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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 20, 1951
Page
1
First Lt. Thomas J. Briscoe and family leave for Ft. Sill Oklahoma where he reports for basic training as a pilot for the artillery. Briscoe, a World War II veteran, served 14 months in Europe and earned three oak leaf clusters and an air medal.
Mayor John Burleson announced a 2500 foot detour pipe will bypass a 2100 foot water main segment north of town to avert a water outage during U S 31 construction. Crews will lower the mainline by 11 feet and purge rules could require four days before use. Water flow will be maintained via a 50000 gallon stand pipe during the work.
Governor Gordon Persons announced former Montgomery Mayor John L. Goodwyn will join the Alabama Supreme Court, taking a seat within 30 to 60 days. The 47-year-old resigning mayor will replace J. Ed Livingston and serve a six year term starting with the 1952 election.
In Sumerville Georgia heavily armed state troopers patrolled Berryton Mill as contempt hearings were held in Chattooga county court. A non striker was crushed to death and a woman riding to work died when a car was overturned by strikers. Courtroom crowds packed to see union and company attorneys argue the strike dispute before Judge Freeman C. McClure.
The Decatur Kiwanis Club offers 400 dollars to the Decatur Negro High School band if students and band parents match the gift by summer activities. Principal Leon Sheffield notes about 1000 dollars already invested in the band with another 1000 needed for instruments.
The Senate crime committee urged Florida Governor Fuller Warren to appear in Miami for hearings on crime and narcotics. Chairman OConor warned of further action if Warren does not respond by noon tomorrow, citing alleged information about organized crime linking Florida to other states. Warren had previously said he would be out of town during the Miami hearing.
Washington reports the administration launched a drive to pass a record setting seven billion two hundred million dollar tax increase through the house by tomorrow night or Friday. The plan calls for a September first effective individual income tax rise, a retroactive January first corporate tax hike, and new excise levies weeks after enactment. The bill fronts a 12 percent rise in personal taxes with steep corporate and excise increases, and moves under a rules framework limiting amendments. Two days of debate must end by 3 PM EST on the second day.
The Defense Department asked Congress for 6.56 billion dollars for U S military construction. Alabama totals 82.37 million with Army sites at Anniston Fort McClellan Redstone Camp Rucker and Air Force at Craig AFB Brookley AFB among listed projects.
Alabama women leaders urged jury service rights at a hearing before the house judiciary committee. Speakers argued citizenship is not voluntary and proposed voluntary or mandatory service with exemptions and women bailiffs to separate juries. They cited work by 28 male exemptions and women workers supporting families.
Foreign Secretary Herbert Morrison ordered the British mission in Tehran to return to London and said Britain would seek International Court of Justice guidance in The Hague on provisional measures to safeguard its Anglo-Iranian Oil interests.
A senate expenditures subcommittee said a violent job selling racket operated around federal posts in Mississippi and blamed the Democratic National Committee for enabling patronage against Mississippi Democrats who had backed the States Rights ticket in 1948. The panel, led by Senator Hoey, cited extorted political contributions from jobseekers but found no evidence the national committee received money, and warned of possible prosecutions after hearings in Jackson.
Twenty one members of the Communist Party s secondary command were indicted on charges of plotting violent overthrow of the U S government. Seventeen were rounded up in New York by FBI agents. four remain at large. arrests were in New York and Pittsburgh. The case follows a Supreme Court ruling upholding the top leaders conviction.
President Truman formed a cold war strategy board with Gordon Gray as director at 16000 dollars yearly. Members include James E. Webb Undersecretary of State Robert A Lovett deputy secretary of defense and Lt Gen Walter Bedell Smith CIA chief.
Gen Douglas MacArthur said President Truman’s efforts to silence witnesses deprived the Senate Armed Services and Foreign Relations Committees of full facts in his dismissal. He refused to testify again and accused the inquiry of misquoting and out of context paraphrase of documents. He told Chairman Russell that his known views are in the record and that further public testimony is not in the public interest.
Fourth day of air combat over Northwest Korea ends with U N and Allied forces sustaining heavy fighting. United Nations jets and propeller planes engage 98 aircraft in a double-deck battle with Red fighters. North Korea abandons Punchbowl Valley as air operations continue from Manchurian front. The Fifth Air Force reports MIGs and Stormoviks shot down or damaged, with nine Mustangs and thirty-two Sabre jets involved. Navy and Marine losses cited at about 300 aircraft since the war began.
SELMA AL June 20 Alva Smith Agee 53 was killed today and Albert E Rayborn 23 was injured in a traffic accident near Catherine Ala about 40 miles south of here Both men are from Lamison Ala Sheriff P C Jenkins Wilcox County said the cause had not been determined Agee and Rayburn with Rayburn driving were in the front seat of a car that crashed into a moving motor freight truck
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