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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 10, 1946
Page
1
Cloudy with occasional rain in the state Friday and southwest this afternoon. Max 68 min 46 in Decatur area. Local mentions include visits by Mrs Ann Galey and family, hospital admissions, court proceedings, and local officials.
Prime Minister Attlee opened the UN General Assembly warning nations to choose between life and death as humanity confronts atomic danger. He supported remitting atomic energy control to a UN commission, noting past failures of the League of Nations and urging a secure, just world under peace machinery.
Judge Julian Harris resigned from the eighth judicial circuit to the governor in Montgomery. He was appointed in 1942 to serve while Lt. Col. Seybourne H. Lynne was on active duty. Lynne became U S district judge in North Alabama in Birmingham ceremonies Wednesday. County Judge James H. Crow Jr was named to fill the vacancy and will serve until January 1947, creating a county judge vacancy awaiting the governor's successor appointment.
City records show three new warehouses with a combined cost of 15000. W J Duncan builds a 7500 dollar concrete block facility on Market Street to be leased to Tennessee Valley Farm Industries for a chicken dressing plant, targeting 3000 to 4000 chickens daily and 30 to 45 workers. Completion expected in 30 days. Gobble Lumber Co funds a 6000 dollar brick and block office and warehouse on West Market, due in about three weeks. T R Harrison constructs a 1500 dollar insulated frame warehouse at 108 West Moulton Street, with the Farm Industries company to source chickens from its growers and operate its own distribution system.
Goering's 1939 secret report branded Julius Streicher a sadist and thief. The document, shown at the IMT, describes beatings with a riding whip and calls for further abuses. It cites a prison cell assault on Prof. Steinruck and Streicher's statements of relief afterward.
Chicago police named a former nursery employee as a person of interest in the Suzanne Degnan kidnapping and murder inquiry. Investigators tied a ladder found near the Degnan home to the nursery, noting the man had a prior mental hospital stay and questionable habits. Familien officials said another ex-convict with sex offense history is also sought.
Patton Furniture Company will open a new Decatur store at 112 W. Vine Street on Saturday January 12. Owner C. W. Patton has lived in Huntsville 20 years and run furniture ventures in Athens and Huntsville, with Decatur becoming the third North Alabama location. R. L. Greenway will manage the new shop which will offer new furniture and buy and sell used items.
All servicemen discharged or home on furlough may apply for sugar at the veteran commissioner's office in the county courthouse. Commissioner John B. Hampton says applicants must bring furlough papers or discharges. The Morgan area price control board previously issued applications to furloughed men and ex service members.
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce prepares for its fifteenth annual membership meeting at Somerville Road school at 7 PM with speakers from First National Bank of Clarksville and guests Hal Self and Malcolm Laney. The program titled The Decatur Picture promises a well organized evening with no delays.
Morgan County Tax Collector Alvis G. Briscoe was named chairman of the Morgan County Red Cross fund raising campaign. J. W. Clapton announced Briscoe’s appointment and said the annual drive will be announced later with no quotas set. Briscoe, a former first aid instructor, succeeds Marvin Rankin who resigned.
Brig. Gen. Carl H. Seals of Birmingham Alabama and Mrs Jen Frost Robinson of Laurel Maryland married Saturday at Memorial Chapel Walter Reed hospital. The ceremony was conducted by Chaplain Donald C. Stuart with family present.
Sen. Edwin C. Johnson named chair of a special Senate military subcommittee to study demobilization after GI protests near mutiny. Elbert Thomas and Revercomb named as members. Johnson urged Eisenhower and Royal to testify about the demobilization plan and to stabilize and clarify policy quickly.
A total of 500 business houses in Decatur were contacted by Salvation Army building fund campaign workers Tuesday and Wednesday. Envelopes with pledge cards and red shields were distributed to about 40 volunteers to solicit funds from employees by January 15. Envelopes were given to every business firm. the largest industry received 500 envelopes, the smallest two. Plans to build centers in Decatur to expand the Army’s work. The drive aims for a $10,000 goal.
Generalissimo Chiang Kai Shek announces a plan to legalize all political parties free political prisoners and grant freedom of speech and local self government. The four points include equal party rights and popular elections with release of non traitorous prisoners. Chou En Lai endorses the plan as a path to constitutional government. US envoy Gen George C. Marshall helps resolve ceasefire wording.
Luther Fuller of the Tennessee Coal Iron and Railroad Co arrives in Birmingham to attend the Decatur Chamber of Commerce annual meeting at Somerville Road school tonight.
Judge Seybourn H. Lynne was sworn in as a federal judge for the North Alabama District at age 38. The Birmingham ceremony drew Tennessee Valley friends and prominent Alabama legal figures, with tributes from colleagues and a full courtroom.
About 7,000 long distance workers in New York would begin a walkout amid a nationwide strike threat in solidarity with installation workers. The dispute involves Western Electric and AT&T with union leaders seeking wage increases while GM wage talks unfold in Washington.
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