Night gangs terror blaze in Alabama with cross burn threats
Unmasked riders renew attacks in Pell City and Talladega with flogging and killings amid in fear of anti masking law. Klan leaders Morris Horn Luker face charges. Horn banished for life after secret meeting. Charlie Hurst dies after confrontation. several suspects charged or released.
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Alabama
William Hugh Morris
Hood
Ums
Pell City
Talladega
Horn
Morris
Charlie Hurst
Hurst
Luker
Texas manhunt follows sheriff missing after fatal ditch crash
A posse tracks a handcuffed suspect across the Big Bend region near the Rio Grande after a sheriff's car veered into a ditch. They speculate the sheriff was killed with his own .38-44 revolver, citing missing pistol and handcuffs and signs the suspect stumbled through cactus and rocks. An empty cartridge case and shell reinforce the theory.
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Morrow
Consett
Ocotillo
Rio Grande
United States
Mexico
Big Bend
City-County School Plan to Be Studied in Wilmington
A Winston-Salem study delegation led by Roy C. Haberkern will review New Hanover County’s consolidated city county school system. Vice chairman O. L. Kiger and secretary James E. Gibson accompany the group, appointed by Major Marshall Kurfees, to consider applying the system to Forsyth County.
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Wilmington
New Hanover
North Carolina
Winston-Salem
Roy C. Haberkern
O. L. Kiger
James E. Gibson
Marshall Kurfees
Forsyth County
Child Actress Leaves Home in Texas Custody Battle
Lena Brunson of Nederland sought custody of Lora Lee in a February 8 Superior Court session. The tug of war involved Brunson and the Michel family who had adopted Lora Lee in 1945, with a scuffle among supporters. Judge A A Scott ruled Brunson had no rights and upheld the Michels adoption, directing the girl be kept out of the movies and return to Schulenberg, Texas.
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Lena Brunson
Nederland
Tex
Lora Lee
Brunson
Michel
A. A. Scott
Michels
Schulenberg
Texas
Smith Has Snappy Slogan Smith Has Snappy Slogan
Filing for reelection closed with seven candidates entering races statewide. Robert L. Doughton 86 filed to remain in the ninth district unopposed. Hoke R. Bostian announced against Waldo C. Cheek in insurance commissioner race. Harold D. Cooley unpaid opposition. Mickey Walker joined the 11th district contest alongside Charles E Hamilton Woodrow W. Jones and J Nat Hamrick. A A Rice filed against T D Bryson Jr for the 20th judicial district. John R. McLaughlin seeks reelection in the 15th district.
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Robert L Doughton
Hoke R. Bostian
Greensboro
Waldo C. Cheek
Bostian
Cheek
Harold D. Cooley
Congress
Mickey Walker
Rutherfordton
Charles E Hamilton
Gastonia
Woodrow W. Jones
J. Nat Hamrick
Walker
Citadel
Wake Forest
A. A. Rice
Sylva
T. D. Bryson, Jr
Bryson City
John R. McLaughlin
Statesville
Paintings Sold At Supermarket in Caldwell
Caldwell New Jersey March 14 forty nine oil paintings displayed at the Emmet self service supermarket. Prices under 100 dollars with examples like 17 41 or 71. Art from forty New York and New Jersey artists. Sam Zitter says idea came from Greenwich Village friend. No sales yesterday due to weather. plan to expand to nine other stores if popular.
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Caldwell
N. J
Emmet
New York
New Jersey
Sam Zitter
Newark
Greenwich Village
Zitter
Caldwell Housewives
Husky Psychology Student Goes On Trial For Murder
Robert E. Bednasek a 24 year old University of Iowa psychology student faces trial for the strangulation slaying of Margaret Gee Gee Jackson a Burlington coed 20. A 56 person juror panel was drawn with 12 to be selected. Court seating was limited and spectators restricted.
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Iowa City
Robert E. Bednasek
Husky University of Iowa
Pretty Margaret (Gee-Gee) Jackson
Burlington
Ames P. Gaffney
Bednasek
University Hospital
University of Iowa Law
Prison Lawyer Faces Another Term In Prison
Cecil L. Wright 42 known as the brain of Alcatraz finishes a 60 day jail sentence in Chicago then faces transfer to Cook County Jail on a check fraud warrant. The complaint cites a hotel bill of 108.89 unpaid at a Loop hotel and his earlier nine years behind bars for a 1931 postage stamp robbery. Wright was released from Alcatraz in 1948 after self study and appeals.
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Chicago
Cecil L. Wright
Alcatraz Fedetsi
Wright
City House of Correction
Cook County
Alcatraz
A. C. Ammann
Macon County
Darrow spirit contact fails again on anniversary
Chicago report says Claude Noble, a Detroit businessman, conducted a séance on Jackson Park lagoon bridge seeking to contact Clarence Darrow’s spirit. Noble and historically linked to Thurston hoped for manifestation while continuing annual rites begun after Darrow’s death on March 13, 1938.
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Chicago
Claude Noble
Clarence Darrow
Noble
Detroit
Lagoon
Jackson Park
Darrow
Howard Thurston
Skin Grafts Save Nine Year Old
Nine year old Sandra Emert remains serious as doctors and nurses graft skin from seven male donors onto burned areas covering seven percent of her body. The grafts are temporary and aim to prevent infection and blood loss while permanent grafting awaits her blood cell production.
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Santa Rosa
Calif
Sandra Emmert
Sandra
Doors
Lapsed GI Policy Returned in Court Decision
A federal court jury ordered the government to pay a $10,000 G I policy for Mrs Polka M Bridges of Shreveport. The policy lapsed before her son Renzel H Bridges died in July 1947 from cancer. She argued dividends accrued covered premiums during the lapse while her son was seven months disabled.
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Shreveport
Spich
Polka M. Bridgus
Renzel H. Bridges
McCarthy Accuses Duran of Red Links in State Dept Ties
The Senate subcommittee led by Senator Tydings continues hearings on McCarthy’s charges. Edward P. Morgan, ex FBI agent, is named chief counsel. McCarthy cites a Madrid intelligence report alleging Gustavo Duran, a Russian agent and former Red Army officer, linked to Spruille Braden and now in Washington.
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Tydings
D.-Md
McCarthy
Edward P. Morgan
FBI
Morgan
Washington
Duran
Truman
Michael Straight
New Republic
State Department
Spruille Braden
Ant
Colombia
Cuba
Argentina
Madrid
Wendell G. Johnson
Red Army
Spain
Aranjuez
Gustavo Duran
Tarancon
Moscow
Red’ Army
Paris
Labor government faces test over anti sabotage bill and arms aid
The government pushes an anti sabotage measure past fist fights and filibuster delays and seeks approval for arms aid to France from a U S backed credit to Atlantic pact members. Five hundred guards stand by to deter use of parliamentary methods by communists. In Seoul President Syngman Rhee retains cabinet control as a constitutional change to make the cabinet answer to the assembly fails to reach two thirds.
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France
United States
Seoul
Syngman Rhee
National Assembly
Kearney Warns on Public Tolerance of Spending
Washington dispatch reports Rep. Kearney of New York criticizing American tolerance for "excessive government spending." He says the public has "taken leave of our senses" amid mammoth expenditures.
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Washington
Kearney
R.-N.y
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