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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 07, 1949
Page
1
A compact look at local concerns and happenings in roughly sketched community notes. It highlights civic topics and neighborhood interests with brief mentions of people places and actions shaping everyday life.
Lt General Leslie Groves testified before congressional investigators that Harry Hopkins never tried to obtain atomic blueprints or maps from him. Groves outlined Russian spillage of atomic materials, lend-lease pressures, and his lack of knowledge about who influenced the policy. He noted Russians took documents and materials, including State Department papers, at Great Falls during World War II.
The forecast calls for a cloudy day with showers and cooler temperatures across the state with noted changes tonight and Thursday. Local items include a Danville couple's newborn son, a North Alabama Kennel Club meeting, a building permit for a five room house on Park Circle, and a funeral attendance from Decatur officials in Huntsville. Also covered are Christmas shopping hours, a student attending NAM in New York, religious services, Kiwanis program, a police report of a minor collision, a sermon at St Pauls Lutheran, and birth announcements from Decatur. See DIARY On Page 2.
An 11 month old baby from Sheffield Alabama, Brenda Dianne McCorkle, was brought to a Memphis hospital after swallowing an open brass pin. Attendants say magnets cannot recover the pin. Two Memphis policemen escorting the ambulance were injured when their patrol car skidded on wet pavement and hit a tree, Corp J E Reaves and B A Campbell suffering broken legs and possible internal injuries.
The Bessemer city commission voted 2-1 to decontrol rents effective February 15 after a jammed session. Real estate men urged immediate removal of controls while tenants urged keeping them until May 14, 1950 when a legislative act would end them. Approval by Gov. Folsom and the housing expeditor's office in Washington is required. Joe Lewis and Herman Thompson supported the measure. Wallace Reynolds opposed.
Central Alabama cotton growers denounce U S Agriculture Department acreage allotments as ruinous to many farmers. The Montgomery County Farm Bureau Federation adopted a resolution criticizing the plan noting some local farmers face up to a 70 percent reduction while the national proposal calls for 20 percent. State Farm Bureau President Walter L Randolph said the allotments are inequitable but may change in Congress next year.
Former Bulgarian deputy premier Traicho Kostov goes on trial as a Titoist in Sofia. He is charged with plotting to make Bulgaria a vassal state of Yugoslavia and with spying for the West, amid a Balkan and Soviet power struggle. Pro Yugoslav and Soviet views frame the case amid Pearl Harbor anniversary observations.
The Alabama Farm Bureau will contest rising milk prices on behalf of producers. A F Randall of Seale leads the dairy committee and says legal counsel and witnesses will address the state milk control board in meetings across Birmingham Montgomery and Mobile next week. Producers allege large distributors push price hikes while producers see costs rising with little benefit. Walter L Randolph, federation president, asks dairy committee members to bring their cost sheets.
The home of the late H. C. Long, a ten room two story landmark in Moulton's Southwest section, was destroyed by a flash fire discovered at 6 30 tonight. Long died in October and the property passed to his daughter Mrs P Montgomery. Built in 1890 on the old Gibson estate, the structure was a total loss with several outbuildings saved and insurance believed to cover the loss.
Washington reports the United States will comply with North Korean terms for the release of two Americans held since September. Secretary of State Acheson said the State Department is unsure of the authenticity of the broadcast and that a diplomatic official will be sent from Seoul toward the border with North Korea to verify progress.
A statement by the flogging victim's young son looms large as A B Carradine and 17 others face flogging charges in a night riding case. Jack Alexander identified Carradine as the whip wielder. Alexander and Miss Henderson were lashed May 19. Rev R C Lyons is also indicted.
A mushrooming wildcat strike in Oak Ridge Tennessee threatens to spread to all construction crafts. About 300 carpenters and laborers were reported to walk out with around 2000 workers idled across crafts. The cause centers on opposition to non union labor on a Nash ville construction c o. project amid high priority atomic installations at the K 29 gaseous diffusion plant. Officials say no fissionable material workers have quit and government action awaits a filed complaint.
John L. Lewis announced that some mine owners signed contracts with his union, but major coal operators remain skeptical, saying the signings cover little of the national output. The deals raise wages by 95 cents daily and add 35 cents per ton for welfare, pensions, and medical benefits, with a potential $175 million yearly fund if widely adopted.
Montgomery December meeting elects Mack Jackson of Alexander City as president of the Alabama Theaters Association, succeeding W. R. Griffin of Cullman. New officers include Richard Kennedy Birmingham vice president and T. E. Watson Montevallo secretary treasurer with a board chaired by W. R. Griffin. Directors named include Engler Birmingham Thorn ton Carbon Hill Rosenbaum Florence Neely Marion Miller Cordova Hook Aliceville Woodall Guntersville Boland Jackson Cobb Grimes Orr Merritt and Martin.
Fire department reports an ongoing grass fire plague around Decatur with eight incidents today and yesterday. Notable calls include 6 45 A M into 1427 Sixth Avenue East and multiple blasts across Fifth Avenue East Fourth Avenue West Austinville road Tenth Avenue West Nineteenth Avenue East McCartney Street and the 800 block of McCartney Street plus 1600 block Fourth Avenue East and Flint.
Fifteen states and the District of Columbia have acted to crack down on sex fiends while a congressman seeks FBI aid to protect children from sex crimes. Thirty three states have not acted recently though at least 12 plan to move soon. Across the nation police faced sexual outrages in New York Pittsburgh Newport News Detroit Los Angeles Twin Falls and Huron in a wave cited by an Associated Press survey.
Rex Beach died at 72 from a pistol wound at his Florida home. County Judge J Howard Livingston and Sheriff Broward Coker ruled the death a suicide. Nurse Miss Tania Simonian found Beach, last awake after breakfast, in his second story bedroom. Secretary Robert Fox said funeral plans would follow. Beach had been writing a psychological novel titled Woman In Ambush and had suffered throat illness for years.
Rep. Robbs filed a brief in the Supreme Court urging the maintenance of Southern railroad dining car segregation. He said striking down the rules would be the kiss of death to operation, defending the policies as lawful and in the public interest. The Henderson case seeks to challenge these dining car regulations affecting a Baltimore Negro. The court will hear arguments later this term.
Craig Field officials report a non- commissioned officers club inferno at the lakefront site caused by a kitchen wax spill. Loss estimated at 87 000 dollars with 75 000 for replacement of equipment. At Huntsville 400 schoolchildren evacuated as Monrovia building filled with smoke. little damage reported.
King testified he was at his father Hobart King’s Upper River Road home cleaning tools during the Falkville bank robbery. He said he saw Fowler and Tune that morning at a Railroad Street cafe with others, and denied any involvement in the crime. Fowler described conversations about robbing the bank and testified about drinking beforehand, while cross examination sparked objections from both sides.
A bakery truck from American Bakery overturned in a ditch near Moulton around 6 30 in the morning. Damage was about 800 dollars. The driver W Dell of Birmingham suffered only minor injuries. Police from Moulton investigated the crash, which occurred while driving west toward Russellville after losing control.
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