Decatur and North Alabama Daily News Briefs
Alabama weather shows partly cloudy skies with scattered thundershowers. Tennessee forecast stays warm with possible afternoon showers tonight and Wednesday. Local notes include openings of a new studio by H L Kirby and staff, hospital admissions, and the Decatur Curb Market schedule. Absenteeism at local plants was unusually low after a three day holiday. other items mention births, visits, and community events.
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Alabama
Tennessee
Alabamians Fourth of July fatalities rise in holiday toll
Seventeen Alabamians died in Fourth of July weekend accidents. Fifteen within Alabama and two in other states. Victims include Richard Finney of Buffalo killed after a Wadley crash, Chester Willingham of Anniston, John Thomas Shows of Moundville, and drowning victims Seah Smith and Albert Stewart Jr. Also noted were deaths from drownings in Oxmoor and Guntersville Lakes and traffic deaths in Virginia and Tennessee.
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Associated Press
Richard Finney
Buffalo
Ala
Lafayette
Wadley
Hal
Lou Finney
Chester Willingham
Anniston
John Thomas Shows
Moundville
Talladega
Billy Heard
Waldo
Seah Smith
Birmingham
Albert Stewart, Jr
Guntersville
Smith
Oxmoor Lake
Stewart
Billy Pogue
Gadsden
Pulaski
Edward Carpenter
Wedowee
Cleveland
Warrior River
Silas B. Ray Sr
Silas B. Ray, Jr
Powderly
Betty Ann Donovan
Semmes
Man charged after wife beaten to death in Alabama farming area
Marvin Helms, 56, a Cullman county farmer, is jailed on a charge of beating his wife Pearl Helms to death. Investigators say she was found in a bloodstained tool shed near their 40 acre farm nine miles southwest of Cullman, with the attack described as brutal and bloody.
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Marvin Helms
Cullman
Pearl Helms
Shelley Hyatt
J. Grady Moss
Aoe
George Twilly
Hollis Helms
Hyatt
Helms
Three Found Guilty At Grafeneck Case In Germany
In the French zone German court sentences three men for crimes against humanity linked to Grafeneck Insane Asylum killings. Otto Mauthe gets five years, Alfons Stegmann two years, Frang Martha Frauser 18 months. Five more acquitted as war crimes verdicts conclude the trial.
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Tuebingen
Germany
Grafeneck
Otto Mauthe
Alfons Stegmann
Frang Martha Frauser
Women's Department
New Charge Put Up By Commies
Prague July 5 government official accuses Czechoslovakian Catholic bishops of collaboration with the Nazis. The state asserts church leaders refuse to negotiate a state church accord and pursue anti state activities. Archbishop Josef Beran, a Nazi prisoner in Dachau, is cited amid claims of unpatriotic conduct by church leadership.
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Prague
Czechoslovakia
Josef Beran
Dachau
Laco Novomesky
Slovakia
Recluse heiress valued at 200000 found dead in Philadelphia home
Authorities seek a court order to search the cluttered house of Catherine Ritter 79 as neighbors recall her living on bread and milk in near isolation. Police say she died of natural causes and had hidden money possibly near her 14 rental properties.
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Philadelphia
Catherine
Ritter
Swift Approval Atlantic Pact Senate Plea
Senator Connally urged swift ratification of the Atlantic pact, calling it proof free nations will stand together for defense. He said the 20 year treaty coordinates duty but does not bind the US to fight unless Congress approves. Some senators oppose the arms plan though most back the pact. See SWIFT on Page 2.
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Washington
Connally
D-Tex
Senate
North Atlantic
United States
Canadda
Connnally
Truman
Congress
Taft
Rohio
Greece
Turkey
France
Russia
SWIFT
Legion Urges End To Hooded Mobs In Alabama
Alabama American Legion delegates urged law enforcement and the public to stop hooded mobs and violence. The resolutions committee called for state action while asking the federal government to stay hands off. The convention, with over 1000 members, prepared to elect officers and endorse history requirements for schools and colleges.
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Mobile
Alabama Legionnaires
Resolutions Committee
Alabama
Congress
American Legion
Claude M. Haygood
Montgomery
Haywood
Legion
Auburn
One Dead Six Hurt In Alabama Mountain Crash
A 22 year old woman, Mrs. R. B. Sweatt, was killed and six others were slightly injured in a highway accident on Chula Vista mountain near Pell City Alabama today. Acting Coroner J. C. Meehan said she was driving the car when the crash occurred.
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Pell City
Ala
Chula Vista Mountain
R. B. Sweatt
J. C. Meehan
Government Rests Case In Hiss Perjury Trial
The Hiss perjury trial moves to jury deliberation as Judge Kaufman schedules final summations. After a brief recess, the government rests. prosecutor Murphy failed to overturn a ruling excluding testimony by Gerhart Eisler’s ex wife, now Mrs Hede Massing. Witness Walter Hebb testified about the Woodstock Typewriter Company leasing 1526 K Street NW in 1938.
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New York
Alger Hiss
Samuel H. Kaufman
Kaufmann
U. S. Marshall
Kaufman
U. S
Thomas F. Murphy
Gerhart Eisler
Bisler
Woodstock Typewriter Company
Grand Jury Faces Large Docket in Circuit Court
A grand jury impanelled before Circuit Judge James H Crow Jr. opens with over 90 cases and may reach 100. One of the circuit’s largest dockets, the panel is led by foreman LeRoy McEntire Sr. of Sycamore, with jurors from Danville Falkville Lacey's Spring Hartselle Decatur Somerville and nearby areas listed by occupation.
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James H. Crow Jr
H. Harrison. Hill
LeRoy McEntire Sr
Sycamore
Parker S. Aldridge
Danville
Edward B. Alvis
Falkville
Earl J. Borck
East Moulton
Carpenter
Lynn Bowling
Lacey’s Spring
Allen A. Brazell
Hartselle
Robert Lee Brown
Luther B. Browning
Grant
William J. Browning
Will E. Call
Wadsworth
Frank M. Campbell
Canal
Ralph Dobbins
Clarence R. Ferguson
Sixth Avenue West
William F. Frazier
East Vine
Leland D. Garrison
Somerville
Seeking successor to Gerhart Eisler
The House Un-American Activities Committee seeks who followed Gerhart Eisler as its top communist agent. A member said they must find someone who knows and will sing, but no clear successor is identified yet. Eisler fled to Germany in May, currently in the Russian zone.
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Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
Gerhart Eisler
United States
Hisler
Akin
Eisler
Germany
Woman charged with murder in 2 chest wounds death
Rebecca Baker 53, a legless deaf? no, legless Negro, is charged with murder for the shooting death of her husband Hilliard Baker 48 at their home 326 East Cherry Street. He died after two chest wounds suffered about 2:30 PM Sunday and after treatment at a local hospital he died Monday at 12:30 AM. A warrant was sworn out before County Judge W H Long. Baker had been transferred to Morgan jail for investigation. Police say she claimed self defense while Baker said she fired first. He had lost both legs in a train accident and had moved to town from Jefferson County about 12 or 15 years ago Dum.
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Rebecca Baker
Hilliard Baker
East Cherry Street
Baker
Cook
W. H. Long
Morgan
Jefferson County
Postal Receipts Show 20 Percent Gain Here
Post master Robert T. Sheppard announced quarterly postal receipts rose 20 percent from the previous year. Receipts for the quarter ended June 30 were $29,977.61 in 1948 and $35,558.03 in 1949, confirming the gain.
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Robert T. Sheppard
Truman Democrats Dispute Taft-Hartley Fight
President Truman and Democratic congressional leaders discussed labor legislation but postponed a decision on pushing repeal of the Taft Hartley Act. Speaker Rayburn said a verdict will come after talks with Chairman Lesinski and the labor committee members.
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Washington
Truman
Rayburn
D-Tex
Lesinski
D-Mich
House Labor Committee
Four new floggings revealed in Jefferson County
Mrs. Elizabeth Studdard testified before a Jefferson County grand jury about four additional flogging incidents in April. She identified Albert Sanders and Ruxford Spradlin as two of the assailants and said 75 to 100 robed, armed men attacked her home in the Western Jefferson County mountains near Birmingham, whipping her daughter Opal and two others.
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Birmingham
Ala
Elizabeth Studdard
Lynn Park
Jefferson County
Opal
Albert Sanders
Ruxford Spradlin
Spradlin
Sanders
Kadilux Klan
Teen shoots self after plea over long distance call
Winter Haven Florida July 5 a 11 year old high school junior William C Rackley was not dead after shooting himself despite frantic pleas by his teenage girlfriend Betty Thrasher who listened by telephone from Eagle Lake six miles away Rackley was in very critical condition with a gunshot wound to the right side Police found the gun and phone by his side The couple had finished the sophomore class together and had dated briefly with no clear motive noted
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Winter Haven
Fla
UPA
Winter Haven Hospital
William C. Rackley
Rackley
Betty Thrasher
Eagle Lake
Ross I. Robertson
J. A. Turner
Miss Thrasher
Nearly Nude Woman Recalls Rape and Double Slay
In Sonoma California a nearly nude woman fled a mountain road and told picnickers of being raped before two men were found killed inside a mountain home. A chase for a mystery man named Hank followed as suspects and a missing car were reported.
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Sonoma
Calif
Jack London
Valley of the Moon
Hank
Sonoma State Home
Peter J. Flint
Richmond
Flint
Sonoma Valley
Jensen
Forming Plan To Meet Decline In Prices And Jobs
President Truman discussed the economy with congressional leaders as a mid year report looms. He plans a special message proposing programs to combat falling prices and employment, with a decision on new taxes still undecided.
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Marvin L. Arrowsmith
Washington
Truman
Congress
Charles Ross
Mr. Truman
Ross
Chesapeake Bay
Sparkman
Ala
Alabama
81St
Eddie Self Sets Up General Accounting Office
Edgar A Eddie Self opens a general accounting office at 607 1 2 Second Avenue after Army Air Corps service. He enrolled at Birmingham Southern College in 1947 and graduated in 1949 with a BA in public accounting. He is a Decatur High School graduate and son of Mr and Mrs W C Self of 1208 6th Avenue East Decatur.
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Edgar A
Eddie) Self
Second Avenue
Army Air Corps
Self
Birmingham Southern College
Decatur High School
W. C. Self
6Th Avenue East
Decatur
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H. L. Kirby
State of
East Moulton Street
Fred B. Sparkman
Anderson Sparkman
Oak Ridge
Milton Keith
Marshall C. Keith
Huntsville
Decatur General Hospital
Decatur Curb
G. L. Golden
Prospect Drive
James Allen
Juanita Lancaster
Trinity 1
W. T. Atkins
Atlanta
Hamil Clinic
TVA
Leroy Thomas
Somerville 2
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Medrnih
Jessie Pigkett
North Avenue
Grady Terry
Moulton
Hazel Stephenson
Gastonea
W. C
Carrie Lee Oliver
Austinville
Texas
New Mexico
E. G. Oliver
Mrs
Cecil Oliver
Essie White
Albert Walker
B. H. ‘Blevins
Family of Artselles
North
Carol Smith
Carol Smith Jr
Charles Smith
Greensboro
Inge Selen
Redding Emens
Margaret Ann
Mary Elizabeth
Crowley
Legion Memorial Field
Sheppard
U. S. Pipe
the Legion
Earl Rich
Marietta
C. H. Peele
Dan Dobbs
By Ken Reynolds
Hiss
Grand Jury
Nick C. McGee
Decatur 1
Arthur Nunn
William L. White
John P. Planger
Daytona Beach
Eva Paget
Berkeley
San Francisco
Constance Hoover
Margaret Smith
Mearly
Eddie Self
Ashe
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