Mrs. Holmes Wins $100 in Circuit Court Condemnation
A Morgan Circuit court jury after nearly eight hours awarded Mrs. Sue Holmes $100 for a quarter acre taken for the U.S. 31 project, updating from an initial $25. The Shipps seek $4,000 for a tenth acre, while the state requests $750 to $1,000. Hart case to trial later.
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Morgan
Sue Holmes
U.S. 31
Phocian Shipp
John Peach
Shipps
Norman
Julian Harris
Hartselle
F. M. Hart
Hart
Sherman Powell
Shipp
Oral Ferguson
Falkville
Farmer
Liver Fowler
Somerville
Earl L. Glenn
Cornelian Courts Apts
Decatur Real Esate
W. E. West
Leadership shifts and policy moves shaping wartime controls
OPS backs the controls program while the ULPC faces a tough situation with a former Toledo mayor remark. Green testifies on the AFL view of a June 30 extension to the defense production act as hearings probe Truman’s two year extension. Wilson weighs merging NPA and DPA as a major reorganization consideration. DiSalle to post beef prices June 18 with veal possibly next, pork below parity. Wage Stabilization Board debates a four cent hourly bonus for auto workers amid calls to ease wage limits.
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Green
House Banking Committee
AFL
House
Senate Banking Committees
Truman
Charles E. Wilson
National Production Authority
NPA
Defense Production Administration
DPA
Commerce Department
DiSalle
Alsone
18Man
Wolverine to base steel tube production in Detroit plant
Wolverine announces that tube division sales headquarters and all steel tube development and production will be conducted at its Detroit plant. The firm does not anticipate producing steel tube at Decatur at this time.
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Detroit
Wolverine
Decatur
Acheson Defends Truman and Dives Into Manchuria Plan
Acheson argued against freeing Chinese nationalist troops on Formosa and warned that MacArthur's steps could widen hostilities. He defended Truman's authority to deploy troops without Congress, discussed the Manchuria hot pursuit plan, and read a telegram outlining limits and risks to UN forces in Korea.
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Truman
Gillette
Acheson
Korea
United States
United Nations
Manchuria
Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees
Douglas MacArthur
U. S
MacArthur
U. N
Manchurian
Yalu River
Pacific
Mother Admits Hitting Teacher In School Fight
In Cleveland on June 5, housewife Bernice Smey 40 pleads innocent in municipal court to slugging principal James Fenwick 55 at Albert Lushnell Hart junior high. She says Fenwick assaulted her son Danny 14 and demands charges against him.
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Cleveland
Bernice Smey
James B. Fenwick
Fenwick
Albert Lushnell Hart Junior High School
Danny
Joseph Stearns
Louis Feinberg
Justice of the Peace
James T. Cassidy
E. E. Butterfield
Alabama Senate stalls on reapportionment amid wider bills
Senate leaders debate adoptions and rules as L K Andrews stalls the reapportionment bill. A cost limit hike for campaigns moves to the floor by C T Reneau. Baldwin Rep Brannan proposes a state Conservation Department advisory board. A $25 million road bond fight looms as Wright of Talladega pushes compulsory sterilization for incompetents.
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Bullock County
L. K. Andrews
Senate
C. T. Reneau
Elmore
U. S
House
Rep. L. W. Brannan
Baldwin
State Conservation Department
The
Alabama Wildlife Federation
McCary
Gator Graham Wright
Talladega
MacArthur Dismissed for Blockade and Offensive Plans
General Douglas MacArthur was dismissed on April 11 after publicly advocating a naval and economic blockade of China, bombing Communist bases in Manchuria, and employing Chinese nationalist troops in combat.
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MacArthur
China
Manchuria
No Forecast Yet Of General Rain Hit By Heat In Deep South
Uncertain rain outlook as drought tightens its grip across the South. No broad rainfall expected though scattered thundershowers appear in parts of Arkansas, Western Tennessee and Southwest Virginia. Mississippi records 44 days without rain with light showers at several towns. Concerns rise for tobacco and sugar crops in Georgia, Louisiana and North Carolina as heat persists. A 110 degree reading at Sanford Stadium underscored extreme conditions.
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South
Arkansas
Tennessee
Virginia
Mississippi
Columbus
Clarksdale
Meridian
Hattiesburg
U.S. Weather Bureau
South Carolina
Middle Tennessee
Roy Milton
University of Tennessee
Extension Service
South Georgia
Georgia Coastal Plain Experiment Station
South Louisiana
Charles Farwell
Napoleonville
New Orleans
Baton Rouge
North Carolina
Bay Converse
Sanford Stadium
Grant Executrix Sells Property Tied to Spight Trust
The W. R. Spight Charitable and Religious Trust sold a two story brick property adjoining and leased to J C Penney. Proceeds go to eight named beneficiaries per the late W R Spight will. Negotiations led by L B Wright & Son and Russell Speake. future plans from W T Grant await New York announcement.
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L. B. Wright & Son
Russell Speake
W. T. Grant Corporation
Aeings
George A. Young
Grant Corporation
New York
W. T. Grant Company
J. C. Penney Company
Cohen's finances before tax probes revealed in testimony
Special investigator Lloyd G Speer testified Cohen described loans from Coplin Seltzer Brown Siegel Hudkins and the Rothmans. Cohen said Coplin funded him with $5 000 checks and he often borrowed to cover expenses and notes. U S Attorney Tolin said Cohen spent $343 139 in 1946 1948 and may have underreported by about $100 000. Cohen denied tax evasion and said he comes to court clean.
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Lloyd G. Speer
Bureau of Internal Revenue
Cohen
Speer
Jake Coplin
San Francisco
Arthur Seltzer
New York
Harold Brown
Benjamin (Bugsy) Siegel
California
Ace Hudkins
Harry
Sam Rothman
Coplin
Kefauver Committee
Brown
Senate Proters
Hollywood
U. S
Ernest Tolin
Tolin
Markets Report from Decatur Farm Prices
Commodities listed include cotton middling 45.75 cents and strict low 43.70. Cottonseed at 75 dollars per ton. Broilers 27 cents delivered. Hens 20 to 24 cents delivered. Hatching eggs 80 cents per dozen. No 2 wheat new crop 2.31. No 2 oats new crop 80 cents. No 2 Ear Yellow Corn 1.62, No 2 Ear White 1.62, No 3 Ear White 1.59. No 2 Mile 2.31. Corn basis 154 percent moisture, other grains at 134 percent moisture.
North Georgia live poultry market steady in early June
USDA report from Atlanta notes heavy supplies moving to dressing plants under good demand. Prices paid FOB farm around 27 to 28 cents for broilers and fryers all weights. Some sizes short of needs with strong undertone in parts of market. Anomalous line estimates wool consumption per family from one female moth irrelevant to poultry.
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Atlanta
USDA
North
Georgia
Suit challenges Georgia county unit system in Floyd county
In Rome Floyd county court a declaratory suit seeks to decide if Georgia's county unit system is constitutional. R E Martin of Chatham county proposes to deed a 20 by 20 foot lot to one person if valid, or to another if not. If valid, the lot goes to state Rep. James R. Wood. if not, to Dr. Cullen B. Gosnell of Emory.
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Rome
Georgia
Floyd County Superior Court
R. E. Martin
Chatham County
James R. Wood
Bibb County
Cullen B. Gosnell
Emory University Political Science Department
Wood
Gosnell
Martin
M. E.thompson
Thompson
H. E. Nichols
Greenville
James S. Peters
Peters
Iris Blitch
Homerville
E. T. Methvin
Eastman Times-Journal
Wm- Cox
Toonight
Cherokee County
Embankment repairs under way with concrete stabilizing work
The project will fill the box and form a hard support under the bridge approach to prevent settling. About 80 yards of large rock surround the base to stop washout and 24 yards of clay and concrete will be forced under the bridge. Repairs cost about $1000 using convict labor.
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Smith
Britain Reaffirms Oil Dispute Stance With Mossadegh
Britain, in direct talks with Iranian Premier Mohammed Mossadegh, reaffirms representing AIOC rather than the government and seeks Mossadegh to accept a British governmental mission to negotiate a new oil pact. Ambassador Sir Francis Shepherd to repeat the view in Tehran.
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AIOC
Britain
Mohammed Mossadegh
Francis Shepherd
Tehran
Mossadegh
Decatur Pharmacists Protest FDA Refill Rule
Decatur druggists led by E. R. Clements and H O Geidel protest an FDA ruling requiring written physician authorization for refills. They met at the Chamber of Commerce and will address the Morgan County Medical Association. They urge relief, patience, and plan to lobby national representatives.
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Decatur
Federal Food and Drug Administration
E. R. Clements
Geidel
J.-C. Howell
E. S. Loyd
Harry Nungester
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Goidel
Morgan County Medical Association
Iron Monday in Korea Turbulent Front Battles and Bombardments
Monday saw 850 land and sea based planes strike communist targets as U N and allied forces pressed the east central front. Chinese fundraising via radio sought heavy equipment while fighting persisted near Yanggu Inje Hwachon Yonchon and Chorwon with naval bombardment of Wonsan by New Jersey and escorts and air support by U S and allied units.
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U. N
Yanggu
East Central Front
Korea
China
Red Radio
Iron Triangle
Inje
Yonchon
Chorwon
Chail
Kumhwa
Hwachon
Hantan River
Yongpyong
38Th Parallel
New Jersey
Wonsan
Britain plans Cyprus pullback and Iran stance hinted
Iran is expected to respond soon to demands on nationalization. AIOC will announce its mission composition after cabinet approval. Three shiploads of British paratroopers from the 16th Brigade sail to Cyprus to bolster Mediterranean garrisons in case of trouble in Iran or elsewhere in the Middle East.
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Iran
AIOC
16Th Brigade
Cyprus
Britain
Mediterranean
midEast
Decatur News Briefs Include Local Meetings And Events
Sea COMMUNITY and Moebes greet friends in Decatur. Mrs. Biggerstaff admitted to clinic. Fire department responded to trash fire on Jackson Street with no damage. Decatur Junior Chamber to meet at Why Not cafe. Wheeler Lake Yacht Club plans boat races on June 24. details to follow.
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Jackson Street
Wheeler Lake Yacht Club
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Elmer Nix
Ottis Williams
Talucah
John F. Stewart
Seventh Avenue
T. Thomason
Andréw E. Nix
Herman Cagnar
Sixth Avenue East
William L. Speegle
Austinville
C. S. Whitmire
Moulton
ULPC
Toledo
Neil Kirk
Chiropractor
Beare
Formosa
Flanders
R-Vi
Alger Hiss
Knowland
Calif
Hiss
State Department
J. N. Gernhardt
Burlington
Colo
S. H. Mahaffey
Gernhardt
Grant
Mr. Cohen
Nate Polowetzky
Eighth Army
T. B. Moebes
Decatur 2
C. B. Biggerstaff
Elkmont 1
Baugh-Wiley Clinic
Decatur Junior Chamber of # Commerce
Why Not
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Fay
Dallas
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