Report on Air Defenses and Production Delays
Senate defense investigators led by Lyndon Johnson found an excess of gadgets and indecision slowing U S aircraft production and weakening air defenses. The subcommittee urged a full time production czar, design freezes, and shifts of funds toward air power to counter a possible Russian atomic attack.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Senate
United States
Senate Armed Services Preparedness Subcommittee
Lyndon B. Johnson
D-Tex
Johnson
Gordon Madison Named Garretts Aide in Alabama
Atty. Gen. S. Garrett announced former State Sen. Gordon Madison of Tuscaloosa will become assistant attorney general on Oct. 1, filling the Carmichael vacancy. Madison, a Loyalist Dem, served during Chauncey Sparks era and helped preserve party loyalty oath in the primary. The position pays up to $625 monthly, with Madison among the top three applicants.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
S. Garrett
Gordon Madison
Tuscaloosa
Albert A. Carmichael
Madison
Alabama
Democratic Party
Senate
Chauncey Sparks
Democratic Executive Committee
National Party
Garrett
Local Notices From Lawrence County Social Roundup
Lawrence County items list social visits church activities and travel notes. Amos Hogan’s gin produced the first bale of cotton for Irvin Stover with Manco White following, while fields await picking. Visitors include Mr and Mrs Robert Pruitt Mr and Mrs Ben Naylor and family and others from Moulton Decatur and Tullahoma with reports on illness and a church service led by Rev. Reid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Amos Hogan
Irvin Stover
S. Manco White
Robert Pruitt
Ben Naylor
Cecil Naylor
Detroit
Tilda Demascus
Taylor Black
Moulton
John McCaghren
Kenneth MacLemore
Doyle Lynne
McLemore
Robert Prueitt
Manco White
Charles Speake
Allen Way
J. W. Dutton
Corinth
Helen
Carolyn
Decatur
Carrie Speake
Decatur General Hospital
Bettie Hampton
Tennis Teague
Houston Kelsoe
Seldon Kelson
Truitt Jacobs
Bill Wiley
Lula Wallace
Wallace
Riggs
Ike Johnson
C. E. Layman
Flint
Robert Layman
Bob Johnson
Tullahoma
Local Notes From Morgan County and Nearby Areas
Community updates include visits of Omer Roan from Texas to his son D A Roan and sister Mammie Livingston. William Martin visited Blount County relatives. Miss Dunreath McKee of Decatur and Miss Reva Lewis visiting Birmingham relatives. Pfc Coy Puckett and wife welcomed a son born August 17 in Tacoma. Aldredge family weekend visit to Falkville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Omer
Roan
Texas
D. A. Roan
Mammie Livingston
William Martin
Blount County
Dunreath McKee
Decatur
Hartselle
Reva Lewis
Iain Lewis
Birmingham
Vann Latham
Elmus Rutledge
William Tanner
Dona Gail
Louis Tanner
Pfc
Coy Puckett
Tacoma
Washington
Birmingham Morals Ordinance Invalid by High Court
Alabama Supreme Court refused to review a ruling that Birmingham’s morals ordinance is unconstitutional. Eugene Connor was tried for occupying a hotel room with his secretary Christina Brown after two trials. only the occupancy charge remained after appeals. The Court of Appeals had reversed his conviction, and the high court let the lower court stand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
State Supreme Court
Birmingham
Eugene Connor
Christina Brown
Circuit Court
Court of Appeals
Connor
Appellate Court
Birmingham City
Supreme Court
Three Earthquakes Reported Near Boston Today
Weston Massachusetts report says three undersea earthquakes were detected by West on Observator at the Boston College seismological station. One quake occurred 4,140 miles northwest of Boston in the North Pacific off British Columbia. A second quake was recorded yesterday in the same area and a third, 1,585 miles south of Boston, is described as north of the Dominican Republic in the Caribbean.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Weston, Mass
Weston Observator
Boston College Seismological Station
Boston
North Pacific
British Columbia
Dominican Republic
Caribbean
Cordova Baths and Coal Use in Vast 10th Century City
In Cordova the capital of Arab ian culture during the tenth century there were 300 public baths. The textile and apparel industries consume over seven million tons of bituminous coal per year.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cordova
Publication Not Endorsed By The Labor Federation
James F. Roper vice president of the Alabama State Federation of Labor Decatur district says the AF of L has not endorsed the Trade Union Courier. He warns Decatur merchants not to be misled by ads claiming AF of L endorsement or Labor Day rally proceeds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James F.roper
Alabama State Federation of Labor
Decatur
AF of L
Trade Union Courier
Roper
Death Penalty Extended in Albania for Youths Over 12
Western sources report Albania has extended the death penalty to youths over 12 in a new penal code to take effect Sept. 1. The law covers conspiracy against the state and property damage or economic sabotage, with 14 as the limit for other offenses and heavy penalties for anti regime activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vienna
Austria
Red Albania
Romania
Soviet Union
Revival Gains Additions at Union Hill and Oden Ridge Church
A revival at Oden Ridge Baptist church drew strong crowds with Rev. L L Veal preaching next at Bert Bates home in Gandy's Cove. Union Hill closed its revival with twenty eight additions and elected Rev. D H Davenport pastor for the year. Fifth Saturday and Sunday services are planned at Union Hill and Friendship in Cullman County with Veal as pastor. locals visited shops in Hartselle and Decatur on Saturday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oden Ridge Baptist Church
W. O. Lindsey
L. L. Veal
Bert Bates
Gandy’s Cove
W. O Lindsey
Silas Jones
Cecil Reeves
Hartselle
Luther Blevins
Decatur
Willodean Lindsey
Amy Beavers
Lenora
Preston Overstreet
Judson Lindsey
Elladean Lindsey
Edna Mae Holmes
Union Hill
D. H. Davenport
Friendship
Cullman County
Myrtie Clark
Ermard Lindsey
S. E. Clark
Bobby Ray
Claude M. Pitts Dies Sudden Heart Attack on Farm
Claude M. Pitts 64 died suddenly of a heart attack at 5 30 yesterday on his Limestone county farm. Survived by wife Attie Lou Pitts Madison three. daughters Mrs Noah Sharp and Mrs Coreen Lord Vernon Texas. son Claude Pitts Madison three. five grandchildren and other relatives. Brown Funeral Home to announce funeral arrangements.
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Claude M. Pitts
Limestone County
Madison
Attie Lou Pitts
Noah Sharp
Coreen Lord
Vernon
Tex
Claude Pitts
Brown Funeral Home
Hymn Is Born CLINT A BONNER
A thousand trained singers gathered at a grave for John Howard Payne the American consul and renowned playwright of the early 1800s whose song Home Sweet Home became a worldwide hit. His body was laid to rest in Washington's Oak Hill Cemetery as a thousand voices sang the familiar tune and remembered a life of stage arms across continents.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
United States
John Howard Payne
Payne
New York
Baltimore
Philadelphia
London
Paris
Atlantic
Sweet Home
Long Island
Parisian
Milan
Italy
Covent Garden
Tunis
Africa
Washington
Oak Hill Cemetery
Girl Reporter Joins Jets Tanks and Subs in War Games
Esther Clark of the Phoenix Gazette is the paper’s church editor and a featured war correspondent who rode a B 47 at 32 000 feet and a submersible cruise aboard USS Aspro. She has piloted helicopters and fired a machine gun, earning praise from her editor for breaking barriers for women in the newsroom.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Phoenix
Ariz
Clark
Phoenix Gazette
Arizona National Guard
Esther
Gazette
Phoenix Elks Lodge
Phoenix Community Council
Wichita Air Force Base
Kansas
Denver
Catholic Register
U.S.S. Aspro
R. W. Berry
White Tank Mountains
Truman Budget Gift To Congress Will Be A Big Digest
President Truman will send a government budget to Congress as a detailed 1950 estimate of federal income and outgo. The 83d Congress opens January 3 with the budget due January 17, and a new president takes office January 20.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Truman
Congress
Washington
Capitol
Army Engineers Chief Inspects Warri or Tombigbee Dam Site
Lt. Gen. Lewis A. Pick and party arrived in Jackson Alabama for the downriver inspection of the Warrior-Tombigbee waterway. They reviewed the proposed dam site planned as a key link in the ten year modernization of the water route.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Jackson, Ala
Chief of the
Army Engineers
Lewis A. Pick
Jack Lacy dies in Birmingham at 67
C B Jack Lacy 67 retired newspaperman died at his home after a short illness. A Paducah Kentucky native he joined the Birmingham News staff in 1928 after working for Paducah papers and publishing a weekly at South Boston Virginia. He retired in 1950.
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Jack Lacy
Birmingham
C. B
Jack” Lacy
Paducah
The
Birmingham News
South Boston
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