Alabama 4 H Clubbers Ready For Annual State Camp
Six hundred 4 H Club boys, girls, and leaders prepare for the Alabama state camp and short course opening Monday in Auburn. The event features leadership training, supervised recreation, and sessions led by state Extension Service leaders and API staff. Activities include fashion shows, discussions, a national camp report, and a Friday candlelighting ceremony.
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Robert Chesnutt
Auburn
Hanchey Logue
Mary Dell McCain
State Extension Service
API
Langdon Hall
Claire Frazier
Elmoore County
4-H Council
Ralph Craughon
Alabama Polytechnic Institute
P. O. Davis
API Extension Service
Lilly M. Alexander
Draughon
Alabama
Euden Rice
Houston County
Washington
R. K. Evans
Earl
James L. Lawson
Frazier
Miss Holbrooks
Eugene Alfred
Disappearance of 17 year old Georgia girl widens mystery
GRAY Ga AP detectives probe the night time vanishing of Margaret McKinley 17 from her bedroom between midnight and 3 am Observed clues include an open window a removed screen and a missing kitchen faucet from a burned tourist court unit Investigating officers note no confounding evidence suggesting voluntary disappearance or direct link to the prior fire in Macon Bibb and Jones counties officials pursue leads while the girl’s parents deny she left voluntarily
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gray, Ga
G. E. McKinley
Holmes J. Hawkins
Margaret
McKinley
Moncey
Hawkins
Macon
Julian Peacock
Bibb County
Bibb
Jones
Stein
Seven Sentenced In Alleged Plot To Bomb Caracas
Seven men faced sentences from 18 months to two years probation in Brunswick Georgia as part of an alleged bombing plot against Caracas Venezuela. Federal Judge Frank Scarlett imposed fines from 10 000 to 250 with several defendants pleading guilty or no contest to charges including conspiracy to steal government property and neutrality act violations. The case involved two B 24 bombers leaving Georgia for Nicaragua to attack Caracas with FBI evidence of job offers for bombing raids, though defendants claimed they thought they were only transporting aircraft crews.
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Brunswick, Ga
Caracas
Venezuela
Frank Scarlett
Romeo Betancourt
United States
Nicaragua
Repub New
Paviliedick
Baler
Newcomer
Mason
Scarlett
FBI
Nicarapua
Burhfield
Augusta
Cararas
Polio Epidemic Slows Amid Rising North Carolina Cases
In North Carolina the worst polio epidemic yet shows 1622 cases and 83 deaths to date. State Health Department logs 27 new cases and Buncombe County records another death as Asheville nears end of quarantine. Counts rise across Caldwell Davison Guilford Orange Surry Carteret Catahora Forsyth Iredell Meeklenborg Montgomery Marcy Wilkes and Cleveland counties.
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Raleigh
N.C
North Carolina
State Health Department
Buncombe County
Asheville
Vester
Gass
Cleveland County
Pew
Caldwell
Davidsor
Guilford
Orange
Surry
Carteret
Cataora
Forsyth
Iredell
Meekientorg
Montgomery
Marcy
Wilke
CP Svevien
Pau
Notable Birthdays Highlight WWI Hero and Film Stars
This Week Birthdays features General Jonathan M. Wainwright born August 23 1683 hero of the Philippines defense and prisoner of war. Phil Baker born August 24 1898 radio host and vaudeville pioneer. Van Johnson born August 25 1916 teen idol turned actor. Dr Lee de Forest born August 38 1873 “father of radio” whose audion tube enabled electronics. Sam Goldwyn born August 27 1882 film producer. Ingrid Bergman born August 28 1917 celebrated star of stage and screen with Oscar winning Gaslight and her husband Dr Peter Lindstrom and daughter Pia noted.
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Jonathan M. Wainwright
Philippines
MacArthur
America
West Point
van Johnson
Newport, R. L
New York
Lee DE Forest
St Cownell Bluffs, In
Lee
Sheffield Scientific School
Yale
Ingrid Bergman
Sweden
Joan of Arc
Peter Lindstrom
Pia
Hollywood
Miner injury after 35-foot plunge on viaduct tragedy
An automobile with two occupants spun a guard rail on the Five Mile viaduct and plunged 35 feet to a railroad bed. Miss Myrtle Miles, 22, was pinned by her hair when the car overturned. Driver Alton C. Hall, 21, naval enlisted man, and Miss Miles suffered only minor bruises. Chief Julian T. Williams said Miles was thrown from the vehicle as it struck the tracks and was freed by Hall and police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Miles
Alton C. Hall
Naval Enlisted Mart
Julian T. Williams
Charleston County Police
Hall
Birmingham Woman Charged With Assault Of Son
Mrs. Margaret Cooper Hill, 31, was charged with assault and battery of her six year old son Walter Hill in Birmingham. Juvenile Officer Davis Puckett filed the warrant. Hill suffered a broken arm. the mother says it occurred when the boy fell running up kitchen steps.
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Birmingham
Margaret Cooper Hill
Davis Puckett
Puckett
Walter Hill
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Hathcock Lumber Company
Montgomery Hwy
Georgia
Carl J. Eisenhardt
Willcott City
Edward Browder, Jr
Amarillo
Texas
Browder
Harry A. Snow
Nolo
Snow
Charles B. Pavneck, Jr
New York City
Harry K. Baker
Kenneth J. Newcomer
Acosta
Olin J. Mascon
USAAF
Oliver General Hospital
Augusa
Pavicek
Baker
California
Montgomery Hightway
Dothan, Ala
Panama
Tax Inc
Aie
THE
BAY Line
Genial Joe
Chicago
Ellen Dunlop
Carolina
Phil Baker
Avuz
Philadelphia
Lower East Side
Boston
Sameus Goldwyn
Warsaw
London
Jesse Lasky
the Book & Art Shop
West Troy Street
WDIG
Butig
Lare B
Wagu Apt
Rimson
Vanity
Rimson Furniture Co
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