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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Jun 25, 1946
Page
1
Partly cloudy this afternoon tonight and Wednesday with scattered thundershowers in the north and west. Southeast winds on the coast. Max 91, min 68. Various local residents and officials are noted with meetings, trips, permits, and social visits.
Washington June 25 Chairman Spence of the house banking committee says President Truman will sign the OPA compromise. The plan, less stringent than sought, keeps meat butter cigarettes and gasoline price controls while ending many agency powers. Final passage hinges on votes in the house and senate with a potential midafternoon decision.
Democratic gubernatorial candidate Big Jim Folsom told The Daytona Beach Evening News he will push to end the poll tax, streamline education, and call a constitutional convention for a new Alabama constitution. He outlined plans during a beach stop with family, saying he will visit Georgia’s Ellis Arnall before taking office.
Washington June 25 major price control provisions approved by the house senate conference committee compare with present law. The bill retains price control on meat poultry and dairy while removing clothing price restrictions and capping subsidies. It creates a decontrol board and ends food subsidies April 1 1947 with overall decontrol when supply and demand balance. Profits on reconversion items are protected and the committee signals further OPA changes on page two.
Australia laid out a plan to form a single master committee to draft plans for international atomic energy control and reconcile U S and Soviet programs. The proposal favors a supreme control authority, with smaller panels to follow, as UN Atomic Energy Commission meets in session.
The House passed compromise legislation extending the draft law to next March 31 with an 259 to 110 vote and sent it to the Senate. The bill allows inductions for non fathers aged 19 to 44, limits service to 18 months, and sets armed forces ceilings while barring fathers. It originally included a further house provision delaying inductions until October 15 and excluding 19 year olds and 18 year olds. The Senate had favored drafting 18 and 19 year olds. The law expires June 30.
American and Soviet diplomats reported progress in Europe’s peace talks as Byrnes and Molotov conferred in Luxembourg and Washington. A plan to internationalize Trieste under UN oversight for ten years with a plebiscite to decide sovereignty was under study, while Moscow signaled opposition. Byrnes, Molotov, Bevin, and Connally held sessions amid uncertainty over Yugoslav sovereignty and allied positions.
James D. Thomas 69 retired local merchant died of a heart attack Monday morning at Red Boiling Springs Tennessee where he had been guest for two days. Body returned to Decatur by Brown Funeral home with services planned at First Christian church Wednesday at 10 A M conducted by Rev. Robert Glenn. Interment in city cemetery. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs Moyer Savannah Tennessee and Mrs Virginia Sharpe two sons Julian Thomas Houston Texas and Jack Thomas stationed in the pines two sisters Mrs In Cornersville Tennessee and Mrs Carden.
Ted Allen a 35 year old cotton mill worker from Union Springs Alabama qualified as the third official candidate for the U S senate. He plans a hitchhiking statewide campaign while describing himself as a common working man and political hobbyist. Other candidates include Frank Boykin James A Simpson and Thomas Maxwell with Sparkman and Newton also in play as the July 30 special primary looms.
Garner Pride, veteran of World War I and II, was elected post commander of the Morgan county American Legion last night at Second Avenue hall. Skeggs Crawford and Noble Russell will serve as first and second vice commanders. Tom Harvey as adjutant. Henry Clark as sergeant at arms. W. L. Grimes as finance officer. Board members include Pride, Elmer Loyd, Phillip Shanks, and Meredith Woodall with two elected yearly. A dedication program for the new Bank Street post home is planned for July 4 with Probate Judge T. C. Almon as master of ceremonies and Judge Seybourn Lynne delivering the principal address.
A series of three crashes in Decatur increased the week’s automobile accidents to four. A 1937 Ford coach driven by John Wiggins, a Negro from Hillsboro, collided with a 1939 Ford pickup driven by L M Woodall of the State Highway Department at Church and Vine Streets about 7:30 this morning. Wiggins was arrested for no driver's license but released on $10 bond. The Ford coach sustained minor damage. the highway truck about $50 damage. A separate crash on Bank Street at 5:50 Monday evening involved a Bama Cigar Co delivery truck and a 1936 Chevrolet driven by R B Little. both cars were lightly damaged.
Box seats and general tickets opened for the Lions club event at Benson field. By noon 138 of 112 reserved seats were sold for the July 25 show. office hours 8 30 to 5 daily with Nina Woods in charge. Entry blanks sent to horse owners in eight states including Tennessee and Kentucky.
Vice Admiral Blandy warned that his ships would use force if needed to prevent interference with the atom bomb test near Bikini Atoll. He said the area would be off limits to all but certain operations within 150 miles of Bikini as of today and confirmed U S claims to the Marshalls.
Early July 1 daylight operations plan the B-29 of Maj. Wood P. Swancutt leading the skytrain from Kwajalein to Bikini 215 miles northeast. Blandy’s photo plane and other observers will form in position as Army air units assemble southwest of the atoll at 26 000 feet. Rescue units standby for possible distress. drones hover outside the lagoon awaiting the blast.
Acting Secretary of State Acheson said Russia refused to rescind its expulsion of Christian Science Monitor reporter Reuben Markham from Romania. Markham left Bucharest June 22 and is now in Athens after orders from Col. General Suslov. The United States had protested to Moscow and Bucharest a month earlier with no result.
Lucretia McClure reports defense asserts self defense for Orvil Lee Shelton accused of second degree murder in the Prentice Hampton killing. Shelton claims Hampton cut him first and jurors retired at 11 46 A M after witnesses rebutted.
A serviceman, Billie F. Pitts, is remanded by Judge James H. Crow Jr. after refusing to remove his hat in court during a grand larceny indictment. Army officers present on recruiting duty in Decatur advised him, and Pitts eventually apologized and doffed his hat.
Testimony shows Shelton denying two by four or gun while NeSmith contradicts forensics and witnesses. State prosecutor Powell and Johnson pace cross examination. defense led by Lynne duo as Shelton recounts box factory meeting and fatal street altercation on April 13, 1940 with ongoing jury deliberation.
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