Weather Outlook and Local Notices from Decatur
Partly cloudy with scattered thundershowers and fresh easterly winds. E W McLeod visits New York City. Local births announced: Whitfield daughter at Baugh Wiley clinic. Morrow son at Decatur General. Smith daughter at Baugh Wiley. Hall daughter at Baugh Wiley. Corrections note misidentified sleeping baby as Mary Geneva Clardy. The Daily confirms Rivers Daley admitted. Mrs Kimes improving in Greenwood. vacation for Little family in Panama City. See DIARY On Page 2.
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Mary Geneva Clardy
James Clardy
Tower Avenue
Decatur
Two Power Outages Scheduled In City This Week
The City Electric Department announced two interruptions of service on Tuesday with a third on Wednesday and a further one on Friday to install larger feeder wires. Areas affected include West Decatur south of Moulton Street and East Decatur east of 16th Avenue near 7th Street.
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City Electric Department
West Decatur
Moulton Street
East Decatur
16Th Avenue
7Th Street
Seund
Dream Realized For Brown After Death Sentence
Marion R. Brown, 23, formerly sentenced to death by an Army court martial for alleged crimes in Japan, returns home to Danville to run the family farm with his father D. M. Brown. He trained as a dental lab technician during four years in the Army and hopes someday to practice. Local and state supporters, including Judge T. C. Almon and Judge Newton Powell, plus veterans groups, funded his appeal to higher Army authorities, leading to his release.
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Marion R. Brown
Danville 3
Brown
D. M. Brown
Terre Haute
Japan
Press Association
T. C. Almon
Higher Army
Almon
Newton Powell
Washington
Alabama
Marian R. Brown
T.C. Almon
Cere
Daily Staff
Hartselle Plans Four New Classrooms At Elementary School
The Morgan Board of Education awarded a $37,706 contract to Chambers Lumber Co of Athens for four concrete brick classrooms with brick veneer at Hartselle elementary. The additions bring total classrooms to 18 and should be ready by February 1.
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Hartselle
Chambers Lumber Company
Athens
H. R. Leeman
Morgan Board of Education
Chambers
Leeman
Lineman Hurt In Fall From Tree
Leslie Hicks, 22, of Cullman, an Electric Department worker, fell 20 feet from a tree while trimming limbs near Sixteenth Avenue and Locust Street. He landed on his head but suffered no concussion or broken bones and will stay in the hospital overnight for observation.
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Quince Eddens
Leslie Hicks
Cullman
Hicks
Eddens
Sixteenth Avenue
Locust Street
Decatur Negro Held In Athens
A Decatur railroad employee, 48 year old David Cannon, is jailed in Limestone county on an assault with intent to murder charge following a Sunday night shooting at Glaze Coleman’s home in Athens. Coleman was shot in the leg. witnesses say Coleman fired first after an argument about his wife. Cannon allegedly fired four or five times with a .32 pistol after Coleman used a 10 gauge shotgun. Other Limestone arrests included gaming, public drunkenness, driving while intoxicated, reckless driving, petit larceny, and church affray.
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Decatur Railroad
Limestone County
David Cannon
Cannon
Glaze Coleman
Coleman
Athens
Wallace Coleman
Limestone
Decatur
Cullman
C. B. Humphrey
Morgan County
Lawrence County
George Byars
Senate Clears Path for 35 554 Billion Government Funding Bill
Senate moves to approve a 35 554 billion money bill to fund government operations for the year and expects quick passage to the White House. An emergency defense measure would add 16 771 billion plus 14 680 billion for military needs, funding 5 333 new planes and related equipment for the Korean War effort.
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Washington
Senate
White House
House
Alabama to Resume Yellow Vehicle Tags in 1951
Alabama will return to yellow tags with black figures in 1951. Truck and auto tags resemble the 1949 design. About 11,000 tags of all types were used in 1950, with 6,1860 sold so far in the current year, part of the total tag usage.
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Alabama
Bus Driver Injured When Train Strikes School Bus
Clifton Johns, driver of a Lime stone school bus, was injured when the No. 3 Nashville Southbound train struck the bus three miles north of Athens at Alabama Pes. There were no students aboard. Johns said brake failure may have caused the crash. the bus was demolished and he was taken to a hospital.
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Clifton Johns
Louisville
Nashville
Athens
Alabama
War Curtails Road Planning Board Is Told
The Morgan Board of Revenue and Control heard that wartime needs will shape future road and bridge programs. A letter from I B Rutledge outlined road project justification and the value of routes for troop movements civilian evacuation and defense supply lines. The board approved reappointing James E Peck to the Decatur General Hospital board.
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Morgan* Board of Revenue and Control
I. B. Rutledge
Sim L. Howell
State Highway Department
Hartselle
Nance Ford
McKendry
James E. Peck
Decatur General Hospital Board of Trustees
Howell
Morgan County
Falkville
Eva
Fury Of Storm Is Increasing Path
A gulf storm about 450 miles south of Pensacola strengthened to hurricane force during the night. At 9 30 A M CST the hurricane carried winds of 75 to 85 mph with gales up to 125 miles, moving west northwest at about ten mph. Small craft from Northwest Florida to East Louisiana were warned against open gulf travel.
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New Orleans
Pensacola
Fla
Truman Forces MacArthur To Withdraw Formosa Statement
President Truman directed General MacArthur to withdraw his Formosa statement sent to the Chicago VFW encampment. The White House said the move was to keep foreign policy decisions out of military channels and reiterate the U S Formosan policy to Ambassador Warren Austin. The episode worsens East Asia policy tensions and party cooperation as Knowland accuses a gag on MacArthur.
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Truman
MacArthur
Formosa
Washington
Douglas MacArthur
White House
Charles G. Ross
Chicago
Veterans of Foreign Wars
United States
Warren Austin
United Nations
Knowland
Calif
Ross
Japan
Korea
VFW
Pacific
Army Seizes Rail System. Trains Run Under Oversight
The Army assumed control of major U S railroads from 4 P M yesterday after President Truman ordered seizure to avert a nationwide strike. Although operations continued with no troop presence, 50 officers supervised as seven railroad presidents led regional operations. Union leaders rejected the White House wage proposal and tense talks are paused, with renewed discussions expected after a few days.
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Washington
Truman
Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen and
Order of Railway Conductors
Karl R. Bendetsen
White House
Army
Britain Ready To Ship Tools To Russia Amid Export Debate
Craven Brothers outlines $2.8 million shipment of machine tools to Russia set to proceed Saturday unless Attlee intervenes. Chairman Joseph Greenwood warns of risk to license. Churchill criticizes firms for supplying tanks related tools. Labor government cites strategic priority controls.
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London
Russia
Attlee
Joseph Greenwood
Craven Brothers
Winston Churchill
Ministry of Supply
Arthur Bottomley
Britain
South Koreans Counter Attack Keeps Up Pressure on East Korea Front
North Korean forces pressed along the Pohang Kigye front as South Korean units, aided by American air and naval gunfire, regained some ground. Reports from Pohang described heavy fighting from the Naktong river to the East coast, with U S. ships and land artillery pounding Reds near Uihung and Taegu.
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Tokyo
Korea
Pohang
Tom Lambert
Lambert
Kigye
U. S
Naktong River
Sea of Japan
Taegu
Uihung
Hal Boyle
Pusan
MacArthur
Pohang-Kigye
Waewag
Sansong
Lawrence Will Ballot Tuesday For County Solicitor
Lawrence county Democrats go to the polls Tuesday to choose a candidate for the county solicitor's office. The two nominees are Tom Pettus and Earle Proctor, both Moulton attorneys, in a runoff sparked by May primary confusion and an ensuing grand jury investigation into election irregularities at the Moulton box two. About 2,500 voters are expected to cast ballots as the county previously tallied nearly 3,700 in May.
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Lawrence County
Tom Pettus
Earle Proctor
Moulton
Proctor
Pettus
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Charles Mooney
Decatur 3
Hamil Clinic Hospital
S. G. Morrow
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Decatur General, Hospital
J. A. Grantland
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J. C. Kimes
Greenwood
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