Musician Danks Death In Mobile Jail Investigated
Police probe whether Thomas A. Danks a Grove Hill musician and WWI veteran was beaten in a jail cell block after arrest for drunkenness. Coroner cites skull fracture bruised lung and hemorrhage while relatives note a World War I tie and a union note he wrote titled The Harry Truman March.
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Mobile
Ala
Truman
Talley Rollings
Thomas A. Danks
Grove Hill
Danks
Rollings
S. J. Walker
35Th Division
Presi
Kathryn Grayson Rejects On Screen Smoking In Grounds For Marriage
Kathryn Grayson refuses to light a cigarette on film saying she never smoked and sees no reason to start on screen. She chooses candy instead and looks to act in Grounds For Marriage. The piece notes Bob Hope seeks radio sponsor freedom and Bing Crosby ends his final show with a year’s best excerpts.
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Bob Thomas
Hollywood
Kathryn Grayson
Miss Grayson
Bing Crosby
Decoration Observed At Grange Hall Cemetery
Decoration Day will be observed the first Sunday in June at Grange Hall cemetery on Trinity mountain. Dinner at noon, sermon at one o'clock by Rev. T. A. Kitchen. Helpers asked to meet June 2 to clean graves.
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Grange Hall Cemetery
Trinity Mountain
T. A. Kitchen
Sour cream use in sandwiches and fillings
Commercially prepared sour cream may be used instead of mayonnaise occasionally for sandwiches. It is delicious in a hard cooked egg or chopped ham filling and also good in a mushroom spread.
Nightgown trends shift to bright shorty styles by Dora Gottlieb
The fashion piece highlights Dora Gottlieb’s influence on sleepwear with knee length gowns and shorty pajamas in bold colors like green, red, and tangerine. It notes varied fabrics from cotton batistes to nylon, and her claim that color boosts mood for healthier sleep. It recalls her past as a designer since age three and one formal dress example retailing at 5.95.
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Dorothy Roe
Associated Press
Dreamland
Dora Gottlieb
Miss Gottlieb
Dora
Gottlieb
United Nations faces china seating and Soviet walkout struggle
SIGRID ARNE notes Trygve Lie’s save the United Nations mission as U S Britain France and the Soviet Union weigh China’s representation. The walkout by the Soviet bloc threatens UN credibility while Lie’s high level talks could shape a September meeting and future Security Council actions.
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Sigrid Arne
Dewitt MacKenzie
U. N
Soviet Union
China
United Nations
Lie
Wealthy Slayer Is Given Pardon
Amos Cotney a Wadley Alabama lumberman received a full pardon for a 20 year second degree murder sentence. The pardon was granted May 18 by the state pardon parole board with signers Glen Vinson and Bill Drinkard. Cotney had been paroled permanently in 1949 and had several temporary paroles during his imprisonment. Kilby prison records show his conviction in Clay county on January 21 1947.
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Montgomery
Ala
South Alabama
Amos Cotney
Howell Turner
State
Cotney
Turner
Glen Vinson
Bill Drinkard
Wadley
Clay County
Kilby
Secrecy and Power Beyond the Security Council
The charter confines the secretary general to alerting the security council, but Lie has extended influence by addressing heads of state rather than only council members.
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U. N
Lie
League of Nations
League Council
Security Council
Mainten
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Annette Scoggins
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Deen
Edgar Kirby
M. L. Cox
Doris Pickens
Sayfa
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Katie
Bob Hope
Grange
Zeiglers
Alabama
Zeigler
Bessemer
Tuscaloosa
Mackenzie
By Dewitt MacKenzie
Gold
West Africa
North Alabama
Termite CO
Sherman Street
John Cook
Scruggs Jersey Farm
Claude E. Scruggs
Guntersville, Ala
Tom McCord
Montgomery, Ala
Bob Bell
Sale
Mgr
Birmingham
H. Ryan
E. Moulton St
Belk’s
Dimity and
Batiste
Belk Hudson Co
Vanity
C. Ladies
Enone
Two Suiter
S. Pullman
Decatur
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