Decatur News Briefs Highlight Weather and Local Happenings
Partly cloudy this afternoon and tonight with scattered showers near the coast. Wednesday fair and cooler in the north and west. Winds light to moderate along the coast. Sugar Bowl attendance hopes from Charlie Harvey. Dinner honors returning college students at First Presbyterian church basement. White Christmas unlikely as 44 degrees at 8 am. Yesterday high 58, low 44. Local residents visiting for holidays include Hazel Lancaster, Huel Murphy, and families of C H Murphy. Community events feature MYF caroling at First Methodist and hospital visits. Two-way radio planned for Sheriff Humphrey’s car. broadcasting via highway patrol after county board approval. Office closures noted for courthouse and probate office. Army recruiting station closed Christmas Day. Diary by Ken Reynolds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. B. Humphrey
Highway Patrol
County Board of Revenue
Brit ish Troops, Arabs Clash North of Jerusalem in Holy Land
British troops clashed with Arab attackers along a highway north of Jerusalem while Arab fire hit a Jewish funeral procession on the Mount of the Ascension. A Swedish journalist and eight Jews were wounded as the fighting intensified amid mounting casualties and travel disruption across Palestine.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carter L. Davidson
Jerusalem
Sacred Mount of the Ascension
Bab el Wad
Haifa
Ocean Vigor
Cyprus
David Ben-Gurion
Jewish Agency Executive
Mount of the Ascension
Robert Clive Stern
Mount of Olives
Palestine
Bat Yam
Arab Ydhela
Holy Land
United Nations
Associated Press
James M. Long
Long
Lydda
Judean Hills
Hagg
Wholesaler Tax Plan Resisted in Alabama
Circuit Judge Eugene Carter blocked a new Alabama Revenue Department rule requiring wholesalers to account for all sales. A Jan. 14 hearing was set. The regulation, proposed by Philip Hamm, aims to distinguish sales to retailers from individuals, but McDonald-Glass Grocery of Anniston argues it amounts to a tax on wholesalers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
Eugene Carter
State Revenue Department
Alabama
Philip J. Hamm
Revenue Department
Carter
McDonald-Glass Grocery Company
Anniston
Stassen challenges White House on commodity trading profits
Harold E. Stassen demanded the administration reveal if any current or former White House officials traded commodities before major government purchases in early 1947 and profited from price increases. He cited 711 named traders and backed probes by congressional committees into possible inside information leaks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Harold E. Stassen
White House
Stassen
Charles G
Congress
Minnesota
Agriculture Anderson
Congressional
House
Rep
Andersen
R-Minn
Knowland
R-Calif
Appropriations Committee
Low bidders listed on 15 Alabama road projects
The Alabama State Highway Department released low bidders for 15 road projects across 16 counties, totaling 2,895,106 dollars. The biggest bid, 504,591 dollars, covers grading and paving on 17.273 miles of the Arab Blountsville road in Marshall Cullman and Blount counties, bid by Clyde O. Mitchell of Birmingham. Other bids include Moss Thorntons for the Bremen Red Rock road segment and Carlton Contracting for the Albany Georgia to Bremen route and related bridges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State Highway Department
Alabama
Associated Press
Montgomery
Marshall
Cullman
Blount
Clyde O. Mitchell
Birmingham
Morgan
Falkville- McKendry Road
Goodwyn and Murphree
Troy
G. W. Norrell Contracting Company
Georgiana
Ala
Bremen
Moss-Thornton
Scott Construction Company
Thomasville
Walker and
Red Rock
Carlton Contracting Company
Albany
Panama rejects U S defense bases deal in Panama City
Panama’s national assembly voted 51 to 0 to refuse ratification of a pact granting the United States rights to lease and man military and airfield sites for canal defense. The vote sparks a mass celebration as political resignations surface and the dispute may head to international arbitration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Luis C. Noli
Panama
National Assembly
United States
Panama Canal
United Nations
International Arbitration Tribunal
Riccardo J. Alfaro
Alfaro
Florencio Arosemena
Japan
Gen. MacArthur
U. S. State Department
Washington
Panama Assembly
White House urges lower prices with aim of stable economy
President Truman’s three man council calls for real price competition to keep prosperity steady without booms. The report says industries should plan for a high production economy with prices that balance fair returns and stability, noting housing needs and uneven demand as risks to sustained output.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
White House
Truman
Council of Economic Advisers
Pardon Plea May Be Next Step For Satira
A Cuban court sentenced Patricia Schmidt, a 22 year old dancer known as Laura, to 15 years in prison for the April killing of her lover John Lester Mee on a Havana harbor yacht. Her lawyer said she may seek a presidential pardon or clemency and an appeal was discussed. Mee, a Chicago attorney and war veteran, died after being shot in the throat following a quarrel over his marriage.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Satira
Patricia
Saura) Schmidt
Toledo
Havana
Cuba
John Lester Mee
Chicago
Aavana
Patricia Schmidt
Ramon Gray San Martin
Havana Harbor
Rene Castellanos
Crease
Castellanos
Carmelina Gaunche
Guanabacoa
Miss Schmidt
Laura
Mee
New Trials Denied for Woodard and Pope in Slaying Case
Judge Crow overruled motions for new trials in Cullman. Rob ert Woodard and Horace Pope, life prisoners for the Wallace Dean slaying, had new trial bids argued by Finis St John and Barney Bland. Witness-stand honesty questions arose about Faye Kelsoe. Appeals to the state supreme court are probable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Woodard
Horace Pope
Wallace Dean
Pre-Holiday Prohibition Raids Nab Eight Suspects
Sheriff force and state investigators led raids Monday resulting in eight arrests for violating prohibition law. Investigators McKinney Sandlin Coulter and deputies Nuby Kirkpatrick coordinated the sweep with city police announcing additional detentions for public drunkenness driving while intoxicated driving without a license traffic violations property destruction and prohibition charges.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
McKinney
Sandlin
Coulter
Nuby
Kirkpatrick
Solon Denies He Supported Folsom Plan Amid Court House Clash
Gov. James E. Folsom accused Rep. Wallace Malone of backing his road program during a Dothan address. Malone leaped from his seat to deny the claim and later charged Folsom with chasing votes through road funds. Folsom pressed a rural road program and higher aid for the elderly, insisting lawmakers left no new money in the emergency fund.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Associated Press
James E. Folsom
House
Wallace Malone
Houston County
Malone
Dothan
Folsom
Greensboro
Ala
Senate
Gheintnan
Anita
Snow flight planned to seed clouds over St Petersburg
Police chief Everett Orr urged a rotary snowplow to be flown to St Petersburg with police escort to quell any holiday snow issues. Ex GI Bob Leon will fly his Army training plane to 10 000 feet to seed cumulus clouds with dry ice aiming for the city’s first recorded snowfall. Mayor Bruce Blackburn received a red sled of North Carolina apples from Hendersonville officials as part of Operation Snow Flake sponsor tribute.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Petersburg
Fla
Everett Orr
Hendersonville
N. C
Bob Leon
Bruce B. Blackburn
A. V. Edwards
North Carolina
St. Petersburg Evening Independent
Snow Patrol
Leon
Relief Bill Signed In Washington For European Aid
President Truman signed a 914 million five hundred thousand dollar appropriation with 522 million for France Italy and Austria plus 18 million for China relief. Taft warned Europe aid could reach eight billion in a year if the full Marshall plan funds are approved. Morse urged careful GOP support while Democrats prepared a four minute Western Europe discussion See RELIEF On Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
France
Italy
Austria
Congress
China
Europe
Taft
Ohio
International Bank
International Stabilization Fund
Ohioan
Morse R.ore
Morse
Dr John M Gallalee Named New Bama President
The University of Alabama board named Dr John M Gallalee 64, head of mechanical engineering, as president effective Jan 1. Ralph A Adams returns as dean of administration at $10,000 yearly. Gallalee will be paid $12,000. The decision follows a yearlong search and committee report.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tuscaloosa
Ala
University of Alabama Board of Trustees
John M. Gallalee
Virginia
Alabama
Gallalee
Ralph A. Adams
Raymond R. Paty
University System of Georgia
Southern bus truck crash leaves two dead in Alabama
Two people died and ten were injured in holiday traffic in the Tennessee Valley as a Southern bus collided with a truck near Florence. Victims were Lloyd Balentine and Herschel Pennington. Injuries included multiple passengers and drivers from both vehicles, plus a motorcycle collision nearby. Police report place, ages, and injuries for numerous individuals.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee Valley
Maynard Kirby
Florence
Lloyd Balentine
Aedale 1
Herschel Pennington
Cloverdale
Ralph Walker
Cullman
Luther Morris
Lutes
Tenn
John Smith
Waterloo
W. R. Hipps
Two Crashes In City Reported By Officers
Charles R. Barrett of 721 Railroad Street drove north on Third Avenue W and struck a telephone pole near the alley. he was uninjured. Mrs. L M Huff of 520 Grant Street and E J West of 409 Moulton Street collided on Eighth and Moulton. both were unhurt. Investigations were led by Officers Moore, Braswell, Hunter, and Carter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Charles R. Barrett
Railroad Street
Third Avenue
Moore and Braswell
Barrett
L. M. Huff
Grant Street
E. J. West
Moulton Street
Eighth Avenue
Huff
Eighth
Moulton
Hunter
Carter
Two Fatal Crashes Reported Near Florence and Savannah
In one wreck Lumpkin pulled over to place a paper in a mailbox and collided with a passing car. In another head on collision four and a half miles from Florence on Savannah Highway two men Balentine and Pennington died.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lumpkin
Walker
Bryant
Jefferson Hospital
Birmingham
Lumpkins
Sgt
W. B. Little
Balentine
Pennington
Southern
Florence
Savannah
Bert Robertson
Kirby
Cox
Coffee Memorial Hospital
Hipps
Robertson
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