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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 19, 1946
Page
1
Brief weather outlook for the state calls for partly cloudy skies and warmer by Friday with rain in western and southern areas. Cotton market gains push middling and strict prices higher. Local news notes arrivals, hospital transfers, court activity, church events, and holiday bonus plans at Decatur Iron and Steel.
Gewin McCracken, 27, a former Alabama farm boy and naval flier, is among 86 veterans awarded irrigated farms in Oregon through a government lottery. The Fort Payne native, GAO clerk, and University of Maryland entrant learned his name was drawn after 1,305 qualified veterans entered. Farms valued $15 000 to $25 000 lie on former lake beds near the California Oregon border. McCracken served in World War II and now lives in Arlington Virginia with his wife Frances. he previously attended Jacksonville State Teachers College.
Reports from Atlanta indicate Eugene Talmadge, governor elect, is in Piedmont hospital with a stomach ailment and has taken a turn for the worse. He has suffered multiple illnesses since October in Jacksonville and was hospitalized again after a blood transfusion, with his condition described as critical but not comatose.
The Lena Harvey Bishop YW A of Central Baptist church met Tuesday evening at Miss Lucille Caudill s Oak Street home. The group sang carols, read scripture verses, heard a devotional, enjoyed piano solos, exchanged gifts, and shared refreshments.
Miss Betty McRae opened a home Tuesday night for the W A girls of First Baptist church. This was a Christmas party and Miss McRae's home was decorated in Christmas colors. Candles were used throughout the rooms. Miss Sarah Crockton read the
Senator Taft urges business to hold prices and labor to curb wage demands to avert a 1947 recession. He supports the Truman advisers while stressing responsibility of business to keep prices down and labor to restrain wages. The council recommends a middle course between Spartan restraint and active government manipulation.
Five residents died and more than 40 were injured when a cigarette sparked a blaze on the ground floor of Abe's hotel in South Philadelphia. The fire forced over 100 occupants to flee in near freezing weather, with victims mostly in first floor rooms while others escaped from upper floors via fire escapes. Carnegie Lester, 37, the night manager who raised the alarm, reported many residents escaped from upper floors.
A circuit court jury in Birmingham awarded Wade M. Bethay of Amory Mississippi forty five thousand dollars in damages against the St Louis San Francisco railroad. Bethay claimed injuries from a December 23 1945 incident in Amory yards that required leg amputation while employed as a brakeman.
Soviet delegate Andrei Gromyko urged extending a U N probe into Greek frontier conditions to cover all of Greece. He favored limiting cross border accusations to border areas in Albania Yugoslavia and Bulgaria, and criticized foreign troops in Greece. Yugoslav and Greek representatives argued the push would not fix the issues and warned against overgeneralizing Greece’s neighbors’ actions.
Alabama Flour Mills will suspend operations from 8 a.m. Christmas morning to 8 p.m. Christmas night due to federal flour contracts. About 200 employees will receive Christmas bonuses based on service and earnings, and Christmas baskets will be distributed. office staff take a half day Tuesday and return Thursday morning.
Rev. Eugene M. Chapman announces two Christmas Eve services at St. John’s Episcopal Church. A 4 30 p m vesper with carols candlelight and the Christmas story retelling precedes a 11 30 p m midnight communion. The rector will speak on The Incidental Becomes Eternal.
A lumber truck and a school bus collided near White Rock 18 miles northwest of Columbia. Sam Rowe, truck occupant, was killed. bus driver J Earl Wessinger is in serious condition. Eight truck workers were unhurt. Three grammar school pupils brothers O Neal 6 Laverne 8 Leland Eargle 10 sustained bruises and dental injuries. Scene near Spring Hill school, about 20 miles from Silverstreet where yesterday a bus and train killed ten children and the driver.
Twenty teachers volunteered to join the Decatur Teachers Speaker Bureau per Miss Frances Nungester. They offer brief talks on Alabama topics, books, child development, literature, science, crafts, history, and more on short notice, with longer notice needed for certain subjects.
Melvin Willard Smith of Mt. Pinson Ala is jailed in Morgan county on burglary charges for breaking into C H Bradford store in Trinity Sheriff W T Willoughby says Smith was caught after his car ran out of gas about a mile from the store He admitted stealing a 1936 Ford from in front of the Moulton Hotel Birmingham Monday night and claimed he traveled via Highway 78 into Mississippi then to Trinity Most goods were recovered and Smith on parole from Kilby prison is held on the burglary count with the sheriff noting the case continues
Girls from Southern states compete for the Maid of Cotton title in 1947 with Miss Anne Jones Kimbrough of Decatur already filed. The winner earns a Paris trip via Air France, tours of Cannes and Monte Carlo, a West Coast swing, and a month of modeling in New York after Memphis final.
Decatur merchants will close on December 25 and 26 for the holiday season after an almost unanimous vote led by Charles Harvey of the Chamber of Commerce. John Nelson confirmed the door-to-door survey showing support, while Irwin C. Craig reported local shops will follow the two day closure.
Miss Lillian Collins 18 tele phone operator for Southern Bell died after her car failed to turn near Mooresville and struck a telephone pole. Passenger Nealy Osborne 22 suffered a brain concussion, Irene Pike 19 knee and facial injuries, Edward Fields 26 head injuries, all hospitalized in Decatur. The four were en route from Huntsville. car demolished. Collins survived by parents Dewey and Mrs Collins and two sisters Fayteen and Mrs Arthur Glenn. Funeral planned at New Center with class pallbearers.
CIO United Steelworkers chief in closed door talks on 1947 contract demands after a public unveiling of wage and policy aims. A 174 member policy committee listed 16 goals including guaranteed minimum weekly wage and portal-to-portal pay.
Birmingham industries relying on gas for fuel halted operations today as the Birmingham Gas Co cut gas supply. President Charles B. Gamble cited a cutoff from several cast iron pipe plants and foundries and warned he had no estimate of affected workers.
Senator Bilbo denounces Edward P. Terry as Judas Iscariot in a 10 000 word statement while denying requests for gifts or funds. He cites old Southern custom of gifts to public servants and defends loyalty to Mississippi contractors in war contract cases.
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