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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 11, 1949
Page
1
Fair cold weather dominates today with frost in interiors and 32 to 38 degrees. Tonight and Saturday bring increasing clouds and a warmer afternoon on the coast with light to moderate northeast winds.
Walter Johnson a 21 year old African American man sits in Morgan County jail awaiting a preliminary hearing on grand larceny charges. He was arrested Thursday evening in the Lake community by Deputy Sheriff James Barnes on a warrant from Justice G W Norwood for taking a $25 watch from Elsie Baker's home.
John Kinard, 71, is bound over to the grand jury on a rape charge after a preliminary hearing before City Judge John Scott in Montgomery. A 72 year old woman testified Kinard broke into her home, choked her, and raped her, then was identified as a former mail carrier who visited an 80 year old woman in the same house. Kinard denied the charge and claimed he was at home all Saturday night and Sunday morning.
Senator Glen Taylor of Idaho asked for a second postponement of his appeal hearing on a disorderly conduct conviction in Birmingham. Taylor, a vice presidential candidate on the Progressive Party ticket with Henry Wallace last November, was fined $50 and costs with a suspended 180 day jail sentence in May.
A Jefferson county grand jury criticized unsanitary conditions in the Jefferson Hillman hospital kitchen and the starchy prison menu. Hospital officials denied the charge. The jury urged diversification of meals and a general cleaning of the kitchen in its report to Judge Allan King.
Luman Ramsdell the 23 year old gunman in a Martinsburg West Virginia train robbery was shot by police in a pawnshop near the White House. He underwent a 90 minute operation at Gallinger hospital and doctors said he is doing well and should recover barring infection within 24 to 48 hours. Ramsdell and his 21 year old partner George Ashton fled after the holdup and had little food.
Mercury in a glass tube tracks a tense tug of warmth and cold as Spring asserts dominance. Hourly readings from the 1VA sub station show the day rising from 36 at 8 AM to 46 at noon, with a 42 degree high earlier.
The jury convicted Mildred Gillars known as Axis Sally of treason for wartime propaganda broadcasts. Her attorney plans to file a motion to set aside the verdict and seek a new trial within five days. Penalty ranges from death by electric chair to five years plus fines and citizenship loss.
President Truman and his staff relaxed in Key West Florida while Washington battles filibuster in the Senate and shapes the North Atlantic pact. The President stays in touch by long distance phone as Moscow signals increased armed forces spending. Press secretary Ross arrives from Washington and says no news on the pact. Chief Justice Vinson plans a weekend visit. no date yet for Col. Louis Johnson’s Defense secretary visit.
Russian engineer Valentine A. Gubitchev, indicted with Judith Coplon on espionage charges, declines to answer questions claiming diplomatic immunity. Judge Rifkind orders defense counsel and delays pleadings to Monday. Coplon pleads innocent with trial set for April 1 and bail for Coplon kept at $20,000.
A fire on West Walnut Street caused total loss to furnishings and significant damage to the house. The report notes the extent of the loss but lacks full casualty details. Authorities investigate the cause and assess the property damage and insurance implications.
Washington March 11 Desperate bid to save rent controls prompts decontrol for more than 100 rural and small city areas Rep Patman announces plan and warns of a nationwide strike if Congress ends controls for industrial areas. House moves to vote by nightfall amid party splits and threat of a 15 month continuation.
Chattanooga detail reports Carol Janet White a 19 year old from Clarksville Tenn sought after shooting a taxi driver in Woodbury last Sunday. FBI help enlisted as detectives believe she left Tennessee and headed toward Alabama. Victim George Patrick 35 remains in serious condition.
The Senate Appropriations Committee postpones action on a deficiency bill including funds for TVA's $54 million steam plant at New Johnsonville Tennessee. The TVA item reportedly passed 13 to 8 in the House and an amendment to allow a court test of the grant failed by one vote. Senators cite scheduling and floor-vote uncertainties.
Four masked men robbed the Embassy hotel in Miami Beach at about 5 A M tying up the night clerk a bellboy and a guest. They looted the cash drawer about 1000 and 43 safety deposit boxes missing with cash and jewelry totaling around 25000. The 100 room hotel lies in the resort district.
Mrs. Ira E. George of Austinville learns she has a long lost brother, Robert Way of Waukegan Illinois, after he unexpectedly visits Decatur following a Florida vacation. The surprise meeting renews a family bond split when she was an infant.
Fresh blankets of snow covered a wide region from the Missouri Ozarks to northern New England as a late winter storm moved eastward after crossing the Midwest. Ohio saw up to seven inches, Indiana six to nine, with six inches in parts of Pennsylvania and New York’s Erie County. Temperature drops and sub zero readings accompanied flooding threats in California’s Sacramento Valley and the Yellowstone River, with about 40 farm families briefly homeless.
Red Cross appeal totals $8,676 as of today. Hill Ferguson Jr. reports the Morgan county drive reached the goal in four days and asks all workers to report to the chapter headquarters to close the drive by March 15.
Governor Fuller Warren and cabinet members on a statewide radio roundtable said Florida needs about 40 million dollars annually in new taxes to meet state finances. They did not propose具体 tax sources during the discussion.
The Senate aims to vote between 5 and 6 p.m. EST on Barkleys ruling that a two thirds vote can end a filibuster. Senator Russell challenges the ruling and Lucas plans to table the appeal to force a majority decision. The test centers on whether Barkleys ruling stands or falls under upcoming votes.
An explosion at a British scrap iron dump near Brunswick Germany killed 13 workers and injured 36. The victims included Germans and displaced Poles employed at the site where metal was being crushed for export.
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