Growth Drive at Alabama State Docks Expands Northward
Alabama State Docks mark 25 years of growth with five new berths planned at the foot of Dauphin Street and expansion northward toward Chickasabogue. General Manager Turner notes plans to acquire land for long range growth while debt on existing expansion is being retired ahead of schedule.
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Hendrix Chandler
Mobile
Alabama State Docks
Mobile River
Dauphin Street
Jerry P. Turner
Chickasabogue
Turner
State General Fund
State Docks
Alabama
First Baptist Supper Meet Thursday Evening
The Brotherhood of the First Baptist church plans a supper meeting Thursday at seven o'clock. The report also lists local hospital admissions and discharges from Ellis-Meyer hospital including Mrs W A Baker and Mrs D F Baker, with others undergoing surgery or being discharged. Decatur police report through early Saturday night show three arrests for violating the prohibition law, five for disorderly conduct, two for driving while intoxicated, and two for traffic violations.
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Brotherhood of the First Baptist Church
Decatur
Evening Movie Schedule with Local Theaters
Local listings show multiple cinema venues with film titles and showtimes. Princess Monkey Business at Grant and Ginger Rogers stars Monroe open at 1:00, 3:05, 5:15, 7:25, 9:30. The First Time at ROXY with Robert Cummings and Barbara Hale at 1:30, 3:30, 7:30, 9:30. Crosswinds at SUNSET starring John Payne and Rhonda at 7:15, 9:15. Appointment With Danger at HATFIELD Athens with Alan Ladd at 6:30, 8:15. Kangaroo at STRAND Hartselle featuring O Hara and Peter Lawford at 1:30, 3:20, 5:15, 7:10, 9:00. Flying Leathernecks at RANCH Wartselle with John Wayne 7:00, 9:00. The Blue Veil at Falkville with Wyman at 1:30, 3:40.
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Princess
Monkey Business
Grant
Ginger Rogers
Monroe
Mitchell calls for full role in Southern political future
Mitchell urged Southern leaders to push for Democratic victory, saying the South is essential to winning. Gov. Persons noted Alabama’s strong support and funding for the campaign, while remarking on Eisenhower era votes as mostly from Eisenhower Democrats. Mitchell spoke at the Young Democrats State convention in Birmingham and returned to Washington.
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Mitchell
Gov
Persons
House
Senate
Congress
Gov. Persons
Alabama
Wilton B. Persons
Eisenhower
Young Democrats
Birmingham
Washington
Night Air Strike Described as Largest of Korean War
Fifth Air Force called the raid the largest enemy air attack of the Korean War. Radar spotted Red fliers before Eisenhower’s departure. Seoul’s night fighter screen was not penetrated and no Red planes were reported shot down or damaged. U S Sabres downed four MIG fighters in the week ending Friday midnight, with one Sabre lost in a three day dog fight over MIG alley.
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Fifth Air Force
Eisenhower Party
Air Force
Seoul
Mig Alley
Eisenhower
Korea
Air Spotters Sought After Pearl Harbor Anniversary Call
President Truman urged volunteers to join air raid spotters as the 11th anniversary of Pearl Harbor approached. He warned about atomic-age vulnerability and the need for vigilance. The Skywatch program has operated since July with 27 states under 24 hour ground surveillance. General LeMay cited a B47 simulating an atomic attack unseen by a target city’s nearly two million residents.
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Washington
Truman
Pearl Harbor
Air Force
Curtis E. LeMay
Strategic Air Command
Missing Negro Boy Found After Nightlong Search
In Talladega Alabama a three year old Black boy Jimmy Garrett who vanished with his father was found safe with a Black family four miles from home after a long nighttime search. A white woman guided rescuers to the boy who was wetted by rain.
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Talladega
Ala
Jimmy Garrett
Earl Howell
Robert Garrett
Garrett
Jimmy
Howell
Edward Wallace
Alpin
Rt. 2
Alabama Democrats Hear Four Speakers On Party Future
Folsom tells Young Democrats they hold a pivotal role in Alabama politics since before the Civil War and must rebuild from local to national levels. Bell praises Democratic gains in the South while criticizing Republicans. Newton calls for reorganization and beat-by-beat county work. Allen says Democrats remain dominant and urges open expression within the party.
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Folsom
Alabama
Democratic Party
Bell
Huntsville
Republican Party
South
Party
Republian
Newton
Jasper
Allen
Woman shot during domestic dispute at clothing store
Mrs Coleman shouted I’ve been shot in a clothing store foyer before collapsing. Stanley pursued the shooter into a dress shop but fled from tackling him with a pistol. Coleman was later arrested as he claimed I didn’t shoot her I loved her amid a separation of four months. Sea water in the tropics is less salty than in cold regions.
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Coleman
Stanley
Cole
Tropics
Two Injured in Wreck as Fagan Car Hit by Another Vehicle
A collision on the road involving Ange A. Fagan and his wife from Trinity caused Mrs. Fagan serious chest injuries and head abrasions while Fagan suffered minor harm. Nelson, injured, was sent to Decatur General hospital with unknown condition. Sheriff's officials expect charges of transporting whiskey and reckless driving against the other driver.
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Leonard A. Fagan
Trinity 1
Ford
George Nelson
Memorial Drive
Highway Patrol
Nelson
Fagan
Alabama 20
Decatur
Carter Dobbs
Ange A. Fagan
Little Said
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Brown’s
Little
Decatur General Hospital
Eisenhower Korea trip informs new policy plan
Hagerty said the Korean mission provided a valuable information base for the incoming administration. The evolving program calls for stronger South Korea with more RO K troops, greater economic aid, avoiding new world conflict, and closer UN ally cooperation.
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Acheson
State Department
James C. Hagerty
Hagerty
Eisenhower
Far East
Truman Family To Attend Wallace Rites
President Truman, Mrs. Truman, and Margaret left by special train to attend the funeral of Mrs. David W. Wallace in Independence Missouri. Mrs. Wallace, Truman’s mother in law, died at the White House yesterday of cerebral thrombosis at age 90.
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Washington
Truman
Margaret
Independence
David W. Wallace
Wallace
White House
Court funds tied to school segregation under court order
Gov Fuller Warren vetoed a clause cutting state funds to colleges if segregation is halted by court order or for any reason. The 1952 Virginia Legislature killed two bills meant to preserve segregation, while officials nationwide debate private school options if segregation is banned.
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Fuller Warren
Virginia
South
Supreme Court
Sam Englehardt
Alabama
Tuskegee Institute For
Kenneth Cagle
Lake Charles
High Court
South Carolina
District of Columbia
Missouri
Maryland
Kentucky
Oklahoma
Kansas
Mississippi
Texas
Tennessee
West Virginia
North Carolina
Sastre Star Pilot Dies in Madrid Havana Run Crash
All Sastre was hailed as Cuba's top pilot and Capt Rene de Ayala, his second in command and brother of Cuba's ambassador to France Hector de Ayala, perished. The Madrid Havana line crash marked its first accident since the service began in April 1948.
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Sastre
Cuba
Rene de Ayala
France
Hector de Ayala
Madrid
Havana
Two Negroes Admit Role in Fort Mitchell Slayings
PHENIX CITY Ala Dec 6 Sheriff H Ralph Mathews said Albert Lee Jones and Arthur Lee Grimes both 22 admitted taking part in the killings of Daniel W Pearce and his wife at Fort Mitchell on Nov 25 They also confessed to arson and robbery tied to burning the Pearce home after the murders.
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Phenix City
Ala
H. Ralph Mathews
Fort Mitchell
Albert Lee Jones
Arthur Lee Grimes
Daniel W. Pearce
Jones
Grimes
Coal wage board crisis unfolds as resignations threaten program
Industry coal operators warned they would irreparably damage the anti inflation program. President Truman overruled the board to avert a nationwide coal strike and a possible national emergency for the new Eisenhower administration. With vacancies, Roger Putnam lacks power to run the wage program, while Charles Killingsworth explores replacements. The 12 000 pending cases and labor hostility threaten continued wage controls amid union protests over delays and past raises.
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Truman
Eisenhower
Roger Putnam
Charles C. Killingsworth
WSB
Killingsworth
Archibald Cox
Lewis
White House
India plan offers nonforced repatriation for Korea prisoners
Personal V. K. Krishna Menon and Pearson urge new avenues for approach as the India plan, approved Wednesday, proposes no forced repatriation of Chinese and North Korean prisoners. A U N commission of Sweden Switzerland Poland and Czechoslovakia would manage repatriation with a fifth nation as tie breaker. Red China and North Korea oppose repatriation for POWs, while Pearson says the U N is determined to end the fighting in Korea.
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V. K. Krishna Menon
Pearson
U. S
Eisenhower
United States
Korea
Sweden
Switzerland
Poland
Czechoslovakia
U. N
Red China
North Korea
India
General Assembly
Markets: Farm Prices in Decatur
Cotton middling 34.25 cents, strict low 32.25. No 2 corn and wheat prices listed. No 2 mile 2.95, No 2 wheat 2.05, No 2 oats 85 cents. No 2 white ear corn 2.00, No 2 yellow ear corn 1.70. Hogs brought 16.25 cents.
Case Operator Found Guilty at Palm Club Shootings
Theodore Easley, 30, described as a sneering executioner, convicted of two counts of second degree murder for shooting Elnora Palmer and Henry Hatch at the Palm Club on June 21. Jury spanned nearly three hours. sentenced to 15 years for Palmer death and 10 years for Hatch. State sought the death penalty. Easley appealed. Bond set at 12,500.
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Mobile
Theodore Easley
Elnora Palmer
Henry Hatch
Carl Booth
Easley
Hatch
Palmer
Palm Club
Chi County
Miss
Hollinsworth & Whitney Paper Mill
Christine's prolonged hospital stay fuels bid by showmen and agents
Showmen and European producers have offered large sums for Christine to sing dance or act. They care little for appearance or talent. The exact date of Christine leaving the hospital remains a guarded secret after two years of hormone injections and multiple operations.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
U. S
Christine
Committee labels books obscene under Gathings committee
A congressional panel chaired by Rep Gathings labeled works by Steinbeck Kantor and three others as obscene citing passages on obscenity and sexuality. The hearing record includes excerpts from the cited books by committee counsel H Ralph Burton. Also noted are wild ostriches nesting behavior observed in groups with hens and a cock.
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John Steinbeck
MacKinlay Kantor
Rep. Gathings
D-Ark
H. Ralph Burton
Safety Drive Pays Off for Alabama Traffic Deaths
Alabama leads the South in traffic fatality prevention for the first ten months of 1952 with a seven percent decrease in road deaths. The state moved from 48nd to 43rd in the national highway death rate while total licensed cars rose by about 40,000. Public Safety Director reports a fourteen percent drop in highway traffic deaths for eleven months in 1952 on Highway Patrol investigated accidents.
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Montgomery
National Safety Council
Alabama
South
Gordon Persons
U. S
National Council
L. B. Sullivan
Highway Patrol
Eisenhower Meets Allies on Korean Policy in Washington
In Washington Eisenhower conferred with top foreign policy officials on Korea. He weighed policies to curb American casualties and possibly expand South Korean troop training, while allies worry about diverting weapons from Western Europe to Seoul.
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Korea
Eisenhower
U. S
Britain
France
Europe
Wanted: Girls Bicycle Size 20
A notice seeks a 20 inch girls bicycle with contact at phone 1405-J. A separate lost item lists pink plastic framed glasses missing in front of 1504 Sherman Street with contact 3113-R. Also ads for rent offer three furnished rooms with electric heat and appliances at one phone 585-R and two large unfurnished rooms with private entrances at phone 870-J.
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Sherman Street
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Fifth Avenue
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Roxy
Robert Cummings
Barbara Hale
John Payne
Rhonda
Forrest Tucker
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Republic of Korea
ROK
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