Weather and church notices reflect Christmas season
The forecast calls for showers and rain with much colder temperatures in the north and west, cloudy and cooler in the southeast, with rough winds along the coast. Westminster Presbyterian plans Sunday services from 10:30 to 1:30 with Rev. Troxter’s sermon The Glory of The Lord Is Revealed. Hospital and birth notes include Mrs. James H. Collins admitted in Decatur General, and Gilbert Roberts dismissed today. St Pauls Lutheran invites a Christmas Eve service at 7 PM and an all on Christmas Day service at 10:30. The shortest day debate continues with expert and AP quotes about yesterday. Visitors Mr and Mrs R E Deese and family of Parkin Arkansas are in town, while Herbert McCaig and family announce a daughter’s birth. Decatur curb market opens Saturday 6:30 AM to 10 PM. TU Sixteenth Avenue Baptist committee postpones Sunday meeting. vesper service 5 to 6 with Christmas program. St Johns Episcopal hosts Christmas Eve service at 11:30 with Glory To God anthem. See DIARY On Page 2.
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Westminster Presbyterian Church
John A. Troxter
Cotton Picker Gets Death Sentence for Child Rape Slaying
Fresno judge without a jury sentenced Paul Montes Gutierrez 25 to death after a first degree murder conviction in the rape slaying of 17 month old Josephine Yanez. Gutierrez admitted taking the child from her parents car before memory lapses. Josephine, daughter of ranch worker Joe Yanez and wife Teya, vanished from the car and was found hours later in a cotton field with a violated body.
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Fresno
Calif
Paul Montes Gutierrez
Josephine Yanez
Arthur C. Shepard
Shepard
Gutierrez
Fresno County
Josephine
Joe Yanez
Teya
Traffic toll climbs in four-county area in 1949
Four county districts Limestone Morgan Lawrence and Cullman show rising road tolls through November with 30 deaths in 1949 vs 19 in all of 1948. Injuries reach 227 up from 195 last year and property damages total 125 598 this year against 127 074 in 1948. Sergeant Little urges caution as Christmas traffic rises.
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Limestone
Morgan
Lawrence
Cullman
W. B. Little
General Seeks Probe of POW Fate in Soviet Camps
General Douglas MacArthur urged an independent inquiry into the fate of 376,000 missing Japanese prisoners held by the Soviet Union. He asked Washington to pursue negotiations for a neutral or Red Cross led investigation after a diplomatic briefing suggested 374,041 likely died in Soviet camps.
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Associated Press
Douglas MacArthur
Soviet Union
MacArthur
Washington
Allied Council For Japan
International Red Cross
Russia
Japan
FBI Intervenes in Detroit Dynamite Plot Against CIO
FBI moves to investigate a dynamite plot targeting the CIO as Detroit police reveal no solid clues about Tuesday night’s defective dynamite plant at union headquarters. Acting under civil rights and federal laws, the intervention marks the first formal federal intercession in the UAW CIO troubles.
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Detroit
FBI
CIO
United Auto Workers Union
Howard McGrath
Uawcio
Central Area Faces Severe Cold and Storms Across Regions
Central and Western United States endure cold air from Northwestern Canada with sub zero temperatures in the Dakotas and Minnesota. Ice storms disrupt travel, power, and communications from Quincy Illinois to surrounding small towns and widespread 3 to 6 inch snow in Eastern Kansas and neighboring states.
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Associated Press
Dakotas
Minnesota
Canada
North Central
Quincy
Ill
Mississippi River
Kansas
Nebraska
Missouri
Iowa
Wisconsin
Upper
Michigan
Mississippi Valley
Illinois
Indiana
California
Mercury
Phoenix
Ariz
Indio
Calif
Douglas
N. M
midWest
Rocky Mountain States
Coast
Pacific Northwest
Transit Strike Shuts Down Cleveland Transit System
Cleveland workers and Christmas shoppers faced a near total transport halt as a sudden AFL transit union strike disrupted the city. The walkout targets pay policies for vacation weeks, with 96 hours pay sought previously and a proposed new formula to reduce it. An FBI probe in Detroit linked to threats against CIO UAW leaders also surfaced, signaling tense labor climate across unions.
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Associated Press
Cleveland
AFL Transit Union
Detroit
FBI
CIO
United Automobile Workers Union
Joseph Curran
CIO National Maritime Union
Curran
Lower Prices, More Money In 1950 Forecast
Washington December forecasts point to easier installment terms for buyers and a growing money supply in 1950. The Agriculture Department reports a record peacetime pork supply and an anticipated eight to ten cent drop per dozen in egg costs. The Federal Reserve Board notes easier borrowing terms since credit controls ended and expects tax policy to offset higher steel and coal prices.
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Washington
Federal Reserve Board
Who Plays Santa For Santa Why Bob Hope In Person
Hollywood observers note Bob Hope played Santa for Santa at a dinner with 57 department store Santas. Hope quipped the bearded crowd looked like a White Christmas as they gathered in costume after a long day.
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Santa
Bob Hope
Hollywood
Santa Claus
St. Nick’s
Hope
Higher Tuition Rates Upheld
The Veterans Administration ruled it can pay higher college tuition rates for ex-GIs than the schools are legally allowed to charge. The ruling affects state and city run schools potentially barred or limited by law, with millions at stake in cases such as the University of Wisconsin where $7 to $8 million in payments were involved. The VA cited a misreading by the General Accounting Office of VA rules on tuition payments.
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Washington
The
Veterans’ Administration
General Accounting Office
University of Wisconsin
Accounting
Son Will Carry On Lion Act In Circus Tragedy
In Thousand Oaks on December 22, 18 year old Michael Kovar chosen to take over his mother May Kovar Schafer’s animal act after she was killed by a lion named Sultan during training. Michael and sister May 14 tried to intervene. elephant trainer Rudy Muller 39 subdued the lion with a pipe before she died.
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Thousand Oaks
Calif
Michael Kovar
May Kovar Schafer
Sultan
Michael
May
Rudy Muller
May Schafer
Flyers From London Plan Water for Dry Friday Shave
London dispatch reports Blackie Kronfeld and Ted Malone carrying two hot water bottles aboard a Westbound plane to New York to allow a Friday shave amid a drought. New Yorkers were urged to curb bathing and shaving as water reserves fell to dangerously low levels.
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London
America
New York
Blackie Kronfeld
Ted Malone
Malone
Medical Board Plans Decision on Bettys Famous Hand
A Boston panel of children's hospital physicians may decide today if the right hand of 10-year-old Betty Lou Marbury from Brownsville Tennessee can be saved. Betty Lou arrived convinced national prayers will aid her recovery and faces tumor therapy specialists to confirm if amputation is necessary.
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Betty
Boston
Betty Lou Marbury
W. W. Mitchell
Memphis
Tenn
Children’s Hospital
Brownsville
Betty Lou
Famed
New Yorker
Tragedies Hit Cullman In Two Fatal Accidents
Two Cullman county residents died from injuries in separate incidents. Claude Day, 31, of Hanceville, who wandered under a falling tree while cutting timber, died about noon Wednesday after 24 hours in a Birmingham hospital. George Byrd, 71, of Cullman, fatally injured in a fog tied auto crash on Gullman Street Monday, died Wednesday at a Cullman hospital. Funeral services set for-day and Saturday at local churches with Moss Service directing. Surviving families listed for both.
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Cullman
Grady Moss
Claude Day
Hanceville
Birmingham
Moss
George Byrd
Gullman
Day
Moss Service
Bethlehem Church
Beech Grove
Cullman County
Agnes Johnson Day
Shirley
James
Bill
Tom Day
Byrd
W. B. Norman
Welts
Duck River
Glenn Byce
Annie Byrd
Sally Mullenix
Eva Walton
Gladys, Hines
William
Grady
Avis
Cullman Cross Burning Probed
A fiery cross about six feet tall was set in the front yard of World War II veteran O. W. Hancock on Fifth Avenue East in Cullman last night at about 11 p.m. Two boys witnessed men in an old model Chevrolet placing and igniting the cross. Hancock and officers searched the town all night. police refused to comment further, and Hancock said no Ku Klux Klan activity is suspected, suggesting someone may be trying to blame the KKK.
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O. W. Hancock
Fifth Avenue East
Hancock
Bob Higginbotham
Harold Hathcoat
J. E. Pierce
Mine Safety Mark is Best Mine Safety Mark is Best
Pittsburgh dispatch reports 1949 may become the safest year in mining history for coal diggers. Officials credit safety programs education and better equipment as factors while noting only a major disaster in late 1949 could alter the trend.
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William G. Smock
Pittsburgh
Welfare Fund Restored Here After Board Debate
A Morgan County Welfare Fund cut of 140 dollars per month was restored after a 90 minute session with state welfare representatives Mildred Beal and Clara Burnham before the Morgan board. Beal outlined how the 140 dollar monthly reduction would reduce about 63000 dollars yearly in welfare funds including 12000 dollars earmarked sales tax money and 24000 dollars in state matching funds with the rest from federal matching money. Coroner Wallace Meadows criticized the board as an improvised funding source and urged monthly expenditure reports as part of budget balancing for 1949-50.
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Vic Bubbett
State Welfare
Morgan County Board of Revenue and Control
Morgan Board
Mildred Beal
Montgomery
State Welfare Office
Clara Burnham
Welfare Department
Miss Beal
Meadows
Wallace Meadows
Revenue Board
Wallace
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St Eal
James H. Collins
Madison
Decatur General Hospital
Gilbert Roberts
O. J. Roberts
Decatur 3
St. Paul's Lutheran Church
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
U. S. Naval Observatory
R. E. Deese
Parkin
Arkansas
Herbert McCaig
Trinity
Ed R. Adcock
Bob
Decatur
Pulaski, Tenn
A. L. Cain
Somerville
Ala
University of Tennessee In
Knoxville
Phil Woodard
Joan Hester
Sandford Gray Jr
Carson-Newman College
Fort Payne
TU of the
Sixteenth Avenue Bapist Church
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Vaww-Cid
Joseph V. Krug
Special Investigation Squad
Albert Langtry
Police Scientific Laboratory
United Auto Workers International
Cotton Picker
By Ken Reynolds
Yugoslavia
Balkan
Joseph tSalin
Marshal Tito
Sam
Europe
Sen. Vandenberg
Sen. McKellar
Tennessee
Paul Hoffman
Maritime Union
Reserve Board
Lion
Lad
Medical Board
Cullman Cross
Dale
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