Police Robbery Ring Busted in Birmingham Crackdown
Police cracked a burglary ring involving counterfeit and stolen goods. Four officers were jailed and five suspended as raids on 23 officers’ homes yielded a large pile of property while investigators probe up to 50 or more potential suspects among 360 officers. A retired Army officer provided key details in a 197-page report.
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Firmingham
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Paul Singer
Robert Lindbergh
Singer
Travis J . Ferguson
Army Uses TV In Combat Test
FT MEADE Md The Army demonstrated television directed infantry operations in battle for a coast to coast audience A regimental commander used portable TV transmitters to guide amphibious landing and assault on fortifications TV cameras in an airplane supplied instant updates on movements behind lines and artillery calls Maj Gen George S Back called it the beginning of a battlefield communications revolution Gen Matthew B Ridgway said TV will sit beside the atomic cannon in modern Army developments
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FT. Meade
George S. Back
Army
Matthew B. Ridgway
Corporal Batchelor's Army Trial Set for Aug 30
Corporal Claude Batchelor, who defected to and then repudiated Communist captors in Korea, is scheduled for an Army court martial on August 30 on charges of aiding the enemy while a war prisoner. The trial was moved from mid August after discussions with Batchelor's attorney Joel Westbrook.
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Dan Ansuniu
Lex
Claude Batchelor
Korea
Amry
Batchler
Joel Westbrook
Westbrook
U.S
Batchelor
Cpl
Edward Dickenson
Cracker's Neck
Dickenson
Iraqi women adapt Western life yet keep customs says Mrs Jamali
Mrs Moham Fadhil Jamali wife of the Iraqi foreign minister speaks in New York during a tour through the United States and Canada. She notes Iraqi girls admire Western courting but marriages are arranged via intermediaries to the father. She describes fashion and education progress in Iraq and says Americans are curious about the Iraqi people and desire to understand America.
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New York
Americas
Moham
Fadhil Jamali
Iraq
Jamali
Canada
West
Middle East
University of Chicago
Baghdad
Confederacy Formed In 1861 From Eleven States
In 1861 eleven states including Alabama Arkansas Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi North Carolina South Carolina Tennessee Texas and Virginia united to form the Confederate States of America. The move established a separate government amid rising tensions over secession and slavery.
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Arkansas
Florida
Georgia
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Mississippi
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South Carolina
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Texas
Virginia
Albert Barker Stricken at 82
Albert Barker aged 82 died after an extended illness at Deaconess hospital Freeport born April 15 1872 in Town son of Arlene and Elizabeth Barker a retired farmer he lived most of his life in Orangeville He leaves five sons four daughters a brother a sister and 26 great grandchildren Services will be held Saturday at 1 30 p m at Grace Evangelical United Brethren church McConnell with Rev Richard Smitley officiating Burial will be in St James cemetery Friends may call at the Burlington Kramer funeral home before noon Saturday
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Arlene
Elizabeth Barker
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LeRoy
la) Daughenbaugh
Red Oak
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McConnell
Richard Smitley
St. James Cemetery
Burington-Krammer Funeral Home
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