Local briefs note hospital news and services in Decatur
Weather outlook and community notices from Decatur area. Minnie Wells resumes duties at Decatur General Hospital after a brief stay. Prayers at First Presbyterian canceled. Nazarene church holds midweek service at 7 30 with Rev. J F Dunlap. Local residents visit Pe tersburg Tennessee. W M S meeting at Northside Baptist church. Sermon by Dr Jesse Rogers at First Baptist on Sunday. Westminster church midweek prayers at 7 30. Legion meeting invites baseball players for Decatur season. Hospital admissions include Add ion Poole Annie R Dukes and Jewel Goodwin. New infants noted for Powell and others. Two arrests for adultery and vagrancy. peace charges docketed. Camp Assembly and Youth In Camps screened after Methodist supper. See Diary on Page 2.
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First Methodist Church
Steele
Ala
North Alabama, Conference
World Peace Meet Seeks to Challenge Moscow Aims
In New York the three day World Peace conference faces U S government scrutiny as Moscow linked effort against the North Atlantic Security pact. The State Department bars 11 European and South American delegates while allowing 21 Soviet officials entry. Officials say the official reps qualify for visas. unofficial attendees are scientists authors and intellectuals. Harvard astronomer Harlow Shapley protests but Acheson stance remains firm. Governor Dewey brands the event a communist front but takes no action.
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Edward E. Bomar
Washington
New York
State Department
Moscow
Europe
South America
Russia
Eastern Europe
Acheson
Harlow Shapley
Harvard
Shapley
National Council of the Arts, Sciences and Professions
Thomas E. Dewey
Furs And Jewels Recovered In Oneonta Heist Case
Furs and jewels worth thousands recovered by Sheriff W F Maynor in Oneonta Alabama. Carl Cossette, 25, arrested on grand larceny receiving stolen property warrant for taking items from a parked car in Nashville Tennessee. Items belonged to Col L R Hathaway Camp Breck KY. Cossette taken to Nashville by Nashville detectives.
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Oneonta
Ala
Sherriff W. F. Maynor
Carl Cossette
Nashville
Tenn
Maynor
Col. L. R. Hathaway
Camp Breckenridge
Maynor li
U S Opens Its Case Against Reds in Conspiracy Trial
Louis F. Budenz former communist and Fordham University lecturer testified as the government s first witness in a conspiracy trial involving 11 U S communists. Budenz once edited the Daily Worker and detailed his brief membership in the party. The defense sought a mistrial as Judge Harold R. Medina weighed objections amid trial rulings.
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New York
Louis F. Budenz
Fordham University
U. S
Budenz
Daily Worker
Catholic Church
Fordham
Communist Party
Jacob Stachel
Irving Potash
Carl Winter
Sean Stachel
Stacht
Earl Browder
Communist International
Moscow
Browder
Reesacher
Oe Sacher
Decatur Teachers Lead in Alabama Education Meet
Mrs. S J Hocking of Decatur as vice president will head a large delegation to the Alabama Education Association annual meeting in Birmingham March 24 and 25. She will preside at 2:00 P M Thursday and will oversee a Style show after the session. The Friday night program includes eight A E A district receptions. A Jones, city schools president, will be a Friday 11:00 A M guest. Miss Anita Motes heads the crippled children division and presides Friday at 2 30 P M. River Side High principal W R Riley serves on the executive committee planning high school principals work. See DECATUR on Page 2.
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S. J. Hocking
The
Alabama Education Association
Decatur
Birmingham
A. Jones
City Board of Education
Anita Motes
Crippled
Childrens Service
A. E. A. Division
Crippled Children and Vocational Rehabilitation
W. R. Riley
River ‘Side High School
Association of Alabama Secondary School
Alabama
Riley
Civil Rights Plan Defended by Southern Committee Member
Mrs. M. E. Tilly of Atlanta predicts the South will accept the civil rights program. She speaks in Mobile during a study course, stressing Christian principles in human relations and warning that infringing rights threatens all. The Mobile interview notes the committee’s purpose and the president’s role.
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Mobile
Ala
Truman
Committee On Civil Rights
South
M. E. Tilly
Atlanta
Mobile Press
Spencers
Mobile Council
Tilly
Frank P. Graham
U. S
North Carolina
J. Melville Broughton
Taxi Injunction Suit Against Hartselle Cabs Heard
Rodgers and Rodgers bus line of Hartselle seeks a temporary injunction against G I Taxi and Stanford Taxi, alleging they run cabs opposite the Decatur to Hartselle schedule in violation of state carrier acts. The Alabama Public Service Commission has cited the taxi firms twice, and a hearing before the APSC is set for March 29.
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G. I. Taxi Company
Stanford Taxi Company
Hartselle
Newton B. Powell
Rodgers and Rodgers
Decatur
Alabama Public Service Commission
Circuit Court
APSC
Crop Damage Added To Toll From Windstorm in Mobile
Mobile, March 23. South Alabama farmers report crop damage from heavy rains joined the toll of a windstorm that lashed the coast this week. Young corn in Baldwin and Es cambi counties suffered most from a four inch downpour, reports of agricultural agents say fertilizer washed out of fields and other losses noted as conditions worsened.
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Mobile
Ala
South Alabama
Baldwin
Escambia
Ecea
House Bill To Aid Waterways
The Army Corps of Engineers reported navigation appropriations by the House Appropriations Committee would aid the Allatoona Dam near Cartersville Georgia the Demopolis lock and dam on the Tombigbee waterway and the Jim Woodruff dam project in Florida. Funds would start construction and speed river navigation from Birmingham to Mobile while cutting government and user costs.
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Mobile
Ala
Army
Corps of Engineers
House Appropriations Committee
Allatoona
Cartersville
Congress
armor-Tombigbee
Chattahoochee
Fla
Etowah River
Rome
Jim Woodruff
Demopolis Lock
Joseph J. Twitty
Demopolis
Birmingham
Col. Twitty
Pyramid Clubs Declared Illegal by City Attorney
Birmingham authorities rule get rich quick pyramid clubs illegal under current law. Police will target the club starters leading to arrests, as clubs operate by paying lower members from new entrants and funneling money to the top.
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Birmingham
Eugene Connor
Onnor
Eva Leads Signups for Sericea Planting at Eva High
Eva high school hosts meeting where 240 acres were pledged for sericea planting, giving Eva county the lead with Danville in second at 183 acres. A record 116 slips signed, led by Cleo Childers with 12 acres, Curtis Young and Marvin Hopper with five each. The event featured Soil Conservation Service speakers and a free seed drawing.
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Eva
Sericea
Eva’ High School
Danville
Cleo Childers
Curtis Young
Marvin Hopper
L. G. McDonald
Morgan County
McDonald
Packer
Soil Conservation Service
R. M. Chapman
Soil Conservation
Morgan County Exchange
Decatur Daily
Mr. Tucker
Jimmy Dunn McDonald
Gerald Carnell
Floyd T. Kent
G. E. Beall
C. T. Cash
FSA
Casto Jarvis
Carnation Co
Vic Smith
the Daily
B. G. Ryan
Coal Operators Face UMW Challenge Over Mine Walkout
Pittsburgh March 23 The UMW leadership led by John L Lewis confronts a crucial choice as 463 000 idle miners weigh resuming work Monday or extending a two week stoppage The Senate confirmed Dr James Boyd as director of the Federal Bureau of Mines by a 50 to 11 vote amid disputes over mine safety leadership and Truman administration appointments See COAL on page 2
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Gib Staley
Pittsburgh
John L.lewis
United Mine Workers
Senate
Lewis
James Boyd
Federal Bureau of Mines
Mississippi
Truman
Dr. Boyd
Interior
Boyd
Mat
Sweeping Changes In State Prison System Suggested
A Alabama prison inquiry panel recommends a five member administrative board to oversee punishment policy prison industries and parole. The report also urges abolishing cash or straps for discipline and making drug entry into prisons a felony. Some committee members did not sign.
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Montgomery
Ala
Alabama
CIA
Paul Meeks
Jefferson County
Bandit Posing as Mourner Tries Robbing Birmingham Funeral Homes
A bandit posing as a mourner spent a fruitless night in Birmingham attempting to rob funeral homes. He seized a taxi, got $3 from driver G Pinson, and fled after posing at Johns Funeral Chapel and Luquire's, with a gun seen by witnesses.
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Bandit
Birmingham
Ala
G. Pinson
L. Pinson
Johns Funeral Chapel
Bill McKissick
McKissick
Pinson
Luquire's
Ralph Bonds
Bonds
Avondale
Plans Shaped For Fat Stock Shows In Decatur
The Decatur Chamber of Commerce agricultural committee advanced fat stock show plans for late April. Morgan county hosts April 27 with Tennessee Valley district events on April 28 and 29. White calf entrants compete April 28. sales begin April 29. negro entries and sale follow April 30. A total of 315 animals are entered, 209 white and 115 negro. District home demonstration clubs meet April 28 at Decatur Country Club with over 550 women expected.
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Decatur Chamber of Commerce
Morgan County
Tennessee Valley
Decatur Country Club
Hartselle Hosts Open House At New Telephone Exchange
Southern Bell invites the public to tour the newly expanded Hartselle telephone exchange from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The open house showcases dial equipment and behind the scenes workings with staff available to explain the mechanism and operations.
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Hartselle
Southern Bell
Churchill Due This Afternoon Aboard The Queen
Winston Churchill arrives in New York this afternoon aboard the liner Queen Elizabeth. The 74 year old wartime PM plans a visit through April 2 and will be Bernard Baruch’s guest. A March 31 MIT address on the twentieth century is listed on his schedule.
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New York
Winston Churchill
Bernard M. Baruch
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Court approves attachment against Tom Woodruff in food case
The court clerk records a $300 attachment against Woodruff requested by Dorothy Nicholson alleging fraud and unsanitary food service. Judge Powell signed the papers as two other suits emerge: $96.88 for licenses and a $476.85 account claim by Limestone Farmers Cooperative with attorneys Eyster and Evyster.
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Tom Woodruff
H. Harrison Hill
Dorothy Nicholson
Woodruff
Newton B. Powell
Decatur
Peach, Caddell and Shanks
Paul R. Collier
Limestone Farmers Cooperative
Eyster and
Evyster
Bids Opened for Capitol Theatre Property in Decatur
Several bids were received yesterday for the purchase of the Capitol theater building and lot on Second Avenue in Decatur. Executor Bryan McAfee and executrix Miss Clovis Babler of Augustus Bassett’s estate manage the sale. The Crescent Amusement Company now leases the site. The auction notice had warned bids would close March 18 and the final decision will be announced later.
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Capitol Theater
Second Avenue
Decatur
Bryan McAfee
McAfee
Clovis Babler
Augustus Bassett
Cresent Amusement Company
State's Delegation In House Supports Rankin Pension Bill
In Washington on March 23 the House refused to strike the enacting clause of the Rankin pension bill. Alabama reps Hobbs supported striking out. Andrews Boykin DeGraffenried Elliott Grant Jones opposed. Battle was absent. Hobbs also voted with the minority to send the bill back to veterans affairs committee, while Andrews Boykin DeGraffenried Elliott Grant Jones opposed sending it back.
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Washington
House
Rankin
Alabama
Hobbs
Andrews
Boykin
DeGraffenried
Elliott
Grant
Jones
Rep
Battle
Veterans Affairs Committee
Cooler Weather for Decatur Area Today
Cooler weather drifted in with a high yesterday around 73 and a low in the fifties today. The lingering forecast hints at possible rain, but no precipitation was observed in the Decatur area.
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Decatur
Rent Controls And Pension Bill Highlight Looming Debate
In Washington on March 23 the House passed a veteran pension plan exclusion by a 162 to 3 vote. The issue reemerged via a Rankin bill amendment, signaling ongoing contention over wartime veterans and pension policy.
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Washington
Rankin
Congress advances rent control and veterans pension bills
Washington March 23 Congress pressed ahead on rent control and veterans pension legislation. The rent plan faced a weakened Senate amendment allowing local control with state governor approval, backed by 26 Republicans and 19 Democrats, signaling tense progress amid administration opposition.
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Jack Rutledge
Washington
Congress
Truman
Senate
Repealer Over Hurdle In Taft-Hartley Battle
Washington March 23 The house labor subcommittee approves by 8 to 5 a repeal of the Taft Hartley law and restoration of the Wagner act with changes. Senate labor panel has approved a similar measure. In the House the appropriations committee calls for deep cuts in Army civil functions funding totaling 586.8 million, down from Truman’s request and last year’s amount.
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Washington
House Labor
Senate Labor Committee
House
Appropriations Committee
Truman
Army Engineers
Senate Amen ds Rent Control Bill For Extended Terms
The amendment adds a rent control extension from 12 to 15 months with possible 10 percent increases. The President seeks 24 month extension and tighter controls. The House backs a 15 month extender with a home rule clause while the Senate awaits multiple amendments. Majority Leader Lucas vows Senate session until action. A veterans pension bill heads for quick House approval.
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Senate Banking Committee
House
Senate
Lucas
Louis Johnson Confirmed as Secretary of National Defense
The Senate today confirmed Louis A. Johnson to be Secretary of National Defense succeeding James Forrestal. Chairman Tydings pushed for urgent action and Johnson was approved by a unanimous voice vote after a swift committee report.
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Washington
Senate
Louis A. Johnson
National Defense
James Forrestal
Tydings
D-Md
Armed Services Committee
Johnson
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Decatur General Hospital
First Presbyterian Church
Te Church of the Nazarene
Ev. J. F. Dunlap
Add Randolph
Wayne Hogan
L. O. Davis
Petersburg
Northside Baptist Church
Jesse Rogers
First Baptist Church
Westminister Presbyterian Church
American Legion
Legion Hall
Hubert Franks
Decatur 1
van Hill
Nineteenth Avenue E
Brown’s
Frances Nungester
Gordon Bibb School
Ary Turley Royer
LaFayette Street School
J. D. Reed
Somerville Road School
First Christian Church
Addison Poole
Grant St
Annie R. Dukes
Belle Mina
Jewel Goodwin
Hillsboro
Hamil Clinic Hospital
B. R. Maddox
Thomas Powell
Madison 1
Sheriff's Office
Dewey
By Ken Reynolds
Rections Board
Pardon and Parole Board
Eee
Patricia Birmingham
Milwaukee River
Milwaukee
Wis
Churchill
Louis Johnson
Ciamour
Math Amiss
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