Weather and notices from Decatur area report
Clearing to partly cloudy conditions with mild temperatures and light Southwest winds on the coast. A Decatur recorder court heard 20 cases this morning including traffic and intoxication charges. Emergency treatment given after a fall at Decatur General Hospital. Building permits issued for homes on Memorial Drive Thirteenth Avenue East and Loran Street. Birth announced at Hamill Clinic Hospital. Cub Pack 91 holds monthly meeting Tuesday. Community reminders include funeral services for Lieut Harold Foster in Korea and cemetery decorations on Trinity mountain. See Diary On Page 2.
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Decatur Recorder’s Court
Mario S. Johnson
Memorial Drive
Marion D. Hall
Thirteenth Avenue East
Kate Corey
Loran Street
Moving Moseley Cemetery To New Location
Brown Funeral company will move the Moseley cemetery from the Chemstrand site to the city cemetery starting Tuesday. Thirteen adults and ten children from the century old cemetery will be relocated, a six day operation. The old site covers about 320 square feet and last burial occurred about 25 years ago. Appropriate services will follow completion.
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Moseley
Chemstrand Corporation
Brown Funeral Company
Adonis Given Prison Term
HACKENSACK N J May 28 Big Shot Racketeer Joe Adon was sentenced to two to three years in state prison and fined $15000 for gambling law violations. Five associates including Salvatore Moretti James Lynch Arthur Longano and Anthony Guarini also received similar terms in a $1 000 000 North Jersey dice gambling empire case.
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Hackensack
N. J
Joe Adonis
New Jersey
Adonis
Senate Crime Committee
Superior Court
J. Wallace Leyden
Salvatore
Sally Moore) Moretti
Demarest
James Piggy Lynch
Palisades Park
Arthur Longano
Englewood
Anthony Guarini
Hasbroucks Heights
North Jersey
Impeachment of Fuller Warren Asked in House
Florida House urged impeachment of Gov Fuller Warren on grounds of neglect of duties and lawlessness. Rep George Okell of Miami filed a 10 count resolution citing alleged misconduct in office. See IMPEACHMENT On Page 2
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Tallahassee
Fla
Florida House of Representatives
Fuller Warren
George Okell
Miami
Warren
Iran Rejects Hague Court In Oil Dispute
Iran refused to recognize the world court jurisdiction over the Anglo Iranian oil nationalization dispute with Britain. Deputy Premier Hossein Fatemi said Iran would not send a representative for any hearing.
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Fred J. Zaly
Tehran
Iran
International Court
Britain
Hossein Fatemi
World Court
Anglo-Iranian Oil Company
The
Hague
United Nations
Negro Woman Testifies She Paid For Parole In Alabama
A black woman testified that she paid 500 dollars to ex bank robber Roy Dickerson to secure parole for her stepdaughter. The stepdaughter, Ethel Mae Hawthorne, said the money came from a GI insurance payout for her brother killed in World War II. The witness counted out the money at her Mt. Vernon home and handed it to Dickerson, with Claude Dickerson present during delays.
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Montgomery
Ala
Roy Dickerson
Legislative Parole Investigating Committee
Mobile
Johnnie Mae Hawthorne
Dickerson
Mt. Vernon
Ethel Mae Hawthorne
Claude
Johnnie Mae
Roy
Claude Dickerson
Oliver Benjamin
Woman and Boy Slain on Mississippi Beach
Gulfport reports a pregnant woman and a boy found bludgeoned to death on a rocky beach. The woman in her 25 to 30s wore only a brassiere and panties, with head injuries. The boy, seven or eight, had a crushed skull. Authorities described both as dark complexioned of Latin extraction. Autopsy says no criminal rape. See WOMAN on Page 2.
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Gulfport
Miss
Christian
William Lee
Laz Quave
Court Clears CBS Color TV Path Amid RCA Challenge
The Supreme Court rules 8-1 to uphold FCC approval of CBS color television plan, rejecting RCA's challenge. RCA had argued FCC abused discretion and that CBS color is incompatible with existing black and white sets. RCA contends color conversion costs and compatibility issues for current receivers.
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CBS
Washington
Supreme Court
Federal Communications Commission
Columbia Broadcasting System
Justice Black
Radio Corporation of America
RCA
FCC
O.K
Federal District Court
Chicago
General Avers Risk Too Great In Bombing Reds
General Hoyt Vandenberg told a Senate inquiry he believes the United States cannot afford to bomb Manchuria from bases in the Far East. He said a negotiated Korea peace may be possible without such bombing and that the full Air Force would be needed to force negotiations, but the country cannot afford that exertion amid broader risks. He supported MacArthur’s removal and said the U.S. Air Force remains a key deterrent.
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Washington
Hoyt Vandenberg
United States
Douglas MacArthur
Manchuria
Senate
MacArthur
Vandenberg
Korea
Air Force
U.S
Far East
Yalu
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
Russell D-Ga
Adm
Forrest Sherman
Navy
Acheson
Sherman
Aches
Russell
Two Accidents Reported Here
City police investigated two traffic accidents in Decatur on Saturday. A Rodgers and Rodgers bus driven by Paul Spain Jr. struck a tree after skipping a curb while avoiding cars at 1713 Sixth Avenue. The bus door was slightly damaged. Another collision at Church and Madison involved a 1936 Ford driven by Clarence Polk and a 1948 Chevrolet owned by Decatur Transit driven by Truitt Mason.
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Decatur
Sixth Avenue
Rodgers and Rodgers
Paul Spain Jr
Decatur 2
Louis Landers
Richard Hyde
Church and
Madison Streets
Clarence Polk
Madison Street
Decatur Transit
Truitt A. Mason
Fourth Avenue
Joe Weatherly
Horace Standridge
Blaze Sweeps Five Warehouses at Courtland Air Base
Fire destroyed five Courtland air base warehouses yesterday with hay trucks and air compressors burned. Police Chief W. L. Terry said damage totals are under investigation by the state on government property. Unofficial word put one compressor near seven thousand dollars. Courtland volunteers fought the blaze including Terry Clifton Dossey Johnny Terry Gene Sherrill and Son Givens.
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Courtland Air—Base
W. L. Terry
Courtland
Gene Sherrill
Son Givens
Mother Held On Snatch Charge
Lawlessness rose over the valley area this weekend as officers in four counties reported 56 arrests. A Birmingham mother was jailed in Cullman charged with kidnapping her two children. In Limestone county a Black boy held on $300 bond after threatening his mother with a shotgun. Morgan officers arrested a white man for contempt of court in an alimony case.
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Birmingham
Cullman
Limestone County
Morgan
Heights Street Tangle at Morgan County Board Meeting
An hour long Morgan county Board of Revenue and Control session debated closing a Moulton Heights alley and reopening a street. Merrill Doss was named civil defense director. condemnation of property for right of way on Florette-Woodland Mills road was ordered. salaries totaling 5620 were discussed. a one cent gasoline tax was urged. William Eyster spoke for alley closures, James Bloodworth for keeping the alley open and opening Second Street, noting a footpath concern for schoolchildren.
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Board of Revenue and Control
Moulton Heights
Paul Collier
Hartselle
Merrill Doss
Morgan County
Florette
Woodland Mills
William Eyster
James N. Bloodworth
Eyster
Bloodworth
Second Street
Rites Slated Today For Girl Killed By Fall From Horse
Funeral plans set for Wanda Burgess 12 of Danville Alabama after a fall from a horse at home. Services are at Andrews Chapel Cemetery with Peck funeral home directing. Interment follows at 2 PM with Rev. Jarrett and Rev. Eady officiating. Surviving are parents a sister two brothers and grandparents. Pallbearers listed.
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Wanda Burgess
Associated Press
Wanda
Andrews Chapel
Peck Funeral Home
D. R. Jarrett
Isaac Eady
Jefferson-Hillman Hospital
Birmingham
Danville 1
W. 0. Burgess
Dueice
Buford
Johnny Wayne
W. L. Burgess
Florence Hogan
Donald Hugh Hogan
Wayne Penn
Gerald Hogan
Ralph Aaron
Billy Frank Hogan
Legrande Hogan
War's Largest Prisoner Bag Is Taken By Allies
Tokyo May 28 United Nations troops pushed deeper into Red Korea after capturing the war’s greatest bag of prisoners. General Van Fleet said Chinese forces retreated when they could not crack the U S second division.
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War
Clen Clements
Tokyo
United Nations
Red Korea
James A. van Fleet
U. S
Soviet Denies Peace Feelers to United States
Soviet envoy Jacob A. Malik said Russia has made no peace proposals to the United States, calling reports of talks on ending the Korean conflict along the 38th parallel groundless. The denial, through a spokesman, covered all aspects of the reported overtures to American delegates.
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United Nations
N. Y
Russia
Jacob A. Malik
United States
United Nations forces announce large Korean War surrenders and advances
The U N forces report about 3 000 North Korean troops surrendered Sunday and 2 000 more were captured last week. A box like trap 25 miles by 10 trapped enemy positions near Hwach on Inje and Hwachon in North Korea. U N forces pushed new prongs across the 38th parallel and Americans advanced on the Western flank toward Sakchang as Reds offered stiffer resistance. A task force pushed ten miles beyond Inje but was repulsed by a Red road block near See WAR S On Page 2.
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U. N
U. S. Eighth Army
Hwachon
Inje
North Korea
38Th
Sakchang
See War's
Senate Restores Vocational Training Funds For Alabama
Senator Hill says the senate appropriations subcommittee restored the house cut for vocational education funding. The full amount $20,017,760 is sought for the year starting July 1, protecting occupational training for more than 3,000AL trainees and about 76,000 total Alabama participants including over 20,000 veterans.
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Washington
Hill D-Ala
Senate Appropriations
House
Hill
Budget Bureau
Senate
Alabama
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