Weather and community notes from Decatur area
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Thursday with scattered afternoon thundershowers and coastal southerly winds. Kiwanis program Thursday noon at Hotel Lyons. Mayo Clinic visit for Arle B Davidson back home in Montgomery. Baptist church services led by Jimmy Caudill and Rev E N Chandler. Local business and court notes, hospital admissions, and rabies test results. Decatur DAVs to meet Thursday at 8 30 PM at American Legion hall. See DIARY on Page 2.
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Carl Schwachow
Kiwanis Committee On Entertainment
Lyons
Arle B. Davidson
the Daily
Montgomery
Mayo Clinic
Rochester
Minn
Decatur Davs
American Legion Hall
Harold Smith
Officials in New York Start Probe of Klan Activity
MINEOLA N Y Aug 17 county authorities plan an inquiry into charges that 15 members of the Ku Klux Klan met in nearby Freeport Sunday night to plot a revival of hooded terrorism on Long Island. District Attorney Frank A Gulotta said he will investigate charges made Monday night at a Merrick gathering by Henry Waldman Hempstead county commander of the Jewish War Veterans. The Merrick meeting was called to protest threats against Mr and Mrs Charles Faber of Freeport who sold their home to a young Negro couple. An arrow bearing a note signed K K K and containing a denunciation of Negroes was fired last week at the Fazer screening door. The Fathers also reported receiving telephone threats.
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Mineola
N. Y
Ku Klux Klan
Freeport
Long Island
Frank A. Gulotta
Merrick
Henry Waldman
Hempstead
Charles Faber
K.K.K
TVA Looks Ahead Future Vast Power Increase Seen
TVA officials told Electrical World that power capacity will rise to about 1,275,500 kw by 1952 with new units at New Johnsonville and multiple projects across the system. The report notes rising load, favorable water conditions, and no near term rate hikes, detailing planned capacity additions from 1948 to 1952 and related projects under TVA and partner works.
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Tennessee Valley Authority
TVA
Electrical World
Johnsonville
Fontana
Douglas
Wilson
Watauga
Wilson Dam
Wheeler
Wilbur
South Holston
Chickamauga
Hales Bar
Guntersville
Pickwick
New Johnsonville
Aluminum Company of America
Cheoah Dam
Corps of Engineers
Cumberland
Center Hill
Senate Plans Own Money Bill
The Senate rejected the House general appropriation bill after six hours of filibuster and delays. It adopted a finance and taxation committee substitute and will draft its own measure totaling about $18,000,000 annually with an across the board cut of 10 percent. No items were voted on as work halted with plans to resume Friday amid expected amendments. Senator Paul Hooton of Ran- see SENATE n Page 2.
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Montgomery
Senate
House
Finance and Taxation Committee
Paul Hooton
Ran
Mother Of Fifteen Children Honored At Reunion
Mrs Lou Stephenson leads a 15 child family reunion at Lyons hotel dining room their first in eighteen years. Freeman Stephenson dead, Charles Stephenson entertained on piano. Lou Land Stephenson, 67, recalls faith, patience, and cornbread as the family grew with no fatalities.
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Mary Delmore
Stephenson
Lou Stephenson
Lyons Hotel
Freeman Stephenson
Charles Stephenson
Mrs. Stephenson
Lou Land
Cullman County
Grady
Reprimand Over Mundt Remarks Target Vaughan
Senator Mundt denounced Maj. Gen. Harry Vaughan as a finagling bargainer using pressure and bluster to push a government worker toward breaking the law. Senator Hoey warned Mundt would face court disqualification for such remarks, while Mundt insisted the exchange remain in the record amid indictments and testimony involving John Maragon and sugar rationing cases. Claims included who paid money to influence allocations and Vaughan’s remarks about Democrats sticking together during 1946 deliberations.
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Washington
Mundt
R-Sd
Harry H. Vaughan
Vaughan
Truman
Hoey
D-Nc
Senate
Special Investigations Subcommittee
Senator McCarthy
R-Wis
John Maragon
Milton R. Polland
Milwaukee
Maragon
Allied Molasses Company
Perth Amboy
N. J
Herbert C. Hathorn
Agriculture Department
New Jersey
White House
Hathorn
Department
Echols Is Given One Year Term
Willie Echols, a Somerville farmer, was found guilty of second degree manslaughter in the death of Nella June Maples. He faces one year of hard labor and a $500 fine, with a probation petition filed by his attorney. A hearing is set for Aug. 31 before Judge James H. Crow. The maples case previously led to a five year sentence in 1948 that was overturned and retried.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Willie Echols
Somerville
Nella June Maples
Morgan Circuit
Echols
S. A. Lynne
James H. Crow
Morgan
State Supreme Court
Maples
Columbus Cosby
John Henry
Decatur Electric Department
Cosby
Sherman Powell
Docks Strike Parleys Held in Hawaii Daily News
Hawaii longshoremen and seven struck stevedoring firms sat to direct negotiations to end the 109 day CIO dock strike. Gov. Stainback arranged the talks in his office with Longshore President Bridges urging a fresh start.
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Douglas Lovelace
Honolulu
Hawaii
CIO
Ingram M. Stainback
International Longshoremen’s and Warehousemen’s Union
Harry Bridges
Edward A. Towse
Bridges
Dates for Morgan County Fair set by Jaycees
The Morgan County Fair date was set for the week of September 12 by the Jaycees. The district daily show will be at the coliseum on September 13 and 14. The Jaycees also approved inviting wives and other guests of members to attend, with Pat Jeffrey, a telephone engineer, as a guest at the meeting.
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Morgan County
Coliseum
Pat Jeffrey
Leroy McEntire Jr Named Chest Campaign Chairman
Leroy McEntire Jr was named chairman of the Community Chest drive at a unanimous meeting of the board of directors. The budget committee set hearings for funds on September 6 and 7, with Joe Calvin Mrs E M Chenault and Rutledge Thomas on the panel. McEntire, an Army Reserve captain, is at Ft Bergen taking a refresher course with the judge advocate general's department. Local Chest officials announced his appointment by wire and said he has accepted.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeRoy McEntire Jr
Community Chest Board of Directors
Joe Calvin
E. M. Chenault
Rutledge Thomas
McEntire
Army Reserve
Ft. Benning
Judge Advocate General's Department
Thomas Urges Carb on Arms
Socialist Norman Thomas urged Congress to delay arms shipments under the $1.45 billion foreign arms bill until a coordinated North Atlantic defense is worked out. He called for universal disarmament under international controls via the United Nations before further arms expenditures.
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Washington
Norman Thomas
Congress
Europe
Thomas
Senate Foreign Relations and Armed Services Committee
House
North Atlantic
United States
Nations
United Nations
Husband shot after argument with young wife in Birmingham
A 29 year old iron worker was shot in the neck in Birmingham during an early morning argument with his 6 year old wife who is an expectant mother. Detectives said no charge was filed against Barbara Tice who was at the mother in law's home where the couple had lived for six weeks. The victim suffers paralysis from the wound.
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Birmingham
W. A. Dobson
Barbara Tice
Maudie Raynor
Klan's Chief In New Court Plea
The Alabama Supreme Court was asked to void a Jefferson circuit order sending Klan Leader Hugh Morris back to jail. His attorney argued the lower court had no right to forfeit Morris bond and recommit him, while the state urged the petition for review be rejected for technical flaws and insufficient form.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Supreme Court
Jefferson
Hugh Morris
Hugh A. Locke
Morris
Taylor Hardin
Hardin
Locke
Churchgoers Die in Mississippi Road Crash
A lumber truck struck an open-bed truck carrying revivalists near Fulton Mississippi last night killing six and injuring twenty. All dead and injured were from Hamilton Alabama and the Church of God revivalists were en route to Tremont. Rev W H Cox was among those traveling with the group.
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Fulton
Miss
Tupelo
Highway Patrol
G. L. Hobis
R. Y. Booth
Newburg
Ind
Mississippi
Hamilton
Ala
Church of God
W. H. Cox
Tremont
Here
Hobis
S. E. Cox
Mary Jane Coons
Diver Sets Record in Deep Sea Benthoscope Mission
Otis Barton descended to 4500 feet in the Benthoscope off California, breaking his 1934 depth record of 3028 feet. Telephoning observations to a barge, he reported luminescent life, lantern fish, a long-tailed creature, octopus tentacles, and spiraling shrimp battering the viewing window as he reached a new underwater record.
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Otis Barton
Bermuda
William Beebe
Barton
Murder charge filed against driver of death car
Atlanta authorities announce murder charges against the taxi driver who fatally injured Margaret Mitchell. The Gone With The Wind author died yesterday at Grady Memorial Hospital after five days of injuries from a speeding car on Peachtree Street.
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Margaret Mitchell
Atlanta
Peachtree Street
Hugh D. Gravett
Miss Mitchell
Grady Memorial Hospital
Murder on Page 2 Segregation Bill Stalled in Alabama House
A bill to force racial residency segregation in Alabama failed to move out of the house judiciary committee. Rep. Pugh Haynes of Lowndes was absent when Chairman E. L. Roberts of Etowah pulled the measure from the hopper. The bill would criminalize Negroes living in white designated areas and Whites in Negro districts, with penalties up to $1 fine or one year in jail.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
House Judiciary Committee
Rep
Pugh Haynes
Lowndes
E. L. Roberts
Etowah
Decatur Schools Open Sept 12 Walter Jackson Says
Walter Jackson, Decatur superintendent, announced the city will open schools on September 12 and that first graders must present birth and vaccination certificates. Children age six by October 1, 1949 are eligible, with this year’s enrollment expected to reach about 4,000 from 3,000 last year.
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Decatur City
Walter Jackson
Jackson
Decature
Yanks to Flee Chinese Area
The House debates Truman era foreign arms aid, with a $1.45 billion plan to supply arms to NATO nations for defense against aggression. The U S embassy in Canton seeks safe conduct for the liner General Gordon evacuating Americans from communist threatened cities as Nanhsiung falls.
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House of Representatives
Washington
United States
Canton
Foreign Office
General Gordon
Nanhsiung
Namyung
Foochow
Formosa
Min River
Europe
Pius XII
Holy See
Cominform
Communist Information Bureau
Stalin
City and State to Seek Funds for Coliseum Project
Charles Rountree, chairman of the coliseum board, said the board will request $4,000 from the City of Decatur and $5,000 from the State Agricultural Center Board for 1950 funds to operate and finish the coliseum. He noted plans for a road into the entrance, a project agreed upon by the Highway Department.
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Charles Rountree
Coliseum Board
the Daily
Decatur
Agricultural Center Board
Rankin Named Scout Honors Member of National Council
James L. Rankin of Decatur was appointed to the Protestant lay Committee, national council of the Boy Scouts of America. He is among five men from region five to serve, joining Charles A. Stuck, Lester Dawley, BeneAlle Elizabethton, and A. Roy Campbell. Rankin joined Scouts at 12 in Knoxville and has since served as volunteer Scouter in the Tennessee Valley Council.
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James L. Rankin
Decatur
National Council
Boy Scouts of America
Rankine
BSA
Charles A. Stuck
Jonesboro
Ark
Lester Dawley
Jackson
Mississippi
BeneAlle Elizabethton
Tenn
Roy Campbell
Rankin
National Council Committee
Knoxville
Tennessee Valley Council
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Nlemaiee Glimpse
Jimmy Caudill
First Baptist Church
E. N. Chandler
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Joe Slaten
Decatur 2
Recorders
W. E. Corry
Oak Street
Vanderbilt Hospital
H. L. Montgomery
Trinity 1
General Hospital
Howard Thomas
Charles H. Sanders
J. T. Luker
Grant Street
Hamil Clinic Hospital
Andrew Motes
Decatur 1
W. F. Hayes
J. T. Kidd
Jackson Street
John Thomas
Rogersville
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Earl Joyce Lee
Calvin Walker
Decatur 3
E. M. Mahaffey
West Church Street
Ronnie Jett
U. S
Mercury
Decatur Branch State Health Laboratory
C -C. Johnson
Finley Island Road
By Ken Reynolds
Daily Want
Senator Brands Gen. Vaughan
Ida Lyons
Camden
Numa Lyons
Reuunion
California
Ohio
Tennessee
Lee
Jaycees
Chest Campaign
Carb
Klan
Supreme Court
Calif
The
Associated Press
Camus
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