Decatur Area News Briefs Highlight Weather and Localgoings
Mostly cloudy with occasional rains in the north this afternoon and tonight. Cotton market up 40 points at noon. Decatur Kiwanis to host Decatur High football squad at Greystone cafe with speaker Judge R. B. Carr and Auburn Alabama stars. Local visits and health notes from Decatur to Birmingham and Melbourne Florida. Church services and prayers scheduled. Florence State Teachers College glee club performed at the senior high. En route updates include Pvt Dan Weatherly heading to Germany for 30 months.
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Charles Winston
Decatur Kiwanis Club
Decatur High
Greystone
R. B. Carr
Montgomery
Auburn
Alabama
Pvt
Dan Weatherly
Joe Weatherly Jr
Presidio
San Francisco
Camp Kilmer
New Jersey
Germany
Extension of Power Lines Meeting Aims at Rural Electrification
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce board urged all 5 000 Joe Wheeler Electric Membership Co operative members to attend a Decatur armory meeting to support borrowing funds for new power lines serving Morgan and Lawrence counties. Senator Lister Hill will speak. Also discussed were Highway 31 improvements, industrial surveys, and new director elections set for January.
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Morgan
Lawrence
Joe Wheeler Electric
Decatur
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Lyons Hotel
James L. Rankin
Limestone County
Alabama
Giles County
Tennessee
Elkmont
Pulaski
Highway Committee
Harry L.malone
Athens
Tennessee State Line
U. S. 31
Decatur Sah Saha
Sable
Morgan and
Lawrence Counties
Chamber of Commerce
Joe Wheeler
Lister Hill
Agricultural Committee
Casto Jarvis
Rankin
Aviation Committee
Pryor Field
John A. Caddell
John M. Nelson
Harbor improvements program delayed for Mobile
The $475,000 Mobile harbor improvements project cannot be undertaken in the next fiscal year due to a limitation on expenditures for maintenance and planning, stated by the U.S. Engineers District Office yesterday in Mobile.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Ala
U.S. Engineers District Office
Decatur to vote on one mill school tax in January
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control set January 28 for a special election in Decatur to approve a one mill school tax tied to a judge race. Petitions with 341 names supported the measure. If approved, about $9 000 yearly would go to local schools.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
Decatur
Robert Jones
Sonat Ra Ige
Plane Missing With 32 Aboard Near Cascade Mountains
A Marine Corps transport plane with 32 men aboard is reported missing after departing San Diego for Seattle. Weather worsened over Oregon and Southwest Washington, with four planes landing in Portland and one reaching Sand Point naval air station. Coast Guard and military teams search rugged terrain between Seattle and Portland.
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Seattle
Coast Guard
Toledo
Cascade
Here
Portland
Marine Corps
Army
Navy
Forest Rangers
Cascade Mountains
San Diego
Calif
Oe Corps
Oregon
Washington
Sand Point Naval Air Station
Arnall and Curley Trade Barbs Over Intolerance
Gov Ellis Arnall of Georgia calls Boston the recognized seat of intolerance. Boston Mayor James M Curley retorts that Georgia should mind its own backyard citing lynchings as an example of intolerance in Georgia.
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Arnold Atlanta
Ellis Arnall
Croeback
James M. Curley
Boston
Mass
Massachusetts
United States
Georgia
Buildings Fail To Meet Fire Codes
Fire Marshal says most Atlanta buildings cannot meet the 1945 fire code retroactively and would need major changes to be compliant. He notes many structures lack fireproof wells and two separate stairways as the Fulton grand jury investigates the Winecoff hotel blaze.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Atlanta
Harry Phillips
Fulton County
Winecoff Hotel
Phillips
Grand Jury to Probe Columbians Group in Atlanta
Fulton county officials announced an immediate grand jury investigation into charges that Columbians Inc sought to seize national power. The probe follows a state attorney general report detailing dynamiting a Negro home a lynching plot and plans to drive out Negroes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
James Ralph Childers
Lanier Waller
Renee Forrest
Atlanta
Columbians Inc
Fulton County
E. E. Andrews
Eugene Cook
Homer L
Ellis Arnall
Navy veteran on trial for librarian murder in Bryan
James Robert Engle, a 21 year old Navy veteran, testified he was tormented by an urge to kill after his discharge. He described a list of potential victims including a former teacher and a local woman, and his plan to attack the Pulaski librarian in the library basement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bryan, O
Emily Abernathy
James Robert Engle
Gibson Fenton
Engle
Pulaski, Tenn
Navy
Schools Reopen as PAWTUCKET Reaches Strike Pay Hike Deal
Public schools in Pawtucket Rhode Island reopen after two days of closure due to a looming teachers strike over pay. An agreement was reached to resume negotiations and end the stoppage.
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Pawtucket
R. I
Tax policy battle looms over debt and tax cuts
Washington dispatch analyzes a split in Congress over reducing the national debt versus cutting taxes. A House Republican plan seeks a 20 percent personal income tax cut, citing 1920s tax cuts that reduced debt. Critics demand mandatory debt payments before any tax relief, warning against shifting costs to future generations.
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Francis M. LE May
James Marlow
Washington
Congress
House Republican Steering Committee
Cannon
D-Mo
House Appropriations Committee
Truman
Republican Congress
Rep. Tabor
New York
Republican
Taber
Battle for Harbin Seen as Opening Clash in Far East
An initial encounter for Harbin was forming as reports say 10 000 Communist crossed the Sungari River from Ushu Itze to strike Soviet positions south of Harbin near Gucones. Unconfirmed details placed the forces at the border of Manchuria, with the city as the prospective objective.
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Anking
Manchuria
Harbin
Sie Toe Aie Ciget
Sungari River
Ushuitientze
Gorcones
Courtland Army airfield status stays active after meeting
City officials and state agencies press to keep Courtland Army Airfield from surplus disposal. Representatives from War Assets Administration Civil Aeronautics Administration and local governments discuss retaining aviation industrial and hospital use of the 2400 acre site valued at over 6 million dollars.
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Courtland Army Airfield
Army Air Forces
Alabama
War Department
War Assets Administration
Civil Aeronautics Administration
State Department of Aeronautics
Courtland
Decatur
Florence
W. A. Toms
Toms
Chambers of Commerce
Taylor Files $10 000 Suit Against Decatur Transit
A $10 000 damage suit has been filed against Decatur Transit by Raymond D. Taylor. Represented by S. A. Lynne, Taylor seeks damages for injuries suffered November 29, 1946, when he says a Transit motor vehicle ran upon or against him. He alleges back injuries, bruising, mental anguish, impaired nervous system, medical expenses, and lost work time, and requests a jury trial.
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Decatur Transit
Raymond D. Taylor
John Green
S. A. Lynne
Taylor
Decatur
Circuit Court
Ury
New Overall Agency Will Be Barred Thursday
President Truman to announce creation of a liquidation agency to absorb OPA CPA and other wartime agencies at a 10 30 a m news conference. Presidential Secretary Charles G Ross said a new head may be named then and declined to comment on housing impact.
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Washington
Truman
OPA
CPA
Charles G. Ross
Peace rumor in Iran as Azerbaijan turmoils unfold
Tehran reports say four columns of government troops moved into Azerbaijan after provincial governor general Sallamollan Javid wired Premier Ahmed Qavam that the provincial council approved security forces. Razmara attended the war council as Mianeh rumors remained unconfirmed.
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Tehran
Tabriz Radio
Sallamollan Javid
Azerbaijan
Ahmed Qavam
Quaram
Supreme War Council of Iran
Razmara
Sallamollah Javid
Russia
Mianeh
Ghaflankooh
Ahmed Quavam
Atash
Ran
Six Hundred See Exhibit in First Two Days
Six hundred people visited the junior high school art exhibit in the first two days of the week. The display features more than 100 reproductions of famous paintings set in the West wing study hall. The exhibit will be open Friday afternoon and night for adults. All city students may view the display during the school week.
Insurgents seize Maracay Airport in Venezuela
In Caracas a sunrise attack captured Maracay airport and sent a plane on a bombing run over Maracay and Caracas. A 25 pound bomb landed near the presidential palace, another near the Jardin hotel, and a third on the aviation school airfield, causing no damage. Antiaircraft fire repelled the raider.
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Caracas
Venezuela
Maracay
Jardin Hotel
Senators propose union run suggestions on labor law work
Four senators call for organized labor to be asked first for proposed changes to labor laws. Ralph E. Flanders notes past practice favored business, while William Knowland Edwin Johnson and John L. McClellan support early union consultation. They doubt unions will respond, but expect constructive ideas.
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Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Ralph E. Flanders
Vermont
Flanders
Congress
William F. Knowland
California
Edwin C. Johnson
Colorado
John L. McClellan
Arkansas
McClellan
John
Compromise Plan Averts Disclosures At UN Disarmament Talks
A United Nations drafting committee reportedly dropped a British proposal for a world wide troop and armaments count in a sudden compromise. The plan, urged by Spaak, was to be reviewed by the chiefs and a 20 nation sub committee. The resolution urges member states and the Security Council to report progress on troop reductions and withdrawal of troops from foreign lands.
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Francis W. Carpenter
Lake Success
N. Y
United Nations Committee
United Nations Assembly
United States
Great Britain
Soviet Russia
Hartley Shawcross
Assembly
Security Council
Rockefeller Gift Offered to Fund UN Site in Manhattan
John D Rockefeller Jr proposed an eight point five million dollar gift to the United Nations to buy midtown land between First Avenue and Franklin D Roosevelt Drive and between 42nd and 47th Streets. The offer includes NYC support to grant a city block and East River bulkheads and piers between 52nd and 48th Streets tax free. Action required within 30 days from December 10.
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Rockefeller
City of
New York
U.N
Landee
New York City
U. N
East River
48Th Streets
Compromise plan eyed as UN powers seek global arms census
Russia and Britain voiced in principle agreement on a vast disarmament program and world wide troop census with on the spot verification. A resolution urged all UN members to report armed forces by January 1 and Britain proposed an inspection commission to oversee the process, signaling potential quick action if a compromise holds.
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Russia
Great Britain
U. N. Assembly
United Nations
Britain
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