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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1946
Page
1
Fair and slightly warmer this afternoon through Wednesday. Low temperatures 29 to 32 degrees with scattered frost interior tonight. Gentle to moderate easterly winds on the coast. Cotton market unchanged. middling at Decatur 30.25 and a 25 reading for 1/4 inch. Local social and illness notes plus births and hospital updates and a joke closing line by Ken Reynolds.
Decatur reports strong yearly financial progress with a pay as you go approach, debt reduced by 84 000 and interest 51 000 paid. cash balance rose to 156 000 in 1946 from 52 000 in 1945, while total income reached 698 887 and expenditures 594 000. bond debt sits at 1 274 000 as public services expand and new equipment and street work are funded from cash. the city plans airport school and hospital improvements but warns further facilities require new taxes to avoid disrupting debt reduction and public services.
Socialist Vincent Auriol won the French assembly presidency with 284 votes. Communist Marcel Cachin received 170, while radical-socialist Ne Varene was also named in the ballot. Auriol’s win relied on support from Georges Bidault’s conservative Popular Republican Movement.
National Cotton Council representatives outlined the 1947 activity plan before Morgan County citizens including producers ginners warehousemen and crushers at the county courthouse Ern est Stewart presided Alan Diseker Alabama field representative spoke on competition from synthetics and foreign markets George Coate described committee work and six groups in the program A coordinating committee Mil ton Harvey Carl Patterson and L T Wagnon was appointed to link council efforts with Decatur business interests to boost cotton product use
City Clerk Joe Pettey issued permits for two new homes each valued at $5,000. D. B. Barrett receives a six room brick house permit in the 500 block of Jackson Street. Alton Martin gets a four room duplex permit on Fifth Avenue West.
Mrs. T. W. Powell, a Bellview Heights resident, died at her Birmingham home this morning from a heart attack. The obituary notes she was a frequent visitor to the area and mentions Mr. Powell in relation to her.
A Navy antarctic expedition task force sails 250 miles off Charleston aboard the Mt Olympus amid calm seas after heavy overnight surf. Flagship Florilla passes Charleston at 7 30 A M EST en route to Florida then the Panama Canal first leg of a four month exploration under Rear Admiral Richard E Byrd.
Jackson Mississippi December 3 a Negro veteran Richard E Daniel testified before senate investigators that he was beaten unconscious in Gulfport jail on July 2 after attempting to vote He said clothing was stained brown and two men named Estes and See were involved He linked the incident to Bilbo campaign tactics and a question based registration test.
The Decatur City Council postponed action on ties to a proposed trailer camp near the Alabama Hosiery Mill pending full member review. E B Randle owns three lots on Eighth Avenue East seeking a temporary 10-trailer site for workers tied to a new copper tubing plant.
Charles Harvey of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce retail merchants division states that all stores will abandon the usual Thursday half holidays during December. The decision ends the pattern of Thursday half days observed by Decatur retailers for the month.
Maynard Layman announces Decatur area likely to supply the 1947 Maid of Cotton. The winner will travel to Paris and Cannes prior to the Southern season, visit Memphis for judging, then New York for a month of modeling training.
A clash near a suspected insurgent bivouac about a dozen miles from Hu Kalahaps sees machinegun fire rattle the area. No further details on casualties or the involved units are available in the fragment.
Secretary of State Byrnes and British Foreign Minister Bevin announce a joint Germany zone merger to create a self sustaining economy in three years and discuss Austrian issues and German frontiers with the Big Four. They expect a deputy commission to prepare for a foreign ministers meeting next year and note costs of occupation may rise.
A general strike in Oakland halts transportation and operations for about one million people. Newspapers stop, commuters use cars, and city officials prepare disaster plans as AFL unions retaliate for police escorts of non union trucks to downtown stores.
The Army and Navy told a congressional committee that large pipelines should not be repurposed for rapid oil transport in a national emergency. Adm. Frederick J. iman said lines from Texas to the East should be turned to industry in peacetime, but the board has no firm plan on oil or gas use. Harold L. Ickes will present views on peacetime use later.
John L. Lewis and the United Mine Workers were found guilty of contempt of court for defying an injunction aimed at avoiding a major soft coal strike. Judge T Alan Goldsborough deferred sentencing, with recommendations due next morning. Lewis remained free pending sentence and was ordered in custody of his counsel.
The Southern Coal Producers Association accepted Edward R. Burke's resignation as president after a special meeting called to address opposition to his Thanksgiving Day proposal for a two week truce and talks with John Lewis to renegotiate contracts amid a government takeover of soft coal mines.
Golds borough verdict states Lewis is guilty personally and as president of the United Mine Workers with UMW found guilty separately. The judge noted the sentence is important and invited views from defense and government counsel before sentencing. Lewis then requested and received permission to address the court and called labor injunctions history sordid prior to 1932.
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