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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1947
Page
1
Weather outlook for the state shows a colder afternoon with frost tonight and lingering coolness into Wednesday. Local notes cover Christmas hours for Decatur retailers, absentee ballots availability, constitutional amendments on January 6, and social updates from Huntsville to Florence.
Senator Ferguson charges TVA acts as a super government lining up money for dams and a chemical plant. TV A chairman Clapp rejects the claim while defending agency spendings as congressionally guided after spirited exchanges. Senator Saltonstall hints at amending TVA law of 1933.
Decatur attorney William Eyster will head the March of Dimes campaign in Morgan County. The drive runs January 15 to 30, ending with a Roosevelt birthday ball. Volunteers will canvass counties, schools will pass dime cards, and collection boxes will sit in local businesses.
Hagana reports surrounding a large armed Arab band at Yarkona near Petah Tiqva as a pitched battle rages. Three Arabs and one Jew die in related incidents, raising Holy Land deaths to 253 since the Palestine partition decision. The Arab summit nations prepare a decisive war conference statement.
Secret sources say Secretary of State Marshall will brief Georges Bidault tonight on merging the French zone with British and American zones to form a Western Germany entity. Bidault indicated conversations to gauge a stance on Western Germany while four power talks collapse.
American observers predicted that Western Germany would form an interim state or federation soon as the Big Four talks in London collapsed. German leaders in the economically merged British and American zones are prepared and expected to push the initiative.
British Foreign Secretary Bevin and General Marshall are expected to discuss a three power meeting with Bidault in Paris. Talks may be exploratory with no immediate decisions on merging zones. Marshall plans a Washington return and a radio address after arrival.
James Robert Collins, a Draper prison escapee who fled after eight years of a life sentence for a 1928 Citronelle banker murder, will seek a pardon from Alabama authorities. His attorney said the request would come "in time" after meetings with prison officials and Gov. Folsom's adviser. Collins was captured in Quakertown, Pennsylvania, where he had started a new life.
HAL BOYLE recalls the 1944 Ardennes battle, noting the surprise German breakthrough near the Meuse, the harsh winter conditions, heroic doughboys, and the enduring question of what the conflict taught America about war and preparedness.
E B Van Buren, a Birmingham architect, will present stadium plans to the Decatur school board this afternoon. Superintendent Walter Jackson says contracts for steel work may be let in a week or ten days. Reserved seating tightens with 58 tickets remaining as $94,250 of $100,000 is pledged. Construction is planned to start soon and the stadium should be ready by fall 1948.
Funeral services for the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Moss of Athens will be held this afternoon at 2 p.m. at Cairo church in Limestone county with interment in the adjoining cemetery. The infant died at 1:15 this morning at Limestone county hospital. Surviving are the parents two brothers Billy and Jimmy and three sisters Marie Mary Jane and Joyce Ann.
The Southern Natural Gas Co announced a five year expansion in Alabama Georgia Mississippi and Louisiana costing about 100 million dollars. First phase adds 130 miles of loop lines approved by the Federal Power Commission, increasing daily capacity by 90 million cubic feet to 385 million by 1948, with future expansion plans filed for new pipelines and a Birmingham office building project postponed due to high costs.
Senators may subpoena any administration refusal to disclose the grain market insiders list claimed by Harold E. Stassen. Senator Ferguson vows action if access is blocked. secretaries Anderson and Bridges may resist. An inquiry into Agriculture Dept trading ties is under way as Stassen campaigns.
Senate Republicans including Taft press new anti inflation bill as Tobey calls bank committee meeting. Buck says Taft to testify. House coalition previously blocked Walcott plan 202 to 188. Taft seeks quick committee review to decide on rushed passage and possible House action.
The city council unanimously approved closing alleys and streets across the future Teiesel stadium site between Prospect Drive and Seventh Street and near Ninth and Tenth Streets. Walter Jackson and Charles Eyster filed the request.
Edward A. O'Neal, longtime president of the American Farm Bureau Federation, tells the 29th annual convention that America stands at a threshold. He urges social and moral progress alongside technological gains, backs continued UN support, the Marshall plan, and soil conservation consolidation. He calls for parity reform and predicts a younger leader will take over as officers are elected, with Allan B. Kline favored though a split could favor R. L. Wingate.
Roy L. Nolen Jr son of Montgomerys postmaster was named by Gov James E Folsom to a six year term on the state board of education succeeding Rep Earl McGowin of Butler County whose term expired Oct 1 McGowin a Rhodes Scholar and former Auburn trustee opposed the administrations platform and recently criticized the Governor over the self starter amendment Nolen will represent the second congressional district and is in the insurance and bonding business after attending the University of Alabama subject to Senate approval.
Fairfield Alabama city council deferred decision on a city ordinance prohibiting mechanical music in alcohol licensed venues until January 15. The delay follows discussion at the December meeting.
Washington December 16 The house appropriations committee cut emergency foreign aid to 230 million for occupied areas and 509 million for France Italy and Austria as a successor to the 597 million administration request. China funds are deferred with a reserve for possible future aid. The total measure runs 772 million, about 31 percent of the administration request. The largest cut targets army government and relief in occupied zones with 53 percent trimmed.
Noon cotton market reports a sharp drop in prices with futures down about 1.50 to 10. high volatility as traders react to morning developments in New York. The brief notes a bid range and unsettled activity in the commodity pits.
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