Decatur area weather and community briefs note changes
Weather outlook for the state predicts rain this afternoon with warmer temperatures tonight and Wednesday, plus fresh to strong east to southeast coastal winds. Decatur noon cotton quote lists middling at 33.75 and strict low at 32.75. Local notices cover radio changes, visits, baptist services, public invites, and several hospital and birth announcements across Decatur and Morgan County with community events and upcoming meetings.
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Coatitart Pee
Decatur
U S Ready to Plan Holy Land Force if UN Votes
The United States said it is prepared to consult on a UN backed international peace force for Palestine, directing it to keep peace rather than enforce partitions. Warren Austin outlined three immediate steps and warned no agreements exist among UN members on arming peace enforcement.
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Max Harrelson
United States
Palestine
United Nations Security Council
U. N
Holy Land
U. S
Security Council
Warren R. Austin
Austin
General Assembly
Palestine Commission
Mandatory
Reds invade party offices in Prague power struggle
Czechoslovak Security police armed with bayonets occupied the Social Democratic party headquarters in Prague amid a four day crisis. Officers remained as guards while unions staged a one hour strike in solidarity with the communists. Action committees led by party members barred ministers at foreign trade posts and transport as Eduard Benes seeks to keep a coalition.
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A. L. Goldberg
Prague
Social Democratic Party
Czechoslovakia
National Socialist Party
Communist Party
Social Democrats
Eduard Benes
Red
Hubert Ripka
National Socialist
Russia
Evjen Loebl
Moscow
Frantisek Hala
Catholic People's Party
Ivan Pieter
Hog Show and Sale Planned for Decatur Wednesday
The third annual O. L. C. Hog Show and sale will be held in Decatur on Wednesday at the new Denbo building on Eighth Avenue beside the Cotton Oil Company plant. The sale of 30 bred sows 28 open gilts and 10 young boars begins at 1 pm with Col Tom McCord of Montgomery as auctioneer. The Arab U L C Swine Breeders with the Decatur Chamber of Commerce Farm Committee lead the preparations assisted by a screening and sales committee featuring local and regional agricultural agents and officers.
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Decatur
Denbo
Eighth Avenue
Cotton Oil Company
Col
Tom McCord
Montgomery
Birmingham
Boston V
Rankin plans canal fight over Tennessee-Tombigbee route
Rep. Rankin of Mississippi vowed a House battle to fund the Tennessee-Tombigbee waterway. He urged the project as a defense measure while the House operations committee cut budgeting for planning and construction funds. The proposed canal would run about 25 miles between the Tombigbee and Tennessee rivers at an estimated cost of 136 million dollars, aiming to improve northbound freight rates by easing river navigation.
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Gordon Brown
Washington
Rep
Rankin
Miss
Mexico
House
Sorees
Congress
Town rocked by gas blast in Pocahontas Arkansas
Five business buildings leveled by an explosion in Pocahontas believed to be caused by escaping butane gas. The blaze engulfed the entire business block by 10 oclock. Two men were inside one building and others may have been trapped. attempts to reach them were underway.
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Pocahontas
Ark
Dallas Rowden
City Grocery’ and Market
Bob Allen
Girl Scouts Lead Drive To Aid Destitute Children
Decatur Girl Scouts join national Clothes For Friendship drive to ship over one million outfits to hungry children in Europe and Asia. Local leaders urge residents to donate usable clothes, old garments for restyling, or time to sew.
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Decatur Girl Scouts
Europe
Asia
Girl Scouts
Decatur Scout
Girl Scout Littlehouse
Maxwell in Senate Race
Thomas H. Maxwell of Tuscaloosa joins a crowded field as an Alabama political scene picks up for 1946 campaigns. The piece notes opposition forming against Gov. James E. Folsom and other incumbents as delegates and electors are sought from the state at large.
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J. A. Darnley
Elba
Laurie C. Battle
Birmingham
Auburn
John E. Pitts
George Andrews
Battle
Regional school plan aided by Southern governors
Southern governors urged Dixie members of Congress to back legislation allowing their states to join in establishing regional universities. Gov. Millard Caldwell of Florida presided and voiced no objections, leading the Southern Governors Conference education committee.
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Washington
Dixie
Congress
Millard Caldwell
Florida
Caldwell
Burglary at Wood Lumber Co Leaves $175 Stolen
Police study footprints from a break in at Wood Lumber Co last night and report a theft of $175 from a cash drawer and safe. The thief bypassed a nearby $6,000 deposit of cash and checks. Entry was via a broken back door with possible front exit noted.
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Wood Lumber Company
Decatur
Smarler
Wallace Hints ERP As Plan For Conflict
Wallace charges Wall Street monopolists have warped the Marshall plan into a tool for European domination and warned the current program could provoke war. He outlined an eight point alternative including a $50 billion reconstruction fund run by a UN agency and a world food granary, with Ruhr under four-nation supervision.
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Relman Morin
Washington
Henry A. Wallace
Wall Street
Europe
Wallace
House Foreign Affairs
Allace
United Nations Agency
Greece
China
Indonesia
Indochina
Retone — Tanary
United Nations
Ruhr
United States
Russia
Britain
France
Decatur awards footings contract for new stadium
Decatur school board lets contract for footings to Stone Construction at 15,985 dollars. Three bids were 18,690 and 17,147. Board rejected larger bids for completion and flood lighting as too high, aiming to have the stadium ready for fall football.
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Decatur School Board
Decatur
Stone’ Construction Company
Arthur Jones
Jones
Caw
Truman Reelection Hopes Dented by McClellan
Senator McClellan of Arkansas said President Truman has thrown away his chances of reelection and cannot win in November even with Southern support. He endorsed Senator Byrd of Virginia as his choice for the Democratic nomination. The civil rights dispute within the party intensified as Southern governors attacked the party leadership.
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Washington
McClellan
Arkansas
Truman
Byrd
D-Va
Jasper County Democrats Withdraw From National Party
In Ridgeland South Carolina on February 24 Jasper county Democrats voted to quit the national party in protest of President Truman’s civil rights program. The county executive committee unanimously adopted the withdrawal resolution in a high school auditorium with about 1500 supporters present and five members absent. Chairman H Klugh Purdy declared the shackles of slavery are cut from the ankles of the people of Jasper and called the move the first round of the fight for democracy.
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Ridgeland
S. C
Jasper County
National Party
Truman
Jasper
H. Klugh Purdy
Four Dixie Governors Defy Truman Civil Rights Push
Four Dixie governors after a meeting with National Chairman J Howard McGrath vow to use whatever means are necessary to block President Truman's race equality program. They declare the South aroused and no longer in the Democratic fold while McGrath seeks to show a friendly understanding despite the clash.
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Dixie
J. Howard McGrath
Truman
Democra Party
South
McGrath
Southland
Jesus
Steel firms questioned on price increases
Washington February 4 The White House Attorney General Clark directed FBI agents to question 16 steel companies about last weeks steel price increases.
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Washington
White House
Clark
FBI
Court seeks ruling on Decatur amusement tax ordinances
The Crescent Amusement Company of Nashville filed a declaratory judgment suit against the City of Decatur to void or limit city amusement tax ordinances dating from 1941 and 1947. It claims the taxes are arbitrary discriminatory and unconstitutional while detailing the tax schedule and the expected distribution between schools and city funds.
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Kemmetzger
Cresent Amusement Company
Nashville
Capitol
Decatur
De-Cho
Amusement Company
State of
Alabama
Three Mile
Decaturs
Crescent Amusement Company
Decatur Public
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