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Alabama Police Crack Down on Known Communists
In Birmingham Alabama on July 20 police targeted suspected Communists. Sam Hill Jr chairman of Alabama’s Communist party was jailed on vagrancy charges with more arrests planned. Police estimate about 100 Communists in the area and say arrests will focus on vagrancy charges. Rose alias Rosenbloom was arrested for vagrancy and name changing, later released for trial. Rose admitted party membership and protest activity regarding Korea.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
Sam Hill Jr
Public Safety
E. C. Connor
Fie
Daily Worker
Communist Party
Paul Thomas Rose
Rosenbloom
Lakeland
N. J
Rose
U.S
Korea
C. L. Pierce
P Ni
Hail