Prague Church Clash Looms Over New Bishops Plan
Vatican officials in Prague disclosed two new titular bishops will be named Sunday without Czechoslovakia government approval. The move aims to sidestep the unofficial church state accord, signaling a potential church state clash. An embassy car bombing in Prague damaged Capt. John Childs’s vehicle. no suspects or motives known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vatican
Prague
Slovakia
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Local notes and weather glimpses in Decatur area
Partly cloudy this afternoon through Saturday with scattered afternoon and evening thunder showers and light to moderate coastal winds. Local social notes include visits among Lucas, Keyes, and Patterson families in Oklahoma City, Tanner, and New Orleans. Several births and hospital admissions are reported along with street permit for a small dwelling and brief police court and fire department activity.
Girl Revived After Under Water Stay
An 18 year old Howard College coed, Davie Murphy, spent six to eight minutes underwater at Vestavia Country Club pool. A lifeguard and swimmers pulled her from the bottom, revived her with artificial respiration, and she remained in fair condition at a hospital.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Howard College
Margaret Mitchell Injured in Car Collision in Atlanta
Author of Gone With The Wind Margaret Mitchell was struck by a car driven by a taxi employee in Atlanta. She suffered multiple injuries including possible skull fracture and internal injuries and remained in critical condition at City Hospital with an oxygen tent and blood transfusion.
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Atlanta
Margaret Mitchell
City Hospital
Miss Mitchell
Scarlett O'Hara
John Marsh
Health Bill Advances for Local Public Health Aid
Senate committee backing for a bill giving federal aid to local health units on a sliding scale. It would fund more doctors nurses and technicians to expand community health programs. Sponsored by 30 000 chapters of the National Congress of Parents and Teachers and endorsed by the American Medical Association.
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Washington
Senate
Hill
D-Ala
Senate Committee On Labor and Public Welfare
Alabama
National Congress of Parents and Teachers
American Medical Association
Burglars Cut Out Jewelry Window Panel in Pensacola Theft
In Pensacola Florida the Elebash Jewelry Company was robbed for about 5000 dollars in diamonds and watches. A glass cutting burglar removed the bottom panel of a plate glass window and took items from the shop display before officers pursued leads with no new developments to report.
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Pensacola
Fla
Elebash Jewelry Company
George White
Investiga
Weary Senate Acts Through Long Alabama Session
Weary Alabama senators rested after a grueling session that stretched into the night to break a filibuster over a 67-senator bill. They rushed toward the general appropriations bill next Tuesday with plans to take up the senator-for-every-county measure and the education appropriations bill soon after. A near new filibuster over a proposed absentee ballot restriction was halted by an amendment allowing military voters to mail ballots. The bill finally passed 20-3, with supporters arguing it would curb fraud without disenfranchising residents.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama Senate
Senate
Greene County
James S. Coleman
Coleman
Joe Langan
Mobile
Bradley Named Permanent Chairman of Joint Chiefs
President Truman announced Omar Nelson Bradley, long known as the G I's general, as permanent chairman of the joint chiefs of staff. The move follows the creation of a new unified military structure and Bradley's 34 years of service in two world wars and as head of the Veterans Administration.
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Washington
Omar Nelson Bradley
G. L’s
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Army
Truman
Bradley
Joint Chiefs
Navy
Air Force
Veterans Administration
J. Lawton Collins
Louis Denfeld
Denfeld
Hoyt Vandenberg
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Tremors Add To Ambato's Terror During the Night
Quito Ecuador Aug 12 More earth tremors were reported last night as residents of Ecuador's richest agricultural area still removed their dead from the debris of last Friday's earthquake. Col Gabriel Nunez military commander of the Ambato area says tremors were intense enough to terrify inhabitants and topple quake weakened walls. Our greatest problem now is the prevention of an epidemic but everything possible is being done. Stores have reopened at Ambato and food is being distributed by a fleet of 10 military trucks circulating continuously throughout the Ambato region.
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Quito
Ecuador
Gabriel Nunez
Ambato
Nunez
Man Is Shot to Death by Wife in Alabama
In Banks Alabama 39 year old mother of two Lola Mae Spivey is jailed in Troy on a murder charge after shooting her husband Macon Spivey 40 four times as he slept at their home near here early today. Sheriff Ben Reeves said she claimed they argued after a movie last night and he knocked her down. She said he had threatened her before and she was afraid to leave him or have him locked up. They lived in the community 16 years and have two children.
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Banks
Ala
iPi
Ben Reeves
Lola Mae Spivey
Troy
Macon Spivey
Reeves
Spivey
New Crisis In Coal Rumored
Rumors of a new coal crisis spread from White Sulphur Springs West Virginia as contract talks continued between John L Lewis union officials and Northern and Western operators. Reports say some operators may stop welfare fund payments, possibly triggering a strike ahead of the 60 day cooling off deadline.
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W. Va
John L. Lewis
Union
Northern and Western
United Mine Workers’ Welfare Fund
Lewis
Northern
UMW
Recognition Given Work of Civic Unit at Auburn Convention
Decatur Chamber of Commerce received special recognition at an Auburn convention for excellent home demonstration work. Morgan county agent Mrs Lillie Maude Alexander thanked the chamber for cooperation during the April home demonstration convention.
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Decatur
Farm Price Advantage May Be Disadvantage by Fall
Washington August 12 Farmers face a shift from a wartime price edge to potential losses as bumper fall crops and growing pork supply threaten to push prices below parity. Agriculture economists note parity as a fair standard and warn that July readings show a two percent premium over parity.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
Agriculture Department
Rape Suspect Turns Himself In At GRAY COURT
Willie Tolbert a 25 year old black man sought for attempted rape of a white girl surrendered at 4am near Greenwood after a days long search involving as many as 1000 residents. He was taken to the state penitentiary in Columbia. Sheriff officials said no harm would come to him. The case involved a 16 or 17 year old girl and a male companion forced to drive him for two hours.
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Gray Court
S. C
Willie Junior Tolbert
W. E. Buzhardt
Greenwood County
Greenwood
State Penitentiary
Columbia
John E. Ashmore
J. Cal White
Charge Filed In Shooting Here
Mrs Eva Williams aged 29 of 507 Sixteenth Avenue East is held in Morgan jail on a charge of assault with intent to murder after the Wednesday midnight shooting of Mrs Gladys Sylvester. Sylvester, 30, listed in critical condition at Decatur General Hospital, was shot in the head and shoulder through a kitchen window at the Williams residence. Bond set at 750 dollars by Sheriff Humphrey.
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Eva Williams
Sixteenth Avenue East
Morgan
Gladys Sylvester
Two-State Hunt Ends in Capture of Jail Breakers
In Meridian Mississippi on August 12 a two state manhunt ended when Richard Rosenfield and Paul Sylvia were cornered near Ward Alabama. They escaped Warren county jail at Vicksburg after slugging a guard and were pursued with Bryan Logan captured at Brookhaven. Rosenfield and Logan, both of Louisville Kentucky, faced federal auto theft charges while Sylvia, of Fayette Mississippi, was charged with grand larceny and jailed for safekeeping. The three men were taken to Meridian.
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Meridian
Miss
Ward
Ala
Richard Moses Rosenfield
Paul Sylvia
Bryan Butler Logan
Logan
Brookhaven
Warren County
Vicksburg
Rosenfield
Louisville
Sylvia
Fayette, Miss
Jecheon
Meriden
Proponents of Arms Program Falters in Setback
Voices backing President Truman s 1.45 billion arms aid bill concede defeat in committee and shift fight to the House floor. After a tie vote nullified Richards amendment to cut aid to Atlantic pact nations, debate moves to floor action next week as supporters seek unified defense planning and tighter control of arm shipments.
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Washington
Truman
House Foreign Affairs Committee
House
Foreign Affairs Committee
Vorys
R-Onio
Richards
D-Sc
Hewsmen
Kee
D-W Va
U. S
United States
Rep
Lodge
R-Conn
China
Knowland
Gift Freezer Mention Tangles Truman Circle
Senate inquiries reveal Mrs. Truman and other notable names linked to home freezer gifts, amid broader probe of five percenters and Vaughan. Vaughan ready to testify as Waitt data issues surface, while White House denies knowledge of the matter and investigators press for full context.
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Marvin L. Arrowhead
Washington
Senator Mundt
Harry H. Vaughan
Harry S. Truman
Justice Vinson
Senate
White House
Vinson
Vaughan
Truman
Rotary plans Cotton Week in Morgan County
Ed Price, chairman of the rotary cotton committee, outlined a Rotary club sponsored Cotton Week for Decatur and Morgan County in the fall at the Morgan County High School all day meeting. J T Robinson welcomed guests as Cotaco FFA quartet and the Holliday family provided music for about 1700 attendees. McWilliams spoke about a new fertilization plant being built in Mississippi on a cooperative basis and J D Hayes was introduced by L T Wagnon. See COTTON on Page 2.
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Ed Price
Rotary Club
Morgan County Farm Bureau
Decatur
Morgan County
Morgan County High School
Hartselle
J. T. Robinson
Farm Bureau
Cotaco Ffa Quartet
Holliday
Carolyn Aycock
Falkville Fha
McWilliams Speaks Robinson
K. W. McWilliams
Mississippi Chemical Co
Mississippi
J. D. Hayes
Lily Flag
Madison County
L. T. Wagnon
Morgan Farm
Twelve People Face Grand Larceny and Concealing Stolen Property
Sheriff C Bibb Humphrey announced charges against twelve men including Joe Hormell 21 held on a grand larceny warrant from November 1945 and John H 24 jailed on a grand jury indictment for theft of a car and concealing stolen property. Other arrests include four for disturbing public peace weapons obscene language assault and battery public drunkenness and one for removing a landline.
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C. Bibb Humphrey
Joe Hormell
Humphrey
John H.a
Lee Dumenteeeueia Dias Tema
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O. K
Rome
The
Associated Press
John Childs
Childs
Russia
Marshal Tito
Soviet Union
Kremlin
Tito
Communist Information Bureau
Cominform
Albania
Greece
Berlin
Helmstedt
Johnny
Scotty
Charlotte
N. C
Shirley Mae Wills
Lancaster
Anne Stelzriede
Providence
R. I
Charles Lucas
Oklahoma City
Oklahoma
Will Lucas
Ts. Good Lucas
Tanner
Ned Keyes
C.J. Keyes
Pines
Nell Crowder
Valdermosa
Dow Patterson and Son
New Orleans
Otto Fisher
East Wilson Avenue
Hattie Hogan
James Walker
Clarence Aldridge
Falkville
Buford Maddox
Southside Baptist Church
Austinville Baptist Church
Ar Osence
C. L. Stover
Fairview Baptist Church
Lebanon
Tenn
J. M. Hendon
Austinvill
James H. Crow Jr
Cullman
Cullman Circuit Court
Rual Frost
Moulton
Niles
Mich
Panaping Hospital
E. J. Baggett
Decatur General Hospital
John Caspers
Decatur General Hosital
James M. Gilbert
Tanner J
Henry Phillips
Ninth Avenue East
M. D. Rice
Decatur 3
Hamil Clinic
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Olene Dunn
Arab
J. W. Sams
Trinity
Richard L. Graham
Sherman Street
Irvin Osborn
Trinity 1
J. A. Self
N. L
Mornio
J. B Whitmire
Decatur Fire Department
Fourth Avenue East
Ninth Avenue West
Alabama Street
Jim Weatherford
Robert Weatherford
Texas
Jim
Jackson
By Ken Reynolds
Commodmite
Gwiw
Herb Little
Ezra van Horn
Mrs. Truman
James Y"hunt
Hunt
Alden H. Waitt
Waitt
Army Chemical Corps
Gordon Gray
Herman Feldman
Gray
Mildred Ortmeyer
Chemical Corps
Paris
Army Inspector General
William Rogers
Milwaukee
Senator McCarthy
R-Wis
Albert J. Gross
Gross
Albert Verley Company
Chicago
John Maragon
Verley Company
McCarthy
South Dakota
Mundt
Hoey
D-N. C
APS
Toplas
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