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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 03, 1949
Page
1
Fair weather today and Friday with frost tonight and warmer afternoons. Cotton prices steady with middling at 32.5 and strict at 29.5. Church notices at St Pauls Lutheran and Memorial Drive Methodist. Local visits include Dinsmores, Hall, and business figures in Decatur. Police diary items list drunkenness and traffic violations. See DIARY on Page 2.
Will Ferguson Jr announces total of 5285.31 raised toward a 12750 goal for 1949. Many reports pending from canvassers and no countywide reports yet. Gifts committee work by E W Mejr is about half finished with over 100 major contributors yet to respond.
Decatur plans a new high school expected to be ready for youths by September 1950. Project cost about 1.2 million dollars with 200000 for equipment. Citizens have approved bond issue and property tax to fund the project. Bids will be advertised in May and contracts let in May. Construction to take twelve to fifteen months.
Southern senators launched the fourth day of their historic filibuster with new confidence. Senate Republican leaders adopted a hands off policy, while Senator Langer of North Dakota sided with the Dixie lawmakers pushing to kill the administration effort to curb the filibuster with a rules change.
Washington March 3 The house banking committee voted 23 to 2 to extend rent controls to a new 24 month continuance and protect the program from expiring March 31 unless renewed. It rejected fines up to 5000 and imprisonment for landlords who violate ceilings and a Brown Ga proposed change to require ceilings that provide fair value. The panel did not approve the full measure yet and will send it to the house for a vote as housing chief Woods urged extension and tightening of the law.
Senate Majority Leader Lucas reversed a plan for a test petition on debate elimination. He worries he might choke off the talkathon too early. Six Southern Democrats have spoken in first round warm-ups. One speaker, Senator Russell Long, echoes the Dixie era legacy of his father Huey Long.
Two men died and three were injured when cars collided head on near a bridge on highway 38 about eight miles from Huntsville. Deceased were Leo B. Jones 23 Arab and Cebo Woods about 22 Joppa Ala. injured Troyce Hatley 16 Johnnie Hale 24 and Wendall Waldrop all of Joppa. Jones was studying at a business college in Birmingham and is survived by his wife two children and his parents Mr and Mrs Cliff Jones.
Mrs Sally B Rose 91 seeks the safe return of her half grown white Persian cat named Jack also known as Little Kitten. The pet vanished after 6 30 am Monday from 508 West Moulton and she asks the finder to return him discreetly placing him on the porch or in the backyard.
Louis Eugene Hoover a 25 year old former Louisville soldier awaits a truth serum test to help recall details of the night millionaire James Mahoney of Bristol Virginia Tennessee was killed. Hoover says the serum helped before and he is held for investigation of murder at a Topeka Kansas VA hospital cell after attempting self harm.
Cardinal Francis Spellman will lead priests and 100 seminarians to dig graves at a cathedral cemetery to replace striking workers from CIO United Cemetery Workers who seek a five day week at 59.40 for six days. The archbishop brands the parent CIO union as communist dominated. A cemetery official said the Cardinal was not asked to shovel.
Premier Sun Fo said peace talks with the Chinese communists are expected to start in Peiping about March 15. He hopes for an honorable settlement ending the costly civil war. Sun noted Canton as the capital and Nanking as the peace talks center.
The General Gorgas post of the American Legion will vote tomorrow on a resolution urging that all public office holders in Alabama take an oath they are not members of the communist party. Marvin Warner said the resolution would be sent to the Governor and the legislature.
A stove explosion sparked a blaze that killed 46 year old Mrs Maude Clover and eight of her children aged 3 to 15 at a Lakewood residence north of Muskegon. A roomer August Taskey also perished. Two sons survived badly burned as Howard Clover described the moments before escape.
The crew of Lucky Lady II completed a non stop around the world flight covering more than 23000 miles in 94 hours and one minute. Captain James Gallagher led the mission as the Air Force reports a successful firsts and a six engine bomber mission with mid air refueling four times.
January reports from the University of Alabama bureau note fewer job placements but more building permits. Debits to Decatur bank accounts dropped 13.7 percent from December. daily average debits fell 6.5 percent. Demara deposits edged down 2.8 percent, savings deposits steady, postal savings up 2 percent but below year ago. Receipts at the Decatur post office fell 29.2 percent from December though January 1949 rose 19.7 percent year over year.
In Munich on March 3, Capt Otakar Feifar a former Czechoslovak army intelligence officer testified at a spy trial of five Germans and three Czechs that a broad Soviet backed spy network operates in Europe. He said his Czech interior ministry bosses issued orders and he recruited agents using information from superiors.
The Alabama state docks advisory board meets in Montgomery amid a multi million dollar expansion plan. Governor James E. Folsom summons members to discuss expansion with no specific plan revealed. Bruce Davis is reappointed to a new six year term ending in 1955.
Washington reports President Truman likely to accept James V. Forrestal's resignation as Secretary of Defense and name Louis A. Johnson to the post. An accompanying letter exchange is prepared for release. Kenneth Royall may be next to depart, with Johnson previously a Democratic fundraiser and former Undersecretary of War.
Decatur saw a high near 52 degrees at 4 p.m. after a chilly morning with readings from 40 at 8 a.m. to 54 at noon. The day stayed dry despite a cool trend and a low of 31 in the afternoon.
U S Army engineers in Frankfurt string barbed wire around the blockaded Russian repatriation mission and place floodlights. A military policeman says the move aims to block food smuggling and prevent escape without reporting to American authorities first. The Americans urge the Russians to leave and offer transportation to the border if they depart voluntarily. When pressed for details the officer cryptically cites “all of trees on this estate.”
The United States, in a note to Russia released by the State Department, endorses General Lucius D. Clay's demand that the Soviet repatriation mission be withdrawn from the American zone of Germany. Molotov's protest, delivered February 24, is called misrepresentation and distortion of fact.
Eight Russians refused to leave a repatriation mission headquarters despite a March deadline. They are cut off from water and power as engineers saw pipes and authorities dig a street to prevent water access. A Russian officer requested a newspaper when the door opened at 8 a.m. EST.
Two year old Barney Ewin stepped from his front yard to get a better look at a passing train and was fatally struck. His mother Mrs. Carrol A Rocks witnessed the accident. He is survived by two brothers Johnnie 4 and Lowell 1 and a sister Barbara Arelene 3.
The $1 million cons laboratory in Decatur will be designed by Olmsted Brothers of Boston. Architect Suwemore leads the project with Livingston to liege. the building spans over 600 feet, features 130000 square feet of floor space, and a central heating system. It will include a 1300-seat auditorium, six science rooms, a 100-foot long library, visual education room, cafeteria for 600, a commercial department, and an 1800-seat gymnasium with a plays room.
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