Weather and military notices from Decatur area
Mostly cloudy with rain chances and warm spells described for the region. Local bureau reports a high of 49 and a low of 39 with shifting winds. Multiple discharge details include Sgt. George F. Dugger and Julius L. Standridge among Army veterans with Good Conduct Medals and ETO ribbons. Births, holiday visits, and church events noted, plus Navy and Marine service updates for Decatur residents and nearby towns.
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George F. Dugger
Decatur 2
Army
Threats Loom Over Nation's Labor Front
Two planned strikes threaten about 500000 electrical and telephone workers. CIO-UE leaders call a 200000 CIO walkout inevitable in Big Three plants. Western Electric dispute could trigger nationwide phone strikes. Westinghouse General Electric and General Motors face possible walkouts affecting 76 plants in 22 states with 100000 75000 25000 workers respectively. Public officials and NFTW involvement loom as talks continue and federal conciliators seek resolution.
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Associated Press
Electrical and Telephone Company
CIO
New York
Western Electric Company
New York-New Jersey
Westinghouse
General Electric
General Motors
United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers
Cio-Ue
Conpanies
Warren
NFTW
Western Electric Workers
Joseph A. Beirne
Federation
W. E. Group
Western Electric
Chicago
Baltimore
Haverhill
Mass
San Francisco
Detroit
General Motors Corporation
Washington
United Auto Workers
Final Days of Eighth Drive in Morgan County
Morgan County nears the end of the eighth war loan drive with 95 percent of the $641,000 series E bond goal subscribed. investments total $609,000, leaving $32,000 to raise by Friday night. The War Finance Committee urges small investors to buy bonds, noting 500 citizens could contribute $100 each to reach the goal. County chairman Barrett Shelton says Morgan has never failed in patriotic efforts and warns defeat would blemish the county’s record.
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Morgan County
County War Finance Committee
Barrett Shelton
Death by Own Action Reported at Birmingham Rooming House
Walter Carlson, 45, draftsman, died from a pistol wound in his rooming house in Birmingham. Coroner Joe Hildebrand stated death was self-inflicted. Carlson had been in ill health, and his condition was noted as an omen of distress.
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Birmingham
Walter Carlson
Joe Hildebrand
Joe W. Ervin
Charlotte
North Carolina
Washington
A. Magruder
Dixie Freight Rate Victory Is Delayed
The Interstate Commerce Commission halted indefinitely the planned class rate changes. A federal court injunction, issued in Utica New York, blocks a 10 percent rise in Northern and Eastern rates and a corresponding fall in the South and West. The ICC will align with the court order rather than implement the January 1 date.
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Dixie
Washington
The
Interstate Commerce Commission
ICC
Utica
N. Y
Truman to End Holiday in White House Campaign Move
President Truman wraps Christmas at home as he prepares a nation wide radio address in early January outlining labor and universal training proposals. He plans a state of the union message in person possibly televised from Capitol Hill. He also visited his mother Martha Truman and met Grandview Masonic lodge officials in Missouri.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Kansas City
Truman
Congress
Union
White House
Capitol Hill
Washington
Henry T. Myers
Martha E. Truman
Grandview
Grandview Masonic Lodge
Bomb blasts rock Jerusalem city center at night
Seven bombs exploded in central Jerusalem and two large blasts hit Tel Aviv. The criminal investigation department building in Jerusalem was damaged with people reported trapped as part of the structure collapsed. Traffic halted as troops and armored cars moved through the city.
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Jerusalem
Tel Aviv
Criminal Investigation Department
Collision Causes Slight Damage Near Decatur on Highway 20
A coupe driven by Thomas Campbell of Kansas City Missouri collided with Leslie Key of Decatur Negro seven miles west of Decatur on Highway 20 about 9 30 this morning. Key had stopped to check a downed tire when the crash happened, per state patrol. Damages were $50 to the Campbell car and $15 to Key's. no injuries reported.
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Thomas Campbell
Kansas City
Leslie Key
Decatur Negro
Decatur
Highway 20
Key
Highway Patrol
Regiment Reorganized in Korea to Rejoin Seventh Division
General MacArthur announced the 31st Infantry regiment, wiped out on Bataan in early 1942, will be reorganized in Korea around January 19 and attached to the Seventh Division, replacing the 184th regiment returning home.
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Tokyo
Bataan
MacArthur
Korea
Abducted by Escapees Near Pontiac Night Ride
Postmaster Horace Parrish and a postal clerk Helen Shillinger were abducted by two men from Pontiac who had escaped from jail. The pair forced them into Parrishs car then stopped near a tourist camp four miles north of Pontiac. Suspects J C Vyse and Charles Townsend 25 awaiting sentence for armed robbery of a Tyre post office.
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Sandusky
Mich
Horace Parrish
Pontiac
Roland L. Meredith
Parrish
J. C. Vyse
Charles Townsend
Samilac County
Vyse
Townsend
Tyre
Helen E. Shillinger
Girl Killed Delivering Christmas Gifts in Birmingham
Loretta Walters a 14 year old from Tarrant died in a traffic accident while delivering gifts to grandmothers in Robinwood and Ketona. She borrowed a bicycle from a cousin and was struck by a truck after delivering one gift. She died yesterday in a Birmingham hospital.
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Birmingham
Robinwood
Ketona
Loretta Walters
Tarrant
Gas blamed in Santa Barbara blast kills five
Gas accumulation was tentatively blamed for a blast that destroyed a bottling plant and an apartment house, killing five people and injuring five others. The dead include John D. Johnson, 45, his wife Rusty, 40, Mrs Francis Watson McCain, 26, Mildred Watson, 21, and Carolyn Sue Stovall, 8. The mother of the girl, Mrs Claude Stovall, was among the injured.
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Santa Barbara
Calif
John D. Johnson
Rusty
Francis Watson McCain
Mildred Watson
Carolyn Sue Stovall
Claude Stovall
Two youths held for robbery in Decatur and Hartselle
Police report two youths, 16 and 10, were held on robbery charges after being caught Wednesday night by Hartselle patrolmen and returned to Decatur. They confessed to multiple thefts including $441 in jewelry from Nunn's stores and two bicycles. Warrants to follow.
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J. B. Whitmire
Decatur
Hartselle
Martin and
McCutcheon
Whitmire
J. P. Dunlap
Thomas Ray Hames
West Court
Richard Wolaver
Joe Wolaver
West Church Street
Garrison Cleaners
Pleeze
Wallace
Alabama Gas Co
Singer Sewing Machine Co
Johnston Street
Nunn
People’s Hardware
Broderick
McCall
Parker
Accident Claims Teen In Missouri Car Crash
Robert Spalding, 18, former Tuscumbia resident, was killed in a car wreck at Caruthersville, Missouri, Monday night. He attended Deshler High School before his family moved to Caruthersville. relatives in Tuscumbia have been notified.
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Tuscumbia
Ala
Robert Spalding
Caruthersville
Deshler
Oldest Morgan County Resident Dies at 105
Morgan countys oldest resident R. R. Hall aged 105 died Wednesday morning at his sons home Percy Hall Somerville 2 He would have turned 106 on January 5 Funeral services set for 3 pm at Center Grove church Rev Dewitt Prince to officiate Burial in Center Grove cemetery Hall born January 5 1840 in Jefferson County was a longtime farmer and Baptist church member Survived by wife two daughters Ola Elsworth Charlesmont Mass and two sons Ira Moulton and Somerville 2
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R. R. Hall
Percy Hall
Somerville
Dewitt Prince
Center Grove
Mr. Hall
Jefferson County
Morgan County
Hall
The
Baptist Church
Ola Elsworth
Charlesmont
Mass
Rego Bhange Dare Ae
Ira Moulton
Men Trapped In Kentucky Mine Fire Hope Fades
Rescue crews fought to reach 300 to 50 men entombed by a coal mine explosion at Kentucky Straight Creek near Pineville. After 24 hours the number of trapped remained uncertain with officials estimating up to 50. Flames were found 3,100 feet from the entrance and experts feared most miners perished in the blast or from gas. Relatives waited at the mine entrance for updates as teams pushed toward the end of a 2.5 mile tunnel.
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Pineville
A. D. Sisk
Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company
Austin Hall
Code of Mine Field Keeps Crowd Stoic
Six coal and wood bonfires burned vigilantly on Black Mountain slope as 30 to 50 miners trapped by yesterday's underground explosion near the drift mouth of Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company at Four Miles Hollow. Relatives and friends watched in a calm vigil, awaiting word from rescue squads.
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Kyle Whitehead
Harlan
Daily Enterprise
Pinevisra
Black Mountain
Kentucky Straight Creek Coal Company
Four Miles Hollow
Bell County
Turks Draw Soviet Fire From Turkey's Parliament
Red Star cites Turkish editors and deputies threatening Russia as Turkey faces Soviet pressure. Tanin editor Husein Yalchin is labeled angredit of journalism, while Gen Kazim Karabekir warns of bloodshed if Russia presses territorial demands. Georgian Soviet proposals for a 180 mile Black Sea strip trigger Turkish anger amid Tehran reports of amnesty legislation for political prisoners.
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Moscow
Red Star
Russia
Husein Yalchin
Tanin
Agédit
Turkey
Kazim Karabekir
Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic
Black Sea
Kars
Ardahan
Anatolia
Tehran
Iran
Azerbaijan
Probers to Resume Job Hearings as Barkley Returns
The Pearl Harbor committee resumes search for a successor to William D. Mitchell as counsel. Barkley leads a sub committee to canvass candidates with Warren Atherton and Harry Colmery as options. Lucas urges witness allocation to speed hearings, though GOPs wary. Adm. Harold Stark is to testify when hearings resume Monday and Mitchell will continue until year’s end.
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William T. Peacock
Washington
Barkley
Pearl Harbor
William D. Mitchell
Kentucky
Lucas
Ill
Weymouth Kirkland
Chicago
Rep
Gearhart
Calif
Warren Atherton
Stockton
Harry Colmery
Topeka
Kas
American Legion
Illinois
Harold R. Stark
Naval Operations
Mitchell
THANKS GIVEN CARRIER BOYS
Philadelphia newspaper carrier boys, 937 papers, sold War Savings Stamps totaling 174,073,535 dollars since 1941 as part of the Victory loan effort. President Truman praised the program in a letter to Howard W. Stodghill, noting the men’s wartime service and the large yield for the Treasury.
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Philadelphia
U. S
Truman
Howard W. Stodghill
Philadelphia Evening Bulletin
Newsboy
Newspaper Boys
Treasury
Fred Vinson
Ted R. Gamble
Mary Astor Weds Thomas Wheelock in Arizona Quietly
Mary Astor famous film star and Thomas Wheelock of Chicago wed secretly the day before Christmas. The couple honeymooned in Arizona as friends and a studio were told of the marriage in a green telegram yesterday.
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Mary
Hollywood
Mary Astor
Thomas Wheelock
Chicago
Arizona
Chr
Miss Eer
Atomic control plan outlined by Big Three at Moscow talks
Secretary Byrnes said the United States, Russia and Britain agreed on handling the atomic question and four power rule for Japan with China. A London informant claimed a five year Korea trusteeship and joint administration of Japan. Final authority and council power remained unclear as details were pending in Washington Moscow and London.
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London
Byrnes
Moscow
Japan
United States
Russia
Great Britain
Korea
China
Washington
Douglas MacArthur
Oan
Foreign Consurates
Ral
Ernest Bevin
Crest
Romania
Hungary
Bulgaria
Finland
Italy
United Nations General Assembly
Britain
Canada
France
United Nations Security Council
Atomic Control Commission
General Assembly
Agreement on Atom Handling Reached by Big Three
U S Secretary Byrnes announced at the tri power talks in Moscow that the United States Soviet Russia and Great Britain have reached an agreement on the atomic question along with other world peace issues. The details will be released simultaneously from Moscow Washington and London. He noted improved relations among the Big Three and said the accord signals broader future diplomatic avenues after the wartime alliance.
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Eddy Gilmore
Moscow
United States
Soviet Russia
Great Britain
U. 8
James F. Byrnes
Japan
Raw
Byrnes
Washington
London
Reac
Stats
Vyacheslav Molotov
Ernest Bevin
Aaare
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Sherman Woodall
Decatur 1
Armory
Ernest Templeton
Janice
Ada Claire Templeton
Earl Riggs
Joe Toone
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J. D. Baker
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Hollis Myers Baker
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Methodist Fellowship of Evangelism
B. W. Hogan
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Naval Servie
Civil Readjustment Office
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Reaman
Tancred Betts Jr
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Rural Grove Baptist Church
Hale Dutton
Memphis
Tenn
Franklin Dutton
Jim Speakman
Decatur S
Lewis Logan
Marsh
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W. M. Dwier
Ken Reynolds
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