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Newspaper
Mt Vernon Register News
Location
Mt Vernon, Illinois, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1950
Page
5
Five Russian youths are invited to Illinois next year to learn how democracy works. The Illinois Boys State cabled Premier Stalin, saying the eight day tour is fully paid and aims to compare the two party system with Russia's one party rule.
ATLANTA June 28 Georgia held its earliest Democratic primary in history as Herman Talmadge and M E Thompson fight for the Governorship. The vote also decides the U S Senate seat held by Walter F George and five Congressional posts among many state offices with 1 216 084 registered voters and a forecast turnout near 600 000 under fair weather.
Rural firemen were dispatched a mile and a half north of Mt Vernon today to a car fire caused by wiring in the vehicle owned by A B Hartley. The blaze was minor, firemen said PATORES was slight.
Mabel Laird pleaded guilty to vagrancy before Magistrate A. M. Dulaney yesterday and received a 90 day sentence in Jefferson county jail.
James E. Adams was fined $13.40 before Magistrate A. M. Dulaney on a drunk charge in a police court appearance.
Sylvia Harris of Kentucky admits shooting her divorced husband Minor Harris at his farm home near Elkton Kentucky last Thursday The state hospital attendant said she shot him six times after claiming he would not buy anything for their six year old son Noval Sheriff Ora Wilson reported Harris died at the scene Harris said Harris returned to Elkton on June 19 found the boy dirty and with uncut hair She took the boy to Elkton then returned to Richmond
Franklin Thomas Slay, 23, a former college student, was found guilty of murdering Mary Elen Harmon, 16, an expectant mother, with a hammer and dumping her body in a sinkhole near Hopkinsville, Kentucky. A Christian Circuit Court jury sentenced him to life imprisonment after a 1 hour 50 minute deliberation. Harmon's father Jeff Harmon denounced the verdict as a miscarriage of justice.
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