Community News Highlights From Decatur Area
Warmer Sunday with coastal winds. Local residents greet friends in Decatur on Saturday. Navy member James Coy Smith seeks contact at Co 52 0886 USN T C San Diego CA. Pastor changes at Central Baptist. Trinity Baptist hosts singing at 1 30 PM. Limestone sing at Athens courthouse. Several recorder court cases incl gaming and pistol without permit. First Methodist board meets. baptism observed at First Christian. Decatur High glee group to sing at 5 PM service. See DIARY On Page 2.
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James Coy Smith
Fairview
U. S. Navy
Decatur
U.S.N.T.C
San Diego
California
Decatur High School
Carl Schwachow
First Methodist Church
Eisenhower Dulles Conference Aboard Helena En Route
President elect Dwight Eisenhower travels aboard the cruiser Helena toward Wake Island to meet Secretary designate John Foster Dulles for policy talks on Korea and the Far East. Dulles will join Eisenhower after flying from the United States. Oregon official Douglas McKay is noted as a possible Wake participant.
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Don Whitehead
Helena
Hawaii
Dwight Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Wake Island
Eisenhower
Dulles
Korea
Far East
New York
Wake
Oregon
Douglas McKay
McKay
Salem
Ore
U. S
Ike
Personal plea to Reds on Korea peace plan
United Nations president Lester B Pearson sent a personal appeal to Chou En Lai to end the Korean fighting on terms of India’s peace plan. Pearson also messaged North Korean authorities. Fifty four of sixty nations endorsed the Indian resolution. Moscow and allies opposed.
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United Nations
N. Y
U. N. General Assembly
Red China
Chou En-Lai
India
Canada
Lester B. Pearson
Moscow and Company
Rhee Urges Ike to Break Korean Stalemate Quickly
President Syngman Rhee told reporters in Seoul that he urged Dwight D. Eisenhower to find a solution to Korea as the Korean people have become impatient. He said Eisenhower would do what he can to end the stalemate at the earliest time, but no commitments were given. Rhee warned that an all out drive to the Yalu River is the only way to break the stalemate and that armistice negotiations with the Reds are a waste of time.
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Seoul
Syngman Rhee
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Korea
Republic of Korea
Eisenhower
Rhee
Yalu River
Showmen Offer Christine Jorgensen Major Contracts
Christine Jorgensen, the Bronx native who transitioned from George Jorgensen, currently 26, declines a flood of contracts from U S and European showmen while convalescing at Copenhagen's Rigshospitalet. She asks for privacy as she embraces her new womanhood after wartime service.
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Copenhagen
Denmark
U. S
Europe
Christine Jorgensen
Bronx
Christine
Rigs (State) Hospital
George Jorgensen
Allies Oppose Extending War in Korea, Report Says
Washington dispatches report that Allied nations oppose any military action widening the Korean conflict. The piece ties the stance to upcoming talks between President-elect Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles, with Dulles expected to join aboard the Helena at Wake Island.
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John M. Hightower
Washington
America
Korea
Eisenhower
John Foster Dulles
Helena
Dulles
Wake Island
Mild Pacific air broadens fall weather across U S
Mild air from the Pacific pushes into the Midwest producing moderate autumn skies. Heavy rains soak parts of New England and Upper New York while snow flurries appear in the Upper Great Lakes. Highs reach the 40s and 50s in the Midwest. no severe cold forecast. The coldest area is the Northern Great Lakes with International Falls at 1 degree below zero.
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Associated Press
Pacific
Midwest
New England
New York State
Great Lakes
U. S. Weather Bureau
Chicago
International Falls
Minn
Even Stronger Pledge Sought
Trans Atlantic Cuban liner explodes after takeoff from Kindley Field Bermuda five miles offshore. Of 41 aboard 37 die, including Spaniards Cubans and Mexicans. four survivors rescued by Coast Guard crash boats amid wreckage and burning fuel.
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Bernard Brown Hamilton
Bermuda
Havana
U. S. Air Force
Coast Guard
Woman Shot On Crowded Downtown Street in Birmingham
A 37 year old woman was shot on a busy downtown street as Christmas shoppers fled. Her estranged husband James L. Coleman 39 was arrested and charged with assault with intent to murder. Mrs Coleman was wounded in the shoulder with no heart injury. Detective Cole cited witnesses S V Stanley and family.
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Birmingham
Evelyn Coleman
M. H. Cole
James L. Coleman
Mitchell Declares South Core of Democratic Party
Alabama reporter AL Lanier covers remarks by Steve Mitchell in Montgomery stating the South is the backbone of the Democratic Party and that Adlai Stevenson will lead the party in time. Mitchell predicts Truman will bow out after the White House transition and emphasizes future party revitalization centered in Southern states.
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AL Lanier Montgomery
Adlai Steverison
Democratic Party
Democratic National Committee
Ged Stevenson
Mitchell
Gov. Persons
South
Courts Decision On School Segregation Awaited By South
A Southern legislator outlines a plan for private state funded schools if public segregation is banned. Rep Sam Engelhardt of Macon County proposes abolishing public schools, with per pupil funds donated to private corporations run by parents. Georgia already moved to end free public schools, while South Carolina votes to repeal free public school requirements. The Supreme Court will hear five segregation cases on Dec 9.
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Rex Thomas Montgomery
Alabama
Sam Engelhardt
Macon County
U. S. Supreme Court
Supreme Court
Englehardt
Atlanta
South
Georgia
South Carolina
James F. Byrnes
Delaware
Kansas
Virginia
District of Columbia
Congress
State Supreme Court
Associated Press
Maryland
West Virginia
North Carolina
Florida
Mississippi
Louisiana
Texas
Arkansas
Oklahoma
Missouri
Tennessee
Kentucky
Herman Talmadge
General Assembly
Assembly
Byrnes
High Court
Industry Group Quits WSB Unit Protest Over Truman Wage Policy
Seven industry members of the Wage Stabilization Board resigned citing a fraud upon the American people. They accused President Truman of granting a $1.90 daily wage increase to John L. Lewis's United Mine Workers as a privileged exception, undermining the public interest and signaling second class citizenship for others.
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Rowland Evans JR
Washington
Dec
Wage Stabilization Board
WSB
Truman
John L. Lewis
United
Czechs Recall Israeli Envoy Over Prague Dispute
Vienna reports Czechoslovakia demands recall of Israeli Minister to Prague A Leon Kubovy as persona non grata after his involvement in Slansky trial fallout. Kubovy currently in Tel Aviv and could not be sent back, with unclear replacement plans.
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Vienna
Czechoslovakia
Prague
Leon Kubovy
Radio Prague
Kubovy
Rudolph Slansky
Tel Aviv
Israel
Soviet Union
U. S
Russia
Moscow
Kennan
Author Defends Book Criticized By House Group
Macon Ga December 6 author Margaret Long defends Louisville Saturday after a special House committee labeled it objectionable literature. She argues the work seriously explores relations of women with men and children and faces the facts of life.
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Macon
Margaret Long
House
Louisville
United States
Cullman Man Is Killed When Struck By Car
A 71 year old man from Holly Pond died after being struck by a car on Alabama 74 four miles east of Cullman. The driver Mary Martin Shaw, 30, could not avoid hitting him as he crossed the highway, and Tarrence died an hour later at Cullman hospital. Three other people were injured when a car fleeing Morgan county officers crashed into another vehicle on Alabama 20 near Baggett Transfer Co. The pursued driver George Nelson, 41, fled after deputies pursued him through West Decatur and into a ditch before ramming a second car on the highway.
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Cullman County
Morgan County
George Tarrence
Holly Pond 1
Alabama 74
Cullman
Earl Bradford
Tarrence
Bradford
Mary Martin Shaw
Holly Pond
Shaw
Roy Bradford
J. Hillman Hale
W. F. Ardis
Alabama 20
Baggett Transfer
Nelson
McCutcheon
Fred Clements
Roy Peebles
Little
Alabama
Lee Cullman
Reds Attack As Eisenhower Quits Korea
In Seoul a heavy air attack by the Red Air Force. The U S Fifth Air Force reports Allied night fighters and anti aircraft fire repelled the raiders. One hostile aircraft was tracked near Seoul in a three hour period culminating as the Eisenhower party departed.
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Seoul
Red Air Force
Eisenhower
Korea
U. S. Fifth Air Force
Air Force
Truman
Far East Air Force
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