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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 01, 1950
Page
1
A community spotlight titled Glimpse about you highlights Diane and Ian P Irlimalee. The piece centers on local contributions and personal backgrounds within the neighborhood.
Weather outlook for the state calls for partly cloudy skies with warmer temperatures and fresh southeasterly winds along the coast. Walter Jackson, Decatur schools superintendent, returned from Washington after study trips on teacher retirement laws at the request of the Alabama Education Association. Donald Beauchamp of L and N Plans a weekend vacation to Blakely Georgia. Three Decatur Transit drivers Fred Horton Joe Suggs and Hosie Trammel were honored for reaching 300000 miles without an accident. Marvin Rankin of Decatur travels to Washington to board the Presidential special train for the Army Navy game and is due home Sunday. The Daily will publish Santa Claus letters in the Christmas Eve edition inviting children to submit letters. all will be printed if possible by December 24. Mr and Mrs C J Cornelson of Long Beach Calif and L E Tate of Florence visited Decatur on business. The Church of God 212 Eighth Street South holds an orphanage program at 11 am Sunday with Clara Hawkins as speaker. O P Bailey is pastor. Shoal Creek Baptist services proceed Sunday under Rev Bunyan Wallace. public invited. Mrs Guy Smith and children from Priceville and Mr and Mrs Robert Blankenship with sons visited Nashville to see Spencer Smith at business college. Priceville Home Demonstration Club meets Tuesday at 2 pm at Mrs W E Beans to discuss Christmas gifts and foods with a tree gift exchange. Six cases are set for trial in recorder's court with some adjourned to Monday. offenses include assault and battery, disorderly conduct, prohibition violations, DWI, and traffic violations. See diary on page 2.
President Truman will be protected from the air and ground when he visits Philadelphia for the Army Navy football game. Air Force fighters will police skies around Municipal Stadium to prevent any aircraft approaches within miles while Secret Service agents and Philadelphia police provide ground protection.
Washington December 1 congressional leaders prepare for a White House briefing on the Korean war. Officials hope to gauge defense expansion costs while debates on price controls and Alaska Hawaii statehood continue. Senators predict rent control extension and a Democratic steering committee plan aims for action. See CONGRESS on Page 2.
A gaily lit Christmas display burst into flames in Kay Ltd store in Halifax Nova Scotia last night causing at least ten deaths as smoke filled adjoining shops. Firemen recovered ten bodies as search efforts paused due to hazards amid an explosion that toppled glass and left extensive damage. Ronald Mulholland 16 aided five people to safety before the rear now doorless building and lack of sprinkler system hindered efforts.
A Decatur youth was hospitalized with facial bruises after a rink fight last night. Another participant, Billy Joe Terry of Hillsboro, is free on $200 bond and faces assault and battery trial Monday at 8 A.M.
Christmas lights go on in Decatur at five this evening with a tree lighting in Delano Park followed by a citywide prayer for peace. From seven to nine o'clock local merchants hold open houses inviting the public to visit, register for prizes, or receive favors.
Maylene Bonds Franks, 17, is in Decatur General Hospital with serious wounds after Winfred Lee Franks, a 21-year-old veteran, attacked her with a docket knife at a highway barbecue stand. Franks is held in the city jail and faces assault and battery charges. a court date is set.
Washington reports indicate a North Atlantic leaders meeting will map a plan for a combined defense force in Western Europe. A formal announcement is expected within 24 hours. President Truman stressed the need for a unified force under a supreme commander amid prior U S and French deadlocks over rearming Western Germany.
Prime Minister Attlee prepared last minute plans to fly to Washington for talks with President Truman aimed at ending Communist China's Korea intervention and preserving world peace. He will be advised by ministers and his deputy, with discussions on atom bomb consultation, settlement with Red China, and withdrawal of UN forces to a shorter line.
Cocoa Florida reports Yo lande Berbeze of Mobile Alabama received another title as the servicemen at Patrick Air Force Base long range proving ground division voted her the girl they'd most like to launch with.
In Tokyo on December 1 General MacArthur's top intelligence officer stated the United Nations situation in Korea is not desperate. He suggested the atomic bomb is unnecessary to stem the Chinese Red tide while reporting stabilization of the Allied line in the Northwest. The U. S. Eighth Army continues operations.
General Douglas MacArthur said the Korea war situation is serious and not hopeless. He criticized United Nations limits on pursuing Chinese forces and air attacks on Manchurian bases, calling them an enormous handicap. He spoke in a U S News interview arranged via Washington editors in Tokyo.
President Truman asked Congress for 84 million dollars to expand the Tennessee Valley Authority. The funds would add power units at existing dams and may start new steam electric plants to boost production for the Atomic Energy Commission. Representative Gore said the request should be approved with dispatch.
The Army issued a draft call for 50,000 men in February. The notice was released from Washington and dated December 1.
SAM DAWSON reports on December 1 whether the steel wage and price hikes mark the end of the fifth inflation round or the start of a new one. The industry may trigger further wage talks as unions seek more than the 16 cent rise. If rivals follow Big Steel, the annual steel bill could rise about 450 million dollars, with U S Steel passing costs to consumers.
The U N general assembly was told it must address Korea since the security council did not act. Nasrallah Entezam said the situation is grave but not hopeless and urged world leaders to avoid hatred and fear. Malik Absent. Wu Hsiu-Chuan backed Beijing as Moscow and Peiping hardened anti US lines. Delegates expect Truman and Attlee talks to shape next steps.
About 200 youths led by Paul Robeson Jr. staged a sit-down peace demonstration in the United Nations main lobby. The group held newspapers with atom bomb headlines, booed Mrs. Roosevelt, sang, and held up placards calling for peace and no atom bomb. Guards stood by during the protest blocking no action.
Earl Browder longtime No 1 American communist was jailed after failing to post a 1500 bond on a contempt of Congress charge. Federal Judge Curran refused his plea to remain free on personal bond as Browder faced arraignment for contempt after refusing to answer questions in a Senate subcommittee probe into communism in government. Browder appeared in a black suit with an overnight bag saying he wanted to represent himself as his own attorney.
At the Decatur branch laboratory seven animal heads were tested over two weeks with only one positive rabies result. The diseased animal was a dog from Courtland 1 brought in November 24 after biting several dogs and two mules before it was killed.
Washington recalls the December 1 1941 moment when Japan moved toward war with the United States and Pearl Harbor followed seven days later. A recent Far East delegation from Communist China visited New York to address the United Nations.
President Truman asked Congress for 17.85 billion to quickly build up the Army Navy Marines and Air Force and to speed the atomic energy program. He met congressional leaders at the White House to discuss the gravest crisis since World War II and warned of large outlays this year and next.
In Englewood New Jersey a 29 year old wife Mrs Margaret Thompson Oppenheimer led her three children into a closed garage and ended their lives with carbon monoxide fumes. Her husband William found them in the family station wagon. Police classified the deaths as suicide and triple murder.
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