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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1946
Page
1
Partly cloudy with local thundershowers Sunday and Monday. Miss Nadine Turner visits Birmingham sister. James E. Hamilton discharged after 22 months service. Various visits, church services, club meetings, and hospital news. polio delays Cub Pack Five meetup. Local residents travel and attend events. ad tag ends.
Alabama’s six candidate field for the post held by the late John H Bankhead rattles off schedules with 55 speeches in six days. John Sparkman leads with 30 stump appearances next week, including nine talks in 11 hours on Friday. Others, like Frank Boykin and James Simpson, add dozens of stops, while Ted Allen Maxwell and Holley publish limited itineraries.
Aboard the USS Appalachian, an Associated Press report describes the July 1 atomic air burst at Bikini Atoll smashing coral 100 feet beneath the lagoon and generating a towering fireball and atomic tornado. Photographs show a one mile blaze and steam fog banks as the water converts to instant steam above 3100 degrees. The depiction notes a Sarasota deck fire and the evolving mushroom cloud sequence.
Washington July 6 A Democratic split threatened to block revival of meat price controls in any OPA renewal bill. Wherry and several Democrats support removing meat and poultry from control, while Murdock warned of a veto if the form reaches the President. Barkley hopes to defeat the profits amendment and preserve a decontrol clash for the Senate.
Health Officer C. J. Fisher reported four new polio cases in Lauderdale county, raising the toll to 67 amid an epidemic. Additional cases occurred in neighboring Alabama and Tennessee counties, with victims including four white children aged five four and 11 and a four-year-old Negro. All Lauderdale cases have developed since May 21.
Anti Allied demonstrations in Trieste flare after foreign ministers pledge to internationalize the city. British troops use clubs and tear gas to disperse crowds while rock throwing erupts. A British MP is assaulted and an Italian demonstrator is hospitalized after a clash.
Soviet forces claim 75 percent of Austria's industrial capacity and other assets in Eastern Austria as German reparations under Potsdam. The $22 million in industry and related assets were taken without Allied council disclosure. United States and Austria protest the seizure as German assets. General Clark warns caution in enforcing orders and seeks to protect Austrian pre annexation properties. Chancellor Figl’s cabinet meets to decide approach amid Soviet action and debates over asset ownership.
Two transactions in Decatur involved estimated values from 65 000 to 75 000 with the Leeman building at 614 616 Second Avenue changing hands for 51 000. The site houses Southern Shoe Store Jones recreation parlor and the second floor offices, with occupancy unchanged.
British Foreign Secretary Ernest Bevin charged Russia with stalling the July 29 European peace conference. American informants said the Big Four were deadlocked as Byrnes and Bevin pressed Molotov on rules of procedure. Bevin asserted Britain would not accept limits on its participation and noted Italy reparations as part of the bargain. Byrnes and Bevin privately discussed China's invited power status, backing U S and British positions.
The Navy Department said the disappearance of 1275 feet of unimportant film from the Pacific atom bomb test is under investigation. Joint Task Force No 1 reported the loss on June 30. Navy indicated the film was the same mentioned in Kwajalein dispatches about a July 1 test at Bikini.
The United States and Britain plan to discontinue the Axis collaboration blacklist created during World War II. About 5,880 foreign firms and individuals in Latin America and former neutral European countries will be affected, with licenses to be issued by the Treasury to allow limited future business.
A whisky still exploded in a rural Fulton County area near Atlanta today, killing James A. Connor of Woodstock and injuring S. J. Biddy, also of Woodstock, who suffered a mangled foot and internal injuries. The blast hurled the boiler to about 75 feet, leaving only the chimney of the abandoned farm building housing the still. Captain Hugh Duncan of the Fulton County police reported the identities and injuries.
Alabama legislators face stiff opposition to Gov James E Folsoms push to repeal the poll tax and extend pensions to all residents over 65 In a AP survey of 41 of 141 lawmakers the repeal side trailed by more than four to one though some favored eliminating the poll tax cumulative levy Others opposed or undecided and only five supported repeal The issue hinges on a constitutional amendment and votes in both chambers See POLL On Page 8
Maj. Gen. M. S. Eddy, commander of the second army, announced a six year plan to train about 571,195 National Guard ground troops in the United States. He said training remains a state function while regular Army instructors will supervise the program.
July 8 report notes the first annual Southeastern art exhibition to be staged in Atlanta this fall. It will showcase artists from Georgia, the Carolinas, Florida, Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana.
Senate war investigating committee reveals Andrew J May involvement in $18 634 07 checks and a Cumberland Lumber draft while examining Erie Basin Metal and Batavia Metal contracts. Schaffer testifies Cumberland owned by May and no lumber delivered. Mitchell calls for May subpoena. May denies profit and defends actions.
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