Weather, hospital notes, and public notices from Decatur area
Weather forecast for AY 4 f7 and Mine area calls for clearing this afternoon and tonight with colder temperatures 30 to 38 across north and central regions and 35 to 40 in the far south. North winds along the coast will ease by Saturday. Local items note E L Sellers of Falkville in Decatur on business, hospital discharges and admissions at Decatur General, a birth at the same hospital, and a postponed city board of education meeting to next Thursday. Additional items include court docket details on intoxication and resisting arrest, Baptist Sunday School meetings, a lodge games night, and a diary note directing readers to Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Board of Education
Walter Jackson
Gordon-Bibb School
Decatur Ells Lodge
First Avenue
Two Raids Net Three Stills In Limestone County
Limestone County sheriff John Sandlin and deputies joined ATU investigator William Sidney Lamon and ABC Agents Herman Sandlin and Carlos Nelson in raids that destroyed three wildcat whiskey factories with an estimated 700 gallons of mash. One raid near Rock House landing southwest of Mooresville yielded two 250 gallon box type stills filled with live mash. The officers also destroyed a 200 gallon capacity tank type rig near the Elk river north bank.
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Limestone County
John Sandlin
ATU
William Sidney Lamon
ABC
Herman Sandlin
Carlos Nelson
Rock House
Mooresville
Elk River
North Bank
Board turmoil grows as WSB heads face resignations
Washington reports show new WSB chairman Charles Killingsworth confronting likely resignations from industry members in protest to Truman’s coal wage decision after Archibald Cox quit. Cox warned the $1.90 daily boost for 440,000 miners could imply continued stabilization with exemptions or broad wage-rule easing. Prices for hard coal may rise about 90 cents per ton.
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Washington
Wage Stabilization Board
Truman
Charles C. Killingsworth
Michigan State College
Archibald Cox
WSB
Killingsworth
Cox
Lewis
United Mine Workers
Roger Putnam
Youths Admit Double Killing Near Phenix City
Two 22 year old Black youths Albert Lee Tommy Jones and Arthur Lee Grimes confessed to a burglary and double murder of Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Pearce near Phenix City on November 25. They said they shot the couple with Pearce s pistol, then burned the house to hide the crime and stole 75. The Pearces were found badly burned. toxicology confirmed death by gunfire. They are jailed in Russell County awaiting transfer to Kilby Prison.
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Phenix City
Here
H. Ralph Mathews
D. W. Pearce
Pearce
Albert Lee
Tommy) Jones
Arthur Lee Grimes
Russell County
Kilby
Montgomery
Jones
Grimes
Pearces
W. L. Sowell
Tom See
Pillows And Spread Found By Police
Police chief J B Whitmire said officers found two bed pillows and a bed spread at the corner of Sixth Ave near the police department after identifying them this morning.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
J. B. Whitmire
Sixth Ave
Police Department
Nine Americans Fired by U.N. over McCarran questions
Secretary General Trygve Lie fired nine American UN employees for refusing to answer McCarran committee questions about Communist affiliations and subversive ties. The move brings total dismissals in 1952 to 18. Lie warned 3,000 other staff they face the same fate if they refuse.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. N
Trygve Lie
McCarran Committee
Lie
Secretariat
Road completion celebration invites regional officials
People of the Ryan's and Hula co communities invite three county reps and the state Highway Department to a Monday night celebration at Ryan's school. The event marks the Decatur to Arab road completion and the Memphis to Atlanta route via Decatur. County officials and lawmakers from Cullman Marshall and Morgan counties, plus Highway Department reps, will attend at 6 30 with barbecue or brunswick stew served.
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Ryan’s
Hulaco
State Highway Department
Decatur
Arab
Memphis
Atlanta
Cullman
Marshall
Morgan
Ryan’s School
Decatur Open House Lights City For Christmas Season
Crowds flocked to Decatur stores for the annual open house with prize drawings last night. Hundreds of prizes valued near $2,000 drew registrations, with winners to claim by six tomorrow night. Festivities included Yule lights, a Delano Park tree ceremony, and a children's choir concert marking a successful event.
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Decatur
Delano Park
Federation of Garden Clubs
Chinese Reds Plastered By Allied Planes
Allied fighter bombers pounded Chinese Reds on the central front for the third straight day. UN warplanes also struck Communist supply and troop targets in North Korea. A UN raiding party hit a Chinese outpost on the western front, killing an estimated 58 Reds before withdrawing. Sub zero temperatures limited activity along the line. Allied artillery duelled Communist guns as spotters reported 31 bunkers hit. South Koreans on Sniper Ridge held firm repulsing probing Chinese squads on the central front.
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Seoul
U N
North Korea
U. N
Reuther Plans Active Fight
Walter P. Reuther, 45, elected CIO president, vowed a fighting program to keep the union an active factor in American industry. He aimed to win big gains for organized workers and to recruit non union workers while Allan S. Haywood was re elected executive vice president. He criticized the cushioned leaders and said he would lead with unity and focus on foreign policy politics and union affairs.
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Atlantic City
N. J
CIO
Walter P. Reuther
America
Reuther
Philip Murray
CIO Auto Workers
Ormer
Allan S. Haywood
Haywood
Union League Clubs of America
Auto Workers Union
Truman and Stevenson Plan Democrats 1954 Victory
President Truman and Adlai Stevenson outlined a strategy to win back Congress in 1954 while preserving national welfare. They pledged fair treatment of Eisenhower's new administration and a focus on erasing the party deficit and serving public interests.
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Truman
Stevenson
Washington
Adlai Stevenson
White House
Eisenhower
Congress
Coun
Illinois
Eisenhower Secrecy Marks Move to Korea Visit
President elect Dwight D. Eisenhower leaves his New York home with Secret Service escort en route to Mitchel Field for a Korea mission. Defense Secretary designee Charles E. Wilson and a press group join the discreet departure as reporters trail toward Pennsylvania Station.
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U. S
Secret Service
Edward Green
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Korea
Mitchel Field
Air Force Base
Long Island
Morningside Heights
Defense
Charles E. Wilson
Waldorf Hotel
58Th St
Fifth Ave
O General Motors Corp
Pennsylvania Station
Ed Sweeney
James Hagerty
Youth End His Life After Telephoning Grandmother
In Pensacola Florida Glenn Beckman a teen-ager called County Judge Harvey Page and said he would kill himself with a revolver. He then summoned his grandmother Mrs Pearl Alsip and shot himself in front of her dying two hours later in hospital. The judge expected a death by own action verdict.
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Pensacola
Fla
Glenn Beckman
Harvey E. Page
Pearl Alsip
Page
Beckman
Fay Beckman
Tunisian Leader Shot To Death
Farhet Hached Tunisian trade union official and nationalist leader was found shot to death near his bullet-riddled car on a highway south of Tunis. French authorities imposed an 8 p m to 6 a m curfew on Tunis and surrounding areas amid Tunisia’s independence push at the United Nations.
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Tunis
Tunisia
Farhet Hached
United Nations
New York
France
U. N
Hached
International Confederation of Free Trade Unions
ICFTU
Tunisian Labor Federation
Hachedd
Jean de Hauteclocque
Sheriff Faces 75000 Suit in Civil Rights Action
Lawrence County Sheriff Franklin Smith faces a $25,000 civil rights lawsuit brought by Willie Swope alleging entry to Swope's home on April 21 without proper identification while serving a warrant. The suit names Smith and nine bondsmen for liability. trial is set in federal court at Huntsville.
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Lawrence County
Franklin Smith
Smith
Willie Swope
Hillsboro
Swope
ABC
Junior Jackson
J. W. Sherrill, Jr
Huntsville
Dondero Sees Limited TVA Steam Plant Growth
Rep George A Dondero head of the House Public Works panel says there will be no further vigorous expansion of TVA steam plant capacity. He notes TVA expansion now underway will be followed, but private industry should not have to compete with government. He and subcommittee members toured Muscle Shoals Guntersville Decatur plants and dams, expressing surprise at TVA progress.
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Huntsville
House Committee On Public Works
Eisenhower
Tennessee Valley Authority
George A. Dondero
Rmich
TVA
Dondero
Public Works Committee
Muscle Shoals
Guntersville
Decatur
Tennessee Valley
Atomic Scientist Bates Explains Hydrogen Bomb Peaceful Use
Washington report quotes Dr. George Gamow presenting a public explanation on taming hydrogen bomb materials for peaceful power. He describes electricity through a thin wire triggering a slowed reaction and notes other potentially better techniques, though he leans toward amplification.
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Washington
George Gamow
Eisenhower urges restraint on Korea war during Asia swing
President elect Eisenhower spent three days in Korea assessing the conflict and visiting Syngman Rhee. He said spreading the war to China is not the answer and that the solution lies in careful planning and restraint while evaluating all that was learned for a broader policy.
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Seoul
U. S
Dwight D. Eisenhower
United States
Red China
Eisenhower
Synghman Rhee
South Korea
Rhee
Skies Clearing Over Mid West
For the mid-continent clearing skies and warmer temperatures are expected after days of rain and snow. Rain persisted overnight from central Alabama to the Ohio Valley, with the heaviest totals from central Alabama to central Kentucky and freeze or snow in northwestern Wisconsin and eastern Minnesota.
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Associated Press
Mid-Continent
Alabama
Ohio Valley
Canadian
Kentucky
Michigan
Wisconsin
Minnesota
North Carolina
Virginia
Pennsylvania
Also Mentioned on This Page
E. L. Sellers
Falkville 1
Decatur General Hospital
Clifford Odom
Tenth Avenue SE
I. L. Fambrough
Canal Street
Glennell Helms
Jack Brown
Lennie Hill
Charlie Owens
Charles Murphy
Decatur 1
W. J. Galloway
Eleventh Avenue NW
L. E. Hendrix
Sixth Avenue
Thursey Speegle
Hartselle
Frank Harrison
Falkville
Robert Eaton
William Hilliard
Athens
B. J. Ferguson
Sixth Avenue NW
Jerry Roger
Decatur 3
Baptist Associational
Central Baptist Church
Morgan County Baptist Sunday
Rock Creek Church
A. J. Metzger
Spokane
Wash
U.N
U. N. Secretariat
U. S. Senate Internal Security Subcommittee
Pat McCarran
D—Nev
Mars
By Don Whitehead
New York City
Ike
Bates
Front Line
Eighth Army
Asia
Europe
Mid-West
By Ken Reynolds
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