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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 06, 1947
Page
1
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Partly cloudy today and tonight with scattered thundershowers and southeast winds on the coast. Cotton market up at noon with middling around 35.60 and strict low 34.60 on the Decatur market. Rev Cowboy Joe Evans to speak at Central Baptist Sunday June 15. Byars family to sing at Church of God Hartselle Sunday morning. Mrs. Troy Blevins and infant son returned home from Decatur General Hospital. Regular services at Southside Baptist and Westminster Presbyterian projects noted. vacation Bible school opens June 9 with several leaders listed. Dick Hertzler improving after major operation at Huntsville hospital. Five Decatur Highway Patrol officers head to Birmingham for air carnival traffic duties. Lawrence Kaufman of Athens visits Decatur. Patrols warn motorists about faulty brakes and lights. city building permit issued for bar-b-que stand expansion. Bank Street post office inspected and possible relocations discussed. Local crime updates include mortgage property diing case in Morgan County jail. Walter Noble enlists in U S Army ordnance. Charlie Daggey held for grand larceny in Morgan County jail.
A group of Democrats pressed their case in Senate debate on the Republican labor bill hoping to sway President Truman and the Senate to uphold his stance. Senator Murray of Montana, former labor committee chair, led as the GOP held control and the measure aimed to strip certain powers.
Senator Taft accuses President Truman of creating conditions that push prices higher and attacks the administration's price policy as inconsistent. Truman said Taft holds dangerous views and cited an interview suggesting a shift toward policies that will keep prices up.
Senators debate a measure tied to essential rights as Senator Pepper accuses the National Association of Manufacturers of acting as, in effect, the unchallenged spokesman for the economic system. Pepper says he will deliver a lengthy speech, with a night vote possibly unlikely but a large majority anticipated. Murray and Pepper seek to craft an opposition record, as reports indicate judges are referenced on page 2.
On the third anniversary of D Day sights of white crosses under apple trees along Normandy hedgerows evoke the cost of battle. Five American divisions landed in Normandy on June 6 1944 to seize Cherbourg opening a path to Paris with 250 miles advance. Nearly 90 000 Allied troops paid with blood in the Cherbourg peninsula battles while nine U S military cemeteries hold 28 462 crosses. Maj Robert Crisson cites hedgerows their breaks and shells as reasons for Normandy toll. See WHITE On Page 2.
President and General Eisenhower arrive in Kansas City to attend a World War I 35th division reunion. Their plane, the Sacred Cow, landed at Fairfax Airport in Kansas City at 11 35.
Decatur columnist John Temaie Graves reflects on growth and opportunity in Morgan county Alabama noting transportation links including Rhodes Ferry Wheeler Dam and L and N and highways converging with Athens. The piece credits local native sons for agriculture and hints at continued development ahead.
In Montgomery on June 6 the senate rules committee met for an hour and adjourned without a hearing date for two of Gov. James E. Folsom's Auburn board of trustees nominees Reps. Robert Brown and Dr. Joe Davis. Senator James B. Allen urged a hearing date and cited stall tactics, noting attempts at compromise with Folsom. The panel plans to reconvene Tuesday afternoon to decide on a hearing.
Decatur public schools start summer session Monday at 8 am in the junior high building. Elementary pupils meet Mrs Hocking while older students report to W T Jordan. Fees: high school ten dollars per subject, fifteen for 1½ units. elementary five and four for extra subjects.
Budapest reports Rakosi says the party seized control of Hungary before the United States could react. He claims the crisis was solved without foreign press interference, praising a united democracy led by the iron willed Communist Party.
Aladar Szegedy-Maszak, Hungary's exiled former minister, called for submitting the communist seizure of Hungary to the United Nations as a test case. He warned that small nations in Russian dominated Eastern Europe depend on how Hungary's fate is resolved and expressed fear U.S. ratification of the peace treaty could aid the new regime.
Descriptions by Rakosi of the events leading to Premier Ferenc Nagy’s resignation were delivered Wednesday but not published locally. Excerpts were found today in an See RAKOSI On Page.
Chattanooga reports at a federal power commission hearing East Tennessee Natural Gas seeks to extend lines to serve 34 Tennessee towns. Ralph Sieben of Chicago urged rapid contracts for supply while Tennessee municipalities testified support for the East Tennessee plan and against Southern Natural Gas, in Dalton and Centerville connections.
In Tallahassee at 1 48 P M a 60 day biennial session concluded as the Florida legislature brushed off last minute efforts to raise new taxes against its record appropriations.
President Truman approves a State Department draft note accusing the Soviet Union of illegal interference in Hungary. The note threatens to appeal to the United Nations.
Charles Ed Howell a Decatur merchant and deacon at Southside Baptist church plans to leave Sept 1 for Southwestern Baptist Seminary in Ft Worth Texas to pursue religious education work. He will sell his stake in Pepper & Howell to Raymond Pepper on Aug 1. Howell, 39, native of Decatur, aims to enter religious field with wife and three children joining him later.
A fuel oil can explosion at a Somerville farm home fatally wounds nine year old Mary Elizabeth Owen and seriously injures her mother Mrs Elliott Owen. The house is destroyed and funeral arrangements are set at Antioch church. Survivors include two brothers and extended family.
The Alabama House of Representatives elected four members to the state building commission. Named were Representatives J. Fred Wood Bibb County Joseph Sullivan Mobile Edward B Miller Etowah and Ira D Pruitt Sumter. They succeed Representatives E L Roberts Etowah Cecil Duffee Tallapoosa George Stone Mobile and former Rep Howard Pill Montgomery.
A memorial communion service for Louis George Hoff who died in the Texas City disaster will be held at St John s Episcopal church Sunday at 8 30 am Rev Eugene Marsden Chapman officiating. The service coincides with a Texas City memorial for the unidentified victims of the explosion. Hoff s biographical notes recount his Decatur High School leadership, Sewanee and Munich studies, Monsanto career and role in polystyrene production.
A young Japanese American, Tomoya Kawakita, 25, was held without bail in Los Angeles on treason charges for allegedly acting as a wartime foreman in a Japanese prison camp on Honshu. The FBI traced him for eight months after a former prisoner identified him as “Kaw-Kida” and the ex-soldier provided the license plate details.
The Army air transport agency grounded 194 C-54 Skymasters worldwide as a safety precaution to inspect tail fittings after reports of loose or sheared stabilizer bolts. Planes are to be back in service within days. a recent Port Deposit Maryland crash killed 53 people and prompted tail assembly concern. Civil Aeronautics Chairman James M. reports structural indications but no confirmed cause yet.
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