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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 17, 1951
Page
1
Partly cloudy to cloudy tonight and Sunday with a few scattered thundershowers. No significant temperature changes. Local notices include several dismissals from Baugh-Wiley clinic and a luggage theft incident involving Miss Ruth Beddingfield returning luggage to Decatur Transit. Plus updates on missionary work, National Guard enlistment, and a minor traffic collision.
In Delhi Louisiana on June 16 three Alabama convicts were captured at gunpoint after a three day flight. They face charges of kidnapping four people and raping a 40 year old Tuscaloosa woman. The escape came from Draper state prison near Montgomery. Police say two of the men admitted the assault.
In Princeton New Jersey on June 16 more than 100000 students nationwide undertook a three hour draft era college examination. The Educational Testing Service reported 121941 collegians applied to take the test at 1036 centers as part of a four test series to help determine eligibility to continue schooling. Scores from the May 26 first test show that 70 to 75 marks may be required to remain in college or graduate school.
Freight and passenger service on the Louisville and Nashville main line through Athens resumed about 13 hours after 13 cars derailed when a hot journal box caused a southbound freight to run off the tracks. Wreckers from Birmingham and Nashville cleared the line as 80 workers assisted.
The United States aims to win Allied agreement on Western security issues after France votes. Officials expect a new French government within weeks to address German rearma ment and other long‑delayed decisions, easing a log jam in Allied councils.
Julius and Ethel Rosenberg visited each other recently for the first time since entering Sing Sing prison’s death house. A source says Rosenberg will be allowed to call on his wife for an hour weekly within hearing of an attendant. Their death sentence date remains pending appeal.
Merrill Doss of Hartselle said the Morgan County Bar would seek John A. Caddell as president of the Alabama Bar Association. Caddell, long on the state board, resides in Decatur and has 18 years of practice after University of Alabama law education. The state meeting in Montgomery July 13–14 will elect officers.
Decisions on civil charges totaling about 138 700 against seven current and former Lawrence County Revenue Court officials were issued by Ralph Eagerton chief State examiner of public accounts. The case centers on 144 361 78 mishandled during Oct 1 1947 to Jun 30 1950 with 6530 written off and 29700 more possible if verification is provided. A balance of 6650 25 was charged against three officials and four others by a county grand jury.
Alabama lawmakers cleared most of the week to press a 3 percent sales tax plan for public schools. Senate halted 26 bills, while a labor-aimed measure faced opposition. a 10 day recess was set, ending July 9.
Decatur hosts a Father’s Day contest for the first baby born after midnight June 17. The baby’s father wins gifts from local merchants. the delivering doctor also receives cigars.
Decatur uses new wooden traffic signs at Second Avenue intersections to direct drivers no left turns when traffic is heavy. Nathan Pryor, police commissioner, said signs help prevent tangles and are removed when traffic eases.
Police engaged a gunman in a 45 minute shootout in New Orleans French Quarter. Donald Lee Wear, 22, barricaded in Sheila Ryan’s Bourbon Street apartment after stabbing Ryan, a 22 year old exotic dancer. An officer was wounded. Wear surrendered then fired but missed.
An 18 month old girl in Alabama chewed and swallowed most of a razor blade without mouth or stomach injury. Dr. said Connie Sue Roberson is doing fine after bananas and cheese absorbed most fragments. She remains under observation at Sand Mountain clinic.
The Morgan County condemnation suit against Roy and Ruby Newman was settled Friday by agreement. Appraisers valued the North Hartselle land at $5,000.
Allied forces with giant searchlights pounded retreating Chinese and North Korean units across Korea on Saturday night. Lt. Gen. James A. Van Fleet warned reserves remain and a possible third Chinese spring offensive is expected. Patrols reported concentrations near Yonchon and Korangpo, with light contact elsewhere as the Reds withdraw north of parallel 38.
Washington June 16 Federal Judge T Alan Goldsborough died suddenly tonight at his daughter in law's apartment He was 73 A close friend said the jurist was visiting Mrs T Alan Goldsborough Jr for a Father's Day dinner He twice punished John L Lewis in 1946 and 1948 contempt trials and fines were upheld or reduced by the Supreme Court
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