Weather outlook and local notices from Decatur area
Partly cloudy this afternoon through Saturday with warming trend in the south. Rev C L Bullard to address old age pension meeting at the courthouse Saturday at ten. Tennis Sparkman to continue eye treatment in Birmingham. Bobby Cox, bass horn with Opelika band, praised for joining the group. Johnny Anglea sustained a head laceration in a nearby football game. treated and discharged. Rev Dan Widlicka of the Slavic Gospel Association to speak tonight at Fairview Baptist at 7:30. Dr P D Wilson to give sermon at First Methodist vesper service at 5 PM. Local business and hospital updates follow including admissions and transfers at Decatur General and Hamil Clinic. SEE DIARY ON PAGE 2.
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Johnny Anglea
Jack Anglea
Falkvile
Hamil Clinic
Dan Widlicka
The
Slavic Gospel Association
Fairview
Labour Holds Narrow Lead In UK Election
Britain’s Labour Party led the parliamentary count with a slim edge over the Conservatives and Liberals as returns from most districts came in. At about 6 p.m. EST Labour held roughly 310 seats to 281 for the opposition with 95 percent counted, while 70 seats remained undecided in a 625-seat Commons.
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London
Attlee
Labor Party
Britain
House of Commons
Laborites
Labor
Conservatives
Liberals
Winston Churchill
Morrison
Lord Woolton
Lord Beaverbrook
Conservative Evening Standard
Liberal Evening Star
Conservative Evening News
Driver Held After Accident Near Falkville on Highway 31
Kansas City man Stanley Mahan was arrested minutes after an accident two miles north of Falkville on Highway 31. He allegedly crowded a trailer truck driven by Brazier into a ditch, causing a rollover and lumber spill. Mahan was jailed in Morgan county.
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Kansas City
W. B. Little
State Highway Patrol
Falkville
Missouri
McKinley
Brazier
Bremer
Stanley
Mahan
East Sixth Street
Morgan County
Sgt. Little
D. A. Hansard
Claims Doctor Aware of Act
Henry L. Supple reports in Manchester New Hampshire that Dr Hermann Sander testified he knew he broke the law in a mercy killing and would have broken laws before, while a nurse librarian described a talk with medical referee Dr Biron on the day of Sander’s arrest. The defense pressed about the death certificate and whether the patient died before air was injected.
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Henry L. Supple
Manchester
N. H
Hermann N. Sander
Josephine Connor
Hillsboro County Hospital
Sander
Abbie Borreto
Miss Connor
Robert E. Biron
Man Sentenced in Tourist Court Theft
Robert B. Mathus received a 10 year prison term after a circuit court jury convicted him of robbing the Star tourist court in Birmingham last July. Employee Robert R. Mitchell identified Mathus as one of the armed men who took 395 dollars at gunpoint. Mathus claimed illness kept him in bed that day.
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Birmingham
Ala
Robert B. Mathus
Star Tourist Court
Robert R. Mitchell
Tourist Court
Mathus
Gentry Withdraws From State Senate Race
Lonnie Gentry a Moulton banker withdraws from the race to serve Morgan and Lawrence counties citing bank and business demands. His exit leaves J. B. Richardson and John H. Day as the remaining Senate candidates.
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Lonnie Gentry
Moulton
Senate
Morgan and
Lawrence
Mr. Gentry
Cold extends across Midwest with record lows
A Canadian cold front sent temperatures to around 30 degrees below zero in parts of the Midwest and northern plains. Snow delayed travel as a fast moving storm heads toward New England, while the Northeast fights a severe sleet and snow outbreak.
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Associated Press
Canada
Midwest
New England
Plains
Mississippi Valley
Iowa
Illinois
Chicago
Indiana
Michigan
Ohio
North Dakota
Minnesota
North Central
Dakotas
Montana
Pacific Northwest
Limestone Youth Waives His Case
Willie Strauder, 17, of Limestone County waived preliminary hearing before County Judge D L Rosenall this morning and was bound over to the grand jury with a $500 bond. Two Madison negroes, James Tate 33 and Roland Holden 18, charged with grand larceny, also bound to the grand jury with a $500 bond.
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Willie Strauder
Limestone County
D. L. Rosenall
Strauder
Madison
James Tate
Roland Holden
FEPC Drive Moves to Senate in Push for Compulsory Rules
Washington on February 24 reports the Truman administration shifts its FEPC effort to the Senate after the House passed a voluntary bill. Senator Lucas leads the Democratic efforts with a bill carrying enforcement provisions, facing potential Southern filibuster and possible inter-chamber disagreement.
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Washington
House
Senate
Truman
Lucas
Illinois
Congress
Bill
Barry Bingham
France
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Russia
Bingham
Louisville
State Department
Tydings
D-Md
FEPC
McCarthy
R-Wis
Department
Hungary Demands Cuts in Diplomatic Staffs
Hungary called for the United States and Britain to reduce their diplomatic staffs in Budapest. The move followed the Vogeler case in which an American businessman and his British associate were convicted of spying and sabotage and given long prison terms. London sources suggested the demand aimed to pressure while US and UK weigh breaking relations.
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Associated Press
Hungary
United States
Britain
Budapest
Robert A. Vogeler
Vogeler
London
Westminster Presbyterian Church to Dedicate New Facilities
Westminster Presbyterian Church in Decatur opens its redecorated sanctuary and new addition with a Sunday open house from 3 to 5 pm. Dedication includes four services with speakers from Philadelphia Atlanta and Birmingham and a Mozart anthem by the Westminster senior choir.
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The
Westminster Presbyterian Church For Friends
Dale le Count
Birmingham
Westminster
Mozart
Paul Eubanks
Louis Ling
Decatur
Holy City
Westminster Auxiliary
Cigarette Tax Cut Urged by Manufacturers
Lower stamp taxes for economy brands were proposed to Congress today by Associated Tobacco Manufacturers representing most cigarette makers except the five largest. They urged reducing the federal tax from 7 cents to 4 or 9 cents per pack, while farmers warned a price cut could reduce tobacco prices.
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Washington
Congress
House
Ways and Means
Associated Tobacco Manufacturers
Missing Boy Found by Posse Near Birmingham
Two year old Stephen Lloyd Bailey wandered eight miles from home at 2 P M and spent hours in cold woods. Sheriff deputies and 300 volunteers searched the area until Calvin Chaffin found him on a rock cliff near a creek with his dog Mickey just before nightfall. Stephen was brought home unharmed to Mr and Mrs Stephen Bailey and slept in his father's arms after supper.
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Birmingham
Ala
Stephen Lloyd Bailey
Sheriff's Deputies
Calvin Chaffin
Stephen
Mickey
Chaffin
Stephen Bailey
Deddy
Truman Sets Up Board to Avert Railroad Strike
President Truman established an emergency fact finding board to head off a nationwide railroad strike set for Monday. The executive order delays the action for 60 days as the board investigates the dispute between carriers and the Brotherhoods of Railway Conductors and Railroad Trainmen. members will be named later.
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Washington
Truman
Brotherhoods
Eastern
Western
Southeastern
Finney to Run For Committee in Alabama Politics
O H Finney former senior aide to Gov Folsom announces bid for the Alabama state democratic executive committee from the fifth district. He resigns Feb 1 to join a mercantile business in Albertville. Hamm another ex cabinet member pursues gubernatorial bid while Wade considers candidacy.
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Montgomery
Ala
O. H. Finney
James E. Folsom
Finney
Democratic Executive Committee
Albertville
Folsom
Phillip Hamm
Hamm
Raymond R. Wade
Wade
Secretary of State
Ellis Declines Governor Run for Second Time
Handy Ellis former Lieutenant Governor and 1946 gubernatorial candidate announces he will not seek the office again today. He rejected a possible draft Ellis movement and calls his decision one of the hardest he has made. Ellis, from Columbiana, ranked second in 1946 and chaired Alabama’s delegation at the 1948 Democratic National Convention, leading a walkout over the civil rights platform.
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Birmingham
Handy Ellis
Ellis
Alabama
Philadelphia
Columbiana
Folsom Eyes Speaking for Program as Hamm Campaign Grows
Governor Folsom declines to say if he will stump for Hamm but promises to push his agenda. Hamm plans to use The Hog Scrapers string band while campaigning. Folsom schedules regional cabinet meetings in Guntersville and Scottsboro. His platform includes old age pensions, road improvements, a senator for every county, poll tax abolition, farm program reform, a constitutional convention, better hospitals, TVA dams on major rivers, and large national guard retention.
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Wade
American Federation of Labore
Folsom
Hamm
U.S. Senate
John Sparkman
Guntersville
Scottsboro
TVA
Judge Refuses To Drop Charge Against Miners
Judge Richmond B. Keech refuses to drop contempt charges against striking miners. Trial set for Monday with potential jury option. Assistant AG Morison urges speedy proceedings noting no production increase since the Feb 11 work order and widespread city coal shortages.
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Washington
Richmond B. Keech
Keech
Welly K. Hopkins
UMW
Graham Morison
Morison
Lewis Brother Dies in Apparent Suicide in Springfield
Thomas A. Lewis 67 brother of John L. Lewis head of the United Mine Workers, was found shot to death in his Springfield home. Deputy Coroner Catherine Rutherford said he shot himself due to ill health, with a revolver found near the body. Lewis had been in ill health for some time and suffered a severe heart attack yesterday.
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Lewis
Springfield
Thomas A. Lewis
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Catherine Rutherford
Rutherford
Miners Walkout Sparks Court Fight Over Back to Work Order
Judge Reech set the case for Monday after Hopkins objected to starting tomorrow. Union lawyers denied the court's authority to issue back to work orders. They argued the strike stemmed from individual action by 370,000 soft coal diggers and that the international board had not called a strike. The dispute follows a stalled effort to end the walkout that cripples coal output.
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UMW
Richmond B. Keech
Welly K. Hopkins
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Jefferson-Hillman Hospital
Sparkman
Bobby Cox
E.,. Cox
Opelika
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P. D. Wilson
First Methodist Church
Gervase Lenox
Talucah
Robert M. McAbee, Hartseller
Jones
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Anthony Faulkner
Hartseller
Westminster Presbyterian Church
Herman L. Turner
Wilma Jean Clayton
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Decatur General Hospital
Charles Shackelford
Courtland
Hamil Clinic Hospital
Lloyd L. Lively
Ferry Street
Mason Pearce
Fourth Avenue West
Vanderbilt
Nashville
Grover Wilson
Sherman Street
Rebecca Hearn
Jackson Street
Churchill
Morgan Phillips
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Charlie ‘Hurst
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Limestone
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International Executive Board
Hopks
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