Weather, events, and notices from Decatur area
Cloudy and colder with rain turning to snow or sleet in extreme north tonight. Decatur market noon quote shows middling cotton at 34.75 and strict low at 33.75. Local residents featured: Robert Morris from Elkmont visiting Easter holidays. Quint Oakley of Nashville in town with son David. Casey Roper family traveling to Paris Texas. various hospital and ambulance movements. Chamber of Commerce meeting canceled due to Country Club board meeting. Alcoholics Anonymous group to organize Decatur chapter Thursday at 7:30 p.m. Read of measles recovery for Janet Leigh and Bruce Gorn Jr. Services: Bible studies ongoing. revival meetings in progress. remodeling at Decatur Union Station estimated to cost about 50 000. Diocese notes and local hospital notices.
Dewey Wins New Hampshire Delegates Press Day
A campaign manager said Dewey widened his lead by taking six of eight New Hampshire delegates while Stassen secured two. Stassen called his showing not strong enough but vowed to continue, signaling a push toward Wisconsin on April 6. Brownell praised Dewey and noted New England support.
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Washington
Thomas E. Dewey
New Hampshire
Harold E. Stassen
Minneapolis
Wisconsin
Herbert Brownell Jr
Republican National Committee
New Yorker
Dewey
Chicago
Brownell
New England
midWest
Stassen
Douglas MacArthur
Charles M. Hale
Philadelphia
Dale
Taft
Models To See No 1 Bachelor On Visit In N Y
Gov James E Folsom, named the country's No 1 bachelor by New York models, will fly to New York to meet Barbizon School models. He plans to confer with Democratic leaders in New York and Washington and attend a Southern governors meeting in the capital.
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Montgomery
Ala
New York
James E. Folsom
Barbizon School of Modeling
Washington
O. H. Finney
Barbizon School
Folsom
Burns Holds Selma Mayoral Nomination In Democratic Primary
Selma mayor Lucien P. Burns was renominated by a wide margin in the democratic primary. Incumbent council members also led unofficial tallies in Ward 1 and Ward 5 while several seats were uncontested. A general election is set for May 4 with the statewide primary.
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Selma
Ala
Lucien P. Burns
Burns
Ralph Altwater
Chris Heinz
Mallory Privett
Leon Morgan
Clarence Easter
Heinz
Privett
Sam Owen
Llewellyn Smith
O. B. Tatun
Joe Seay
Owen
Smith
A D. Brislin
T. H. Miller
Felix G
County Teachers Association to Meet in Hartselle
The Morgan County Teachers Association will convene Friday at 1 30 P M in the high school auditorium Hartselle. S M Dollar will report on the A E A assembly in Montgomery last weekend a 30 minute conservation film will be shown and all teachers are urged to attend on time.
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Morgan County Teachers Association
Hartselle
S. M. Dollar
A. E. A. Assembly of Delegates
Montgomery
Burned man identified as Alabama resident
Syracuse reports that the severely burned man found after a telephone call for aid is Thomas Jefferson Brock, 25, of Piedmont, Alabama. Trooper Robert E. Barry said Brock had been visiting a sister in Deelphia, and a sister’s tip led to the identification. Brock sustains second degree burns along his back from neck to waist.
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Syracuse
N. Y
Thomas Jefferson Brock
Piedmont
Ala
Robert E. Barry
LaFayette
Barry
Brock
Deelphia
Alabama Attorney General denounces anti lynching bill
Carmichael blasts federal anti lynching legislation as unconstitutional and unnecessary and warns it will encroach on states rights. He predicts it would worsen racial tensions in the South and asks Senators Hill and Sparkman to arrange his testimony before a Senate committee. He may comment on Truman candidacy later.
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Montgomery
Ala
Rey N R . Carmichael
Congress
Union
Carmichael
Alabama
Lister Hill
John Sparkman
South
Truman
Hill
Sparkman
Senate
Girl Seized By Reds As Yank Is Wounded
Vienna report says 19 year old Austrian Elfriede Elias was grabbed by Russian troops while aiding American Pfc. Jack Grunden after he was shot by a Soviet sentry during a scuffle outside the Grand Hotel. She recounted being questioned at Russian HQ and warned not to tell Americans more, while Grunden is being treated at a U S hospital.
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Yank
Vienna
Elfriede Elias
Pfc
Jack Grunden
Portland
Ore
Grand Hotel
Miss Elias
gEas Viola Associa Press
Grunden
110Th Station
Joseph Harper
Pvt
Samuel Adelman
Baltimore
Congress Eyes Fast Action on Foreign Aid and Rent Control
Lawmakers moved to speed foreign aid and rent control votes as hearings target two individuals. Thomas B. McCabe faces scrutiny over overseas surplus sales while Dr. Edward A. Condon answers charges tied to a Russian spy probe. Congress aims to approve Marshall Plan funding for 16 Western European nations by early April.
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Jerry Korn
Washington
Congress
Thomas B. McCabe
Federal Reserve Board
Truman
McGabe
Marriner Eccles
Reserve Board
Tobey
RN. H
Senate Finance Committee
Pennsylvania
McCabe
China
Eaton
R-N. J
House Foreign Affairs Committee
Senate
State Officials Debate Southwide Plan For Negro Education
State School Supt. A R Meadows says a regional plan for negroes could win Supreme Court approval. Board members Handy Ellis and Joe Starnes question timing and implications noting current court makeup and potential white school parallels in Birmingham and Meharry as a regional option.
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Montgomery
Ala
A. R. Meadows
U. S. Supreme Court
Meadows
State Board of Education
Handy Ellis
Columbiana
Supreme Court
Ellis
Meharry Medical College
Nashville
Birmingham
Joe Starnes
Guntersville
W.ton
Frigid Wave Moves South Across Midwest
Severe cold gripped the middle West with temperatures plunging to record lows. From the North and Central Rockies to the Great Lakes region, readings ranged from zero to 42 below. Cass Lake Minnesota hit minus 42, while Big Falls recorded minus 38 as the cold front advanced southeastward.
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Chicago
Middle West
Rockies
Great Region
Cass Lake
Minn
Big Falls
Min
Park Bemidji
Masaryk Killed In Leap From Office Window
Prague reports Jan Masaryk foreign minister in the new communist government died by a leap from his second story office. Officials announced the death at 8 A.M. The government broadcast solemn music as the nation learned Masaryk had fallen. He had been harassed by Western press attacks and a note in his last public words emphasized unity with the Soviet Union. Prokop Drtina, minister of justice, was recovering from injuries from a three story plunge at his villa. News spread as Czechoslovaks gathered in small groups reacting to the shock.
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A. I. Goldberg
Prague
Jan Masaryk
Gov
Lev. Prehala
London
Masaryk
Thomas Masaryk
The
Republic
Foreign Ministry
Anton Dvorak
Soviet Union
Russia
Hamm Launches Senate Bid Denouncing Truman Rival
Philip J. Hamm opened his senatorial campaign in Slocomb Alabama by demanding the Democrats nominate someone besides Harry S. Truman for President. Hamm resigned as state revenue commissioner to run against U.S. Senator John Sparkman and is a close ally of Governor James E. Folsom, the other declared Democratic candidate.
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Slocomb
Ala
Philip J. Hamm
Harry S. Truman
Hamm
U. S
John Sparkman
James E. Folsom
Folsom Introduces Hamm in Slocomb Amid Paternity Suit
Governor James E. Folsom made his first Alabama public appearance since a paternity suit filing as he introduced Phillip J. Hamm for the Senate in Slocomb this morning. The crowd greeted him warmly with smiles and handshakes while Hamm appeared surprised by the turnout. Folsom said he left Montgomery at 6 a.m. to support his ally in his first political speech.
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Slocomb
Ala
James E. Folsom
Alabama
Christine Johnston
Phillip J. Hamm
Senate
Hamm
Folsom
Montgomery
Campaign speech parallels governor platform clash over policy
A candidate’s first campaign speech mirrors the governor on issues such as opposing overseas money dumping, peacetime conscription, and federal interference with state rights. The speaker criticizes Truman’s civil rights stance, foreign policy, and influence of military and Wall Street money.
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Truman
Democratic Party
Wall Street
Taxi Driver Granted Probation After Bigamy Guilty Plea
In Gastonia North Carolina Monroe P Adams 28 pleaded guilty to bigamy admitting two households six miles apart for three years. Judge George Patton suspended a five year prison sentence, fined $200 and costs, and ordered him to return to his first wife and two children with possible annulment for the second marriage.
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Gastonia
N. C
George Patton
Monroe P. Adams
Cramer Away
Delayed Start for New Plant and Kress Building
Officials say material shortages push the Southern Steel and Nut plant start from March 1 to April 1. A Kress building project also slips from March 1 with a possible July 1 start. Charles Norman becomes Decatur plant manager as 20 to 25 workers begin, with plans for later expansion.
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Seereece
Tee
Dri
Kress
Southern Steel and Nut Company
Automatic Screw Machine Products Company of Chicago
Charles Norman
Decatur
Removal of tax on oleo urged in Washington
The Cotton Council and cotton farmers press the House Agriculture Committee to end federal levies on margarine. William R. Blake, vice president of the National Cotton Council, says taxes harm Southern growers and cottonseed oil profits. He notes cotton industry aims to grow seed products to face synthetic fiber competition.
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Washington
Cotton Council
Ingrepea
House Agriculture Committee
William R. Blake
National Cotton Council
South
Blake
Army Engineers Seek Restoring Cutbacks In Waterways Bill
A senate appropriations subcommittee opened hearings on flood control and rivers and harbors for the coming fiscal year. Army engineers urged restoration of all but one cutback in the waterways bill, which had totaled a record 538 875 000 dollars.
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Washington
Senate Appropriations
House
Plans To Comply On School Religion Ban Studied
The International Council of Religious Education studied new plans to comply with the Supreme Court ruling banning public school property for religious instruction. It advised 3,000 communities with 46 states to continue weekday religious education with full compliance, though details were not yet determined. The council warned the ruling could end use of public school buildings for such classes, affecting over two million students and 40 percent of communities.
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Chicago
International Council of Religious Education
Supreme Court
Champaign
Ill
Roy G. Ross
Council of Churches
Ross
Young Callahan Back in Capital Montgom ery
William Callahan a 16 year old is jailed in Montgomery Alabama without bond on a murder charge for the February 3 shooting of his father Travis The high school student surrendered in New York and admitted the slaying He is grandson of the late Judge W W Callahan noted jurist in the Scottsboro case The alleged abuse toward his mother sister and himself was cited to police
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Montgomery
Ala
William Callahan
Travis
New York
Young Callahan
W. W. Callahan
Scottsboro
Cooperative Effort Highlighted For Area Progress
Dr. Alter Jackson, superintendent of city schools, spoke at a Decatur Lions Club meeting about cooperative planning to boost efficiency and save money. He urged unified use of public school facilities, noting summer underuse of gymnasiums and potential year round recreational programs for children and adults with modest extra funding.
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Alter Jackson
Decatur Lions Club
Eceteas
Jr. Jackson
Decatur
Ture
Defense raps state exhibit in Morgan County murder trial
Attorney William Eyster challenged a state exhibit in the A H Novaris store slaying case before Judge Newton Powell in Morgan County circuit court. Deputy Nuby described the crime scene at Norris store and Moore confession. Highway Patrolman Vinson testified to writing Moore statement.
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Charlie Moore
A. H. Novaris
Morgan
Newton Powell
Moore
William Eyster
Eyster
George Johnston
Phillip Shanks
J. D. Vinson
Iolates Eyster
Morgan County
G. L. Nuby
Kirkpatrick
Nor- Decatur
Nuby
Norris
Campbell
Mud Tavern Bridge
Mud Tavern
Bido Humphrey
Vinson
Bryant
Newton
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Elkmont
Baylor School For Boys
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Janet Leigh
Bruce Gorn Jr
Eir
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R. A. Gamble
Lacey's Spring
Arnold Cain
Falkville 2
Decatur General Hospital
Quint Oakley
David
Hollis Mahaffey
Third Avenue E
Veterans Hospital
Antioch School
Moulton-Decatur Highway
Casey Roper
AustinVille
Paris
Tex
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Falkville
Howell’s
Amburs
Ishmael Laney
Lavender Clinic
Hartselle Ante
Lula Simpson
Fourth Avenue W
Nungester Clinic
Howell's
John Hungerland
First Presbyterian Church
Decatur Union Station
St. John’s Episcopal Ch
D. S. Hurst
Memorial Pelve Methodist Church
N. L. Finch
Third Avenue S
Baby Ottis Ray Simmons
Hillston
Charles Livingston
10Th Avenue
Quickies
Ken Reynolds
N. H
Lynch Bill
Condon
House un-American Activities Group
Edward A. Condon
Government Bureau of Standards
Commerce Department
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R-Calif
New York Federal Grand Jury
Dr. Condon
California
Vashti McCullum
Philip Hamm
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