Local notes from Decatur area weather and community events
Generally fair and warmer this afternoon with little temperature change tonight. Decatur Morgan School Council to meet December 19 at Decatur High School to discuss local school problems. Carl Livingston of Honolulu returns for grandfather Petway Roberts's death. Local residents Hobbs and Watson visit. hospital admissions and discharges noted. Tax tip on shrubbery losses as casualty deductions. Decatur high school band director Schwachow to Tuscaloosa for bandmasters clinic with student Ray Morris. See DIARY on Page 2.
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Public Schools Council of
Decatur
Morgan County
Decatur High School
Carl Schwachow
Ray Morris
Tuscaloosa
Morris
Alabama
UN Debates Rau Proposals 1 Resolutions Seek Peace
India's Sir Benegal Rau presented at the UN a plan to halt the Korea fighting and fix Far East problems. A three man commission would determine cease fire terms with Iran's Nasrollah Entezam as chair. Debate opened despite Soviet opposition and U S objections to a full Korean cease fire.
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Korea
Rau
Ecuador
Turkey
Thailand
China
State Department
U. S
Washington
Assembly
Nasrollah Entezam
Iran
Entezam
Far East
Store Holiday Hours Listed
D E Frederick announces Christmas season hours after a merchants meeting with Decatur Chamber of Commerce. Stores open until 9 PM Friday, then 7 PM Saturdays, 5 PM Monday and Tuesday, and 9 PM Wednesday to Friday. schedule mirrors January annual agreement.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. E. Frederick
Frederick
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Bill Sims
Chamber of Commerce
Sixth Break-In Occurs In City
Burglars struck Decatur for the sixth time in three nights. Alabama Oil Co bulk plant on Bank Street inventory taken. State Investigator R A Troupe aiding the case. Chief Whitmire and officers continued work. Youth Charles Pylant jailed earlier in connection with five weekend burglaries. Pylant held with no bond set for preliminary hearing. Entry occurred between 6 P M and 7 A M.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
J. B. Whitmire
Alabama Oil Company
Bank Street
R. A. Troupe
Whitmire
James Collier
C. M. Kennedy
O. J. Price
Charles Smith
Charles Pylant
Pylant
John Wear
Nungester
Nora
Alabama Oil
Congress Eyes Calendar Now
Washington reports Congress and the White House weighing an emergency proclamation from President Truman as wage and price controls loom. Senator George of Georgia notes such moves signal an advance guard for broader price and wage rules, likely next month. Meanwhile the 82nd Congress looms with 16 work days left, while the Senate pursues a drought aid bill for Yugoslavia and the House debates taxes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
George
D-Ga
Congress
82Nd
Senate
Yugoslavia
House
Minor Vehicle Crash in Cullman County
One minor injury and 300 dollars in property damage reported after a two-vehicle rear end collision on the Guntersville highway at city limits signs. Clarence Schute, Viola Willis, and Evelyn Akins were involved. Willis received treatment for a knee laceration at Cullman County Hospital.
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Cullman County
W. E. Richey
Richey
Guntersville
Ala
Clarence A. Schute
Perrysburg
Viola B. Willis
Cullman
Ford
Evelyn GC. Akins
Baileyton
Willis
Cullman County Hospital
Government to curb metal flow and civilian use
The United States plans two front lines to secure strategic metals for the Army. It will slash civilian copper use by 15 percent official, with fabricators facing 30 to 40 percent reductions, and crack down on grey market conversion deals before January 1.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sam Dawson
New York
Feelers Pointed To South Korea By Chinese Reds
Tokyo dispatch notes 27 Chinese communist divisions with Mongolian ponies and camel caravans pressing feelers toward South Korea after driving UN forces from the North. Western Allied forces withdraw behind 38th parallel as U.S. 10th corps concentrates on the Hamhung plain and Hungnam evacuation readiness grows.
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Tokyo
South Korea
United Nations
Genghis Khan
Red China
North Korea
Eighth Army
North
U.S
10Th Corps
Hamhung
Red Korea
Hungnam
U.N
Manchurian
Soviet Siberia
Folsom Uncovers Major Bootleg Stamp Ring
Etowah County Sheriff Cecil Folsom says he has found a multi million dollar a year bootleg stamp ring along the Alabama Georgia line near Gadsden. The Alabama ABC board released a statement noting Sheriff Folsom faced criticism while announcing a near counterfeit proof stamp for whisky sold in ABC stores. It did not reveal if ex convict Louis M Allen assisted in the probe.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Ala
Etowah County
Cecil Folsom
James E. Folsom
Alabama Abc Board
Alabama-Georgia Line
Gadsden
Folsom
Missing Witnesses and Jurors Delay Morgan Court Start
Missing witnesses and jurors delayed Morgan circuit court for about two and a half hours as a jury debated the Howard Orr trial. Orr, 41, is charged with fatally shooting Carl Cohn on New Year’s Day after a dice game fight. The jury received the case at 5:30 P.M. Monday. defense attorney Merrill Doss called one witness.
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Morgan Circuit Court
Howard Orr
Carl Cohn
Merrill Doss
Cohn
Orr
Lindbergh
Attlee Optimistic on Korea War Situation
Prime Minister Attlee told the House of Commons he has good hopes the United Nations forces will hold in Korea after world crisis talks with President Truman in Washington and talks with Canadian leaders in Ottawa. He outlined the trip’s results and said aggression must be halted with UN representatives instructed on the immediate course in Korea and the Far East.
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Ndon
Attlee
House of Commons
United Nations
Korea
Truman
Washington
Ottawa
King George
Far East
Freeze Moves Into Florida
Northern Florida faced freezing conditions as cold wet weather stretched across the Eastern half of the country. Readings dropped to 32 in Tallahassee and 20 above in Pulaski Virginia, with heavy snow predicted for Central and Western New York and Syracuse logging eight inches.
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Associated Press
Florida
Pulaski
Tallahassee
Fla
Miami
Nashville
Tenn
Bismarck
N. C
New York
Chicago
Denver
Phoenix
Ariz
New England
North Central
New York State
Syracuse
Pacific Northwest
Curfew Declared as Riot Over Dutch Case Intensifies
In Singapore riots over the Moslem-reared Dutch girl Ma ria Bertha Hertogh, police imposed a dusk to dawn curfew. Two days of fighting left 14 dead and more than 140 injured. Soldiers fired on mobs in the Eastern district. four Chinese were reported killed. The Supreme Court allowed Hertogh’s Dutch Catholic mother to take her to Holland. Numerous nationalities were affected among the dead and wounded, with reports of seven Eurasians murdered and a male mob assault on the court building. Curfew and martial measures continued as authorities sought calm.
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Maria Bertha Hertogh
Singapore
Maria
A. L. McIntyre
Supreme Court
Holland
Maria Bertha
Slain Lawyer Rummel Killed Amid Gambling Probe
Sam Rummel a longtime attorney for Mickey Cohen faced a grand jury inquiry into gambling protection payoffs. He was slain by a shotgun ambush near his home as Sheriff’s Capt. Carl Pearson and Deputy Lawrence Shaffer were subpoenaed to testify.
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Hollywood
Sam Rummel
Mickey Cohen
Thad Brown
Rummel
Carl H. Pearson
Lawrence C. Shaffer
Pearson
Brown
Schaffer
Truman moves to declare emergency and wage controls
President Truman plans a radio address on the world crisis and home-front steps as war threats loom. He will broaden a congressional meeting on plans for a national emergency and swift wage and price controls with a large enforcement staff. See broad on Page 2.
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Washington
Truman
White House
George
D-Ga
Senate Finance Committee
State Acheson
Defense Marshall
Secretary of the Treasury
Snyder
TVA to Lease Guntersville River Terminal Apparatus
TVA offers the Guntersville river terminal for lease through January 15 with the terminal building loading dock mooring bins and freight handling gear. The sixacre riverfront property appraised at about 300000 dollars sits at McCartney Street and was the first of four TVA terminals built in 1937.
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T.V.A
Smith
Guntersville
Knoxville
Chattanooga
Decatur
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George Edmonson
Hartselle
Bill Speakman
Carl Livingston
Navy
Honolulu
Petway Roberts
J. F. Hobbs
Ft. Campbell
QO. E. Watson
Hartselle 3
W. G. Harris
Falkville 1
E. F. Mixon
Eighth Avenue East
Decatur General Hospital
Howard Brandenburg
Eighth Avenue South
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Eleanor Ramage
Line Street
W. D. Maner
Decatur 2
A. J. Hawthorne
Peggy Wear
Wear
Fifth Avenue West
Taffy
Peggy
B. F. Wear Jr
Rowland Evans JR
Grey Market Blow
ABC
Ing
Joseph D. Hobson
Grover Herbert
Theodore Edison Yarbrough
James Kilpatrick
Freeze
Adminster
Cyrus Ching
Wage Stabilization Board
Alan Valentine
Michael V. DiSalle
W. Stuart Symington
National Security Resources Board
TVA
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