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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jul 25, 1949
Page
1
Willis Cochran of Columbia 2, Alabama, reported snakes in town during the weekend. He killed a rattler with a rock and then spotted a second snake above him. He fetched a rifle and removed the second snake as he kept working his peanut patch.
U S District Judge Elwyn R Shaw ruled the 1949 rent control act unconstitutional citing unlawful delegation of wartime powers through a local option clause He dismissed a housing expediter suit to restrain evictions and noted an appeal to the Supreme Court will follow with enforcement pending appeal by Chicago officials and the government.
In Atlanta a 38 year old landlord shot and killed tenant William J Hay s 26 and wounded the wife 21 who was pregnant then killed himself Police call it murder attempted murder and death by own action Detective J M Pack says the landlord left a note threatening to show the OPA and that the federal agency had taken over homes after a dispute over eviction and housing intervention.
One third of the 128 persons taking drivers license examinations in Morgan and Limestone counties passed last week. A report by State Highway Patrolman H. L. Hester shows 29 of 85 from Morgan and 14 from Limestone passed. Failures totaled 99 with rules of the road most often missed and several incomplete tests.
Chinese communists pressed toward Changsha about 400 miles north of Canton as private reports placed forces five miles east of Changsha and 10 miles east of Chuchow. Yun gan reported captured near Changsha amid fighting near Liling.
In Yakima Washington a racing car driven by Allen Hobson of Cornelius Oregon was driven through by a 100 foot plank during a third lap crash at the Central Washington fairgrounds. Doctors worked through the night to remove the splinter and Hobson, 24, remained conscious with a critical condition as the car owner Wilks Sieh of Vancouver Washington watched.
Southern Democrats failed to block action on an anti poll tax bill losing 242 to 102 after a push to adjourn failed. Rep Gossett of Texas led the tactic. Hays of Ohio sought time to rally supporters as Congress debates restricting poll taxes to vote in national elections.
George H. Love of Pittsburgh Consolidation Coal denounces John L. Lewis three day work week as confiscation of private capital. Senator Russell supports, calling June 30 plan a bold act to control production and prices. Harry M. Moses warns of severe damage to coal industry and the national economy.
In Montgomery on July 25 lawmakers debated a recess to finish appropriation bills for general government and schools. Senate leader Bruce Henderson urged recess, noting just 12 days left and no reports from committees. A combined House Senate committee plan or a committee of the whole was proposed to save time. Governor Folsom’s road bond issues and a companion 40 million plan faced possible House action tomorrow.
Plans for the Tennessee Valley Dairy Show were discussed at a Decatur Country Club luncheon. The event will run September 13-14 at the new livestock Coliseum with seven counties cooperating. Attending were local and regional officials and chamber representatives.
The Georgia Senate passed a bill raising cigarette tax from three to five cents per package by 33 to 11. The measure also increases cigar taxes and applies to roll-your-owns, chewing tobacco, and snuff, with varied per thousand rates and a 5 percent revenue stamp rebate reduction. The bill moves to the house after amendments and faces further tax-increase debates.
Birmingham report says Ku Klux Klan leader William Hugh Morris is released on a $500 bond to produce hidden Klan records for a grand jury. He claims the records were stolen last Wednesday and says other papers were taken. He had been jailed for contempt for refusing to reveal them.
Florida highway patrolmen operated in Groveland and surrounding areas after the National Guard pulled out. Six patrol cars patrolled the 12 mile stretch between Stuckey's Still and Clermont as race riots flared after a July 16 rape of a 17 year old white housewife and related assault on her husband by four Black youths.
The Alabama Seedmen's Association holds its annual convention in Birmingham on Thursday with speakers J. D. Neil and Fred Stewart superintendent of the Tennessee Valley substation at Belle Min, and R. R. McDonald of Birmingham serving as president.
Mrs Franklin D Roosevelt denied Cardinal Spellmans charges of anti Catholicism saying she backed Alfred E Smith a Catholic in every campaign and supports freedom of religion. She criticized anti Catholic bigotry she witnessed while campaigning for Smith and rejected funding restrictions for parochial schools in her My Day column.
A government employee who paid $7.43 into the civil service retirement fund could receive $17,500 yearly retirement under a house committee plan. The bill, urged by the Civil Service Commission, would instead grant a $1,950 annuity. The employee served as a federal referee in bankruptcy cases and earned up to $220,000 in early 1947.
Ten persons were arrested by Sheriff C Bibb Humphrey’s force on Saturday and Sunday. Charges include five for public drunkenness, one for peace proceedings, and one for driving without a license. Bonds set at 300 dollars for most, with 500 dollars for a peace proceedings offense. A man was arrested Sunday on a peace case involving two women.
President Truman signed the North Atlantic treaty and urged Congress to back it with 1.45 billion dollars for a European arms program. He said Western Europe and other nations must receive American help to bolster defenses against Russian aggression. An 82 to 13 Senate vote ratified the pact last Thursday as he urged swift approval of the current needs. Opposition voiced by two Republican senators who have influenced the debate.
The State Department condemned Soviet political aggression and expansion aims as the rationale for Congress to approve a 1.45 billion arms aid package. Officials said postwar harmony failed and international communism fuels fear and insecurity worldwide.
President Truman proposes a stop gap arms program linked to the Atlantic pact with about 1.45 billion dollars in direct aid and up to 1.825 billion in value including excess stock. Senators Vandenberg and Dulles voice caution while the State Department details costs and scope to eight nations and others across Europe and the Pacific.
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