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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 18, 1949
Page
1
Cloudy outlook with possible afternoon thunder showers and moderate coastal winds reported for the state. Local items include travels of Otis Lipscomb, Navy training for Mary E. Kelley, and various residents' trips and visits. Police reports note nineteen in recorder’s court for drunkenness and other offenses, plus two vehicle damage cases on Church Street.
Five Chattanooga youths in swimsuits spent 15 hours atop a Lookout Mountain ledge before rescue by firefighters using an extension ladder. Virginia Shenard 18, Virginia Crisp 19, Doris Ann Hutsell 18, Sheridan Hutsell 22, and Jack G. Fulks unknown, all unharmed, were stranded after their picnic was cut off by a flash flood on Saturday.
Reverend O E Burton, pastor of Ashley River Baptist in Charleston, has accepted the call to Central Baptist Church. The church voted to replace Dr Paul Roberts, who left in June for Oklahoma City. Burton, 35, will arrive August 4 and preach his first sermon August 7. He has led Ashley River for three years and previously pastored in Florida and Dallas. He is a Southwestern Seminary graduate pursuing a Doctor of Theology and is married with three children.
The Associated Press reports requests for a fourth round of wage increases dominate the labor scene. A three member Presidential fact finding board hears steel workers pension and insurance demands, with hearings set for July 28 in New York. The CIO United Steelworkers suspend a strike until Sept. 14 awaiting board recommendations. Neither side is bound to accept the ruling. In New York City a bus strike threat ends with averted extension but a 30-line walkout continues affecting 1,125,000 riders daily.
Prime Minister Clement Attlee announced he would steer Britain through the economic crisis while Sir Stafford Cripps is on sick leave. Cripps plans to travel to Switzerland for colitis treatment, leaving Attlee to assume the onerous task next month as Eden voiced support for the ailing Chancellor.
Walter Jackson announces the start of construction for Decatur's new high school near Delano Park close to the stadium. School board members officials and contractors will gather at 3 p.m. at the site to mark the formal kickoff with architect representatives in attendance.
The investigation into masked mob terror in the Birmingham area is in recess but will resume when sufficient evidence exists for an indictment. The American Legion asked the state Attorney General to review grand jury makeup after a former Ku Klux Klansman was among jurors.
In Montgomery on July 18 witnesses testified before the state supreme court that they complained about liquor law violations in Walker county but Sheriff Grover B. Baggett did nothing. The impeachment trial accuses Baggett of neglect of duty and corruption for permitting liquor sales in dry Walker county. defense argues the sheriff faced no clear evidence of whisky sales.
Miss Laula Dunn resigns as state welfare commissioner effective Sept 19 to become executive director of the American Public Welfare Association in Chicago with a salary over 11 000 a year. Howard Russell of Pennsylvania had retired July 1. Dunn will lead national welfare efforts and exchange information across 48 states.
The Interstate Commerce Commission directed Alabama to raise intrastate freight rates by about 13.7 percent to match postwar interstate increases. The ICC acted after railroads complained state authorities did not permit the 1947 increases. A 30 day delay was issued to allow voluntary changes by the Alabama Public Service Commission.
Articles describe renewed clashes in central China with nationalist setbacks and a four red divisions capture of Ichang on the Yangtze. Shanghai faces economic strain as rice prices surge and the communist yuan weakens amid war conditions.
A vacancy caused by the death of O Zigler may be filled by appointing Probate Judge J O English. Commissioners plan to meet this month to name a successor and follow the 1939 precedent set by a similar body.
President Truman nominated Edward Burns Parker for a new term as U.S. Attorney for the middle district of Alabama. Parker currently serves under an appointment that expired November 23, 1946.
Handsome John George Haigh told police he killed nine people and drank their blood before dissolving bodies in acid. He pleaded innocent by reason of insanity to the murder of Mrs Olive Durand-Deacon and others, while defense attorney Sir David Maxwell-Fyfe read the accused’s statement detailing blood drinking and killings from 1944 to 1948.
In Groveland Florida three Black individuals confessed to abducting a white woman and robbing her husband amid a mob atmosphere. National Guard was deployed to quell violence after a crowd tried to seize prisoners from jail. Sheriff McCall said a fourth suspect is sought and a fair trial is promised.
Bobby Ray Elam 927 Sherman Street is recuperating at Decatur General Hospital from injuries after being dragged about 82 steps up a cinder path in Malone Park. He was found around 6 am by Walter Greene 408 Fourth Avenue West while walking his dog. police report cuts and bruises.
In Montgomery on July 18, reapportionment supporters push a 67 senator plan for a second house vote. The measure needs 63 votes but earlier fell 12 short. backers now claim at least 69 favorable votes. A separate amendment to raise corporate tax ceilings to 5 percent also advances. Senator Rankin Fite's companion measure awaits floor action after economy bills. The tractor gas refund bill, approved by the house, tops the senate calendar for tomorrow.
The Georgia State Senate ordered an investigation into recent broad charges by Attorney General Eugene Cook of fraud graft and waste in state government. Finance Committee Chairman H R Garrett was directed to conduct the probe and the Attorney General must appear before the committee when summoned.
A Georgia woman reported that 12 pairs of her panties were stolen from a clothesline in Hapeville. Police advised posting a public notice to catch the thief and protect her laundry.
Clayton Alabama July 18 The board of directors of the Pea River Electric Cooperative will meet here Wednesday to settle a highly controversial question in Alabama REA history regarding the location or scope of their future actions.
Vincent Lee Foster, 21, Omaha welterweight boxer, was killed in an automobile-truck collision near Pipestone Minnesota. A 18 year old girl Ruth Newcome of Flandreau South Dakota also died with three others seriously injured. Foster had been visiting siblings at the Pipestone Indian school and had a noted religious turn after a Moody Bible Institute stint in Chicago. A prior rape accusation in Kansas City was dropped for lack of evidence.
Denver Jernigan a 24 year old Fort Benning soldier will face Houston county circuit court on August 11 in a rape case involving a 16 year old Ashford girl. He has been jailed without bond since April 17 after arrest at his parents home in Jakin Georgia. The alleged assault occurred during a double date with another couple and the girl was hospitalized.
New Orleans report says Frank Bates a 42 year old Black man charged with murder in the slaying of a Catholic priest Rev John F Neifert died overnight in Parish prison. Inmate officers found him dead at about 5 am after hearing him tremble in his cell. The case concerns the iron cargo hook killing at Holy Redeemed church in July.
Washington July 18 The Senate House atomic watchdog committee canceled a report meeting on President Truman's secrecy heavy atomic conference with top advisers. In London Britain said in touch with the United States on general atomic subjects but would not confirm access to U S secrets. Rayburn said Truman's reorganization plan for unifying armed forces would go to Congress today. Labor policy and Taft Hartley repeal remained undecided. Jackie Robinson defended American negroes while addressing the HUAC comments. Military focus centered on Army contract probes and Johnson Johnson Johnson.
The Senate Armed Services Committee approved a broad pay raise for uniformed personnel by a 9 to 1 vote. The measure, already passed by the House, would boost most military pay with increases ranging from 3 percent for lower enlisted ranks to 37 percent for brigadier generals.
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