Coplen Sentenced 40 Months To 10 Years In Spy Case
Washington AP report: Judy Coplen receives 40 months to 10 years for spying for Russia with concurrent sentences on a theft count. Judge Reeves recommends Alderson women’s reformatory though prison chosen by Justice Department. Bond set and pending New York espionage case. appeal promised.
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Judy Coplen
Washington
Judin Coplen
Russia
Bennette
Justice Department
Federa
Albert L. Reeves
Reeves
Miss Conlon
Cotton Expert Sees Market Glut Endangers Cotton Trade
Alabama and other cotton states face shrinking markets unless new uses for cotton are found. J D Hayes warned at a Huntsville meeting that synthetic fibers and paper reduce demand, urging rapid expansion of markets through promotion and research aided by Alabama agricultural agencies.
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Montgomery
Alabama
State Farm Bureau
J. D. Hayes
Huntsville
South
Clarisville
Wotess
Aves
Alabama Agricultumil Distension Servier
Permits Issued Totaled 167815 In June
June permits reached 167815 with non residential boosts including Tafayette Street Methodist Church annex 47000 and Young Junior High additions 11900. Residential repairs 26350 and a Thomas Bo Wood brick veneer home permit 20000 pushed the total to 64400 in residential. New stores under construction 2500 and private sales 1750. May total 150?658 versus 162815 in June.
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Tafayette Street Methodist Church
Young Junior High School
Thomas Bo Wood
May
Suklo58
Opposition Prepared To Break Filibuster In Alabama Senate
In Montgomery AP report federal and state leaders clash as the Alabama State Senate endures a lengthy filibuster aimed at delaying an economy package. Senators read yesterday’s journal for hours, debated a $20 million bridge bill, and praised clerk Ralph Macon while Gov Folsom derides the bloc as squanderers. The Rites committee then shelved two House resolutions on the race issue.
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Montgomery
State Senate
Hal Reddy
Senate
Rankin Fite
Marion County
Journal
Ralph Macon
Macon
James E. Folsom
Folsom
Bruce Tenderson
Wilcox
Robin Swift
Fiscambia
Senate Rites Committee
Board of Revenue to Name Officials For Tax Election
The Houston County Board of Revenue will meet in special session tomorrow to appoint officials for the July 19 hospital tax election. Unclear whether the Board of Revenue or the Board of Election Supervisors will name the election officials as Attorney General Carmichael’s ruling remains unresolved. Calhoun said the Board will appoint officials if needed, ensuring nominations by July 4 to meet legal requirements.
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Houston County Board of Revenue
Board of Election Supervisors
A. A. Carmichael
Albert Logue
Carmichael
Montgomery
Board of Revenue
Shout
Carraichael
Wo Perry Calhoun
Calhoun
Biscuits Survive Oven Gunshots In Iowa Kitchen
In Cedar Rapids Iowa Mrs Lowell Love heard a volley of shots from a stove where two revolvers were hidden during a family vacation. The oven damage did not harm the biscuits, which remained unscathed as the gunfire echoed.
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Cedar Rapids
Lowell Love
Labor Picture To Stay Same Another Year
Washington. The Taft-Hartley labor act faces no changes for at least a year as Senate action leaves the act in place. Truman Democrats aimed to repeal it, but Republicans and Southern Democrats pushed a bill close to the present law. House action will determine the next move with options to block or pass a different anti-T-H bill.
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James Marlow Washington
Truman Democrats
T-H
Senate
House
Trumanites
Braden Calls Peron Glorified Capone at Johns Hopkins
Spruille Braden, former U.S. ambassador, labeled Juan Peron a glorified Al Capone during a Johns Hopkins lecture in Baltimore. He warned the present Argentine regime resembles Capone’s gang seizing U.S. government. He argued U.S. recognition of dictatorships harms democracy in South America.
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Baltimore
Juan Peron
Argentina
al Capone
Spruille Braden
U. S
Johns Hopkins University
Braden
United States
South America
Ground breaks for Alabama Crippled Children's Hospital
In Birmingham AP reports a $1.5 million Crippled Children's Hospital breaks ground with nine year old Celia Wilcox and 17 clinic patients present. The seven story facility across from Jefferson-Hillman Hospital on Southside will include surgical and x ray facilities funded by Alabama donors from Thanksgiving football games at Legion Field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Alabama
Crippled ‘Children's Clinic
Legion. Field
Hill Defends Southern Progress On Federal Aid
Washington AP Senator Hill of Alabama rejected Hoover’s view that federal education aid should go only to 12 “real backward states” and argued Southern states have advanced under Democratic programs since 1932. He noted Alabama ranks eighth in educational effort but provides only 87 dollars per child.
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Washington
Hill
D-Ala
Hoover
Rep. McConnell
R-Pa
Alabama
Two Negroes Put On Probation For Violating State Law
In Montgomery Alabama Judge Wiley C Hill placed 15 year old Marshall Johnson and his sister Edwina 16 on probation after they admitted breaking segregation rules aboard a bus. The siblings from Newark New Jersey had just arrived with their father Fid Johnson 43. They rode in the white section and were removed after a driver pistol drawn. The judge condemned their actions but granted probation noting they realized their error. He said Alabama law applies here and ordered possible reform school commitment if violations recur.
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Montgomery
Ala
Newark
N. J
Alabama
Marshall Johnson
Edwina Johnson
Wiley C. Hill
Fid Johnson
Georgia
Johnson
Tlapine
South
S. T. Law
Law
Marshall
Edwina
New Jersey
Cottonwood Leaders Plan New Chamber of Commerce
Cottonwood hosts a special meeting to organize a Chamber of Commerce. E G Seckinger of the U S Chamber notes the group could boost Cottonwood as an industrial center. Rev W C Rice presided and Mayor J W Calhoun outlined charter steps.
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Chamber of Commerce
E. G. Seckinger
U. S. Chamber
la Grange
W.C. Rice
J. W. Calhoun
Séckinger
Cottonwood
Leaders to carry THReneal fight to 1950 elections
Administration forces suffered a Senate loss over Taft Hartley repeal and vowed to push the issue to voters in the 1950 elections. President Truman pledges continued effort, while House Democrats split on strategy for pursuing the measure.
Veterans' GI Bill Checks Delayed In Alabama
About 15 000 Alabama veterans enrolled under the G I bill will receive delayed training payments this month due to a funds shortage. The Regional Veterans Administration office said emergency funds approved by Congress will allow mailing within a few days. Veterans were asked not to write about their checks as mailings usually go out on month’s end.
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Montgomery
Alabama
Veterans Administration Office
Harley A. Smith
Congress
Frank W. Kelsey
Officials Discuss Segregation At Pools In DC
Secretary of Interior J A Krung planned talks with District of Columbia officials on segregation at local pools operated under contract with the Interior Department. The agenda includes transferring four of six pools to the local recreation board. Officials say four pools were reserved for whites and two for Negroes under an informal agreement, with a solution hoped.
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Washington
J. A. Krung
District of Columbia
Interior Control
Government Services, Inc
Interior Department
Recreation Board
Describing Killing Of Girl In Roanoke Church Fight
Scott described a brutal struggle in a Roanoke church parish house as he faced a jury in his murder trial. He claimed a force overwhelmed him while choking a blonde high school beauty after she insulted his boyfriend, though he denied intent to kill.
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Roanoke
Lee Goode Scott
Scott
Hastings
Nearly Perfect Holiday Weekend Weather Seen by Weatherman
The Weather Bureau forecast mostly clear skies and near record heat for the holiday weekend as millions hit highways by sundown. Safely experts warned up to 600 deaths over the period, with 290 traffic fatalities and others from fireworks and mishaps, while drought lingered in New York and rain threatened New England crops. Kansas faced too much rain soaking its wheat for bread.
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Weather Bureau
Midwest
New York
New England
Kansas
Frank Carlson
House Resolution Demands Evidence Against Klan Terrorism
Alabama House leaders urged Attorney General Albert Carmichael to prove KKK involvement in recent night terror acts. The Jefferson County Grand Jury investigated mob violence as new floggings were reported in Bessemer and Clay County. State officers probed Klan meetings near Lineville while vigilante violence prompts statewide inquiries.
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Montgomery
Alabama
House of Representatives
Albert A. Carmichael
Ku Klux Klan
Jefferson County
Birmingham
Judiciary Committee
Min Anad Lee
Ppl
Suuluiln Aitel Lae
Carmichael
KKK
Bessemer
Clay County
Clay
Olive Branch
Lineville
W. J. Kitchen
Ed Pepper
Ashland
State Highway Patrol
Bankhead Bates
John Henry McCullers
Rhett Owens
McCullers
Zoia Smith
Liteville
Owens
Ellis
Truman to spend Fourth of July weekend on Potomac cruise
President Truman will cruise the Potomac River and Chesapeake Bay over the Fourth of July weekend. He, his daughter, and guests depart by yacht Williamsburg tomorrow morning and return late Monday.
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Truman
Potomac
Washington
President Truman
Potomac River
Chesapeake Bay
Mr. Truman
Williamsburg
Congress Weighs Squeeze On Luxury Taxes In Truman Budget
Senate Finance committee votes 7 to 6 to cut luxury levies up to 75 percent aiming to revert to wartime peaks and 1942 levels. Chairman George rejects Truman’s call to raise personal and corporate income taxes, saying Congress will not increase taxes this session.
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Washington
LLP
Congress
Truman
Senate Finance Committee
Senate Committee
Walter F. George
D-Ga
Barkley Seeks Harmony at South Carolina Dinner
Vice President Alben Barkley arrives in Columbia to bridge a divided South Carolina Democratic Party. The Harmony Dinner aims to mend splits over Civil Rights and Truman proposals, as States Rights Democrats vexingly oppose the event amid Thurmond’s leadership and the state’s 8 electoral votes.
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Columbia
S. C
Alben Barkley
South Carolina
Truman
J. Strom Thurmond
Thurmond
Nave
Collier's To Appeal Decision Awarding Damages To Caldwell
Gainesville Florida UPI Collier's magazine moves to appeal a federal court ruling that awarded former Florida Governor Caldwell $100000 in damages for an editorial about him three years ago The retrial reduced the initial $500000 demand The case centers on free press rights and a controversial 1946 Col lier article about a Negro's death and court costs Caldwell had pledged to donate any judgment to Florida A and M College for Negroes in Tallahassee The magazine denies wrongdoing calling the statement a malicious lie
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Gainesville
Fla
Collier's
Today
Florida
Millard Caldwell
Caldwell
fRovernor
Collier
Madison County
William J. Chenery
New York
Tallahassee
Colier
Varnum Denies Bet With Youths Over Cross Incident
J Willie Varnum former county commissioner denies making a bet with three Houston County youths about paying a boy for spending a night in a country church after a cross was burned near his home Tuesday night The Eagle published quotes from the youths alleging Varnum welched on the wager and the denial follows in a letter to The Eagle.
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J. Willie Varnum
Houston County
the Eagle
Varnum
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