Weather and church notices brighten Wednesday in town
The forecast calls for cloudy skies with periods of rain this afternoon tonight and Friday with breezes on the coast veering from south to north by Friday. Local church events include sermons at St Pauls Lutheran and St Johns Episcopal with services at 10:30 AM and a Lord’s Supper at Westminster Presbyterian. A Woman’s Missionary Society gathering and a church council meeting are planned for Thursday evening.
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Westminster Presbyterian Church
God
John A. Troxler
Woman's Missionary Society
Young Ladies Missionary Society
First Christian Church
Carl Schwtchow
National Council of Presbyterian Men
Willoughby Presbyterian Church
Council of Westside Church
Two Athens Men Held In Ardmore Bank Robbery Probe
Two Athens men were jailed in connection with the $1,734 Ardmore bank robbery yesterday. William Downs and Tennis Chambers are held, Joe Smith released, as investigators trace a black Ford and Packard used by robbers. No weapons or money recovered.
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Athens
Athens City
John Sandlin
Packard
Highway Patrol
W. B. Little
Elly Nash
Little
Nash
Sandlin
Winfield plans to buy itself from the government
The Winfield New Jersey township board was authorized to accept a government offer to sell the 23 year old Federal Housing Authority community for 1.35 million dollars on a 45 year mortgage. The plan would cost residents under 2000 dollars per family of about 700 households who have leased homes since 1941. The colony near Linden grew from wartime housing into a municipal community serving about 3000 people.
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Winfield
N. J
North Jersey
Federal Housing Authority
Linden
New York
Mine Owners Ask NLRB Action Against Lewis
Mine owners united in asking Robert Denham of the NLRB to seek a court injunction against John L. Lewis. The White House has refused to pursue the action thus far.
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Norman Walker
Washington
John L. Lewis
White House
Robert N. Denham
National Labor Relations Board
Trains in Alabama to be cut under ICC fuel order
The ICC fuel conservation order will affect 10 trains in Alabama including four local runs. The Louisville and Nashville will cancel trains seven and eight between Birmingham and Nashville while the Southern cancels trains seven and eight between Sheffield and Chattanooga. Cancellations take effect at 11 59 P M Sunday.
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Alabama
ICC
Louisville and Nashville
Birmingham
Nashville
Southern
Sheffield
Chattanooga
Mine labor dispute tests court action under Taft-Hartley act
Mine owners seek a court injunction directing Lewis to restore a full five day week and halt alleged unfair labor practices. Miners currently work three days weekly by Lewis's orders. President Truman has declined to call a national emergency. Denham may file for injunction if labor law is violated, but can choose not to act. Charges of refusal to bargain and other tactics are under Denham's consideration as he reviews statements from operators and Lewis.
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Lewis
United Mine
Truman
Denham
United States
Truman Plans Set For Death
Washington dispatch reports President Truman’s state of the union message drew support for quick action on some proposals while others, including the Taft-Hartley repeal and Brannan farm plan, were shelved. Lawmakers signaled continued red ink spending only with drastic economy, and a few certainties emerged notably expansion of social security and reduced-scale aid to non-communist countries. Republican critics accused Truman of aiming toward socialization of America and eroding free enterprise.
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Jack Bell
Washington
PR Congress
Truman
Congress
International Trade Organization
House
GOP
America
Taft
Ohio
Senate
Mr. Truman
Byron
Folsom Urges More Paroles
Gov James E Folsom urged the pardon parole board to keep releasing convicts until Alabama’s prison population falls substantially He noted a 160 prisoner drop in three months and urged alignment with average states Critics blamed the board for mass paroling rumors of board removal circulated by The Birmingham News Page 2
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Montgomery
Ala
James E. Folsom
Pardon-Parole Board
Alabama
Bill Drinkard
Glen Vinson
Drinkard
Vinson
Birmingham News
Folsom
Petition Seeks Vote on Shift to Commission Government in Decatur
A 417 sign petition filed with Probate Judge T C Almond asks for an election on changing from a five member council mayor system to a three member commission in Decatur. If valid, a May election would be called within 400 days. Past votes favoring and opposing the change are summarized with figures from 1938 1945 and 1947. The law provides salaries for a three member commission and set meeting frequency.
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Decatur
T. C. Almon
Charles Rountree
Alabama
Almon
Almond
H. R. Summer
Two Accidents Reported Here
Police report light damage and no injuries from two local traffic accidents yesterday. The first crash at Fourth Avenue East and Moulton Street involved a 1946 Buick driven by James Turnbore and a 1946 Chevrolet pickup driven by J A Daniel with moderate damage. The second crash at Second Avenue and Johnston Street involved a 1946 Mercury driven by T E Price and a 1934 Plymouth driven by Olen B Cryer with light damage.
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Fourth Avenue East
Moulton Street
C. M. Kennedy
Alex Terry
James Turnbore
Hills L .O
J. A. Daniel
Davis Street
Second Avenue
Johnston Street
Mercury
Illinois
T. E. Price
Chicago
Ill
Plymouth
Olen B. Cryer
Decatur
Louis Landers
Richard Hyche
Arsenal Not Needed to Bring Bandit Suspect Back
Johnny Burnell Garrison 26 of Dayton Ohio was returned to the county to face armed robbery and assault to murder charges connected with the New Market Dec 16 spree. Deputies carried heavy weapons but no rescue occurred as Garrison was brought in handcuffed and laughed about his whereabouts. He faces a $10,000 federal Dyer Act charge and a pending inferior court hearing next Friday with bond set to be unusually high.
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Huntsville
Ala
Jimmy Blakemore
T.O. Rich
Johnny Burnell Garrison
Dayton
Ohio
New Market
Here
Garrison
Laurel County
London
Rich
Stiles
Fred C. Farrow
Home Market Supply Co
Farrow
Dixie’s Spring Weather Ends in Deadly Cold Sweep
Two brothers from Dalton Georgia died when their car stalled on a flooded highway near Walnut Ridge Arkansas and they were swept away by the icy river current after clinging to tree tops for hours. An Arctic air mass brought freezing rain sleet and snow across Arkansas Louisiana Mississippi Alabama and Tennessee as temperatures plunged from summer heat to winter conditions.
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Associated Press
J. L. Gribble
Jess
Dalton
Spring River
Walnut Ridge
Ark
Arkansas
Louisiana
Mississippi
Alabama
Tennessee
Atlanta
Birmingham
Jacksonville
Fla
Knoxville
Tenn
Gulf of Mexico
Mobile
Ala
Kentucky
Gulf Coast
Florida
Seaboard
Youth Without a Country Aboard Same Ship Again
Nicolai Drujinenko, 19, shuttles across the Pacific after fleeing Shanghai seeking a country. Detained by U S immigration last year at arrival on the Gordon, he has cycled between ships including the Dartmouth Victory and General Gordonbound for San Francisco with no nation willing to grant him asylum. If China’s communists reject him at Taku Bar this may continue indefinitely.
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Honolulu
Nicolai Drujinenko
Pacific
Nicolai
President
General Gordon
Shanghai
Gordon
San Francisco
Pacific Coast
APL
Orient
United States
Dartmouth Victory
Taku Bar
Tientsin
China
Yokohama
U.S. Army
Doctor pleads not guilty in mercy killing case
Manchester doctor Herman N. Sander pleaded not guilty to a first degree murder indictment in the mercy slaying of cancer patient Abbie Borreto. The court released him on bonds of 25,000 with a no-practice stipulation pending trial. The defense questioned the lack of prejudice in the agreement.
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Herman N. Sander
Manchester
N. H
Sander
Candia
Abbie Borreto
Louis E. Wyman
Wyman
Arthur S. Healy
Envoy in Tokyo On Asia Check
Ambassador Philip C. Jessup arrives in Tokyo on an Asian survey that will reach Formosa and involve talks with General Douglas MacArthur and later the U. S. joint chiefs of staff. Formosa remains a flashpoint as republicans press for tougher action to stop a possible Communist seizure.
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Tokyo
Asia
President Declares United States Won't Use Armed Forces on Formosa
President Truman announced a hands off policy toward Formosa, offering only continued economic aid to Chiang Kai-shek's government. He said the U S will not pursue involvement or provide military aid to Chinese forces on Formosa and will not seek special rights or bases there. The statement echoes Capitol debates over Formosa policy.
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Associated Press
United States
Philip C. Jessup
Tokyo
Formosa
Jessup
Douglas MacArthur
U. S. Joint Chiefs of Staff
Japan
China
Chiang Kai-Shek
Roosevelt
Churchill
Britain
Chiang
Truman
Washington
U. S
America
Pakistan
India
Burma
Mao
Tze-Tung
Manichester Guardian
Mr. Truman
Capitol
Herbert Hoover
Taft
Ohio
Big Island
Cairo
Chiang Kai- Shek
Republic of China
Potsdam
Far East
Three Hurt in Truck Collision at Mooresville Road
Three persons suffered minor injuries and both vehicles sustained considerable damage in a crash at the Mooresville Road and Highway 72 intersection yesterday around 3 30 P M. A banana laden trailer truck from Miami to Chicago and a Limestone county gravel truck driven by Claude Norton were involved. Norton and two unidentified banana truck passengers were treated at Powers hospital Athens but not admitted. Police and Highway Patrol investigators continued the inquiry.
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Mooresville Road
Highway 72
Miami
Fla
Chicago
Limestone County
Claude Norton
Norton
Powers Hospital
Athens
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B. E. Marign
Trinity
H. G. Criscoe
Union Grove 1
Recorder Court
St. Paul’s Lutheran Church
Danville
Eugene M. Chapman
St. John's Episcopal Church
R. L. Baker
Memorial Drive Methodist Church
N. G. Conner
Town Creek
Baugh-Wiley Etinic
A. F. Turney
Somerville J
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Park ‘Circle
Robert P. Rice
Fourteenth Avenue East
H. E. Burleson
Olive Street
U.S
T‘tion
Ardmore
Cotton
King Cotton
Elizabeth A. McGee
Spartanburg
S. C
Memphis
Anne Caldwell
Louisville
Helen Hanks Stephens
Helena
Mary Iva Campbell
Dallas
Tex
Mary Pharr Lathram
Bessemer
Ken Reynolds
NLRB
Dixie
Dixie’s
By John M. Hightower
National Security Council
Jamo
Benjamin Je
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