Decatur News Highlights Weather, Markets and Local Arrivals
Partly cloudy with warmer southern areas and scattered showers expected. state outlook includes cooler conditions Wednesday. Decatur noon cotton quoted middling at 32 and strict low at 30. Capitol Theatre matinee draws about 250 with fruit and toys for the needy. Curb market Thursday offers fresh meats and Christmas decorations from 6:30 am to noon. Tuberculosis Christmas Seal money urged. Flint Sanatorium staff contributions reach 300. Local arrivals include John Howland, Auburn graduate, visiting mother and sister. Baptist gospel car Evangel again touring Decatur. hours 2–5 pm or by appointment. Pvt. Norman G Halbrooks to spend holidays from Camp Hood. Several hospital moves reported by Brown's Ambulance. Rep. Bob Jones expected in head, Morgan County veteran office.
Decatur and Dothan May Schedule 1949 Football Test
Decatur and Dothan negotiate a 1949 football clash with two proposed dates from Dothan coach Rip Hewes. One date is fixed on Decatur’s schedule, the other is September 16, the season opener. Coach Shorty Ogle says negotiations continue with Phillips of Birmingham.
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Decatur
Dothan
Shorty Ogle
Raider
Rip Hewes
Ogle
Phillips
Birmingham
United States considers UN action to halt Dutch Indonesia crisis
Washington reports say the United States may push the United Nations Security Council to order the Netherlands to cease its Indonesia campaign and release republican leaders seized in Jakarta. A Dutch cease fire could be accepted if major military actions end soon. The Marshall Plan aid to the Netherlands and Indonesia totals over 3 billion dollars this year.
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Edward E. Bomar
Washington
United States
Republic of Indonesia
Philip C
United Nations Security Council
Netherlands
Paris
Indonesia
Jogjakarta
Java
Economic Cooperation Administration
Dutch Police Action Ramps Up in Indonesia
Dutch units move rapidly through central Java as Holland labels the action a police operation against terrorists. Indonesian leaders claim heavy fighting near Jogjakarta, the republican capital seized by Dutch airborne troops last Sunday. Gen. Soedirman and most Indonesian leaders are reportedly in Dutch custody.
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Associated Press
Jaiva
Holland
Singapore
Paris
Jogjakarta
Soederiman
City Considers General Pay Raise After Union Request
City Council meets at city hall to study a 40 percent payroll increase for all city employees following a Sanitary department truck drivers’ delegation. Uniforms for police funded partly, with $2.50 deducted from each officer’s weekly pay. T. F. Adams resigns as Planning Commission chair. Quince E. Eddens appointed to succeed him.
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Sanitary Department
T. F. Adams
City Planning Commission
Quince E. Eddens
Adams
Eddens
Act
Two Guests Die In Westminster Hotel Blaze
A Philadelphia blaze at the Westminster hotel on Chestnut Street left two guests dead and three others injured. Ninety five occupants fled as flames swept a midtown block near the Schuylkill River. Victims’ names were not immediately available and a man and woman escaped by crossing a narrow ice covered ledge to a neighboring building.
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Philadelphia
Westminster Hotel
Chestnut Street
20Th Street
Schuylkill River
B and C
Mercury is Riding Elevator in City
In a puzzling update, a stray weather-related phrase appears, hinting at a quirky incident or misprint about Mercury and an elevator in the city, with unclear attribution or context.
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Mercury
Two Youths Sent To Boys' Home in Court Edict Here
Louis Dutton and Gerald Jackson both 15 were sent to a boys industrial school in Birmingham instead of a state penitentiary after Morgan circuit court sentenced them to four years for burglary of two local businesses Brock and Spight and J. C. Penney. Probation was arranged if Juvenile Judge T. C. Almon placed the lads in the industrial school.
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Louis Dutton
Gerald Jackson
Birmingham
Morgan Circuit Court
T. C. Almon
Dutton
Fatal Fall in N Y Probed amid espionage probe
Laurence Luggan a 48 year old former State Department Latin American affairs expert died in a 16 story fall from his Manhattan office as investigators planned to question him about alleged leaks to Red spies. The medical examiner called the circumstances undetermined and police cited possible suicide or accident.
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New York
State Department
Department
Laurence Luggan
States Department
Manhattan
Duggan
Chambers denies receiving State papers from Duggan
Whittaker Chambers said today he never received any State Department papers from Laurence Duggan who plunged to his death a height.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
State Department
Laurence Duggan
Duggan Tied to Secret State Department Testimony
Rep. M Hundt says a witness named Duggan as one of six in the State Department who allegedly passed out confidential information. Duggan died before appearing before a spy court hearing linked to Francis B. Sayre’s former office secrets. At death he led the Institute of International Education, promoting student exchange.
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Rep. M Hundt
R. S.D
House Committee On
Washington
Duggan
State Department
Francis B. Sayre
Dug- Ban
Institute of International Education
Var
Board refuses to alter tombstone over alleged murder
In North Carolina 73 year old Hamp Kendall sought to redo a grave marker at a country cemetery that accuses Lawrence Nelson of murder. The Caldwell County board said it cannot act due to a state law making tombstone defacement a misdemeanor. Kendall, living alone 25 miles away, had not been notified of the decision.
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N. C
Hamp Kendall
Lawrence Nelson
Nelson
John Vickers
Kendall
Vickers
R. Gregg Cherry
Tombstone
Caldwell County Board of Commissioners
Death Watch For Tojo and Pals Resumed
Tokyo December 2 war time premier Hideki Tojo and six other Japanese war makers face execution after a 13 minute conference between General MacArthur and Lt. Gen. Walton Walker. Secrecy surrounds timing with hangings possible after midnight EST, and a Buddhist priest prepared to accompany the condemned to the gallows.
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Russell Brines
Tokyo
Hideki Tojo
Douglas MacArthur
Sugamo
General MacArthur
Supreme Court of the
United States
Ainsho Hanayama
MacArthur
Walton H. Walker
Eighth Army
Lively Heading Baseball Unit Leads Morgan County Memorial Field Campaign
Lloyd Lively chairs a financial drive to build a Morgan County Memorial Field south of Decatur on US Highway 31. The project funds a 16 acre site valued at 21000 with up to 10000 cash from the Legion and the rest from season tickets for grandstand and boxes. A 1000-seat concrete steel grandstand will host 32 games in 1949 as local players from Decatur area, led by Bob McNelly and Claude McMurtrie, forego pay to fund the facility.
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Lloyd L. Lively
Alabama Hosiery Mills
American Legion
Memorial Field
Morgan County
Mr. Lively
Jimmy Williams
Marvin Rankin
Robert McNelly
Barrett Shelton
E. W. McLeod
Morgan County National Bank
Decatur
Legion Post
Legion
Seasors
Bob McNelly
Claude McMurtrie
Probers May Change Rules In Hearings
Representative Mundt urged the House Un American Activities Committee to reform its procedures to ensure fairer hearings for witnesses and accused persons. The panel will report past accomplishments and propose procedural recommendations over ten days and hold a closed session with Secretary of State Sayre. Sayre, tied to the Hiss-Chambers case, faces a New York grand jury probe as disputes with the Justice Department flare over witness questioning.
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William F. Arbogast
Washington
Rep
Mundt
R-Sd
House
UN American Activities Committee
Francis B. Sayre
Anna Belle Newcomb
Hiss
Sayre
U. S
United Nations
State Department
Alger Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Red Ring Courier
Hiss-Chambers
New York
Justice Department
Alex Campbell
Jewish Appeal Reaches One-Third of Goal in Decatur
The United Jewish Appeal in Decatur is one-third toward the $6,000 target with ten Jewish families supplying $3,000 and non Jewish contributions totaling $1,015.95. Co chairs Sam Alexander and Harold Michelson urged friends to donate through either Mr. Alexander or Mr. Michelson or via The Decatur Daily.
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Decatur
Sam Alexander
Harold Michelson
Alexander
Mr. Michelson
Decatur Daily
Eire Declares Independence with Signing of Act
Dublin December 21 Eire became a free republic as President Sean T O Kelly signed the external relations repeal ending the last constitutional link to the British crown. The Independence Day proclamation is expected in spring with new UK Ireland ties to follow. The long struggle featured 1916 Easter rising and 1919 1921 guerrilla war with eventual British withdrawal.
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Dublin
Eire
Ireland
Sean T. O'Kelly
O'Kelly
Fective
John A. Costello
Citizen
Volunteers
Sinn
New York Awaits Snowfall After 19.5 Inch Storm
New York finishes digging out from a 19.5 inch snowstorm the third heaviest in the city. Weather officials warn of light snow this morning with a later forecast of a light afternoon and evening.
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New York
New York City
Times Square
Broadway
Father Duffy
Weather Bureau
Pacific Northwest
British Columbia
Washington
Montana
Stevens Pass
Cascades
Snoqualmie Pass
Seven Houses Bought For Wolverine Tube Workers at Enola Oaks
Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co and the Decatur Foundation have completed seven house purchases in Enola Oaks for Wolverine Tube employees transferred from Detroit. The total cost is about 41000 dollars with C H investment of 28832.51 and the Decatur Foundation contributing 12061.76.
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Calumet and Hecla Consolidated Copper Co
Decatur Foundation
Enolam Oaks
Wolverine Tube
Detroit
Mich
Percy C. Noble
Montgomery Weather Chief E. D. Emigh to Retire
Chief Meteorologist E. D. Emigh of the Montgomery weather bureau will retire January 1 after fifty years of service. Arthur R. Long of Albuquerque will assume the post February 1, with assistant meteorologist F. C. Pate supervising in the interim.
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Montgomery
Ala
E. D. Emigh
Montgomery Weather Bureau
Arthur R. Long
Alburqueque
N. M
F. C. Pate
New Trial Motion Weighed by Judge Crow
Circuit Judge James H Crow weighs a motion for a new trial in a case where a Transit cab passenger claims severe injuries from an accident. The court previously awarded the plaintiff 2500 dollars.
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James H. Crow
Help to China Is Curtailed
Washington officials report that the Economic Cooperation Administration suspended all reconstruction projects in China. The halt covers about 70 million dollars set for rebuilding transportation systems and docks, with deliberate exceptions for isolated engineering planning not saving funds.
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Washington
Paul G. Hoffman
Economic Cooperation Administration
China
ECA
Truman
White House
Hoffman
The
Shanghai
Congress
Profits Level Is Defended in Inflation Debate
Washington December 2 AP A Chamber of Commerce official warns that added taxes could spark an inflationary revolt as 1949 state and local tax hikes loom. Dr Emerson P Schmidt argues taxes are already too high while U S Steel finance chief Enders M Voorhees calls current profits exceptionally low given full capacity rates.
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Washington
Chamber of Commerce
Chamber
Emerson P. Schmidt
Senate-House
Congress
Flanders
R. Vt
United States Steel Corporation
Finance Committee
U. S. Steel
Enders M. Voorhees
Three Power Berlin Government Formed Without Soviet Participation
In Berlin on December 21 1947 the United States Britain and France announced a three power government for Berlin with no Russian participation. Western powers will administer Western sectors while Soviet obstruction continues. Stolpe village in the Soviet zone faced occupation and control tensions as Stolpe’s fate tied to postwar power play.
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Berlin
United States
Britain
France
Jean Ganeval
Stolpe
Kurt Hoeher
West Berlin
Taegliche Rundschaw
Greater Berlin
Schumacher Clique
German Socialist Party
Radio
Tegel Air Field
Two Killed in Florida Car Crash Near Penacola
Two men died and a woman was critically injured in a car collision 12 miles east of Penacola Florida early today, according to the Florida Highway Patrol. The deceased are Fred L. Chitwood 62 Memphis Tennessee and Jack Bradshaw 25 a soldier from Eglin Air Force Base Florida.
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Pensacula
Fla
Here
Florida Highway Patrol
Fred .L. Chitwood
Memphis
Quentin Roosevelt on CNAC airliner crash near Hong Kong
Local aviation sources say Quentin Roosevelt, grandson of Theodore Roosevelt and CNAC vice president, was aboard a CNAC C-54 Skymaster that crashed on Baak Island near Hong Kong. Reported loss of all 33 aboard with Roosevelt believed aboard despite other CNAC planes departing earlier.
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Shanghai
Quentin Roosevelt
Hong Kong
Theodore Roosevelt
Chinese National Airlines Corporation
Ba‘ak Island
Hong 'A
Roosevelt
CNAC
Hong
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Roy McCluskey
Dick McCluskey
Wilson McCluskey
Chattanooga
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E. E. Martin
Moody Bible Institute
Norman G
Happy) Halbrooks
Camp Hood
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Luther Haas
Hamil Clinic
Market Street
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Lady Mae Fisher
Sheffield Apartments
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Brown‘s Ambulance
Jack Montgomery
Tuscaloosa
John Chenault
Bob Jones
Julian Bibb Jr
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