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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 02, 1949
Page
2
Senators brace for a long session with filibuster threats clouding the calendar. House tax repeal and civil rights bills loom, with opposition likely to clash in extended sessions as Ives predicts a grinding pace and reelection pressures.
Riverside PTA hosted a two hour amateur night show at Riverside Auditorium. Louis Blizzard MC’d as PTAs from city schools presented skits including The Himan TMania and Decatur's Twenty Questions. Prize winning acts included Mr Anthony skit and The Other Woman's Hat with judges Lilbourne Hall Ned Frazier and Jimmy Bloodworth.
A four-story Sapulpa hotel suffered a $1 million blaze early today injuring one guest and forcing others to leap from upper floors to nets below. Fifty-three guests were registered as flames swept to adjacent buildings and cut power and phone service across the south part of the city.
Cotton middling at 29.00 with strict low 28.00. Cottonseed per ton 40.00. Hens heavy 24c light 20c. Hatching eggs 80c per dozen. Broilers 29.50 delivered. Hoes Lents 14.60 to 14.50. Cattle tops 15.50 canners 6.50 to 12.50. Bulls good 16.06 to 17.00. Corn ear white 120. Ear yellow 13. Wheat 2.10. Oats 0.78. Milo 1.91. Milk Grade A delivered 5.50 per hundred.
Atlanta Ga Dec 2 Pr USDA North Georgia live poultry market steady undertone steady supplies cleared satisfactorily few heavy fryers on hand trucking demand fair to good Prices paid FOB farm Thursday afternoon and this morning ranged broilers and fliers all weights 26-29 cents mostly 26-27 cents
Nashville Dec 2 cattle receipts small with uneven changes. Canner and cutter cows 10.00-14.00, stockers 18.00-22.50, good steers 25.00-30.00, bulls 16.50-18.25. Week-ago comparisons show steady to strong gains for steers and heifers. Hogs 300 head steady to 25 lower. barrows 15.50-16.00, sows 13.00-13.50. Sheep very light. lambs 20.50-22.50, aged sheep 7.00 down.
Miners led by Lewis press for higher daily wages and a modest 30 to 35 cent per ton increase, while industry funds face pension and welfare costs. A two day strike ends as the truce expires, with no contracts signed. Trustees discuss Dawson seating and fund availability for hospitalized miners as Truman officials seek a quick resolution.
Ward reported that the communists ordered him and all foreign consulate staff to leave Mukden within 48 hours starting 8 P M China time Monday Dec. The deadline is 8 A M Wednesday China time. Ward spoke to Consul General O Edmund Clubb at Peiping who relayed to the State. He added that travel would be via Tientsin and a local firm has permission to arrange transportation for staff and personal effects.
Birmingham scene as Gov. Folsom is urged to restore a long-standing parole pattern. Nina Miglionico leads the Alabama Federation Of Business And Professional Women in calling for removal of political or monetary influence from parole decisions. The board reports 11 paroles, including two life-term cases for first degree murder, while 84 applications were denied. The two murderers paroled are Dan Goldsby of Mobile County and Jimmie Lee Jones of Dallas County.
The state pardon parole board announced paroles for 11 convicts, two serving life terms for first degree murder. 84 applications were turned down. Paroled life termers were Jimmie Lee Jones of Dallas County and another unnamed. Other cases include Charlie Brown two years for burglary Jefferson County Louis James Shiver three years grand larceny Pike County Robert Utley one year and a day plus two years for grand larceny and burglary Tuscaloosa County S J Williams two years larceny of cow Calhoun County Sam J Bennett two to three years burglary then three to five for grand larceny and related crimes five to six years for grand larceny and receiving stolen property Jack Burgess 10 years second degree murder Elbert Clark one year and a day on five burglary cases Sam Jackson three years for assault with intent to murder Henderson Johnson 10 years for assault to murder.
A masked man attacked a filling station near Pelham 18 miles south of Birmingham, striking 12 year old Phillip Denham with a pistol and fleeing into nearby woods. State and county officers joined a large manhunt aided by bloodhounds from Draper prison. A youth in custody linked a man named John Powell to an earlier auto incident. Chilton County officials tied Price to a recent abortion charge indictment.
Armadas plan to control Ruhr coal and steel persists amid socialist resistance. Nationalists seek new capital after fleeing Chungking to Chengtu, with Sichang as a likely next stop. If mainland points fall, Taipeh Formosa could be last stand. At Lake Success, non-Communists push UN votes to refuse Map-Tze Tung regime.
A Montgomery mother running to summon an ambulance for her four year old son who had been hit by another car was struck by a passing vehicle. Both mother and son were taken to a local hospital in the same ambulance and were not seriously injured. Traffic Officers J. E. Ingram and Franklin Bouyer reported the incident involving a street collision near their home.
The President says the effort to reduce unemployment remains vital in troubled areas as the coal strike ends. He has begun drafting ideas for his state of the union message to Congress for an early January delivery. He started the day with a 6:30 A M walk and a beach visit with his daughter Margaret. Luncheon guests included Capt. G C Adell and Mrs Adell and Cmdr H D Warden aboard the Williamsburg. Dr J Leighton Stuart's illness worries the President, who values Stuart's China knowledge. Lilienthal will resign at year’s end.
Grass fires started by a blow torch ignited paper in a sewer vent. The blaze remained confined to vents while hot grass fires swept the area with multiple incidents logged through the day at blocks on Second Avenue East Railroad Avenue Jackson Street Washington Street Seventh Avenue West First Avenue East Moulton Street East Twelfth Avenue East Tenth Avenue and Moulton Heights with times from 11:20 a.m. to 7:14 p.m.
Delta Manitoba December report from the waterfowl research station notes wartime radio direction indicator tests causing local ducks to scatter when hit by high frequency radar beams. In about a dozen tests migratory ducks were disrupted but then reformed. resident birds showed little reaction according to director H Albert Hochbaum.
An all female jury in Philadelphia acquits James Comber, 31, of murder after witnesses testified he kicked clubman Hubert Madden to death. Judge Joseph Sloane denounces the verdict as a miscarriage of justice, while jurors cry and some faint in court. The state sought second degree murder and heavy penalties.
Auto ad valorem taxes totaling over 36500 were distributed by the Morgan tax collector for Oct 1 to Nov 15. The 15 day period from Nov 1 to Nov 15 totaled 12514.74 with the City of Decatur at 3046.92 and Morgan County at 3338.88 sharing among state and local agencies including Hartselle 319.02 Trinity 13.68 Falkville 43.95 and Austinville 17.40. Tax collector fees were 476.04 with county schools receiving 2119.76 and Decatur schools 596.52.
Curb Market will install coal burning stoves by Monday after contracts to Exchange Furniture Co. were let. Manager Bill Sims said cold weather prompted the move and material is on hand for new windows and doors. Crews from Atlanta will install them to seal the building and improve heating.
Thomas Slay offered rides to a pretty senior, with varying stories of where she departed his car. A kidnapping warrant was issued in Evansville and is now with Limestone County authorities. Blood stains in Slay’s car prompted officers to note torn upholstery and a possible violent past. Slay was arrested after a Mohawk truck crash near Athens while returning to college for Thanksgiving.
Police in two states and the FBI hunted a missing New York woman amid claims her husband said she fell from a Rochester pier. Nicholas Brooks of Rome, N Y, allegedly involved in kidnapping and auto fraud, was arrested on federal flight charges. A companion, Robert Barnes of Massachusetts, faced loitering charges.
Quillen and Wal lace testified money marked 3500 dollars was allegedly "processed" to harden print and then vanished. They said 1000 dollars was recovered as the scheme unfolded. Black and Reece backed the tale noting the ink would smear and the money proved no good. Chapman was said to be jailed in Tennessee on a related charge with a Morgan County holdover warrant.
Twenty six firemen were hospitalized after fighting a blaze at a plastic plant. Burning plastics produced fumes suspected to be phosgene, a deadly gas that can take effect 24 to 48 hours after exposure. Firemen collapsed on scene and received oxygen. others were hospitalized as a precaution after the fire was put out.
A downtown Allentown gas explosion at 12:15 A M caused cratered streets widespread outages and evacuations. City officials debated damage estimates near or above one million dollars as fire raged for hours and several vehicles were thrown by the blast.
Coroner Sam Hardin ruled justifiable homicide after 82 year old George Fuller shot and killed 46 year old Hal Barnett at Fuller’s Brookwood area home. Deputy Leon T. Chism said ill will existed and a peace bond had been set about 10 days earlier. Barnett had brought his wife and two sons to the Fuller residence, then returned home, reappearing at 10 PM with a 32 caliber pistol as the older man fired in self defense.
Philadelphia December 2 William H Hastie former governor of the Virgin Islands was sworn in yesterday as the first Negro judge of a U S circuit court Hastie had received an interim appointment to the third circuit from President Truman and must be confirmed by the next session of Congress
A nine year old girl recounted how her father W F Bean killed her mother Fannie Bean and sister Dorris Jean Bean last night in a Memphis two room home. The twin Mine Fay and Thelma were shielded as Donald Ray Bean was wounded and the father then left with a .22 rifle threatening suicide. Sheriff's deputies searched for W F Bean who confessed to the killings to his landlady and police.
Sim L Howell chair of the Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control says Montgomery is to word deed data sheets and right of way agreements for US 31 improvements from Lacon to the Cullman county line. The $1,250,000 project runs north of Lacon toward Cullman with 17 of 24 deeds signed for the Arab Decatur road and about five miles covered. Deeds for about seven miles were already obtained in 1936. Remaining deeds cover about two and a half miles and are being drawn in Montgomery.
Willie C Walton, 23, was arrested at his home by Sheriff deputies on a warrant charging assault with intent to murder and another warrant in a peace proceedings case. The assault warrant was sworn by Eddie L Garth who alleged Walton held a gun. Garth was uninjured. County Judge W H Long and Justice G W Norwood issued the warrants.
The 45-year-old former dean of Howard University is appointed the seventh judge of the third circuit. A Knoxville, Tennessee native, he served as governor of the Virgin Islands for the past three and a half years.
Advertising a two bedroom unfurnished apartment for rent with adults only. Contact options Cali 3311 or 154 for details and availability. The notice emphasizes no children and negotiable terms may apply.
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