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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Aug 23, 1946
Page
1
Partly cloudy conditions persist with scattered thundershowers near the coast. Alabama temperatures ranged from 67 to 88 degrees in the past 24 hours. Local social notices include church services and revival plans, hospital admissions and discharges, birth announcements, and community visits by notable residents and visitors.
Yugoslavia rejects the U S ultimatum but frees seven interned Americans and two Hungarians. The crash downed U S Army transport crew members are being questioned as the flight over Yugoslavia is scrutinized. A Turk wounded in the attack remains hospitalized in Ljubljana.
The map locates Ljubljana area near an American plane forced to crash land by Yugoslav fighters on Aug 9 and another American plane shot down near Bled on Aug 21. It notes severe American citizens held in a Ljubljana hotel and marks the Anglo American occupation zone with Yugoslav control east of the Tolmino Gorizia line.
Alabama state education officials urged county and city superintendents to start drivers training for students under 15. The move, supported by Dr. A R Meadows, aims to boost highway safety and inform budget plans for the next year.
Decatur and Morgan county trail toward an $17 000 share for a $67 000 regional exhibition building to be built in North Alabama. Tom Adams said contributions exceed $10 000 with three days left as committees work in South Limestone and industries respond. State funds total $50 000. county and city must provide the balance plus a five acre tract, with a August 27 deadline to present Decatur's bid to the state board.
Nashville authorities issue a first degree murder warrant for Dwight Owen Carman 62 in the arson death of his wife Melissa 61 at their home. District Attorney General Carlton J Loser said Carman was in love with a 16 year old girl and planned to flee with her. The couple’s body was found in the burned frame house.
The OPA raises the ceiling on newsprint by seven dollars a ton citing aims to secure U S publishers access to newsprint and curb diversion to other markets. It notes higher raw material costs and labor, with Canada’s dollar revaluation also influencing the shift and an open billing sale policy effective Aug. 8.
A jury awarded Roy Flowers five dollars in a suit against J A Stanford for five thousand dollars claiming assault and battery on May 15 1946. Flowers was represented by Norman Harris while Peach Caddell Shanks and George E Barnet appeared for Stanford.
Miss Lucy Bell longtime director of the Decatur Community House expresses gratitude to Decatur residents for their kindness. She says the support warms her heart and gives courage and hopes to serve the community more worthily in the future.
An Associated Press formatted summary shows statewide crash data: 2398 accidents and 286 fatalities year to date, with property damage around $482,187. Figures benchmark fatality and damage estimates, noting a 12 month comparison.
Captain William Crombie of East Longmeadow Mass describes wings signal miscommunication leading to forced landing in Yugoslavia. He says Yugoslav fighters fired and wounded a Turkish captain onboard. The transport crash landed near Ljublajana with the aircraft wrecked. crew and most passengers survived after an American ultimatum to Yugoslavia.
The OPA authorized an immediate 2.5 percent rise in passenger car tire prices for retail and wholesale sales to restore dealer profit margins to March 31 levels. It also approved 6 percent boosts for toilet tissue and paper towels and raised ceilings on eye glass lenses by 22 percent.
Governor Chauncey Sparks said he has received but not digested a plan from Democratic Chairman Gessner McCorvey for a special election to fill the Alabama eighth district seat. McCorvey notes Sen. John Bankhead could be nominated to succeed himself and Rep. Jman Sparkman may resign after Nov. 5. Sparks previously said he cannot call a special election until a vacancy exists on Jan. 3.
Doyle Stinson, 24, is jailed in Limestone County charged with issuing worthless checks. Police say he confessed to cashing a 17.25 dollar check at Hogan's Service Station and two more at Deer Springs, plus a fourth near Ardmore. This marks his second arrest in a month after prior forgeries across Southern Tennessee and Northern Alabama.
The first bale of cotton ginned in 1946 in this county arrived at Producers Gin in Decatur on Thursday noon brought by Huett Dotson. He grew it on Hillsboro 2 on Mrs. Susan Robinson’s place. The bale weighed 439 pounds lint and 1150 pounds seed cotton. It was Middling DPL with one inch staple and seeds cleaned. The first 1945 bale was grown by G. W. Ethridge west of Decatur and ginned August 27 at Trinity Gin.
Ten donkeys and trainer Horace Weine from Memphis arrived in Decatur for the Civitan Garrison donkey softball game at Benson Field tonight at 8. The animals will be at the Poole company on Lee Street today after their trailer trip.
The Mobile housing board announced that 32 two-room apartments and 32 one-room units will be moved from Mobile to Montgomery Alabama. The relocation aims to reallocate housing stock between cities.
The Limestone county grand jury, after a five day probe into racial unrest in Athens on August 10, returned 10 indictments against 16 individuals. Seventy seven witnesses testified as the panel noted only a small fraction of its initial figures.
In Birmingham two women forced Mrs. F. M. Mitchell into a car, robbed her of rings valued at 265 dollars and a watch worth 65, beat her, and dumped her into a ditch. She walked to a filling station to contact police.
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