Community Notes and Church Announcements
Weather outlook for the state notes partly cloudy conditions with scattered afternoon thunderstorms and warmer readings in the northeast. Church and community items include church meetings, revival services led by visiting pastors, a Royal Arch Masons gathering, and interfaith sermons. Local residents return from trips. a building permit for a five room brick veneer dwelling is issued. vacation Bible school dates announced. a congregational picnic is planned. See Diary On Page 2.
Dramatic Race With Death Saves Limestone Tot
Charlotte Ann Hodges, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Will David Hodges, survived a kerosene dose after drinking a preparation at Coy Clem's home. She was reported recovering at Jefferson Hillman Hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Ann Hodges
Charlotte Ann
Will David Hodges
Jefferson- Hillman Hospital
Coy Clem
Six of eight De Mars children stricken by polio in Los Angeles
Dread polio has laid low six of eight children in the family of crick worker Donald F. De Mars. All six youngsters are in Los Angeles General Hospital. Richard, 3, and Donald, 10, are on respirators. other victims are Davis, 10 months, Shirley, 5, Audrey, 7, and Patricia.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
Crick
Donald F. de Mars
Los Angeles General Hospital
Richard
Donald
Davis
Shirley
Audrey
Patricia
Baby Improves After Surgery In Birmingham
A week-old infant boy William Comer born with fused windpipe and esophagus in Birmingham was reported in fine condition after an operation to separate air and food channels. He had been fed by glucose injections before the emergency procedure. his parents are Mr. and Mrs. H Comer of Rogersville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
William Comer
William
H. Comer
Rogersville
ThreeYearOld Charlotte Ann Injured In Kitchen Play Incident
Doctors warn bronchial pneumonia could develop after a accident at the Clem residence. Charlotte Ann, age three, was playing with a bottle top in the kitchen while her father used the telephone. Mr Hodges saw her choking and she was rushed from Powers Hospital to Birmingham for care.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charlotte Ann
Clem
Hodges
Powers Hospital
Birmingham
Birm- Lee
Charlotte
Slain Sheriff Clifford Peak to Be Buried Today
Funeral services for Winston county sheriff Clifford Peak are set for today at Pleasant Hill church at 1 P.M. A murder warrant is expected to be sworn out against Taylor Peoples, who is jailed in Cullman county on three counts of assault with intent to murder stemming from Peak’s death and injuries to two other officers. Peak died Tuesday at Wilson hospital in Haleyville.
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Winston County
Clifford Peak
Pleasant Hill
Haleyville
Double Springs
Taylor Peoples
Fred Jones
Peak
Peoples
Cullman County
Lamar
H. C. Smith
Talmadge Stephenson
Wilson Hospital
Cremation Mystery Believed Solved by Cigarette Claim
In St Petersburg Florida on August 9 police report a cremation mystery tied to a lit cigarette and body burning. FBI tests found no accelerants or chemicals. only a shriveled skull backbone and foot fragment remained, with the chair burned to steel springs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Fla
J. R. Reichert
Cass Burgess
Mary Harry Reeser
FBI
Delay Seen In McCarthy Move
Washington plans show routine senate business could delay Senator McCarthy’s effort to reveal 29 State Department employees whose loyalty he questions. The calendar will open at 11 A.M. with five minute speaking windows after each bill. Senate action on Benton’s call for McCarthy investigation may be pushed back at least six weeks, and Benton urged McCarthy’s resignation in the Maryland Senate election matter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
McCarthy
State Department
Gillette
D-Ia
Benton
D-Conn
Maryland
John Marshall Butler
R-Md
Friday Service For Mrs Harris
Funeral rites for Mrs. Lavenia L. Harris will be held Friday at 4 30 p.m. at First Methodist Church. She died Wednesday night at her home 715 Oak Street after a long illness. Interment is in the city cemetery under Brown's direction with pallbearers including Dr. Erskine Chenault Julian Harris and R N Harris Jr. The funeral cortege leaves the home at 4 15 p.m. Friday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Methodist
Lavenia L. ‘Harris
Oak Street
P. D. Wilson
Brown
Erskine Chénault
Julian Harris
R. N. Harris, Jr
Army football captain claims coercion in exam cheating case
Harrd Loehlein, Army captain-elect, says he was forced under threat of prison to reveal teammates in the honor code cheating scandal. He told The New York Journal American he checked 20 names on a long list but would not name others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Point
N. Y
Harrd Loehlein
Army
U. S. Military Academy
Kimball, Minn
New York Journal American
Senator Connally hints U S may hike troop quotas
Senator Connally said the United States may have to put more than six divisions of troops into the North Atlantic defense army in Europe. He emphasized he was giving his opinion after a Senate foreign relations committee meeting with Gen. Omar Bradley. The idea faces House opposition tied to a $56 billion defense bill and a proposed amendment to cap divisions at six.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Connally
D-Tex
United States
North Atlantic Defense Army
Europe
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Omar Bradley
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Bradley
U. S
House
Rep. Coudert
R-Ny
Senate
Eisenhower
Secretary of Defense
Marshall
Right To Work Bill Debated In Alabama Hearing
Labor and management officials clash over a proposed right to work measure in Alabama. Rep. W. W. Malone Jr. speaking before the house judiciary committee says the bill aims to guarantee the individual the right to work and not destroy organized labor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Bradford
House Judiciary Committee
W. W. Malone Jr
Limestone County
Willoughby Says Higher Authority Halted Unmasking of Soviet Ring
Maj. Gen. Charles A. Willoughby testified before the Senate Internal Security Subcommittee that higher military authority overruled his 1949 bid to unmask a Soviet spy ring in Japan. He named Guenther Stein and Agnes Smedley, said official backlash suppressed the report, and recalled Royall as War Secretary. He said no action followed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Charles A. Willoughby
Willoughby
Douglas MacArthur
Senate
Internal Security Subcommittee
U. S
Tokyo
Guenther Stein
Agnes Smedley
Japan
Local airman dies in Birmingham crash
A 17 year old airman from Decatur is dead after a collision in Birmingham last night. Billy Gene Wright of 1101 Beach Street was with the 3810 medical group at Maxwell Field Montgomery. Police say around 10 30 P M Wednesday his car struck a Frisco locomotive.
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Deccatur
Birmingham
Billy Gene Wright
Junie Wright
Beach Street
Wright
3810 Medical
Maxwell Field
Montgomery
Hancock
Foreign Aid Likely Cut. House Panel Proposes New Administrator
A House foreign affairs committee tentatively approves slicing 1 billion from Truman's foreign aid program and placing the entire program under a new high level administrator appointed by the President. The plan would shift economic and military aid under a single official, with Senate confirmation, signaling possible Republican support to remove direction from Secretary Acheson. A Senate clash over Formosa aid also looms as hearings proceed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
Truman
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
Acheson
Formosa
Connally
D-Tex
Foreign Relations Committee
Temporary Ban On Showing Of Film In Hueytown
Circuit Judge Gardner F. Goodwyn Jr issued a temporary injunction against showing the alleged indecent film Souls For Pawn at a Hueytown theater. A hearing to decide permanent action was set for August 24, with the sheriff authorized to padlock if needed. The theater remained closed pending the hearing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bessemer
Ala
Gardner F. Goodwyn Jr
Hueytown
Japanese official says Russians knew Pearl Harbor plan
Mitsusada Yoshikawa, chief of Japan's special investigating bureau, testified that Russians learned a month before Pearl Harbor of Japan's plan to strike the United States and Britain in the Pacific. The hearings glanced at the Soviet spy ring led by Richard Sorge operating in Japan during World War II.
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Washington
Japan
Pearl Harbor
United States
Britain
Pacific
House
American Activities Committee
Mitsusada Yoshikawa
Special
Senate
Richard Sorge
Willoughby Links Stein to Spy Ring Amid Hearings
Willoughby described Stein as thoroughly implicated in a spy ring tied to Japan and Dr Richard Sorge. Stein, described as an itinerant journalist, became a British citizen in Hong Kong in 1941 and was arrested in France on Soviet espionage charges before deportation. The hearings focus on espionage networks and Institute of Pacific Relations ties.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Loughby
France
House UN- American Activities Committee
Japan
Richard Sorge
Moscow
Willoughby
Senate
House Committee
Lee Willoughby
Sinatra Seeks Divorce to Marry Ava Gardner
Crooner Frank Sinatra announced plans to divorce his wife Nancy to wed movie star Ava Gardner. He spoke with reporters at the Riverside hotel in Reno where he begins a $25,000 two week engagement. He said he would file for divorce during his stay and noted prior separation terms left Nancy with one third of his income. He indicated he would likely marry Miss Gardner.
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Reno
Frank Sinatra
Nancy
Ava Gardner
Riverside Hotel
Sinatra
Miss Gardner
U. S
Andext
Athens Man Burned In Unusual Accident
Athens 26 year old Calvin Barber of Horton Street was slightly burned in an unusual accident. He slipped and fell into hot tar laid by a city paving truck on an Athens street. Barber is a member of the Athens volunteer fire department.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Calvin. Barber
Horton Street
Athens
M Barber
Athens Volunteer Fire Department
Reds warn U.N. against fabricating incidents at Kaesong
Tokyo dispatch reports a communists threat to fabricate incidents if armistice talks resume. General Ridgway demanded a firm guarantee after Chinese troops entered Kaesong, with Red leaders Kim Il Sung and Peng Teh Hua denying rash action and urging Allied delegates to return. The exchange follows a suspension of talks over neutrality violations and promises not to repeat such intrusions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tokyo
Matthew B. Ridgway
Ridgway
Kaesong
United Nations
Red
Peiping
Kim Il Sung
Peng Teh- Huai
U. N
Mrs Knight Dies In Huntsville Age 77
Mrs Jenny Wrenshall Knight 77 widow of John W Knight died Thursday morning at 1 45 at her daughter Mrs Robert Lowe s home in Huntsville after a heart attack. Funeral at 10 Friday at the Church of the Nativity Huntsville with interment in Decatur city cemetery. Survived by daughter Mrs Lowe and son Cr W Knight both of Huntsville. She moved from Lincoln ton North Carolina after marriage. widowed in 1935, she followed her daughter to Huntsville in 1936.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jenny Wrenshall Knight
John W. Knight
Robert J. Lowe
Huntsville
Knight
Church of the Nativity (Episcopal
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Floyd
Parker
Are
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Billy Stephenson
Centre, Ala
Flint Baptist Church
James D. Glass
Swannanea
N.C
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Glass
Robert Proctor
Mary Jane
J. C. Hobbie
John
Jim
Tommy
Mobile
Brewton
Centery
Decatur Chapter No. 38
Royal Arch Masons
D. L. Allen
Walter Clopton
Albert Clopton
T. J. Chitwood
God
C. E. Pitt
Ninth Avenue West
Shoal Creek Baptist Church
Bunyan Wallace
William B. Strong
Westside Presbyterian Church
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
City Park
The
First Baptist Church
Limestone Tot
BY Phillip Kyle
Cash
Mrs. Harris
U.S
Wahees
Thomas Carmon
Betty Sue Mullins
Knoxville, Tenn
Fort Oglethorpe
Betty Sue
Carmen
High Brass
Kenneth C. Royall
New York
House Group
G. Milton Kelly
Siren of
U.N
Clen Clements
Mrs. Knight
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
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