Weather and community notes from Decatur
Partly cloudy conditions with thundershowers expected through Saturday and gentle to moderate southwest winds along the coast. No loss from a wiring blaze at 302 Railroad Street. J H Lorenzo U S Marine Corps heads recruiting in Huntsville from Florence. Bible and church events slated with sermons on confession and unpardoned sin. Local hospital admissions and dismissals listed. Miss Margaret Chenault of Decatur earns Master of Arts in English at Middlebury College after AB at University of Alabama.
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U. S. Marine Corps
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Decatur
Middlebury College
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Chenault
University of Alabama
Boyle Faces Get-Tough Policy as Democrats Elect National Chairman
Southern Democrats question a harsher stance under William Boyle Jr as party chairman pick by President Truman McGrath backs Boyle while delaying inviting Dixie members who opposed civil rights. McGrath seeks to unite factions before 1950 and 1952 campaigns, and will meet the Democratic National Committee to choose a successor.
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Mississippi
Young Wife Held For Slaying As Husband Passes
A 16 year old Birmingham house wife, Barbara Harper, is jailed on a charge of murdering her husband, Davis Harper, 29, who died after a domestic quarrel. Acting Coroner J L Boggan ordered her taken into custody. She is pregnant. The couple had been married two years and lived at the mother in law’s home.
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John Hampton Escapes Grave Fire At Tuscumbia Plant
John Hampton, a former Decatur resident active in Tuscumbia auto trade, was reported out of danger after being overcome by smoke in a fire that gutted the Hampton-McNess Motor Co. Five cars and several trucks burned as investigators ponder origin. Nearby Jasper fire at Hill's grocery destroyed the frame building and caused smoke damage to nearby stores after a five hour effort.
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Decatu
Tuscumbia
Hampton-McNess Motor Company
Hampton
Otto Nebrig
Associated Press
Jasper
Two Youths Expect Guilty Pleas on Burglary Charge
Roy Lee Alexander aged 17 and Eli jah Jack Harris aged 24 filed notice in Morgan circuit clerk’s office that they intend to plead guilty to the burglary of about $60 worth of meat and lard from a railroad car. The hearing before Circuit Judge James Crow is set for Saturday at 10 a.m. Attorney Ralph Slate appointed to represent Harris with counsel for the other defendant at Swit Packing company siding.
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Elijah Jack Harris
Morgan Circuit Clerk
Phillip Shanks
Morgan County
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Ralph Slate
Harris
Cnarg
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Rai Eee
Swit Packing Company
Death Claims Klan's Green
Atlanta Aug 19 A heart attack ended the life of 59 year old Dr Green a physician and Ku Klux Klan leader known for white supremacy and a Hitler like mustache. Officials said a successor would be named soon by the Klan board as worry rose over a possible revival of the organization in the South.
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Atlanta
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School Age Law Unchanged in Morgan County
Morgan County will follow the state supreme court decision, with 41 county schools opening Monday August 22 and an estimated 7,500 students enrolled. County Superintendent H R Leeman said no state guidance allows enrolling children before they are six by October first, so Guntersville ruling does not apply. Bus service will operate on the regular schedule the first day.
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Morgan County
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Leeman
State Department of Education
Guntersville
Limestone's First Bale Expected Premium Price
Limestone's first bale ginned Thursday afternoon weighs 470 pounds and is said to bring a premium price of at least 73 cents. The bale, grown on the Bob Lewis farm in the White Gold riery, was taken to the square for auction where a committee led by Harold Lovvers, Winston Garth Jr, and Grady Spence called on local firms for buyers.
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Bob Lewis
Harold Lovvers
Winston Garth, Jr
Grady Spence
Third Week Ends In Circuit Court Criminal Term
Morgan circuit court ended the third week of criminal docket trials this morning when T. J. Bud Martin pleaded guilty to a grand larceny charge. His request for probation will be heard by Presiding Judge James H. Crow Jr. August 31. The trials of Edgar Ross Quillin, Madison county man, charged with swindling two limestone farmers of 3500 were continued until next term of court.
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T. J
Bud) Martin
Martin
James H. Crow Jr
Edgar Ross Quillin
Madison County
House Batters Arms Program Passes Amid Cuts
The administration’s foreign arms aid program faced heavy cuts and added restrictions as the House approved the measure by 238 to 122. A 530 percent reduction slashed the $1.1609 billion Western European aid, with at least half of supplies to be shipped on American-flag vessels and U S troops limited to noncombatant roles. The House did approve the President’s requested sums for Greece, Turkey, Iran, Korea and the Philippines totaling 211.37 million and 27.64 million respectively, while rejecting several amendment attempts.
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Ireland
British Plane Toll Is Heavy
In Britain, two crashes claim many lives. A Moorland mountainside crash involving a European Airways twin transport from Belfast to Manchester left 22 passengers and four crew dead, with 26 bodies counted. a woman died en route to hospital. A Baildon test flight crash killed four aboard.
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Northern Ireland
Baildon
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Oldham
Court Orders Man Returned to Atlanta Facing Charges
Birmingham Alabama August 19 United States District Judge Clarence Mullins ordered Dunstean A Youngs to be removed to Atlanta to face charges of bilking Georgians of more than eighty thousand dollars in a city area. Youngs admitted at a hearing that he was named in the federal indictment and offered no objection to the transfer.
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Dixie Cotton Growers Warned on Stiff Competition
Ray Provost of Fresno spoke to the National Cotton Council mechanization conference in Bennettsville advising Southern growers to meet the competitive pressures to survive. He noted California aims to harvest over 1.25 million bales on 954000 acres this year aided by mechanization, and that level farms pose a shift from horse drawn to mechanical methods.
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Bennettsville
S. C
Ray Provost
Producers Cotton Oil Company of
Fresno
National Cotton Council
Far West
Califor
Nia
Provost
California
Frank D. Barlow
Data Mundi Declines Comment On Vaughan Sources
Washington dispatch notes Senator McCarthy says five percenter investigators are getting leads from sources very close to the President and Vaughan in the White House about Maj. Gen. Harry H. Vaughan. Mundt notes gifts of deep freezers paid by Albert H. Verley Perfume Co. to Mrs. Truman Vaughan and others in 1945 46. Paris trip by Verley reps on an Army transport plane is cited.
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McCarthy JR
Wis
Senate
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Chicago
Senate Investigations Committee
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Harry S. Truman
General Vaughan
Verley Company
Truman
John Maragon
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Burglaries Hit Cullman Stores In Nighttime Series
A trio of break ins in Cullman last night through rear windows netted a 355 dollar Harley Davidson motorcycle, 12 to 15 dollars in cash, two hunting knives, and possible other missing goods. Bash Brothers harness shop Moody and Smith groceries and hardware and Farmers hardware were burglarized. A ladder and transom entry were used. a rear window pane was removed at the harness shop. Authorities reported a motorcycle with chrome wheels and serial number 49S4392 missing.
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Moody and Smith Groceries
Farmer'’s Hardware
Herbert Bash
Bash
Moody and Smith
Finis Baker
Baker
Negro in Custody On Assault Charge
Robert Mathews a 19 year old Negro is in Morgan jail today on charges of assault to murder and false pretense. He was arrested yesterday by officers of the Morgan sheriff s force. Other arrests include one on
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Robert Mathews
Morgan
Morgan Sheriff's Force
First Bale Here Brings Producer $75 Bale Bonus
The first bale of cotton from the new crop was ginned at Producers gin and brought grower Joe Evans of Decatur 2 a $75 bonus when sold to Davis-Hunt company. Evans’s DPL-15 cotton was planted April 15, with 1400 pounds of seed cotton yielding a 484 pound bale. He used 400 pounds of 4-8-4 fertilizer mix and 100 pounds of soda. He expects another bale soon.
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Joe Evans
Decatur
Davis-Hunt Company
Evans
Parade by Klan Set In Pell City
Alabama’s jailed Klan leader William Hugh Morris seeks new paths to freedom as hundreds prepare for a white cloak parade in Pell City. The Alabama supreme court refused Morris’s second appeal after he refused to surrender KKK membership rolls to a grand jury probing whippings threats and cross burnings.
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Birmingham
Ala
Alabama
William Hugh Morris
Alabama Supreme Court
Morris
Year in Jail Meted to Baker in Jewelry Store Robbery
John B. Bayer, 31, who turned state's evidence after the $67,000 Perry jewelry store robbery, was sentenced to one year in jail for his role. Several co-defendants receive 10 to 15 year terms. Judge Wheeler ordered Bayer to be a good boy and to go straight.
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Birmingham
Ala
John B. Bayer
Perry
Willard McCall
Baker
Chicago
G. B. Parsons
Lawrence Duncan
Clair Johnson
U. S
McCall
Robert J. Wheeler
Tribute Fete for Connie Mack Draws New York Crowds
In New York on August 19 a massive tribute honored Connie Mack the 86 year old patriarch of baseball. Thousands cheered as Mack led a parade down Lower Broadway while bands played and ticker tape filled the air. His Philadelphia American League club preceded by New York Yankees members headed toward a weekend meeting at Yankee Stadium.
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York
Connie Mack
Mack
Broadway
Philadelphia
American League Baseball
New York Yankees
Yankee Stadium
Effort To Map Compromise is Not Successful
The Alabama state senate faced a failed bid to end a filibuster against the general appropriations bill. Gov. James E. Folsom’s administration pushed to remove open end provisions capping department spending. House and Senate leadership failed to settle whether to veto or revise, while a conference committee was prepared should the Senate agree. The stalemate risked a state shutdown if no appropriation bill passed.
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Montgomery
State Senate
James E. Folsom
Senate
House
Norman Harris
Morgan County
Capitol
Prison Reform Plan Submitted
MONTGOMERY Aug 19 4 The legislative committee investigating Alabama prison recommended transferring control to a five man board appointing the prison director. Board members would be named by a Governor plus house and senate members. A bill to implement the plan is on the house calendar but unlikely to pass this session due to time limits.
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Alabama
House
Senate
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