Local Weather And Community News Tidbits From Decatur
Partly cloudy with scattered showers and southeast coastal winds. Church notices list Rev Lacy Welch services at 1319 12 Fourth Avenue South Saturday night. Proctor Fund totals and donors. alumni awards. Red Cross swimming lessons. church talks and Sunday services across local churches. Hospital admissions and births noted. Four cases heard in Recorder's Court. diary reference to page 2.
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Lacy Welch
Church of God
Fourth Avenue South
Country Paying For Prosperity. As Cost Of Living Climbs Up
The cost of living rises again with food price indexes at a 17 month high. Metals rubber and wool lift raw material costs, pushing up tires clothing carpets and meat prices. Wholesale indexes show inflation persisting with forecasts of higher meat prices and possible gasoline hikes. Demand and tight supplies drive up rubber steel copper zinc and other goods as incomes and home building surge.
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New York
America
Associated Press
Agriculture Department
Dun & Bradstreet
Senator Quarles Pushes Action on Race Segregation in Special Session
Montgomery Alabama June 9 Senator George Quarles of Dallas County urges the forthcoming special session to act on preserving racial segregation in Alabama in response to Supreme Court rulings He notes the need for a two thirds vote and doubts schemes to adjourn soon will succeed while advocating staying at the capitol to explore options with unclear possible steps or outcomes.
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Montgomery
Ala
George Quarles
Dallas County
Alabama
Supreme Court
Quarles
Fourth Dies In Hill Feud
Daisy Tennessee June 9 4 The two year old Daisy mountain feud claims its fourth victim Raymond Bell 28 of Daisy was found near railroad tracks with a .45 through the neck He died clutching an unfired 12 gauge shotgun Bell and his younger brother Ed 24 were under a one to five year sentence for the axe and pistol slaying of their brother in law William L Boots Parker last October 15 They were seen alive leaving a theater with estranged wife Mrs Mabel Pend Bell County officers were told The body was found at 11 35 PM by four brick plant workers after the theater exit was missed There are names Virgil Morgan Charlie Dent R F Shadwick and Leslie Ford in a car driven by Morgan who said he spied the body The Bell brothers were freed on bond pending an appeal to the state supreme court
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Daisy
Tenn
Daisy Mountain
Raymond Bell
Bell
William L
Boots) Parker
Mabel Rhe Pend Bell
Walter Bell
Virgil Morgan
Charlie Dent
R. F. Shadwick
Leslie Ford
Morgan
Bell Brothers
Parker
State
Voters in Primaries Favor Incumbents in Early Returns
Washington June 9 Voters in 13 state primaries have favored incumbents with 173 House seats decided and no defeats for sitting members. Only two of 11 Senate seats have changed hands, Pepper and Gurney, with Graham facing a runoff. Analysts debate whether this signals party strength or voter indifference ahead of November elections. See VOTERS on Page 2
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D. Harold Oliver Washington
House
Senate
Pepper
D-Fla
Gurney
R-S. D
Graham
D-N. C
Cullman Man Back in Custody in Two Deaths
Powell 60, Cullman rural mail carrier, jailed in New Orleans as escapee after fleeing Speigner prison about 1930. He previously faced a 25 year sentence for killing Ellis Baker, 21, in a 1927 gun battle with Claude Baker, with both Bakers killed.
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Mode Powell
Alabama
New Orleans
Powell
Speigner
John W. Crosby
Cullman Tribune
Bakers
Claude
Claude Baker
Truman Plugs Marshall Plan for Postwar Peace
President Truman, addressing graduates at the University of Missouri in Columbia, warned that abandoning aid to Western Europe after 1952 would threaten world peace. He urged continued U S contributions to free nations to keep a healthy world economy and prevent Communist encroachment. He noted the dangers exist but urged faith in science and progress.
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Ernest B. Vaccaro
Columbia
Truman
Europe
United States
University of Missouri
Mr. Truman
Phi Beta Kappa
Scholarship Society
St. Louis
Reprieves Granted for Two Alabama Death Row Inmates
Gov. James E. Folson issued a 90 day stay for Jim Arrington 28 convicted of raping a white woman in Crenshaw County and set a clemency hearing next Wednesday for Lonnie James Ball 29 of Calhoun County. Both men are slated for execution June 16 at Kilby Prison.
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Montgomery
Ala
Jim Arrington
Crenshaw County
James E. Fol- Aashar
Lonnie James Ball
Calhoun County
Folsom
Arrington
State Supreme Court
Yail
Fo ‘Aid
Ball
Robert E. Sparks
Oxford
Kilby
State Supreme
U. S
Diary of Forrestal diary fuels Amerasia case uproar
Senate demands that investigators subpoena the diary of the late James V Forrestal, rumored to reveal a high official urged delay in arrests in the Amerasia documents case. The diary, kept in a White House safe, is sought as new light enters the controversy.
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Washington
White House
Amerasia
Knowland
Forrestal
Capitol
Senate Agriculture
Justice Department
Gillette Heads
Forfeiture of Bond in False Check Case
Rebecca Grisham, a 26 year old Town Creek mother of three, forfeited bond on false pretense charges in recorder's court. Police Chief Whitmire and State Investigator Troupe reported her guilt and she admitted to the officials in a morning letter.
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Rebecca Grisham
Recorder’s Court
J. B. Whitmire
Grisham
Town Creek
Sheffield
Whitmire
R. A. Troupe
Ousted Preacher Quits Parsonage At Springville
In Springville Alabama an ousted preacher prepared to leave the rural parsonage after defying church law. He had refused to surrender the parsonage for the three churches assigned to University to replace. He planned to preach part time and seek other work following his departure.
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Springville
Ala
Bout
No Closed Shop at Goodyear Decatur Mills Denies AFL Pact
Goodyear Decatur Mills denies a Birmingham report claiming a closed shop with the AFL Textile Workers Union. Management says there is no forced union membership for employment and dues are only deducted with signed authorization. Plant No. 1 has reopened to hire 600 to 700 workers, with about 200 already back.
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Goodyear Decatur Mills
Birmingham
AFL Textile Workers Union
Goodyear
Vig
Light Damage Reported In City Traffic Collision
A minor two-vehicle crash at Sixteenth Avenue and Wadsworth Street yesterday at 11 15 resulted in light damage to a 1931 Packard driven by William H McGhee Hartseller and a 1946 Ford panel truck driven by William Wright 1108 Tower Avenue for Kelleys grocery. Officers Webb and Taylor investigated. Packard slid 63 feet before impact and 24 feet after.
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Wadsworth Street
J. B. Whitmire
William H. McGhee
Hartseller
William Wright
Tower Avenue
Kelley
John Webb
Carmen Taylor
Soong Resigns From Nationalist Party Amid China Crisis
Soong T.V. resigns as nationalist China faces possible invasion by communist forces. He fled Nanking with the government in 1948 and seeks medical care abroad, leaving Madame Chiang Kai-Shek and the regime on Formosa. Other world briefs note Japanese crackdowns and Czechoslovakia spying trials.
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Associated Press
Formosa
T. V. Soong
Chiang Kai-Shek
Soong
China
Red
Nanking
Canton
New York
H. H. Kung
Madame Chiang
Madame Sun Yat-Sen
Peiping
Japan
Osaka
Tokyo
Communist Party
MacArthur
Nippon Times
World Cotton Experts Debate Price for African Fiber
World cotton experts met in Washington to study how to expand global trade in cotton and assess if high U S price supports push world prices up. They noted synthetic fibers reduce cotton demand and urged producers to consider policy changes to boost world consumption.
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Ovid A. Martin Washington
Athens City Waits For Wage Increase Negotiations
Athens workers strike after city refuses to bargain with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers Local 558. Mayor Elmer Vinson says the city will raise wages but will deal directly with employees rather than a union. About 25 strikers, line formed. office staff remain at work.
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Athens
W. W. Malone Jr
Elmer Vinson
Vinson
Charles S. Goidel
International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers
Sheffield
Goidel
Associated Press
Board of Aldermen
Floyd Fry
Population of Athens Surpasses 6 000 Mark
The census prelim shows Athens, capital of Limestone County, with 6 264 residents, up 44 percent in ten years. Limestone County totals 35 712. The rise may affect police jurisdiction and debt limits as Athens enters the 6 000 and above class.
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Athens
Limstone County
Limestone County
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