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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jan 20, 1946
Page
1
Local notes report multiple Navy and Army discharges for Decatur area service members with medals and overseas service. Also listed are travel, hospital, and visiting updates, with residents visiting relatives in Tennessee and Birmingham.
The U S senate faces a stalemate as Southern filibusters block a permanent Fair Employment Practice Commission bill. Republicans press for continuous sessions while Southern leaders demand 24 hour debate until the journal is approved. Russell and Overton pledge to force quorum calls to hasten a decision.
Lt Colonel Grady J Long of Hartselle has qualified to run for Morgan County solicitor. Born in Danville and Basham Gap areas, he attended Falkville high school and Alabama Polytechnic Institute, Auburn and Jones Law School. He practiced law in Hartselle since 1940, served as city attorney, coached Morgan county high school football, and served five years in the National Guard and European theater. He is active in First Baptist church Rotary and American Legion.
In Seoul two Koreans died and many were wounded as rioting subsided after 34 hours following demonstrations against Allied trusteeship. About 120 people were arrested as violence spread to the governor general's palace area near Lt. Gen. John Rame...
James E. Folsom, known as Big Jim, becomes the fifth candidate for Alabama governor in the May 7 Democratic primary. He filed with state party officials in Mobile after quitting silence for a week. Also qualifying for state House seats were W. L. Doc Martin Jr. and Joseph C. Sullivan, plus J W. Brussell for Russell County seat No. 2. Other contenders include Elbert Boozer, Handy Ellis, Gordon Persons, and Joe Poole.
Senator Edwin C. Johnson and D. Cole call for a large advertising campaign to recruit volunteers for the Army. They favor a voluntary system, urge re enlisting incentives, and expect 500000 volunteers by February 1 as the draft law remains unsettled. The Navy, by contrast, largely fills its needs with volunteers.
Rutledge S. Thomas of Decatur qualified for the Alabama state senate in the second district covering Morgan and Lawrence counties. As Decatur City Council president and former state rep, he leads the Rotary club and pledges to push progress and government that benefits ordinary citizens if elected.
Secretary of Agriculture Anderson told a Southern committee he hopes a ceiling price for raw cotton will not be needed. Rep. Whittington said no formal conclusion was reached after a two hour conference. The 19 member group will reconvene Monday to study OPA plans to impose ceilings to stabilize prices.
Two unnamed men escaped injury when a tractor-trailer carrying about four tons of hay overturned at the Producers' Gin Saturday afternoon. The men had come to weigh the hay before delivery when the accident occurred. It took about an hour and a half to reload the hay.
Coroner Clyde Blakely reported Clayten O. Ray, 29, shot and killed his wife Mrs. Ray while she ironed and then fatally shot himself. Neighbors cite domestic trouble as the motive. The Rays had been separated for months and Ray returned home yesterday morning.
Iran directly appealed to the UN Security Council to investigate alleged Soviet interference in Iran’s internal affairs. The Iranian delegation asked the council act under article 35 to examine the situation and seek a settlement as Soviet troops hold Northwest Iran amid an insurgent Azerbaijan government.
Two people were injured in a Saturday 1:30 a.m. automobile crash on Highway 31. Juanita Lackey, 701 Twelfth Avenue, was treated at Decatur General Hospital for head and facial cuts after being thrown from the car. Eugene Ferguson, driver of the car, received cuts and bruises and was discharged later that morning. The collision involved Ferguson of 509 East Moulton Street and Ezzie Sandefer, 512 Sycamore Street, about a half mile north of Keller Memorial Bridge.
General MacArthur orders an international tribunal to try ex Prime Minister Hideki Tojo and other Japanese leaders for crimes against peace and humanity. The court of five to nine members will be chosen from nations allied to Japan's surrender and may begin March 1 in Tokyo.
Ten Russians who served with the Germans on the Eastern Front killed themselves after lighting a barracks fire at Dachau as American troops attempted to force repatriation. US General McNarney said only deserters or those who aided enemies would be repatriated, while others were not forcibly sent home. 21 others slit their throats or wounded themselves in the same incident.
The Decatur Youth for Christ rally at Central Baptist Church on Saturday January 26 has been indefinitely postponed due to a committee misunderstanding of backing by the Ministerial Association.
Decatur resident C McMillan, 709 Third Avenue West, recalls childhood poverty and rural life in the 1865 1945 period, contrasting it with present hardship. He describes a frugal household with shared rooms, homemade goods, scarce schooling, and simple pleasures, concluding that today’s hard times aren’t as severe.
Lester E. Wooten has qualified as candidate for superintendent of education of Morgan County. A native of Morgan County, he has taught thirteen years in local schools and is currently principal of Moulton Heights junior high. He holds degrees from Florence State Teachers College, the University of Alabama, Athens College, and George Peabody College.
Kaiser accepts a Presidential offer of an 18 12 cent hourly wage gain and signs a CIO United Steelworkers contract. The nationwide strike deadline looms as 750,000 members threaten mass walkouts, with large plants in Detroit Pittsburgh Chicago and Gary already shutting or preparing to shut.
Secretary of Labor Schwellenbach announced a settlement of the 15,000 glass workers strike at 12 Pittsburgh Plate Glass plants. The agreement, reached in Columbus Ohio, involves the CIO Glass Ceramics And Lihca Workers and the company. Operations will resume Monday.
The nationwide CIO and AFL meat workers strike enters its fifth day as unions press wage demands. President Truman's proposal to end the steel walkout is rejected by U S Steel president Fairless, with Reading and Birdsboro plants cited in wage talks.
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