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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 20, 1950
Page
1
Partly cloudy with thundershowers in extreme north portion this afternoon and tonight. VFW Auxiliary hosts an ice cream supper at Delano Park Friday at 6 30. Speakers include Rev. Troxler at Westminster and Rev. Rafter at First Presbyterian. Several local residents noted including Mrs. Louise Woodall and Dr. W Nelson Gutherie. See page for diary.
Kay Dial, 14, Sumterville 4 H Club, won first prize with her calf in the cow calf show. The entry was judged yesterday, earning top honors for the young exhibitor.
President Truman places the decision on world war or uneasy peace with Moscow as the Kremlin may choose a military showdown. Washington officials assess U S and Allied atomic and anti tank weapons edge while expanding arms production and allied cooperation. The article discusses German manpower and industry use for Western defense and upcoming foreign minister talks in New York in September.
President Truman convened a White House conference with top aides to discuss home front effects of a new military program. The review includes W Stuart Symington and cabinet members as they weigh consumer credit, materials allocations, and defense production speedups. He signals possible price controls and rationing if prices soar and hints at higher taxes to fund a $10 billion arms program.
A concise AP summary of President Truman's mobilization plan. Reserves and National Guard can be ordered up. FHA and VA financing cut. agencies to trim non war spending. Proposals include a new 10 billion military authorization and removal of service strength limits. Tax boosts, foreign aid, stockpiling, price controls possible.
A Montgomery court hearing on the Alabama Democratic Executive Committee contest was continued to August 21 in Elba. Cir cuit Judge Bowen Simmons postponed after two hours of argument between rival States Rights and National Loyalists factions. Four seats in the third district are at issue as both sides push legal actions to halt or proceed with the contest.
In Montgomery, Governor Folsom weighs clemency for Claude Sims and Joe Keith, both convicted of murder, and Homer Odom, facing execution by electric chair in Kilby Prison. Sims pleaded through tears as his parents urged mercy. Keith asked for mercy. Odom received a seven day reprieve to allow study of his case, a potential first triple execution in Alabama since 1940.
In Berlin 18 Communist leaders from Europe and Red China gathered for the opening of East Germanys socialist unity party convention. The meeting signals Cominform pressure on Yugoslavia and follows UN Balkan warnings of possible troop and border moves. Vishinsky's whereabouts remain undisclosed.
Congressmen generally support granting President Truman additional economic powers for anti communist efforts. Some senators Taft Bricker and Wherry warn against broad nationalization of the economy while others back expanding military manpower and boosting arms production funding. Roosevelt, sorry Russell comments and Halleck statement emphasize caution against a blank check while ensuring security commitments.
In Washington on July 20 the Senate, amid GOP protests, passed a Democrats' report denouncing Senator McCarthy as a fraud and hoax by 45 to 37. Democrats supported filing the report after a Senate Foreign Relations subcommittee investigated McCarthy's claims that the State Department harbors communists and Red sympathizers.
Senator O Mahoney and Rep Morton urged an excess profits tax. Rep Arends welcomed no price controls. Johnson urged full mobilization of industry and manpower. Taft criticized the defense bill as too broad in allocation and priorities powers and currency limits. See page 2.
The Marine Corps told organized reserve ground units to be ready for active duty on 10 days notice. No units ordered yet, but alert since President Truman's authorization was announced yesterday. The order notes selected units will be called for extended active duty and prepared to move within 10 days after the order.
Belgian parliament votes 198 to end regency and invite Leopold III back from exile in Switzerland. The joint session followed months of division with socialists mainly opposing the historic return as liberals and communists abstained.
Major Elliott C. Chandler of the 1343rd engineering battalion reports local guardsmen have not received orders. He states no units in the area are alerted and no notifications have been issued.
The Southeastern League may move the defunct Anniston Ram franchise to Decatur Alabama. President Stuart X Stephenson announced a Sunday meeting in Montgomery to consider the Decatur proposal and votes by the league executive council. Anniston finishes the year facing Selma Cloverleafs. Montgomery series moves.
TOM LAMBERT reports from Korea on a tense war of hidden moves and uncertain loyalties. Civilians blend with troops as a farm man fires on American lines and a machine gunner in native dress triggers a deadly shot. An American hospital train in a tunnel becomes a scene of anxious vigilance with guards patrolling the wrecked cut and a Detroit lieutenant guiding the effort.
Front line dispatches report the 24th division withdrawing from Taejon and Maj. Gen. William F. Dean missing as Chinese forces press Taejon. American troops clung to positions while Reds attacked with tanks and rockets, tanks knocked out, and a fierce withdrawal under heavy fire.
Morgan City farmer Harry Thomas, about 35, was hit in the head with a baseball bat during a home plate dispute and sent to Arab hospital. Junior Owens, 24, is held for investigation by Sheriff C. B. Humphrey. Thomas is married with a family and was later transferred to a Nashville hospital for further treatment.
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