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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1952
Page
11
Paris hatters warn that modern trends and a fashion shift toward bareheaded styles threaten a once thriving industry. They blame war induced habits, influential tourists, and ever changing designs for dwindling sales, while noting many women now go without hats in springtime crowds.
Paris modistes and chapelleries drive a booming hat trade with some 4000 new models yearly. Berets link Basque dress to French style while covering ranges from inexpensive felt to jeweled velvet. Last year sales reached 15 billion and 17 billion francs for wholesale reproductions and exports combined.
The Columbia National Bank president W. L. Oakley shouted a warning as a masked bandit entered during lunch hour. The gunman backed out brandishing a pistol and fled in a car with a Houston County plate. Police identified the weapon as a 38 caliber pistol.
J. T. Russell, a Decatur Iron and Steel employee, was treated at Baugh-Wiley clinic yesterday afternoon for a facial injury from a machine tool. The impact left him unconscious briefly and he was released after treatment.
The Shanghai News reports 1,400,000 workers are on a giant Yi river irrigation project in Northern Kangsu aimed at water control. It is 65 percent complete this year and will irrigate about 4,300,000 acres. The plan includes giant sluices, water locks, embankments along coastlines and parts of the Yangtze and Yi rivers.
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