Local Community News Briefs From Decatur Area
Mr and Mrs Frank Brannan of Hartselle spent the Fourth in Memphis with Elmer Brannan and his wife. J D Collins named new commander of the local American Legion at the Bank Street post home. Flotilla 2 Coast Guard Auxiliary to hold annual cruise beginning Saturday with a planning meeting Thursday at 7 30 at the harbor barge. Two court cases heard disorderly conduct and liquor violations. Building permits issued for three room frame house 2000 and one room bath 900. Several hospital admissions and births announced including Mrs J B Pirkle Mrs Loyd Shelton Mrs E L Turner Mrs Clyde McRae and Mrs John C Conley plus births of a daughter and a son at local clinics. See Diary on Page 2.
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American Legion
Legion
Bank’Street
J- D Collins
U. S. Coast Guard Auxiliary
T. D. Eaves
Well
Wilson Streets
R. E. Newsom
Jackson Street
18Th Avenue
Tanks Aid Red Assault On Korean Front
Fourteen communist tanks supported a Chinese company assault against U N positions on the central front near the Nam River Kum Song area. About 200 Chinese troops were repelled in a one hour fight with 39 killed and 30 more dead estimated. U N aircraft hit bunkers and supply sites destroying buildings vehicles and revetments.
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Seoul
United Nations
U. N
Nam River
Kumsong
U. S. Fifth Air Force
City council sets truck routes and planning board shakeup
Trucks are limited to Sixth Avenue East Church Street and Moulton Street for local deliveries. A separate ordinance bans through trucks on Somerville Road from Moulton Street to city limits unless delivering. Reeves named to plumbing board and planning board tensions rise as council seeks authority over street vacations and planning decisions.
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City
Sixth Avenue
Church Street
Moulton Street
Sixth
Town
Church and
Moulton
Joe Pettey
State Highway Department
Somerville Road
Reeves
Rutledge Thomas
Elton H. Reeves
Plumbing Examining Board
Alfred Frahn
Russell Humphrey
Thomas
Floyd Elkins
Planning Board
Russell Johnson
Hill Says Alabama Will Yield For Russell Nomination
Alabama Senator Lister Hill asserts Alabama will yield its first roll call vote to Georgia so Russell can be placed in nomination at the Democratic National Convention. Hill, chair of Alabama's delegation, disputed Kefauver backers who expect Kefauver to receive Alabama support. Russell spoke at the Alabama American Legion convention as Hill claimed Russell would command a majority of Alabama’s 22 delegates.
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Montgomery
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Alabama
Lister Hill
Hill
Russell
Sen. Hill
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Kefauver
The
American Legion
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Eisenhower Seeks GOP Unity At Missouri Breakfast
General Eisenhower urged Republican harmony at a breakfast with Missouri’s 26 delegates, urging to close ranks and joking about kicking the Democrats for a long setback. He noted Missouri backed him 22 to 4 over Taft in seating disputes and planned to meet Alabama delegates later.
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Chicago
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Eisenhower
Missouri
Taft
Blackstone
Alabama
C. D. Atkins
Reds Protest At Truce Talks On Prisoner Deaths
North Korea’s general Nam Il sent a letter to UN truce head Maj. Gen. Harrison accusing the United Nations of killing two Communist POWs and wounding eight on Koje Island last week. The UN replied that two North Korean POWs were killed and nine wounded in similar incidents. The protest arrived as the two sides met for a fifth secret session on prisoner exchange. The conference lasted 48 minutes.
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Munsan
United Nations Command
Koje Island
U. N
Nam Il
William K. Harrison
Panmunjoin
Stand Firm Murray Urges Steelworkers in Pittsburgh
Philip Murray says there is no defeat in CIO ranks as nearly 18,000 United Steelworkers gathered at Duquesne Stadium. He tells strikers not to be dismayed and warns companies not to divide the union as a steel strike enters its sixth week with over a million idled nationwide.
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Pittsburgh
Philip Murray
CIO
United Steelworkers
Duquesne
Murray
Nation's Liquor Bill Half That For Clothes
Americans spent about half as much on alcoholic beverages as on clothing last year. Commerce Department data show an average of 50.80 dollars per person for liquor.
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Washington
Commerce Department
Democrats vow to avoid race and religion issues in 1952 drive
Democratic National Committee chairman Frank E. McKinney pledged that the party will condemn racial prejudice and religious bigotry in campaigns. He wrote leaders of Protestant Catholic and Jewish groups that the 1952 election should hinge on vital issues, not prejudice. The piece notes Sen Kefauver doubts corruption will be an issue while Vice President Barkley says it likely will be one, and other candidates affirm varied positions as they campaign across states.
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Associated Press
Democratic Party
Frank E. McKinney
Democratic National Committee
McKinney
Estes Kefauver
Tennessee
Minnesota
Barkley
Washington
Richard B. Russell
Georgia
Montgomery
Ala
South
Russell
Arkansas
Indiana
Averell Harriman
Mutual Security
Indianapolis
Robert Kerr
Oklahoma
Pittsburgh
Farmer Arson Charge Tollows Divorce Settlement Motive
Virgil Edison, 37, of Steppeville, jailed in Cullman County on $14,000 bond after two arson counts over a Fourth of July farmhouse and barn fire. Sheriff Waldrop said Edison burned the house and barn after divorce awarded the farm to his ex-wife, claiming, If I can't live there, no one else can. A neighbor saw the fire. Edison also faced a peace warrant for threatening to kill his ex-wife. Preliminary hearing date not set.
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Steppeville
Cullman County
Cullman
W. C. Waldrop
Virgil Edison
Edison
Waldrop
J. O. Burns
Japanese Police Clash With Rioting Communists in Nagoya
In Nagoya a three hour battle between Japanese police and about 1,000 rioting communists left one dead and at least 63 injured, including 56 policemen. The riots followed a three hour demonstration at Osu stadium after 7,000 welcomed two travelers from Red China.
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Tokyo
Nagoya
Japan
Kyodo
Osu Baseball Stadium
Red China
Agreement Reached At Farm Industries Plant Reopens
Management and the union reached an agreement at Farm Industries. The plant will reopen on Thursday and employees are ordered to return to work on that date.
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Farm Industries
German Foe Of Reds Kidnapped
Dr. Walter Linse a West Berlin Free Jurists official was kidnapped this morning and seized in the American sector. Three assailants dragged him into a car that sped toward the Soviet zone while a pursuit sparked gunfire and nails were dumped from the kidnappers vehicle.
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Berlin
Walter Linse
West
Valley Men In Legion Race In Montgomery
Georgia's Richard B. Russell addressed Alabama Legionnaires at the state convention saying avoiding World War II is paramount. He warned that without rearma ment the free world invites war and disaster. General Walter J. Hanna praised the Korea era bombing of five vital power plants to protect Britain's financial interests.
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Georgia
Richard B. Russell
Alabama Legionnaires
Alabama Department
Russell
Free World
America
Walter J. Crack Hanna
Alabama
Britain
The
Korea
Far East
Attempted Escape Foiled At Morgan County Jail
Morgan County jail thwarted an escape over the weekend when inmates Ernest Woods and Raymond Kelly, recently pled guilty to burglary and grand larceny, pried a window. A trustee heard noises and investigators found a damaged South facing window. Officers believe the plan could have allowed escape if another section had been pried free. Both prisoners await transportation to Kilby for five year terms.
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Morgan County
Phillip Kyle
Ernest Woods
Raymond Kelly
Kelly
Woods
Trinity Mountain Cabins
Kilby
John McCutcheon
Alabamians Talk With Ike but Still Favor Taft 9 To 4
Alabama delegates met Gen Dwight D Eisenhower for 30 minutes while staying 9-4 for Sen Robert A Taft on the first presidential ballot. Claude Vardaman said reaction was favorable but no sentiment shift claimed. Eisenhower pledged to campaign in the South including Alabama if nominated.
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Taft
Rex Thomas
Chicago
Alabama
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Robert A. Taft
GOP
Claude Vardaman
Eisenhower
Tuscaloosa
Lane Thweatt
Anniston
Crucial Battle For Delegates Now Underway
At Convention Hall in Chicago the Taft Eisenhower fight for the GOP nomination reaches a critical stage as rival claimants contest 93 convention seats. By nightfall these disputes may settle the lines between Taft and Eisenhower supporters among 1,206 delegates at the 25th Republican convention. The contest involves seven delegations.
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Jack Bell
Convention Hall
Chicago
Robert A. Taft
Dwight D. Eisenhower
GOP Platform Nearing Final Revision for 1952 Campaign
Senator Eugene D Millikin of Colorado said the Republican platform will be completed late today and unveiled to voters tomorrow. The 106 member Resolutions Committee will meet in closed session tomorrow to review the entire platform before sending it to the convention for expected approval.
Riots Claim 4th Life in Mexico City
In Mexico City riots claimed a fourth life as soldiers and police patrolled streets. Police reported about 400 arrests, with 65 to 200 injured according to varying estimates. Outbreaks occurred in other cities but appeared contained. Government sources warned of a larger uprising linked to post election clashes with anti-government supporters.
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Mexico City
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Hartselle
Memphis
Elmer Brannan
Brannan
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Recorder’s Court
J. B. Pirkle
Ninth Avenue
Southeast
West End Baptist Hospital
Birmingham
Decatur
Loyd Shelton
Memorial Drive
Decatur General Hospital
J. W. Johnson
Tenth Avenue East
E. L. Turner
Clyde McRae
Trinity
John C. Conley
Grant Street
Robert Sharp
Decatur 2
Baush-Wiley Clinic
Reds
By Carroll Lisby
Ihe
Leonard Moody
John Caddell
Roy Odom
H. R. Summer
Nathan Pryor
Carroll E. Lisby
Decatur Daily
Pledge Party
Farmer
Free Jurists
Valley
Congress Hotel
Florida
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
Styles Bridges
Senate
Vardaman
R. Leon McCaleb
Huntsville
State Department
John Crowder
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