Decatur Area Holiday Weather and Local Notices
Partly cloudy and cooler today with a milder southeast tonight. Decatur cotton quotes steady at 34.75 and 35.75. Christmas sermon at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church. Miller to attend AAAS meeting in Chicago. Local families travel for holidays. Weather bureau logs 58/34. Police court to try seven traffic and drunkenness cases. Hospitalized ill man from Helena. Red Cross emergency numbers listed. Births at Baugh’s and Decatur General. Fire department reports no fires. Local obituaries and visits noted.
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School Funds May Not Pay For Polls
Attorney General Albert Carmichael ruled that Decatur and its City Board of Education cannot use school funds to cover election costs for a proposed property tax levy. The expenses, about 350 dollars, must be paid by Morgan County, as the legislature intended, with the city election costs borne by the county for such elections.
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Decatur
Albert Carmichael
Walter Jackson
Jackson
A. R. Meadows
Meadows
Morgan County
City Board of Education
Associated Press
Carmichael
Christmas in Decatur Brims With Cheer and Hope
Tomorrow Decatur marks Christmas with gifts under trees and letters to Santa answered by dolls wagons and candy. Parents and organizations prepare baskets for strangers while residents anticipate family gatherings and a restful festive day after weeks of shopping and activity.
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Decatur
Santa Claus
Bethlehem
Yank Forces Quit Panama Evacuation Ordered After Pact Rejection
The United States drafted plans to evacuate about 2,000 troops from 14 Panama bases, including the B 29 Rio Hato facility, after Panama's assembly rejected a long term base rights agreement. Officials cite sovereignty and opposition to the pact, with evacuation to begin immediately and a fuller report requested on completion timelines. Senator Knowland and Representative Engel urged alternative canal routes.
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Norman Carignan
Washington
United States
Panama
Panamanian Assembly
Panama City
Capitol Hill
Knowland
Rcalif
Nicaragua
Engel
R-Mich
Rio Hato
Nation Prepares To Celebrate Yuletide
The nation readies for a third postwar Christmas with religious pageantry and good will. President Truman will broadcast greetings at 5 16 p m EST and the White House lights a large Christmas tree. Pardons restoring full citizenship rights are sent to 1523 wartime draft violators, chosen from 15805 names by an amnesty board. A fire yesterday ruined hundreds of Christmas packages aboard a Pennsylvania railroad car from New York to St. Lee.
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Associated Press
Prince of Peace
Executive
Truman
White House
New York-to-St
Europe
Bethlehem
Jesus
Palestine
Christ
Palace Cafe Sold to Local Builder in Decatur
The Palace cafe long in operation on Second Avenue Decatur has been purchased from Charles Beckas and Jimmy Coutsas by P. H. Vaughn a local grocery and coal businessman. The deal closed Tuesday afternoon with ownership passing this morning.
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Palace Cafe
North Alabama
Charles Beckas
Jimmy Coutsas
P. H. Vaughn
Second Avenue
Vaughn
Palace
New Decatur
Albany
Greater Decatur
Gus Beckas
Detroit
Charley Beckas
Coutsas
Beckas
Battered Simon Benson Reaches Honolulu in Rough Seas
The freighter Simon Benson arrives safely in Honolulu after heavy North Pacific seas battered the ship on its rice cargo voyage to the Orient. SOS sent December 15 reported split plates and water ingress. crew dumped part of the rice as seas calmed and the ship neared harbor. Captain Vernon McFadden of Portland, Oregon, commanded the vessel.
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Honolulu
Simon Benson
Benson
Orient
Vernon McFadden
Portland, Ore
Surviving Bandit Hunted in Texas
Bremond Texas December 24 a statewide search for the surviving gunman of a bank robbery reached new urgency as police fear he escaped a central Texas blockade. Francis Marion Hooper Jr 26 of Port Arthur and Belton faces robbery with firearms charges. His brother J B Hooper 22 was shot by Sheriff Bob Reeves of Franklin after the Bremond bank robbery.
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Bremond
Tex
Bremond State Bank
Texas
Francis Marion Hooper Jr
Port Arthur
Belton
J. B. Hooper
Bob Reeves
Franklin
Solon Avers 71 Officials Speculators
Rep Mackinnon says Agriculture Department knows of 71 local state and federal employees who traded on grain markets in September. He urges disclosure of names as Senate panels press for reports on government insiders using insider information to profit in commodity trading. The case involves Edwin W Pauley and other officials.
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Washington
Mackinnon
I. M. Mehl
Commodity Exchange Authority
Joint
Congressional Committee On the Economic Report
Mehl
Agriculture Department
Department of Agriculture
Anderson
Edwin W. Pauley
Army
Royall
State, Agriculture, Commerce and Interior Departments
Knowland
Minn
House
Senate
Pauley
White Christmas Seen Across Northeast As Snow Widens
Snow blankets parts of Southern Ohio to New England with depths from four to 16 inches. Heavy winds accompany the storm which forecasters say is moving out to sea. Fargo North Dakota reports 16 inches while Great Lakes and Dakotas stay white and cold.
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Associated Press
Ohio
Pennsylvania
New York State
New England
Fargo
N. C
Great Lakes
Minnesota
Dakotas
Ohio Valley
la Crosse
Wis
Plains
Mountain States
Rockies
Pacific Northwest
San Francisco
Idaho
Nevada
North Atlantic
Spirit of Christmas Told By a 13 Year Old
A 13 year old girl shares a Christmas message urging Americans to consider the hungry and cold in Europe. She asks readers to give food clothes and warmth rather than focus on personal gifts and to help others enjoy a merry Christmas.
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Europe
California Democrats Split Over National Committeeman Post
Senator Downey refuses to take over the California national committeeman post vacated by Edwin W. Pauley, leaving party leaders and James Roosevelt to bridge a rift. The split pits Pauley aligned supporters against a Roosevelt insurgent faction, with Wallace support and a potential third party bid looming.
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Washington
Downey
Calif
California
Edwin W. Pauley
Senate
Pauley
McGrath
R-Ri
James Roosevelt
Roosevelt
Truman
Brief Christmas Holiday at Alabama Hosiery Mills
Alabama Hosiery Mills employees enjoy a Christmas mid week break as the plant closes at noon and resumes December 29. Knitters return January 5. Plant manager L Lively notes a Christmas present for staff with at least six months service, a bonus of one and one half percent of total gross earnings for the 52 weeks ending November 30, 1947.
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Alabama Hosiery Mills
L. L. Lively
World Hails King as Nations Yearn for Peace in Christmas
Across the globe the world marks a third postwar Christmas amid war torn regions hunger and cold. Pope Pius XII urged sincerity in dealings while Palestine endures bloodshed and Europe faces austere times. In London miners receive honors and a German rail disaster leaves 39 dead and 100 injured near Heiligenhaus.
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Associated Press
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Greece
China
Indochina
Europe
Germany
Austria
Japan
Pius XII
Christendom
London
George VI
Heuwied
Spandau
Berlin
Rudolf Hess
Karl Doenitz
Erich Raeder
Constantin von Neurath
Albert Speer
Baldur von
Woman Wins Fight Over Tax Decision
The U S court ruled that a Texas boarding house operator could count $27 000 of her late husband’s estate as compensation for personal services and not be taxed on inheritance. The decision notes boarding houses are a common female enterprise with the husband often playing a minor role.
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Charles Molony
Washington
United States Tak Court
Texas
Hubby
Louise J. Neumann
Linton
Frank D. Neumann
Aid responses under way after distress calls over Atlantic
A Flying Fortress forced landed safely on a frozen river 95 miles north of Goose Bay Labrador after engine trouble. An American Seaboard plane and a U S Army Flying Fortress issued distress calls, with Canadian and American search forces sent from Goose Bay and Stephenville to locate the aircraft amid a developing blizzard.
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Westover Field
Mass
Air Transport Command
Goose Bay Dlabrador
Halifax
N. S
Atlantic
Gander
Newfoundland
U. S. Labrador
Gooseay
Shannon
Eire
U. S. Army
Stephenville
Mld
U. S
Royal Canadian Air Force
Goose Bay
Talks to Korea with poor connection during call
Mrs. E. P. Kingsbery spoke with her relative Mrs. Edward P. Crowe in Korea last night. Atmospheric interference hindered the messages, and the call, made Tuesday night here, arrived in Korea past noon Christmas Eve due to the international date line.
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E. P. Kingsbery
Edward P. Crowe
Korea
Writer Admits Not Good Girl in Santa Letter
A Baltimore post office received a letter to Santa Claus dated December 24 in which the writer confesses poor behavior and asks for gifts such as a record player or typewriter, ice skates, sled, washing machine, fur coat, or extra skates. The note reflects festive season hopes amid holiday spirit.
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Baltimore
Santa Claus
North Pole
Santa
County and City Clash Over Election Cost Claims
County Attorney Julian Harris questioned the county's liability for election costs, noting no claim had been presented. He said the Attorney General's opinion implies the city should bear the expense since it was a city election, and no action had been taken to collect from the county.
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Julian Harris
Harris
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