Weather and local notices from Decatur community today
Partly to mostly cloudy regional forecast with cooler air in the south. T. M. Gantt recovering from heart attack at 2 Church Street. Harold E. Ingraham to speak at First Baptist on Growing A Church Through Its Sunday School. Building permit for $8000 at 502 East Moulton Street. Tanner and East Limestone Independents basketball games Saturday at 7 P M. Garrison's Decatur to face Muscle Shoals Rockies. Rabies positive foxhead from Sheffield. calf head negative. Recorder's court updates on violations. St Johns Episcopal to install vestry and hear Rev. Chapman on Fear Not I Am With Thee. Temperatures and rainfall details from sub-station. Mary Ann Bagley named on Birmingham Southern dean's list. Local arrests include vagancy and public drunkenness. Hospital discharges and births reported. diary note on page 2.
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Tanner High Schol
Tanner Independents
East Limestone Independents
Garrison's
Decatur
Muscle Shoals Rockies
Administration Shaken by Loss On Korean Help
The House rejected a Truman backed Korea aid bill by two votes, 193 to 191, signaling a rough start for administration allies. A rule change vote later today could end the 21 day delaying power of the rules committee or restore it, giving a Republican southern Democrat coalition control. The outcome hinges on the 169 Republican members and remains highly uncertain.
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Washington
Truman
House
GOP
William F. Arbogast
Korea
Rules Committee
Yeggs Fail in Boaz Safe Job After Spurning War Bonds
Boaz Alabama police report two safe crackers opened Dr H L Horsley office safe and stole bonds records and cash before being frightened off. They earlier spurned $125000 in war bonds and damaged a second strong box containing roughly $600 to $700 in cash and about $700 in travelers checks.
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Boaz
Ala
L. J. Floyd
H. L. Horsley
Scroggins Promoted to Disco President at Decatur Iron & Steel
Frank Scroggins and Thomas J. Kelley Jr. were elected to top posts at Decatur Iron & Steel Company Inc. Scroggins becomes president, Kelley vice president at the annual board meeting in New York. Scroggins rose from vice president. Kelley from jail construction consultant with Decatur ties.
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Frank Scroggins
Thomas J. Kelley Jr
Decatur Iron & Steel Company Inc
New York
Scroggins
Kelley
Decatur
Cisco
St. Louis
New Engraver Is Put to Work at Decatur Daily
The Decatur Daily in Alabama begins using a Fairchild photo-electric engraver to produce staff photos. The first plant-made image shows Decatur Community Chest officials and marks the paper’s new on-site photo engraving capability and faster production.
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Decatur Daily
Alabama
Fairchild
Decatur Community Chest
Decatur
Daily News
Valley
Barbecue Stand Operator Kidnapped and Flogged in Talladega
In Talladega Alabama Albert Watts a 51 year old barbecue stand operator was abducted by four masked men on a side street driven to a wooded area tied and flogged with a strap Watts identified as the victim said he was beaten on the back by two to four attackers two teen witnesses Morris Marlowe and James Magouyrk confirmed his account Watts was later driven to a country road and released near a farmer's home He was treated at police headquarters and said to have a bad back Authorities promise help as similar flogging cases have occurred in central Alabama last spring and early summer with eighteen indictments issued afterwards
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Talladega
Ala
Alabama
Willis Dean
Albert Watts
Watts
Dean
Morris Marlowe
James Magouyrk
Woods
Eee
Child Plunges Into Bathtub Saved By Brother
Linda Beasley eighteen months old nearly drowned when she fell headfirst into the family tub as her nine-year-old brother Mac drew his bath. The father and mother pulled her from the water after he shouted Linda fell in. The family rushed to aid the child and she regained breathing.
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Linda Beasley
Mac
Linda
Mrs. Beasley
Petite Linda Beasley
Marvin Beasley
Ninth Avenue West
Miss
The
Daily
Flood Menace Shifts Friday
Floods menace new areas in the South and Pacific Northwest while easing at danger points in the Midwest. More than 20,000 homeless in the Mississippi and Ohio valleys as rising waters threaten Arkansas and Tennessee. The Mississippi crest nears Birds Point New Madrid floodway edge near Charleston Missouri. Cold moderates after widespread sub-zero readings.
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Associated Press
South
Pacific Northwest
Midwest
Mississippi
Ohio River
Mississippi River
Arkansas
Tennessee
Big River
Charleston
Birds Point
New Madrid
Caribou
Eee Bina Falls
Minn
Truman Proposes Rollback and Moderate Tax Increase
President Truman discussed tax plans with Democratic leaders and experts, aiming to raise government revenue by about $1 billion. He plans to send a special tax message to Congress next week outlining a roll back of excise taxes and a moderate rise in corporate taxes, with no clear indication on individual income tax changes.
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Washington
Truman
Congress
White House
House
Rayburn
Bandit Hunt Moves Across Nation Under Hoover Aid
Boston reports streamlining of the search for nine bandits who seized a million dollars in cash and a half in a major robbery. FBI Director J Edgar Hoover directs co ordinated efforts with local police agencies and possible central office to sift clues. Two more money bags, found in Milton, carry partial markings and offer potential clues for the Boston holdup investigation.
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Boston
FBI
J. Edgar Hoover
Milton
Federal Reserve Bank of New York
Hoover
Parish Census Plans Set For Tonight Parley
Dr W Nelson Guthrie leads a 7:30 pm meeting at Central Baptist with pastors and census chairmen from 30 local churches to finalize inter denominational church survey plans. District chairmen and helpers will run five districts and 2:30 pm Sunday sessions will train workers.
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W. Nelson Guthrie
Central Baptist Church
Guthrie
D. D. Gibson
J. Emmett McClary
Alvin Johnson
Ned Frazier
I. H.estes
Ingraham
Cain Chapel Methodist Church
Decatur
Austinville
Fairview
Joe Wheeler
Somerville Road
F. QO. Smith
Ernest Poole
Harry Wyatt
Convicted Slayer Opens Insanity Plea Hearing
Fred Stroble, guilty of first degree murder in the 1960 death of Linda Joyce Glacoft, begins a second insanity trial before a jury. His lawyers argue Stroble was not sane at the time. three psychiatrists report sanity, while Stroble faces possible execution in the gas chamber with automatic state supreme court review.
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Los Angeles
Fred Stroble
Linda Joyce Glacoft
Baker
al Matthews
John J. Hill
Linda
Matthews
Stroble
Charles W. Fricke
California
State Supreme Court
Mistrial Set In Williams Case Friday
In Columbiana Alabama circuit court Judge W W Wallace declared a mistrial in the murder case of Charles Williams a former U S Senate candidate. The judge sustained defense claims that prosecutors actions violated Williams rights and the case will be rescheduled.
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Columbiana
Ala
U. S.senate
Charles Williams
Williams
Frank Swalley
Wal
Administration presses for federal anti lynching law
Washington reports the Truman administration renews demand for a federal anti lynching law. Attorney General Howard McGrath urges Congress to allow federal prosecution of lynch mobs and to empower the FBI in lynching cases, challenging southern claims that lynching is a state matter.
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Washington
Congress
Howard McGrath
Senate Judiciary
McGrath
Juste Department
Frank Chambers
Department
Connecticut
FBI
Truman
Coal Shortage Widespread Across American Cities
The Associated Press reports several American cities face coal shortages that could become critical amid regional variation. Weather-driven demand and temperature drops threaten to trigger emergency conservation, with both soft and hard coal affected and no precise nationwide estimates available.
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Associated Press
Weatherman
Doubt Expressed Rules Fight Will Affect Cotton Changes
Southern congressmen doubt the house rules fight will derail a cotton acreage amendment. The measure would limit cotton allotment cuts to 30 percent based on 1946 47 48 averaging, as agriculture leaders push for quick passage before February planting.
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Gordon Brown
Washington Service
Washington
Jan
Capitol Hill
Rules Committee
Rep. Gathings
D-Ark
House Agriculture Committee
Cooley
House
Deep South
Controls Today Ordered Lifted By Washington
Washington dispatch reports rent control ended today in Morgan county and Athens based on a 1941 freeze. E R Carter Jr and local housing editor Woods note no official confirmation yet but expect decontrolling. Limestone county except Athens already decontrolled. Colbert Lauderdale and Madison still under control.
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Morgan County
Athens
Associated Press
Washington, D. C
E. R. Carter Jr
Carter
Limestone County
Tighe EL Woods
North Alabama
Colbert
Lauderdale
Madison
U S. Considers Severing Bulgarian Ties Amid Fallout
U S. may cut diplomatic links with Bulgaria as tensions rise over charges against U S. envoy Heath and Bulgarian campaigns. At Lake Success a UN majority backs lifting Spain ban while U S. signals broader Madrid outreach to oppose Franco.
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Associated Press
United States
Bulgaria
Lake Success
United Nations
Sages
Spain
Washington
Peter Venter
U. S
Sofia
Donald R. Heath
Heath
Traicho Kostov
Kostov
Uni
Britain
Yugoslavia
Rostov
U.S
Webb
Legation
Dean Acheson
Madrid
Francisco Franco
Hitler
Mussolini
Acheson
Ford Announces Price Cuts on Truck Models and Wagon
Ford Motor Company announced price reductions of 20 to 80 dollars on several truck models and a 148 dollar cut in the Detroit price of the Ford V-8 station wagon. The six cylinder F2 express truck now lists at 1295. A new six cylinder station wagon was added to the line. All reductions take effect today.
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Detroit
Ford Motor Company
Ford
L. D. Crusoe
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Church Street
Elmer W. Puckett
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East Moulton Street
Sheffield
State Branch Laboratory
Co. C. Johnson
Cullman
Nathan Pryor
Recorder’s Court
St. John’s Episcopal Church
Eugene M. Chapman
Mary Ann Bagley
R. B. Bagley
Birmingham Southern
C. B. Humphrey
J. L. Sneed
Fourth Avenue South
Hamil Clinic Hospital
Ollie Edwards
Trinity 1
Decatur General Hospital
Floyd Kelley
Trinity
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Jo Ann Todd
Falkville 2
Yeggs
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