Decatur Weather Outlook and Local Announcements
Skies show cloudy to partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Saturday with a few showers in the northern portion. Moderate to fresh southerly coastal winds. Helen Jepson concert set for Monday night January 16 at Riverside Auditorium with membership tickets only. Several local notices on court cases permits births hospital admissions and community meetings. Friday the thirteenth warns caution as Rev O E Burton preaches at Central Baptist Church with two evening sermons.
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Community Concert Association
Helen Jepson
Riverside Auditorium
Youngster's first drive ends in series of mishaps
In Russellville Arkansas on January 13 John Woodson aged three attempted to drive his grandfather's car. His great grandmother Cora Lee was fractured a grandparent's car was damaged two trees lawn furniture shattered and the engine ran while John steered. Mrs Delbert Lee had left him momentarily in the car.
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Russellville
Ark
John Woodson
Cora Lee
Delbert Lee
John
Lees
Truculent Sinks After Tanker Ram in Thames Disaster
Fifty two Royal Navy crewmen are feared dead after the submarine Truculent was rammed by a Swedish tanker in the Thames estuary. Nine bodies recovered, total dead 61, with fifteen survivors and a rescue plane crash in Scotland killing five aboard.
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Chatham
England
Royal Navy
Thames Estuary
Cham
Eng
Adm
G. B. Middleton
Chatham Navy Yard
Thames
Admiralty
Royal Air Force
Scotland
Coal Shortage Reported as Critical in 36 Cities
The U S Chamber of Commerce reports a critical coal shortage in 36 cities across 10 major bituminous states with average dealer stock under seven days. Weather has delayed widespread hardship but some areas face hours remaining before impact. Truman denies an emergency plan and Taft Hartley powers.
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Howard W. Ward
Washington
U. S. Chamber of Commerce Today
President Truman
Chamber
Truman
John L. Lewis
United Mine Workers
Chambers of Commerce
Chicago
American Retail Coal Association
Joseph E. Moody
Southern Coal Producers Association
Senator Taylor to Appeal to Supreme Court over Birmingham Arrest
Senator Taylor of Idaho said he will seek Supreme Court review in his case over a segregation law in Birmingham Alabama. An Alabama appeals court upheld his $50 fine and 180 day jail term for attempting to use a negro entrance at a 1948 Southern Negro Youth Conference meeting where he was to speak.
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Washington
Taylor
Idaho
United States Supreme Court
Birmingham
Ala
High Court
Alabama Court of Appeals
Southern Negro Youth Conference
Police School Will Open Here
Local police officers will study burglary investigations safe crackings and arrest procedures at a peace officers training school to run January 16 through January 26 in the Decatur police courtroom. Police Chief J B Whitmire announced the program with G D King of Birmingham FBI supplying agents.
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Decatur
J. B. Whitmire
Whitmire
G. D. King
Birmingham FBI
W. H. Osborne
Haynie Bonded In Incest Case Involving Daughter Testimony
Riley Haynie appeared on incest charges in a county hearing set at a $2000 bond. His 15 year old daughter Marie testified about sexual relations and a decedent infant born December 8 1949. Haynie is married to Christine Haynie found dead in 1948.
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Riley Haysnie
Lacon Mountain
W. H. Long
Marie Haynie
Haynie
Christine Haynie
James Lester Lang
Elmer Nix
Philip Shanks
Cotton Sale Terms Announced for German Purchases
The Economic Cooperation Administration set bid terms for 40 million dollars of American cotton to Western Germany funded by Marshall Plan money. Bids are due January 15 to 31 at Frankfurt Hoeschl, with contracts signed by March 31 and delivery by June 15. Minimum 12.5 percent must be low grade, rest in all grades.
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Washington
Economic Cooperation Administration Today
Germany
ECA
German Economic Ministry
Frankfurt — Hoeschl
Cafe Burns Near Birmingham in $20,000 Loss
A cafe at a tourist court just outside Birmingham burned early today. Estimated loss is $20,000. Fire began about 4 A M and burned for about two hours. Cause undetermined. The owner said the dispatcher demanded $100 for city trucks to aid outside the city limits, which the fire chief said was a misunderstanding. The owner was billed later by the city comptroller.
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Birmingham
Frank Odom
Hoyt Ayers
Flood Danger Mounts Across Midwest Rivers
The Associated Press reports rising flood danger as widespread rain drenches the Midwest. Weather officials warn no break in warm gulf air may bring heavier rains in the lower Mississippi and Tennessee valleys, with Arkansas thunderstorms moving north. Forecaster A W Walstrom urges vigilance as Ohio valley rain could worsen floods. Over 4,000 people have fled homes in Illinois Indiana Kentucky and Missouri, while many residents refuse to leave.
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Associated Press
MidWest
Weather Bureau
Gulf
Mississippi
Tennessee
Arkansas
A. W. Walstrom
Cincinnati
Ohio Valley
Illinois
Indiana
Kentucky
Missouri
Senate Group To Hear Chiefs On Formosa Testimony
Senate Foreign Relations Committee schedules testimony by Secretary Louis Johnson and General Omar Bradley on Formosa strategic importance. They will be asked if keeping Formosa from communist hands is vital to American defense. House committee reports nationalist hold could last 6 18 months without aid. Senate action follows Acheson briefing and Republican calls for clearer Pacific strategy.
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Washington
Senate Foreign Relations Committee
Johnson
Omar Bradley
Formosa
Connally
D-Tex
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Republican Committee
Louis Johnson
Omar N. Bradley
House Foreign Affairs Committee
U. S
Truman
Taft
Imitation of Simon Legree by Employer Endorsed
National Labor Relations Board ruled that a boss dressing as Simon Legree and playfully cracking a whip among workers is permissible during an election campaign. Walter L Berry Jr., manager at Charrain Manufacturing in San Diego, wore a costume and prompted workers to vote as the union faced defeat. The CIO Textile Workers praised Berry’s stunt as harmless humor amid the election atmosphere.
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Washington
Simon Legree
National Labor Relations Board
CIO
Textile Workers
Walter L Berry Jr
NLRB
Charrain Manufacturing Company
San Diego
Calif
Berry
Simon
Union
Challenge To McCorvey By Bill Lyerly In Alabama Politics
In Montgomery on January 1 Col Bill Lyerly challenged State Democratic Chairman Gessner T McCorvey saying he would run for office if barred from the party. He framed the issue as opposition to the Folsom crowd and pledged loyalty to Democratic nominees since 1948.
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Montgomery
Folso
Gessner T. McCorvey
Bill Lyerly
McCorvey
Alabama
Folsom
Lyerly
Justices of the Peace
Africa
Europe
Crop Control In 1951 Seen
Washington January 13 The Agriculture Department anticipates possible rigid production controls in 1951 for crops including cotton wheat tobacco sugar corn rice and peanuts. Budget plans cover costs of control programs if needed, but officials stress that budgeting does not guarantee imposition of controls. Current quotas exist for cotton tobacco and peanuts with future need tied to 1950 outturn and market prospects. Surpluses exist in corn wheat and other crops, and large yields under voluntary acreage allotments could prompt 1951 controls.
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Washington
Agriculture Department
Department
Truman
Fined in City's Court Negro Held by County
Charley Jolly a 64 year old negro is held in Morgan county jail on an assault with intent to murder charge. Sheriff C B Humphrey said he was arrested at home by Deputies Garlan Nuby and James Barnes. An affidavit by Viola Jolly says Jolly fired at Herman Rhodes. he had earlier been fined 75 dollars in city recorder court for assault and battery. Jolly, a city street department employee, testified he fired after Rhodes advanced.
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Charley Jolly
Morgan County
C. B. Humphrey
Garland Nuby
James Barnes
W. H. Long Jolly
Herman Rhodes
Viola Jolly
Herman
Charley
Jolly
City Recorder’s
Rhodes
City
James Bildedworth
LeRoy McEntire
City Street Department
Stoops Over To Tie Shoe Leads To Sight Restored
Foster M. Wilson a 41 year old salesman credited stooping to tie his shoestring with restoring his sight after 12 years of total blindness. He described seeing a beam of light followed by fog and haze as doctors initially called the improvement temporary. Now he reports almost 20 20 vision with thick lens glasses and he is married with 18 year old twins.
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Johnstown
Paxton
Foster M. Wilson
Wilson
Group Seeks Cap on Cotton Acreage Cuts
The House Agriculture Committee approved a bill to cap cotton acreage cuts at 30 percent under the cotton allotment act, with reallocations within counties. The measure aims to curb excessive reductions cited by growers, while amendments also extend to wheat and peanut allotments, adding acreage mainly in Alabama and Texas.
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AP Special
Washington Service
Washington
House Agriculture Committee
Espley
D-Nc
House
Cooley
Alabama
Texas
Sparkman hits plain liar claim at housing hearing
Horace Russell of the United States Savings and Loan League testified at a Senate Banking subcommittee hearing on the middle income housing program. He said Senator Sparkman called him a liar and criticized the proposal as uneconomic and unrealistic. The plan would grant over 2 million dollars in government backed loans to low income groups to build homes via cooperatives. Russell warned the legislation resembled socialism.
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Washington
Truman
Senate
Sparkman
D-Ala
Horace Russell
United States Savings and Loan League
Senate Banking Subcommittee
Maybank
D-S.c
Banking Committee
Russell
Switchman Injured In Fall At Decatur
A Southern Railway switchman, 40 year old Willie H. Mark of Huntsville, fell from the side of a boxcar yesterday. He suffers five broken ribs and abrasions. Freight agent J. W. Hunt says the slip was caused by a slippery footing after recent rains. Mark is at Decatur General Hospital in fair condition after being taken by Brown's ambulance.
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Southern Railway
Decatur General Hospital
Willie H
Mark
Huntsville
J. W. Hunt
Southern Freight
Marks
Hunt
Brown
Chusan Island Assault Being Prepared Now
Formosa dispatch reports Chinese nationalist defenseists claim advisory group aiding communist planners for a new Chusan Islands assault. Russian officers allegedly attached to Red divisions, with B 25 support and coastal air and sea bombardment alleged. Nationalists claim strikes on Shanghai menaced by air raids and river traffic damage.
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Spencer Moosa
Taipei
Formosa
Istry
Chusan Islands
Shanghai
Red
Japan Accepts Acheson Assurance on U S Defense
Tokyo readers hailed Secretary of State Acheson s pledge that the United States will defend Japan. The press highlighted it as the first official confirmation of a promised American obligation previously implied by officials and General MacArthur s staff. Military visitors note Washington plans to remain in Japan.
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Japan
Tokyo
Acheson
United States
Press Club
Washington
MacArthur
Patrols Watch Hainan Strait for Red Naval Craft
Far to the south a naval patrol kept watch around the Hainan strait scanning for junks and other Red units believed to be assembling along Liuchow peninsula for an expected assault on Hainan island. Nationalist officials dismissed abroad reports of communist landings, saying Reds had only been there briefly, some since before the Japanese surrender.
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Hainan Strait
Liuchow Peninsula
Hainan
Ree
Japan
Woman Accused Of Fire Murder In Mental Ward Blaze
Davenport January 13 A young Rock Island woman Elnora Epperly 23 is to be arraigned on murder charges for a hospital fire that killed 41 people. She allegedly admitted setting the blaze at St Elizabeths mental ward in Davenport while a nurse Anna Neal died aiding patients. Epperly is held in Scott County jail as authorities verify her statements.
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Davenport, Ja
Elnora Epperly
Rock Island
Iil
I County
Clark O. Fils
Scott County
Elizabeth
Mergyn
Werener M. Hollander
Davenport
Epperly
Anna Neal
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