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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 26, 1952
Page
1
A compact feature highlights local happenings in Drlenale including community events, school activities, and public notices. Readers learn about neighborhood projects, volunteer opportunities, and upcoming meetings shaping the town’s social calendar.
Partly cloudy and cold with light coastal rain today and tonight with lower temperatures. Decatur hospital discharge of Theo Hill noted. Sheriff reports seven Christmas arrests including four for public drunkenness and two for vagrancy. one alias warrant. Highway patrol cites two reckless driving charges. Church sermon at Central Methodist on Sunday titled Opportunity Liability or Asset. College students to lead evening program. other services as scheduled. TVA contract awarded to Decatur Iron and Steel for strash racks worth 12000 with June 1953 delivery. Central Methodist senior board to meet Tuesday at 7:30. Robert B. Pooley Jr. to speak at First Presbyterian Sunday service. Nineteen cases on recorder’s court docket. mix of disorderly conduct and parking violations plus driving offenses. Navy seaman Billy J. Robbins, son of local residents, serving aboard USS 125. Twin brothers Hershel D. and Harlan B. Cramer home for Christmas. Mrs. R. A. Henderson and Lyn Rose admitted to Baugh-Wiley clinic. See Diary on Page 2.
Allied fighter bombers hit North Korean targets destroying 15 supply dumps six artillery positions 10 troop bunkers and 27 buildings. Bombs cut rail lines in 16 places and damaged a bridge as 16 Sabre jets and 16 MIG fighters collided near the Yalu border with no MIGs confirmed destroyed.
Western Europe eyes 1953 with belief Russia will hesitate to invade but keep the cold war active. Churchill and other leaders worry Kremlin aims at domination while U S general Ridgway warns Soviets may near strength to overrun Europe as Europe seeks a unified defense under Eisenhower era plans.
Washington lawmakers debate tax relief versus balancing the budget with three Republicans and one Democrat weighing in on timing and scale of income tax cuts. Reed plans about 5 percent next year and 11 percent over two years to offset Korea era hikes. Bridges Byrd and Not Tabor urge budget balance first.
United States headquarters in Heidelberg announces Maj. Gen. Lemuel B. Mathewson, Berlin commander, becomes commanding general of the U S zone of communications. Maj. Gen. Thomas S. Timberman, commander of the First U S Infantry Division, will assume the Berlin post on December 29.
Washington reports Eisenhower administration prompts Soviet Premier Stalin to offer concrete peace proposals. John Foster Dulles says any such ideas will be seriously received while noting diplomatic channels remain open. Skepticism follows Stalin’s Korea talks and warnings of Western aggression. See EISENHOWER on Page 2.
Washington previews a planned U N block of Red China and faster training for South Korean forces as core elements of a new Korea strategy under President elect Eisenhower and John Foster Dulles. Soviet reply questions era of potential peace moves and price.
Unconfirmed reports claim the $1 219 000 Brink's haul from the January 17 1950 robbery was hidden in safe deposit boxes across several banks by a Boston front man. The FBI did not comment while three Boston papers note a lawyer was chosen to secrete the cash and hire about 40 boxes nationwide.
James D Barker a police identification expert once hired by the Duke of Windsor to aid the 1943 Oakes murder case was shot and killed by his son James D Barker in Homestead Florida The son admitted the shooting and was jailed for investigation amid reports of ongoing father son feuding and prior divorce actions Also noted he had testified in a Nassau case and served as captain of the Miami Police Identification Bureau
House tax fraud investigators accuse the Treasury and Justice departments of failing to correct mistakes in tax collection. They propose broad inquiries into the Alcohol Tax Unit and the Justice Department tax division, arguing the latter lacks efficiency and may not set proper tax litigation policy.
A mixed group of Eastern women seeking Rosa Lee Ingram’s appeal to Gov. Herman Talmadge faced Georgia’s segregation laws when they arrived at his farm home. The delegation split by race with white women invited indoors then returning to wait in cabs. The group organized after a court ordered a Christmas day visit to Rosa Ingram at Reidsville prison.
William Reed Jr. 27 of Decatur is in critical condition after a car-truck collision near Cincinnati on Christmas travel from Cleveland. Lonnie Owen Thompson 30 of Russellville died on arrival at General Hospital. Willie F Howell of Tuscaloosa and Reed were trapped, then transported for treatment. Reed suffered multiple injuries including a fractured hip, broken shoulder, and jaw fractures.
President Truman issued full pardons for Andrew J. May former Kentucky congressman and longtime House Military Affairs chair and for J Parnell Thomas former New Jersey congressman who led the UnAmerican Activities Committee. The pardons restore citizenship rights.
Bonn reports say the Republican victory may trigger large cuts in the American and German staffs at the State Department in West Germany. Plans called for about 1,000 Americans and 5,000 Germans stationed in Bonn and the consulates general after sovereignty.
T. E. Williams 64 longtime Limestone County Bank president died at Athens Limestone hospital after a long illness. A South Alabama native and World War I veteran, he served as bank cashier from 1933 and became president in 1941. Survived by wife Margaret and six brothers, plus sisters and other relatives.
TOKYO Billy Graham praises US troops in Korea for high morals on the front lines. He notes no pinups but many Bibles and testaments and says soldiers welcomed his ministry and asked for more of this type work rather than stage shows.
The Christmas holiday death toll topped 300 with 251 auto fatalities since 6 p.m. Wednesday and 23 fire deaths plus 31 other accident deaths. As the long 102 hour weekend continued, authorities warned the toll would rise.
Patrolman E. M. Sanders reported a single Christmas accident in the Decatur area. A parked pickup on Buck Island Road one mile south of Salem was struck by a 1946 Ford driven by Cecil Lewis of Columbia Tennessee. the truck was on the wrong side with its light on. No injuries and about 450 dollars in damage.
The four day Christmas period in 1936 saw 555 traffic deaths as the toll ahead of midnight Sunday. Last year’s Christmas week end total was 789 with 535 in traffic. Dry weather across much of the country, with icy conditions in parts of the Midwest and Northeast, contributed to a high accident count. Chicago reported one of its worst 24 hour Christmas periods with around 1,300 accidents and more than a dozen fatalities, including four by hit and run drivers.
A Capital Trailways bus collided head on with a passenger car near Prattville Alabama. The car carrying Thomas Rhodes died in the crash while the bus toppled onto the wrecked vehicle. Six white bus passengers were injured and the driver Herbert Wilburn was unhurt.
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