Reds To Lead In Manpower
Washington reports that even with a 3.5 million man U S armed force, the Soviet Union will hold a manpower edge into the near future. Russia may have about 4.5 million troops now, with expansion likely, while U S forces total around 2.27 million today and could rise to 3.5 million. Estimates outline Army, Air Force, Navy, and Marines totals and expansion methods via reservists recruits and draft.
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Washington
Dec
Truman
U. S
Soviet Russia
U.S.S.R
Russia
United States
Army
Air Force
Navy
Red Fleet
Red Ground
Europe
Toll of holidays climbs in traffic and fires across states
National Safety Council predicted 440 traffic deaths over a 78 hour holiday period, with Los Angeles reporting record traffic and drunk driving arrests. Fires claimed several lives including a family in Crystal Lake and eight nearby incidents, while six National Guardsmen died in a Booneville armory explosion. State tallies show wide dispersion of fatalities across California, Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, and others.
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National Safety Council
Associated Press
Los Angeles
Amarillo
Tex
Crystal Lake
Wis
National Guardsmen
Booneville
Miss
California
Colorado
Connecticut
Georgia
Idaho
Illinois
Iowa
Kansas
Louisiana
Glimpses of Your Community in Local Pages
A compact look at neighborhood events and features from the town’s pages. Highlights include local meetings, school activities, upcoming fairs, and community notices shaping daily life.
Christmas Holiday Messages Across Decatur Area
Local residents and families are visiting relatives across Alabama during Christmas. Sentences note service members home on leave, births, hospital discharges, travel plans to Birmingham and Atlanta, and community notices including a building permit and court cases. Notable names include Floyd White Danville Avery Safley Montgomery and families from Knoxville Richmond and Murphytown.
Truman Likely To Get Most Bills In Lame Duck Session
President Truman stands a better than even chance to secure most of his postwar program in the closing days of the 82nd Congress. House and Senate action awaited after holiday recess with key items on emergency powers and the railway labor act needing final action.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
Senate
Alaska
Hawaii
House
82Nd Congress
Mr. Truman
Senate Executive Expenditures Committee
New tax plan and NPA move to curb essential materials in 1951
The National Production Authority will start defining essential versus non essential items before New Year and issue orders next week. It will bar non essential uses of copper and brass across many goods, from caskets to door hinges, with substitutes encouraged. Similar limits on aluminum steel and tin follow in coming months as a broad mobilization takes effect January 1.
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Bute
NPA
Civilia
Notable Guests Slated for Annual Meeting Attendance
Out of town and local dignitaries expected at the annual meeting include Chemstrand President Osborne Bezanson and Mrs. Bezanson, F W Koster and Mrs. Koster, railway officials from Southern and L N, Carnation and Goodyear executives, Ingalls Shipbuilding leaders, Tool Engineering Service and Associated Industries heads, State and Alabama chamber figures, and Decatur leader Jim Rankin among the notables.
Christmas mood in Europe masks wartime fears and price hikes
Across Western Europe holiday commerce rose despite inflation while fear of conflict lingered. England and France saw strong spending on food toys and drink, West Germany aided the needy with gifts, and Rome and Paris enjoyed keen shopping. In East Europe, communist regimes pushed anti Christmas rhetoric as Yugoslavia and Bulgaria tightened control.
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Europe
Czechoslovakia
West Germaey
Netherlands
Britain
France
Italy
London Daily Express
West Germany
England
Ivan Ivanovich
Rome
Paris
English Channel
London
Trafalgar Square
West
East Germany
Stalin
Hungary
Bulgaria
National Assembly
Marshal Tito
Yugoslavia
Weekend Quiet in Valley as Sheriff Reports Low Crime
Valley sheriff offices report a calm weekend with Morgan county listing 11 arrests from Friday and Saturday, including two for intoxication and one for disorderly conduct. Decatur city police add two intoxications and one for disorderly conduct, while Limestone notes a prohibition violation and three jailed for petty descrimination. Cullman county calls the period notably quiet.
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Morgan County
Decatur
Limestone
P.d
Cullman County
Court Records Reveal Ter ry Sentencing and Pardon
In Moulton, Terry received a 15 year sentence for the shotgun slaying of his brother in law Buck Adair in August 1948. He pleaded not guilty by reason of insanity and testified about family tensions. Adair had been paying Terry's wife, and witnesses said Terry waited at a relative’s house before Adair arrived. The appeal was withdrawn on December 18 and a sentence execution ordered by Circuit Judge James H. Crew Jr. A pardon for the two year sentence came the same week as the order to serve.
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James H. Crew Jr
Moulton
Terry
Inlaw
Buck Adair
Adair
Cook
Laverne Harris
Ida
Harris
Barfield freed on 5 day parole from Alabama prison
Mrs J H Barfield once Birmingham welfare worker convicted of theft of about 60000 welfare funds was released on a five day temporary parole in Montgomery. Prison officials gave conflicting statements about her whereabouts and parole approval.
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Montgomery
Ala
J. H. Barfield
Birmingham
Frank Boswell
Julia Tutwiler
State Women’s Prison
Will A. Austin
Wetumpka
Barfield
Howell Turner
Calvin Pearson Sentenced to Ten Years in Prison
Calvin Pearson, age 23, was sentenced to ten years in prison on a first offense. The case details indicate a conviction for a de offender-related crime.
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Calvin Pearson
Christmas Across the World and Truman’s Holiday Flight
The piece describes New Year and Christmas observances with Grandfather Frost in the Soviet Union and Orthodox Christmas on January 6. It notes pilgrims crossing from Jerusalem to Bethlehem for midnight mass and Christians in Nazareth attending services. It mentions Americans facing Christmas amid Korea, with Truman traveling to Independence, Missouri, for a family holiday as others head home.
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Grandfather Frost
Santa Claus
Soviet Union
Holy Land
Jerusalem
Bethlehem
Israel
Nazareth
Galilee
Mary
Gabriel
Korea
Truman
Washington
Independence
Margaret
U S mobilizes as allies rush to build vast defenses
The nation faces tense risk as policy shifts of the past ten days translate into a broad buildup of forces in Europe and Asia. Officials warn of uncertain Soviet aims while the United States commits to a course across Western Europe Korea the Pacific and the Western Hemisphere.
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Europe
Russia
Asia
U. S
Korea
Pacific
Western Hemisphere
West
Walker Son Remembers Father's Army as MacArthur Reacts
Eighth Milburn informs Capt. Sam Sims Walker that this remains his father's army after Walker's death in Korea. MacArthur mourns the loss, stressing its impact on the U S and allies amid ongoing UN ceasefire talks. Chinese radio denounces the UN plan, while MacArthur cites large new North Korean and Chinese forces massing on the peninsula.
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Milburn
Walker
Sam Sims Walker
U. S. 24Th
Sam
MacArthur
Peiping
United Nations
Korea
U. N
Red
Tokyo
Chou En: Lai
United States
Manchuria
Fourth Field Army
North Korea
Pardons and parole stir Alabama prison controversy
An Associated Press bulletin reports 95 prisoners released from Alabama prisons in a record exodus with 90 paroled and five later pardoned. Board chair Howell Turner compiles names amid criticism for releasing G. B. Parsons, a 25 year sentence for 1947 jewelry store looting, and for other cases including William J. Houston and Herbert Davis.
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Associated Press
Alabama
Howell Turner
Glen Vinson
Pardon and Parole Board
G. B. Parsons
Birmingham
Parsons
Bill Drinkard
William J. Houston
Montgomery
Herbert Davis
Houston County
James Durwood Blackshear
Dale County
Yale pioneers football signaling and gear milestones
Yale introduced signals in 1882, the tackling dummy in 1890, and cleats in 1890, marking early innovations in football technique and equipment.
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Yale
NO PAPER MONDAY
The Daily will not publish on Monday Christmas Day to let staff enjoy the day at home.
Decatur Market Prices For Cotton Corn And Livestock
Decatur market notes show Middling cotton at 42.00 cents, cottonseed at 100 dollars per ton, broilers 22 cents delivered, hens 20 to 24 cents delivered, eggs 80 cents per dozen. Wheat 2.41, Ear Yellow Corn 1.57, No 2 Ear White 1.52, No 3 Ear White 1.47, No 2 Oats 90 cents, No 2 Mile 2.05, with corn and other grains listed at specific moisture basis.
Wall Street Highs Dominate Week With Broad Market Gains
Wall Street closed a volatile week at a 20 year high as investors snapped up millions of shares. The market posted strong gains with key rails and big names like General Motors Chrysler and U S Steel leading advances while profit taking on Thursday tempered the rally. The week saw heavy volume and a total paper value rise of about 1.5 billion with a longer term gain near 20 billion since last June.
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New York
Automobile
N.Y. Central
Missouri-Kansas-Texas
Lackawanna
Pennsylvania
Radio Corp
International Telephone
U.S Steel
Alleghany Corp
Pepsi- Cola
Pan American Air
American Airlines
Sunray Oil
Kaiser-Frazer
Raytheon Mfg
Pancoastal Oil
Fairchild
Goldfild Consolidated Mines
12 Year Old Boy Held For Slaying Of Kinsman At Mobile
In Mobile suburb Springhill a 12 year old boy shot and killed his stepfather Herman M Miller 33. Police said the boy fired six shots after his mother said he acted to protect her. Miller died from three bullet wounds one in the head. No charges filed yet as investigation continues.
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Mobile
Ala
Bob Matthews
Springhill
Herman M. Miller
Two Reporters Confined Over Walker Death Disclosure
U S correspondents Peter Webb of United Press and Kenneth Kantor of NBC were briefly confined to their billets at Eighth Army HQ Korea after an premature disclosure of Lt General Walton H Walker's death. Restrictions were lifted at 8 AM as the investigation continued.
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U. S
Eighth Army
Korea
U.S
Walton H. Walker
Peter Webb
United Press
Kenneth Kantor
National Broadcasting Company
Robert L. Thompson
Walker
Thompson
Jack Westbrook
Webb
Seoul
Tokyo
Kantor
NBC
Westbrook
MacArthur
Gas Service Change Delayed To Ensure Proper Testing
Natural Robson urged city officials that a weekend change would be too rushed to test lines properly. Pride supported the delay to allow full testing and avoid Christmas crew disruptions. Robson noted Wolverine has propane supply until the switch. Pride said domestic service will begin after odorizing equipment is installed and current customers will keep service.
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Robson
Pride
Wolverine
Gas Department
All Aliens Must Be Registered
Washington reports that all aliens in the United States except temp orary residents must report to the government within ten days after January 1. They must notify the immigration and naturalization commissioner of their addresses with annual follow up reports. Noncompliance risks prosecution. forms are available at immigration offices or post offices.
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Washington
United States
Commissioner of Immigration and Naturalization
Immigration Service
Immigration and Naturalization Service Office
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Joe
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Joe Pettey
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Olee McCulloch
Russellville 7
William D. Green
Dillard Green
Roger's Ville 1
Hamil Clinic Hospital
N. B. Wood, Jr
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Lutie Russell
Atlanta
Dewoody Wilkinson
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Fort Campbell
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Chanute Air Force Base
Mrs Colin Moses
M. L. Kingsmore
Endlam Boulevard
Don Morris
Murphy, N. C
T. W. Morris
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Fifth Avenue
Jesse Elkins
Laura Elkins
Sheffield
Floyd Elkins
Robert Coleson
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W. E. Kilgore
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Henry Ford Adams
Margaret Virginia
Clara Alice
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Oscar Tedford
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C. H. Day
Anniston
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Bill Jr
Virginia
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D. D. McGehee
East Vine
John D. Dooley
John McGehee
T. W. Schuessler
Tommy Jr
Auburn
Etoile Davis
Guntersville
Roland Moses
Joe H. Scott
Hartseller
E. C. Chandler
E. S. Towe
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Percy Hodgson
Rotary International
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Mrs. Barfield
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William D. Horgan
William J. Waugh
Culver
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