Community Gleanings and Local Notices
Partly cloudy with showers this afternoon and cooler tonight. Visitors and holiday plans include Ray J. Renegar from Trinity and families from Morton Illinois and Florence. Admitted to Decatur General Hospital are Mrs. Willis Crow Mrs. Willie Wooten and Mrs. Ann Fusch. Local draft board 52 closes tomorrow noon. The Alabama State Employment Service will be closed Wednesday and Thursday. See DIARY On Page 2.
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Ray
Decatur General Hospital
Willis Crow
Sixth Avenue SE
Willie Wooten
Eighth Avenue
Ann Fusch
Fourth Avenue NW
Draft Board 52
Alabama State Employment Service
Dr. Livingston T. Mays Dies in Nashville
Dr. Livingston T. Mays, 79, a Baptist minister, diplomat, and educator of worldwide experience, died of a heart attack in a Nashville hospital late last night. He had served pastorates in the larger and more influential congregations for over fifty years.
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Nashville
Tenn
Livingston T. Mays
Mays
Pastor Here Dr Livingston T Mays Dies in Nashville
The obituary notes Dr. Livingston T. Mays died last night in Nashville. He had served as pastor of Central Baptist church here shortly before World War I began.
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Livingston T. Mays
Nashville
Central Baptist Church
Dr. Mays Career Highlights Across Several States
Dr. Mays, a former Southern Baptist Convention president, held leadership roles in Cuba and multiple U S educational institutions. His career spanned Alabama, Georgia, Texas, and Arkansas with service in Ridgecrest North Carolina and Havana while native to Texas.
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United States
Rome
Italy
Southern Baptist Convention
Mays
Cuban American College
Havana
Summer School of Theology
Ridgecrest
N. C
Furman University
Tennessee For Women
University School
Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
Georgia
Texas
Arkansas
Rites For Four Crash Victims Set Wednesday
Funeral services for Millard L. Morris and three relatives will be held at Oak Grove church at 2 p.m. tomorrow. The Morris carborn family died in a LaGrange Indiana crash while returning from Kalamazoo Michigan. Mrs Morris remained in LaGrange hospital with critical injuries along with five others from the bus.
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Hartselle 2
Michigan
Indiana
Millard L. Morris
Charles
Gary
Maxine Woodall
Oak Grove Church
LaGrange
Ind
Morris
Grady Wood
Thelma Vaughn
Clarence Davis
Peck
Omer Morris
Adis Morris
Fred Morris
Junio Moore
Hoyt Moore
Earl Morris
Ruth Morris
Mr. and
Lee
Snow Hits Midwest and Northeast With Heavy Falls
A winter storm brings heavy snow to the mid continent with over 12 inches in Nebraska and 11 inches in Kansas. Snow continues across western and northern Wisconsin into the Dakotas and eastern Nebraska with cold temperatures and near zero readings. Light snow falls in the central Rockies while southern New England sees two to five inches turning to sleet and rain. Fair weather remains across the southern tier from Texas to California.
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Associated Press
Prospect
Midwest
Mid-Continent
Nebraska
Kansas
Wisconsin
Dakotas
Rockies
New England
Massachusetts
Maine
New Hampshire
Connecticut Valley
Cape Cod
Nantucket Island
Texas
California
TV Station Proposed for Decatur by WMSL
Tennessee Valley Broadcasting company owner Frank Whisenant filed with the FCC to build a Decatur television station on channel 23. If approved, operations could start about a year from now with a 21.54 kilowatt daytime and nighttime power and a 375 foot tower atop the existing AM tower.
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Decatur
Tennessee Valley Broadcasting Company
WMSL
Federal Communications Commission
FCC
Frank Whisenant
The
Tennessee Valley Company
Whisenant
Three Fort Walton Boys Win 1176 Treasure Share
Jimmy Warr 11 Donald Ray Ward 12 and Pete Richbourg 13 shared 1176 found buried in sand near a swamp. A circuit judge ordered the money divided after no one claimed it. The youths planned Christmas shopping including a shotgun and another hunting trip after the holidays.
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Fort Walton
Fla
Jimmy Warr
Donald Ray Ward
Pete Richbourg
D. Stuart Gillis
Red Atrocity Probe Looms
Rep. Flood predicts an investigation of alleged Communist atrocities in Korea will be authorized in the 83rd Congress. He cites the Katyn report as a blueprint and says a bill for inquiry will be introduced after Jan. 3. No new evidence of recent mistreatment is noted. U N counts about 8 000 Korean atrocities.
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Barney L. Livingstone
Washington
Rep. Flood
D-Pa
Congress
Korea
Flood
House
Katyn Forest
Katyn Committee
U. N
Smolensk
Russia
House Committee
Katyn
Soviet
Ussr
U. N. General Assembly
Burglar Steals From Alfred's Grocery on Sixth Avenue
Burglars took about five dollars in change a carton of cigarettes and a small cut of bologna sausage from Alfred's grocery at 1416 Sixth Avenue SE entry gained through an unlocked rear window and exit through the back door. Police Chief J B Whitmire says the case is under investigation by Detectives Pack Self and Charles Smith.
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Alfred’s Grocery
Sixth Avenue
J. B. Whitmire
Pack Self
Charles Smith
Eisenhower hints at no FEPC enforcement plan
President elect Eisenhower maintains a quiet no to enacting a federal FEPC with enforcement power. Negro clergy urge action to end job discrimination while aides say method differences favor education over compulsory legislation. He pledges a study commission on minority issues to be named after January 20. See IKE on Page 2.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
New York
Eisenhower
Fair Employment Practices Commission
FEPC
Truman
W. J. Jernigan
Denver
United States
Ike
Russia blamed for Austrian resource theft in postwar clash
U S high commissioner Llewellyn E Thompson Jr accused Soviet deputy head Maj Gen V Kraskevitch at an Allied Council meeting in Vienna of draining Austria of oil industrial plants and unpaid taxes since 1945 totaling 770 million dollars. He said the losses worsened unemployment as Russians allegedly disappeared these assets into the Danube.
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Vienna
Austria
Llewellyn E. Thompson Jr
U. S
Thompson
Danube
V. Kraskevitch
Allied Council For
Resignation of Pinay Accepted by French President
Paris President Vincent Auriol formally accepted the resignation of Premier Antoine Pinay after nine months in office. Pinay announced his departure from the National Assembly as the MRP refused to back him in the 1953 budget confidence votes. Auriol had attempted to avert a cabinet crisis but failed to sway Pinay.
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Paris
Vincent Auriol
Antoine Pinay
Pinay
National Assembly
Catholic Popular Republican Movement
MRP
Auriol
Byrnes To Head Southern Group
Gov. Herman Talmadge announced that James F. Byrnes of South Carolina was chosen to chair the Southern Foundation, a campaign arm of the Southern Governors Conference. The foundation, formed in 1948, aims to present the South's viewpoint on radio, television, hearings, and magazines and improve public relations for the region.
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Atlanta
James F. Byrnes
South Carolina
Southern Governors’ Conference
Byrnes
Southern Foundation
Herman Talmadge
Talmadge
Fielding Wright
Mississippi
Ens
Lee Byrnes
Steps Taken To Prevent Any New POW Uprising Like Koje
The State Department released five months of correspondence on prisoner of war safety after Red Cross criticism of Koje Island. It notes 81,000 prisoners moved to smaller, more manageable compounds in line with Red Cross recommendations, and cites UN debates over the Pongam deaths.
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Washington
State Department
Koje Island
International Red Cross Committee
Kose Island
Reds
Ais
Geneva
Pongam Island
Red
United Nations
New York
U. N
U. S
Pongam
Red Cross
Robert E. Ward Jr
Decatur Reports Local Record With Four Crashes
Four traffic wrecks in five hours set a local record in Decatur yesterday. Three crashes occurred in the afternoon and one early last night, damaging eight vehicles. A W Chapman, 69, sustained a knee injury in the night crash but avoided hospital care.
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Decatur
Plymouth
Studebaker
First Avenue
Grant Street
Carmen Taylor
Euel Thompson Jr
Alex Terry
A. W. Chapman
Seventh Avenue
Chapman
Second Street
T. Weatherly
Garland Nuby
Ford
Mercury
Bishop L. Gaines Jr
Girl Files Suit Over Connor Room Story Damages
Christina Brown 35 sues The Birmingham Post Herald and The Birmingham News claiming damaged reputation from Dec 21 1951 reports about finding with Police Commissioner Eugene Connor in a locked hotel room. She seeks 1 million dollars from The Post Herald and 800000 from The Birmingham News.
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Birmingham
Eugene Connor
Birmingham Post-Herald
Birmingham News
Christina Brown
U. S. District Court
Connor
Post-Herald
Early Christmas Eve Edition Notice From The Daily
The Daily will not publish on Thursday in observance of Christmas and will release an early Christmas Eve edition on Wednesday. All copy for Wednesday and Friday editions must arrive early Wednesday. Church announcements for Friday must be at The Daily by noon Wednesday as the office closes Wednesday afternoon.
Chest Campaign Closes With Shortfall Yet Budgets Stand
Decatur Community Chest board reports 1953 drive raised 37338.39 toward a 41000 goal, leaving 3761.61 unfunded. Deficit to be borrowed from reserve. Annual meeting set for January 20 with nominations for new Chest Board members. Retiring from the board are Mrs. Wm. D. Sims Jr., Hill Ferguson and Redus Collier. Current members continuing include William Wilder and others.
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Decatur
Community Chest Today
Chest Board
Chest Reserve Fund
Community Chest
Wm. D. Sims Jr
Hill Ferguson
Redus Collier
William Wilder
Quince Eddens
Jimmy Bloodworth
A. S. Kramer
Ned Frazier
Jimmy Rogers
Alvis Briscoe
John McGehee
Heads Of Firms May Be Indicted
A Brooklyn grand jury probing waterfront rackets indicated it could indict top shipping executives who knew about payroll padding. Twenty waterfront figures were arrested as part of a bid by the state crime commission to curb rackets in Brooklyn docks and protect a seven billion dollar shipping industry.
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New York
Brooklyn
New York State Crime Commission
Victim of Robbery Dials Phone With Tongue for Help
Giobatta Perrazo, 49, cafe owner in San Francisco, was bound by an armed masked intruder after a tall young woman asked to use the phone. He managed to dial with his tongue, knocked the receiver, and alerted the operator, as $4,000 was taken from a cash box.
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San Francisco
Giobatta Perrazo
Perrazo
Stricken liner Champollion reefed near Beirut amid deaths
Beirūt Lebanon reports say 14 to 30 crew and passengers died as 24 hours of terror ended. Fifty survivors swam ashore. ten others died when a lifeboat capsized. The liner lay aground on a reef 500 yards off shore with 108 passengers and 220 crew aboard.
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Beirut
Lebanon
Champollion
Marseille
Kenya
Allied jets clash with MIGs over Korea as POWs bombed
At 45 000 feet four Sabre jets clashed with eight MIGs. Lt. John A. Inf Watertown MA shot down a MIG on his 98th mission. Air Force and Marines bombed a troop concentration near Chaeryong and east airfield at Pyongyang. B 29s hit rail north to Manchuria. Chinese probes met light resistance along the frozen front.
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Seoul
John A. Inf
Watertown
Mass
Pyongyang
Clement Elevated to OPS Southeast Regional Director
Charles B Foots Clement former Alabama football star is named the regional director of the Office of Price Stabilization for the Southeast region announced today in Atlanta.
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Atlanta
Charles B
Foots) Clement
University of Alabama
Office of Price Stabilization
Southeast
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H. S. McKinney
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Day
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Thomas L. Washburn
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