Freed Man Renounces Devil in Morgan County Statement
Al Metcalfe, freed by a Morgan county jury for the Terrell death, denounced the devil and said he will live for his Lord. He plans to seek veterans hospital care, then return to business, and asks Christians to pray for his health and strength to resist evil. He expressed regret over Terrell's death and urged others to beware of devilish conduct.
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Emory Terrell
al Metcalfe
Morgan County
Terrell
Veterans’ Hospital
Four face trial in recorder's court this afternoon
Four persons will face trial in recorder's court this afternoon on charges of disorderly conduct carrying a pistol without a permit violating prohibition law and public drunkenness. Elbert Thornton obtained a building permit to add a bath and back porch at 720 West Street for 450 dollars. Bishop Claiborne will visit St Johns Episcopal church December 13 for confirmation. This will be his first visit since consecration. Jackson
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Recorder’s Court
Elbert Thornton
West Street
Claiborne
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Bishop Claiborne
David DeBoer
First Christian Church
Threats Involved In Open Shut Case
In Seattle on December 1 Everett W Brighton a business college teacher filed a threat charge against Nils Walla. Deputy Prosecutor Burton Robbins said the dispute grew from a drafty window in the college. Brighton wanted it open Walla wanted it shut Brighton opened it Walla shut it. Walla received three stitches in his left cheek. He said any threats were not meant.
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Seattle
Everett W. Brighton
Business College
Nils Walla
Burton 5S
Robbins
Brighton
Walla
Jury verdict not guilty in Terrell murder case
After about 20 minutes the jury returned a not guilty verdict for Al Metcalfe on the murder charge of James Emory Terrell. The trial ended at noon with final arguments from Circuit Solicitor George Johnson and defense leader Noble Russell. Metcalfe testified about an April 1 party and firing a pistol while intoxicated as Terrell allegedly grabbed the weapon. State witness James Otis Wilson testified Terrell obtained Metcalfe’s pistol and that Metcalfe was beaten prior to the shooting. See JURY on Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Newton B. Powell
James Emory Terrell
al Metcalfe
R. R. Easter
Circuit
George Johnson
Noble Russell
Metcalfe
Terrell
James Otis Wilson
Morgan City
Metcafe
Joseph “Jodie” Hicks
Opera Singer Packs Club in Nashville Debut
Dark-eyed Mona Bradford, an operatic beauty slated for Carmen, packed the Plantation Club for her night spot debut in Nashville. She aims to earn enough to ride back to New York in style after the New York Civic Opera company quit touring. The touring company’s manager denied she was stranded amid reports of a failed tour and a show in Danville, Illinois.
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Nashville
Tenn
Mona Bradford
Plantation
Mona
New York
New York Civic Opera Company
Danville
Touring Opera Company
Witnesses Describe Loss in Fast Money Scheme at Trial
W B Reece a Limestone farmer and his son in law Charles Black testified how their combined 3500 dollars vanished in a fast money scheme tied to Edgar Ross Quillen. They described meetings in Huntsville and a Decatur hotel, a tampered counterfeit plan, and a plyboard press used to fake a currency print. The state charges Quillen with two grand larcenies and two embezzlements.
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W. B. Reece
Charles Black
Athens
Edgar Ross Quillen
Quillen
Reece
Huntsville
Wallace
Black
Decatur
Ben
Russell
Joe Boyd
Boyd
Community Chest Nears Goal After Civic Group Gifts
Civitans added 66.50 for the Community Chest drive bringing the total to 29,339 with 60.88 left to reach the 29,400 goal. The four civic groups each made a second gift after their initial subscription and urged others to mail checks to the Community Chest headquarters or Decatur Chamber of Commerce, or deliver in person.
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Civitans
Red Feather
Community Chest
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
May Ordered To Begin Term For Wartime Bribery
Former Rep. Andrew J. May of Kentucky was ordered to begin an 8 to 24 month jail term for wartime bribery and conspiracy. Judge Schweinhaut denied his appeal for a reduced sentence and directed May to surrender Saturday to the Eastern District marshal. Also ordered to jail were Henry A. Garsson and Murray Garsson, heads of a $75 million wartime munition empire. they faced immediate imprisonment.
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Washington
Andrew J. May
Dky
Henry A. Schweinhaut
May
Kentucky
Prestonsburg
Henry A. Garsson
Murray
Woman First To Face Trial In Chilton County
The sole female indicted in a Chilton County finances probe, Delene B. Wyatt of Thornsby, will head a two week court term starting Monday. She faces second degree forgery false pretense and related charges, with D C Littlefield and others also on the docket as circuit judges from Fort Payne and Andalusia sit in.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Clanton
Ala
Chilton County
Delene B. Wyatt
Thornsby
County Commissioners’ Court
Oakley Melton
Melton
Elmore
W. J. Haralson
Fort Payne
Bowen Simmons
Andalusia
James C. Pattillo
Wyatt
J. Lee Smith
Chiang Forces Set Up Shop in Chengtu Today
The nationalist government of China relocates to Chengtu with Chiang Kai-Shek in leadership as Chungking falls to the Reds. Chengtu lies 170 miles from Chungking, with capitals at Nanking and Canton evacuated. In Yugoslavia, 10 Russians are on trial for spying, two absent, one hanged, one too ill to appear.
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Associated Press
China
Chengtu
Chiang Kai-Shek
Chungking
Nanking
Canton
Sarajevo
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
UN adopts 12 point plan as Soviets face vote
United Nations assembly adopts a 12 point Western power peace plan by 53 to 5, condemning Soviet interference claims in Yugoslavia. Yugoslavia abstains while the Soviet bloc votes no. Russia’s Andrei Vishinsky dismissed Yugoslav charges as nonsense during the debate.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
United Nations Assembly
Soviet Union
Yugoslavia
Assembly
Russia
Andrei Y. Vishinsky
Miners Placed On 3-Day Week By Lewis
John L. Lewis ordered 480,000 soft and hard coal miners to a three day work week starting next Monday. The United Mine Workers chief allowed contracts with individual companies and hinted at longer hours once signups occur. The move followed a three week truce that expired at midnight and marked the miners’ view of a broader strike. In other labor news the CIO Textile Workers Union plans to renew most woolen contracts, the San Francisco 49ers canceled a strike over bonuses, and the CIO Electrical Workers Union urged courts to more carefully weigh labor suits as it forms to replace the ousted union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Lewis
New York
CIO Textile Workers Union
San Francisco
San Francisco 49Ers
New York Yankees
CIO
New Electrical Workers Union
James B. Carey
United Electrical Workers
Russia and Yugoslavia in UN clash over Tito
The United Nations faces a tense dispute as Russia is accused of leading a campaign to oust Tito in Yugoslavia while Moscow vows a hard line in response. NATO defense chiefs weigh who should command signals if Western Europe faces conflict, with Britain, France, Belgium, the Netherlands and Luxembourg central in the Brussels pact. See CHIANG on Page 2.
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Marshal Tito
Russia
Cominform
Yugoslavia
United Nations Assembly
Soviet Union
Tito
U. N
Balkans
Paris
North Atlantic
United States
Britain
Europe
Brussels
France
Belgium
Netherlands
Luxembourg
Atlantic High Command
Dogwood and Crepe Myrtle Will Line Decatur Streets
Beautification plans by local clubs aim to plant dogwood and crepe myrtle along Decatur streets in coming years. Mayor H R Summer leads the effort, with meetings at Why Not care and visits from gubernatorial candidate Rueben Newton. Prizes of 25, 15 and 10 dollars will be awarded Sept 1 for top progress. monthly meetings will continue.
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Decatur Streets
Decatur
Why Not Care
H. R. Summer
Joe Elliott
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Bill Sims
Summer
Memorial Drive
Rueben Newton
Jasper
Elliott
Tennessee
Short Week Reinstated for Coal Mines Nationwide
New York December 1 John L Lewis reinstated a three day work week in hard and soft coal mines across the United States beginning Monday December 5 The policy applies to bituminous mines nationwide and anthracite mines in districts 1 7 9 and 28 The union committee approved the plan to allow separate company contracts and suspend the three day limit when such contracts are negotiated
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New York
John L. Lewis
Lewis
United Mine Workers Committee
United States
The
International Union
Associa
Forest Fires Threaten Gulf Region Amid Dry Spell
Fires roared across a wide middle Gulf area as residents rushed to defend homes with shovels and brushes. Dry weather and scant rainfall fueled dozens of blazes, with at least three arrests for suspected arson. A broad probe linked widespread woodland fires across South Alabama, leaving Mobile surrounded by smoke.
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Mobile
Middle Gulf
Alabama
Santa Claus Afire Here He Is Saved
Santa Claus caught fire at City Park Flower Shop on Second Avenue East at 9 15 p m. Raymond Brittain manager said decorations in the window including a large Santa Claus blazed from a short circuit slight loss reported Five grass fires and one false alarm have kept firemen busy these past two days The false alarm came from Moulton Road at 2 15 p m Wednesday Grass fires occurred at 500 block Seventh Avenue West 1 p m Austinville 6 20 p m Fifth Avenue West 11 20 a m Thursday 1100 block Second Avenue East and 11 23 a m today on East Railroad Street near Universal Concrete Pipe Co
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Santa Claus
City Fire Department
City Park
Second Avenue East
Raymond Brittain
Moulton Road
Teacher Loses Her Salary Suit in Alabama Case
A Florida State University student, 22 year old Franklin Slay, is jailed in Limestone County awaiting trial on a hit and run charge after Evansville Indiana authorities linked him to the disappearance of Evansville high school girl Mary Ellen Harmon. Slay says they planned to elope. she later returned to Evansville. Officers found blood stains and torn upholstery in Slay’s 1939 Ford, which he claims to have used to move an injured man to a hospital following a separate night incident.
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Florida States College
Tallahassee
Limestone
Evansville
Ind
Associated Press
Indiana
Franklin Thomas Slay
Mary Ellen Harmon
Slay
Keller Bridge
Tennessee River
Florida State University
Griffin
Montgomery
Alabama
State Supreme Court
Dora W. Steele
Dale County
Mandamus
Supreme Court
Foster
A. B. Foster
A. R. Meadows
Wertheimer Bag Co
Birmingham
John Sandlin
R. A. Troupe
FBI
A. M. Smith Jr
Miss Harmon
Madisonville
Nashville
Limestone Sheriff's Office
Florida
J. A. Fraker
Faker
Wheeler Co-op Suit Alleges Negligence in Fatal Electrocution
Maggie Hughes administrator sues Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Corp for 25000 in Morgan circuit court alleging wires sagged near the Danville Road driving surface. Clinton Hughes 33 and Daisy Hughes 34 were found dead after a Nov. 13 1948 crash when their car hit charged lines. Police and coroner described accidental electrocution.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Corporation
Clinton Hughes
Maggie Hughes
Hughes Estate
Eyster
Electric Co-Op
Danville Road
Hughes
Highway Patrol
Daisy
Danville
Howell
Leeds coroner reports stillborn baby found at dump
The coroner concluded autopsy showed the newborn was born dead. The body of the infant, wrapped in newspapers inside a box, was discovered at the Leeds garbage dump last week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Joe L. Hilderbolr
Leeds
Cotton Orders Get Approval From Marshall Plan Aid
The Economic Cooperation Administration approved $70 million in cotton purchases by France and Britain from U S supplies. Shipments will occur in the first quarter of next year under Marshall plan aid. Additional recovery grants total nearly $100 million for four European countries Western Europe and Trieste. Britain receives $54.479 million for cotton and rubber related items. France gets $40.422 million including $38 million for cotton purchases. Total Marshall plan funds earmarked for European recovery reach $7.58 billion since the program began.
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Washington
Economic Cooperation Administration
France
Great Britain
ECA
Western
Trieste
Canada
Britain
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Lord
D L. Whitman
Chamber of Commerce Board
Ben L. Britnell
Whitman
Britnell
J. L. Cahoon
Southern Railway
Sheffield
Christ
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
J. Raymond Cormany
Ross Phillips
Hillsboro 1
J. M. Rogers
First Baptist Church
W. H. Tipper
Trinity 1
Alabama Gas Company
W. Nelson Guthrie
Central Methodist Church
First Methodist
P. D. Wilson
T. A. Ratliff
Decatur 3
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
Bubbett
Garsson Brothers
Old House
Chiang
Lewis Eaid
UMW
Wilma Brooks
Questor Club
George Sims
Lions Club
J. W. Clapton
S Club
V. L. Deese
Womans’ Chamber of Oliver
Pianelates
M. Crain
Seas Winifred Sentiff
Business and Professional Women’s Club
Bob McNelly
Cotillion Club
Dock Hurst
Civinette Club
Rubys. Jones
American Legion Auxiliary
Tom Slay
Mary Delmore
Wheeler Co-op
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