Weather and local notices from Decatur area news
Partly cloudy with scattered showers and colder in the north this afternoon. Tonight and Wednesday colder with a low 26 to 32 in the north. Winds light to moderate on the coast shifting to northeast late today. The cotton market rose ten points at noon with middling at 32.85 and strict low at 31.85 in Decatur. Local church and civic items include a DeMolay meeting at the Masonic hall Wednesday at 7:30, an art exhibit at the Decatur Negro High School, hospital news, births, and city street repairs on Second Avenue.
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Decatur
John Swatzell
Masonic Hall
Decatur Negro High
Bilbo Fund Raise Tied to 1940 Loan Disclosure
Senate war inquiry hears Forrest Jackson claim that supporters held an emergency 1940 meeting to raise 3000 to repay a loan Bilbo took from Abe Shushan. Jackson says Terry and others structured payments and sought to keep the note quiet amid campaign pressure and a corrupt practices act.
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Washington
Forrest Jackson
Bilbo
D-Miss
Friends of the Lawmaker
Jackson
Senate
Abe Shushan
New Orleans
Shushan
Edward P. Terry
Miss
Terry
Grant Stewart
New Hebron
Robert M. Newton
Wiggins
Stewart
Mississippi
Ferguson
R-Mich
Newton
Mead
D-Ny
Hugh White
Forest Jackson
Ator Ferguson
Rep
Collins
Tractor maintenance school draws forty five farm leaders
Forty five farm leaders from sixteen North Alabama counties attend the first day of a two day tractor maintenance school under the Alabama Extension Service at Hotel Lyons assembly room. L L Self J B Wilson and T A Sims completed morning sessions and plan evening demonstrations at the International Center on U S 31.
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North Alabama
Alabama Extension Service
Hotel Lyons
L. L. Self
J. B. Wilson
Extension Service
T. A. Sims
Alabama
International Ter
U. S
Free Library Established and New Board Named in Decatur
A free public library was set up by the Decatur City Council after a deed transferring the Carnegie library to the city was found. A new five member library board was appointed for terms from one to four years, with the board to elect a librarian and paid staff. The city gains power to appoint and remove board members and oversee library operations. Also the council added 13 items to the 1947 license schedule.
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Decatur
Carnegie Library
City of
Tom Harvey
W. T. Jordan
Frances Nungester
Fred Hunt
Robert Glenn
Andrew Carnegie
Christmas seal sale lags in Morgan County funds
Morgan County residents report slow donations for the 1946 Christmas seal sale to aid tuberculosis control. B. Frank Chenault of the Morgan County Tuberculosis Association notes only 700 dollars raised versus 4,000 last year, though 95 percent stays in Alabama and 75 percent in the local county. Officials hope funds allow a full time worker across Morgan, Lawrence and Limestone counties to check cases.
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Sean County
Frank Chenault
Morgan Countyberculosis Association
Morgan County
Chenault
Alabama
Morgan
Lawrence
Limestone
Indian units urge delay in Nehru resolution
Two assembly members Frank Anthony and Dr Bhim Rao Ambedkar backed delaying Nehru's plan to create a sovereign republic of India until the Moslem League and Indian States end their boycott. Ambedkar warned the move could keep the League out and trigger war. Congress sources still expected the resolution to pass with amendments.
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New Delhi
India
Constituent Assembly
Jawaharlal Nehru
Republic of India
Frank Anthony
Congress Party
Bhim Rao Ambedkar
Denver Teens Form Highly Organized Gang
Police describe a group of 20 teen aged boys and girls as the most organized gang in Denver history. The gang, including four 14 year old girls, divided the city into districts and carried out thefts accordingly. Police say more than $5,000 was taken in robberies.
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Denver
Phil Thompson
Two Family House Burned to Ground in Hartselle
A two family house owned by Clifton C. Rolfe on East Short Street in Hartselle was a total loss after a morning fire. Discovered about nine o clock the blaze likely started in a closet. The Ryker and Stovall families occupied the home with no injuries reported. Furniture was destroyed and uninsured with $800 coverage on the house. Hartselle firefighters prevented spread to nearby homes.
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Clifton C. Rolfe
East Short Street
Hartselle
Ryker
Stovall
Ingalls Shipbuilding To Suspend Work On Christmas Day
Ingalls Shipbuilding will cease operation for Christmas Day only. The Decatur plant employs about workers, as the company continues a 25 ship order for the French government with the first vessel already launched and a July completion date for the current contract.
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Ingalls Shipbuilding
Ingalls
Decatur
Folsom Names Arnall as Possible Alabama University President
Governor-elect James E. Folsom said Georgia's Ellis Arnall could be a good University of Alabama president but doubted success. Arnall's term ends soon as Raymon Paty resigns to head Georgia's university system. Folsom pushes interim legislative committees and labor law study, delaying wage hour law decision.
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Montgomery
Ala
James E. Folsom
Ellis Arnall
Georgia
University of Alabama
University
Times
Arnall
Raymon R. Paty
Paty
University System of Georgia
Folsom
Arnall swears in new solicitor general for eastern circuit
Governor Ellis Arnall today swore in Andrew J. Ryan Jr. as solicitor general of the Eastern judicial circuit for the unexpired term. The action follows a court order and marks a key legal appointment in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Ellis Arnall
Andrew J. Ryan Jr
Eastern Judicial Circuit
Death of W. H. Peebles at 76 in Trinity and Courtland
Funeral services for William Henry Peebles, 76, were set for 2 p m at Cottingham cemetery with Rev. Oscar Allen and Rev. Clyde Jones officiating. He died Monday morning at his daughter’s home in Trinity 1 after illness. Surviving are five daughters and four sons, plus three brothers. Pallbearers will be his sons and sons-in-law. burial at Cottingham cemetery under Brown Funeral Home.
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William Henry Peebles
Cottingham Cemetery
Oscar Allen
Clyde Jones
Peebles
David Glenn
Trinity
Glenn
L. C. Buford
Hartseller
Frank Jones
Nathan Terry
Courtland
Harry Manis
Wheeler
Henry
Houston Peebles
Trinity 1
Elbert Peebles
Priceville
Robert Peebles
Hillsboro
Mage Peebles
Dan Peebles
Don City
Jim Peebles
Hillsro
Cottingham
Brown
Injunction Issued Against Third Avenue Liquor Nuisance
Circuit Judge Newton B. Powell grants a decree restraining Robert Cagle George S Cagle and James White from maintaining a liquor nuisance and a house of prostitution at 1326 Third Avenue South. The state on relation of Philip Shank Jr files the bill in circuit court. White pledged a $1000 bond and did not contest.
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Robert Cagle
George S. Cagle
James White
Third Avenue South
Newton B. Powell
Philip Shank Jr
White
Police Chief Killed in Murfreesboro Gunfight
In Murfreesboro Tennessee police officer Herbert McClanahan died after being shot by Edmond Haynes a 54 year old black man who wounded four others and sparked a hour long gun battle. Haynes fled to a house where officers exchanged fire before surrendering and being moved to Nashville Davidson County jail to avert a mob. warrants were issued charging Haynes with McClanahan's murder and attempt to commit murder against Fire Chief Buck Qualls Sheriff Earl McKnight and the chief. Hayes was reported as a former patient of the central state hospital.
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Murfreesboro
Tenn
N. W. Powers
Edmond Haynes
Toledo
Chief Powers
Haynes
Herbert McClanahan
Buck Qualls
Earl McKnight
McClanahan
Central State Hospital
Insene
Davidson County
Nashville
Federal grand jury probes Walton county lynching case
In Athens Georgia a federal grand jury continues its probe into the lynching of four Walton county Negroes. U S District Attorney John Cowart seeks additional witnesses to finish the case by Friday. A witness named George Alvin Adcock was indicted on two counts of perjury related to testimony given December 11.
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Athens
Walton County
U. S
John Cowart
George Alvin. Adcock
Housing unit heads parley as veterans housing program debated
Washington dispatch reports top housing officials met to chart details amid controversies over President Braman’s revamped veterans home building plan. Long resigned after criticizing incentives. industry figures urged rapid construction. CIO and Truman critics denounced the rental housing push as partisan.
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Norton Long
Washington
Truman
Wilson W. Wyatt
John W. Henderson
Braman
Frank R. Creedon
National
Raymond M. Foley
National Housing Agency
CIO
Norton E. Long
NHA
Long
Wyatt
H. R. Northup
National Retail Lumber Dealers Association
Veterans
Mr. Truman
Federal Housing Agency
Foley
Parents End Pupils Strike Over Christmas Vacation
In a town protest, parents demanded an extra week of Christmas break after the school board extended holidays due to a delayed term from a September illness scare. Demonstrators gathered in the main street but most returned to class as officials refused the additional week.
United States and Britain Press UN to Approve Atomic Peace Plan
At Lake Success on December 17 the United States and Britain urged the UN atomic energy commission to back a plan for harnessing the atom for peaceful uses and outlawing atomic weapons. Baruch led the call, insisting on international controls and inspections and reporting to the Security Council by December 31. Russia resisted, asking for more time to study the issue.
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Francis W. Carpenter
Lake Success
N. Y
United States
Great Britain
United Nations Atomic Energy Commission
Soviet Russia
Commission
Baruch
Unite Nations Security Council
U. S
Atomic Energy Commission
United Nations General Assembly
Vyacheslav M. Molotov
Ernest Bevin
Britain
James F. Byrnes
Assembly
Byrnes
United Nations
Atomic Commission
Russia
V. M. Molotov
Security Council
U. N
Bulgaria
Albania
Greece
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