Decatur Daily Briefs Mixed Weather, Local Happenings
Cloudy with showers this afternoon and tonight then partly cloudy Saturday with modest warmth and coastal winds. Birthday wishes greet John Brown, veteran basket merchant, as Decatur friends celebrate his 75th. Opera company singers pass through en route to Sheffield. A rabid fox head found in Decatur. cat heads test negative. Clergy and community updates include sermons, hospital notes, a car accident with minor damage, and several hospital admissions. Diary note directs reader to page 2.
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John Brown
Decatur
Wagner Opera Co
New York
Barber of Seville” Company
Montgomery
Sheffield
Shy Unmarried Dad Receives Judge Prompt To Propose
In Newark New Jersey a shy unmarried father in a paternity suit was urged by a family court judge to propose to the child’s mother. The magistrate prompted him with a question about marriage and finally led him to ask her. The man asked, she agreed, and the case was dismissed.
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Newark
N. J
Marathon Prayer Ends At Wheaton College After 38 Hours
Wheaton College in Newfoundland ends a 38 hour nonstop revival drawing about 1500 students and 110 faculty. Dr W Raymond Edman halts the event to avoid sensationalism as 900 attend a public closing in Pierce Memorial chapel with dozens testifying.
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Edman
Edwin S. Johnson
Seattle
W. Raymond Edman
Wheaton
Crash Causes Heavy Property Damage Near Hartselle
A traffic crash north of Hartselle on Highway 31 caused about 300 dollars in property damage. Vehicles involved were a 1947 Studebaker driven by Billy Mitchell of Hart sell e and a 1947 Oldsmobile driven by H G Kitchens of Detroit Michigan. No charges were filed.
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Hartselle
L. S. Bryant
Studebaker
Billy Mitchell
Oldsmobile
H. G. Kitchens
Detroit
Mich
Kitchens
Bryant
Mitchell
Three State Search Extends for Missing Mississippi Woman
A three day search for Jessie Mae Strickland 48 of Burnsville Mississippi expanded to Louisiana Arkansas and Alabama. Sheriff Clarence Pace Jr said she disappeared from her Burnsville home Tuesday after a period of illness with about $100 on her. The missing mother of six is described as about five six and 175 pounds and wearing a brown or black dress with a green coat.
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IUEA
Miss
Mississippi
Louisiana
Arkansas
Alabama
Clarence aPee, Jr
Burnsville
Tishomingo County
Jessie Mae Strickland
Pace
J. O. Strickland
Flood Threat Extends Across Tennessee and Louisiana
Floodwaters menace areas in Tennessee and Louisiana as Nashville reports about 500 homeless. The Cumberland River nears 48 feet eight feet above flood stage and rises slowly. Red Cross prepares evacuations while Brig. Gen. Feringa orders opening the Bonnet Carre spillway to protect New Orleans from Mississippi flooding. Light rain and cold air affect wide regions from the central Gulf states to the middle Atlantic, with snow in the Northern Rockies and near the Canadian border.
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Associated Press
Tennessee
Louisiana
Nashville
Cumberland River
Red Cross
Peter A. Feringa
Mississippi River Commission
Bonnet Carre
New Orleans
Gulf States
Middle Atlantic
California
Rockies
Minnesota
North Dakota
Canada
Whisenant Resigns as Decatur Underwriters President
Frank Whisenant resigned yesterday as president of the Decatur Underwriters Association. H. G. Williams will serve as interim president for the remainder of Whisenant's term, with new officers to be elected in June. Whisenant, who has become president of radio station WMSL, will devote full time to that work and leaves the insurance business. Directors at the meeting were Howard Belser D. D. McGee Phil Nungesser and Watson Carlisle.
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Frank Whisenant
Decatur Underwriters ‘Association
H. G. Williams
Whisenant
WMSL
Howard Belser
D. D. McGee
Phil Nungesser
Watson Carlisle
Dr Hamner Dies After 60 Years Practice in Alabama
Dr H E Hamner, 83, longtime Camp Hill practitioner, died after a brief illness. He had been active until ten days ago. Survived by widow, a daughter Mrs H T Jacobs of Sylacauga, two sons Dr L H Hamner Tallapoosa County health officer and Ben L Hamner of LaGrange.
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Hamner
Camp Hill
Ala
H. E. Hamner
H. T. Jacobs
Sylacauga
L. H. Hamner
Tallapoosa County
Ben. L. Hamner
LaGrange
Doubt Cast on UMW Demands Amid Coal Strike
A federal judge ruled four John L. Lewis contract terms illegal, prompting mixed hopes for a swift settlement of the soft coal strike. NLRB counsel Denham said the injunction could narrow disputes, while some fear it may stiffen miner resistance. A presidential board review to White House may lead to Taft Hartley action to end the walkout of 370,000 UMW members.
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Harold W. Ward
Washington
John L. Lewis
NLRB
Robert N. Denham
Richmond B. Keech
United Mine Workers
Denham
Truman
Decatur council approves paving and park design plans
Decatur City Council sanctioned paving and drainage works on Fourteenth Avenue East and Seventh Street South along Locust Street, plus a curb and gutter project. The move follows a public protest from Charles Pettus who owns nearby property. The council also designated Delano Park and a small park at Fourth Avenue West and Prospect Drive as parks and discussed a youth center site near the new Delano Park water tower with a Feb. 15 meeting to review election results.
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Vic Bubbett
Decatur
Fourteenth Avenue
Locust and
Seventh Street
Locust Street
Somerville Road
Sixteenth Avenue
Charles ‘H. Pettus
Delano Park
Fourth Avenue West
Prospect Drive
Orr
R. W. Orr
Junior League
Pettus
Fifteenth
Sixteenth Avenues
Fairview
Youths Held in Snatch Near Dedham Librarian
Five youths were arrested in Dedham Massachusetts on kidnapping and assault with intent to rape a young college librarian Ann McCarty 22 daughter of Police Sergeant John T McCarty flagged the suspects after she was thrown from a car The kidnapping reportedly had no link to last month's Brink's robbery according to police Chief John B Cahill who said the girl did not know her assailants at the time of the attack
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Dedham
Mass
Ann McCarty
John T. McCarty
Somerville
FBI
John B. Cahill
Two American Soldiers Admit Kidnapping Austrian for Reds
Two U S Army soldiers Sgt John Frankey and Corp Paul Abel confessed to abducting 39 year old Oswald Eder in Vienna in November and delivering him to a Soviet zone rendezvous for 7000 shillings ($250). They said they acted for a Soviet directed agency and would be tried. the abduction followed a wider Soviet kidnapping ring exposure in Austria.
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Vienna
Austria
U. S
John Frankey
Brockton
Mass
Paul Abel
Bolivar
Itary Police
Saiid
Oswald Eder
Wes
Eder
Romania
Col
W. K Liebel
Abel
Frankey
Liebel
Atomic Arms Race Seen Deepening in Congress
Washington reports fear rises in Congress over an inevitable atomic arms race with the Soviet Union. Senator Tydings says Soviet progress on the hydrogen bomb could be accelerated by information from Dr Klaus Fuchs. Fuchs, a German-born scientist, faces British trial after allegedly confessing to passing atomic secrets since 1942.
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Washington
Congress
Russia
Tydings
D-Md
Senate Armed Services Committee
Joint Atomic Committee
Klaus Fuchs
Fuchs
Aid Fund Voted for South Korea and Formosa
The U S Senate approved an 88 million dollar aid package for South Korea and Formosa aimed at halting communism in the Far East. The House had passed the plan 240 to 134, with Vice President Barkley announcing passage by voice vote as a small Senate quorum exists.
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Washington
Senate
White House
South Korea
Formosa
Far East
House
Connally
D-Tex
Knowland
Calif
Barkley
Truman backs Korea aid as atomic controls gain backing
Tydings warned that information given could accelerate hydrogen bomb development. Congress grows to back President Truman’s call for limited Soviet cooperation for world atomic controls. The administration supports an $88 million economic aid program to Korea.
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Tydings
Truman
Russia
Congress
Korea
Watkins Enters School Race for Morgan County Board
Willis T Watkins of Somerville qualified to run for the Morgan County board of education. A Morgan County native, he is a Morgan County High School and University of Alabama graduate. Former Sears Roebuck manager, now a farmer, he is married with one child in Cotaco School and attends Hartselle Methodist church.
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Willis T. Watkins
Somerville
Morgan County Board of Education
Watkins
Morgan County
Hartselle
University of Alabama
Busness
Starid Point
Sears-Roebuck
Cotaco
Methodist
New Manager Named for Princess Roxy Sunset Drive In
Chester Morris of Nashville will become manager of the Princess, the Roxy and the Sunset Drive-In theatres in Decatur this month. He succeeds Floyd Smith who moves to Bradenton Florida to run his own theatre. Morris praises Decatur as the friendliest city he has encountered.
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Floyd Smith
Crescent Amusement Company
Chester Morris
Nashville
Smith
Braderrton
Fla
Morris
Crescent Drive-In
Tennessee
Princess
Roxy
Bradenton
Florida State Theatres
Mr. Morris
Deratur
Decatur
Trains Discontinued Between Birmingham and Cincinnati
The Louisville and Nashville Railroad will discontinue trains 2 and 3 between Birmingham and Cincinnati after today due to the coal emergency. Service had run daily except Sunday as part of an industrial slowdown from coal shortages. Also Alabama Gas Corp will shift coke-oven gas to standby fuels to conserve gas for home use. Industries may rely on fuel oil as coke supply tightens. Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Co lowers coke production to 35 percent and banking two blast furnaces at Ensley with open hearths reduced. See Ellenen on page 2.
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Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company
Birmingham
Cincinnati
Associated Press
Alabama Gas Corp
Steel and Iron Companies
Joe Greene
Alabama Gas
Tennessee Coal, Iron & Railroad Company
T.C.L
U.S. Steel
Ensley
T.C.J
Sloss-Chetsfield Steel & Iron Com
Lawrence County Oil Well Below 1165 Foot Depth
Lawrence County's Shirley Smith No. wildcat test was reported by Associated Press as below 1,165 feet, per Dr. Walter B. Jones oil and gas supervisor. A Choctaw county wildcat was abandoned as a dry well. J B Evans Jr abandoned No 1 J W paidate test at 4,025 feet.
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B. E. Davis
Lawrence County
Associated Press
Montgomery
Dispatch
Walter B. Jones
Office of
State Oil and Gas Supervisor
Choctaw County
Asia
J. B. Evans, Jr
J. W. Paidate
Scientist Klaus Fuchs to Stand Trial for Atomic Secrets
London magistrate orders German born scientist Klaus Fuchs to face Old Bailey trial for passing British and American atomic secrets to the Soviet Union. Prosecutor Christmas Humphreys labels him a political fanatic on a foreign payroll. trial set for Feb 28.
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Associated Press
London
Klaus Fuchs
Russia
Fuchs
Britain
United States
Christmas Humphreys
Old Bailey Criminal Courts
America
FBI
Alan Nunn May
Canada
Ernest Bevin
Bevin
Washington
Truman
Bernard M. Baruch
United Nations
Acheson
County Schools Report on March of Dimes Progress
Morgan county schools near 4000 toward a 6000 quota in the March of Dimes campaign. Total from all schools reaches 3893.18 with eight schools pending and 400 card returns from 6000 mailed. Drive chairman Frank Troup urges more responses to reach the goal.
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Morgan County
Frank Troup
Drive
Morgan County High
Florette
Somerville
Vaihermoso
Lawrence Cove
Danville
Trinity
Plainview
Oak Ridge
Fairview
Moulton Heights
Austinville
Neel
Union Hill
Eva
Collins
Ryan
Lacey's Spring
Cotaco
Troup
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T. T. Roth
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A. D. Jervis
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Phil Pointer
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Mrs. Monroe Coward
Eighth Street East
Decatur General Hospital
T. E. Parson
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