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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1946
Page
1
Mild temperatures slide into the state with a rise on Friday and Saturday and scattered thundershowers. Local records show a high of 89 and a low of 64 as various residents visit, travel, or recover.
In Magee Mississippi eight Negroes were held for safekeeping after a deadly ambush on four white men. The Craft brothers John Garfield and Bill are sought. a bloodhound search and federal involvement followed the incident.
A 1938 Pontiac sports coupe owned by T. C. Milam of 1802 Fifth Avenue East was slightly damaged in a Monday night collision on Second Avenue East. No injuries were reported. The other vehicle was a 1941 Chevrolet driven by Leslie H. Taylor of Lansing, Michigan. Police said Taylor backed from a curb while Milam traveled south in the 600 block.
The U S 88th division staged an impressive parade near the Morgan line in Gorizia Italy with Tito's Yugoslav forces observing through glasses, signaling show of force amid tensions in the area.
Judge Whit Windham announces Alabama USO campaign to raise 118000 in October as Alabama Supreme Court Justices Robert T. Simpson and Thomas S. Lawson chair the effort with Fred A. Duran as treasurer. The national drive targets 19000000, while Truman urges support to assist servicemen overseas and in hospitals.
A Decatur committee led by Tom Adams canvasses the business district to raise 17 000 for a state funded regional cattle barn for Decatur. The 67 000 building would serve 25 to 50 years and host stock shows, with state 50 000 and county land and 17 000 required. The group must present by August 28 to a governor appointed board.
Sheriff William Wayland said Robert Beatty admitted stabbing and killing Lois Nelson after she refused his advances. Beatty gave a substitute statement saying he stabbed her several times on a Kickapoo state park road after tearing her clothes and attempting to take her home. Autopsy showed five stab wounds and internal hemorrhage. no rape evidence. Beatty will be charged with murder.
A British informant said London will seek UN Trusteeship Council appointment next month to establish sole trusteeship for Palestine after the League of Nations demise. Britain insists it will not surrender its mandate, and Bevin noted a report on Palestine would guide policy. The inquiry committee urged trusteeship and allowing 100,000 Jewish immigrants, but zoning plans faced U.S. opposition.
In Jerusalem a Jewish agency spokesman denounced the transfer of Arab Legionnaires from Transjordan for guard duty in Palestine as bitterly resented by Jews. Jews also protest Arab guards at Latrun detention camp. The Voice of Israel warned of pending British raids and urged passive resistance to identity checks with a threat of a harsh British regime.
Paris August 20 Poland urged a peace conference committee to reject Italy’s claim that it was not at war with all 21 conference nations. A Polish delegate asserted Poland fought and died in North Africa and Italy, arguing the country was at war, not peace. Belgium Yugoslavia and the Netherlands joined in calling Italy’s statement unacceptable.
City leaders face a funding shortfall of 12 000 to 15 000 needed immediately to sod and prep a new Decatur football field. Civic club presidents and education officials urged action while noting budget overruns and a street repair surge. If delayed, Benson Field repairs may cost 12 000 and the new field must be graded and sodded by November for 1947 viability.
Military and police units quell sectarian violence in Calcutta where about 3,000 people were killed in four days of Hindu Muslim clashes. Food shortages grow as markets reopen amid soaring prices while bodies lie in the streets and disease fears rise.
Two Lacon men Ehmer Nighton and Jefferson Carden are jailed on murder charges after a Sunday altercation with R. H. Bowen the 64 year old farmer who died Monday. Bowen was struck with a stick then beaten with an ax after a home dice game. Rites set for 2 pm at New Hope Church with Rev. Hubert Jenkins officiating.
Witnesses testified before a grand jury in Thens Alabama on the Saturday riot that left Black residents beaten and ten white suspects in custody. Judge Crow urged impartial inquiry and cited Alabama laws to protect all citizens as the unrest spurred by a family altercation escalated into a mob.
William J. Bailey, 39, jailed in Morgan county following a rape conviction in Moulton and a jail incident with Sheriff Ben Corum. Bailey, already sentenced to 10 years, attempted to hang himself and caused a cell disturbance before transfer to a newer Decatur facility for safety. If no appeal, he faces transfer to the state penitentiary later this month.
Undersecretary Acheson denounced Yugoslav attack on a US plane as an outrageous performance and delivered a third protest in two days. The note demands release of crew and passengers and asks whether Yugoslavia will allow innocent overflight in weather emergencies. Britain also protested similar Trieste clashes.
In Eyesville over the weekend a mob of about 75 stormed the jail, a shed, and released Clifford Shatto a 19 year old war veteran. Sheriff Wilmer O Oliver said Byesville Marshall Raymond Reed initially jailed Shatto after a scuffle. Reed left to fetch a doctor and the mob freed him. Shatto was re arrested for disturbing the peace and later released when the accuser Ferris Francis withdrew the charge.
Gov candidate James E. Folsom vows to use federal funds to enact his entire program over four years. He plans to raise teacher salaries, bolster old age pensions, pave farm to market roads, and push a $42 million hospital program across Alabama, with counties receiving needed facilities. He accepts the Democratic fund raising chair in Alabama.
A Yugoslav government spokesman said our pilots acted correctly in shooting down an unarmed American transport plane and forcing another to land earlier. He asserted the actions were coordinated with both Yugoslav and international efforts.
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