartselle with Rev W K Stephenson and Rev Mefford officiating. Interment follows in the adjoining cemetery Mutual Service directing and pallbearers will be her sons. She died Tuesday night at home after an extended illness. She is survived by husband F M Dodson two daughters Mrs B J Bentley and Martha D Dodson six sons E N Silver Springs Md H F and T L Hartselle E C St Petersburg Fla B H Greenwood Miss and O J Chicago Ill two sisters Mrs E M Johnson and Mrs A H Gardner and two brothers Ernest Bradberry and Luther Bradberry.
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Bethel Church
Hartselle
W. K. Stephenson
Mefford
Tuscaloosa
E. N
Ernest Bradberry
Chelsea
Ala
Luther Bradberry
Calera
V. L. Denton Called Home
Funeral services for Varner Law son Denton, 75, will be held Thursday at Brown's chapel at 4 PM. Interment in city cemetery. Died today at 6 15 AM at 1405 Eighth Avenue South after a stroke. A Morgan County native, he worked 38 years for L and N railroad, retired 1931, lived in Blanche, Tenn, then Decatur. Survived by widow, two daughters Maggie Bell Tanner and Pearl Pelley, six grandchildren, and other relatives. Pallbearers named: Bob Nelson, J R Nicholson, Paul Fowler, Olen Hamilton, Lee Maddox, Claude McMillian, Ernest Rogers.
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Brown's Chapel
E. W. Corley
J. R. Nickelson
City Cemetery
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Eighth Avenue South
Morgan County
L and N Railroad
Blanche
Tenn
Decatur
Maggie Bell Tanner
Pearl Pelley
Bob Nelson
J. R. Nicholson
Paul Fowler
Olen Hamilton
Lee Maddox
Claude McMillian
Ernest Rogers
L. L. Johnson Dies After Illness at 73
Leonard L. Johnson 73 lifelong Woodland Mills resident and retired farmer died today at 7 40 A M in Black clinic Hartselle after two years illness Final rites set for Thursday at 1 30 P M at Blue Springs church with interment in adjoining cemetery Mutual Service directing Surviving are three sons W A E J R A and three daughters plus 15 grandchildren and one great grandchild Pallbearers listed including Montie Bill Mack W A Johnson Trussell Johnson and Howard Thomas
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Black’ Clinic
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Greyhound strike idles 3000 workers across Southeast
A strike over alleged cash fare shortages idles about three thousand Southeastern Greyhound employees from Ohio to Florida. Clerical staff and depot workers are affected as the investigation continues.
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Southeastern Greyhound System
Ohio
Florida
Injured Couple Improve After Crash That Killed Three
Mr and Mrs Eugene Ferguson seriously hurt in an auto crash that killed three persons are improving. They were moved from a South Alabama hospital to Mrs Ferguson's parents in Ardmore last Saturday. Ferguson is able to be out though not back at work. Mrs Ferguson is getting better each day.
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Eugene Ferguson
South Alabama
Rabid Animals Examined At Decatur Lab
Four animal heads were sent to the Decatur branch laboratory for rabies testing this week. Director C. C. Johnson said two were rabid including a Russellville dog that bit three people after being bitten 45 days earlier, and a Hillsboro fox. No rabies was found in a Danville or Courtland dog from recent days.
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Birth Announcement for Gambel's Daughter
Mr and Mrs Ralph Gambel of 320 Grant Street announce the birth of a daughter on Tuesday at Decatur General hospital. Also listed are Mrs Leo Hacker of Athens 3 admitted yesterday to Decatur General hospital and Ned Shackelford of 445 Johnston Street admitted yesterday to Decatur General hospital.
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Grant Street
Decatur General Hospital
Leo. Hacker
Athens 3
Ned Shackelford
Johnston Street
Flooding Claims and Evacuations Across Plains and Red River
Flooding along the Red River and other northern streams causes deaths and evacuations. A Burlington bus carrying seven to eight passengers from Nebraska City to Lincoln was hit by floodwaters near Unadilla, with three survivors clinging to trees. Four Nebraskans die after a car is swept off a highway near Auburn. Gov. Randahl ordered an aerial livestock feeding service to support livestock losses and farm operations.
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McCarthy pressuring Senate on loyalty and foreign aid
McCarthy charges the State Department harbors disloyalists and names 81 suspected figures while the Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee inspects loyalty files. He vows to reveal a "foreign agent" on the Senate floor if progress stalls as Congress hammers out Europe aid totaling 2.85 billion dollars starting July 1 amid conference talks over guarantees for American overseas investments.
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Rescued Man Found Alive After Brooklyn Well Fall
Police reported rescuers reached Dominick Attec at the bottom of a 20 foot Brooklyn well shaft at 1 10 PM EST and found him alive.
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New York
Dominick Attec
Brooklyn
Truman Backs NSF Act During Pocatello Stop
President Truman on a whistle stop tour warned the cold war would endure and announced the National Science Foundation act aimed at keeping the United States ahead in science and peace. Dispatches from Taipei reported nationalist Chinese warplanes dropping rice rather than bombs.
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Pocatello
Idaho
Russia
National Science Foundation
United States
Taipei
Formosa
Hamm Race Plans Uncertain as Jury Sessions Proceed
Hamm hints at a race decision in days with no statement yet. Folsom pushes an administration plan focused on reapportionment of the state legislature. The grand jury is expected to convene for about four weeks with 90 of 300 jurors summoned first week. seventy names drawn for each of the following weeks.
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