Decatur News Briefs Highlight Local Events and Incidents
Partly cloudy outlook and scattered thundershowers across the region. Memorial Drive Methodist Church associate board to meet at 7:30 PM. Decatur baseball team rumored semi final with Florence at 8:30 PM. District rabies tests show one positive head from Decatur. others from Cullman Hartselle and Athens. Local notices include a nine cent meter refund anecdote and sheriff convention attendance in Huntsville. Birth announcements and a fire outhouse incident at 312 Eighth Avenue West complete the day’s brief items.
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Memorial Drive Methodist Church
O. B. Rogers
C. C. Johnson
Decatur Branch
Applicant's Car Must Pass Test Top Drivers Told
Driver license applicants urged to ensure their automobile tag light and all safety items are functional before testing. State highway patrol examiner H. L. Hester says about eight in ten are rejected for faulty lights. Montgomery orders tighten checks on mechanical fitness to speed up the process. Brakes horn windshield wiper headlights and rear red light must work properly.
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H. L. Hester
State
Montgomery
Hester
Reorganization Of P. O. Sought By President
Washington June 24 The senate will vote Tuesday on a major labor law issue about court orders to block national emergency strikes. President Truman asks sweeping Post Office reorganization to remove postmaster appointments from politics and let the Postmaster General name all postmasters under civil service rules. The Hoover commission framework and higher rates to cover costs accompany plans for new auditing and accounting procedures. Congress also tackles housing aid and a Taft Hartley replacement.
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Washington
Senate
Post Office Department
Congress
Truman
Hoover Commission
Greek Premier Dies Suddenly
Themis tokles Sophoulis, premier of Greece and a central Liberal figure for decades, died at his summer residence in Athens at 4:15 P M at age 88. He had led the government since September 7 1947 amid postwar turmoil and a civil war, enduring a heart attack and cabinet reshuffles after a government scandal.
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Athens
Themistokles Sophoulis
Greece
Sophoulis
King Paul
Liberal Party
United States
Turkey
Bear
Judith Shouts Again at Kelley in espionage trial
Judith Coplon claimed a frame up and entrapment as she testified in Washington after cross examination in her espionage case. She suggested a Russian engineer she loved may have helped frame her while Alger Hiss neared a perjury verdict in New York denying the second count.
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Associated Press
Judith Coplon
Washington
New York
Alger Hiss
State Department
Hiss
Whittaker Chambers
Chambers
Lee Judith
Miles Cut Off Roadway If State Builds
Bids opened today by the State Highway Department include a section of road from Elkmont to the Tennessee state line in Limestone county. The 5 549 base and double surface treated road would shorten travel between Pulaski and Decatur by about ten miles once completed. The Elkmont bridge nears completion and work continues on the Elkton area to Pulaski link.
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State Highway Department
Elkmont
Tennessee State Line
Limestone County
Tennessee Highway Department
Elkton
Pulaski, Tenn
Pulaski
Decatur
Beer Bottle Slaying Stirs Lansing Hunt for Fiend
Lansing police and state authorities launched a wide search for a suspected sex fiend after four year old Walter Eaton was found slain near his home. His throat was cut and investigators believe the attack occurred as the boy was near his foster home in the near capitol area. Witnesses reported a tall thin man in the area and officers scoured cheap housing along rail sidings and skid row to find the killer. The coroner set the time of death around 10:36 P.M. local, as relatives learned of the tragedy.
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Lansing
Mich
Michigan
Capitol
Walter Eaton
Leslie Eaton
Walter
Eatons
Monay
Emily
Ingham
Ray Crosline
Kenneth Shorts
Leslie H. Kent
Chinese Navy Closes Ports
The Chinese navy blockades communist held ports and detains the Star Of Suez after nine gunfire rounds. The ship, chartered by an American company, was later allowed to proceed to Japan though Shanghai pilot boat officials appeared under nationalist arrest. Probing reports of a broader shift clash in Shanghai and renewed aerial bombardment. The article notes Protestant Catholic tensions in Czechoslovakia and a purge of 200000 Hungarian communist party members led by Matyas Rakosi, thinning the party to about one million.
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Associated Press
Star of Suez
Shanghai
Japan
Czechoslovakia
John Huss
Prague
Church
Hungarian Communist Party
Matyas Rakosi
Rakosi
Four Decatur Children Treated to Prevent Rabies
Four Decatur children are receiving anti rabies treatments after contact with a rabid puppy killed by Decatur police. Buddy Haddock 14 son of Mrs Mildred Haddock 2203 First Street Fairview was bitten early this week. Other treated children include Russell 8 and Rayburn 6 sons of Mr and Mrs Elis Patterson 2307 First Street Fairview and Joan Mc
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Decatur
Buddy Haddock
Mildred Haddock
First Stret
Fairview
Russell
Rayburn
Elis Patterson
First Street
Joan Mc
Lifting of Ban on Segregation Urged by House
Montgomery June 24 The state senate blocked a filibuster for a third day as administration leaders push to pass economy bills. A House resolution urged President Truman to rescind or modify the executive order ending segregation in the armed services in states with segregation laws. The House also overrode Gov Folsom to raise city school administrator qualifications to a four year college degree and three years in teaching or administration. The House postponed action on blood test allowance for private labs and others, and the Senate struck out Gov Folsom's amendment requiring out of state marriages to take blood tests within 15 days of returning to Alabama. A penal investigation resolution was opposed by House members.
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Montgomery
State Senate
Senate
Truman
John Gillis
Clarke County
Maxwell Field
House
James E. Folsom
A. L. Patterson
Russell County
Patterson
William A. Barnett
Lauderdale
Seven Held in Raid on Mine Near Montevallo
Six men faced charges of assault with intent to murder and boycotting after an armed mob raided a nonunion coal mine on June 13. An eighth suspect was being sought. Indicted by a Shelby county grand jury, the seven miners were released on bonds of 2500 for assault and 500 for boycott. Trials expected next month.
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Columbiana
Ala
Luther Bozeman
Shelby County
W. W. Wallace
Paul O. Luck
Bozeman
E d Finley
Marvel
Charlie Langford
Percy Lawley
Pea Ridge
Montevallo
Albert Wright Helena
Dick Kirkpatrick
Helena
Johnny Gates
Helena Russell
Dorige
Boothton
United Mine
John L. Lewis
Note Dropped From Car Triggers Kidnaping Probe
A note dropped from a car sparked a probe into a possible kidnapping involving parolee murder convict William Bearden 24 and James Bearden 29 with Barbara Gail Lammar 24 of Houston Texas held as a hostage. State police and Southwest Virginia authorities pursued the trio near Norton Virginia. The woman denied kidnapping claims and Decatur Georgia police back her statement. The Bearden brothers have prior robbery and murder convictions and are wanted on other charges.
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ST. Paul
Virginia
Norton
William Bearden
James Bearden
Houston
Texas
Barbara Gail Lamarr
Walter D. Neely
Decatur
Toms Ellis
Florida
South Carolina
C. W. Blue
J. W. Williams
Meridian
Blue
Intlanta
Mississippi
Williams
Bill Bearden
Crossview
Fla
Bill
Morris Crooks
Seneca
S. C
Columbia
John Alfred Bearden
Walahalla
James
Athens Preparations For TVA Celebration Draw Crowds
Athens civic leaders finalize plans for Saturday’s TVA celebration expected to draw 10 000 to 20 000 attendees. The event marks 15 years of Athens TVA power with a parade to Pryor Field airport for remarks by Rep Sam Rayburn Sen John Sparkman Lister Hill and Governor James E Folsom TVA Chairman Gordon Clark and others scheduled to attend. Four bands will provide music as festivities move from parade route to stadium for speeches.
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Athens
Sam Rayburn
House of Representatives
John Sparkman
Lister Hill
Robert Jones
TVA
Gordon Cla
Alabama
James E. Folsom
Rayburn
Pryor Field
Washington
Knoxville
St Louis Racial Clashes After Pool Opening
Violent clashes between black and white youths erupted in St Louis again after city pools were opened to all races. One white teen suffered a serious skull fracture and several others injured in scattered incidents as police plan extended patrols. Chief O Connell blamed teenagers for the unrest. See St Louis on Page 2.
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ST Louis
St. Louis
Jeremiah O’connell
John Tabaka
Man admits killing woman and mutilating body
A 27 year old Morrison man Edward J Buddy Beckwith was held after authorities said he admitted to his mother that he killed and mutilated 22 year old Irma Jean Stahlhut. The sheriff said the body was found in a tavern walk in refrigerator with both breasts removed and throat cut from ear to ear. Beckwith was captured in a corn field near Morrison and later jailed in Grundy Center facing a first degree murder charge.
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Dwight McCormack Morrison
Grundy County
John A. Meyer
Edward J
Buddy) Beckwith
Morrison
Irma Jean Stahihut
Harvey
Meyer
Beckwith
Jesse Algood
Grundy Center
E. M. Beckwith
Battle Avers Investiga tion May Do Harm
Attorney General Tom Clark ordered a full Justice Department field investigation into recent night rider violence in Alabama with the Ku Klux Klan alleged to be involved. A congressional committee planned public hearings on Alabama floggings, set to begin next Wednesday, with Birmingham reporter Clarke Stallworth and Clarence Lake of The Birmingham News among the first witnesses. Rep. Battle denounced any federal exploration as harmful to justice.
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Washington
Tom Clark
Justice Department
Alabama
Congress
House
Clarke Stallworth
Birmingham Post
Clarence Lake
The
Birmingham News
Cross Burned at Hanson Home in Mountain Brook
A cross was burned on the lawn of Clarence B. Hanson, publisher of The Birmingham News and Age Herald, in Mountain Brook early today. Investigators and Mountain Brook police believe it was the work of pranksters, not the robed groups associated with night riding.
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Birmingham
Clarence B. Hanson
Birmingham News and Age Herald
Mountain Brook
Hanson
Lawless Elements Rally Over Interference In Alabama Mob
Lawmakers condemn outside meddling as they pledge to clean up the scene. Rep Rankin backs restraint on judiciary inquiries while Attorney General Clark says the FBI will probe alleged hooded violence in Brookside on June 10. The incident centers on a reported Ku Klux Klan involvement with mistreatment of several individuals.
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Battle
Congress
Rep
Rankin
D-Miss
Judiciary Committee
Celler
D-Ny
New York
Clark
FBI
Brookside
Ala
Ku See
Negro Minister Hailey B. Taylor Heads Baltimore Synod
Dr Hailey B Taylor pastor of Washingtons Fifteenth Street Presbyterian Church was unanimously elected moderator of the Baltimore Synodical Conference for the next year He is the first Black leader in the synods 95 year history speaking to 250 delegates from 185 churches in Maryland Delaware and the District of Columbia he said the action would have repercussions for ministers elders and lawmakers.
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Maryland
Delaware
District of Columbia
Chetation Brotherhood
Dr. Taylor
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