Weather and local notes from Decatur area
Partly cloudy through Friday with scattered thundershowers this afternoon and Friday south portions. Alabama outlook unchanged. Chili Green, former Decatur merchant, visiting in Birmingham. All day singing at Landersville Methodist church Sunday June 17 after Nichols family concert. public invited. Robert Broadway visits from Decatur to Murfreesboro, Tennessee. Mrs Troy O Martin travels to Breckenridge Texas. Troy Martin Jr and friends seek Padre mine in Superstition Mountains, visiting Breckenridge for rodeo, return to Decatur late June. Sixteenth Avenue Baptist church to meet. Walker Smith president. DoD reports casualties in Korea: Billy R. Buford wounded, Herman Cotton wounded. Women’s Missionary Society to meet at church. Mrs W. C. Hess president. Antioch Methodist Church announces all-day singing next Sunday June 17. all singers invited. Scruggs family visiting Smoky Mountains. Dr and Mrs Newman in Charleston, S. C. Mrs Newman sister of Mrs Scruggs. Rev E N Chandler at home recovering at Jefferson Hillman hospital. Court notes include vagrancy, speeding, carrying pistol without license, and assault cases. Rev C M Smith operated on. resting well. E W Kennedy in critical condition. Willie Nelson treated for burns from backfire causing gasoline ignition. See diary on page 2.
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Troy O. Martin
Breckenridge
Texas
Troy Martin Jr
Chandler
Arizona
Padre
Superstition Mountains
Decatur
Jurors Lower Land Claims in Morgan County cases
A Morgan County jury awarded Homer Hill and Edie Hill $1,900 in property damages after 55 minutes of deliberation. Separate Morgan County cases lowered appraisals on Bee Line highway land from $1,500 to $970, and other condemnations saw reductions from $6,000 to $3,000 and from $2,500 to $1,650. The Hill parcel is 90 by 300 feet south of Hartselle. another 90 by 1,040 feet filling-station plot is underway. Authorities and trial lists are noted.
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Homer Hill
Edie Hill
Morgan County
Homer Summerford
Hartselle
Bee Line Highway
Harris
Russell W. Lynne
Samuel Collins
Tom C. Dunaway
Somerville
W. Luther Glasgow
Falkville
Thomas D. Holland
4Th Ave. W
Alvin R. Kay
Lacey’s Spring
James M. Robinson
Decatur
Dudley Skillington
Deatur
Charles W. Speegle
Hubert Steed
J. Price Waddell
Willard W. Matthews
6Th Ave. E
John R. Smith
18Th Ave. E
Theft Probed at Sunset Drive-In by Local Officers
Chief J B Whitmire says police continue probing a Tuesday night break in at the Sunset Drive In theater. Change, cigarettes, candy and ice cream were stolen. A report said three small boys entered a store on U S Highway 31 and changed a large amount.
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J. B. Whitmire
Sunset Drive-In
U. S. Highway 31
Observer Sees A-Bomb Test Shake Enzwe Atoll Gates
New Orleans lawmaker Rep F Edward Hebert witnessed the Eniwetok atom bomb test as an official observer. He described a blast many times Hiroshima’s power and likened standing at the gates of hell to eternity. Hebert reported in a States series with AP access, noting uncertainty about the final explosion’s magnitude.
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Eniwetok
Washington
Atomic Energy Commission
New Orleans
Eniwetok Atoll
F. Edward Hebert
A-Bear
Dla
House Armed Services Committee
Hebert
Hell
New Orleans States
Associated Press
Congress
Hiroshima
United States
mid-Pacific
Defense Department
Commission
Japan to Decide Chinese Signatory Status in Treaty
Britain and the United States reportedly agreed to let Japan choose whether to sign a peace treaty with the Chinese communists nationalists or neither government. Informed sources said the decision, which could break the British American deadlock, awaits British cabinet approval and follows a plan largely shaped by the United States. The Japanese would decide after signing with the other governments and regaining sovereignty.
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London
Britain
United States
Five Injured In Morning Crash On Decatur Arab Highway
A morning collision on the Decatur Arab highway at Brooksville left five injured. Harold Matthews aged 40 of Decatur and Ralph Emerson Thomas, 28, of Decatur, plus Harvey Rogers, 27, Decatur, suffered injuries. Rogers and Thomas were admitted to Decatur General Hospital. Jim Nelson 47 Somerville and his grandson H M Henderson 6 were treated for lacerations. The crash involved Nelson’s 1933 Plymouth and Rogers’ 1949 Chevrolet. Thomas Rogers and Matthews were enroute to Redstone Arsenal Huntsville for work. Nelson and grandson were heading to Blankenship store at Brooksville. The crash occurred about 6:15 AM. witnesses say the boy was thrown 30 feet.
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Lionel Freeman
Harold Matthews
Decatur
Ralph Emerson’ Thomas
East Cain
Harvey Stewart Rogers
Decatur General Hospital
Rogers
Thomas
Jim Nelson
Somerville
H M. Henderson
Freeman
Highway Patrol
Roy Bradford
Nelson
Plymouth
Chevrolet
Matthews
Redstone Arsenal
Huntsville
Blankenship
Brooksville
Brown
Grand Bay Watermelon Festival Scheduled for June 27
Grand Bay Alabama announces its annual watermelon festival on June 27. Fruit from a 2,000 acre southwest Alabama crop heads to market as the agricultural center showcases its produce.
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Grand Bay
Ala
Alabama
Acheson Moved U.S. Help For South Korea
Senate hearings on Gen. MacArthur dismissal hear Louis Johnson recounts the June 1950 decision to aid South Korea at Acheson's motion. He cites state and defense policy tensions and notes MacArthur's command and warnings in Tokyo amid the Korean crisis.
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Washington
Louis Johnson
United States
South Korea
State Acheson
Sand Johnson
Johnson
Defense
Senate
Douglas MacArthur
Truman
State Departments
Formosa
Acheson
Far East
Korea
MacArthur
Tokyo
U. S
White House
Joint Chiefs of Staff
Japan
Defense Department
State Department
Omar Lee Acheson
Plan To Extend Production Act is Defeated
The Senate Banking and Currency Committee defeated Sen Robertson's motion to extend the defense production act until June 30 1952. The panel then began section by section review of an administration bill to broaden controls for two years while considering a shorter extension. President Truman planned a White House broadcast urging a consumer push on Congress as industry groups urged limited limits. Beef packers and major manufacturers opposed broad exemptions. Market concerns and possible meat exemptions sparked heated debate among Maybank Robertson Ives Moody and others. See PLAN On Page 2
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Washington
Senate Banking and Currency Committee
Sen
Robertson
D-Va
Congress
Truman
White House
National Association of Manufacturers
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
Ford Motor Co
Eric Johnston
Ford
Senate Banking Committee
Senate-House Defense Production
Maybank
D-S.c
Dva
Ives
R-N-Y
Moody
Dmich
James Olson
Hormel’s Packing Company
First Father Is Sure To Be The Lucky Fellow
Decatur merchants seek the first father of Father's Day 1951 with gifts and broad praise. George LaBoon of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce coordinates a program rewarding the dad who welcomes the first baby. The delivering doctor may receive cigars if he contacts LaBoon. Sunday will honor all fathers.
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Decatur
George LaBoon
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Tax Hiking Bill Advances With 7.2 Billion Increase
The House Ways and Means Committee finished work on a bill proposing a 7.233 billion dollar yearly tax increase. It would raise individual income taxes by 12.5 percent, boost corporate taxes and expand several excise levies. A withholding tax at the source is dropped for bank and U S savings bond interest but applies to corporate bonds and certain other interest. The panel plans to reconvene to formalize the bill and likely introduce it tomorrow.
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Washington
House
Ways and Means
Senate
U. S
Parked Car Hit and Light Damage Reported
Police report a 1937 Plymouth driven by a Black man struck Perry Orr’s parked car at 524 E Walnut St about 11 30 last night. Damage to the left rear fender and rear bumper was slight as investigators Price Newby Bowman and Kennedy Hunter continued the inquiry.
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Perry Orr
Orr
Walnut St
Price, Newby
Bowman
C. M. Kennedy
W. C. Hunter
Turner Rice Named VP at Birmingham Trust National Bank
Turner Rice a Mobile banker and civic leader was named vice president of the Birmingham Trust National Bank. Rice a Florence native previously served as a trust officer at First National Bank of Mobile and most recently as executive trustee and business manager of the Bellingrath Morse Foundation in Mobile.
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Birmingham
Turner Rice
Mobile
Birmingham Trust National Bank
Rice
Florence
First National Bank of Mobile
Bellingrath-Morse Foundation
Hungarian Tennis Rackets Dropping Cosmopolitan Names
Budapest reports that Hungarian racket makers will stop using cosmopolitan names such as Lady Lord and Oxford. Newsport praises the move while criticizing current quality and elitist branding. State factories vow to adopt more modern naming in the future.
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Budapest
Hungary
Oxford
Shattered Iron Triangle Area Doesn't Resist
Allied tank columns roamed the shattered iron triangle in Korea as Chinese forces offered stubborn resistance in mop up. The U N patrols advanced with limited contact, while heavy air support silenced enemy positions near Pyongyang.
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Tokyo
Iron Triangle
Korea
United Nations
Yanggu
Inje
U. S. Eighth Army
Pyongyang
Triangle
Eighth Army
Fifth Air Force
U. N
Stars and Stripes
Stan Carter
Yanggu-Inje
George McArthur
Lee
Control Of Police Away From Mayor
A local bill in the Alabama House proposes transferring control of the Anniston police department from the mayor to a commissioner, raises the mayoral salary from 4200 to 8000, increases two commissioners from 2100 to 4200, and requires associate commissioners to serve full time, placing the department under commissioner No 2 along with fire and other public affairs.
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Montgomery
Ala
Anniston
House of Representatives
Fire Department
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Deas Bales
Chili Green
Landersville Methodist Church
Nichols
Robert Broadway
5Th Avenue South
Guy Davidson
Murfreesboro
Tenn
Brotherhood of the Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
Walker Smith
Department of Defense Today
Pfc
Billy R. Buford
Roy F. Buford
Cpl
Herman Cotton
Jerry B. Cotton
Scottsboro
Woman's Missionary Society of the
Sixteenth Avenue Baptist Church
W. C. Hess
Antioch Methodist Church
Mrs. M. M. Scruggs
Lynn
Smoky Mountains
Mrs. Newman
Charleston, S. C
E. N. Chandler
Sixteenth _Avenue_ Baptist church
Jefferson- Hillman Hospital
Friends
Recorders Court
C. M. Smith
Decatur 3
Caraway Methodist Hospital
E. W. Kennedy
Kennedy Motors
Baugh-Wiley
Decatur 1
Willie Nelson
Gates of Hell
Melon Festival
U.S
B’ham Bank
Clen Clements
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
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