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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 12, 1950
Page
8
Steve Canyon sails toward the Okinawa base as operations unfold in occupied China. The action follows toward U.S. bases and related campaigns in the region with ongoing developments and strategic moves.
The affidavit by the complainant’s solicitor states Ethel Bracken is a non resident of Alabama over 21 and her post office address is unknown. The Register orders weekly publication in Decatur Daily for four weeks requiring her to plead answer or demur to the bill by July 14 1950 or thirty days after.
American official Charles P. Muldoon says Chinese Nationalists in Formosa have an excellent chance to repel a communist invasion. He notes the Nationalist Army is highly disciplined well trained in modern warfare and equipped with modern weapons after completing ECA fact finding in Formosa and Japan.
Gadsden Alabama June 12 1950 police report says 34 year old William T Coker an Attalla automobile salesman was shot twice in the chest at the home of a Gadsden steel worker Elmer Chester Smith 34 confessed to the shooting and was taken into custody.
George Baldanzi steps down as director of the CIO Southern organizing drive. CIO staff from eight states bid him farewell as he prepares to become executive vice president of the CIO Textile Workers Union of America. Baldanzi had succeeded Van A. Bittner less than a year ago.
H. S. Pete Newman a Birmingham city detective and wartime intelligence officer was found dead from a pistol wound in his bed. He had been with the police since 1938 and a pistol lay near the body according to hotel staff.
Police quote captures Smith saying the assailant violated his home. Safflower shifts from experimental trials to a commercial crop in the Northern Great Plains after two decades of development.
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