27 Mar 1950
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Newspaper
Decatur Daily
Location
Decatur, Alabama, United States of America
Date
Mar 27, 1950
Page
1
A training course for Boy Scout actors and Cub Scout leaders is set in Courtland this week. Sessions run Tuesday Thursday and Friday evenings from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. The Lawrence district Scout committee sponsors the event, and all registered Scouts and interested persons are invited.
The article reports on Senator McCarthy and Drew Pearson naming Owen J. Lattimore as Russia's top U.S. spy candidate. Lattimore, aboard a United Nations mission in Afghanistan, calls the charges pure moonshine and plans to respond after returning home. The piece also notes Truman's defense of Acheson and a Yugoslav election update with Tito’s bloc winning overwhelmingly.
Claude Crump Jr., about 18, was booked on assault with intent to murder after allegedly firing into a state patrol car during an attempted arrest in Jasper Alabama. Bond set at 750 dollars. Patrolmen Clay Williams and Charles Roberts reported the gunfire shattered the cruiser rear window.
Fire partially destroyed a house at 145 Skillington Street with the living room and bedroom burned. Assistant fire chief Jim Roberson said the origin was unknown and heavy loss occurred to Mattie Franklin’s home after the 6:25 p.m. call. Nothing was saved from the two rooms.
Under Floyd Briscoe Priceville residents contributed $90.35 to the Red Cross. The Quester's Club added $5. The county campaign target of $13,204 stands about 80 percent complete.
Washington reports that the House un American Activities Committee declared there were no missing papers in the case tied to the American Slav Congress. FBI undercover witness Matthew Cvetic testified he left a file on a chair Feb. 18, while details remain uncataloged and possibly copies exist with attorney Harry Sherman.
In Vancouver Washington the 18 year old Jo Ann Dewey was abducted by two men in a black sedan. Her unclad body was found in the Wind River near a rocky bar. Coroner Roy Spady said she died of a cerebral hemorrhage about a week earlier. Police hunt for the two suspects continues as volunteers search Clark County rural areas.
The Supreme Court today upheld Eugene Dennis, general secretary of the American Communist Party, in a contempt conviction for disobeying a congress subpoena. Chief Justice Vinson led the 5-2 majority with Justices Jackson Reed Burton. Justices Black and Frankfurter dissented. Dennis faced a one year prison term and fines. trial occurred in U S district court.
President Truman nominated John D. Hill for another term as U S attorney for Northern Alabama. The move comes as the administration seeks continuity in its enforcement teams amid ongoing federal prosecutions in the region.
President Truman mobilizes administration forces to oppose Republican efforts to oust Secretary of State Acheson. He briefs allies by telephone with the White House seeking support from Barkley Rayburn Lucas and McCormack as a Senate push and spy hunt unfold.
Police officer J. E. Sims required four stitches for a leg wound after flying glass struck him during an arrest on Davis Street Sunday about 6 p m. Sims and Officer Charles Smith arrested a man on a prohibition charge. the suspect allegedly broke a spit bottle and was later convicted in recorder's court.
Morgan County board orders condemnation of five parcels on the Decatur Arab road and plans to have the state take over the Union Grove to Morgan City road. They adjourned to April 7 to consider bids for airport construction and approved a second engineering payment for the Hartselle Priceville road.
President Truman summoned Secretary Johnson to Key West on the eve of a European trip. Johnson departed Washington by plane at 7 30 a.m. EST to confer with the President at the Florida retreat and planned to return tonight before flying to the Netherlands for the North Atlantic defense ministers meeting in The Hague on April 1.
A Walker County grand jury questioned witnesses in the fatal September 28 mine battle at the Preskitt coal mine near Jasper. No indictments were returned. The Preskitt brothers operate the mine and have filed a $500000 suit against the UMW and union officers.
Four men were scalded to death when a boiler exploded at the Kips Bay station of the New York Steam Corporation. Police identified victims as Andrew Barney Howard Trucano Edwin Haffner and Ernest Steskal. A burst valve near the workers caused the blast.
Washington protests the four to one ruble rate for U S dollars saying it is unjustified. A note from Moscow demands restoring the former eight rubles to one dollar rate granted to the American embassy. Moscow said the embassy must pay four rubles per dollar effective July 1.
Reports from Cullman and Huntsville describe strong winds and heavy rains with no injuries. A large spring storm moved east through Mississippi Alabama and Tennessee toward the Atlantic with tornado like squalls. Small craft warnings covered about 1500 miles from Lake Charles Louisiana to Cape Hatteras North Carolina and warnings extended north to Block Island Rhode Island.
The City Electric Department faces possible wind damage as forecasts show 50 mph gusts for North Alabama. Florence records the lowest barometer in history while the area expects afternoon thunder showers. No damage reported locally at noon. Moulton reports extremely heavy rain.
Grady Norton of the Miami weather bureau says heavy frontal squalls will reach Georgia and Northwest Florida late today and tonight then weaken near the Atlantic coast. He notes a spring storm driving winds across the plains and East with southeast squalls, gales in the Mississippi valley, and snow in the Great Lakes. Florida should see 25 to 35 mph winds with stronger gusts.
Mobile and Little Rock areas report strong winds and storm damage. Winds near 30 mph mistreated the Cochrane bridge approach in Mobile Bay while traffic continued slowly. Arkansas storms injure two, demolish eight houses at Gregory McClelland and Augusta area with stores damaged. No deaths reported.
The Power Commission postponed until tomorrow a hearing on its rejection of a proposed natural gas tariff filed by the Alabama Tennessee Natural Gas Co Florence Ala.
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