Weather and church notices from Decatur area
Bee weather shows showers this afternoon and tonight with colder conditions. Friday cloudy and colder with southerly winds along the coast shifting northwest tonight. Decatur cotton middling at noon quoted 32 and strict low 30. St Pauls Lutheran men meet tonight at 7:30 at John Harman's Fairview home. Christmas Eve service December 34 at 7 at St Pauls Lutheran. Christmas Day 8 AM service. Rev Miller of Sixth Avenue Church of God to preach Sunday on The Gift Of God. Starting Sunday On The Editorial Page.
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Decatur
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
John Harman
Fairview
R. F. Miller
Sixth Avenue Church of God
Secret Navy Plane Devices Linked to Chambers Files
The House American Activities Committee disclosed diagrams of Navy airplane devices found among papers Whitaker Chambers says he received as a communist courier in the 1930s. Acting Chairman Mundt said the data came from contacts in the Bureau of Standards, Commerce Department, not the Navy, and could have aided Russia.
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Washington
Navy
Whittaker Chambers
House An American Activities Committee
Chambers
Mundt
R-Sd
Bureau of Standards
Commerce Department
Navy Department
Russia
Religious and community notes from a 1948 local paper
Sunday services announced by Rev. E N Chandler. Julian Bibb Sr. improves in Cincinnati hospital. William McAliley to visit as former summer assistant. VFW Auxiliary to meet 7:30 at Mrs Watkins Grant St bring gifts for children. Highway Patrol reports no wrecks in 24 hours. H N Peurifoy recovering at 424 East Moulton St after heart attack. Cotton ginned in Morgan county 1948 prior to Dec 1 totals 51 436 round bales and 40 862 in 1947. DeMolay Commandery 14 KT meets 7:30 for dispatch. Knights Templar urged to attend. Sam W Frazier ill at Decatur General Hospital.
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VFW
Richard Watkins
Grant Street
Jeet
Tee
Morgan County
Special Postal Service Slated Here on Sunday
Postmaster R. T. Sheppard announced a special Christmas mail service Sunday. The main post office on Bank Street and the Albany station on Moulton Street and First Avenue will be open 2 to 5 PM for public mailing of letters packages and cards. The general delivery and parcel post windows will be available for mailers with limited other options.
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R. T. Sheppard
Bank Street
Albany
Moulton Street
First Avenue
Sheppard
Hiss Pleads Innocent to Perjury Charges in Espionage Probe
Alger Hiss 44, former State Department adviser, pleads innocent before a federal grand jury to lying about ties to ex communist agent Whittaker Chambers. Indictment follows an 18 month probe. bail set at 5000 dollars. trial tentatively set for January 24. Hiss on leave from Carnegie Endowment position earning 20000 annually.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Sttaker Chambers
Hiss
State Department
John W. Clancy
Carnegie Ensiowment For International Peace
Secret Papers and Espionage Inquiries Prompt Postwar Scrutiny
The article notes details on parachutes fuel system valves generator windings and linking devices for plane communications. It mentions restrictions on aircraft weight and a batch of State Department papers released publicly. The committee plans a weekend pause but aims to uncover if a Reg espionage ring still operates. Rep Rankin suggests spying continued through 1943. Alger Hiss indictment is noted as tying to the committee’s work.
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State Department
Rankin
Alger Hiss
House On American Activities Committee
Youth Held for Burglary at Nehi Bottling Plant
Ben Stover an 18 year old Black man admitted taking a pocket radio and about 43 to 45 dollars from the Nehi Bottling plant where he worked. He led officers to the radio in Flint and said he spent about two dollars of the money.
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Ben Stover
Nehi
J. B. Whitmire
Whitmire
Jolimaine
Flint
A. R. Michae
Walt
X Mire
J. T. Broadrick
Alex Teery
Charles L. Smith
States' Rights Leaders Meet To Chart Future Plans
States' rights leaders from nine Southern states met in Birmingham to discuss the group's future strategy. Gov. Ben Laney opened the session, stressing harmony with the administration while preserving state level policies on racial issues. Attendees included Mississippi Gov. Fielding Wright and ex-Gov. Frank Dixon. Thurmond could not attend. A national meeting is planned early next year to decide plans of action.
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Birmingham
Ala
Truman
Ben Laney
Arkansas
Congress
Alabama
Louisiana
Mississippi
South Carolina
Tennessee
Laney
Fielding L. Wright
Frank Dixon
D. Malone
Horace Cilkinson
Florida
Horace Looney
Leander Perez
Kentucky
O. W. Baylor
Maryland
C. Avery
Frank J. Steuart Vaughan
W. W. Wright
Texas
Merritt H. Gibson
E. G
Millionth Rural Phone Placed in Dixie Since War
From the pace of W. J. Pace in Burlington North Carolina the 1 000 000th rural telephone since the war was placed. U S Senator J M Broughton called the President at the White House and Hal S Dumas of Atlanta spoke with Governor Gregg Cherry and Leroy A Wilson of the American Telephone and Telegraph Company. The Bell system began a 1 000 000 rural phone push in 1945 and completed it in a little over three years.
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Burlington
N. C
Bell
Truman
W. J. Pace
U. S
J. M. Broughton
White House
Hal S. Dumas
Atlanta
Southern Bell
Gregg Cherry
Raleigh
Leroy A. Wilson
American Telephone. and Telegraph Company
New York
Dumas
Bell System
Ingalls Launches First Pasadena Tunnel Tube Section
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp at Pascagoula Yards launches the first tunnel tube for the Pasadena vehicular tunnel under the Houston ship channel. The 375 by 35 foot steel section, costing about 600000 dollars, uses 3000 tons of steel and will be towed 400 miles to Pasadena for ballast and installation.
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Pascagoula
Miss
Ingalls Shipbuilding Corp
Singing River
Pasadena
Houston Ship Channel
Texas
Gulf of Mexico
Mobile
Ala
Watchman Heard Telephone Talks With White House
A New York watchman admitted listening to White House telephone conversations in 1934 and 1935 while on duty for entertainment. The disclosure, to a New York County Bar Association wires tapping committee, traced to the watchman via a temporary Washington building setup. No evidence of security wire tapping was found.
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New York
White House
Federal
New York County Ciminal Courts Bar Association
William G. H. Finch
Finch Telecommunications of
House of Representatives
Finch
Washington
Suit Filed to Break Up Rubber Cartel in Cleveland
The Justice Department filed a civil action to break up an alleged world cartel in natural rubber products. Attorney General Clark announced the suit in federal district court at Cleveland.
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Washington
Justice Department
Clark Ee Ie
Federal District Court
Cleveland
Parolee Freed In Court Trial
A 45 year old man previously sentenced to death for armed robbery was acquitted by a mixed jury in Birmingham. Andrew Leveret faced charges of burglary and grand larceny for stealing $40 and two radios. Judge Wheeler may revoke parole and return him to prison for life.
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Birmingham
Andrew Leveret
Robert J. Wheeler
Wheeler
State Parole Board
Leveret
Jefferson County
B. M. Miller
Grady Says Truman Supports Full Greek Aid Program
U S Ambassador Henry F. Grady told reporters at the White House that President Truman is quite in favor of continuing the entire aid program to Greece. Grady spoke after a briefing with Truman regarding U S assistance to Greece.
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Washington
Henry F. Grady
U. S
Greece
Truman
Grady
White House
Supreme Court Urged to Ignore Plea For Japs
The government asks the Supreme Court to reject appeals by Japanese war leaders including Tojo and six others arguing the Tokyo tribunal was illegal. Solicitor General Perlman warns of damage to world law and international cooperation if the U S court reviews wartime decisions. The cases affect all 25 top Tokyo tribunal victors and are to be discussed in a three hour session today before a Saturday conference.
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Washington
United States
Supreme Court Today
International Tribunal
Tojo
Tokyo Tribunal
Philip B. Perlman
United Nations
Perlman
High Court
Yeases
Tokyo
George A. Furness
Boston
John G. Brannon
Kansas City
George Yamaoka
New York
Douglas MacArthur
White Christmas Dream Fades Amid Warm Decatur Rain
Decatur faced a warm Christmas with temperatures in the 60s and lingering showers. An official report counted 63 inches of rainfall in the 24 hours ending this morning as the day progressed with readings from 64 to 65 degrees and a high of 72 earlier.
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Decatur
Mercury
Defense System Needs Overhaul Says Hoover Panel
A Hoover commission task force labels the national defense system costly and poorly coordinated. It urges six steps: give Defense Secretary stronger control, ensure military teamwork, overhaul budgeting, align science with strategy, speed civilian mobilization, and ready for biological and chemical threats.
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Elton Co
Fay Washington
Hoover Commission
Commission On Organization
Herbert Hoover
Cies
National Security Organization
Peiping Hears Rifle Fire as Reds Close in
Peiping remains intact as communist forces encircle the city and attack its suburbs. small arms and mortar fire echo near the walls while reports say Fu Tso Yi may resist to the end. Rumors of peace talks circulate as Shanghai banners the fall of Peiping and Chiang Kai-shek resignation rumors spread.
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Spencer Moosa
Peiping
Moosa
Shanghai
Peipim
San Francisco
Shangai
Fu Tso-Yi
North China
Tientsin
Claire Chennault
China Air Transport Company
Tsingtao
Saint Paul
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Marines Get Their Orders For Shanghai Mission
The State Department announced that a relatively small number of United States Marines is being sent to Shanghai to protect American lives and possibly property but not to defend the city. The move aims to counter speculation about a broader U S intervention to save the port from advancing communists.
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Washington
Shanghai
State Department
U. S
United States
Prison Reform To Get Boost In Alabama
In Montgomery Alabama a prison reform campaign will be reviewed in a joint meeting of the Alabama chapter of the Society For Public Administration and the Montgomery branch of the Council of Federal and State Agencies. Austin N. MacCormick director of the Osborne Association will speak. Saturday the prison investigating committee will meet at the capitol to hear his recommendations.
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Montgomery
Alabama
The
Society For Public Administration
Council of Federal and State Agencies
Austin N. MacCormick
Osborne Association
MacCormick
Capitol
Injured Man Improves After Tractor Accident
Eugene Jett, a Tanner 1 farmer, is reported improved at Baugh Wiley clinic where he receives treatment for four broken ribs from a tractor overturn on Monday. He was driving the tractor for Jae Shaw on Shaw’s farm.
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Eugene Jett
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Jae Shaw
Jett
Mr. Shaw
Saturday Movie Provides Food Toys to Needy
Capitol theatre manager Paul Stroud announces a Saturday morning Decatur kids movie at 8 30 with admission of a usable toy or a can of food. The Salvation Army helps collect for Christmas relief for 30 Decatur families and about 20 nearby families, with more expected.
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Paul Stroud
Capitol Theatre
Decatur
Capitol
Salvation Army
John Sipes
Invasion Probe Claims Somoza Backing Costa Rica Conflict
Two prisoners captured at La Cruz allege Gen. Anastasio Somoza pledged full support for Costa Rica's invasion. They accuse Dr. Rafael Calderon Buardia, ex president barred from power, of organizing the effort with field commanders a Nicaraguan and a Honduran. The men testified in San Jose jail as 38 were seized in fighting near the Nicaraguan frontier.
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San Jose
Costa Rica
la Cruz
Anastasio Somoza
Rafael Calderon Buardia
Pedro Jose Ordonez
Florencio Ordonez
Calderon
Nandaime
Nicaragua
Somoza
National Guard
Army
Luis Somoza
Davison Blanco
Nicaraguan National Guard
Blanco
Alejandro Plata
Girl Held Here In Check Case
A 16 year old negro girl is held in Morgan County jail while authorities decide whether to charge her with forgery in circuit court or place her with juvenile authorities. She confessed to signing the name Isabel C Wyker to nine checks totaling about 150 dollars after handwriting matched FBI analysis. Police Chief J B Whitmire said she was a former servant of Mrs Wyker and was arrested Wednesday following FBI comparison. investigators include Sgt J H Collier and Officer Horace Standridge.
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Morgan County
J. B. Whitmire
Isobel C. Wyker
Wyker
Apa
Federal Bureau of Investigation Laboratory
Washington
Whitmire
FBI
J. H. Collier
Horace Standridge
Foreign Money Appears in Decatur Parking Meters
Decatur police noted foreign coins found in local meters including a German and a Canadian penny size coin. Officer Carmen Taylor said this isn’t first time foreign money has turned up in meters.
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Decatur
Met‘ers
Carmen Taylor
No One Hurt in Cana Street Collision
A two car crash at Cana and Cain Streets caused only slight damage with no injuries, according to city police. The report notes involvement of a Quality vehicle, with authorities detailing the minor collision outcome.
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Cana and
Cain Streets
City Police
Saie
Fishing Boat Capsized. Two Limestone Men Missing
Searchers dragged the Elk river around 12 miles west of Athens Alabama for the bodies of Garner Marbut and Waddell Hardaway both farmers aged 30 to 35 after their small boat capsized Wednesday during a fishing trip. Heavy rains delayed the initial search. The TVA boat joined efforts as residents aided in the river drag.
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Athens
Ala
Elk River
Garner Marbut
Waddell Hardaway
Buck Island Bridge
Bridgeford Bluff
TVA
Supreme Court Denies Rehearing in Tingley Extradition Case
Alabama Supreme Court refuses to reconsider its ruling granting Harold Tingley of Birmingham another hearing on extradition to California to face charges of defrauding veterans in a homebuilding venture. The decision leaves intact the earlier appeals court finding that he was denied due process in extradition. In a separate ruling the court denied a rehearing for Isaac Logan, a Decatur man sentenced to die for the 1947 shotgun slaying of O Neal Bayne with execution set for Jan 28, 1949.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Supreme Court
Harold Tingley
Birmingham
Caliornia
Tingley
California
Circuit Court
James E. Folsom
Robert J. Wheeler
State Court of Appeals
Wheeler
Supreme Court
Court of Appeals
Decatur
DAV Plans Home Building Talk for Legion Meet
Plans for erection of a Disabled American Veterans home will be discussed at a DAV meeting tonight at 7 30 PM at the Legion home. Commander Clifford Odom urged all Purple Heart wearers and disabled veterans to attend.
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DAV
Legion Home
Clifford Odom
U S Bureau of Mines Tests Underground Coal Gasification
Dr. James Boyd inspected the Gorgas mine site in Birmingham, where a coal seam was burned underground last year to test if gases could be used for heating and other purposes. The test was sponsored by the U S Bureau of Mines and Alabama Power Company.
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Birmingham
Ala
James Boyd
U. S. Bureau of Mines
Bureau
Alabama Power Co
Gorgas
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