Weather and church notices in Decatur scene
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Friday with scattered thundershowers in the north and west Friday afternoon. Winds on the coast become southerly Friday. Huntsville visitors Mr and Mrs Wrenshall Knight and son. Dr Otis E Kirby to preach at First Methodist on Conditioned For Pentecost. Holy communion at eleven. Baptist church marks Rev Paul Roberts departure with final sermons and Sunday graduation address. Kroger to open in Huntsville after Decatur store. Odell family of Sheffield announce daughter born June 1. Jefferson Davis birthday observed Friday closing, Alabama State Employment Office. Mrs J F Templeton undergoes major operation. Miss Francis Templeton present. Rev W W Glass to speak Life's Lonesomeness at First Presbyterian. Lively family to Auburn for commencement. son Lloyd Lively to receive B S in textile engineering. Place Of Refuge For God’s People revival at Austinville Church of God. Mrs Wilmer Hall to Lynchburg Virginia. Robert Cousar arrives as summer student pastor at First Presbyterian. connections to Columbia Theological Seminary. Cousar to oversee Ivor Memorial and Kirby Memorial chapels, supply pulpit at First Presbyterian, staying at 516 Oak Street. Conleys move to Sheffield. See DIARY on Page 2.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Cousar
First Presbyterian Church
Cousar
Columbia Theological Seminary
Decatur
Georgia
R. W. Cousar
Central Presbyterian Church
Chattanooga
Ivor
Senator Says Figures Back His Charge Of AEC Laxity
Washington June 2 The atomic inquiry yields figures showing 3280 people had access to secret data without full loyalty checks and a guard with a police record in the missing uranium case. Senator Hickenlooper pressed AEC on emergency clearances while Lilienthal defended the policy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oliver W. DE Wolf
Washington
Capitol Hill
Senator Hickenlooper
A-Iowa
Atomic Energy Commission
FBI
AEC
David Lilienthal
Elston
Ohio
Carroll Wilson
Commission
Wilson
Argonne National Laboratory
Tornadoes Strike Midwest Injure Fourteen in Four States
Fourteen people were injured as tornadoes lashed rural areas across four midwest states. In Missouri near Harkie eleven were wounded, while near Essex Iowa a family of three was hurt. Homes were destroyed and storms swept through Southwestern Illinois, Northwestern Missouri, Northeastern Kansas, and Southeastern Nebraska.
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Chicago
Midwest
Ilona
Missouri
Kansas
Nebraska
Harkie
Essex
Two Children Die In Kerosened Fire In Tennessee Home
WAVERLY Tenn June 2 Two children Carolyn Yates 3 and Wilburn Yates 1 died when a kerosene explosion and fire destroyed their three room frame home. Armon Lee Yates 36 Mary 32 Marie 10 Louise 8 Tommy 5 were gravely burned plus another child Jimmy 7 escaped. Five others were hospitalized in Nashville in very serious condition. Firemen said the blaze followed an attempt to start a fire with kerosene at the construction worker’s home near New Johnsonville TVA plant site.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waverly
Tenn
Carolyn Yates
Wilburn Yates
Armon Lee Yates
Mary
Marie
Louise
Tommy
Jimmy
Nashville
Yates
New Johnsonville
TVA
Bolivia rocked by walkouts engulfing tin mines
Strikes sweep Bolivia with riots killing 40 and injuring 83 as emergency troops restore order in Patino mining areas. Railways paralysis threatens food supply after government deported labor leaders. Berlin issue at Paris talks lingers over veto power with hints of limited Kommandatura authority.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bolivia
Patino
Berlin
Russia
Paris
Andrei Vishinsky
Vishinsky
Kommandatura
Switchman Found Dead at Crossing Tower
In Birmingham Alabama this morning Solon E. Graham 65 was found slumped over the controls in the crossing tower. A physician pronounced him dead after being summoned.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Birmingham
Ala
Solon E. Graham
3 300 Persons in Area Get Old Age Insurance Checks
Ware Foster, Decatur Social Security office manager, said about 3 300 area residents receive roughly 45 000 in old age and survivors insurance in 11 counties served. By June 30 1948 the count was 2 865 recipients and 38 774 in benefits.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ware Foster
Decatur Social Security
Foster
Leitrs Libvice
Cis
Fuer Bey U Oe
Federal Security Agency
Social Security Administration
Arthur J. Altmeyer
Social Security
Rescue of Pup From Mountain Slope Fails
In Atlanta on Stone Mountain a search team led by Elias Nour tried to save a brown mongrel pup. After two hours the dog slipped from a ledge and fell to its death despite Nour and four helpers attempting a rope ascent and bait.
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Atlanta
Stone Mountain
Elias Nour
Nour
B. T. Taylor
Polls Seen as State Matter in Poll Tax Debate
Washington June 2 The poll tax like lynching is on its way out in the South Rep Bryson of South Carolina told a House administration subcommittee but eliminating the tax should be decided by the states not the federal government He said proposed bills to bar poll taxes for federal elections would intrude on states rights Colmer of Mississippi also opposed the bills arguing federal intrusion into a reserved field.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
South
Rep
Bryson
D-Sc
House Administration
South Carolina
Colmer
D-Miss
Bunche Denies Jim Crow Kept Him From Capitol
Dr Ralph J Bunche said no negro likes Jim Crow and he refused a Washington job to remain with the United Nations He noted Jim Crow exists in Washington and that no negro finds it congenial He was commenting on a report that segregation influenced his turning down a post as assistant secretary of state offered by President Truman in June in Lake Success New York.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Truman
Battle Votes on Pension Bill In House Vote
Washington notes the House passed the pension bill 365 to 27 on June 2. Alabama congressman Bob Jones and Albert Rains joined supporters. Lori Battle opposed. Sam Hobbs was listed as paired against the bill.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Alabama
Bob) Jones
Albert Rains
Laurie Battle
Sam Hobbs
Truman Still For Program
President Truman said any musts for Congress must cover his whole program and will stay in Washington while Congress is in session. He ruled out a cross country tour this year, hinted next year will take care of itself, and named his three main messages as priorities. He expressed opposition to an export loan to Spain and said several women are under consideration for diplomatic posts.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
D. Harold Oliver Washington
Truman
Congress
Washington
Spain
Curtis Calder
Army
Bridges rejects 5 percent pay cut for Congress
Senator Bridges called the idea of a 5 percent congressional pay cut ridiculous while backing Hoover era savings and urging Congress to stay in session until Christmas to pursue 3 billion dollars in government savings. He chairs the appropriations panel and urged balancing the budget, proposing options: raise taxes, drift with revenues, or cut expenditures to match estimated revenue.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Bridges
Senate Expenditures Committee
Truman
United States Senate
Congress
Driver License Cost Hike Gets By Committee
Alabama house ways and means committee approved a bill to raise drivers licenses to one dollar per year pay annually, replacing the current ten cents every two years. The measure, sponsored by Reps. Martin and Garrett, would make licenses due on motorists birthdays to fund a year round licensing office. Also advanced were two revenue measures expanding counties tag receipts and letting cities share seizure money from bootlegger car sales. Senate finance and taxation approved measures to tighten adjutant general qualifications and cap active duty military pay to federally recognized National Guard officers. See DRIVER on Page 2.
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Montgomery
Ala
House
Ways and Means Committee
Alabama
W. L
Doc) Martin
Greene
W. W. Garrett
Monroe
Martin
Tom Johnston
Mobile
Alabama County Commissioners Association
G.M. Taylor
Autauga
J. J. Benford
Marshall
John G. White
Perry
E. L. Buckner
Cullman
Senate Finance and Taxation Committee
National Guard
Military Department
George Quarles
Dallas
James S. Saliba
Saliba
Senate
Finance Committee
Hero's Welcome for Eisler in Leipzig
Commun ist fugitive Gerhart Eisler received a hero's welcome in Soviet occupied Leipzig. Mayor Max Opitz hailed him as an upright fighter for peace and freedom at a rally in Market Square. Delegates to a communist youth congress cheered as Eisler was announced to become a Leipzig University professor.
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Berlin
Gerhart Eisler
Leipzig
Ada
Max Opitz
Old Market Square
Eisler
Free German Youth Congress
ADN
State observes Jefferson Davis birthday holiday Friday
State government offices including banks will close Friday for a legal holiday honoring Jefferson Davis birthday. Federal agencies will remain open. Decatur state offices and the county courthouse will be closed along with ABC liquor store outlets elsewhere in the state.
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Jefferson Davis
Decatur
ABC Liquor
Hiss Accused By Chambers in Spy Connection Case
Whitaker Chambers testified that Alger Hiss turned over State Department documents to him and that he photographed and gave films to J Peters who headed the underground. Chambers said he conferred with Hiss until spring 1938 and identified Peters and Harold Ware as introducers. Judges debated admissibility of espionage testimony in the perjury case.
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New York
Whittaker Chambers
Alger Hiss
State Department
Chambers
J. Peters
Alexander Stevens
Hungary
Hiss
Peters
Harold Ware
Fingers Hiss
U.S
Thomas F. Murphy
Murphy
Lloyd Paul Stryker
Samuel H. Kaufman
Congressional
Thas
Condemned Man Poore to Be Buried in Alabama Sunday
The body of J. W. Poore condemned for murder was moved to Anniston Alabama after a suicide in Hinds county jail. Funeral services are planned in Oxford Alabama Sunday. Poore was sentenced to die in the electric chair for the July 1947 murder of geologist A. H. Hover of La Jolla Beach California, with execution due in Ellisville Mississippi.
Noted Writers Set For Ho Cruise Visit to Decatur
A roster of prominent writers will visit Decatur on June 17 as part of the Ten nessee Valley Ho Cruise, with Hodding Carter leading the delegation. Arch Crawford Don Heucken and travel writers from Nashville and Birmingham papers join a 300-guest contingent aboard 64 boats. A city tour, harbor welcome by the Women’s Chamber of Commerce and a dinner at the Country Club are planned, with departures on June 18 from Guntersville.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tennessee Valley
Decatur
Chamber of Commerce Today
Hodding Carter
Greenville, Miss
Holiday
Arch Crawford
Resort Management Magazine
Don Heuchen
St. Louis Star-Times
Nashville Tennessean
Birmingham Papers
St. Louis Water- Way Journal
Metropolitan
Ncey
The
Bearhunter
Wilderness Ledge
Iron River
Wis
Great
Great Lakes
Women’s Chamber of Commerce
Eld
Guire
George la
John White
Wheeler Lake Yacht Club
Guntersville
Defense Offers New Testimony For Woodard
A surprise defense witness in the Robert Woodard murder trial testified he was at the Holly Pond rock crusher during the hours of July 25, 1946, when Wallace Clyde Dean was killed. Bill Johnson said he and a companion drove to the site with a couple of girls, timing their visit between 7:45 and 8:45 p.m. Mrs. Virgil Sizemore placed the shooting around 8:10 p.m. The defense attacked key state witness Faye Kelsoe as "bad character" and questioned Pope's timing, with testimony that Pope was en route from Tennessee for liquor. The State rested its case largely on Kelsoe's statements.
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Robert Woodard
Holly Pond Rock Crusher
Durig
Wallace Clyde Dean
Cullman
Bill Johnson
Cullman Poolroom
James H. Crow Jr
Rock Crusher
Virgil Sizemore
Woodard
Faye Kelsoe
Barney Bland
Finis St. John
Kelsoe
Dean
Horace Pope
Pope
Tennessee
Talmadge Sheppard
Franklin’ Tenn
Estelle Johnson
Sheppard
George Johnson
Julian Bland
FEPC bill advances as House backs fair employment policy
Washington June 2 A House labor subcommittee approved a bill to bar employment discrimination by race color religion or national origin It would establish a permanent fair employment practice commission This marks the first step in President Truman civil rights program Despite potential obstacles in full committee and Senate Southerners may veto via filibuster The bill declares the right to employment free from discrimination a national policy and protects individual rights under U S jurisdiction
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
House
FEPC
Truman
Senate
Congress
United States
New Warehouse Permit Issued for West City Site
F. S. Hunt Jr. obtained a building permit yesterday for a cotton warehouse to be built by the State Bonded Warehouse and Storage Company on a lot between First and Second Avenues West. Construction cost listed at $15,000.
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F. S. Hunt Jr
State Bonded Warehouse and Storage Company
First and
Second Avenues
West
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Wrenshall Knight and Son
Huntsville
Otis E. Kirby
First Methodist Church
Rural Baptist Church
Paul Roberts
Oklahoma City
Kroger Company
Grocery
Cincinnati
Mardie H. Odell
Sheffield
H. P. Still
Alabama State Employment Office
J. F. Templeton
Fayettesville, Tenn
Francis Templeton
W. W. Glass
Lloyd L. Lively Sr
Ferry Street
Alabassin Polytechnic Institute
Auburn
Lloyd L. Lively Jr
Austinville Church
Thomas B. Conley
Oak Street
Senator
Lilienthal
Argonne Laboratory
Hickenlooper
Bourke B. Hickenlooper
Iowa
Atomic Commission
Joint Atomic Energy Committee of Congress
By Ken Reynolds
Red
Associated Press
Altmeyer
Children’s Bureau
Bunche
Capitol
Battle
U. K
Hovida
Edwin F1
Brotherhood
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