Stock Prices Slip Sharply In Quiet New York Market
New York stock prices slipped sharply in early dealings as the Associated Press average of 60 stocks fell $1.20 to 162.70. Steels and motors led declines with oils utilities and railroads also lower while airlines mail order shares distillers and radio televisions mixed. American Telephone rose 1,000 shares, US Steel fell 3,500, General Motors down 2,500, General Dynamics down 1,000.
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New York
Associated Press
Tongay Begins Term In Prison
Russell Tongay, grim and dejected, surrenders to start a 10 year sentence for the death of his aquator daughter Kathy age 5. Kathy died in 1953 after diving on his orders from a 33 foot board. Tongay reports to the sheriff and will be taken to Raiford in about two weeks.
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Miami
Fla
Russell Tongay
Aquator
Kathy
Bubba
Tongay
Ben C. Willard
Coast
Dade County Court House
Rocket Type Bomb Kills Three Civilians at Quebec Base
At Valcartier army base near Quebec three civilians were killed and one injured when a rocket type bomb exploded as they handled exploded bomb cases in a rear area while attempting to recycle copper. Victims were Paul Odillon Daigle 25 Marie Claire Dig 16 and Adrien Labranche. Daigle was severely injured and dragged for two miles.
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Valcartier
Que
Quebec
Paul Odillon Daigle
Marie Claire Dig
Adrien Labranche
Daigle
W C T U Forms New District 8
A W C T U workshop for District 8 convened at Sixth Ave Church of God with services, songs and devotions. New officers were elected led by President Ed Bowman and Vice President R L Douthit with Miss Nona Koonce as corresponding secretary.
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W.C.T.U
Woman's Society of Christian Service
Sixth Avenue Church of God
J. E. Dillard
Alabama
Sixth Ave. Church of God
Falla Bailey
Louis Argend
J. E. Blair
R. L. Douthit
Arthur Murner
Tuscumbia
Frances Willard
Nona Koonce
Florence
Ed Bowman
L.T.L
Y.T.C
Bowman
L. L. McCulloch
A. B. Markham
L. T. Reeves
Birmingham
Spruce Pine
Sheffield
Ozie Hancock
Athens
Foreign ministers expected for UN tenth anniversary in San Francisco
The United Nations reports up to 40 foreign ministers may attend the 10th anniversary meetings in San Francisco. Seventeen nations have notified their intent to attend, with 18 ministers already confirming. Additional informal indications suggest more ministers will join the June 2026 sessions.
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U.N
United Nations
N. Y
San Francisco
U. N
Etho
Fort Morgan Neglected under State Control
Alabama group urges Gov Folsom to transfer Fort Morgan from the parks division to a non salaried board of historical society presidents. They allege neglect, note 35 cannons and other Confederate relics disappeared during World War II while the fort was unguarded.
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Montgomery
Alabama Society of the Daughters of Colonial Wars
James E. Folsom
Fort Morgan
Parks Division
State Conservation Department
L and N men fined jailed for assault at picket line
Two L and N Railroad workers from Montgomery faced fines and hard labor after assaulting a non striking man at a picket line near the LAN roundhouse. Thomas Overton got 100 dollars and 120 days. Wendell Jackson, 100 dollars and 60 days. A third man, Melvin Clower, was acquitted of disorderly conduct charges.
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Montgomery
Louisville and Nashville Railroad
Thomas R. Overton
Recorder’s Court
Luther M. Waller
Wendell E. Jackson
W. A. McInnis
Lan Roundhouse
McInnis
Waller
Melvin Clower
L&n
Clower
Roundhouse
State Child Victim Of Polio Did Not Take Salk Vaccine
Alabama reports its first polio case since the Salk vaccine program began as a child in Franklin County contracted a mild non paralytic form. It is the 13th Alabama case this year and the first since the week ending April 16.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Franklin County
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