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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 22, 1952
Page
1
A short community roundup highlights local events and notices. Readers learn about upcoming meetings, school activities, and volunteer opportunities shaping the area this month.
The Decatur City Council held a short open session then an informal bull session in the Municipal Building. Topics included a Democratic convention, city board membership concerns, and hiring practices with Chemstrand. A petition opposing a proposed Negro park near the cemetery was reviewed as zoning amendments and street vacatings progressed.
The Democratic rules committee voted to make the loyalty pledge a permanent rule amid Southern protests while Gen Adlai Stevenson considered a presidential bid. Georgia's Rep. Cox suggested Senator Richard B Russell might not be nominated, arguing the rule could aid Republicans. Russell commented he would wait on events as Barkley reports from Chicago.
Master Sergeant J H Lorenzo wounded in Korea reports from Japan hospital. Thomas D Johnson improving after gall bladder operation. Bob R Phillips receives honorable Navy discharge and plans to study at the University of Tennessee. Local social updates include visits and travel by the Simpsons, Helen Shannon’s vacation, and church notices. Birth announcements list three couples at Baugh Wiley clinic. polio recovery for Joe Rogers noted. Two recorder’s court cases concern prohibition violations and assault. See Diary on page 2.
Chinese infantrymen recaptured the crest of Old Baldy on the fifth day of fighting west of Chor in Korea. United Nations forces still held the southeast slope as about 200 Chinese attackers pushed through heavy fire and retook the shell scarred height. U. N. troops had earlier reached the summit but were forced back amid Chinese counterattacks and heavy artillery. Fifth Air Force planes then hit the area with incendiaries while Chinese artillery knocked out three tanks.
Edwin B. Parkinson reports a three way split among Democratic platform drafters over civil rights as 19 delegates begin a marathon session to finish by Wednesday. Northern senator Magnuson opposes an anti filibuster plank while Lehman Benton Humphrey back stronger racial relations and change to Senate rules. Southern Democrats stay quiet as Sparkman aligns with Russell and Harriman backers.
Decatur services on the Birmingham to Nashville route under Greyhound are halted as Nashville division maintenance workers strike. Local manager Clyde Roden says only North South travel is affected and drivers will not cross picket lines. The strike is unauthorized and disrupts the Louisville Nashville Birmingham corridor.
The International Court of Justice ruled 9 to 5 that it is not competent to hear the Anglo Iranian oil dispute. The decision openings the way for further diplomacy or alternate proceedings between the two nations.
United Steelworkers press renewed demands for a non-compromised union shop as the steel strike enters its second day. Negotiations remain at a standstill with no government intervention in sight. Philip Murray leads the Wage Policy Committee as industry reps present the industry's case before the committee.
Rev George Thompson Hubbard of Nashville has accepted a call to become pastor of Westminster Presbyterian church. He will begin September 1 after the Westminster congregation voted on July 13. Hubbard, born in 1905 in Rochester New York, is a Tusculum College graduate and Louisville Seminary alumnus with a long pastorate record in Indiana Iowa and Tennessee. Mrs Hubbard, Dorothy Elizabeth Ramsey, is also a Tusculum College graduate.
Tehachapi California reports 11 killed and 25 injured as the second strongest quake in state history shakes the region. Centered in the Tehachapi Mountains the quake destroys 15 homes and heavily damages 31 businesses, leaving a wide trail of rubble and tents for inmates at nearby women’s prison.
A Southern revolt threat linked to the Democratic convention loyalty pledge could be larger than the 1948 Dixie bolt. Six states Florida Georgia Louisiana Mississippi South Carolina Virginia hold 59 electoral votes, with 266 needed to win. Civil rights, FEPC, and state rights arguments drive the dispute as delegates contest seating in Texas and Mississippi.
Air Force investigates radar sightings of unidentified flying objects near Washington D C with eight radar targets and later reports from pilots and a newsman. Officials weigh whether this marks a first radar sighting of saucers and note the objects moved slower than typical aircraft.
Coroner Joe Morrison ruled the death of 40 year old O S Braswell a homicide after his 17 year old son James stabbed him with an eight inch knife at their Church Street residence Sunday night The youth was moved to county jail where police said a murder warrant will be issued and set for a hearing Officers described James as reticent about the incident and his mother Mrs Braswell appeared distraught at the jail and at home as she blamed herself for not leaving the troubled marriage.
Iran's Parliament renominated Mohammad Mossadegh as premier after two days of violent nationalist unrest that toppled Ahmed Qavam. Riots left casualties while mobs demanded Qavam's death over oil dispute settlement with Britain. Qavam resigned, Mossadegh reassumed leadership.
Margaret Truman spent the day shopping and sightseeing in Edinburgh. She told reporters she will depart tomorrow for a music festival in Salzburg, Austria, then plan a tour of Scandinavia and Germany.
Alabama divorce filings rose from 8 743 in 1950 to 8 766 last year ranking the state above the national total which fell from 385 144 to 371 000. Health Department officials based figures on a state by state tabulation by the Office of Vital Statistics.
Alabama backed the majority to insert a loyalty pledge into Democratic rules after a failed substitute aimed at pleasing Southern states. Voices decided the vote with no roll call as Lt. Gov. James B. Allen pressed adjournment and Allen clashed with the platform. Senator Lister Hill noted the delegation supported the pledge.
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