Decatur Girls Enter Atlantic City Beauty Contest
Decatur prepares for a major Atlantic City beauty contest with a lineup of two one act plays featuring local high school students and a dance act by Miss Nancy Lau Benthal. The program includes piano performance by Miss Geneva Goode and a long list of contestants representing local shops firms and organizations as finalists in the event.
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Nancy Laubenthal
Geneva Goode
Allen Beauty Shop
Lucile Sisk
Atlantic & Pacific Tea Co
Estelle Russell
Albany Broom Works
la Charles Weaver
Alabama Drug Co
Lula Mae Boggs
Ashford & Watkins
Margaret Ann Rogers
American Bakeries
Dorothy McClure
Brown Shoe
Mary Evelyn Bates
A. Beshara
Mary Edith Elkins
Brown's
Mary Webster
Brown Funeral Co
Peggy Brown
Ben Franklin
Eliza
Death of Storekeeper Sparks Jail Arrests in Memphis
The county jail holds two suspects after Sheriff Ross identified Federal Pearson as the shooter in the storekeeper's death. Moon and Pearson reportedly provided statements. Pearson allegedly claimed the shooting was an accident.
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L. A. Ross
Rossould
Ross
Louis
Federal Pearson
Memphis
Myer
Myer Yesterday, Have Been Retunacée
Moon
Pearson
Mussolini Rejects Compromise Plan In Ethiopia Crisis
In Geneva on May 23 Premier Mussolini rejected Anglo-French mediation proposals between Italy and Ethiopia. Capt Anthony Eden and Pierre Laval worked on a new method to solve the dispute, but the exact suggestion remained undisclosed.
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Geneva
Mussolini
Italy
Ethiopia
Anthony Eden
Pierre Laval
Mississippi legs murder trial opens in Laurel case
W M Carter, 67, a Laurel businessman, stands trial for killing Daisy Keeton as Ouida Keeton, the victim’s daughter and former secretary to Carter, has already received a life sentence. The case centers on a severed legs and torso found near Laurel and may involve a third participant. Ouida testified that Carter killed her mother and dismembered the body. She collapsed during her own trial.
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Here
Ouida
Carter
Jack Deavours
Aardvark for Clingman Elected Bishop Declines
An outstanding Episcopal preacher and council leader has been elected bishop of several dioceses but declined to serve, preferring work in Alabama. The public was invited to hear him at St. John's.
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For Clingman
Episcopal Church
Alabama
St. John's
Sterchi
Little Pressed But Wins Again In British Amateur
William Lawson Little Jr of San Francisco defeated James L Black former Welsh champion two up this afternoon to reach the quarter finals of the British amateur golf championship at St Annes on the Sea England.
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ST. Anne’s-On-The-Sea
Eng
William Lawson Little, Jr
San Francisco
James L. Black
Two Drowned In Louisiana Parish Flood Losses
Two deaths reported from Avoyelles parish in central Louisiana flood. Jean Baptiste, a Black man, drowned in swollen Yellow Bayou near Mansura. Lester Vessel, 23, a white man, fell from his horse into backwaters of a flooded canal near Plaucheville and drowned. Both bodies recovered.
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Shreveport
Avoyelles Parish
Louisiana
Jean Baptists
Yellow Bayou
Mansura
Lester
Plancheville
Telephone workers strike hits Mexico City and eight states
A midnight strike began in the capital and eight states of Mexico as employees of the Mexican Telephone and Telegraph Company walk out. Negotiations collapsed after the company said it could not meet higher wage and shorter hour demands.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mexico
D. F
Mexican Telephone and Telegraph Company
International Telephone and Telegraph Company
Floods Displace Tens of Thousands Across Three States
The May 23 dispatch reports 9,000 homeless in flooded areas across Texas Oklahoma and Louisiana with 150000 acres of farmland underwater. About 800 homeless in Alexandria area and 500 evacuated near Durant along the Red River. National guardsmen guard Cane River dams to counter threats to embankments.
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Oklahoma City
Texas
Oklahoma
Louisiana
Shreveport
Alexandria
Guadalupe
Red River
Durant
Oklo
Red Cross
Natchitoohes Parish
National
Cane River
Alabama Supreme Court Affirms Several Appeals
The Alabama Supreme Court issued multiple affirmations from the Jefferson Jefferson circuit court and Conecuh County cases. Decisions include Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co. versus John Scott Marks and American Fidelity & Casualty Co. versus Joseph Werfel pro ami. State v. John I. Smith from Escambia circuit court affirmed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Supreme Court
Anderson, C. J
Pacific Mutual Life Ins. Co
John Scott Marks
Jefferson Circuit Court
Italian Charges Denied By Britain
In London on May 23 British officials at the war office and the Egyptian ministry dismissed Italian claims that Britain is preparing militarily in Ethiopia and along the Sudan frontier as absolute nonsense. Officials deplored Rome's assertion in the Giornale d Italia that Britain is sending arms to Ethiopia for use against Italy.
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London
Britain
Ethiopia
Sudan
War Office
Rome
Giornale d'Italia
England
Italy
Dr Clingman to Be Speaker Here
The Rev Charles Cligman D D rector of the Church of the Advent Birmingham Ala will preach in St Johns Church on Sunday May 26 at 11 a m The Rev Doc-
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dr. Clingman
Charles Cligman
Church of the Advent
Birmingham
Ala
St. John’s Church
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Happy Feed
Carolyn Lentz
Irwin Service
Marjorie Ann Irwin
J. & M. Tasty Toasty
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Christine Simms
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Solon Robertson
Lois Williams
Thomas Furniture
Polly Rowe
Twin City Bread Co
Sarah Neville
Wilma Bloodworth
Tinsley Shirt
Kathleen Yarbrough
Turner Coal and Grain Co
Clara Belle Turner
Virginia’s Tea Room
Jane Davis
Vanity Beauty
Helen Ross
Vaughan Bros
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Wohl's
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W. M. Bailey
Frances Cowden
Gene
Arantz Brown
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Serflor
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Ama Business Institute
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Bronx Zoo
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