Weather and local notices from a Alabama town
Weather outlook shows cloudy skies with intermittent rain tonight and Saturday across western and northern areas, warmer by Saturday and coastal northeast to east winds. Local scenes include arrests for public drunkenness, traffic court activity, two grass fires handled by the city fire department, and multiple hospital admissions and births in Decatur. Charles Richard McMeans born December 8 to Mr and Mrs Charles McMeans of Chattanooga, and train schedule changes for the South Wind due December 14.
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Pennsylvania Railroad
Ten year term flogging case pleads mistrial denied
In Birmingham on December nine the state moved for a mistrial over a judge's remark during the flogging trial of Ku Klux Klan leader A B Carradine a 40 year old mechanic. The motion was overruled as jurors were instructed to disregard the remark. Key witnesses identified Fooshee and Waldrop relations while Carradine testified he was at a ball game at the time. The trial was expected to reach the jury late that day.
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Birmingham
A. B. Carradine
Jack Alexander
KKK
Leon Key
Alexander
Cecil Deason
Clark Fooshee
Clinton, la
Jim Gibson
Gibson
Fooshee
New Albany
Miss
Alta M. King
Key
Clinton
Robert L. Waldrop
Waldrop
Emily Fooshee
Miss Fooshee
Carradine
Titoist Purges Spread Across Nations Under Pressure
The Associated Press reports Titoist purges in Czechoslovakia and West Germany with firings, detentions, and looming trials. In Bulgaria and Yugoslavia, trials target supposed Titoist plots, while the United Nations convenes to address Jerusalem internationalization and Formosa refugees set Taipei as their capital.
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Associated Press
Czechoslovakia
West Germany
Prague
Communist Party
Rude Pravo
Wilem Novy
Hungary
Bonn
Cominform
Two Million Gallon Tank Fills For First Time
Delano Park hosts a two million gallon water storage tank filled this morning marking the first use. Plant manager George Godwin reports a 44 hour fill with no leaks found and plans further leak inspections. The system expansion near Riverview Avenue will finish by next April.
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Delano Park
George Godwin
Godwin
Riverview Avenue
Theft of cows leads to three in Limestone jail
Three men Elijah Miller Robert Matthews and Henry Tate are jailed in Limestone on three counts of grand larceny each. They allegedly stole four cows Tuesday night. Bonds set at 50 dollars per count. Tate arrested in Decatur by city officers and handed to Sheriff Sandlin. Matthews arrested on Wilson Avenue after statements to police. Miller captured at his Huntsville area home.
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Limestone
John Sandlin
Elijah Miller
Madison County
Robert Matthews
East Wilson Avenue
Henry Tate
Wilson Avenue
Sandlin
Decatur
Jimmy Collier
Pack Self
Matthews
Collier
Self
J. B. Whitmire
Ted Beasley
Atlee Hanks
Whitmire
Miller
Huntsville
Higher Taxes Hinted To Meet 1951 Budget
Budget Director Frank Pace after a White House conference with President Truman said a balanced 1951 budget is unlikely without tax increases. He noted the administration’s $45 billion cap, current year at $43.5 billion, and discussed defense, foreign aid, Interior Department, and large reclamation projects.
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Key West
Fla
Frank Pace
Truman
Pace
State of the Union
Defense Department
Interio Department
Byrd pushes plan to slash federal spending by 7.5 billion
Senator Byrd proposes a 7.5 billion dollar reduction in federal outlay for the next fiscal year ending June 30 1951 in a 4000 word statement. He argues for expenses of 36 billion versus an estimated 43.5 billion for 1950 and says his plan avoids new taxes while combating waste and inefficiency. He contrasts his view with Fru m an urging tax increases to match income and notes the proposal aims to curb chronic deficit.
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Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Senator Byrd
D-Va
Byrd
Truman
Virginia
Atomic Probe Eyes Canada in U S Uranium Inquiry
The House un American Activities Committee eyes Canada as two investigators head there amid hints the probe into uranium leaks to Russia could revive. Canadian officials confirm 1,000 pounds of uranium compounds were shipped to Russia via Great Falls in 1943. The reactivated inquiry may seek records of a New York court action related to uranium sales while Lt Gen. Groves faces questions.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
House
Russia
Canada
UN- American Activities Committee
Great Falls
Mont
New York
Louis J. Russell
Russell
Committee
Leslie R. Groves
Much of Nation Is Cold Today
It was cold and wet over much of the country with near or below zero temperatures in Minnesota Wisconsin and Northern New England. Freezing readings in the Texas Panhandle Arkansas and Tennessee accompanied snow flurries in Michigan Ohio and Pennsylvania. Rain fell in Texas while Florida the gulf coast and parts of the Southwest were closer to normal.
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Associated Press
Minnesota
Wisconsin
New England
Texas Panhandle
Arkansas
Tennessee
Washington
Dakotas
Nebraska
Iowa
Michigan
Ohio
Pennsylvania
Kansas
Oklahoma
Texas
Weather Bureau
Florida
Gulf Coast
Southwest
Eay Wis
Green Bay
Mercury
Caribou
Portland
Concord
Duluth
Minneapolis
St. Paul
Gas Blending Plant Razed in Tulsa Blaze
A gasoline blending plant exploded and burned at the Texaco West Tulsa refinery last night injuring four workers. Victor J. Henke was critically burned and near death, with William E. Giles among others hospitalized. The blast sent flames and fumes through storage tanks, destroying the blending plant housing ten pumps and halting refinery activity.
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Tulsa
Okla
West Tulsa
The
Texas Co
Victor J. Henke
William E. Giles
Ed Reynolds
Thomas Sentenced in Congress Payroll Case Husband to Seek Vacated Seat
Rep. J Parnell Thomas drew six to 18 months in jail and a $10000 fine for padding his office payroll in a government cheating case. After the sentence Mrs Thomas said she will seek the vacated congressional seat, claiming her husband will resign and a special election will be held to fill the term ending in 1950. The judge stressed duty and upright living while noting Thomas’s WWI service and past work as HUAC chairman.
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Thomas
Congress
Washington
J. Parnell Thomas
Holtzoff
William H. Collins
Collins
Spy Hunting House
UN American Activities Committee
Stiles Thomas
Bank Robbery Case Sentences Eight Years
Hugh Wallace Newton was sentenced to eight years in the state penitentiary today by presiding Judge Newton B. Powell. The defendant was found guilty of second degree burglary for the safe cracking of the Hartselle American Legion post. Charges against Ruth Nadine Guerin were not pressed, dismissed by the state.
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Newton
Hugh Wallace Newton
Ha American Legion
Earl
Elmer Nix
Virgil Guerin
Hartselle
Ruth Nadine Guerin
Newston
Robert Mathews
Murry Dodd
Tyne
Tune
Ralph E. Slate
Circuit
George Johnson
Fowler
Detroit
Johnson
Philip Shanks
Shanks
Slate
Falkville
Ly Lee
State Penitentiary
Newton B. Powell
American Legion
New Stores Installed In Curb Market
Curb market buyers and sellers will no longer have to shiver. Bill Sims announced today new stores and doors have been installed at the market. Large folding doors will not need opening for entrance and exit. Patrons may enter and leave through the small side door. The curb market board plans to plant shrubbery as a beautification project.
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Curb Market
Bill Sims
Curb Market Board
Sims
Parole Board Frees 48 Convicts for Christmas
In Montgomery Alabama the pardon parole board released 48 convicts from prison to be home for Christmas. Board members Drinkard and Vinson announced the list at a news conference and said parole records would be available to newspapers that promise not to disclose confidential information.
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Montgomery
Ala
Pardon-Parole Board
Bill Drinkard
Glen Vinson
Drinkard
Vinson
Decatur Community Chest reaches goal of 29400 dollars
LeRoy McEntire Jr, chairman, praised the Decatur Community Chest campaign for raising 29400 dollars to fund eight agencies. He thanked individual citizens, business firms, organizations, and volunteers whose generous giving and effort concluded a successful drive for the city welfare.
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LeRoy McEntire Jr
McEntire
Decatur
Community Chest
Precaution Leads To Fatal Fall Of Michigan Woman
In Pontiac Michigan Mrs Frances Connor 27 died after a fourth floor apartment fire forced her to flee using a knotted rope tied to a radiator near a window. She fell from the rope to a concrete driveway fracturing her skull and dying hours later. Her husband Lynn said she feared fire after the Winecoff hotel blaze and kept the rope ready.
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Pontiac
Mich
Frances Connor
Winecoff
Atlanta
Connor
Lynn
Wardleigh Admits He May Have Seen Some Papers
Henry J Wadleigh admitted at the Alger Hiss perjury trial that he might have seen four of the papers the government says Hiss gave to Whittaker Chambers. He testified he aided a prewar communist spy ring and was cross-examined by Claude Cross. He said one paper resembled an economic report on Manchukuo but could not confirm if it was the exact exhibit.
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Sarajevo
Yugoslavia
Soviet Union
United Nations General Assembly
Jerusalem
Israel
United States
Britain
Jordan
Holy City
Charles Mercer
New York
Henry Julian Wadleigh
Alger Hiss
Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Wadleigh
State Department
Claude B. Cross
Pimantala Therw
Chambers
Cross
The
Economist
Manchukuo
Baltimore
Wardleigh
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James L
Turk) Hardiman
Morgan Sheriff's Office
Recorders Court
Carmen Taylor
Sixth Avenue South
City Fire Department
Oak Street
Fourth Avenue West
Charles McMeans
Chattanooga
Charles Richard
McMeans
Dorothy Jean Wooten
J. F. Campbell
Decatur 2
Decatur General Hospital
W. W. McGuire
Jackson Street
Mrs. Noble Johnson
Lame Street
Hamil Clinic Hospital
Little Marie Roberts
Otis Roberts
Thirteenth Avenue East
T. J. Stewart
Madison
Bessie Baker
Seventh Avenue East
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Aosie Aston
Town Creek
Eugene Rice
Sixth Avenue East
Decatur Fire Department
Third Street
West Moulton
Judge King
Deason
Lee Jury
A. L. Burton
High Springs
Gainesville
Lee Walker
Zach H. Douglas
Burton
Bonnie Collins
Walker
Miss Collins
Reds
Formosa
Taipei
Sichang
Sikang
Tibet
Chiang Kai-Shek
Quickiesee
Ken Reynolds
Levies
Mr. Fru
Atomic Probe Eyes Canada
Titoist
BY Vic Babbett
Lester A. Tune
National Bank
Earl “Sparky” Fowler
Priceville
Fontaine H
King
Russell W. Lynne
Hugh W. Newton
Fam Ff
George Brent
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