Crow Gets New Term On Board
Governor Gordon announces Rush Stallings of Montgomery to the state personnel board to succeed Ed Leigh McMillan. Stallings term runs to March 2, 1957 and awaits Senate approval. In other moves, members were named to the Alabama College board of trustees and the Conservation advisory board with terms ending in 1963 and 1957 respectively.
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Montgomery
Ala
Gordon
Rush Stallings
State Personnel Board
Ed Leigh McMillan
Brewton
Stallings
Senate
Upper House
McMillan
Alabama College Board of Trustees
Department of Conservation
State Industrial Relations Department
W. W. Lea Montgomery
Roswell Faulkenberry
Selma
Alto V. Lee
Dothan
Ruth Scott Parker
Birmingham
Nelson Fuller
Centreville
Faulkenberry
Fauleknberry
Bruce Bever
Conservation Advisory Board
C. H. Jackson
Florence
J. H. Eddy
James H. Crow
Decatur
L. S. Beaird
Gadsden
Industrial Relations Board of Appeals
Alabama College
A. Y. Malone
James C. Lee
Edwina Mitchell
Watermelon Crop Threatened by Month-Long Drouth
A month of no substantial rain since April 21 endangers Mobile and Baldwin counties watermelon crops with about 3,000 acres planted in melons. Farmers estimate costs at 45 dollars per acre to clear and plant, while hybrid corn and truck crops also suffer under the prolonged dry spell.
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Mobile
Ala
Alabama
Baldwin
Mobile County
Charles J. Brockway
Rail Superintendent Is Slightly Injured Near Fackler
W F Cooper division superintendent of the Southern railway was slightly injured at Fackler Alabama while overseeing a crew clearing rail lines after a freight derailment. He was treated at a Huntsville hospital. Fackler lies about 45 miles west of Chattanooga on the Chattanooga Memphis line.
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Sheffield
Ala
W. F. Cooper
Southern Railway
Fackler
Cooper
Huntsville
Chattanooga
Memphis
Southern
Can't Sleep by Dr J P Pierce
An article on sleeplessness links brain blood congestion to insomnia and suggests chiropractic care after examination. It notes spinal adjustments may improve circulation and relieve brain blood vessel strain. Dr J P Pierce's office is at 191 Bank St Ti 1331.
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P. Pierce
Bank St
Lieb To Leave Alabama Staff
Coach Tom Lieb resigns from the Alabama staff to pursue business in Los Angeles. He led the track program to Alabama’s first SEC title and had a storied career at Notre Dame and in college football.
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Tuscaloosa
Ala
Tom Lieb
Alabama
Los Angeles
Loyola University
John M. Gallalee
Lieb
University of Alabama
University of Florida
Notre Dame
Frank Thomas
Birmingham
Thomas
Bibles for Japan distributed by Pocket Testament League
Lt. Gen. Matthew Ridgway announced that the Pocket Testament League has distributed 7,000,000 Bibles to Japan through its foreign secretary Glenn W. Wagner.
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Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Pocket Testament League
Glenn W. Wagner
Rubber Supply To Reds Is Cut
Singapore reports an embargo on rubber shipments to communist China effective immediately. The ban follows Britain’s Malaya authority noting more than 120000 tons had been sold to Chinese Reds since the Korean War began. Government statements confirm the cut in exports.
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Singapore
Malaya
China
Rubber exports ban and China arms embargo debate in Chinese context
The Federation of Malaya under Kuala Lumpur faced a rubber trade ban push from Britain amid American opinion and Churchillite attacks in Parliament. The United Nations urged a global arms embargo on Red China. Singapore Governor Sir Franklin Gimson announced rubber exports to Red China stopped since May 15. About 24 percent of US coal comes from Pennsylvania.
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Federation of Malaya
Kuala Lumpur
Singapore
Winston Churchill
United Nations General Assembly
Red China
Franklin Gimson
How U S Soldiers Compare With Russians In Army Size
A Newsfront analysis shows the U S and Russia field divisions differently. Gen Ogden testifies Russians use fewer noncombat troops and rely on civilians for anti aircraft and labor while U S forces emphasize larger divisions and extensive support roles.
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Clark Beach
Washington
U. S
D. A. D. Ogden
Army
Ogden
Red
Red Cross Marks 70th Birthday Amid War Urgency
The American Red Cross turns seventy as Frank Godwin notes with subdued observance amid world tensions. E Roland Harriman praises volunteers, tracing the service from 1881 disaster relief through the Spanish American War to nursing and first aid training and a vast WW II blood program with over 13 million pints donated.
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American Red Cross
Frank Godwin
Morgan County
E. Roland Harriman
Red Cross
Michigan
Clara Barton
Cuba
Annie Wheeler
Wheeler
Alabama
Prince Accuses Radio Singer In Alienation Suit
Prince Alexander Hohenlohe alleges Tenor Morton Downey aided his estrangement. A New York Supreme Court ordered Peggy Boyce Thompson Schulze to produce their two children, Catherine Margaret nine and Christian six, for a custody hearing next Monday. The children live with their mother, now Downey’s wife, who wed the singer last Oct. 17 in Hot Springs Virginia.
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New York
Alexander Hohenlohe
Morton Downey
Supreme Court
Aaron Steuer
Peggy- Boyce Thompson Schulze
Catherine Margaret
Christian
Downey
Hot Springs
Red Cross marks 70 years of blood and plasma service
The program to provide blood and plasma for civilian use has grown from a wartime effort to serve 2,500 communities nationwide. The Red Cross reflects on over seven decades of progress and envisions even greater future service to the world.
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Red Cross
Prince Reports Self Inflicted Wound After Palm Beach Split
Peggy Thompson notes the 1949 September chest wound by the Prince after seventeenth wedding to Patricia Wilder. Hohenlohe says Downey cultivated friendship with the Prince and his wife at Palm Beach in 1948 and used it to alienate their affections and later target the children.
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Peggy
William Boyce Thompson
Patricia
Honey Chile) Wilder
Hohenlohe
Downey
Palm Beach
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H. Leon Reeves
Eighth Ave
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Callie Thompson
Atlanta
Clarence Harris
Claude Lee Terry
Japan
America
Pennsylvania
U.S
U. S. Shores
United States
Prince
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Kaiser
Kaiser-Frazer
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Henry J
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Harry Porter
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Doc Francis Motor Company
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