30 Dec 1947
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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Dec 30, 1947
Page
1
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The Decatur area reports a cloudy afternoon with regional warmth, while the cotton market quotes middling at 36 cents and strict low at 35. Local enlistment announced for Raymond Aday in the signal corps for three years. Several social visits and events noted including university faculty at home, retailers closing for a day, and upcoming meetings at the Community House. Multiple private visits, travel plans to the Sugar Bowl, and Salvation Army toy-shop letter notices are mentioned along with church services and ambulance moves.
Decatur Iron and Steel Co. awarded a 47025 contract for all structural steel decking and brackets for the new high school stadium. Disco was the low bidder among three. Virginia Bridge and Ingalls bid higher. The seating will hold 6100 across 30 rows along the West side, using 225 tons of steel with delivery in late spring.
At the international war crimes tribunal in Tokyo the former Japanese premier Hideki Tojo, previously silent during a lengthy deposition, snapped at questions calling certain statements stupid and inconceivable. He rejected interpretations of imperial orders about navy and army cooperation, saying he never imagined such a division and never heard of proposing a navy minister to blindly follow him.
Attorney General Albert Carmichael ruled that four million dollars in bonds sold for the Mobile docks expansion program are legal investments for state trust funds. The bonds were issued by the state docks department under a 1947 legislative act, the ruling stated.
Rep Rankin of Mississippi outlined aims for the new session including safeguarding the Tennessee Valley Authority from private power interests and securing funds to begin the Tennessee Tombigbee waterway. He also intends to block moves to abolish segregation and the poll tax and to support rural electrification.
U Saw former prime minister of Burma was sentenced to death by a Burmese special tribunal for abetting the murder of U Aung San and other ministers last July. Eight co-defendants were also sentenced to die. Ba Nyun was acquitted after turning state's evidence.
Fred Stewart, superintendent at the Tennessee Valley substation Belle Mina, named man of the year in service to Alabama agriculture in Progressive Farmer. The Valley substation, praised for crop variety research and plant food experiments, runs a 12 month grazing program that boosted milk production without grain.
New York reports a forecast light snowfall for tomorrow as the city digs out from Friday's record 25.8 inch storm. Forecasters say the new storm will be brief and weaker, bringing colder temperatures and high winds. Mayor O'Dwyer notes 30,000 snow-removal workers and 2,486 machines aiding the effort.
A petition to disqualify the Georgia supreme court was circulated at the state capitol amid a Democratic Party leadership dispute. The drive seeks to remove the seven justices as part of a feud between James S. Peters and William S. Morris over party control aligned with Governor M. E. Thompson. The case, argued Jan. 13, stems from a ruling placing party machinery with the Peters/Talmadge faction.
The Decatur DeMolay chapter hosts the state conclave with about 90 boys from Mobile Birmingham Gadsden Cowdery Tuscumbia Florence Huntsville Scottsboro and Decatur attending Delegates lodge at local hotels and homes A torch light parade is held and officers are installed at a morning session Don Anderson Donald Smith John Dobson Clyde Anderson are elected to key posts with a banquet and dance scheduled at the Armory and nearby venues
Funeral services for Benjamin C Poole a long time Decatur oil dealer and former chief deputy sheriff will be held Wednesday at 3 p m at Central Methodist church with Rev G M Davenport officiating Interment at Roselawn cemetery Brown s directing The death occurred at Highland Baptist hospital in Birmingham He was widely known in North Alabama business circles and was a Mason Surviving are his widow one son Enoch seven grandchildren including J B Willard and Billie Sherrod four brothers two sisters and two step children The cortege will leave 501 E Church at 2 40 p m Wednesday
In Nome Alaska on December 30 1946 six of eight crewmen aboard a crashed B 29 were rescued thanks to the actions of two Alaska bush pilots. Five missing crewmen remain feared dead in the Seward Peninsula.
President Truman signed a hastily prepared duplicate of an inflation control bill as secret service hunted for the original. The copy, drafted after a daylong search, flew to Dedham Mass for Speaker Martin’s signature and was rushed back to enact a measure the White House called a feeble gesture against high prices.
Guerrillas renewed assaults on Konitsa as government forces defend the city in a decisive battle. Reinforcements push toward the front while supplies trickle to the garrison. Greek police seize Communist Party HQ in Piraeus as leadership outlawed.
Miss Wanda Kemp a Methodist delegate from Sylacauga Alabama has been brought to Decatur General Hospital after falling ill on the Pan American. Doctors expect her to be discharged this afternoon and she plans to continue to the Cleveland convention of the Youth Fellowship. Kemp a 1947 University of Alabama graduate and former Honeybowl star from Shawmut Alabama is director of religious education at First Methodist Church Sylacauga.
In Haifa the consolidated oil refinery becomes ground zero for the worst communal violence since UN partition decision. Bombs and gunfire kill 36 Jews and 11 Arabs with 14 Jews and 47 Arabs wounded, as British troops seal refineries and clashes spread to Jerusalem and Tel Aviv.
Funeral arrangements for former King Vittorio Emanuele III of Italy were delayed awaiting the arrival of his son Umberto II. Umberto's airliner from Lisbon was detained by bad weather and landed in Algiers rather than Madrid, delaying plans for a full military funeral in Alexandria where Vittorio died at age 78.
Washington economists report wholesale prices on 900 commodities rose past the postwar peak, with a Dec 20 index of 162.5. They expect prices to surpass the 1920 high by late February, citing steady employment and demand while noting political pressures on policy.
Henry A Wallace announces he will run as an independent in 1940, sharpening US foreign policy discourse. Analysts see Wallace’s critique of bipartisan war policy and universal training as a potential campaign issue, challenging Democrats and Republicans in key states like New York and California.
Gov. James E. Folsom stated he will vote the straight Democratic ticket in 1948 and will not join Henry Wallace in any third party effort. He supported Wallace for vice president at the Democratic convention but remains loyal to the party.
Senator Millikin cites sections closing Wallace access in several states while others deny third party eligibility. James Roosevelt warns of danger to the republic if Wallace runs, and Senator McCarran accuses Wallace of venting spleen on Truman. See Henry on page 2.
In Bucharest on December 30, King Mihai I abdicated and the communist dominated cabinet proclaimed Romania a popular democratic republic. The 26 year old monarch announced the move in a broadcast and was then linked to reports he sought sanction to wed Danish princess Anne of Bourbon Parma.
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