Weather and community notes from Decatur area
Partly cloudy today through Wednesday with scattered thundershowers and gentle to moderate south winds along the coast. Local windows report a cool noon temperature of 76, highs near 90, and rainfall of 1.5 inches in the past day. The region records several personal notices including visits, trips, a birthday, a hospital transfer, and a church choir practice, plus building permits for home extensions and a Nazarene church addition. The Morgan County sheriff reports one misdemeanor drunkenness arrest.
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Committee Not To Reopen Hiss Pron Case Now
Washington July 12 The house un-American activities committee decided against reopening the Hiss Chambers case at this time and may reexamine after Alger Hiss is retried on perjury charges. It will not investigate how Federal Judge Samuel H Kaufman oversaw the original trial, chairman Wood said.
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Washington
House un-American Activities Committee
Hiss-Chambers
Alger Hiss
Samuel H. Kaufman
Hiss
New York
Wood
Committee On un-American Activities
Telephoned Tip Brings Capture of Roy James
Roy James, 33, arrested after a telephone tip led to his capture near Decatur Limestone County. He faces grand larceny charges for stealing a pickup truck from Luke Pryor farm South Limestone. He admitted taking the vehicle but claimed amnesia due to drunkenness. A preliminary hearing is expected Friday.
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James
Limestone
John Sandlin
Limestone Sheriff's Office
Luke Pryor
South Limestone
Sandlin
Mooresville
Tax Cuts Seen Likely in 1950
Washington July 12 The promise of excise tax cuts in 1950 along with new cushions against losses was held out to business by Congress as lawmakers surveyed President Truman s 111 point program. Part of it could be enacted before Labor Day adjournment this year. A leading Republican Rep Joe Martin of Massachusetts said he agrees with Truman that national output could reach 300 000 000 000 a year within a few years, about 20% higher than now.
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Jack Bell
Washington
Congress
Truman
Joe Martin
Massachusetts
Doughton
D-Nc
House
Ways and Means
Senate Finance Committee
George
D-Ga
Fire destroys Conecuh County high school building
An early morning blaze leveled the Conecuh County high school vocational agriculture building. Firemen arrived after a 22 mile run from Evergreen to find the structure a total loss. Origin of the fire is undetermined and damage estimates were not available.
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Conecuh County
Evergreen
Aerialist Paul Perry Falls to His Death at Beach
In New Orleans at Pontchartrain Beach an aerialist fell 85 feet during a two man act. Paul Perry, 34, of Los Angeles, died minutes after reaching Charity Hospital. Partner Jack Russell, 28, from California, said Perry warned him to be careful before the stunt.
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New Orleans
Pontchartrain Beach
Paul Perry
Perrys
Perry
Jack Russell
Los Angeles
California
Russell
Charity Hospital
Bonded men seized in mobs probe in Alabama
Fourteen men were seized and three more eyed for arrest as a grand jury probes hooded terror across Jefferson County Alabama. Flogging while masked and boycott charges lead the counts alongside first degree burglary. Klan figures deny involvement as a top leader, William Hugh Morris, is jailed for refusing grand jury records.
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Birmingham
Ala
Jefferson
Ku Klux Klan
Alabama
William Hugh Morris
Grand Jury
Morris
Coleman A
Brownie) Lollar
Lollar
Klan
William A. Byrd
Imation
Sak Hee Leether
Bomber Probe To Delay Bill
Washington July 12 The House Armed Services Committee voted by one vote to delay action on a bill to tighten military unification laws until it probes the B 36 bomber. Rep Short of Missouri said congressional approval would hinder the probe while copies of Johnsons memoranda suggested the adm inistration sought to coordinate testimony. Democrats split with 11 voting against the postpone ment and three supporting it.
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House Armed Services Committee
Rep. Short
Missouri
Congress
Senate
Leroy Johnson
California
Secretary of Defense
Louis Johnson
Armed Services
Rep
van Zandt
Rpa
Johnson
Military Services
Joint Chiefs of Staff
John Son
Power Failure in Georgia cripples lines and transport
ATLANTA July 12 A state wide power failure crippled power and communications in Georgia with unknown cause. Georgia Power said lines may affect neighboring states as electric current dropped downtown for minutes after 11 a m and telegraph and telephone lines were cut for about thirty minutes. Some sections restored others remained without power as buses halted and Atlanta recalled a January 31 outage tied to ice felled lines.
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Atlanta
Georgia
Georgia Power Company
Nationals Win All-Star Game In Wet Exhibition
The American League team defeated the National Leaguers 11 to 7 in a high scoring All-Star game played in Brooklyn. Joe DiMaggio led the Americans with RBI contributions as Dom DiMaggio and Kell sparked early rallies. Star Musial homered for the NL, but costly errors and timely hits by the AL sealed the win.
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National Leaguers II
D. DiMaggio
Kell
Kazak
Williams
Joe DiMaggio
Joost
E. Robinson
Reese
Michael
Tebbetts
Parnell
Nationals
J. Robinson
Star Musial
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Mize
Dom DiMaggio
Newcombe
Spahn
Marshall
Kizak
Seminick
Trucks
Michaels
New Area Put In Class A In Decatur West District
The Decatur City Planning Board will seek City Council approval to classify the newly incorporated West Decatur area as a class A residential district. The board debated converting some class A areas to class C to allow apartments. The new A district spans about two blocks south from Second Street along Ninth Avenue West and confines construction to single family homes.
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Decatur City Planning Board
West Decatur
Quince Eddens
H. R. Summer
R. C. Halbrooks
Carpenter's Union
Thomas Adams
Johnson
Alabama State Planning Board
Planning Commission
On Board
Second Street
Ninth Avenue
President May Intervene To Avert Steel Strike
In Pittsburgh a CIO United Steelworkers meeting began to decide on a strike for 500,000 workers. President Truman may use emergency powers to stave off the walkout while Philip Murray urges a weekend strike in support of wage and pension demands. Murray said he would recommend action this weekend. The decision hinges on White House reaction and contract dates.
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Pittsburgh
Cio-United Steel Workers
Truman
Washington
Philip Murray
Murray
White House
John R. Steel
Committee Seeks Rules Change to End Senate Stalling
Montgomery news reports the Senate faces stalling tactics as Sen. Tom Blake Howle pressed for the journal reading to continue. The Rules Committee backs a change to prevent journal readings from blocking passage, with economy bills advancing and the bloc demanding faster action.
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Senate
Montgomery
Ala
State Senate
Tom Blake Howle
Calhoun County
Rules Committee
Scary rooster trick debunked at veterinary meeting
Dr. F. C. Tucker described a farcical trick on young cockerels at the American Veterinary Medical Association gathering in Detroit. Hormone treatment supposedly fattened and tenderized the birds but caused comb fading, awkward movement, and henlike behavior, with slaughter needed within a month or effects fading otherwise.
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Detroit
F. C. Tucker
Claypool
Inn
American Veterinary Medical Association
Tucker
U S Reporters Die in Bombay Plane Crash
A Royal Dutch Airlines Constellation carrying 45 people including 14 American newsmen crashed on a hilltop 20 miles north of Bombay in heavy rain. All aboard were killed. The incident followed debates over a tractor tax refund measure and other Alabama legislative actions as the session progressed.
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India
Royal Dutch Airlines
Santa Cruz
Ghat
Sabotage Hinted In Ill-Fated Plane Crash Report
Tucson publisher William R. Mathews quoted Dorothy Brandon of The New York Herald Tribune saying she refused to return aboard the ill fated KLM plane that crashed near Bombay fearing sabotage. He noted no evidence of sabotage yet and said an American newspaper group sought Nehru's permission to return via India.
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William R. Mathews
Tucson
Ariz
Dorothy Brandon
New York Herald Tribune
KLM
Bombay
Mathews
Bangkok
Siam
Miss Brandon
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru
India
Arizonan
Southeast Asia
Netherlands
List of victims named by KLM in island disaster
KLM provided names of victims on the Santa Cruz island disaster opposite side of the 30 mile long island. The Christian Science Monitor Vincent Mahoney San Francisco Chronicle James Branyon Houston Post Nat A. Barrows Chicago Daily News H R Knickerbocker WOR New York John Werkley Time Elsie Dick Mutual Broadcasting System Tony Falco Business Week S Burton Heath Newspaper Enterprise Association George Moorad Portland Oregonian KGW Fred Colvig Denver Post William H age Late Howard Newspaper All Bertram D. Silas The New York Times Two Net Aboard Mrs Dorothy Brandon New York Herald Tribune William R Mathews Ari See U S on Page 2.
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Santa Cruz
KLM
Royal Dutch Airlines
Charles Gratke
The
Christian Science Monitor
Vincent Mahoney
San Francisco Chronicle
James Branyon
Houston Post
Nat A. Barrows
Chicago Daily News
H. R. Knickerbocker
WOR
New York
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Time
Business Week
S. Burton Heath
Newspaper Enterprise Association
George Moorad
Portland Oregonian
KGW
Fred Colvig
Denver Post
William H. Age
Howard
Bertram D. Silas
New York Times
Senate temperance committee backs statewide wet-dry vote
Montgomery July 12. The senate temperance committee voted 6 to 3 in favor of a statewide wet-dry referendum. An additional liquor bill to restrict sales to state stores and end retail licenses was not acted on and held for public hearing at 16 a.m. on Thursday July 21. Sponsor Sen. C. J. Owen of Marshall county led the drive as discussions were largely constrained to a corner of the senate chamber. Named senators Boutwell Dallas Quarles and Langan pressed for a public hearing but were outvoted.
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Montgomery
Senate Temperance Committee
C. J. Owen
Marshall County
Albert Boutwell
Jefferson
George Quarles
Dallas
Joe Langan
Mobile
Senate Chamber
Justifiable Homicide Cleared in Porter Death
In Irwinton Georgia a coroner's jury found a white man not responsible in the death of Thomas E. Porter a 28 year old black student shot in the back as he ran from a fight Porter had been troubling a 14 year old negro Miller 60 said he shot Porter because he was unable to fight the sheriff reported Porter was shot in front of a negro roadhouse after a confrontation following the initial dispute
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Irwinton
George C. Hatcher
Thomas E. Porter
Porter
Macon Vocational
Cordon
G. H. Miller
Miller
Many Die After Airliner Crash in California Pass
In Susana Pass near Riverside California a Trans National Airlines unscheduled flight crashed and burned after a midair altercation among passengers. Sheriff J Howard Durley said 18 survivors were found and the death toll may reach 28 with 46 aboard. The burn damaged cockpit and tail sections and pilots sought landing at Burbank.
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Los Angeles
Santa Suzana Pass
Roy White
J. Howard Durley
Ventura County
Trans- National Airline
Standard Air Lines
Traffic Control Bureau
Burbank
Riverside
Calif
Sgon
Long Beach
White
Prisoner Returns to Athens Then Is Caught in Decatur
An escaped Athens prisoner named Gilbert Barnes, 27, was recaptured in Decatur around 5 p.m. after being spotted on the street. Chief Frank Johnson said Barnes, who had fled Limestone County, had been serving a work sentence and had disappeared last Wednesday. He was captured by Decatur Officers Louis Landers and Horace Standridge while another arrest was being made with Limestone Sheriff John Sandlin.
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Decatur
Frank Johnson
Gilbert Barnes
Louis Landers
Horace Standridge
Johnson
Limestone
John Sandlin
Barnes
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