Court weighs land appeal on Pinto Island acres
Federal judge considers reversal of master’s ruling that 7246 acres of land on Pinto Island near Mobile, wartime shipyard site, belong to Alabama. Turner and Soren press for title arguing accreted property since 1906. government cites 1933 conveyance void. Shipyard history and Sicily note appear in text.
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John McDuffie
Pinto Island
Alabama
Soren
Pe Turner
Robert H. Smith
Smith
B. M. Miller
Miller
Turner
Palmer Pillans
Alabama Boys State Opens At University Of Alabama
About 200 Alabama high school students gathered at the University of Alabama for the annual Boys State program sponsored by the American Legion. State officers from Montgomery planned talks on government as York Willborn from the university served as dean of instruction.
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Ala
Alabama
University of Alabama
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American Legion
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Rubber enters world commerce from Amazon wild trees
The article notes natural rubber first entered global trade from wild rubber trees in the Amazon basin, marking the origin of an industry that later industrialized synthetic alternatives.
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Amazon Basin
Boyle’s Memorial Day plan to honor veterans
In a family scene on Memorial Day featuring Daddy McSwitch the plan mixes remembrance with practical acts. He aims to visit Esther and Jim for respect and comfort, deliver small gifts to veterans, visit a hospital, and end with five doorstop visits to say thanks while Mama stays home with Junior.
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Mama
Daddy
Clarence McSwitch
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Sam
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Pacific
Veterans Hospital
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War surplus sale offers Stradivarius and band instruments
The War Assets Administration lists items for sale in Los Angeles including a Stradivarius violin a bassoon a sousaphone an accordion and a 46 string harp with one broken string left over from Coast Guard band use during the war.
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Los Angeles
War Assets Administration
Coast Guard
Black Navy Vet Fatally Injured After Home Standoff
In Sardis Georgia on May 30 a 23 year old Black Navy veteran was fatally injured by deputy C L McNorrill as police pursued him after a threat to a white man. The man allegedly wrested a firearm from James Bargeron, then headed toward woods before age father intervened and summoned the sheriff.
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Otis Cliett
Cliett
Nathan Roberts
C. L. McNorrill
Roberts
McNorrill
James Bargeron
Vesta Lumber Ong
Bargeron
Gas hearing recessed as Southern plans expansion
A Memorial Day weekend recess halted the Federal Power Commission hearing on Southern Natural Gas's bid to build pipelines from Calhoun Georgia to Chattanooga and parts of Alabama and Mississippi. Chairman C P Rather indicated a separate FPC filing may seek expansion to Knoxville and other Tennessee towns, with plans increasing capacity by about 50 percent amid supply complaints from Atlanta Macon Meridian and Gadsden.
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Tenn
Federal Power Commission
Southern Natural Gas Company
Calhoun
North Alabama
Lexington
Miss
C. P. Rather
Southern Company
FPC
Knoxville
East
Middle Tennessee
Southern
Joseph J. Smith, Jr
National Coal Association of America
Rather
East Tennessee
Atlanta
Macon
Meridian
Gadsden
Ala
President Truman’s Mother Improves at Grandview
Mrs. Martha E. Truman, 94, mother of the President, continued to improve at Grandview Missouri and sit up for two hours. Dr. Joseph W. Greene said she is getting along fine after a grave illness that brought the President to her bedside on May 17. Mr. Truman returned to Washington after visiting this week.
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Martha E. Truman
Joseph W. Greene
Truman
Hungarian premier replacement rumors amid Budapest upheaval
Imre Ostvanyi, a left wing Ferenc Nagy ally, was reported as a tentative Hungarian prime minister candidate after Nagy was said to be ousted in a communist coup. The informant claimed Nagy resigned, would not return from Switzerland, and that pro American factions fear a move toward a full communist police state under Soviet occupation.
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Imre Ostvanyi
Ferenc
Nagy
Oltvanyi
National Bank
Switzerland
Hungary
Russia
Plot Aims To Upset Hungary Democracy Examined
A fragment notes concerns over a scheme described as aiming to disrupt what the author calls Hungarian democracy. The brief hints at political maneuvering without detailing actors or specific actions.
Trainmen killed in Missouri Florida Special derailment
A Frisco Florida Special derailed near Mansfield Missouri killing the engineer and fireman and seriously injuring another person.
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Mansfield
Frisco T Railroad
Florida
Missouri
Rent Control Passage Nears Senate Vote Next Week
Washington report on a rent control bill moving toward final Senate approval with a Memorial Day recess planned. The measure would cap rent controls to June 30 with six months of enforcement and possible three more at the President’s discretion, plus two amendments allowing voluntary 8 to 15 percent increases if negotiated.
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Washington
Senate
House
Farm counts fall from 1920 to 1945 in U S
The number of U S farms declined from 6.4 million in 1920 to 5.8 million in 1945, reflecting farm consolidation and changes in rural land use across the nation.
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U. S
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