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20 Aug 1948
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Decatur Daily in Decatur, Alabama
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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 20, 1948
Page
1
Decatur area weather and local notices brief
The forecast calls for fair conditions this afternoon tonight and Saturday with gentle to moderate variable coastal winds. Police Chief J B Whitmire reports arrests for drunkenness disorderly conduct and prohibition law violations Thursday night and more in city court Thursday afternoon. Local hospital matters include several patient updates and a tonsillectomy at Decatur General. The Decatur cotton market noon quotes middling 31 75 strict low 30 75.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Whitmire
Decatur
Alarms in Hour Keep City Firemen on Alert
Three calls within an hour kept firefighters busy. At 11:10 A.M. an electric motor at Southeastern Metals on Second Avenue sparked a blaze that was out by workers before the crew arrived, with no loss. At 12:05 P.M. sawdust at Davis feed store on Church Street caught fire but was quickly extinguished. Two minutes later wiring in an electric stove at L A Munn’s residence on Sixth Avenue West burned, causing only slight damage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Southeastern Metals
Second Avenue
Davis Feed
Church Street
L. A
Draft details laid down by president
President Truman directed selective service boards to mail classification questionnaires to single non veteran draft registrants by September 7 under a new peace time draft act. Deferments cover dependents veterans essential jobs and conscientious objectors. Questionnaires determine induction or deferral with oldest birth dates first.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Selective Service Boards
Credit Curbs Clamp Down on Easy Payments
The Federal Reserve Board issued rules to curb easy payment plans on consumer goods from 50 to 5000 dollars, effective Sept. 20. Down payments and installment limits apply to autos and major appliances with 15 to 18 month terms. personal and most loans are affected. Housing and single payments are exempt. President Truman signed the anti inflation law, marking the first controls under the act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sterling F. Green
Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Truman
Airport Purchase Marks Historic Local Deal
A $66 350 airport purchase moved a 200 acre site into public hands with a 65 200 check from Decatur Athens Morgan and Limestone counties. Luke Pryor received funds. the state and federal grants totaling 16 500 were pledged with no strings attached. Officials signed papers in the city attorney’s office as Mayors Summer and Richardson and county leaders attended.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mary Williams
Decatur
Athens
Morgan
Limestone
Luke Pryor
Luke P. Shaw
Pryor
J. M. Holt
John A. Caddell
H. R. Summer
R. H. Richardson
Sim L. Howell
Morgan Board of Revenue and Control
Mr. Holt
Asa B. Rountree
State Department of Aeronautics
State of
Alabama
Pfo
Morgan County
Limestone County
Summer and Richardson
Howell and Holt
Mr. Rountree
Messrs
Conservation Groups Discuss Bill to Remove Politics from State Department
More than 60 people at the Greystone cafe dinner heard a bill sponsored by State Senator Ben Glover to have the Alabama Conservation Department director appointed by the state conservation advisory board with Senate approval rather than by the governor. Claude D. Kelley urged clubs to affiliate with the federation as Bert Thomas reported the department in healthy condition. Ernest Martin spoke on TVA park and reserve development. The meeting was led by W C Bertram with advisory board members Hewlett Jackson and Judge J. H. Crow Jr. present. The Alabama Wildlife Federation will hold its annual meeting in Huntsville October 8-10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
North Alabama Wildlife Clubs
State Conservation Department
Greystone
Ben Glover
State Conservation Advisory Board
Senate
Claude D. Kelley
The
Alabama Wildlife Federation
State Federation
Idle Workers Pivotless Atoms Plant Walkout In New Mexico
More than 3,000 construction and maintenance workers at Los Alamos idle for a third day amid an AFL dispute over non union labor importation by Brown and Root of Houston. Union leaders urged strike action and warned of serious damage to the atomic weapons program. a rally was set for Espanola.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Alamos
N. M
Atomic Energy Commission
Espanola
Brown and Root
Houston
Tex
AFL
AEC
Rights Group Begins Fight For Ballot Recognition
States rights democrats open a superior court fight in Raleigh to gain legal recognition and ballot placement for Thurmond and Wright. Judge Harris set a hearing after the elections board refused recognition for failure to meet timing and petition integrity rules. The group had filed petitions with over 18 names but they were not county checked.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Raleigh
N. C
North Carolina
W. C. Harris
State Board of Elections
J. Strom Thurmond
South Carolina
Fielding L. Wright
Mississippi
Elections
Eight hurt as Greyhound bus overturns in Maryland
Eight persons were seriously injured and 16 others hurt when a Greyhound bus ran off a Maryland highway and tipped onto its side in a ditch. Driver John B. Harris, 34, of Philadelphia, was hospitalized with a possible skull fracture. Investigators sought the cause.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkton
Greyhound
Charlestown
Philadelphia
Marynd
John B. Harris
Harford Memorial Hospital
Harve de Grace
Taft Hartley changes loom in GOP plans
Washington reports that Democratic demands for repeal of the Taft Hartley act spark talk of GOP changes. Gov. Thomas E. Dewey indicates openness to revisions while defending core act principles. McGrath warns against pledges tied to a past Republican record.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Taft-Hartley
Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
Dewey
Salt Lake City
J. Howard McGrath
Joseph W. Martin Jr
Albany
Harlow Enters Race For Post in Council
J B Harlow qualified as candidate for alderman in the Sept 20 municipal election bringing the number of entries to a dozen. Others seeking council seats include Bishop L Gaines L A Strane Nathan Pryor Clifford H Odom C B Waite Clyde B Smith and current members Rutledge Thomas Knox McRae Ernest Poole Russell Speake A C Dillehay. H R Summer seeks re election for mayor along with Tom Harrison a former Decatur mayor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Harlow
Oak Street
H.R. Summer
Tom Harrison
Decatur
Bishop L. Gaines
L. A. Strane
Nathan Pryor
Clifford H. Odom
C. B. Waite
Clyde B. Smith
Rutledge Thomas
Knox McRae
Ernest Poole
Russell Speake
A. C. Dillehay
Hike in Airline Fare Is Likely This Fall
Washington reports a ten percent airline fare increase likely this fall with the end of free meals. Current fares average 5.5 cents per mile. new rate about six cents would be the highest in 15 years. Effective dates depend on paperwork, possibly September or October, following a Civil Aeronautics Board conference on the industry's financial crisis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Civil Aeronautics Board
Apartments Open But Only For Families With Children
The Putnam family opens an apartment house at 12th Avenue and Grant Street to tenants with children only. Mrs. T. E. Putnam says the baby inspired the project and plans October occupancy for four families, including three with young children, as they expand local telephone service.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. E. Putnam Sr
12Th Avenue
Grant Street
T. E. Putnam Jr
Decatur
Michael Allen Putnam
Western diplomats seek end to Berlin blockade in seventh Molotov talks
Western diplomats in Moscow plan a seventh meeting with Foreign Minister Molotov in the Kremlin to resolve the Berlin blockade and ease East West tensions. The scene included a Berlin riot with 600 Germans clashing with police, injuries reported, and rising American patrols.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
Molotov
Kremlin
Berlin
Stalin
Probers Seek Key Witness for Spy Hearings
Rep Nixon pressed the immigration service to locate missing witness J Peters who headed the Red underground in the United States. Peters is under a $5000 bond awaiting deportation action, and an admitted former communist testified before the House committee. Immigration Commissioner Watson Miller said he would discuss the matter with Nixon and others as Peters remains unfound.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Douglas B. Cornell
Washington
Rep. Nixon
Nixon
Miller
Peters
Hitler Aide Faces War Crimes Trial In Germany
Julius Schaub, a longtime Hitler aide, was indicted in Munich on war crimes charges for allegedly persuading Hitler to kill Jews. He aided Hitler as guard and adjutant, helped burn Hitler's papers, and testified in Nuremberg.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mernberg
Germany
Julius Schaub
Adolf Hitler
Munich
Schaub
Nazi Party
Landsberg
Hitler
Berend
Nuernberg
Davis to Speak at Morgan County Teachers Institute
Dr. W. L. Davis state supervisor of instruction will address the Morgan County Teachers Institute at Morgan County High School in Hartselle. Randolph Ryan, association president, will preside over the 9 A.M. start and three hour session. The talk is titled The Value Of An In-Service Training Program For Teachers. Teachers will form plans for group study and delegates from state colleges will discuss extension courses for teachers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. L. Davis
Morgan County Teachers’ Institute
Morgan County High School
Hartselle
Randolph Ryan
Teachers’ Association
Defense Plans Parley At Naval War College
Secretary of Defense Forrestal will confer with the joint chiefs of staff at the naval war college in Newport Rhode Island from today through Sunday. The talks follow the Key West pattern with future meetings planned every few months. Forrestal will report on talks with Canada’s Brooke Claxton and other officials and discuss weapon capabilities and cost effective development including strategic air warfare topics.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Defense Forrestal
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Naval War College
Newport
R. I
Defense Department
Key West
Fla
Forrestal
Defense
Brooke Claxton
Ottawa
Harris Jurors Deadlock in Second Har ris Manslaughter Trial
The case of Reuben James Harris of Town Creek ended in a mistrial after jurors could not reach a verdict in his second trial for first degree manslaughter in the death of Clyde Jeffers of Hatton. The trial began Monday with witnesses questioned and the prosecution asserting Jeffers was struck before the vehicle collision. The matter now awaits the next term of Lawrence County circuit court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Reuben James Harris
Town Creek
Lawrence County Circuit Court
Harris
Clyde Jeffers
Hatton
Wheeler Dam
Lawrence Circuit Court
Jeffers
General's Plane Makes Safe Landing at National Airport
General Hoyt Vandenberg chief of staff, aboard a disabled B 17 with Eugene Zuckert and Maj Gen W F McKee, landed safely at National Airport after reporting an engine failure over the Atlantic. Vandenberg returned from Europe en route to a joint chiefs conference at Newport.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Hoyt Vandenberg
Air Force
National
Vandenberg
Europe
Eugene M. Zuckert
W. F. McKee
Atlantic
Germany
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Newport
R. S
Symington
Child Wards of State Placed in Capital Nursery
Gurney Franklin Roberts two months old has been released from Decatur General hospital to a state nursery in Montgomery. He and his sister were made wards after treatment for severe beatings and undernourishment. Their mother grandmother and aunt have been committed to a mental hospital. Their father Frank Roberts of Lacey's Spring remains hospitalized with a broken collarbone.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gurney Franklin Roberts
Decatur General Hospital
Montgomery
Frank Roberts
Lacey
Russians Told To Get Consul Away From U S
The United States demanded the Soviet Consul General in New York be removed due to his conduct in the Kosenkina affair. An American note to the Soviet embassy rejected Russian claims that teachers were abducted, stating the three desired to stay and must be protected by U S law.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John M. Hightower
Washington
United States
New York
Russia
Oksana Kosenkina
Mikhail I. Samarine
Tolstoy Foundation
Berlin raids by Russian police seize German officers
Russian military police and German police backed by Moscow raided the American sector of blockaded Berlin and seized German officers. Earlier, Russian backed forces arrested about 600 Germans at Potsdamer Platz without violence while a prior clash left four civilians wounded as Germans stoned communist police.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Berlin
United Nations
Albania
Bulgaria
Yugoslavia
Balkans
Sophoulis
Greece
Grammos Mountains
Peloponnesus
U. S
M. P
Potsdamer Platz
U S Rejects Soviet Charges and Demands Lomakin's Exit
The State Department accused Soviet claims of misinformation and abuses by Consul General Jacob M. Lomakin in New York. It asked President Truman to revoke Lomakin's credentials and remove him within a reasonable time. The note, signed by the department, rejects all Soviet charges and seeks copies of two letters from Mrs. Kosenkina.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Department
Alexander S. Panyushkin
Molotov
Department
U. S
Jacob M. Lomakin
New York
Truman
Lomakin
United States
Marshall
Robert Lovett
Department of State
Lovett
Kosenkina
Russia
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Hamil Clinic
W. Gordon Drive
Brown’s
Hawkins Nelson
Chicago
O. B. Smith
Merle Nelson
F. L. Inman
Jack
DeLand
Florida
Maggie Inman
J. E. Yarbrough
Fifth Avenue West
C. L. Inman
Pulaski
Tennessee
Little Harriet Lee Block
W. H. Block
Mamie Sadler
Decatur 1
Shirley Faye Lively
Irene Owen
Decatur 2
Decatur General
Johnny Rex Porter
Decatur 3
Maudie Jo Craig
E. Moulton
Miss Craig
Robert P. Peacock
Columbus, Ga
Marian Bloodworth
Birmingham
Mary
Nell Mitchell
Audrey Long
Jack Evans
Wallace Meadows
County Officers' Organization
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Ninth Street Methodist Church
Toccoa
By Ken Reynolds
Army
State
Atom
New Mexico
Rights Group
Maryland Curve
Campagni
BY Jack Bell
Harlow
Post In Council
U.N
Palestine
Security Council
U.S
Britain
Trieste
Italy
Pravda
Moscow
Robert Dreher
U.S. State Department
Michael McDermott
Dreher
Soviet Union
McDermott
Netherlands
Shanghai
China
Probers
Davis
Institute For County Teachers
JOWMN
Quincy
TNS Uen
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