France Seeks U S Troop Boost in Europe Amid Korea Reversals
Paris officials press Washington for firm relief aid to Europe in the form of US troops to deter Russia. They urge at least five more American divisions in Western Germany and a unified command, with Britain matching five divisions for Germany or Northern France. The Korea reversals fuel dismay and a “sit and wait” mood among French leaders and public.
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Paris
France
Washington
Europe
U. S
United States
Britain
Germany
Korea
Atlantic
Russia
President Truman and Congress split on dependent pay details
President Truman and congressional committees agreed on the need for a rapid system of family support allowances for servicemen but differed on amounts and cost sharing. The plan would base payments on family size, with the government contributing and servicemen possibly bearing substantial portions of the cost. A compromise potential centers on a base around $65 to $75 with varying dependent allocations, while extending certain allowances to all enlisted ranks.
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Congress
Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Truman
G. I
Senate
House Armed Services Committees
House
Antes AK
Tydings
Idkmd
Senate Committee
Army
Navy
Air Force
Coast Guard
Slaying Trial To Jury Today
In Alexander City Alabama the murder trial of 39 year old Catherine Bystrom neared jury selection as state and defense rested. The case involves the death of 70 year old missionary Lillian Schleifer found shot three times in a lake near the city. Trial proceedings include arguments, testimony linking a barracks bag to the crime and a witness recounting the bag seen in Bystroms car.
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Alexander City
Ala
Catherine Bystrom
Tallapoosa County
Ralph Segrest
Bystrom
Charles McGraw
Helena
Lillian Euphemia Schleifer
Waco
Tex
Memphis
Tenn
Here
W. L. Sowell
Contract Opens for Yearlong Council Work Order
The contract states work will begin 365 days after the Council issues a work order and continue for the full term. The notice emphasizes trigger timing and project initiation by municipal action.
City awards gas distribution contract to P. A Buchanan
In Huntsville Alabama a $1 038 173 contract for a natural gas distribution system was signed by city officials and Birmingham contractor reps. The deal is contingent on financing, and work will start once the city notifies completion of financial arrangements.
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Huntsville
Ala
Birmingham
P. A Buchanan
Councilman Warns On Open Ditches During Construction
Councilman Rutledge Thomas urged Adams to close ditches promptly after work and criticized a cinema engineer who let ditches stay open, causing inconvenience. Bs Echols of Goodwin Engineers in Birmingham endorsed Adams work record, while Thomas pledged full cooperation from the city street department.
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Rutledge Thomas
Adams
Bs Echols
Goodwin Engineers
Birmingham
Thomas
City Street Department
Rail strikes push talks to end Walkout at Packard plants
In Detroit federal and state mediators called another bargaining meeting to settle an 8,000 worker walkout that began yesterday. The CIO United Auto Workers demand a more adequate wage increase beyond five cents an hour. A nationwide soda ash shortage rises from a 7,200 chemical workers strike at Allied Chemicals and Dye Co Solvay and Diamond Alkali plants, cutting 60 to 70 percent of supply. In New York daily sessions continue in the World Telegram and Sun strike, aiming for an agreement or stalemate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Detroit
Packard
CIO United Auto Workers
Allied Chemicals and Dye Co
Solvay Process
Diamond Alkali Corp
Market prices for Decatur area crops and livestock
Decatur markets report cotton middling at 36c and 34c for strict low. Cottonseed per ton 45 dollars. Broilers 25 cents delivered. Hens heavy 18 cents. Hatching eggs 80 cents per dot. New crop yellow corn ear 1.39, shelled 1.45. New crop white corn ear 1.94, shelled 2.00. Corn basis 16 percent moisture. No. 2 new wheat onion free 2.21. No. 2 new oats onion free 6 cents. Other grains basis 13 percent moisture.
Wall Street Gains Momentum as Stocks Rise Sharply
A brisk afternoon rally lifted many shares by over a dollar with gains led by N Y Central Southern Railway Chesapeake and Ohio Gulf Oil Texas Co Socony Vacuum Remington Rand American Sugar Gillette Raz or Minneapolis Moline Grumman Aircraft Douglas Aircraft Bendix Aviation U S Steel Studebaker American Smelting International Paper Nickel Padte Johns Manville. General Motors Chrysler Goodrich Firestone Tire and Western Union fell on the day.
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New York
N. Y. Central
Southern Railway
Chesapeake & Ohio
Gulf Oil
Texas Co
Socony-Vacuum
Remington Rand
American Sugar
Gillette Razor
Minneapolis-Moline
Grumman Aircraft
Douglas Aircraft
Bendix Aviation
U. S. Steel
Studebaker
American Smelting
International Paper
Nickel Paite
Johns Manville
General Motors
Chrysler
Goodrich
Firestone Tire
Western Union
Markets at a Glance from New York and Chicago
Markets at a Glance reports gains in stocks and bonds with rails leading higher. Cotton shows irregular activity as mills buy and hedge. Chicago notes firm wheat, mixed corn and oats, hogs steady to 25 cents higher and top hog price $24.25, cattle unevenly weak to 25 cents higher.
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New York
Rails
Chicago
Weevil poison blamed as fish die in Hartselle streams
Examinations of the Hartselle water supply began Tuesday as health officials investigate mass fish deaths. Local reports say weevil poison runoff from heavy cotton spraying, wash from rains, is suffocating coarse fish in Flint creek area where gills reddened. Damaged fish appear to die after gasping in shallow water.
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Stephenson
Health Department
Hartselle
Flint Creek
Texas City Rolls Out Carpet For Old Maids And Spinsters Love It
Denton Tex Aug 16 Denton rolled out the carpet for the old maids and they giggled about their spinster status The mayor proclaimed the day Old Maid's Day Merchants offered free corsages movies taxicab rides and sham poos The Denton Record Chronicle hosted a tea to celebrate
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Texas City
Denton
Tex
Denton Record Chronicle
Bombers Strike North Korean Front Near Waegwan
AP reports U S heavy bombers blasted a seven mile long strip of front west of the Naktong river with about 30 000 artillery shells in two hours aiding infantry patrols on ridge lines east of the river. American fighters strafed and bombed retreating enemy troops and vehicles as one Red tank lay in the river and others lay wrecked in an orchard.
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Naktong River
St. Lo
Norway
Waegwan
Naktong
Jim Bradley
van Nuys
Calif
Brad
Convicts Punished At Kilby Prison Wing
Two inmates Nick George Montos and Wiley Smith are confined in Kilby prison’s Little Alcatraz wing after a spectacular escape attempt. State Prison Director Frank Boswell ordered nearly all privileges removed. Montos is jailed for receiving stolen property in Jefferson county and Smith for robbery in Lee county.
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Montgomery
Ala
Kilby Prison
Little Alcatraz
Frank Boswell
Nick George Montos
Wiley Smith
Montos
Jefferson County
Smith
Lee County
Future Draft Calls Higher
Washington reports the draft will likely exceed the 185000 authorized for the fiscal year as world conditions remain unsettled. Selective Service director Maj. Gen. Lewis B. Hershey noted Congress lifted size limits on armed forces and that 100000 men have been called for September and October.
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Robert E Geiger
Washington
Lewis B. Hershey
Selective Service
Congress
House Appropriations Committee
Hershey
Storm leaves injuries and power outages in Decatur area
Adults aided two boys burned and shocked by a fallen live wire. One Brookville baby reportedly injured. a three month old suffered a head injury claimed by a dead wire, though doctors said no injury. Lightning disrupted electric lines in West Decatur with two hours outage and 17 minutes downtown. Telephone service affected as 81 lines failed, some repairs by evening. Rites set for John and Davie Harris with Pine Torch church services. Harris family extensive survivors listed and pallbearers named.
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Burl Harris
Harris
A _ Hartselle
Brookville
Robert Hudson
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Decatur
Q. E. Eddens
West
Eddens
Oak Park
Stuart Morton
Lee Street
John
Davie Harris
Pine Torch
Joe Yates
Peck
Cedar Plains
Arthur Garrison
Goldman Harris
Jay
Johnny
Geneva Fore
Hartseller
Henry
Jack
John R
Jeff
Raymond Lindley
Danville
Myrtle Upton
Ollie Mae McDonald
Mindy Murphy
Jettie Tucker
Falkville
Lorene Mew
Illinois
Susanna Roll
Raymond, Orbin
Louis Lindley
Community Glances and Local Notices
Officers and enlisted men in the organized reserve corps meet tonight at 7 30 p m at Decatur military sub district headquarters for the last training film. The chancel choir of Central Methodist church performs at 8 p m tonight.
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Organized Reserve Corps
Decatur Military
Central Methodist Church
First B 29 mass support mission in Korean war
Early dawn mass bombing by B 29s marks a new type of close air support for ground troops. Pilots and bombardiers report hits on target with praise yet uncertaint y remains about enemy casualties. Maj. Gen. O'Donnell calls the operation a hopeful risk as crews finish final checks at 6 30 am.
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Red
Air Force
Emmett
Rosie) O’donnell
Far East Bomber Command
Reds Flee In Terror After Massive Bombing Raid
U S air and ground attacks drove North Korean troops from the Naktong area as Reds fled in all directions. Observers and pilots reported demoralized troops dropping rifles and packs, taking to the hills, while patrols found Reds digging in on the West bank. The retreat followed a 875 ton bomb load that left a 7½ by 3½ mile smoking area and a lull in ground fighting.
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Naktong
U. S. 8Th Army
Korea
Senate Debates Anti Subversive Rider Amid Voting Split
The Senate moves to vote on all amendments to the controls bill, including the Mundt Ferguson rider, with Johnston not joining the rider push. Administration plans contemplate a substitute bill later if needed, while debate on anti-subversive measures could begin after the war time tax bill, amid differing views on votes to defeat the rider. Mundt asserts the rider will stay, claiming sufficient votes to pass it.
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Johnston
D-S. C
Senate
Myers
D-Pa
Lucas
Illinois
McCarran
Dnev
Senate Judiciary Committee
Celler
D-N. Y
House Judiciary Committee
White House
Mundt
Entertain For Guardsmen At Hartsville Meeting
Mr and Mrs Bob Ward and other locals hosted guardsmen at the Brewer home in Hartsville on August 12 with James Stinson Cleo Simmons and others donating time and music The guest list includes Sgt and Mrs Dewey C West Noah Simmons Edward Cooper Billy J Wiley and many Ward and Brewer family members among attendees.
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Bob Ward
Barbara
June
Calvin Brewer
Mrs. Brewer
Hartselle
National Guard Unit
James Stinson
Cleo Simmons
Gordon Spain
Clyde Simmons
John D. Saids
Billy J. Champion
Robert Lee Dean
Ernest Powell
Charles Massey
Floyd Legg
Joe V. Morrow
James Lovett
Willis E. Campbell
Sim Maxwell
Dewey C. West
Noah Simmons
Edward Cooper
Billy J. Wiley
William E. Wright
James N. Brown
Dean Long
Wade Moore
Benton Brewer
Haskel Ward
Phillip Woods
Harold Hopper
van Eaten
Hilton Ward
Harold Montgomery
Bert M. Ward Jr
C. J. Wiley
James L. Waddell
John Chenault Jr
Blanche Brewer
June Storie
James O. Segars
Virginia Sharrott
Operation Gives Decatur Veteran His Sight Again
Lawrence Smith, a 29 year old Decatur veteran, regained his sight after an operation at Lawson VA hospital in Atlanta. He began to lose his sight in 1943 and had one eye removed earlier. Officials called the procedure a 100 percent success with a 60 to 40 chance of success reported. The first sight after bandages came off was his doctor and nurse. His greeting to the nurse: My God, you are beautiful. He is the son of W. R. Smith of 1427 Sixth Avenue South.
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Lawrence Smith
Decatur
Lawson VA
Atlanta
Associated Press
Smith
Red Cross
W. R. Smith
Sixth Avenue South
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H. R. Leeman
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Oscar Napps
Wall Street
Ley
Yrlimale
Robert E. Draper
East Vine Street
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Isaac Johnson
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Eighth Avenue East
E.gh-Wiley Clinic
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Wright
W. A. Willis
Somerville 2
Guy Baker
Grace Baptist Church
Sherman Street
James M. Mahaffey Jr
Wadsworth Street
Abe Powell
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J. Wheeler Smith
Hope
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