Bond tweaks pass in committee amid Alabama GOP energy
MONTGOMERY AP A $40,000,000 road bond proposal, half the admin plan, won a legislative committee’s approval to go to the Constitution committee for a constitutional amendment sponsored by Senator T. F. Burn of Cherokee County. The plan would fund a $10,000,000 road program annually for four years, with $4.5 million to the state and $27.3 million to counties, but falls short of James J. Folsom’s $80,000,000 goal. Other panels tackled milk backlog. education panel set school start age rules. lottery racketeers penalty bill sent to a subcommittee for next week. Birmingham officials urged harsher anti gambling laws to jail violators on first offense. Turn To No. 12 On Page 2.
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Constitution Committee
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T. F. Burn
Cherokee County
I House
Fey
James J. Folsom
Burnie
Senate Judiciary Committee
Albert Boutwell
Jefferson County
Birmingham
Eugene Connor
Klan Held Blameless As Cross Burns Here
Houston County police reported the area’s first cross burning in the current Klan incidents with Sheriff J Walt Cameron saying the hooded group was cleared. Three teens Jack Harper Damon Harper and W J Harper confessed to burning the cross in front of former County Commissioner J Wil lie Varnum home near Cottonwood. Circuit Solicitor Keener Baxley doubted charges could be brought, noting he hasn’t reviewed the anti mask law passed by the Alabama House. The youths fired at Varnum as the cross burned about nine feet tall outside his home ten miles south of Dothan last night shortly after nine.
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Lawrence Horne
Eldridge Cameron
J. Willie Varnum
Dothan
Varnum
Eagle
George Whittington
Houston County
J. Walt Cameron
Jack Harper
Damon Harper Brothers
W. J. Harper
Keener Baxley
Baxley
Alabama
House of Representatives
Cameron
Horne
Cottonwood
Heat and drought grip sweltering East
Summer heat and a lingering drought tighten their hold on the East after brief cool spells. The drought, now in its 36th day, threatens crops from New England to the Dakotas, with no general rains forecast. Thundershowers provided limited relief yesterday as officials warned of fire risk in dry areas and urged caution for Fourth of July activities.
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New
Oklahoma
Arkansas
Middle Atlantic
Wisconsin
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Minnesota
Massachusetts
Potester
Lyle F. Watt
Washington
Maine
Midwest
East
Indianapolis
Blind minister marries blind couple in Springfield
In Springfield Hr UP a blind minister performs a wedding tonight for a blind couple. The Rev. Robert S. Keiser of the Fourth Presbyterian Church leads the ceremony with a seeing eye dog guiding him. Clifford English and Ida Mae Weddle name Verne Campbell as best man and a blind matron of honor.
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Springfield
Clifford English
Ida Mae Weddle
Verne Campbell
Robert S. Keiser
Fourth Presbyterian Church
Merchants See Varying Slump Views Amid Uncertain Outlook
New York AP reports businessmen split on the current downturn with most conceding a slump but differing on its length and depth. Construction orders in early 1950 show some pickup, steel predicts a turn early next year, and General Motors cites a 60 to 90 day period as the likely peak of the current decline before a brief, painful recovery.
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Sam. Dawson
NEW York
March
Motors
Masked Men Used Six-Foot Whip, Testimony On Mob Violence
Birmingham Post reporter told House Judiciary subcommittee that hooded terrorists in Alabama beat victims with a six foot whip made from a mining belt. He cited a mother and two daughters and three men who endured beating by 150 white robed, masked attackers in Dora on June 3. The events allegedly involved horns and a Klan insignia. They described defendants including one named Oscar Lee Calvert. The testimony included details of men beaten while others restrained. The inquiry was expected to be brief.
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Birmingham
House Committee
Alabama
Clark Stallworth
Scripps-Howard Birmingham Post
Judiciary
Clarence Lake
Birmingham News
Paul Trawick
Jasper
Ala
Union
Stallworth
Dora
Scene Burton
Billie Fay
Sally
Ku Klux Klan
Oscar ‘Lee Calvert
Troy Morrison
Suffragan Bishop Consecrated In Huntsville Today
The Rev. Randolph Royall Claiborne II was consecrated suffragan bishop of the Episcopal Diocese of Alabama before about 1000 worshipers at the Church of the Nativity in Huntsville. The ceremony drew clergy and lay representatives from nearly every parish and featured academic-like robes and a dignified service in the historic church.
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Huntsville
Randolph Royall Claiborne
Episcopal Diocese of
Alabama
Church of the Nativity
Alaoima
Wll
Bishos
Mississippi Polio Epidemic Fears Rise in 1930s
Jackson Mississippi health officials monitor polio reports amid fears of an epidemic. Dr A L Gray, director of the Preventable Disease Control Division, notes 65 cases this year, higher than any prior year since 1938, predicting more cases in coming months and a potential statewide outbreak.
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Jackson
Miss
Mississippi
A. L.gray
State Board of Health
Gray
Coplon Trial Goes To Jury As Mother Weeps In Court
Judith Coplon sat quietly as her mother sobbed openly in federal court as the case against the 28 year old Barnard College graduate went to a jury. The eight men and four women will decide if she stole government secrets to aid Russia or if she is the victim of a frameup. Judge Albert L. Reeves charged the jury on two counts with potential penalties up to 13 years in prison and a $12,000 fine. The jurors were told to consider whether she acted with intent to injure the United States or aid a foreign power, and whether the information found in her purse could be used against the United States. The verdicts possible include not guilty or guilty on count one or count two.
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Dorothy Williams
Washington
Judith Coplon
Russia
Barnard College
Justice Department
Albert L. Reeves
Miss Coplon
Reeves
Gubitchev
The
Justice de
Partment
William E. Foley
EBI
United States
Grand Jury Ordered To Investigate Mobs Violence In State
A Jefferson County grand jury will begin a two week inquiry into mob violence in Birmingham area. Judge J Russell McElroy called the special session at the request of Solicitor Emmett Perry who has been prosecuting cross burnings and floggings. Perry says evidence from state and county officers will be presented. Investigated acts include a veteran flogging a woman manhandling at her home a coal miner flogging and cross burnings at multiple sites. Klan leaders deny involvement and a new anti masking law has just taken effect though acts occurred earlier.
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Birmingham
Iap
J. Russell McElroy
Emmett Perry
Perry
Jefferson
Ku Klux Klan
Long Illness Fatal To C. J. Lurie 71
C J Lurie a retired Dothan businessman of Russian birth died in a Montgomery hospital after a long illness at 10 30 PM He was 71 Surviving are his wife two sons Milton Lurie of Dothan Randolph G Lurie of Montgomery six grandchildren and a brother Funeral will be held at 11 AM tomorrow at White Chapel Montgomery with burial in Greenwood Cemetery Montgomery Pallbearers include Howard Gwens Dave Spielberger W F Bailey Herman Berlin Jr Eugene Heit and Ralph Holberg of the area
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Russia
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So! Lurie
Chicago
Howard Gwens
Dave Spielberger
W.F. Bailey
Herman
Berlin, Jr
Eugene Heit
Ralph Holberg
High Priced Water Confession Shocks Gary
In Gary Indiana Charles Luca confessed after selling a quart of water for 4800 dollars to Chicagoan Joseph Patera and his associate. Luca claimed the liquid could turn ordinary paper into ten dollar notes. He handed 1500 to a Chicago partner, kept 3300, spent 200, then confessed and returned 3100. Police seek Patera and Swytuck.
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Gary
Ind
Charles Luca
Paul Swytuck
Chicago
Patera
Swytak
Lucas
Prisoner Recaptured in Marianna Home Breakout
Sheriff Ernest Barnes announced the recapture of George Wilson, 22, one of two Negro prisoners who escaped from the old Jackson County jail Monday night. Wilson was found at his home near Sneads by Marianna officers. He and Frank Cummings, 45, used an iron tool to dig out. Wilson was sentenced to two years earlier for shooting in a Negro home in Marianna. Cummings remains at large.
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Marianna
Jackson County
Ernest Barnes
Barnes
George Wilson
Wilson
Sneads
Frank Cummings
State
Cummings
Barnes Sa‘d
Ten Year Old Ashford Child Paralyzed by Polio
Health officials report a 10-year-old Ashford route one child developed infantile paralysis about three weeks ago. A physician treating the case calls it polio and mild, noting initial doubt before confirmation. The patient will be isolated and likely transferred to Mobile clinic. third polio case in Houston County this year.
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Ashford Route
Houston County
Shanghai Bombed By Nationalists Two Killed In Capital Attack
Nationalist bombers hit the Chapei district of Shanghai injuring many and killing at least two. Reports vary on planes involved as authorities cordon off blocks and ambulance convoys move casualties from bombed zones near Lunghwa Airport and Bubbling Well cemetery.
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Chapei
Shanghai
Lunghwa
Bubbling Well
North Railroad
Markman Road
Seymour Topping
Associated Press
Truman Victory On Housing Bid Expected Today
Republicans press a major bid against President Truman's housing bill while Democrats forecast victory by nightfall. The bill would limit government funded public housing costs and focus on slum clearance and farm housing aids. An amendment to bar racial segregation in public housing was defeated in a tied vote, maintaining administration support amid a week long fight.
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Washington
Truman
GOP
Rep
Halleck Tr Ind
Rayburn
Halleck
Fulton
Spence
D-Ky
Boggs
D-La
Powell
DNY
Bennett
D-Fia
Moskow Seeks Court OK To Change Name
David Moskew, 42, told a Los Angeles court he suffers mental anguish from jokes about his name and the Russian capital and asked permission to change his name to Sfoss.
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Los Angeles
David Moskew
Don’t Gamble On What Will Happen To Taft Hartley Act
Washington columnist James Marlow recalls Congress history showing Democrats once backed Wagner Act of 1935, which required union bargaining but faced Republican repeal in 1947 with Taft Hartley Act. He notes current friction in a scrambled Senate leadership and forecasts uncertainty ahead.
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James Marlow
Washington
Congress
Robert F. Wagner
New York
Senate
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Francis M. Lemay
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