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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 12, 1946
Page
1
A weather outlook predicts cloudy skies with occasional rains and colder conditions across the state. The town reports a cotton market rise of 15 points with midling prices around 31.75 at Decatur. Community items list hospital admissions births, weddings, funerals, church services, Kiwanis events, and local visits involving Lavern Landers and multiple Decatur residents.
A United Nations sub committee approved basic principles for a worldwide arms limitation program with inspection and control machinery free of the big power veto. The draft includes a requirement that any Security Council program be approved by a special session of the 54 nation General Assembly and ratified by individual states.
The Big Four foreign ministers in New York completed plans for drafting German and Austrian peace settlements after Molotov concessions. A final 4 PM meeting aimed to resolve minor details of satellite treaties and shape a six point Moscow agenda for the March Big Six conference.
The rapid search for a Marine transport plane missing with 32 men since Tuesday resumes on the south slope of Mount Rainier near Longmire after green flare reports and Coast Guard teams moved into the area. Authorities say the plane radioed at 4 13 pm and was en route from Tacoma to Beattie.
President Truman declined to discuss tax reductions at a press event and said he will send three separate messages to the new Congress. He called for state of the union, budget, and employment council reports, and avoided commenting on John L. Lewis and the coal strike.
President Truman said strikes prevented an earlier end to the war emergency and announced a restructuring of war agencies. He noted plans to send three messages to the new Republican controlled Congress while answering questions at a news conference. The exchange touched on reconversion timelines affected by labor action.
The President replied he did not want to discuss tax reduction specifics but will renew his request for merging the armed forces in his state of the union. He denied any public commitment to Wagner Act changes and said no one may quote him until his message to Congress is released.
A mixed party House committee urged new labor laws in its final report. The 16 member group called for constructive not punitive measures to ease labor management disputes and support postwar economic policy.
Robert Creighton reports site grading for the Wolverine Tube Division plant near the Alabama Flour Mills will finish in a week to ten days. Utility tunnel will follow, eight by nine feet and 1500 feet long, to distribute services to future buildings. Railroad access held up by material delays. foundations unlikely before year start. Wolverine will sit on a 276 acre tract bought from Mrs. Lelia Seton Edmundson and others and the Tennessee Valley Authority.
Ma Lowell W. Rooks, American relief official, was nominated to succeed Fiorello La Guardia as UNRRA director general. The nine nation committee backed him, with the 48 nation conference expected to approve. Debates over winding up UNRRA involve over 625 million dollars in unspent funds and whether operations should extend to April 1947.
Fire erupted in an eighth floor room of the Robert Fulton hotel in Atlanta early today. Two alert bellhops extinguished the flames before firefighters arrived. Policeman O L Kilpatrick was injured. Milton Ferrell the hotel assistant manager said house officers smelled smoke and alerted staff. The building was protected by hoses and water. The Fulton lies about four blocks from the Winecoff hotel which burned Saturday morning killing 121 people.
In Montgomery an attorney for convicted Negro rapist Johnnie B. Smith urged Gov. Chauncey Sparks to grant clemency arguing innocence and constitutional rights were violated. Smith faces execution by electric chair at dawn, as does John Underwood serving for first degree burglary. Both appeals occurred during clemency hearings.
Two escaped Alabama convicts and their unsuspecting brides are detained in Toledo after officers seized 3000 dollars in stolen jewelry and 2800 dollars worth of morphine in hotel rooms. Detectives identified the men as Charles L. Kirkland and Ernest M., both from Birmingham. Revolvers burglary tools and a doctor's kit were found in their car. The wives appeared unaware of their husbands' criminal status.
Industry leaders warned that CIO wage rise claims may trigger a fresh round of serious strikes. CIO President Philip Murray touted a Nathan survey suggesting wages could rise up to 25 percent without price hikes, prompting criticism from George Romney and Walter Weisenburger. Nathan noted profit variability and cautioned prompt wage gains to avoid declining purchasing power. AFL offered no immediate comment.
Maj. Gen. Thomas M. Robins testified that A. B. Friend acted as promoter for a contractor group that won a 1.73 million dollar Meridian Army air field contract. The hearing scrutinized Bilbo's gifts and alleged payoffs as Republicans seek to bar him from Congress.
Frederick S. Hunt Sr., 67, noted Decatur business leader and churchman, died Thursday morning at his home after years of illness. Funeral services will be at First Presbyterian Church with Rev. W. W. Glass officiating. interment in city cemetery. He leaves wife Evelyn Berry Wyker, daughter Clara Sanders, son Frederick S. Hunt Jr., five grandchildren, a sister and a brother. Hunt helped found Home Oil Mill and co-owned several firms. longtime Decatur school board member and Kiwanis leader.
The International Printing Pressmen and Assistants Union AFL says it is returning members to two Birmingham printing plants in compliance with a circuit court order. George O. Baker states no strike occurred and the union is honoring the court’s lawful orders.
Baldwin County circuit court jur y convicted Walter E. Cochran a 30 year old Prichard salesman of first degree manslaughter and sentenced him to seven years in prison. Cochran faced charges after a fatal encounter with a salesman in self defense and filed notice of appeal with a $5 000 bond posted.
President Truman abolishes the War Mobilization And Reconversion Office and creates the Office of Temporary Controls headed by Maj. Gen. Philip B. Fleming. John R. Steelman becomes assistant to the President as reconversion director, with Foley as housing administrator and Creedon as housing expeditor. The Wage Stabilization Board is abolished while rent and sugar controls continue.
Henry Smith aged 23 from Wanda suffered severed toes while chopping wood when one toe was found in his shoe at Roper hospital. Surgeons replaced the toe in surgery after weighing amputation against reattachment, opting for restoration.
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