Weather outlook and local notices from Decatur area
Fair this afternoon tonight and Tuesday with warmer Tuesday and frost in the south portion. Low temperatures 22 to 28 tonight. Northwest winds along the coast. Huntsville residents Curtis Carter Margaret McCord A S Logel and Cora Chapman attend White Shrine meeting. Highway Patrol reports no accidents this year so far. Flint Junior High PTA thanks for bingo party support. Midweek supper and prayer service at First Presbyterian Church Wednesday 6 30 PM. Central Methodist Church junior board dinner at East End Methodist Tuesday 7 PM. Mrs R A Basden Hillsboro visited Decatur. Southside Baptist trustees meet this evening at seven. Several residents admitted or discharged from Decatur General and Hamil Clinic hospitals. Building permit issued to Roy M Hill for $400 to enlarge room at 1611 Tenth Avenue East. DIARY on Page 2.
Bitter holding action ends in retreat at Wonju
Allied rear guard yields Wonju to Chinese and North Korean forces after a bitter holding action. UN forces withdrew to new positions as Red troops entered the burning city and its airstrip. Osan and Taejon are mentioned as the UN fall back route toward Pusan.
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Tokyo
Wonju
Seoul
Pusan
Tom Lambert
Osan
U. N
Korea
Taejon
South Korea
U. S. Eighth Army
MacArthur
U. S.S. Eighth Army
Suwon
Allies Rejections of Soviet German Rearmament Protest
Britain and France rejected Moscow's protest over rearming West Germany arguing Russian saber rattling made Western security harder. They accuse the Soviet bloc of keeping large forces armed while Western Allies demobilized. The notes, delivered to Moscow last Friday, were made public today.
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London
Britain
France
West Germany
Russia
Plaque Clue in Theft of Stone
Scotland Yard examined a small oak plaque found near Westminster Abbey that may prove key evidence in the missing coronation stone case. Albert Edkins, a 29 year old gardener, found the plaque on a bombed site close to the abbey after the Christmas morning theft.
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London
Scotland Yard
Albert Edkins
Westminster Abbey
Youth admits strangling Western Michigan student
Kalamazoo police report that Valorus Bud Mattheis confessed to strangling 19 year old Carolyn Drown with her scarf after she and Raymond Olson were accused of injuring her. Both youths, 22, from farms near Vicksburg, also confessed to raping and dumping her body in a snowy field near Kalamazoo on November 26.
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Kalamazoo
Mich
Husky
Carolyn
Howard Hoyt
Valorus
Bud
Mattheis
Olson
Vicksburg
Hoyt
Stockbridge
Son Of Actor Shot Accidentally On Target Range
Ossining N Y January report says Henry Fondas son Peter ten year old shot himself with a .22 pistol at a target range. He was in critical condition at Ossining hospital. He previously attempted suicide at a Beacon New York sanitarium on April 14 while separated from his father.
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Ossining
N. Y
Henry Fonda
Peter
Ossining Hospital
Beacon
McCorvey Calls Old Committee Meeting In Montgomery
Retiring Chairman Gessner T. McCorvey called a final meeting of the old state democratic executive committee in Montgomery for January 15. The session at the Jefferson Davis hotel will hear officers reports and handle business as a stormy debate looms over four states’ rights victories in the third congressional district after votes were disputed in a May primary.
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Mobile
Ala
Gessner T. McCorvey
Old State
Democratic Executive Committee
Montgomery
McCorvey
Jefferson Davis
H. A. Abercrombie
Mrs Olivia Watts longtime Cay school principal dies
Camden Jan 8 Mrs Olivia McArthur Watts 54 a Wilcox county figure died at her home after a brief illness She had served as principal of the Cay school for 15 years Survivors include her husband Carl Watts of Camden and a sister Mrs Haynes Greene of Montgomery
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Camden
Aisia
Olivia McArthur Watts
Wilcox County
Cay School
Carl Watts
Haynes Greene
Montgomery
Big Try Looms For Control Of Meat Prices
Washington January 8 The Economic Stabilization Administrator Alan Valentine said a big effort will be made to control rising meat prices possibly with rationing and subsidies. He noted wage controls depend on food costs and warned escalator clauses in contracts could push prices higher. He suggested rationing could be needed to reduce demand and limit price ceilings.
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Washington
Alan Valentine
U.S. News and World Report
Valentine
ESA
Britain urges UN for new Korea ceasefire and backs US push
Britain calls on the United Nations to renew efforts for a Korean cease-fire while warning against a break with China if terms are imposed. Sir Gladwyn Jebb pledges support to UN troops and urges cautious action as the US seeks sanctions and broader measures.
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Britain
U. N
Red China
Free World
Gladwyn Jebb
U.N
Korea
General Assembly
Jebb
United States
China
Peiping
United Nations
Israel
U. S
Assembly
Bloody Trail Of Badman Heads Into Old Mexico
The bloodstained hunt for Badman Bill Cook extends from Blythe California into northwestern Mexico. Territorial police in Baja California and Sonora flood the border area as officers pursue the stocky ex convict who vanished after abandoning a car 40 miles south of the border. Sources indicate Cook, 24, from Joplin Missouri, may cross toward the U S border again. FBI and El Centro investigators join the manhunt aided by a hunch from Guy Woodward who tracked from Mexicali toward San Felipe after reporting blood in the vehicle.
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Blythe
Calif
Badman
Bill Cook
Mexico
Baja
California
Sonora
Colorado
Cook
Nora
Joplin
U.S
FBI
Guy Woodward
el Centro
Mexicali
San Felipe
Three Sunday Fire Alarms Reported in Local Area
Chief Floyd Elkins said three Sunday fires drew the department. Faulty wiring caused a Tennessee Valley hotel blaze at 1:54 A M with very slight damage. A nearby auto fire on Railroad Street occurred at 8 A M and a West Vine Street home fire due to a defective flue caused no reported loss.
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Floyd Elkins
Tennessee Valley Hotel
Elkins
Railroad Street
Vine Street
E. M. Pickett
Decatur Schools to Receive State PTA Awards
Three Decatur schools will receive awards at the state PTA meeting in April for reaching PTA membership goals. The honors were announced in Bee etee bulletin and reported by Jackson in Jacksonville Alabama.
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Decatur
PTA
Jacksonville
Ala
Jackson
Special Session Planned By New Alabama Governor
Alabama's incoming governor Gordon Persons says a special legislative session will convene January 16 to establish civilian defense and confirm his appointments. The legislature begins organizing this week but cannot take up other business, prompting the call for a special session. Some Folsom appointees, including Drinkard Vinson and Lamberth, face confirmation, with Drinkard possibly resigning. Ethyl Salter Gayle has been named to the parole board. other appointments await action.
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Montgomery
Ala
Gordon Persons
Alabama
Persons
Senate
James E. Folsom
House
Bill Drinkard
Glen Vinson
Pardon-Parole Board
Broughton Lamberth
Drinkard
Vinson
Ethyl Salter Gayle
Parole Board
Folsomn
Howell Turner
See Persons
Cullman Woman Passes Suddenly In Sunday School
Funeral services for Mrs. Edgar Martin, 72, who died Sunday of a heart attack while attending Sunday school, will be held this afternoon at 2 30 o clock at the First Christian Church conducted by Rev. O G Gilbert with interment in City Cemetery.
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Edgar Martin
O. G. Gilbert
First Christian Church
President Truman vows to fight for freedom against Soviet expansion
President Truman delivers a state of the union message to Congress in Washington saying Soviet leaders seek to take over the world step by step. He warns the United States will fight to preserve freedom and justice, while remaining willing to negotiate honorable settlements with the Soviet Union but not engage in appeasement.
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Washington
Truman
Russia
Congress
United States
Soviet Union
Senators Propose Universal Military Training Plan
Senators Malone and Russell introduced a bill to create universal military training after the crisis. The plan calls for a draft of youths aged 17 to 19 for a full year of training, to start upon commission recommendation and presidential discretion. Malone called UMT security insurance and survival insurance for the nation.
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Washington
Malone
R-New
Russell
D-Ga
Senate
UMIT
Truman outlines foreign policy and mobilization plan
Mr. Truman defends a policy to strengthen US and Western Europe against Russia and previews military mobilization. He pledges full wartime preparation if needed and proposes changes to the draft law higher taxes stronger wage price controls labor farm laws education aid and federal training for medical personnel with details to follow.
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Mr. Truman
Russia
Petition Filed On Right Of Way In Alabama District
The Morgan Board of Venue and Control approved a right of way petition for the Decatur Moulton line and accepted the resignation of County Engineer Robert W Skidmore. The board also authorized Alabama Tennessee Natural Gas to cross Pryor Field and honored outgoing district officials Wallace Meadows and Leonard Slate.
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Morgan Board of Venue and Control
Decatur-Moulton
Robert W. Skidmore
Wallace Meadows
Paul Collier
Meadows
Sioner Leonard Slate
You Should Weave a Want Ad Too In Business
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A. S. Logel
Cora Chapman
Huntsville
Highway Patrol
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R. A. Basden
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J. W. Hughes
Johnston Street
Decatur General Hospital
Edward Earl Holmes
Somerville
Robert Putnam
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Hamil Clinic Hospital
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Ninth Street East
Roy M. Hill
Tenth Avenue East
M. B. Smith
Jackson Street
James Garner
Hartselle
Ralph Nance
By Seif Erickson
Tshushima
Ham
Twans
By Max Hall
Max Harrelson
Old Mexico
Woodward
Evyleen Ramsay Cronin
Tallulah Bankhead
Appeerne
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New York
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