Fatal Stabbing After Dance Fight in Marshall County
Vernon G. Edwards died after a dispute at Hog Jaw in western Marshall County when Finis Freeland stabbed him in the collar region severing the jugular. Freeland is jailed in Guntersville on first degree murder charges with no bond. Edwards, a World War II veteran, left a wife and three year old daughter. funeral set for New Canaan at 2:00 p.m. Tuesday.
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Marshall County
Cullman
Vernon G. Edwards
Finis Free
Edwards
Hog Jaw
Freedland
Freeland
Joppa Cutoff
Cullman County
Glenda Sue
New Canaan
Guntersville
Fire destroys corner furniture store in Decatur
A Monday morning blaze gutted the Green and Stein furniture store at the corner of LaFayette and Vine streets. Firefighters from Athens Huntsville and Decatur fought the flames. damage estimated at about 50 000 with the building and stock a complete loss. No injuries reported though Chief Elkins narrowly escaped as the wall collapsed. Plan to rebuild at the same site. Office and sign business damaged. insurance covered about one third.
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Elkins
Green and Stein
Athens
Huntsville
Fire Clecats
Green
Stevie
Dix
Bank Street
C. G. Sims
Ninth Street East
Sign Company
Sam Hobbs
Brown
Joe
Daily
Stein
Sorber
W. H. “Sox
Vine Street
Jim Robinson
Joe Brazelton
Paul Kilgore
K. B. Robinson
A. D. Terry
Sherrill Weir
Bill Mayfield
Bob Wells
Joe Henson
Mike Namie
Frank Namie
Clouse McRae
Harold Whitmire
O. D. Smith
Quince Eddens
Ingalls
Elevator Blast Burns Minneapolis Grain Elevator
A blast in the Brooks Elevator Corporation cupola sparked a fire that destroyed an estimated 1,000,000 bushels of grain in Minneapolis. Flames rose 35 feet as the roof collapsed and the interior burned, with fourteen workers reported to have escaped unharmed.
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Minneapolis
Brooks Elevator Corporation
Irteen
Fire damages and losses across downtown storefronts
A fire damaged the Economy Auto Store and a sign company located over it destroying paint supplies, neon tubing, and a drum of lacquer thinner could have caused major damage if it exploded. The Economy Auto Store suffered water and fire damage to front goods while back goods were water damaged. ceiling collapsed and no entry allowed. Fire crews and volunteers battled the blaze as the three story brick structure, built in 1898, burned with several prior occupants noted.
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Sign Company
Sims
Marjorie Irwin Tucker
Economy Auto Store
David White
Roxy Theatre
Market Quiet On Wall Street Amid Mixed Recoveries
Stocks showed selective gains but many leaders stayed down as trading slowed to around 500 000 shares. Recoveries came from tax related buying and hopes for a year end reinvestment rally while wage disputes and anticipated deflationary trends kept sentiment cautious. Bonds were steady and most commodities declined.
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New York
De Gaulle declines candidacy for France presidency
Paris dispatch reports General Charles de Gaulle announcing he will not run to lead the Fourth Republic. A Versailles election is set for January 16, with polls showing only 34 percent favoring his return and 53 percent opposed.
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Robert C. Wilson
Paris
Charles de Gaulle
France
Versailles
Popular Republican Movement
de Gaulle
Jean D'Arc
England
Roosevelt
Churchill
MRP
Georges Bidault
Public
Gen. de Gaulle
Labor views shape postwar Wagner Act debate
Senators and leaders weigh labor policy as unions and management face new postwar conditions. Irving M. Ives cites sympathy arbitral methods while Spessard Holland urges government safeguards to prevent strikes. Sparksman supports Smith Connally era veto battles and Thye may align with Stassen on Wagne r Act revisions targeting unfair labor practices.
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Irving M. Ives
R-N. Y
Ives
CIO
Spessard L. Holland
D-Fla
John J. Sparkman
D-Ala
Roosevelt
Edward J. Thye
R-Minn
Harold E. Stassen
Minnesota
Stassen
Columnist visits Milledgeville asylum ranks with the worst
New York columnist Albert Deutsch reports in PM that Georgia Milledgeville state hospital for the insane ranks among the poorest U S mental hospitals. He toured the facility with state cooperation after prior denial and found physical conditions in need of extensive improvement and overall medical standing among the worst in the country.
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New York
Albert Deutsch
Georgia Milledgeville State Hospital For
Deutsch
Milledgeville
Navy to Rescue Paris as Indochina Crisis Deepens
France mobilizes a naval squadron to the Indochina coast. Viet Nam convoys head toward Hanoi amid France’s long, fierce effort to reclaim its empire.
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Paris
France
Indochina
Hanoi
Viet Nam
Youths Questioned in Vincent Store Shooting
Sheriff L T Bozeman questioned four youths in the death of former state Rep J F McGraw at his Vincent general store. The youths were arrested near the victim’s wrecked automobile and taken to Shelby county jail. deputies said their ages ranged up to 22.
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Columbiana
Ala
L T. Bozeman
J. F. McGraw
Vincent
Shelby County
Six Lynchings Reported in 1946 Across Three States
Tuskegee Institute president Dr. F D Patterson released the 33rd annual lynching report noting six Negroes died in 1946 in Mississippi Georgia and Louisiana. He cited peak years and listed four borderline cases and 17 thwarted lynching attempts with law officers and others preventing them. Indictments were returned in Mississippi and Louisiana but no convictions yet.
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Tuskegee
Ala
F. D. Patterson
Tuskegee Institute
Department of Records and Research
Mississippi
Georgia
Louisiana
Patterson
Local Holiday Visits Mix of Morgan County Families
Morgan County Pleasant View residents share family visits over Christmas weekend. Numerous relatives travel between homes including Turrentine, Kelley, Hogan, Williams, Little, Yates, Tucker and Dotson households.
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Morgan County
Pleasant View
Lorene Turrentine
Report Criticizes Wartime Maritime Spending Handling
A committee counsel released a report condemning the wartime accounting of the Maritime Commission and the War Shipping Administration as unsound and chaotic. It critiques the billion dollar shipping program and reflects findings after extensive hearings.
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Washington
Maritime Commission
War Shipping Administration
House Merchant Marine Committee
Marvin Coles
Lt Mooney Joins Operation High Jump Antarctic Trip
Lt Robert R Mooney of 1802 Seventh Ave South takes part in Operation High Jump Admiral Byrd 1947 return to the Antarctic. He serves as first lieutenant on the destroyer USS Brownson with Task Force 68 with 13 ships prepared for sub zero operations. Mooney a McClure Virginia native, Naval Academy graduate, married with one daughter Carol.
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U. S. Army
Robert R. Mooney
Seventh Avenue South
Admiral Byrd
Antarctic
Mooney
Brownson
McClure
Naval Academy
Pensacola
Carol
Hair snipper terror plagues Washington streetcars
Police hunt a 'Jack The Clipper' thief who snipped hair from several young women on Washington streetcars. Victims aged 12 to 21 report missing braids and curls on Connecticut Avenue and Pennsylvania Avenue lines as plainclothes detectives pursue the unnamed culprit.
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J. W. Davis
Washington
Jack the Clipper
Harvey G. Gallahan
Diane Sklarsky
Laura Coe
Jeanne Thompson
Connecticut Avenue
Janice Rome
Pennsylvania Avenue
Joan Reid
Winfred Overholser
St. Elizabeth's Mental Hospital
Pat Withrow to Preach in City at Central Baptist
Pat Withrow, superintendent of the Union Gospel Mission in Charleston West Virginia, will open a series of services at Central Baptist church today. He runs a mission occupying a city block with a tabernacle camps and an orphan home.
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Pat Withrow
Union Gospel Mission
Charleston
W. Va
Central Baptist Church
Withrow
Trains Collide Near Raleigh Injuring 14
A head on collision between a Southern Railway passenger train and a freight train at Auburn eight miles east of Raleigh N C left at least 14 injured none seriously Hospitalized victims included Mrs David Worrell of Pikesville Ray Kirby 7 of Burlington and Eva Peterson a Black resident of Dur .
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Raleigh
N. C
Southern Railway
Auburn
David Worrell
Pikesville
N.C
Ray Kirby
Burlington
Eva Peterson
Dur
GOP Row Near Climax in 80th Congress Battle
The Republicans clash over committee posts in a tense Senate and House scramble as Taft Dewey factionalism and leadership bids shape the party. Democratic leaders brace for power loss after 14 years while the session opens with focus on ousting Bilbo and peacetime program plans.
Bilbo hearings delayed by senate committee clash
Ferguson said he abandoned his request for free hearings as the subcommittee of Hickenlooper Mead and Tunnell met. Hickenlooper asked Ellender to move the special senate campaign investigating committee meeting to Monday afternoon. The panel, which conducted Mississippi hearings on Bilbo s alleged voter intimidation, planned to finish its report then but faces a republican conference. Bridges and Hickenlooper anticipate a minority report. Ellender Thomas Maybank plan to back Bilbo.
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Senate
Ferguson
Mead and Tunnell
Hickenlooper
Iowa
Ellender
D-La
Special
Senate Campaign Investigating Committee
Mississippi
Bilbo
Bridges
R-Nh
Elmer Thomas
D-Okla
Maybank
D-Sc
Downs Motor Co. Manager Deadwyler Deadly Driving Death Scrutiny
Friends testify Deadwyler was not intoxicated at death time. The Deadwyler case centers on wreck details after he, manager of Downs Motor Co., faced charges of reckless driving and driving while intoxicated and was jailed.
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Deadwyler
Downs Motor Co
Connor
City
Two Crew Members Killed in Michigan City Plane Crash
An American Airlines extra section flight from Buffalo to Chicago crashed near Michigan City Indiana. Pilot Frank Mates Hamm Jr. of Bridgeport Connecticut and co pilot Harmon Edwin Ring of Muscatine Iowa died. Nineteen others injured. The craft struck trees near the International Friendship Gardens three miles east of the city.
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Michigan City
Ind
American Airlines
Here
Airlines
Buffalo
N. Y
Chicago
Lake Michigan
Scenic International Friendship Gardens
Frank Mates Hamm Jr
Bridgeport Conn
Harmon Edwin Ring
Muscatine
Admits Car Theft at Goodyear Mill Scene
J. D. Hamilton and William Lewter signed confessions admitting the theft of a Buick from the Goodyear Mill at the end of Sherman Street several weeks ago. Chief B. Whitmire said the car was wrecked in Athens later. City patrolmen Parker, Hunter, and Whitmire arrested Hamilton. Lewter had been arrested earlier. The vehicle belonged to Woodrow Jackson of Elkmont.
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J. D. Hamilton
William Lewter
Goodyear Mill
Sherman Street
B. Whitmire
Athens
HK. Parker
W. C. Hunter
Hamilton
Whitmire
Lewter
Parker
Hunter
Woodrow Jackson
Elkmont
Community Glimpses and Local Visits Over Holidays
Senator John J. Sparkman spent Friday with sister Grace Curry and her husband in Hartselle. Funeral services for J. Han Hays of Birmingham were attended by Mr. and Mrs. Tom Ratliff and others who were called home Christmas Day. Various local families hosted or visited relatives over the holidays, including hospital trips and births at Decatur General.
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Senator John J. Sparkman
Mrs
Grace Curry
Mr. Curry
Hartselle 3
Tom Ratliff
J. Han Hays
Birmingham
Hays
Joe M. Renneker
Joan
Decatur General Hospital
Heavy snows and cold sweep wide region
The Associated Press reports heavy snows, high winds, and subzero temperatures across the northern half of the nation. Central Michigan fatalities from wind damage, disrupted service in Ithaca, Mackinac ferry interruptions, record warm in Detroit, and blizzards in Utah and Maine accompany forecasts of fluctuating Midwest and New York conditions.
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Associated Press
Michigan
Ithaca
Mackinac Straits
Detroit
U. S. Weather Bureau
Chicago
Utah
Utah Valley
Wasatch Mountains
Illinois
Indiana
Midwest
Weather Bureau
New York State
Maine
North Dakota
Montana
Minnesota
Gulf
Pacific Coast
Orchestra to Aid Special Program for Purple Heart Veterans
Montgomery's orchestra has been obtained to aid in presenting a special program for Purple Heart veterans at Decatur senior high school auditorium at 7 o'clock Monday night. Butler P. A. Hine reports the event will feature outstanding talent with cast and honored guests afterward at the Greystone Cafe. All World War I and II veterans are invited, with Purple Heart wearers and Gold Star mothers seated in a special section.
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Montgomery
Decatur Senior High
Butler P. A. Hine
Hine
Greystone Cafe
Mrs. H. E. Walker Dies at Home
Mrs. H. E. Walker, 67, died at 4 30 Saturday at her home 106 Seventh Avenue West after a week of illness. Survived by husband, daughters Dorothy Lambert, two sons Herbert and Charles Walker, sister Mrs. J. Kreher Brooklyn N Y, brothers J. J. Robinson and W. T. Robinson Jersey City N J, and two granddaughters. Funeral arrangements by Brown's to be announced.
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H. E Walker
Avenes
Seventh Avenue West
Dorothy Lambert
Herbert
Charles Walker
J. Kreher
Brooklyn
N. Y
J. J Robinson
W. T. Robinson
Jersey City
N. J
Brown's
Bennett Reassures Parents From Tokyo After Earthquake
Pvt. Tom A. Bennett phoned his parents Mr. and Mrs. BE Bennett of Hartselle to say he was uninjured in the recent quake. He requested friends write to him at his APO address in San Francisco.
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Tom A. Bennett
BE. H. Bennett
Hartselle
Tokyo
Bennett
Thomas A. Bennett
Ord. M. M. Co
APO
Cio
San Francisco
Calif
Senators clash over universal military training plans
Senators Elbert D. Thomas and Edwin C. Johnson warned they will oppose any compulsory universal training in a new Congress. Both argued the plan is outdated and wastes resources, while President Truman pushes for a six month basic program and a citizen reserve. The War and Navy Departments favor initial training and Reserve Officers Association backs unification of services.
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Edwin B. Harkinson
Washington
Dec
Elbert D. Thomas
Dutah
Edwin C.johnson
Dcolo
Ig 3
Congress
Thomas
Johnson
Truman
Commission On Universal Training
White House
Thomas-Johnson
Senate Military Committee
Army
Navy
War and Navy Departments
Aa “Citizens Reserve
House Military Committee
Reserve Officers Association
Armed Services
Georgia Legislatures Faces Governor Election Rift
Thompson urges lawmakers to declare last November’s election results to avoid confusion and ensure succession. Talmadge supporters claim 155 pledges for Herman Talmadge as Governor and vow to expand state services while restoring the white primary and county unit system.
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Thompson
Herman Talmadge
Mobile liquor dealers protest license fee rise
A group of Mobile retail liquor dealers filed a petition with 17 signatures against increasing liquor sales licenses from 100 to 750 dollars yearly. The change, part of a citywide schedule for 1947, aims to raise about 100000 dollars annually. Mayor R C Herndon said the objection would be considered.
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Mobile
Ala
City Commission
City Protective
R. C. Herndon
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East Lafayette Street
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Austinville
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