Decatur Sr Net Weather and Local Notices
Partly cloudy today tonight and Tuesday with scattered afternoon thunder showers in interior and gentle to moderate coastal winds. Decatur weather bureau records 98 high 74 low and .03 rainfall in last 24 hours. Senior Board of Stewards meet 7:30 tonight at Ninth Street Methodist. City court Monday saw twenty people tried for gaming five public drunkenness one disorderly conduct and one violation of prohibition law. Sheriff reports weekend arrests 17 vagrancy six DWI two public drunkenness one driving without a license. Miss Twilight McWhorter heads to Grenada Miss to visit relatives. Mrs Frank Kirby travels to Tuscaloosa for Red Cross meeting Tuesday. Mr and Mrs Buddy Roberson vacationing in Kentucky Ohio and Pennsylvania. American Legion Auxiliary called meeting Tuesday 7 PM at Legion home. DIARY note on Page 2.
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Decatur Weather Bureau
Truman Signs Appropriation Bill to Boost World Recovery
President Truman signed the $6 billion foreign aid appropriation into law, launching a 15 month push to aid Western Europe and Eastern nations. The plan aims to curb communism by strengthening governments outside the Iron Curtain and signals U S resolve to promote peace and stability worldwide.
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Washington
Truman
America
Europe
Executive
Congress
Mr. Truman
United States
Burglary Suspect Captured After Jail Escape And Proposal
Willie Campbell escaped from county jail during a probation hearing and fled to an alley before being found in a parked car. He then pleaded guilty earlier to recent burglaries and was sentenced to five years in the penitentiary, while his marriage proposal to a woman waiting in the hall followed the sentencing.
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Mary Huffaker
Willie Campbell
James H. Crow
Campbell
Pruyn
Judge Crow
C. B
Humphrey
Greyhound
Albany Coal and Grain Company
Falkville
Sims Elected Student Body President at North Carolina School
William Sims, secretary of the Decatur Chamber of Commerce, was elected president of the student body at a U S Chamber of Commerce school he attends at the University of North Carolina. Sims returned to Decatur Sunday night after attending the Southeastern Institute of the U S Chamber, an institute serving 13 Southern states.
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William Sims
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
U. S. Chamber of Commerce
University of North Carolina
Sims
Decatur
Southeastern Institute
U. S. Chamber
Yugoslav Leaders Accused by Cominform in Break
Cominform charged Yugoslav leaders including Premier Tito with veering from Marxist policy and pursuing nationalism. It demanded a return to the line or a leadership change and said Yugoslavs discredited Soviet Russia with propaganda.
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Czechoslovakia
Marshall Tito
Soviet
Russia
Cominform
Yugoslavia
Tito
Belgrade
Communist Party
Romania
Edvard Kardelj
Astates
A. Zhdanov
Strike Seen As Serious National Emergency Declared
Prime Minister Attlee said the government advised King George VI to declare a state of national emergency to safeguard essential food supplies amid a wildcat dock strike. Labor Minister George Isaacs was recalled from San Francisco to handle the stoppage spreading to Liverpool and Birkenhead, as 9,000 more workers joined the walkout.
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London
Attlee
George VI
House of Commons
George Isaacs
San Francisco
Liverpool
Birkenhead
Alabama
Crusade For Children
Karl C. Harrison
United Nations
U.S. State Department
Henry M. Edmonds
Birmingham
U. S
Crusade For
Dwight D. Eisenhower
Draft Figure is Raised Induction Estimates Hit New High
The Army projects 225000 to 250000 men to be drafted in the first year of the new system, higher than earlier 200000 to 225000. The initial call after September 22 will be small, rising to an average 30000 monthly inductions. Royall names four WW II training centers to reopen as division training centers for inductees and volunteers. Fort Riley Kansas Camp Chaffee Ark Camp Breckenridge Ky 101st Airborne Camp Prickett Va plus previously listed Fort Ord Fort Jackson Fort Dix and Fort Knox.
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Washington
Army
Royall
Fort Riley
Truman Plans Campaign Trip
President Truman will undertake an active speaking campaign if he is nominated for the presidency, press secretary said. No detailed plans exist beyond a prior visit to Bolivar, Missouri on July 5, and Mrs. Truman will accompany him to Bolivar for a statue dedication to Simon Bolivar in Venezuela.
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Truman
Charles G. Ross
Bolivar
Venezuela
Simon Bolivar
Vandenberg
Mich
Philadelphia
Dewey
Warren
Morse
Ore
McGrath
US Rushes Cargo Planes To Germany In Berlin Blockade Bid
United States rushes a fleet of large four engine C-54 Sky Masters to Germany to break a Russian blockade of ground transport to Western Berlin. About 39 planes were ordered to help ferry food and supplies into the American sector as tensions rise over access to the city.
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Associated Press
United States
Germany
Berlin
Britain
France
London
Moscow
Stalin
State Department
Russia
Bowman Awaits Trial On Old Murder Charge
Fort Payne Alabama June 28 A 44 year old former tenant farmer Her schel Bowman was jailed on a murder charge from July 25 1923 after a domestic disturbance led Chattanooga officers to arrest him He was indicted for the slaying of Milton W King Lookout Mountain near Fort Payne Bowman previously lived in Atlanta and Chattanooga and served in the army.
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Fort Payne
Ala
Herschel L. Bowman
Bowman
Chattanooga
Tenn
Milton W. King
Lookout Mountain
King
Mississippi
Texas
Atlanta
L. G. Wade
Woodrow Tinnon
Wade
Tinnon
Progress Seen In Grill Case
Police report progress in the Watkins and Perry Grill burglary investigation after a signed statement was obtained. Malhan A. Lathan, arrested on second degree burglary charges, posted bond and testified he was paid $100 for tips to two men. Over $1300 was stolen Sunday night June 13. State investigator R. A. Troupe has assisted Decatur authorities.
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Watkins and Perry Grill
J. B. Whitmire
Whitmire
Malhan A. Lathan
R. A. Troupe
Decatur
Peace Proposal Offered To Fighting Jews Arabs
Palestine peace proposals from Count Folke Bernadotte reach Jews and Arabs via UN mediation. Jewish and Arab experts head to Tel Aviv Cairo to hear the plan while Damascus signals continued opposition to partition and a Jewish state.
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Associated Press
Folke Bernadotte
Palestine
Bernadotte
United Nations
Jamil Mardambey
Syria
Damascus
Israel
Tel Aviv
Cairo
Paul Mohn
Sweden
Constantine Stavropoulos
Greece
U. N
John Reedman
South Africa
Lake Success
Decatur Retail Stores to Close All Day Monday
Sidney Patterson chairman of the Retail Merchants Committee says all Decatur retail stores will close next Monday July 5 as July 4 falls on Sunday. The committee operates under the Decatur Chamber of Commerce.
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Sidney _ Patterson
Retail Merchants Committee
Decatur
Decatur Chamber of Commerce
California Democrats Quietly Hold Wait and See Flag
California Democrats issue a wait and see tag after 62 national convention votes with all delegates signed statements supporting Truman but not pledges. Delegation chair John F. Shelley said caucus decisions will depend on Philadelphia events, as DC and Virginia contests loom in the race for the nomination.
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Associated Press
California
Truman
Philadelphia
John F. Shelley
Philadelia
Earl Warren
Califor
District of Columbia
Virginia
Steel Workers Get Pay Hike At Alan Wood Co
Approximately 2 200 employees at the Alan Wood Steel Co in Conshohocken Pa win a 10 cent an hour raise under a two year contract. District 7 leader H Charles Ford says the plant is the first basic steel mill in the nation to sign a contract with the union. The pact adds five cents now and five more for social benefits, includes a $1 000 life policy after six months and a maintenance of membership clause.
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Philadelphia
Alan Wood Steel Co
Conshohocken
H. Charles Ford
United Steel Workers
CSO
Ford
Two Die In Gadsden Basement Explosion
In Gadsden Alabama a basement explosion killed Lee Jackson aged 36 and 11 year old Frederick H Fuller. Jackson died of burns in a local hospital while Fuller died Saturday from injuries sustained in the blast. Police report the pair were using gasoline to clean a basement apartment floor.
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Gadsden
Ala
Lee Jackson
Frederick H. Fuller
Fay Boman
Jackson
Young Fuller
Quake Rocks Honshu Coast Fukui Faces Massive Losses
Reports from Tokyo describe three major quakes and a subsequent fire that devastated Fukui in Western Honshu. Early figures vary with Japanese papers citing up to 5000 dead, while U S authorities had not confirmed totals and noted no official casualty numbers. Daishoji near Fukui reported 10 dead and 60 injured.
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Tokyo
Honshu
Fukui
U. S
Daishoji
Destruction Report From Fukui Town Struck by Fire
A Fukui dispatch for the Tokyo Asahi describes the town as twisted and aflame with wrecked police HQs, shattered tram lines, collapsed roofs, and fires raging. Wounded and fleeing residents mill amid debris as a young girl washes her sister’s bloodied body in a dirty river. Farmhouses six miles away also collapsed.
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Tokyo
Asahi
Fukui
Quake Devastates Fukui Area As Fires, Homelessness Rise
After a 4:12 PM quake sequence, fires swept Fukui and surrounding towns amid brisk winds. Army relief trains arrived with medical teams and supplies as reports placed 60 injuries at Daishomi and uncertain deaths. Kanazawa and Daishoji suffered damage. Fukui city, 186 000 residents, faced a long blackout.
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Fukui
Sea of Japan
Daishomi
Kanazawa
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