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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 04, 1947
Page
1
Weather outlook shows partly cloudy days with scattered thundershowers in west and north. Cotton noon quotations hold steady with middling at 35.50 and strict low 35.50. Local residents return or travel for holidays and summer plans. Community events include Kiwanis attendance, Bible school, a是否 church services, and a city building permit for a 15000 addition.
United Mine Workers rejected Southern coal operators wage offer of 12.70 dollars per day with no portal to portal pay. Talks broke down delaying an end date June 30 when pits may be returned to private owners amid broader wage disputes across regions.
The FCC authorized a new standard radio station at Decatur to North Alabama Broadcasting company a partnership including D T Kinney and Horace Kinney of Cullman operating at 800 kilocycles one kilowatt daytime only. A site is not yet selected and an application for Guntersville is pending action. The company plans network affiliation.
Rep Grant of Alabama introduces relief legislation allowing Alabama residents to sue the federal government for punitive damages in accidents caused by federal employees negligence. Current law bars punitive damages under the reorganizd act, which Alabama court rulings deem punitive in death or injury cases.
The U S legation told Hungary that planes of the Russian Hungarian Transport Company Maszolet cannot fly over American zones in Austria and Germany due to lack of American civil aviation rights in Hungary. Delivered to Premier Lajos Dinnyes and Acting Foreign Minister Erno Mihalysi, both pro communist small holders.
The Alabama House Judiciary Committee advanced a bill authorizing bus companies to enforce racial segregation with penalties up to 500 dollars for noncompliance. The measure, sponsored by Rep. Charles H. Ramey, heads to the House calendar for possible passage next week.
Viscount Mountbatten said Britain would retain no bases in India once full independence is achieved under the new plan. Hindu and Moslem states would be independent and part of a transitional dominion period. Princely states gain independence from Britain as power transfers occur, with safeguards for minorities amid ongoing Punjab fighting.
One hundred twelve graduates of Decatur junior high school completed their year with a ceremony in the school auditorium. Walter Jackson announced service awards and W R Riley awarded honors including DAR junior citizenship to Jo Ann Parker and a junior reading award to Lewis Dement. O
Gordon R. Clapp of the Tennessee Valley Authority told the Senate agriculture committee in Mobile, Alabama a Mobile plant would ensure a minimum aspirates for an experimental fertilizer program. He argued a large scale plant would demonstrate the blast-plant process for producing phosphates from phosphate rock and provide conclusive results from unmixed fertilizers. He noted industry lacks assurance of plants with committed output to the program.
Alabama lawmakers Sparkman and Jones condemn Senator McKellar's TVA reform bill as an attempt to oust TVA chairman Gordon Clapp and to place TVA under direct congressional control. They warn it would halt new plants, restrict operations, abolish research, and shift fertilizer programs to private firms.
James Paul Wray aged nine and his two rabbits went missing on the L and N No. 1 train from Montgomery to Decatur. The boy awoke on the crossing bridge and later rejoined his anxious parents in Nashville at 12 30 this morning on No. 1. He arrived home at five o clock with his rabbits and is busy raising them.
Mayor Frank Hague announced his retirement from the Jersey City mayor's office. The 71 year old Democratic leader will step down June 16, the 30th anniversary of his election, to be succeeded by his nephew Frank Hague Eggers. Hague will remain Democratic state leader and retain roles in the national committee and vice chairmanship.
President Truman announced the resignation of Spiro Braden as Assistant Secretary to Argentina. Braden, long at the center of Argentina policy, had reportedly wished to leave but waited for the Argentina dispute to be resolved in a TrumanIvahissevich conference.
Senator Theo Bilbo prepares for his third major operation in New Orleans, stating the first goal is to eat, then to speak. The procedure is set for this week with a follow up surgery planned in about three weeks.
Johnstown resident John Smatlak Jr a World War Two veteran 27 dies after plunging from a 100 foot slag pile 18 feet from slag train engineer W H Slick recalls the moment. Bride to be and soon to be mother mourn the loss. Officials plan to search if pile cools with a power shovel. Bethlehem officials call it the most horrible accident in company history.
Decatur Business and Professional Women's Club will install new officers at 6:30 PM Thursday during a dinner meeting on the Royal Dinner club roof. Mrs Lou Ellen Williams will conduct the installation.
The Senate Armed Services Committee unanimously approved a plan to merge the Army Navy and Air Forces under a single cabinet officer in a new Department of National Security. The proposal, backed by President Truman, would replace the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy. A second major point would train every physically fit male at 18 or after high school graduation. Debate on peace treaties and U S Russian policy continued with a vote expected tomorrow.
In Columbia South Carolina police pursued a Negro suspect after a stabbing and alleged attempted rape of a white housewife. A 12 hour search drew 300 armed citizens with 2001 officers amid racial tensions, with a fiery cross reported and a tar incident investigated.
In Columbia South Carolina a trial question centers on whether repealed state primary laws keep the Democratic Party white only. The NAACP backs a suit to open the party’s white primary to Negroes with Richland county officials defending the party as a private club. The case follows a 1944 Supreme Court Texas ruling allowing Black voters in Democratic primaries, but South Carolina argues no statutory regulation exists here.
Floods sweeping from Ohio to New England cripple Rutland Vermont with over 500 homeless and 2 million dollars in damage. National Guardsmen run emergency kitchens as residents work to clear debris and restore water and power amid damaged bridges and evacuations.
The laden freighter Emperor struck a rock and sank off Isle Royale in fog on Lake Superior. Eleven crew members died, three were missing, and twenty one were rescued to Fort Williams Ontario. The ship, operated by Canada Steamship Ltd, sailed from Port Arthur and Ashabula, Ontario. Captain Norman Reech listed Captain Eldon Walkinshaw among the survivors. Isle Royale National Park lies about 48 miles from Michigan's northern tip.
A fire at a Birmingham gasoline depot during unloading of a transport truck caused estimated damage of 25 000 to 35 000 dollars. About 8 000 gallons of gasoline burned and a small power plant was razed. Firemen reported no injuries. A W Nunis of Nunis Co. said three four thousand gallon city trucks were damaged.
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