Weather and community notes from Decatur area
Considerable cloudiness with scattered thundershowers today tonight and Saturday. Temperatures reached a high of 96 and a low of 74. Rede and Rade will appear at the Antioch school on the Moulton Decatur highway Monday night July 12 at 7 30 sponsored by the Union Grove Home Demonstration club. Senator C J Owens has purchased Baker hotel at Red Boiling Springs Tenn and will operate as a summer resort. Walter M. Jackson closed a five lecture series at Florence State Teachers College on Education For World Citizenship. A Den 7 group visited The Daily plant. Highway Patrol is investigating a truck accident near the Lawrence Morgan county line involving explosives, no injuries reported. Mrs C B Bryson and daughter Joan visited from Effingham Ill. Rev C L Stober will preach at Austinville Baptist and attend tent revival. Rev George A Rice will speak at Memorial Drive Methodist. Mrs John H Harrison moved home from hospital. John Patterson Sr remains ill. Firefighters responded to a car fire on Jackson Street with no losses. Mrs R W English and family and Mrs Holiday Catlett and daughter visit from Carendon Ark. W L White returns from Detroit. Salvation Army advisory board to meet Monday at 7 30 in City Electric Department offices. See diary page 2.
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C. J. Owens
Huntsville
Red Boiling
Springs
Tenn
D. R. Baker
Eisenhower Declines Democratic Nomination For President
General Dwight D. Eisenhower informs Senator Claude Pepper that he will refuse to accept the Democratic presidential nomination. He asks Pepper not to present his name at the Democratic National Convention. Pepper says he will comply reluctantly with the General's wishes.
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Philadelphia
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Claude Pepper
Florida
Eisenhower
Pepper
Democratic National Convention
Southern Lawmakers Worry Over Posts On Committees
Southern congressmen fear a potential bolt of the Democratic ticket could jeopardize their committee assignments. House Ways and Means and Senate Committees control nominations, with bolting states threatening to reshuffle posts and fuel political leverage for non bolting regions.
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A. F. Mahan JR
Washington Service
Washington
Dixie
House
Ways and Means Committee
Senate
Democratic Committee On Committees
Ways and Means
Guilty in Morals Cases in New York Court
Nancy Fletcher Choremi daughter of a U S career diplomat was found guilty of loitering for prostitution along with Madeleine Blavier and Mrs Margaret Starr on vagrancy counts. Magistrate Arthur Marewich raised bail to 2500 each and will set sentencing date tomorrow with terms potentially up to three years.
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New York
Nancy Fletcher Choremi
U. S
Madeleine Blavier
Margaret Starr
Arthur Markewich
Gabriel Mosner
Blavier
Choremi
U S
Casablanca
George Choremi
Egypt
Arvey and O'Dwyer Withdraw Eisenhower Draft Support
Jacob M. Arvey and Mayor William O Dwyer announce they will vote for Truman at the convention. They state Eisenhower is unavailable for a draft and would not permit his name before voters, while stressing their efforts did not aim to injure any Democrat's candidacy.
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Truman
Chicago
Jacob M. Arvey
William O'Dwyer
New York
Eisenhower
Pepper
Arvey
No Title Provided Encourteous Appeal Keeps Course Plain
A formal plea requests dropping intentions to avoid embarrassment and public confusion. The speaker reaffirms a twice-made public decision, pledging adherence to prior announcements and personal sense of duty, regardless of terms.
Woman With Babe In Arms Helps Out In Robbery In Mobile
A Mobile wrecking company worker reports a man and a woman with a baby robbed him of about 145 to 150 dollars last night. The woman held a pistol and kept it on him while the man grabbed the money, claiming they were hungry.
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Babe
Mobile
William E. Hamm
Hamm
Over $2,000 Raised For Crusade For Children
County chair Marvin Eubanks reports Morgan County residents contributed $2129.22 to the Crusade For Children. He urges more donations to close the campaign, with contributions going to Eubanks, treasurer Joyne Vaughn, or The Decatur Daily.
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Marvin Eubanks
Eubanks
Judge Robert Reid Dies After Long Illness
Robert S. Reid 57 longtime judge of the 22nd judicial circuit died after a long illness. He began in law practice in Andalusia and was solicitor from 1927 until his 1934 election to the bench. A native of Brenham he earned a degree from the University of Alabama.
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Andalusia
Ala
Robert S. Reid
22Nd Judicial Circuit
Brenham
Alabama
Rail wage dispute ends three unions strike threat
The army returns control of U.S. railroads after a year long wage dispute. Rail lines resume private operation while the government seeks to dissolve the anti strike injunction. Management and unions agreed at the White House, with new wage talks likely in September.
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Washington
Harold W. Ward
White House
Technicians Arrive To Aid Probe Into Three Local Deaths
Two Montgomery laboratory technicians joined Dr. L. R. Murphree, county health officer, to seek the cause of three deaths in the past two weeks. They arrived in Decatur late last night to assist at the county health department.
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Montgomery
L. R. Murphree
Decatur
County Health Department
Plane Crash Kills Alber Dixon and Youth Near Monroe
A search party found a crashed plane in the Everglades with two bodies aboard. Identifications were not confirmed. one victim appears to be Albert Newton Dixon of Elizabethtown Kentucky, the other a 14 or 15 year old boy with a back brace and a T shirt bearing Tommy Hobday laundry marks. The plane left Fort Myers Sunday morning without a filed flight plan. Dixon had been traveling to Miami to see H Hughson.
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Everglades
Fla
Fifth Air Rescue Squadron
MacDill Field
Albert Newton Dixon
Elizabethtown
C.S. Collar
Miami
Dixon
Collar
Tommy Hobday
CAB
Fort Myers
Tamiami Trail
Monroe Station
H. Hughson
Gable Delays Queen Mary Sail On Farewell
Clark Gable delayed the Queen Mary sailing by about eighteen minutes today as he and a tall blonde said farewell at the gangplank. He identified her as Mrs Howard Hawks, wife of the Hollywood producer, before setting off for six weeks in Southern France and Italy.
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New York
Clark Gable
Gable
Howard Hawks
France
Italy
Platform price controls urged for Democratic program
Philadelphia July 9 Leon Henderson wartime OPA administrator urged the Democratic platform committee to pledge immediate action to restore price allocation inventory and credit controls to prevent further price rises. He warned inflation is a time bomb at prosperity foundations and urged adoption of a strong foreign policy stance including support for the European Recovery Program.
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Philadelphia
Leon Henderson
OPA
Democratic Platform Committee
Henderson
Americans For Democratic Action
Greece
Israel
Union of
Democratic Peoples of the World
O‘truman
Clarence K. Streit
United Nations
Greyhound Bus Crash Kills 2 in Tallapoosa Georgia
A Greyhound bus collision near Tallapoosa Georgia killed two people and injured 26. Driver Ernest Bivins of Birmingham and a station wagon driver J F Warners of Marietta died. Passenger Fanny May Hodge 42 died later. Police say the bus left the highway and hit a store.
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Birmingham
Walters
Bivins
Greyhound
Roscoe Slate
Slate
Atlanta
Here
Mysterious Cat Blamed For Mule Clawing Near Decatur
A mule owned by Jim Brinkley in Walter Horn's pasture near Decatur shows deep claw marks from a large cat reported Thursday night. Police and officials plan to cast tracks if further signs appear, ruling out dog bites and barbed wire as causes.
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Whitmire
Horn
Carole Landis Case Closure Reveals Notes Mystery
Los Angeles July 9 The coroner’s office closes the Carole Landis death case as Rex Harrison says he cannot explain the star’s suicide. A second note allegedly seen by Florence Wasson is mentioned but not verified. Funeral services set for tomorrow at Forest Lawn Glendale.
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Los Angeles
Carole Landis
Rex Harrison
Ben Brown
Harrison
Miss Landis
Florence Wasson
West Los Angeles
Church of the Recessional
Forest Lawn Memorial Park
Glendale
Harrrison
Parole Granted Twenty Years After Conviction
In Montgomery Alabama the pardon and parole board granted parole to John Jackson Sr. who was sentenced in November 1928 for illegal distilling. He briefly served a 30 day parole and failed to return, was remanded to finish the sentence in April, and was released on parole due to a good record.
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Montgomery
Ala
State Pardon and Parole Board
Pardon and Parole Board
L. B. Stephens
John Jackson Sr
Jackson
Body Of Quicksand Victim Found After 70 Days
In Chelsea Massachusetts the body of 33 year old Angelo Corsino a water department worker was found 35 feet below the surface 70 days after a sewer cave in and quicksand trapped him. Workmen used an Army mine detector and crane as shafts collapsed repeatedly delaying the search. The city and state prepared to authorize a 125000 dollar spend to finish the operation.
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Chelsea
Mass
Angelo Corsino
Water Department
Thomas A. Keating
Corsino
Ministers Ask Halt On Sunday Funerals In Decatur
The Ministerial Association and the Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance urge the public to hold no Sunday funerals unless absolutely necessary. The resolution, adopted by both white and colored church leaders, calls for pastors to approve funeral times first and emphasizes preserving Sunday worship and study.
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Ministerial Association
Interdenominational
Ministerial Alliance
Decatur
Negro Churches of
Otis E. Kirby
The
E. H. Leeth
Interdenominational Ministerial Alliance
Negro Is Said To Have Confessed Slaying Of Girl
Police say Eugene H. James, a Baltimore janitor, confessed to a similar killing in Washington. He described slashing the throat of 11 year old Carol Bardwell in Rock Creek Park on June 27, and Baltimore police allege he stabbed 11 year old Marsha Brill there last Thursday while bicycling. Washington police question bringing him to trial for the Bardwell slaying.
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Washington
Robert J Barrett
Baltimore
P Barrett
Eugene H. James
Carol Bardwell
Rock Creek Park
Bardwell
James
Marsha Brill
Body Recovered After Montgomery Drowning
Searchers recovered the body of Charles A. Keating of Montgomery who drowned while swimming in a gravel pit six miles north of the city. Keating and five companions entered the water early yesterday and he was not seen again. News of the death was kept from his mother Mrs. Kate Jung. She is reported seriously ill.
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Montgomery
Charles A. Keating
Keating
Companisons
Kate Jung
U N Sanctions May Bring Arab Oil Shut Off
Renewed fighting in Palestine pits Jews and Arabs across North and South Palestine with village captures near Tel Aviv and Nazareth. Bernadotte pressed demilitarization talks as U N observers board ships from Haifa while Washington warns of strong measures if fighting resumes.
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U. N
Associated Press
Palestine
Tel Avi
Nazareth
Sea of Galilee
Tel Aviv
Endifa
Folke Bernadotte
U.N
Amman
Abdul- Tah
Trans-Jordan
Jenin
Marshall
U. S
Britain
United Nations
Saudi Arabia
Allah
Bernadotte
Jerusalem
Abdullah
Beit Affa
Iraq
Suwedian
Ibdis
Majdal
Kaukaba
Huleiqa‘t
Haifa
Cairo
U.N. Security Council
United States
Syria
Indi
Bond Record Among Lowest In Morgan County Alabama
Morgan County still shows one of the lowest security loan records in Alabama. Reports from Birmingham security loan headquarters indicate the county reached 24.98 percent of its July 3 quota, with $102 451 spent of a $410 000 target in E F and G bonds. July 17 is the final investment date.
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Morgan County
Alabama
Birmingham
Morgan
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