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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 23, 1946
Page
1
Partly cloudy Sunday and Monday with scattered thunder showers in the south. The state forecast calls for 85 high and 63 low. Local hospital and clinic notes report multiple patient updates. Birth announced in Greenville and Decatur area. American Legion Auxiliary to meet Tuesday night at Ruth Leeman’s home near Tanner. A diary page reference follows.
Decatur prepares to launch a Junior Chamber of Commerce for men 21 to 36, with a July 2 meeting at Bowzee Motors to draft by laws and elect leaders. State JC leaders attend, noting aims to complement the existing senior chamber and boost local development.
Paris world news report says Soviet Foreign Minister Molotov may assess progress by end of next week as the 21 nation peace conference faces delays. Byrnes urges invitations to the July 15 session and hints at altering leadership if no accord on treaties is reached. Talks avoid Trieste and Italo Yugoslav frontier and focus on procedure as Moscow discussions continue.
A new partially mechanized system for selecting Army officers lists 9 600 top leaders for congressional approval. The War Department aimed to fill 9 600 permanent officers beyond peacetime levels from 800 000 wartime volunteers, with selection emphasizing intelligence, education, stability, composure, wartime performance, savings, and rural or small town origins.
The Associated Press reports meat and bread remain scarce with forecasts of gradual relief after July. Bowles expects meat availability to improve for a few months, while bread shortages should ease in about 30 days. Agriculture officials blame some shippers for delaying livestock, and major packing centers show record low slaughtering with minimal meat in markets.
Morgan County Post No. 15 of the American Legion will meet Monday at eight o clock at its hall on Second Avenue for the annual election of officers. Two nominating committees will report nominees for roll post commander and other officers. Next week the Legion moves to permanent quarters at Lelia Cantwell Seton Hall, donated by Mrs. Lelia S Edmundson in gratitude to veterans. The building has been cleaned and repairs made and is open to all ex service men.
John Caddell, member of the state democratic committee, finds a plane faster than train or car for trips from the Tennessee Valley to Montgomery. He left the state capital at 2 30 Saturday afternoon and by 5 30 arrived home in Huntsville, a journey normally lasting four to five hours by rail or auto.
Fourteen senators and representatives worked out price control extension changes and approved five of six amendments deemed booby traps by Stabilization Director Bowles. Conferees reach agreement on most major points, plan to reconvene Monday to finish, aiming for final House and Senate approval before the June 30 expiry.
The first cotton blooms of the year in Decatur were reported Saturday by Paul C. Davis and Carl Murphy. Davis showed two blooms at his store, one red and one white, from the Davis farm on the Joe Wheeler highway. Murphy brought his bloom from the William Hart farm near Priceville, grown from DPL 14 seed planted March 28.
Marine Gen. Graves B. Erskine proposes converting warships into dormitories to expand college capacity for returning veterans and civilians. He notes 2,080,000 students may seek admission next fall with 500,000 turned away, and suggests remodeling ships at Chesapeake Bay graveyard for dorms near cities.
Lawmakers say actions this week on draft OPA and war time controls will decide Truman administration's fate. Final votes on appropriation bills and extending wartime authority loom as laws lapse June 30. OPA dispute centers on whether Truman will sign or veto final measure.
Jawaharlal Nehru travels from Srinagar to Rawalpindi and then to New Delhi for a critical All-India Congress Party working committee meeting. Azad says deliberations nearly finished and a final resolution will be adopted tomorrow as Kashmir dispute cools temporarily after Nehru's arrest. The Viceroy seeks a decision by June 23 on a 14 man cabinet pending a constitutional charter.
Four murder cases are listed on the criminal jury docket as Morgan county circuit court opens its second week of the June term. Judge James H Crow Jr presides with Circuit Solicitor George Johnson for the state. Notable cases include Orvil Lee Shelton charged with second degree murder for the knife killing of Prentice Hampton on West Moulton Street. Hampton died after a knife wound to the arm severing an artery on April 13 1940. Hampton 20, also suffered a thigh stab wound. Chapman first-degree murder trial set for shooting of Tommy Horton at a church meeting in fall 1943. Russell W. Lynne to handle Shelton case local report notes.
In Montgomery on June 22 the Alabama Democratic Executive Committee ordered a July 30 special primary to nominate a successor to the late Senator John H. Bankhead. Sparkman and Boykin qualified for the race amid talk of barring them, while Newton and Boozer offered uncertain responses. The committee also set dates for a state school superintendent nominating primary and a separate House seat in Elmore County after Hunter Golson’s death. The bar proposal failed to advance.
Two damage suits each seeking 50000 were filed in circuit court against Decatur Transit alleging a taxi ride from Decatur through Limestone County to Ardmore and Fayetteville Tennessee then Green Huntsville and Alabama, with the driver acting for the company and taking the sisters against their will. The plaintiffs are Effie Jean Daniel and Christeen Daniel represented by W M Daniel as next friend.
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