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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 03, 1952
Page
1
Mostly cloudy and cool with occasional rain tonight and Thursday. Southeast winds on the coast turn southeasterly Thursday. Local clinic admissions include Mrs. Claude Nelson and Ezra White. A heart seminar at the Country club features Dr. Tinsley Harrison. Chest fund nears goal at 36 677.98 with nine agency budgets totaling 41 000. See Diary On Page 2.
A federal grand jury and the State Department clashed over actions to root out alleged disloyalty among United Nations headquarters staff. The grand jury reported the department gave a clean bill of health to suspected disloyal officials in several flagrant cases.
John Foster Dulles declared that loyal servants of the government have nothing to fear from the Eisenhower administration and promised non partisan protection for the foreign service. He met with Dean Acheson, Lovett, and Bruce and expects five policy books, while critics recall charges of communists within the department.
Senator McCarthy indicated a grand jury probe against John P. Davies Jr. may follow the Lattimore case. Attorney General McC (McCraney) ordered Lattimore evidence to a grand jury, while Davies, a former State Department official, holds a top post with U.S. occupation authorities in West Germany. Both men deny perjury amid a Sen McCarran led subcommittee probe into Far East policy influences.
Price Aycock of Huntsville Gas leads a regional push to the Federal Power Commission in Washington for increased gas allotment. Cities including Corinth Miss, Sheffield, Florence, Decatur, Athens, and Hartselle join to address a pressure drop affecting Athens and Huntsville on the Alabama Tennessee pipeline.
Czech Red Deputy Prime Minister Otto Nuschke cabled President Truman urging commutation for atomic spies Ethel and Julius Rosenberg. He argued they fought against preparation of a new war while the Rosenbergs await death next month without presidential intervention.
Mobilization chief Henry H. Fowler declared controls will remain in force while the Truman administration stays in power. He called decontrol a grave mistake and rejected reports that Truman plans to lift wage and price limits before Congress. Fowler overruled steel industry calls to relax allocations by January 1 and end civilian quotas by April 1.
Eastern Air Lines resumed some Constellation flights from Miami today after a strike by flight engineers. A super Constellation departed Miami International Airport at 8:30 a.m. with a flight engineer supervisor, while two New York to Miami departures were planned with supervisors aboard. The airline had grounded its Constellation fleet Monday as engineers pressed for higher wages during contract talks.
The Air Force is reported to receive about 17 percent of the Defense Department’s proposed $40.7 billion appropriation for the 1953 fiscal year starting July 1. Officials say total outlays, including existing contracts, will exceed $47 billion, with the Air Force forecast to have the largest service expenditure.
Wet and cloudy weather slowed traffic across wide areas with hundreds of accidents. The early December snow and rain caused at least 14 deaths. Snow mixed with rain along the east coast and had varying temperatures from the 60s in Texas to the 20s in the upper Mississippi Valley.
Wet heavy snow plagues the Northeast causing at least three deaths and widespread school closures. Traffic jams clog routes from Pennsylvania to Rhode Island as truck lines back up on major roads, with five inch depths reported in places and drivers without chains blamed for many incidents.
In Cleveland last night a gunman entered a 105th Street theatre and demanded money from the office. Mrs. Louise Phillips 25 handed over 300 in theater receipts a revolver was seen by the assistant manager and no rifle was used.
Montgomery reports November state receipts totaling 10 263 415 an increase over 1951. Sales and gasoline taxes rose though income and tobacco tax fell and auto tag revenue declined due to flat tag price and reporting delays. The use tax rose and October sales were not fully reported yet. See STATE on Page 2.
A House subcommittee studying civil works tours TVA sites in North Alabama. Eight members will travel from the Tri Cities to Wheeler dam then Decatur, arriving at 11 a.m. for short plant visits and a 12:30 luncheon at the Country club hosted by Mayor H. R. Summer and local officials. The group proceeds to Guntersville dam the same afternoon.
Chicago police searched for a knife wielding youth described as a sex person with mental health condition after an 11 year old girl was disrobed and injured near her South Side home. The victim, a sixth grade student, was assaulted as she rode from her home to a grocery and later treated at St Luke's Hospital. The suspect reportedly also attacked Catharine Howard, 24, the prior night in a separate incident.
Denver reports a boy born last night in view of television witnesses. Gordon Campbell Kerr weighs 5 pounds 7 ounces and both mother and baby are doing fine. The birth marks the first telecast of a human birth and makes the infant the youngest TV star to date.
Troy Bagwell, 38, a Cullman County resident, remained jailed in Morgan County charged with five counts of grand larceny for stealing seven bales of cotton from Joe Rolfe's gin at Turney's Crossroads. He allegedly moved four bales from Rolfe and took others from D. E. Evans and Albert Mullins, and sold some cotton in Arab and Oneonta.
In Berlin the Red zone news agency ADN says three American soldiers fled to the Soviet sector seeking asylum. One is named Philip Morand, with two others, George Smith and Carl Thomas Blake, reportedly joining him after deserting from their infantry unit and expressing opposition to U S policy.
President Truman and Senator Stevenson meet in the White House to review the party’s past and chart the future. They will discuss Stevenson’s role and the party’s direction after the 1952 landslide loss to Eisenhower, with Mitchell outlining a plan to keep Stevenson as standard bearer while Democrats focus on Congress.
South Korean troops fought heavy hand to hand on Pinpoint Hill regaining most forward positions lost earlier. The 2 p.m counterattack by U S Eighth Army pushed Reds from the crest while Allied artillery and air strikes hit Communist supply lines and airfield targets.
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