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12 Feb 1953
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Decatur Daily in Decatur, Alabama
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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Feb 12, 1953
Page
1
Community notices and weather forecast update
Cloudy and cooler this afternoon with scattered thundershowers mainly southeast. Tonight and Friday partly cloudy and cooler with lows from 30 to 40. Shrine club meets Friday at 7 at the Cornelian hotel. wear fezzes. Six cases on recorder's court docket this morning including two for disorderly conduct and traffic violations. Frank Coupland to deliver Layman's Day sermon at Central Methodist Sunday morning. See DIARY On Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shrine Club
Cornelian Hotel
Recorder’s Court
Frank Coupland
Central Methodist Church
T. J. Chitwood
Pistols Taken In Robbery Here
Police investigate a burglary at Allied Sales on First Avenue and Johnston Street. Two S and W revolvers were taken from a steel cabinet along with several pistols and shotguns. Entry involved removing a padlock and forced cabinet locks. Time window 10:15 PM to 6:55 AM.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied Sales
First Avenue
Johnston Street
J. B. Whitmire
Charles Smith
Pack Self
New Appeal For Rosenbergs Is Set By Counsel
President Eisenhower refused to spare Julius and Ethel Rosenbergs, calling their atomic spying crime a grave betrayal. Emanuel Bloch, their New York attorney, said a new appeal would be taken to the Supreme Court. The couple, 34 and 36, face execution at Sing Sing after a stay expired.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Eisenhower
New York
Emanuel Bloch
Supreme Court
Julius
Ethel
Sing Sing
Irving R. Kaufman
Rosenbergs
U. S
White House
Times Square
Paris
Daily Worker
Albert Einstein
Harold C. Urey
Ethel Rosenberg
Martin Sobell
David Greenglass
Rosenberg
Greenglass
Los Alamos, N. M
New York City
Mobile welder charged with rape of polio disabled girl
A 28 year old Mobile ship yard welder, George Walton, is jailed on rape charges after a 15 year old girl disabled by polio was allegedly hurt in a car seat incident after a tavern pickup. Walton denies the accusation, while two companions say they knew nothing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mobile
Charles Nall
George Walton
Nall
Walton
Cameron Dies Washington Statesman and Arizona Founder
Ralph Henry Cameron who guided Arizona to statehood and later served as its senator died today in Washington. He helped organize the territory into a state and held political leadership roles during its early development.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Ralph Henry Cameron
Arizona
Korean War Is Slowed Today
Fighting dwindled to raids and patrol clashes on the Korean front as warm weather returned. Temperatures rose into the 40s along the 155 mile battle line with rain in the west. Allied air forces carried out strikes and air battles with MiG-15s. The Fifth Air Force reported eight buildings destroyed in a western troop concentration area. F-80s sealed a rail tunnel with eight hits and smoke rose from the burning structures. Sabre jets tangled with MiGs deep in the north.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mercury
U. S. Fifth Air Force
North
ABC Board Sets Grievance Plan Amid License Actions
The Alabama ABC Board announced written grievance instructions for state liquor store employees following Gov. Gordon Persons instruction after a Birmingham strike threat. Grievances go from store manager upward to supervisors, the Board, then possibly the State Personnel Board and Governor. Licenses were also acted on, with one revoked, another suspended 30 days, and a third placed on probation, including Bessie Smith's Sandwich Shop in Selma for moonshine possession.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Montgomery
ABC Board
Gordon Persons
CIO
Birmingham
Isors
State Personnel Board
Bessie Smith
Selma
Steve's
Wife in decent condition after Beech Street shooting
Mrs Alma Smith socially prominent matron who allegedly shot her husband Floyd Smith and wounded herself on Beech Street is listed in fairly good condition at Decatur General hospital an improvement from yesterday's critical but satisfactory. The Morgan county grand jury near completion of its slaying investigation is expected to report tomorrow and coroner Joe Morrison and State Investigator R W Godwin could not obtain a statement from Mrs Smith due to pain and narcotics. Beverly Smith 15 provided a statement to the grand jury earlier.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Alma ‘Smith
Floyd Smith
Beech Street
Decatur General Hospital
Morgan County
Grand Jury
Joe Morrison
R. W. Godwin
Britain Egypt sign Sudan accord amid Suez troop pullback talks
Cairo bulletin reports Britain and Egypt signed an agreement on Sudan and agreed in principle to evacuate British troops from the Suez Canal. The moves aim to ease tensions and help Egypt join a proposed Western defense command in the Middle East.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cairo
Britain
Egypt
Sudan
Naguib
Suez Canal
Middle East
Senator Ellen Ellender urges study of Chiang ouster
Sen Ellen Ellender of Louisiana urged the Eisenhower administration to seek a Chinese Nationalist successor to Chiang Kai-shek. He argued peace may depend on replacing Chiang with a leader more popular on the mainland and cautioning against militant moves toward the mainland that could push China toward Russia. He spoke amid Senate Foreign Relations activity on Far Eastern policy and Secretary Dulles testimony.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ernest B. Vaccaro
Washington
Sen
Ellender
Eisenhower
Chiang Kai-shek
Louisiana
Russia
Chiang
Formosa
China
Manchuria
Korea
State of the Union
United States Seventh Fleet
Red China
Rep. Battle Data
U. S. Navy
United Nations Authority
Battle
Rain And Snow Hit Eastern States In System
Weather eased in the central and western regions while the eastern third faced rain and snow. Snow accumulations of two to five inches were expected in New England and upper New York with rain reaching the Ohio Valley to the Atlantic coast and a narrow Gulf states band. Temperatures were near seasonal norms with a touch of colder air moving into the Atlantic states.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England States
Upper
New York
Ohio Valley
Atlantic Coast
Gulf States
Montana
Wyoming
Midwest
Atlantic States
North Central
Texas
Great Lakes
Mississippi
Tennesssee
Play Girl Witness Says She Became Mother After Incident
New York 19 year old Pat Ward a key prosecution witness in the Jelke vice trial says she became a mother at 17 after an incident. The testimony reveals payments from a publicity man and other men who paid for her services as the case unfolds behind closed doors at General Sessions Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Pat Ward
Minot
Mickey) Jelke
Jeske
Miss Ward
General Sessions
Francis L. Valente
Jelke
Samuel Segal
Segal
Mickey Jelkemen
Mickey Rooney
Jack Eigen
Joey Adams
Air Force Accused Of Ignoring Congressional Orders On Waste
Senators Morse and Long accuse the Air Force of wasting hundreds of millions on overseas bases. A still secret report will be released soon detailing project by project waste and citing Army and Navy as also at fault. The committee froze 146 million in construction pending a review and will question Air Force leaders next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Air Force
Washington P
Morse
Indore
Army
Navy
Sen. Long
D-La
Armed Services Committee
Long
Europe
North Africa
North Pole
Armed Services Subcommittee
AIR On
Circus Music At Rites For Ex Showman Hopper
Funeral services for Arthur Rankin Hopper known as Hop Hopper reflected a life in the circus. He died Feb 2 in New York City at 65 and was buried in Showmen's Rest Woodlawn Cemetery Forest Park. A Ringling tape of circus music was played per his request.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chicago
Arthur Rankin
Hop) Hopper
Hopper
Bill Poster
New York City
Woodlawn
Forest Park
Ringling Brothers & Barnum and Bailey Circus
Soviet Breaks With Israel
The Soviet Union broke off diplomatic relations with Israel after a Tel Aviv bombing incident and ordered the Israeli legation staff in Moscow to depart. A Soviet note presented by Andrei Vishinsky to Samuel Eliashev accuses Israeli leaders of inciting hostility and recalls the Soviet envoy and legation personnel from Tel Aviv.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Moscow
Soviet Union
Israel
Tel Aviv
Andrei Vishinsky
Samuel Eliashev
House Senate breach widens in power clash over chairmanship
Washington reports a widening rift as Senate defies House on Joint Atomic Energy Committee leadership. Senate backs Hickenlooper for chair while House refuses to yield to a senator and resists Senate moves to share budget and money bill prerogatives.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Senate
House
Joint Atomic Energy Committee
Congress
House Atomic Committee
Sterling Cole
Brien McMahon
D-Conn
Durham
Sen. Hickenlooper
Iowa
House Appropriations Committee
Man Held In Check Case In Hartselle
Ollie Widner of Hartselle signed a statement admitting he raised a check by 17 dollars before cashing it at Howard James' grocery in Hartselle. Decatur police reported the check rose from 8.50 to 25.50 after initial refusal, Widner bought groceries and received about 23 dollars in change. He was arrested after alighting the Hart selle bus at 10th Street and Sixth Avenue SE and will be turned over to Hartselle authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ollie Widner
Hartselle
C.D. Dobbs
Howard James
Decatur
J. B. Whitmire
Widner
Electric Service Interruption Strikes Northwest Decatur Twice
Electric service in Northwest Decatur faced two brief outages last night. At 10:30 water in equipment on Eighth Avenue and Holly Street caused fuses to blow, with a 40 minute restoration followed by a second outage at 11 p.m. Normal service returned by 11:10 p.m. A 1:50 a.m. seven minute interruption occurred after a truck snapped a pole at Lafayette and Alabama Streets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decatur
City Electric Department
Eighth Avenue
Holly Street
Lafayette
Alabama
Nothing New From CIO on Taft Hartley Changes
Rep. McConnell of Pennsylvania says nothing new in CIO proposed changes to the Taft Hartley Act and criticizes the CIO executive board list of criticisms of the 1947 labor management act.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
McConnell
R-Pa
CIO
Taft-Harter
Volunteer Plan Of Reduction Urged At Meet
Government farm officials urged cotton industry reps to support a voluntary program to cut production this year. A closed meeting heard that without a sharp output reduction, rigid quotas may be needed in 1954. The plan aims to prevent price depressing surpluses as Ex P CC head John Davis and A E Bureau chief Cris Wells outlined the cotton situation. Secretary Benson was to join later. Brannan had set a 1953 goal of 13 million bales versus last year’s 14.9 million.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Agriculture Department
John H. Davis
Commodity Credit Corp
Cris V. Wells
Bureau of Agricultural Economics
Benson
Brannan
Benson tells farmers to rely on themselves, not subsidies
Secretary Benson warns U.S. farmers to depend more on themselves than on government subsidies, urging price supports only as insurance against disaster. He spoke to about 3,000 farmers of the Central Livestock Association in St Paul and pledged faithful carryout of farm programs by the new administration.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
ST. Paul
Minn
Benson
U. S
Central Livestock Association
Soldier Guilty of Treason in WWII Prison Camp Case
Former Army Sgt. John David Provoo was convicted by a Federal Court jury of four overt acts of treason for actions as a prisoner of war under Japanese captors in World War II. He faces a possible sentence from five years to death with sentencing set for next Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New York
Army
John David Provoo
Gregory F. Noonan
Provoo
Burton C. Thomson
Swea City
Thomson
Une
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